List of couch gags
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The Simpsons sit on the couch
The following is a list of couch gags seen on The Simpsons.
Contents
Season 1
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 17, 1989 | no gag (Christmas, pilot episode) | "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" | 7G08 | |
| 2 | January 14, 1990 | 200px 200px |
The family sits; Bart is squeezed off, up into the air and out of frame, only to crash back down to the floor during the credits shot of the TV. (This is the only time the couch gag visually continues into the closing shot of the TV.) | "Bart the Genius" | 7G02 |
| 3 | January 21, 1990 | 200px | The family sits; the couch falls apart under their weight, leaving them sitting on cushions on the floor. | "Homer's Odyssey" | 7G03 |
| 4 | January 28, 1990 | 200px | The family sits; Homer is squeezed off and lands on the floor with a thud. | "There's No Disgrace Like Home" | 7G04 |
| 5 | February 4, 1990 | no gag (shortened opening) | "Bart the General" | 7G05 | |
| 6 | February 11, 1990 | 200px | The family sits; Maggie is squeezed off, up into the air and out of frame, but Marge catches her as she falls back down. (This couch gag also appears in the arcade game.) | "Moaning Lisa" | 7G06 |
| 7 | February 18, 1990 | 200px | The family sits; nothing else happens. (Meant to be first couch gag; see note above.) | "The Call of the Simpsons" | 7G09 |
| 8 | February 25, 1990 | repeat of 7G02's gag | "The Telltale Head" | 7G07 | |
| 9 | March 18, 1990 | no gag (shortened opening) | "Life on the Fast Lane" | 7G11 | |
| 10 | March 25, 1990 | repeat of 7G03's gag | "Homer's Night Out" | 7G10 | |
| 11 | April 15, 1990 | repeat of 7G04's gag | "The Crepes of Wrath" | 7G13 | |
| 12 | April 29, 1990 | repeat of 7G06's gag | "Krusty Gets Busted" | 7G12 | |
| 13 | May 13, 1990 | repeat of 7G09's gag | "Some Enchanted Evening" | 7G01 |
Season 2
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | October 11, 1990 |  200px |
The family sits; the couch falls through the floor with a crash. Homer says "D'oh!" only in this version, all repeats cut it. | "Bart Gets an F" | 7F03 |
| 15 | October 18, 1990 | 200px | The family stands in a line, does a little dance (Egyptian-like moves) and lands on the couch, arms outstretched in a "ta-da!" pose. | "Simpson and Delilah" | 7F02 |
| 16 | October 25, 1990 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror" | 7F04 | |
| 17 | November 1, 1990 | 200px | The family sits; the couch pops open into a fold-out bed. | "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" | 7F01 |
| 18 | November 8, 1990 | 200px | The family-minus Maggie sits;then Maggie pokes her head out of Marge's hair. | "Dancin' Homer" | 7F05 |
| 19 | November 15, 1990 | 200px | Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II sit on the couch among the family members. | "Dead Putting Society" | 7F08 |
| 20 | November 22, 1990 | 200px | The family can not sit; the couch is already occupied by Abe Simpson, who is woken up startled. | "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" | 7F07 |
| 21 | December 6, 1990 | 200px | The family sits; Homer's weight tips the couch over sideways, launching the family off-screen, but Maggie lands safely on a cushion on the floor. | "Bart the Daredevil" | 7F06 |
| 22 | December 20, 1990 | 200px | The family runs in to find the couch missing; they look around, puzzled. | "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" | 7F09 |
| 23 | January 10, 1991 | 200px | The family sits; Homer squeezes the others onto the floor one-by-one and takes the couch for himself. | "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" | 7F10 |
| 24 | January 24, 1991 | 200px | The family sits; the couch tips over backwards, and Maggie pops up from behind. | "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" | 7F11 |
| 25 | January 31, 1991 | repeat of 7F03's gag | "The Way We Was" | 7F12 | |
| 26 | February 7, 1991 | repeat of 7F02's gag | "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" | 7F13 | |
| 27 | February 14, 1991 | repeat of 7F01's gag | "Principal Charming" | 7F15 | |
| 28 | February 21, 1991 | repeat of 7F05's gag | "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" | 7F16 | |
| 29 | March 7, 1991 | repeat of 7F08's gag | "Bart's Dog Gets an F" | 7F14 | |
| 30 | March 28, 1991 | repeat of 7F07's gag | "Old Money" | 7F17 | |
| 31 | April 11, 1991 | repeat of 7F06's gag | "Brush with Greatness" | 7F18 | |
| 32 | April 25, 1991 | repeat of 7F09's gag | "Lisa's Substitute" | 7F19 | |
| 33 | May 2, 1991 | repeat of 7F10's gag | "The War of the Simpsons" | 7F20 | |
| 34 | May 9, 1991 | repeat of 7F11's gag | "Three Men and a Comic Book" | 7F21 | |
| 35 | July 11, 1991 | repeat of 7F03's gag | "Blood Feud" | 7F22 |
Season 3
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | September 19, 1991 | 
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The family sits; the couch tips over backwards, but this time crashes through the back wall. | "Stark Raving Dad" | 7F24 |
| 37 | September 26, 1991 | 200px | The family sits; Homer pulls Santa's Little Helper out from beneath him. | "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" | 8F01 |
| 38 | October 3, 1991 | repeat of 7F02's gag | "When Flanders Failed" | 7F23 | |
| 39 | October 10, 1991 | 200px | The family forms a human pyramid, cheerleader-style, on the couch with Maggie on top. | "Bart the Murderer" | 8F03 |
| 40 | October 17, 1991 | 200px | A space alien on the couch hears the family coming, pulls a hanging cord, and disappears through a trapdoor in the floor. The family enters and sits. | "Homer Defined" | 8F04 |
| 41 | October 24, 1991 | 200px | The family, minus Bart, sits; Bart leaps in from the side and lands outstretched across the others' laps. | "Like Father, Like Clown" | 8F05 |
| 42 | October 31, 1991 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror II" | 8F02 | |
| 43 | November 7, 1991 | 200px | Homer arrives first and lies across the couch; the others arrive seconds later and sit on top of him. | "Lisa's Pony" | 8F06 |
| 44 | November 14, 1991 | 200px | The couch lacks cushions; the family sits, but sinks into the hollow couch. | "Saturdays of Thunder" | 8F07 |
| 45 | November 21, 1991 | 200px | Two burglars are in the process of carrying the couch out of the room; the family runs in and sits, but the burglars dump them onto the floor and carry the couch away. | "Flaming Moe's" | 8F08 |
| 46 | December 5, 1991 | 200px | The family cannot sit, as the couch is already occupied by Santa's Little Helper, who growls menacingly; the family backs away cautiously. | "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" | 8F09 |
| 47 | December 26, 1991 | 200px | The family cartwheels into the room and onto the couch; Maggie falls while cartwheeling and hops the rest of the way. | "I Married Marge" | 8F10 |
| 48 | January 9, 1992 | 200px | The family sits; with confused looks on their faces, they bounce around on the couch, passing over and under each other, ending in entirely different positions from where they first sat. | "Radio Bart" | 8F11 |
| 49 | January 23, 1992 | repeat of 8F01's gag | "Lisa the Greek" | 8F12 | |
| 50 | February 6, 1992 | repeat of 8F03's gag | "Homer Alone" | 8F14 | |
| 51 | February 13, 1992 | repeat of 8F04's gag | "Bart the Lover" | 8F16 | |
| 52 | February 20, 1992 | 200px | The family runs in; they all bang their heads together and fall over, unconscious on the floor, except Maggie who sits alone. | "Homer at the Bat" | 8F13 |
| 53 | February 27, 1992 | repeat of 8F05's gag | "Separate Vocations" | 8F15 | |
| 54 | March 12, 1992 | repeat of 8F06's gag | "Dog of Death" | 8F17 | |
| 55 | March 26, 1992 | repeat of 8F07's gag | "Colonel Homer" | 8F19 | |
| 56 | April 9, 1992 | repeat of 8F08's gag | "Black Widower" | 8F20 | |
| 57 | April 23, 1992 | repeat of 8F09's gag | "The Otto Show" | 8F21 | |
| 58 | May 7, 1992 | repeat of 7F24's gag | "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" | 8F22 | |
| 59 | August 27, 1992 | repeat of 8F10's gag | "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" | 8F23 |
Season 4
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | September 24, 1992 | 200px | The family go to sit on the couch, but find it occupied by Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, and Pebbles Flintstone. Fred waves to Homer. | "Kamp Krusty" | 8F24 |
| 61 | October 1, 1992 | 200px | The family sits; the couch morphs into a monster, swallowing the family. | "A Streetcar Named Marge" | 8F18 |
| 62 | October 8, 1992 | 200px | The family sits; the couch rotates into a secret compartment in the wall, leaving an identical empty couch in its place. | "Homer the Heretic" | 9F01 |
| 63 | October 15, 1992 | 200px | Maggie is already seated; the rest of the family runs past the couch and out of frame, into empty white space beyond the edge of the film, before frantically running back into frame. | "Lisa the Beauty Queen" | 9F02 |
| 64 | October 29, 1992 | 200px | The family's skeletons sit. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror III" | 9F04 |
| 65 | November 3, 1992 | 200px | The family sits; the couch deflates like a balloon. | "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" | 9F03 |
| 66 | November 05, 1992 | 200px | The family sits with mismatched heads; they swap heads back and forth until they are back to normal. | "Marge Gets a Job" | 9F05 |
| 67 | November 12, 1992 | repeat of 7F03's gag | "New Kid on the Block" | 9F06 | |
| 68 | November 19, 1992 |  200px |
A wooden chair is in place of the couch; Homer and Marge sit on it, with the kids in their laps | "Mr. Plow" | 9F07 |
| 69 | December 3, 1992 | 200px 200px |
As the standard theme music stops, the family forms a chorus line, joined by a line of Rockette-like women, all high-kicking to a Vegas-like rendition of the main theme melody. The living room walls are lifted to make way for a large production number, featuring hand-standing elephants, magicians, Santa's Little Helper leaping through a ring of fire, and more all set to circus style music. The standard theme music then returns, concluding normally. (This is the first extra-long couch gag, as well as the first to cut into the standard theme with alternate music. This couch gag is also used for edited versions of other episodes from all seasons.) | "Lisa's First Word" | 9F08 |
| 70 | December 17, 1992 | 200px | The family, all tiny-sized, sits on the couch. Maggie needs to be pulled up onto the couch. | "Homer's Triple Bypass" | 9F09 |
| 71 | January 14, 1993 | 200px | The family sits; within seconds, the room fills with other regulars from the cast, totally blocking the family and obscuring their view. | "Marge vs. the Monorail" | 9F10 |
| 72 | January 21, 1993 | 200px | The family is snared in a net trap. | "Selma's Choice" | 9F11 |
| 73 | February 04, 1993 | repeat of 9F01's gag | "Brother From the Same Planet" | 9F12 | |
| 74 | February 11, 1993 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "I Love Lisa" | 9F13 | |
| 75 | February 18, 1993 | repeat of 9F02's gag | "Duffless" | 9F14 | |
| 76 | March 11, 1993 | repeat of 8F18's gag | "Last Exit to Springfield" | 9F15 | |
| 77 | April 1, 1993 | repeat of 9F05's gag | "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" | 9F17 | |
| 78 | April 15, 1993 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "The Front" | 9F16 | |
| 79 | April 29, 1993 | repeat of 9F07's gag | "Whacking Day" | 9F18 | |
| 80 | May 6, 1993 | repeat of 9F09's gag | "Marge in Chains" | 9F20 | |
| 81 | May 13, 1993 | repeat of 9F11's gag | "Krusty Gets Kancelled" | 9F19 |
Season 5
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | September 30, 1993 | 200px 200px 200px 200px 200px |
A trio of couch gags: The family runs in, crashes into each other, and shatters into pieces; Santa's Little Helper wanders in and examines the pieces. A voice says "Couch gag, take two." The family sits on the couch, coalescing into a five-headed, ten-eyed, multicolored blob. A voice says "Couch gag, take three." The family runs in, crashes into each other, and explodes; Maggie's pacifier drops out of the air onto the scorched floor (in the syndicated version, the "take one" couch gag where the family smashes like glass as they run to the couch is used) | "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" | 9F21 |
| 83 | October 7, 1993 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Cape Feare" | 9F22 | |
| 84 | October 14, 1993 | 200px | The family sits; the couch and family are crushed by the cutout foot from the opening of Monty Python's Flying Circus. | "Homer Goes to College" | 1F02 |
| 85 | October 21, 1993 | 200px | The family cannot sit as the couch is already occupied by an identical family. (This scene is frequently recycled in other episodes on syndication.) | "Rosebud" | 1F01 |
| 86 | October 28, 1993 | 200px | A zombie family bursts up through the floor and sits on the couch. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror IV" | 1F04 |
| 87 | November 4, 1993 | 200px | The family runs in and crashes through the wall, as it turns out the couch and other living room furniture is just a flat backdrop. | "Marge on the Lam" | 1F03 |
| 88 | November 11, 1993 | 200px | The couch is already occupied by a morbidly obese man, who slides over, giving the family little room to sit | "Bart's Inner Child" | 1F05 |
| 89 | November 18, 1993 | 200px 200px |
The lights are out as five pairs of eyes enter; the lights turn on revealing only eyes, as the eyeless family rushes in and sits down, reconnecting with their eyes. | "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood" | 1F06 |
| 90 | December 9, 1993 | 200px | The family sits, then realizes the couch is on the set of the Late Show with David Letterman; next to the couch, Dave spins in his chair to face forward at his desk. | "The Last Temptation of Homer" | 1F07 |
| 91 | December 16, 1993 | repeat of the first of 9F21's three gags | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" | 1F08 | |
| 92 | January 06, 1994 | repeat of the third of 9F21's three gags | "Homer the Vigilante" | 1F09 | |
| 93 | February 03, 1994 | repeat of the second of 9F21's three gags | "Bart Gets Famous" | 1F11 | |
| 94 | February 10, 1994 | 200px | Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa poke their heads out from behind the couch; Maggie pokes out from behind the center cushion | "Homer and Apu" | 1F10 |
| 95 | February 17, 1994 | repeat of 1F02's gag | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" | 1F12 | |
| 96 | February 24, 1994 | repeat of 1F05's gag | "Deep Space Homer" | 1F13 | |
| 97 | March 17, 1994 | 200px | There are two identical couches side-by-side; the family members split down the middle vertically, each half-family sitting on a couch. | "Homer Loves Flanders" | 1F14 |
| 98 | March 31, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag | "Bart Gets an Elephant" | 1F15 | |
| 99 | April 14, 1994 | 200px 200px |
The family bounces into the room in ball form. Everyone lands safely on the couch except Bart, who bounces away; Homer pulls him onto the couch. | "Burns' Heir" | 1F16 |
| 100 | April 28, 1994 | 200px 200px |
The family sits as the FOX logo bug appears in the lower-right corner of the screen; Homer tears it off and the family stomps on it then sit back down. | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" | 1F18 |
| 101 | May 5, 1994 | repeat of 1F07's gag | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" | 1F19 | |
| 102 | May 12, 1994 | repeat of the first of 9F21's three gags | "Lady Bouvier's Lover" | 1F21 | |
| 103 | May 19, 1994 | repeat of the third of 9F21's three gags | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" | 1F20 |
Season 6
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | September 04, 1994 | 200px | The Simpsons are sitting in midair as if they're on the couch. The real couch then comes in and assembles itself on top of the family. | "Bart of Darkness" | 1F22 |
| 105 | September 11, 1994 | 200px | The floor is water, the family swims into the room (Bart wearing a scuba mask) and climbs up onto the couch (Homer pokes his right ear to dry it). | "Lisa's Rival" | 1F17 |
| 106 | September 25, 1994 | repeat of 1F02's gag | "Another Simpsons Clip Show" | 2F33 | |
| 107 | October 2, 1994 | 200px | The family is beamed aboard the couch a la Star Trek. | "Itchy & Scratchy Land" | 2F01 |
| 108 | October 9, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag (first airing)/no gag (repeats) | "Sideshow Bob Roberts" | 2F02 | |
| 109 | October 30, 1994 | 200px | The family sits with mismatched limbs and heads; they swap body parts, but don't fully correct the mismatches. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror V" | 2F03 |
| 110 | November 06, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag | "Bart's Girlfriend" | 2F04 | |
| 111 | November 13, 1994 | 200px | The family sits, then gets shot up into the ceiling, with only their legs and feet showing. | "Lisa on Ice" | 2F05 |
| 112 | November 27, 1994 | 200px | In a loose parody of the film, Time Bandits, the family runs in and chase after the couch as the back of the room recedes endlessly away from them. | "Homer Badman" | 2F06 |
| 113 | December 4, 1994 | 200px | The family runs in together from the side, with big grins, passing through a repeat pan of the couch and TV (in a parody of how 1950s and 1960s cartoons utilized repeating backgrounds in order to save money.) | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" | 2F07 |
| 114 | December 18, 1994 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Fear of Flying" | 2F08 | |
| 115 | January 8, 1995 | 200px | The living room is at the center of an M.C. Escher's Relativity style environment with multiple staircases and conflicting perspectives; the family enters from various directions (and dimensions) and sits. | "Homer the Great" | 2F09 |
| 116 | January 22, 1995 | 200px | In the style of a James Bond film opening, the living room is viewed through a gun barrel. Homer enters from the side, turns to the camera, and fires a gun. The screen "bleeds" red and falls. Music typically heard in a James Bond film plays throughout. | "And Maggie Makes Three" | 2F10 |
| 117 | February 5, 1995 | 200px | The scene is black and white, and the couch, TV, and other living room furniture have an 1930s appearance; the family runs in, wearing Mickey Mouse style white gloves and big smiles, dancing. | "Bart's Comet" | 2F11 |
| 118 | February 12, 1995 | repeat of 1F22's gag | "Homie the Clown" | 2F12 | |
| 119 | February 19, 1995 | repeat of 1F17's gag | "Bart vs. Australia" | 2F13 | |
| 120 | February 26, 1995 | repeat of 2F01's gag, but a visual effect closer to Quantum Leap's. | "Homer vs. Patty & Selma" | 2F14 | |
| 121 | March 05, 1995 | 200px | The family sits; their sizes are reversed, with Maggie the largest and Homer the tiniest. | "A Star Is Burns" | 2F31 |
| 122 | March 19, 1995 | repeat of 2F05's gag | "Lisa's Wedding" | 2F15 | |
| 123 | April 9, 1995 | repeat of 2F06's gag | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" | 2F18 | |
| 124 | April 16, 1995 | repeat of 2F09's gag | "The PTA Disbands" | 2F19 | |
| 125 | April 30, 1995 | repeat of 2F31's gag | "'Round Springfield" | 2F32 | |
| 126 | May 7, 1995 | repeat of 2F10's gag | "The Springfield Connection" | 2F21 | |
| 127 | May 14, 1995 | repeat of 2F11's gag | "Lemon of Troy" | 2F22 | |
| 128 | May 21, 1995 | repeat of 2F07's gag | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" | 2F16 |
Season 7
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 129 | September 17, 1995 | 200px | The couch slides away as a police lineup height chart unfurls from above; the family lines up in front of it. (This episode reveals the answer to the mystery of who shot Mr. Burns). | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" | 2F20 |
| 130 | September 24, 1995 | 200px | Like a fax machine, the couch ejects a sheet of paper with a picture of the family, which then floats up into the air, before sliding beneath the couch. | "Radioactive Man" | 2F17 |
| 131 | October 01, 1995 | 200px | The screen is split into a 3-by-3 grid of squares, as in the opening to The Brady Bunch, with the living room in the center square, and the five family members, plus Grampa, Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II each occupying an outer square; they all run out of their individual squares and sit on the couch in the center square, except Grampa who remains asleep in his square. | "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" | 3F01 |
| 132 | October 08, 1995 | 200px | The family drive around the room in go-karts, wearing fezzes; they line up in front of the couch and honk their horns simultaneously. | "Bart Sells His Soul" | 3F02 |
| 133 | October 15, 1995 | 200px | The family sits, colorless; mechanical arms from above then spray-paint their colors onto them. | "Lisa the Vegetarian" | 3F03 |
| 134 | October 29, 1995 | 200px | The family drops down from above, their necks in nooses. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror VI" | 3F04 |
| 135 | November 05, 1995 | 200px | Malfunctioning, buzzing wind-up doll versions of the family wander around the room, most of them failing to reach the couch. | "King-Size Homer" | 3F05 |
| 136 | November 19, 1995 | 200px | A bowling pin clearing bar scares Snowball II off the couch, then a pinsetter places the family on the couch like bowling pins. | "Mother Simpson" | 3F06 |
| 137 | November 26, 1995 | 200px | The whole room is filled with water, the couch is made of clam shells, and a treasure chest is in place of the TV; sea monkey versions of the family members swim in and sit on the clam couch. | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" | 3F08 |
| 138 | December 03, 1995 | A montage of couch gags from 8F18, 9F02, 9F10, 9F09, 8F09, 1F02, 2F31, 2F09, 2F06, 1F17, 2F11, and 9F08. | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" | 3F31 | |
| 139 | December 17, 1995 | 200px | The family sits; Homer notices a drain plug in the floor and removes it, and the family, couch, and everything else in the room is sucked down the drain like a toilet flush. | "Marge Be Not Proud" | 3F07 |
| 140 | January 07, 1996 | 200px | The family sits; the camera then zooms in through a mouse hole, where a small mouse version of the family sits on a couch as well. | "Team Homer" | 3F10 |
| 141 | January 14, 1996 | 200px | Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's heads are mounted on the back wall like trophies, while Homer is sprawled across the carpet like a bear skin rug; a hunter sits on the couch, puts down his gun, and lights up a pipe. | "Two Bad Neighbors" | 3F09 |
| 142 | February 04, 1996 | 200px | The family sits as the room is illuminated by a fluorescent black light and a guitar riff plays, until Homer turns the light on. | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" | 3F11 |
| 143 | February 11, 1996 | repeat of 2F17's gag (but this time, the paper doesn't slide back under the couch) | "Bart the Fink" | 3F12 | |
| 144 | February 18, 1996 | repeat of 3F01's gag | "Lisa the Iconoclast" | 3F13 | |
| 145 | February 25, 1996 | repeat of 3F02's gag | "Homer the Smithers" | 3F14 | |
| 146 | March 17, 1996 | repeat of 3F03's gag | "The Day the Violence Died" | 3F16 | |
| 147 | March 24, 1996 | repeat of 3F05's gag | "A Fish Called Selma" | 3F15 | |
| 148 | March 31, 1996 | repeat of 3F06's gag (all airings)/ repeat of 9f08 for edited version | "Bart on the Road" | 3F17 | |
| 149 | April 14, 1996 | repeat of 3F08's gag | "22 Short Films About Springfield" | 3F18 | |
| 150 | April 28, 1996 | repeat of 3F07's gag | "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" | 3F19 | |
| 151 | May 05, 1996 | repeat of 3F09's gag | "Much Apu About Nothing" | 3F20 | |
| 152 | May 19, 1996 | repeat of 3F11's gag | "Homerpalooza" | 3F21 | |
| 153 | May 19, 1996 | repeat of 2F17's gag | "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" | 3F22 |
Season 8
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 154 | October 27, 1996 | 200px | The Grim Reaper sits on the couch; the family runs in one at a time, immediately falling over dead in a pile; the Grim Reaper puts his feet up on the pile and relaxes. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror VII" | 4F02 |
| 155 | November 03, 1996 | 200px | The family descends from above with parachutes on, except Homer, who falls flat on his face from a malfunctioning parachute pack. | "You Only Move Twice" | 3F23 |
| 156 | November 10, 1996 | 200px | The couch sits in the middle of a desert; the family, in western cowboy garb, sits on the couch, which gallops off into the sunset. | "The Homer They Fall" | 4F03 |
| 157 | November 17, 1996 | 200px | Clear blue bubble versions of the family members float into the room, land on the couch, and pop. | "Burns, Baby Burns" | 4F05 |
| 158 | November 24, 1996 | 200px | The whole scene is a parody of the cover of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, featuring a large crowd of regulars, and the family standing in front of the couch, front and center; Homer, spoofing the back cover of the album, turns to look at the crowded scene behind him. | "Bart After Dark" | 4F06 |
| 159 | December 01, 1996 | 200px | The family sits, but Bart is green; Homer messes with the dials on the TV, turning Bart red; finally, Homer smacks Bart upside the head, correcting Bart's color. | "A Milhouse Divided" | 4F04 |
| 160 | December 15, 1996 | 200px | The whole room is upside-down, with the couch and everything else on what appears to be the ceiling. The family, also upside-down, runs in on the ceiling and sits, before falling down onto the floor "above" them. | "Lisa's Date with Density" | 4F01 |
| 161 | December 29, 1996 | 200px | Homer puts a quarter in a slot marked "Vend-A-Couch". Nothing happens. Homer bangs on the wall a few times and a couch comes down, crushing him. | "Hurricane Neddy" | 4F07 |
| 162 | January 5, 1997 | repeat of 3F23's gag | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" | 3F24 | |
| 163 | January 12, 1997 | 200px | The family flies into the room via jet packs; Maggie spirals in last, landing in Marge's lap. | "The Springfield Files" | 3G01 |
| 164 | January 19, 1997 | 200px | The family members intermittently pop up out of five holes in the floor, a la Whack-a-Mole, with a large mallet attempt to whack them; Homer gets whacked and says "D'oh!". The circus music from Homie the Clown plays throughout. | "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" | 4F08 |
| 165 | February 2, 1997 | 200px | The family finds Grampa asleep on the couch, which has a folding bed. They fold the bed up, ignoring Grampa's cry of "What?!" and sit down as normal. | "Mountain of Madness" | 4F10 |
| 166 | February 07, 1997 | 200px | The living room is empty. Cut to an outside shot of the family waiting impatiently as Homer struggles with a locked door. he bangs on the door as Fred Flintstone would on his. | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" | 3G03 |
| 167 | February 9, 1997 | repeat of 4F06's gag, however, in syndication, this is replaced with the "Simpsons Meet The Flintstones" couch gag from 8F24 | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" | 4F12 | |
| 168 | February 16, 1997 | 200px | The living room appears in an "America Onlink" window, on which a cursor clicks "Load Family," the message "Please wait... loading 1 of 5" is displayed, and a progress bar fills very slowly as the same few seconds of the theme music play in a loop; eventually, the pointer repeatedly clicks the "Exit" button in frustration. | "Homer's Phobia" | 4F11 |
| 169 | February 23, 1997 | repeat of 4F01's gag | "Brother from Another Series" | 4F14 | |
| 170 | March 2, 1997 | 200px | The couch is on the deck of a ship at sea in rough waters, sliding back and forth with the tilt of the ship. The family, dressed in raingear, sits on the couch, before an enormous wave washes them away. | "My Sister, My Sitter" | 4F13 |
| 171 | March 16, 1997 | repeat of 4F03's gag | "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment" | 4F15 | |
| 172 | April 06, 1997 | repeat of 4F05's gag | "Grade School Confidential" | 4F09 | |
| 173 | April 13, 1997 | repeat of 4F10's gag | "The Canine Mutiny" | 4F16 | |
| 174 | April 20, 1997 | repeat of 4F08's gag (Except this time, the sounds of the mallet hitting the family members is more aggressive and the circus music from "Homer the Clown" is sped up) | "The Old Man and the Lisa" | 4F17 | |
| 175 | April 27, 1997 | repeat of 4F07's gag | "In Marge We Trust" | 4F18 | |
| 176 | May 4, 1997 | repeat of 4F04's gag | "Homer's Enemy" | 4F19 | |
| 177 | May 11, 1997 | no gag (special opening) | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" | 4F20 | |
| 178 | May 18, 1997 | repeat of 4F01's gag | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" | 4F21 |
Season 9
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179 | September 21, 1997 | 200px | The family comes in, dressed as the Harlem Globetrotters, showing off different basketball tricks to the tune of Sweet Georgia Brown | "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" | 4F22 |
| 180 | September 28, 1997 | 200px | The family sits, dresses up in spacesuits; the couch blasts off like a rocket. | "The Principal and the Pauper" | 4F23 |
| 181 | October 19, 1997 | 200px | Homer runs in and his top half pops off, revealing Marge concealed inside; Marge's top half pops off, revealing Bart inside, and so forth (just like a Russian nesting doll). | "Lisa's Sax" | 3G02 |
| 182 | October 26, 1997 | 200px | The couch becomes a five-seated electric chair that shocks the family (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror VIII" | 5F02 |
| 183 | November 2, 1997 | 200px | The couch is full of water as the family runs in with their butts on fire; they hop onto the couch as steam emerges from them in relief. | "The Cartridge Family" | 5F01 |
| 184 | November 9, 1997 | 200px | The family sits; an auto-crusher compresses them all into a rectangular block. | "Bart Star" | 5F03 |
| 185 | November 16, 1997 | 200px | Bart runs in and spray-paints the family onto the couch, tagging it with an "El Barto" signature, then runs off. | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" | 5F04 |
| 186 | November 23, 1997 | 200px | The living room is set up like a sauna. Three old men sit, pouring water on the coals. The family (wearing only towels) comes in, then leave sheepishly. | "Lisa the Skeptic" | 5F05 |
| 187 | December 7, 1997 | 200px | The family sits; Matt Groening's[1]live action hand spins the picture around, smearing the family like spin art. | "Realty Bites" | 5F06 |
| 188 | December 21, 1997 | 200px | The family sits; the living room is revealed to be inside a snow globe, which is shaken, making snow fall in the living room. (Christmas episode for this first usage) | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" | 5F07 |
| 189 | January 04, 1998 | 200px | The floor is a treadmill; the family runs in place on the treadmill before leaping to the couch, except Homer, who falls, gets dragged around on the treadmill, and shouts "Marge, stop this crazy thing!" a la George Jetson in the original closing credits of The Jetsons. | "All Singing, All Dancing" | 5F24 |
| 190 | January 11, 1998 | 200px | The family goes to sit down, only to have their seat pulled from under them by Nelson Muntz (Nelson then says "ha-ha!") | "Bart Carny" | 5F08 |
| 191 | February 8, 1998 | 200px | The family runs in, tiny-sized, (as in 9F09's gag); this time, each family member lifts the next up onto the couch one-by-one, then a full-sized Santa's Little Helper takes Homer away in his mouth as Homer screams. | "The Joy of Sect" | 5F23 |
| 192 | February 15, 1998 | 200px | The floor is water and the couch is a lilypad; a frog family (Maggie as a tadpole) hops onto the lilypad and frog-Homer turns on the TV with his long tongue. | "Das Bus" | 5F11 |
| 193 | February 22, 1998 | repeat of 5F01's gag | "The Last Temptation of Krust" | 5F10 | |
| 194 | March 1, 1998 | repeat of 5F03's gag | "Dumbbell Indemnity" | 5F12 | |
| 195 | March 8, 1998 | 200px | A vine grows in the middle of the room; each family member's face sprouts from the vine as a fruit or vegetable. | "Lisa the Simpson" | 4F24 |
| 196 | March 22, 1998 | repeat of 5F04's gag (but this time, Bart peeks from around the TV first to make sure the coast is clear) | "This Little Wiggy" | 5F13 | |
| 197 | March 29, 1998 | 200px | A take-off on the opening sequence to Rocky & Bullwinkle, ending with the family popping up from out of the ground in a flower patch; Bart coughs up a clod of dirt. The Rocky & Bullwinkle theme plays throughout. | "Simpson Tide" | 3G04 |
| 198 | April 5, 1998 | repeat of 5F05's gag | "The Trouble with Trillions" | 5F14 | |
| 199 | April 19, 1998 | repeat of 5F06's gag | "Girly Edition" | 5F15 | |
| 200 | April 26, 1998 | 200px | The family runs in, only to end up in Mrs. Krabappel's classroom where Bart is writing "I Will Not Mess With The Opening Credits" on the blackboard. | "Trash of the Titans" | 5F09 |
| 201 | May 03, 1998 | repeat of 5F07's gag | "King of the Hill" | 5F16 | |
| 202 | May 10, 1998 | repeat of 5F08's gag | "Lost Our Lisa" | 5F17 | |
| 203 | May 17, 1998 | repeat of 5F11's gag | "Natural Born Kissers" | 5F18 |
Season 10
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 204 | August 23, 1998 | repeat of 5F08's gag | "Lard of the Dance" | 5F20 | |
| 205 | September 20, 1998 | 200px | Similar to the couch gag in "Marge vs. the Monorail" (9F10), the living room is filled with secondary and tertiary characters from the show. Unlike 9F10, the living room is now a movie theater and the Simpsons are shuffling their way through to find a seat. After they sit down, Homer has some of the Comic Book Guy's popcorn. | "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" | 5F21 |
| 206 | September 27, 1998 | 200px | Two firefighters hold the couch and catch most of the family as they fall from above, but they miss Homer, who crashes through the floor. | "Bart the Mother" | 5F22 |
| 207 | October 25, 1998 | 200px | The family never makes it to the couch; Bart gets run over by Homer. Lisa gets catapulted into the garage roof, and Homer gets run down by Marge as she drives into the garage. Meanwhile, in the living room Freddy Krueger (of the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies) and Jason Voorhees (of the Friday the 13th movies) sit on the couch, wondering where the family is. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror IX" | AABF01 |
| 208 | November 08, 1998 | 200px | Marge enters with a laundry basket and hangs the other family members on a clothesline above the couch. | "When You Dish Upon a Star" | 5F19 |
| 209 | November 15, 1998 | 200px | The family sits; a safety bar lowers over their laps and the couch zooms around the room like a roller coaster. | "D'oh-in in the Wind" | AABF02 |
| 210 | November 22, 1998 | 200px | The family sits; hair dryers descend onto their heads, then lift up, revealing the family members all have swapped hairdos. Homer has Maggie's, Marge has Bart's, Bart has Lisa's, Lisa has Homer's, and Maggie has Marge's (the weight of it causing her to fall off the couch). | "Lisa Gets an "A"" | AABF03 |
| 211 | December 06, 1998 | repeat of 5F11's gag | "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" | AABF04 | |
| 212 | December 20, 1998 | repeat of 5F03's gag | "Mayored to the Mob" | AABF05 | |
| 213 | January 10, 1999 | repeat of 5F06's gag | "Viva Ned Flanders" | AABF06 | |
| 214 | January 17, 1999 | 200px | The family, in cowboy hats, straddles the back of the couch, a large trapdoor opens beneath the couch and they drop; a top-down perspective shows the family riding the falling couch as it drops from high above a city below, in a parody of Slim Pickens' character riding the bomb in Dr. Strangelove. | "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" | AABF07 |
| 215 | January 31, 1999 | 200px | The couch is floating on water as the family sits; the couch hits an iceberg and sinks, taking the family under with it, but Maggie resurfaces shortly on a floating cushion (a la The Titanic). | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" | AABF08 |
| 216 | February 7, 1999 | repeat of 5F19's gag | "Homer to the Max" | AABF09 | |
| 217 | February 14, 1999 | repeat of AABF03's gag | "I'm With Cupid" | AABF11 | |
| 218 | February 21, 1999 | repeat of AABF02's gag | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" | AABF10 | |
| 219 | February 28, 1999 | repeat of 5F22's gag | "Make Room for Lisa" | AABF12 | |
| 220 | March 28, 1999 | 200px | Adult Bart and Lisa, and young Marge and Homer (with a Maggie doll) sit on the couch; young Homer snatches the remote, but mother Lisa slaps his hand and he drops it. | "Maximum Homerdrive" | AABF13 |
| 221 | April 4, 1999 | 200px | The family slips on banana peels on the floor, flipping upside-down in the air, but all land safely on the couch. | "Simpsons Bible Stories" | AABF14 |
| 222 | April 11, 1999 | repeat of AABF07's gag | "Mom and Pop Art" | AABF15 | |
| 223 | April 25, 1999 | repeat of 5F21's gag | "The Old Man and The "C" Student" | AABF16 | |
| 224 | May 2, 1999 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" | AABF17 | |
| 225 | May 9, 1999 | repeat of AABF08's gag | "They Saved Lisa's Brain" | AABF18 | |
| 226 | May 16, 1999 | 200px | The family sits, get sucked inside the couch, and come out looking like shredded paper. | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" | AABF20 |
Season 11
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 227 | September 26, 1999 | 200px | The Simpsons family (as they were drawn on The Tracy Ullman Show) is already on the couch. The Simpsons (as they're currently drawn) come in and both families run screaming out the living room. | "Beyond Blunderdome" | AABF23 |
| 228 | October 03, 1999 | 200px | The family comes in, colorless and marked with numbers. A group of Asian painters come in to color the family | "Brother's Little Helper" | AABF22 |
| 229 | October 24, 1999 | 200px | The family comes in. Marge notices Matt Groening's signature at the bottom of the screen and wipes it off. A caricature of Matt Groening (wearing an orange and yellow Hawaiian shirt) comes in and resigns the scene (i.e. the floor) to Marge's horror. | "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" | AABF21 |
| 230 | October 31, 1999 | 200px | The family members (mostly) appear as they have in previous Halloween episodes: Homer is a jack-in-the-box (from 8F02), Bart is a mutantfly (from 5F02), Marge is a witch (also from 5F02), and Maggie is an alien (from AABF01); Lisa, an ax victim (the only one not based on a previous episode), asks what aliens have to do with Halloween, and Maggie demands "Silence!" in a deep voice before disintegrating Lisa with a ray gun. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror X" | BABF01 |
| 231 | November 7, 1999 | 200px | The couch is set up like a trendy nightclub (with a disco ball, velvet rope, bouncer, and club hoppers). Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie are let in, while Homer is denied access. | "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" | AABF19 |
| 232 | November 14, 1999 | 200px | A cement truck pours cement onto the couch; the cement instantly hardens into sculptures of the family, but cement Homer's head cracks and falls to the floor. | "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" | BABF02 |
| 233 | November 21, 1999 | 200px | The family sits; the couch rotates into a secret compartment in the wall (as in 9F01's gag), but instead of an empty couch on the other side, it's Vincent Price as a mad scientist and a scared Ned Flanders shackled upside down and groaning. | "Eight Misbehavin'" | BABF03 |
| 234 | November 28, 1999 | repeat of AABF20's gag | "Take My Wife, Sleaze" | BABF05 | |
| 235 | December 19, 1999 | 200px | The family slides down into the living room from a fire pole and sits, except Homer, who gets stuck in the hole in the ceiling and flails about. | "Grift of the Magi" | BABF07 |
| 236 | January 9, 2000 | 200px | A crash test dummy version of the family sits. The couch slides forward and slams into the TV (simluating a car crash test), then pulls back into place. Crash test dummy Homer's head falls off from the trauma. | "Little Big Mom" | BABF04 |
| 237 | January 16, 2000 | 200px | A psychiatrist (who looks a mix between Sigmund Freud and Milhouse van Houten) is sitting in a chair next to the couch. Homer hops on the couch and yells, "Oh, doctor, I'm crazy!", then sobs as the other family members stare sadly at each other. | "Faith Off" | BABF06 |
| 238 | January 23, 2000 | repeat of AABF13's gag | "The Mansion Family" | BABF08 | |
| 239 | February 06, 2000 | 200px | The family leaps into the room, all dressed in white karate uniforms and black belts, and chops the couch up with karate moves; Homer, remote in hand, does a karate flip and switches on the TV. | "Saddlesore Galactica" | BABF09 |
| 240 | February 13, 2000 | 200px | The family drives bumper cars around the room (Marge and Maggie share a car); they all pin Homer's car against the back wall and slam him repeatedly. | "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" | BABF10 |
| 241 | February 20, 2000 | Image Not Available | The couch is sitting in the Evergreen Terrace subway station, and the family sits; the train arrives and they board, leaving the empty couch behind. | "Missionary: Impossible" | BABF11 |
| 242 | February 27, 2000 | repeat of AABF21's gag | "Pygmoelian" | BABF12 | |
| 243 | March 19, 2000 | repeat of AABF19's gag | "Bart to the Future" | BABF13 | |
| 244 | April 9, 2000 | repeat of AABF23's gag | "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" | BABF14 | |
| 245 | April 30, 2000 | Image Not Available | The family is barefoot and briskly walking over a bed of hot coals. When they reach the couch, they sigh in relief as their feet are black and smoldering. | "Kill the Alligator and Run" | BABF16 |
| 246 | May 7, 2000 | 200px | The family swings into the room on a vine, like Tarzan; Homer fails to release the vine in time and crashes offscreen, like George of the Jungle. | "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" | BABF15 |
| 247 | May 14, 2000 | repeat of AABF22's gag | "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" | BABF18 | |
| 248 | May 21, 2000 | 200px | The couch has a coin slot on the side. The family sits, and Bart puts a coin in it. The couch then vibrates away, taking the family with them. | "Behind the Laughter" | BABF19 |
Season 12
| # | Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 249 | November 1, 2000 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XI" | BABF21 | |
| 250 | November 5, 2000 | 200px | Bart arrives at the couch first and places a whoopee cushion under Homer's spot. When the family sits down, Homer sits on the part of the couch with the whoopee cushion underneath and triggers its farting sound. Homer grins sheepishly at Marge, Lisa, and Maggie (who are frowning) while Bart laughs. | "A Tale of Two Springfields" | BABF20 |
| 251 | November 12, 2000 | 200px | The family runs in and freezes in mid-air; the camera pans around them in bullet-time (a la The Matrix and the Gap Khaki commercials at the time that featured swing dancing), then time resumes normally as they sit. | "Insane Clown Poppy" | BABF17 |
| 252 | November 19, 2000 | 200px | Maggie is already seated (as in 9F02's gag) this time, rest of the family waddle in dressed as the Teletubbies. Maggie claps with delight. Homer is Twinky Winky, Marge is Dipsy, Lisa is Po, and Bart as Laa-Laa. | "Lisa the Tree Hugger" | CABF01 |
| 253 | November 26, 2000 | 200px | The family skateboard off a ramp one by one, landing on the couch, except Homer, who flips upside-down and lands on the floor. Adding insult and injury, Homer's skateboard falls out of the air onto his head. | "Homer vs. Dignity" | CABF04 |
| 254 | December 3, 2000 | 200px | The family runs in to find Santa's Little Helper dancing on his rear legs like Snoopy from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special while the popular theme from the Charlie Brown cartoons plays. Santa's Little Helper notices the family staring at him, slowly stops dancing, and barks. | "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" | CABF02 |
| 255 | December 10, 2000 | 200px | The couch is in a fishbowl; the family swims to the couch in scuba gear. | "The Great Money Caper" | CABF03 |
| 256 | December 17, 2000 | 200px | The family, in football uniforms, pile on top of a football (and on top of each other); Maggie, football in hand, leaps from the pile, spikes the ball, and does a touchdown dance. | "Skinner's Sense of Snow" | CABF06 |
| 257 | January 7, 2001 | 200px | The family is deposited one by one onto the couch via tubes (like those used to travel around New New York City in the future depicted on Matt Groening's other animated sitcom Futurama); one tube briefly deposits Futurama's Fry on the couch in place of Bart, but then sucks Fry back up and leaves Bart in his place. | "HOMR" | BABF22 |
| 258 | January 14, 2001 | repeat of BABF03's gag | "Pokey Mom" | CABF05 | |
| 259 | February 4, 2001 | The couch is absent, and the Squeaky Voiced Teen stands next to a "valet parking" sign; the family runs in and waits while the valet pushes the couch into frame; the family sits and the valet holds his hand out for a tip, but he doesn't receive one and walks off annoyed. | "Worst Episode Ever" | CABF08 | |
| 260 | February 11, 2001 | 200px | The family, wearing winter coats, ice skates around the room before sitting on the couch; Homer's portion of the couch breaks off and falls through the ice. | "Tennis the Menace" | CABF07 |
| 261 | February 18, 2001 | repeat of BABF06's gag | "Day of the Jackanapes" | CABF10 | |
| 262 | February 25, 2001 | The couch is next to a prison wall as a searchlight pans around the scene; the family, in striped prison uniforms, burrows up from the ground and sits on the couch, where the searchlight spots them. | "New Kids on the Blecch" | CABF12 | |
| 263 | March 04, 2001 | repeat of BABF09's gag | "Hungry, Hungry Homer" | CABF09 | |
| 264 | March 11, 2001 | repeat of BABF10's gag | "Bye Bye Nerdie" | CABF11 | |
| 265 | April 01, 2001 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Simpson Safari" | CABF13 | |
| 266 | April 29, 2001 | repeat of CABF04's gag | "Trilogy of Error" | CABF14 | |
| 267 | May 06, 2001 | repeat of BABF02's gag | "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" | CABF15 | |
| 268 | May 13, 2001 | repeat of BABF04's gag | "Children of a Lesser Clod" | CABF16 | |
| 269 | May 20, 2001 | repeat of BABF11's gag | "Simpsons Tall Tales" | CABF17 |
Season 13
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 270 | October 28, 2001 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XII" | CABF19 |
| 271 | November 11, 2001 | The family stands on a simplistically-drawn sailboat and leaps into the water; when the splash subsides, the family is sitting on the couch, dripping wet, having leapt out of the crooked sailboat painting on the rear wall. | "The Parent Rap" | CABF22 |
| 272 | November 18, 2001 | repeat of CABF06's gag | "Homer the Moe" | CABF20 |
| 273 | December 2, 2001 | repeat of CABF12's gag | "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" | CABF18 |
| 274 | December 9, 2001 | repeat of BABF17's gag | "The Blunder Years" | CABF21 |
| 275 | December 16, 2001 | A giant slot machine sits in place of the couch; the five tumblers each come up bearing the faces of the family, except for the final tumbler which comes up "7" instead of Maggie and the machine dispenses gold coins with Maggie's face on them. | "She of Little Faith" | DABF02 |
| 276 | January 6, 2002 | A hedge is in place of the couch; a gardener quickly trims the hedge into the shape of the family. | "Brawl in the Family" | DABF01 |
| 277 | January 20, 2002 | The family sits; a claw arm (as found in coin-op prize machines) grabs Homer's head and lifts him up as he screams, "Ow, my brain!" | "Sweets and Sour Marge" | DABF03 |
| 278 | January 27, 2002 | Homer, dressed as Charlie Chaplin's "The Tramp" character, waddles in, twitches his nose, and sits down. The other family members, dressed as archetypical silent film characters, join Homer. | "Jaws Wired Shut" | DABF05 |
| 279 | February 10, 2002 | The family arrives to find two repo men carrying the couch away. As Homer cries over this, a confused Marge sits on the floor with the kids to watch TV. | "Half-Decent Proposal" | DABF04 |
| 280 | February 17, 2002 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "The Bart Wants What It Wants" | DABF06 |
| 281 | February 24, 2002 | The family catch The Squeaky Voice Teen making out with a teenage girl on the couch. | "The Lastest Gun in the West" | DABF07 |
| 282 | March 10, 2002 | The family runs in to find the Blue Man Group performing on drums in front of the couch. Homer murmurs "What the-?!" (in reruns and repeats of this couch gag in other episodes, The Blue Man Group plays more aggressively and Homer's "What the--?!" is muted out) | "The Old Man and the Key" | DABF09 |
| 283 | March 17, 2002 | Drawn in pencil, the family sits in a flipbook flipped by live-action hands. | "Tales from the Public Domain" | DABF08 |
| 284 | March 31, 2002 | The family are marionettes who get caught in each other's strings. The camera pans up to reveal Matt Groening as the puppet master, who throws the puppets down and sighs in frustration. | "Blame it on Lisa" | DABF10 |
| 285 | April 07, 2002 | repeat of DABF01's gag | "Weekend at Burnsie's" | DABF11 |
| 286 | April 21, 2002 | repeat of DABF02's gag | "Gump Roast" | DABF12 |
| 287 | April 28, 2002 | repeat of DABF03's gag | "I Am Furious Yellow" | DABF13 |
| 288 | May 05, 2002 | repeat of DABF04's gag | "The Sweetest Apu" | DABF14 |
| 289 | May 12, 2002 | repeat of DABF07's gag | "Little Girl in the Big Ten" | DABF15 |
| 290 | May 19, 2002 | repeat of DABF05's gag | "The Frying Game" | DABF16 |
| 291 | May 22, 2002 | repeat of DABF09's gag (but with different audio: the group plays more loudly/aggressively and Homer stays silent) | "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge" | DABF17 |
Season 14
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 292 | November 03, 2002 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XIII" | DABF19 |
| 293 | November 10, 2002 | Homer is on water skis, with the others on him, as he ski-jumps over sharks; everybody lands on the couch, but Homer is without his legs, which are in the sharks' mouths (a reference to the term "jumped the shark", describing a TV show that has reached its peak and is now declining in quality or has done something to cause it to decline prematurely). | "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" | DABF22 |
| 294 | November 17, 2002 | Spoofing the Get Smart opening, Homer walks through a series of futuristic doors, falls through the bottom of a phone booth, and lands on the couch (where the others are already sitting). | "Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade" | DABF20 |
| 295 | November 24, 2002 | The couch is drawn on a "Etch A Sketch" (called a "Sketch-A-Etch" in the couch gag) and Homer yells, "Whoo-hoo!" when the picture is completed. | "Large Marge" | DABF18 |
| 296 | December 1, 2002 | In a parody of the Macintosh paint program, Kid Pix, a mouse cursor drags Homer from the left side of the couch to the right, changes the wall color to green, and replaces the boat painting with the Mona Lisa. | "Helter Shelter" | DABF21 |
| 297 | December 15, 2002 | The family sits on the couch. Homer clicks on the remote control and sends the family to the Stone Age, clicks it again to send them to the Roman Empire where they watch a gladiator match, and clicks it a final time to return them to the present. | "The Great Louse Detective" | EABF01 |
| 298 | January 05, 2003 | Everybody is deep-fried in a fast-food fryer, then emptied onto the couch and salted. | "Special Edna" | EABF02 |
| 299 | January 12, 2003 | In black and white, everyone is wearing early-20th-century clothing and is watching the TV from a girder at a construction site. (Done in the style of Charles C. Ebbets' photograph "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper.") | "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" | EABF03 |
| 300 | February 02, 2003 | Everybody sticks their head through a cutout of the couch and have their pictures taken. | "Strong Arms of The Ma" | EABF04 |
| 301 | February 09, 2003 | A giant baby picks up doll versions of the Simpson family and plays with them. | "Pray Anything" | EABF06 |
| 302 | February 16, 2003 | Everybody and everything is made of gingerbread; Homer takes a bite out of Bart's head. | "Barting Over" | EABF05 |
| 303 | February 16, 2003 | repeat of DABF18's gag | "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" | EABF07 |
| 304 | March 02, 2003 | repeat of DABF10's gag | "A Star Is Born-Again" | EABF08 |
| 305 | March 09, 2003 | repeat of EABF01's gag | "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" | EABF09 |
| 306 | March 16, 2003 | repeat of DABF08's gag | "C.E. D'oh" | EABF10 |
| 307 | March 30, 2003 | repeat of DABF22's gag | "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" | EABF11 |
| 308 | April 13, 2003 | repeat of EABF02's gag | "Three Gays of the Condo" | EABF12 |
| 309 | April 27, 2003 | Everybody is a mime, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existent couch. | "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" | EABF13 |
| 310 | May 04, 2003 | repeat of EABF03's gag | "Old Yeller Belly" | EABF14 |
| 311 | May 11, 2003 | repeat of EABF04's gag | "Brake My Wife, Please" | EABF15 |
| 312 | May 18, 2003 | repeat of EABF06's gag | "Bart of War" | EABF16 |
| 313 | May 18, 2003 | repeat of EABF05's gag | "Moe Baby Blues" | EABF17 |
Season 15
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 314 | November 02, 2003 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XIV" | EABF21 |
| 315 | November 09, 2003 | The family runs to the couch as normal, only to decay and turn to piles of dust. | "My Mother the Carjacker" | EABF18 |
| 316 | November 16, 2003 | A Polaroid photo ejects onto the couch; it develops into a photo of the family. | "The President Wore Pearls" | EABF20 |
| 317 | November 23, 2003 | There is a Play-Doh press on the back wall; it presses Play-Doh versions of everybody out onto the couch. | "The Regina Monologues" | EABF22 |
| 318 | November 30, 2003 | repeat of DABF20's gag | "The Fat and the Furriest" | EABF19 |
| 319 | December 07, 2003 | Everybody slides down separate poles and end up on the couch, in Batman-style costumes, in the Batcave. | "Today I Am a Clown" | FABF01 |
| 320 | December 14, 2003 | The couch is a street bench in Japan, and everyone is a famous anime character: Homer is Ultraman, Marge is Jun from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Lisa is Usagi Tsukino, the protagonist from Sailor Moon, Bart is Astro Boy and Maggie is Pikachu from Pokémon. | "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" | FABF02 |
| 321 | January 04, 2004 | Somebody offscreen throws knives at the wall while everyone is seated on the couch, but when Homer reaches for a bowl of chips, a knife nearly hits him. | "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" | FABF03 |
| 322 | January 11, 2004 | Everybody is squeezed like frosting out of a pastry bag onto the top of a cake. | "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" | FABF04 |
| 323 | January 25, 2004 | Everybody's head pops out of a giant piece of apple pie. Homer takes a bite from the pie. | "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" | FABF05 |
| 324 | February 08, 2004 | A tray is placed into a microwave, and the family rises as the tray is cooked. (The is the third food-based couch gag in a row) | "Margical History Tour" | FABF06 |
| 325 | February 15, 2004 | A woman throws some seeds into a plot of dirt where the couch usually is, and waters them; everybody sprouts up like plants. | "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" | FABF07 |
| 326 | February 22, 2004 | Everybody is a bag on a moving dry-cleaning rack, which stops over the couch. | "Smart and Smarter" | FABF09 |
| 327 | March 14, 2004 | In a parody of Powers of Ten, the couch scene pans out until it reaches outer space, where the galaxies are replaced with atoms, which pan out until they reach Homer's head and then the couch scene again. Homer: Wooowwww.'(reairings and repeats of the couch gag in other episodes redub "Wooowww" with "Cool!" and have Kang and Kodos laughing instead of staying silent) | "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" | FABF08 |
| 328 | March 21, 2004 | repeat of EABF18's gag | "Co-Dependent's Day" | FABF10 |
| 329 | March 28, 2004 | repeat of EABF20's gag | "The Wandering Juvie" | FABF11 |
| 330 | April 18, 2004 | repeat of EABF22's gag | "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" | FABF12 |
| 331 | April 25, 2004 | repeat of FABF04's gag | "Catch 'em If You Can" | FABF14 |
| 332 | May 02, 2004 | repeat of FABF01's gag | "Simple Simpson" | FABF15 |
| 333 | May 09, 2004 | repeat of FABF03's gag | "The Way We Weren't" | FABF13 |
| 334 | May 16, 2004 | repeat of FABF06's gag | "Bart-Mangled Banner" | FABF17 |
| 335 | May 23, 2004 | repeat of FABF02's gag | "Fraudcast News" | FABF18 |
Season 16
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 336 | November 07, 2004 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XV" | FABF23 |
| 337 | November 14, 2004 | The couch is outside, mounted on the end of a catapult. The family sits on the couch, and then get launched skyward. | "All's Fair in Oven War" | FABF20 |
| 338 | November 21, 2004 | The family runs into the room to find the couch missing, only to have the couch fall from the sky and crush them. | "Sleeping with the Enemy" | FABF19 |
| 339 | December 05, 2004 | All of the family members sit down as normal. The twist: The Simpsons now look like Moe Szyslak. | "She Used to Be My Girl" | FABF22 |
| 340 | December 12, 2004 | After the family takes their usual places on the couch, the couch rises into the air and is actually part of the tendril of an anglerfish (which bears a striking resemblance to the one from Finding Nemo), which eats the family. | "Fat Man and Little Boy" | FABF21 |
| 341 | January 16, 2005 | The family runs into the room and take their usual places on the couch. Nothing happens. Lisa then says directly to the viewers "What, can't we sit on the couch without something happening?" Homer then gets impaled by a spear and yells, "D'oh!" | "Midnight Rx" | FABF16 |
| 342 | January 30, 2005 | The living room is a desert with all of the furniture and fixtures made of sand. The family crawls to the couch, but get buried by the sand underneath the desert sun. | "Mommie Beerest" | GABF01 |
| 343 | February 06, 2005 | The family enters the living room and in front of the couch they climb on top of the other like a totem pole. | "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" | GABF02 |
| 344 | February 13, 2005 | The family hops to the living room dressed as chess pieces: Homer is the king, Marge is the queen, Bart is a rook, Lisa is a knight and Maggie is a pawn. | "Pranksta Rap" | GABF03 |
| 345 | February 20, 2005 | The family, dressed as hockey players, with cuts and scrapes, skate into the living room and skate around the couch. Homer is carrying the Stanley Cup with Maggie sitting in the bowl. | "There's Something About Marrying" | GABF04 |
| 346 | March 06, 2005 | repeat of FABF08's gag (but this time, Kang and Kodos are heard laughing and Homer says "cooool" at the end) | "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" | GABF05 |
| 347 | March 13, 2005 | The family comes into the darkened living room. The lights go up; the living room is set up with balloons and streamers and a group of recurring characters yell out "Surprise!". Homer then has a heart attack and collapses. | "Goo Goo Gai Pan" | GABF06 |
| 348 | March 20, 2005 | The family enters the living room and sits on the couch like normal. Homer then pulls off his face, revealing himself to be Sideshow Bob. Bob pulls out a knife and chases after Bart. | "Mobile Homer" | GABF07 |
| 349 | April 03, 2005 | The family sits on the couch, only to have a spit comes through the wall and the floor open up to reveal fire down below. The couch and family begin rotating over the fire. Marge's hair catches fire and the boat painting falls off the wall. | "The Seven-Beer Snitch" | GABF08 |
| 350 | April 17, 2005 | Several toy forms of transportation come into the living room, only to change Transformers-style into the family. Homer is Optimus Prime, Marge is Skyfire, Lisa is Hound, Maggie is Bumblebee, and Bart appears to be Jazz. | "Future-Drama" | GABF12 |
| 351 | May 01, 2005 | The living room is an almost fully assembled jigsaw puzzle, with only the pieces with the family members' heads needing to be placed. The person completing the puzzle places all the heads on correctly except for Homer and Maggie, after which the former fixes them. | "Don't Fear the Roofer" | GABF10 |
| 352 | May 01, 2005 | repeat of FABF20's gag | "The Heartbroke Kid" | GABF11 |
| 353 | May 08, 2005 | repeat of DABF20's gag | "A Star Is Torn" | GABF13 |
| 354 | May 08, 2005 | repeat of FABF22's gag | "Thank God It's Doomsday" | GABF14 |
| 355 | May 15, 2005 | repeat of FABF21's gag | "Home Away from Homer" | GABF15 |
| 356 | May 15, 2005 | The family floats into the living room as balloons and Snowball II pops the one that looks like Homer. | "The Father, The Son, and The Holy Guest Star" | GABF09 |
Season 17
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 357 | September 11, 2005 | The family enters the living room through a metal detector, except for Homer, who sets it off. After four failed attempts, Homer (who is now stripped down to his briefs) is detained by a security guard who is inspecting Homer with a handheld scanning wand. | "Bonfire of the Manatees" | GABF18 |
| 358 | September 18, 2005 | The living room is made of clay. Six balls roll to the couch and form into Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, Bart—and Gumby. (filmed in claymation) | "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" | GABF16 |
| 359 | September 25, 2005 | The family enters the living room and takes their places on the couch, then an on-screen TiVo style menu pops up asking if the viewer would like to delete or save this recording. "Delete this recording now" is selected and the screen goes blank. | "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" | GABF19 |
| 360 | November 06, 2005 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XVI" | GABF17 |
| 361 | November 13, 2005 | The family runs in to sit on the couch, but it turns into a monster and chases them out of the house. Everyone's couches come to life and start attacking and swallowing the people sitting on them; Professor Frink is attacked by a futuristic flying couch with laser weaponry; Moe is attacked by the booths in his bar, but fights quite well with his shotgun; Homer takes refuge in a store called "Couch World", where he is piled upon by dozens of couches. (An unusually long couch gag, it runs for exactly 40 seconds.) | "Marge's Son Poisoning" | GABF20 |
| 362 | November 20, 2005 | The family enters the living room and take their usual places on the couch, only the camera pulls back and we find that the living room and the family are part of an alien zoo exhibit on Rigel IV. | "See Homer Run" | GABF21 |
| 363 | November 27, 2005 | The couch is replaced with a bird's nest and the family members take their usual places; then a large bird enters and feeds Homer a giant worm. | "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" | GABF22 |
| 364 | December 11, 2005 | A pair of animated hands deals five cards on the couch: the jack of diamonds (Bart), the queen of diamonds (Marge), the king of diamonds (Homer), the ace of diamonds (Lisa), and a joker (Maggie). | "The Italian Bob" | HABF02 |
| 365 | December 18, 2005 | A copy of "The Springfield Shopper" spins into frame, with the headline, "COUCH GAG THRILLS NATION" and a black and white photo of The Simpsons already seated. | "Simpsons Christmas Stories" | HABF01 |
| 366 | January 8, 2006 | The Simpsons sit on the couch as normal and a camera flashes, setting off a series of family portraits. In the 2006 and 2007 portraits, they all look the same. In 2008, Homer is missing and the family is wearing black. In 2009, Lenny has taken Homer's place and Bart and Lisa both begin puberty. In 2010, Carl has taken Marge's place and Lenny is still there. In 2011, Marge is back, but Lenny is gone and replaced by Jimbo Jones. In 2012, Homer is back, but is now a robot. In 2013, every member of the Simpson family is a robot. | "Homer's Paternity Coot" | HABF03 |
| 367 | January 29, 2006 | In a parody of the Bonanza opening, a map of Springfield burns away to reveal the family on horseback in the countryside. The couch is nowhere to be found. Bonanza-like music continues over the closing shot of the TV. | "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" | HABF04 |
| 368 | February 26, 2006 | repeat of GABF16's gag | "My Fair Laddy" | HABF05 |
| 369 | March 12, 2006 | The couch moves down an automated assembly line; Homer is added by a mechanical arm. | "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" | HABF06 |
| 370 | March 19, 2006 | The family enters the living room only to find their access to the couch has been blocked by laser beams. They work their way through the laser beams and sit down. Then the beams shut off and Homer's head drops to the floor. | "Bart Has Two Mommies" | HABF07 |
| 371 | March 26, 2006 | The family (played by live action actors and actresses) sit on the couch just as the animated Simpsons opening comes on. (Subsequent airings had a repeat of the "Simpsons Roasting on a Barbecue" couch gag from GABF08). | "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" | HABF08 |
| 372 | April 2, 2006 | repeat of GABF19's gag | "Million Dollar Abie" | HABF09 |
| 373 | April 9, 2006 | repeat of HABF02's gag (but this time Homer shouts "Whoo-hoo!" after the cards are dealt, since this can be a Royal Flush) | "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore" | HABF10 |
| 374 | April 23, 2006 | repeat of GABF10's gag (but this time, Homer says D'oh! when the heads are mixed up and laughs when they are fixed) | "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" | HABF11 |
| 375 | April 30, 2006 | repeat of GABF06's gag | "Girls Just Want To Have Sums" | HABF12 |
| 376 | May 07, 2006 | repeat of GABF12's gag | "Regarding Margie" | HABF13 |
| 377 | May 14, 2006 | repeat of HABF03's gag | "The Monkey Suit" | HABF14 |
| 378 | May 21, 2006 | repeat of GABF20's gag | "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" | HABF16 |
Season 18
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 379 | September 10, 2006 | The couch is replaced by four wooden stools. An instrumental of Pop Goes the Weasel plays as the family plays musical chairs. When the music stops, everyone, except for Homer, sits down. Homer groans in disappointment. | "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" | HABF15 |
| 380 | September 17, 2006 | Everyone but Homer sits on the couch. King Homer, from Treehouse of Horror III, grabs Marge through a window and drags her to the top of the Empire State Building, where he is attacked by biplanes. | "Jazzy and the Pussycats" | HABF18 |
| 381 | September 24, 2006 | A vending machine filled with every castmember (including The Simpson family) from the show appears instead of the couch. Ralph Wiggum comes in, selects a Homer figurine, and bites the head off before leaving. | "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..." | HABF20 |
| 382 | November 5, 2006 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XVII" | HABF17 |
| 383 | November 12, 2006 | The family sits down and gets moved across the floor in a car wash, where they get sprayed with water, squirted with hot wax, and scrubbed with brushes. Marge's hair turns puffy, Maggie's pacifier turns up missing, and everyone looks sad as three men wipe them dry and puts a new pacifier in Maggie's mouth. | "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" | HABF21 |
| 384 | November 19, 2006 | In a computer window, everyone is drag-and-dropped onto the couch, which is then drag-and-dropped onto a wastebasket; a computer menu item "empty trash" is then selected. | "Moe'N'a Lisa" | HABF19 |
| 385 | November 26, 2006 | All of the family members have the bodies of cockroaches; they all scuttle off after the lights are turned on. | "Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)" | HABF22 |
| 386 | December 10, 2006 | A pair of cartoon hands cuts a piece of paper into the shape of Homer. The hands then pull out the paper to reveal a chain shaped like the rest of the Simpsons family members. Homer can be heard yelling, "Whoo-hoo!" | "The Haw-Hawed Couple" | JABF02 |
| 387 | December 17, 2006 | The family (in Christmas attire) sits on the couch, and the camera pulls out to reveal they are in a Christmas decoration which is on a Christmas tree, and Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II rest nearby. | "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2" | JABF01 |
| 388 | January 7, 2007 | The family on the couch is pinned up, one by one, onto a bulletin board. | "The Wife Aquatic" | JABF03 |
| 389 | January 28, 2007 | The family, as infants in diapers, crawls into the living and up onto to their usual place on the couch. They begin to age into their current appearance. | "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times" | JABF05 |
| 390 | February 11, 2007 | The family are paper dolls, and are each dressed into their regular clothes. | "Little Big Girl" | JABF04 |
| 391 | February 18, 2007 | repeat of HABF22's gag1 | "Springfield Up" | JABF07 |
| 392 | March 4, 2007 | repeat of HABF20's gag | "Yokel Chords" | JABF09 |
| 393 | March 11, 2007 | repeat of HABF04's gag | "Rome-old and Juli-eh" | JABF08 |
| 394 | March 25, 2007 | Homer evolves from a single-celled organism which continuously divides to a more complex organism—first as a jellyfish, then a common fish that nearly escapes the clutches of an octopus that looks like Mr. Burns. Getting out of the ocean, Homer evolves into a prehistoric lizard that extends his tongue to snack on an insect that resembles his power plant coworker, Lenny. Homer then evolves into a slightly larger lizard with a scale on his back that sees a pterodactyl resembling Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, flying overhead. Homer then evolves into a rat that gets chased by a tyrannosaurus rex resembling Bart, who then gets into a battle with a stegosaurus resembling Lisa. Homer hides in a hole just before a large asteroid crashes on Earth, wiping out all dinosaur life. Homer comes out of the hole, passing the skeletal remains of T-Rex Bart, before changing into a sloth, then a monkey as he approaches a jungle, becoming more apelike upon swinging through the trees. Leaving the jungle, a brief Ice Age occurs as he evolves from a Neanderthal, to a Cro-Magnon, to an upright walking caveman. Caveman Homer passes by Moe (who is also a caveman), who then devolves into a rat creature. As Homer continues walking, he evolves into men from different historical eras (a nomad from the Middle Ages, a Spanish explorer, a Pilgrim, and a 19th century intellectual) until he finally evolves into his modern self and enters the house, stepping over Santa's Little Helper. With the rest of the family sitting on the sofa, Marge asks him "What took you so long?" Homer can only give an exhausted sigh of relief. (This is the longest couch gag to date.) | "Homerazzi" | JABF06 |
| 395 | April 22, 2007 | repeat of HABF01's gag | "Marge Gamer" | JABF10 |
| 396 | April 29, 2007 | repeat of HABF15's gag | "The Boys of Bummer" | JABF11 |
| 397 | May 6, 2007 | repeat of HABF21's gag | "Crook and Ladder" | JABF13 |
| 398 | May 13, 2007 | The family comes in and sits on the couch. A second family comes and also sits on the couch. Then hundreds of multiple families come in, and the second story windows and chimney overflow with them. Homer shouts, "Hey, don't shove!" | "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!" | JABF12 |
| 399 | May 20, 2007 | no gag (special opening/24-themed) | "24 Minutes" | JABF14 |
| 400 | May 20, 2007 | no gag (the Tracy Ullman Show-era Simpsons episode "Family Portrait" (where Homer tries to get the family to pose for a family photo) is shown with a caption that reads, "20 Years Ago...") | "You Kent Always Say What You Want" | JABF15 |
Season 19
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | September 23, 2007 | The entire opening sequence is changed to show a ruined Springfield being rebuilt in the aftermath of The Simpsons Movie. As construction work goes on around them, The Simpsons join Plopper the pig on the couch to the tune of the "Spider Pig" theme. Homer holds him and says "My summer love". | "He Loves to Fly and He D'oh's" | JABF20 |
| 402 | September 30, 2007 | repeat of JABF06's gag (but this time, Marge's line after Homer enters the living room is "Did you bring the milk?") | "The Homer of Seville" | JABF18 |
| 403 | October 7, 2007 | The living room is made of Lego bricks and the family members are built one by one out of Legos. Homer can be heard shouting, "Woo-hoo!" when a long black Lego brick (representing a full head of hair) is put on his head, and "D'oh!" when a small black Lego brick (representing his two strands) is placed on his head instead. | "Midnight Towboy" | JABF21 |
| 404 | October 14, 2007 | The family sits down as normal, except Maggie is missing. Homer looks to the empty space where Maggie is, then gets lifted by a giant Maggie as the camera pulls out to reveal the living room being part of a dollhouse and the family as the dolls that live within. Maggie puts the miniature Homer in her mouth and sucks it like a pacifier. | "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" | JABF19 |
| 405 | November 4, 2007 | no gag (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" | JABF16 |
| 406 | November 11, 2007 | The family (already seated on the couch) appears on the cover of Modern Couch Gag magazine. | "Little Orphan Millie" | JABF22 |
| 407 | November 18, 2007 | A pair of hands open up a book called "The Simpsons" and reveals a pop-up centerfold of the family sitting on the couch. | "Husbands and Knives" | JABF17 |
| 408 | November 25, 2007 | A magician walks into the living room and uses his cape to make the couch and family members appear. | "Funeral for a Fiend" | KABF01 |
| 409 | December 16, 2007 | repeat of GABF05's gag (but this time Homer says "weird" at the end) | "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" | KABF02 |
| 410 | January 6, 2008 | A medieval tapestry shows the Flanders stealing the Simpsons's couch. The Simpsons then take it back and kill the Flanders. | "E Pluribus Wiggum" | KABF03 |
| 411 | January 27, 2008 | The family is sitting on the couch. The screen zooms out to show them as a painting in a museum. | "That 90's Show" | KABF04 |
| 412 | February 17, 2008 | Each family member rushes into the living room and attaches themselves to a giant-size baby mobile. Homer tips the mobile. | "Love, Springfieldian Style" | KABF05 |
| 413 | March 2, 2008 | Two hands add to a Lite-Brite of the family on the couch | "The Debarted" | KABF06 |
| 414 | March 9, 2008 | The family are small toys on the couch. Professor Frink puts drops of water on them and they all grow to normal size, except Homer, who needs a bucket of water. | "Dial 'N' For Nerder" | KABF07 |
| 415 | March 30, 2008 | Wile E. Coyote paints a fake couch on the wall which the Simpsons run into | "Smoke On The Daughter" | KABF08 |
| 416 | April 13, 2008 | The Simpson family is painted on the couch. | "Papa Don't Leech" | KABF09 |
| 417 | April 27, 2008 | repeat of KABF03's gag | "Apocalypse Cow" | KABF10 |
| 418 | May 4, 2008 | repeat of JABF17's gag | "Any Given Sundance" | KABF11 |
| 419 | May 11, 2008 | repeat of KABF02's gag | "Mona Leaves-a" | KABF12 |
| 420 | May 18, 2008 | repeat of HABF19's gag | "All About Lisa" | KABF13 |
Season 20
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 421 | September 28, 2008 | The Simpsons are increased in ice, a la' Han Solo, and are carried away by Boba Fett. | "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes | KABF17 |
| 422 | October 5, 2008 | The Simpsons see themselves sitting on the couch where Mount Rushmore should be. Bart remarks "Aye Caramba!" | Lost Verizon | KABF15 |
| 423 | October 19, 2008 | The Simpsons are caught in a twister and when they land, they are on a farm in black and white. | KABF14 | |
| 424 | November 2, 2008 | None | Treehouse of Horror XIX | KABF16 |
| 425 | November 9, 2008 | The Simpsons come out of cuckoo clocks | Dangerous Curves | KABF18 |
| 426 | November 16, 2008 | The Simpsons rush to the couch in roman times. A volcano explodes and covers them in ash | Homer And Lisa Exchange Cross Words | KABF19 |
| 427 | November 30, 2008 | Bart is writing on the Chalkboard "I will Not Bring The Chalkboard Home" | Mypods and Boomsticks | KABF20 |
| 428 | December 7, 2008 | 'Repeat of JABF01 | The Burns and the Bees | KABF21 |
| 429 | January 25, 2009 | The Simpsons run to the couch in a box Comic Book Guy puts a $19.99 sticker on it and says "Worst Couch Gag Ever" | Lisa the Drama Queen | KABF22 |
| 430 | February 15, 2009 | The Simpsons run to find that the couch is Missing, and they chase it around the world and into Outer Space | Take My Life, Please | KABF23 |
| 431 | March 1, 2009 | The Simpsons go through the openings of The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, and Cheers. In the Cheers segment, Sideshow Bob enters in reference to Kelsey Grammer's character in Cheers, the family run out screaming and end up at the couch with a sigh of relief. . | How the Test Was Won | KABF24 |
| 432 | March 8, 2009 | The Simpsons come in and find their couch beaten and torn. Funeral music plays as they bury the couch in the backyard. The Simpsons then visit a ranch to pick out a new couch. The Simpsons sit on a black and white spotted couch, which throws Homer off it. The scene then cuts to The Simpsons in their living room, sitting on their new couch. Homer is in a body cast and turns on the wall-mounted flatscreen TV. | No Loan Again, Naturally | LABF03 |
| 433 | March 15, 2009 | The couch is strung up like a piñata. A blindfolded Ralph Wiggum comes in, swinging a stick and hits the couch, making the Simpsons spill out on the floor. | Gone Maggie Gone | LABF04 |
| 434 | March 22, 2009 | The Simpsons are dog show participants being lead on leashes by men in fancy suits. A judge awards Bart the blue ribbon, and Homer attacks Bart. | In the Name of the Grandfather | LABF11 |
| 435 | March 29, 2009 | The Simpsons are a meal at a fancy restaurant (Homer is a garden salad, Lisa's face appears in a bowl of soup, Marge is a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, Bart is a T-Bone steak, and Maggie is the mint that comes with the restaurant bill), which The Comic Book Guy eats. After he wipes his mouth with a napkin, a stain appears that resembles The Simpsons sitting on the couch. | Wedding for Disaster | LABF05 |
| 436 | April 5, 2009 | The screen is white. A cartoon left hand flips an animation cel that has eyes on it, flips another that has Homer's skeleton sitting cross-legged, flips another that has Homer's stomach and a can of Duff beer on the lap, flips another that has Homer naked, another where the rest of the family are fully clothed and sitting in mid-air, and another where The Simpsons are in their living room and sitting on the couch. Marge notices Homer is still naked and pulls down an animation cel that has Homer's clothes. | Eeny Teeny Maya Moe | LABF06 |
| 437 | April 19, 2009 | The living room is covered in thick, jungle plants. The Simpsons slash their way through in order to reach the couch, and find an ape version of the Simpson family already seated. The ape-Simpsons hoot and screech, scaring off the human Simpsons. | The Good, the Sad and the Drugly | LABF07 |
| 438 | April 26, 2009 | There's an Olympic-sized pool leading to the couch. The Simpsons take their places on the marks and swim to the couch once a starter pistol goes off. Marge is first, Lisa's second, Bart is third, and Maggie is last. The family looks around, wondering where Homer is. Cut to a shot of an unconscious Homer floating facedown in the pool. | Father Knows Worst | LABF08 |
| 439 | May 3, 2009 | The living room is the seating area in the Colosseum during the era of the Roman Empire. The Simpsons (dressed in togas) rush to an empty space to sit down. The sounds of a gladiator match can be heard offscreen. The audience cheers as the head of a gladiator flies into the audience. Bart catches it. | Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh | LABF10 |
| 440 | May 10, 2009 | A large marble rock is in the living room where the couch should be. A stereotypical French sculptor quickly chisels out a statue of The Simpsons sitting on the couch. The sculptor then turns the statue of the Simpsons into a statue of a Civil War soldier on a horse. | Four Great Women and a Manicure | LABF09 |
| 441 | May 17, 2009 | repeat of LABF02's couch gag | Coming to Homerica | LABF12 |
Season 21
| # | Airdate | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 442 | September 27, 2009 | The Simpsons are at an underground train station where a train pulls in and opens its doors, revealing the living room, complete with couch. The Simpsons get in and sigh as the door closes and the train pulls off. | Homer the Whopper | LABF13 |
| 443 | October 4, 2009 | The Simpsons, wearing white cowboy hats, exchange gunfire around the couch. Maggie comes out from behind the sailboat picture on the wall and blasts the room with a machine gun. | Bart Gets a 'Z' | LABF15 |
| 444 | October 11, 2009 |
repeat of LABF01's couch gag |
The Great Wife Hope | LABF16 |
| 445 | November 15, 2009 |
None. (Halloween episode) |
Treehouse of Horror XX | LABF14 |
| 446 | November 15, 2009 |
The Simpsons family, dressed in prehistoric-style clothing, runs onto the couch (which is in a prehistoric area, resting on a tar pit) and sinks with it into a tar pit. |
The Devil Wears Nada | LABF17 |
| 447 | November 22, 2009 | Instead of the couch, The Simpsons (dressed as Victorian-era Christmas carolers) appear next to a Christmas tree and sing a parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas," featuring twelve Grampas grumbling (as they stand in a customer return line), eleven Barneys belching (as they lie drunk in the snow), ten Lennys leaping (over a fence), nine Carls dancing (in a ballroom), eight Moes a-milking, seven Selmas smoking, six Flanders praying, five golden Frinks (Professor Frink's heads are on five gold coins), four crawling nerds (Database, Wendell, Martin, and Milhouse crawling from Nelson Muntz), three-eyed fish (Blinky from "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"), two special Ralphs, and (as the Simpsons walk to the couch), a Maggie in a Snuggly. | "Pranks and Greens" | LABF18 |
| 448 | November 29, 2009 | The Simpsons and Marge's sisters (Patty and Selma) gather around the dinner table for a Thanksgiving meal, but soon gather their plates and head for the couch where they watch a football game on TV. | "Rednecks and Broomsticks" | LABF19 |
| 449 | December 13, 2009 | The living room furniture (the couch cushions, the rug, the flat-screen TV, and the lamps) are all dancing to disco music just as The Simpsons come in. Once Homer yells, "Hey!", the furniture returns to normal and the Simpsons sit on the couch. | "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" | MABF01 |
| 450 | January 3, 2010 | Homer is standing on a coiled platform, which launches him (and the rest of the Simpson family) through a pinball game called "Couch Gag Chaos." | "Thursdays with Abie" | MABF02 |
| 451 | January 10, 2010 | The couch is seen inside a human egg. Each family member is a sperm cell swimming towards and penetrating the egg to sit on the couch. The zygote then divides multiple times, forming a Mr. Burns embryo. | "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" | LABF20 |
| 452 | January 31, 2010 | Homer runs to the couch first. He pulls out a myPhone, presses the "Couch Gag" app and downloads Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Maggie. When Homer gets an incoming call from Mr. Burns, he screams and swallows the phone. | "Million Dollar Maybe" | MABF03 |
| 453 | February 14, 2010 | A hand deals five tarot cards featuring Homer (the King of Cups), Marge (the Queen of Cups), Bart (the Fool), Lisa (the Princess), and Maggie (the Death card) on a blue table. Cut to reveal Grampa getting his fortune read by the gypsy from "Hex and the City". Grampa gasps and turns the Death card towards the gypsy. The gypsy drops dead. | "Boy Meets Curl" | MABF05 |
| 454 | February 21, 2010 | repeat of LABF08's couch gag | "The Color Yellow" | MABF06 |
| 455 | March 14, 2010 | repeat of LABF04's couch gag | "Postcards from the Wedge" | MABF05 |
| 456 | March 21, 2010 | A rain cloud moves over a crop field behind the Simpsons' House, it rains, the cloud leaves and various fruits grow out of the ground the Simpson family (all except Homer) are bugs and sit on the largest fruit, Homer, as a Snail pops out of the fruit. | "Stealing First Base" | MABF07 |
| 457 | March 28, 2010 | repeat of LABF11's couch gag | "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" | MABF10 |
| 458 | April 11, 2010 | The couch is outside the house, which is a cardboard set that falls down on the Simpsons | "American History X-cellent" | MABF08 |
| 459 | April 18, 2010 | repeat of LABF05's couch gag | "Chief of Hearts" | MABF09 |
| 460 | April 25, 2010 | The Simpsons chase after the couch through the articles on The Springfield Shopper. The couch gives in and reunites with the family after seeing an ad about it in the classified section. | "The Squirt and the Whale" | MABF14 |
| 461 | May 5, 2010 | The Simpsons running into the living room, and are lifted onto the sofa and into the air by several supporting characters as everyone sings to Ke$ha's "Tik Tok". | "To Surveil With Love" | MABF12 |
| 462 | May 9, 2010 | The Simpsons are a miniature model constructed by Nelson then blown up with a firecracker. | "Moe Letter Blues" | MABF13 |
| 463 | May 16, 2010 | Harold from the children's book, Harold and the Purple Crayon draws The Simpsons' living room just as they run in to sit. Homer asks Harold to draw him a beer, and Harold obliges. Homer pats the child on the head. | "The Bob Next Door" | MABF11 |
| 464 | May 23, 2010 | Homer and Bart appear as hand puppets, and the puppets begin attacking each other. The view pans down, and Homer is shown choking Bart himself. | "Judge Me Tender" | MABF15 |
Couch gags within episodes
Sometimes there is a couch gag during the episode itself, usually during a spoof of the opening sequence.
| Airdate | Picture | Gag | Episode | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7, 1993 | During the "Thompsons" introduction, the family sits on the couch and a pile of fish falls from above. | "Cape Feare" | 9F22 | |
| December 21, 1997 | After everybody of Springfield has taken all the stuff from them, The Simpsons walk to the place where the couch gags take place. | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" | 5F07 | |
| May 21, 2000 | In an "aborted" couch gag, the family sits wearing Western outfits; the director cuts the scene as Bart is busy on the phone agreeing to do Teen Wolf 3. Lisa complains that she wants to go to bed, asking if there are child labor laws. Homer asks if Marge told her about the laws, and Marge tells him to poop in his hat. Kang and Kodos then show up with useless ballet tickets, asking if they needed them that night. | "Behind the Laughter" | BABF19 | |
| May 1, 2005 | 200px | Instead of saying "The Simpsons", the announcer says "Three weeks later". Everyone except Bart sits; the overweight Bart arrives late and suffers a heart attack. | "The Heartbroke Kid" | GABF11 |
References
- ↑ Season 10 DVD audio commentary "Viva Ned Flanders"
