The Kid Is All Right/Gags

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 25 Episode Gags
← 535 "Labor Pains"	536 "The Kid Is All Right"	"Yellow Subterfuge" 537 →

Couch gag

MusicVille Couch Gag

Couch Gag Information Duration: 2:15 First appearance: "The Kid is All Right"

Production

Two sketches of The Simpsons characters as instruments were revealed on March 22, 2013 by David Silverman via Twitter.

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  David Silverman's first sketch

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  David Silverman's second sketch

Them music for the couch gag was recording before the scoring session for the episode, it contains 40 different bits of music over 3 different scoring sessions. The music is 30-second passages of Mozart and Grieg, 15-second stretches of jazz music by Alf Clausen and one second bursts of brass, bagpipes, drums, accordion, sleigh bells, and other musical sounds. Two of the music is Mozart's 28th Symphony, and a Grieg's Peer Gynt.

Gallery

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Appearances

Locations

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  Bard Lad

Trivia

The musical instruments that each character represent:

Rainier Wolfcastle as a timpani Alice Glick as a triangle Helen Feesh as an organ Comic Book Guy as a tuba Carl Carlson as a trombone Lenny Leonard as a saxophone Sea Captain as a tuba Sam and Larry as two cymbals Allison Taylor as a wooden flute Edna Krabappel as a violin Seymour Skinner as a bass Elizabeth Hoover as a viola Dewey Largo as a cello Jebediah Springfield as a banjo Lunchlady Doris as a bass Martha Prince as a violin Miss Springfield as a pink violin Sherri and Terri as two flutes Database as a ?? Üter Zörker as a tuba Milhouse Van Houten as a horn Superintendent Chalmers as a bass Agnes Skinner as a cello Helen Lovejoy as a violin Reverend Lovejoy as a cello  ?? as a horn

Akira as a clarinet  ?? as a saxophone Arnie Pye as a tuba Chief Wiggum as a bass drum Ralph Wiggum as a djembe Patty Bouvier as a timpani Selma Bouvier as a timpani Ned Flanders as an harp Rod Flanders as a smaller harp Todd Flanders as a smaller harp Lisa Simpson as a saxophone Maggie Simpson as a trumpet Bart Simpson as a tuba Marge Simpson as a trombone Homer Simpson as a tuba Montgomery Burns as a bassoon Waylon Smithers as an oboe Lard Lad made up of a lute and a trimbel Apu Nahasapeemapetilon as a sitar Barney Gumble as a tuba-horn Moe Szyslak as a cello Burns' Hounds as xylophones Eddie as a bass Lou as a bass  ?? as a bass

?? as a violin Kent Brockman as a bass Snake as a marimba Sideshow Bob as a trimbel, and with bells and jingle bells Professor Frink as a bayan Nelson Muntz as an electric guitar Dolph Starbeam as an electric guitar Kearney Zzyzwicz as a triple-electric guitar Jimbo Jones as an electric guitar Willie as a bagpipes Disco Stu as a DJ Krusty the Clown as a ?? Sideshow Mel as a slide whistle Cletus and his family as a jug band Jack Marley as a trombone Abe Simpson as a tuba Jasper Beardly as a banjo Crazy Cat Lady as a upright piano Moleman as a drum Old Jewish Man as a clarinet Pink Sedan as a grand piano

References

← Season 24 Season 25 Episodes Season 26 →

Homerland • Treehouse of Horror XXIV • Four Regrettings and a Funeral • YOLO • Labor Pains • The Kid Is All Right • Yellow Subterfuge • White Christmas Blues • Steal This Episode* • Married to the Blob • Specs and the City • Diggs • The Man Who Grew Too Much • The Winter of His Content • The War of Art* • You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee • Luca$ • Days of Future Future • What to Expect When Bart's Expecting • Brick Like Me* • Pay Pal • The Yellow Badge of Cowardge