How many couch gags are there

A real throw-back to the Golden Era of animation. Sort of. They probably started out as concept art drawn like this. To celebrate the release of their th episode, the producers went all out.

This gag opens with a few previous couch gags in montage form, before zooming through screenshots of every single couch gag ever made until it lands on this one, which is simply the family sitting down Now we're edging towards the th anniversary, there is likely to be something pretty cool in the works.

Crossovers were a long-established novelty by this point, but it's still always cool to see characters you love interacting with each other. One of the greatest and coolest looking pieces of art of all time is one of the most parodied visuals in history. This version is as confusing as expected, with the TV visible from behind for one of the first times ever, and the family each entering from a different perspective. One of the funniest ever couch gags is built on a simple concept executed absolutely perfectly.

It makes you wonder if the family likes to have planning meetings to work out their dances. After that, the family sits on the couch as usual, but the camera pans out to reveal that all the couch gags including the shot of the family from earlier are in a mosaic that has "" on it. The mosaic then breaks to reveal Homer strangling Bart.

One of the most memorable couch gags involved the Simpsons arriving to find The Flintstones sitting on the couch. Pepper" album, featuring every character and object from the show and statues of the Simpsons as they were on the Tracy Ullman Show cartoon shorts to commemorate the show beating the The Flintstones' episode mark as America's longest-running animated primetime sitcom. Fry comes down the chute instead of Bart which is quickly corrected when Fry gets sucked up and Bart comes down.

The couch gag features the family running in to see Plopper sitting on the couch. Homer lovingly picks up the pig and says, "My summer love", followed by Plopper squealing. The most frequently used couch gag in syndicated versions of Simpsons episodes from seasons one to five is the Duplicate Family couch gag.

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The Simpsons lye on a rug and get rolled up by a person, then cut up into slices. Maggie pokes her head out. The Simpson family go from to , with each odd year having something happening, mainly people appearing next to the couch related to an episode broadcast in a year. An animated short by Bill Plympton in which a young Homer falls in love with the couch The couch tries to reunite with Homer after having a "baby couch," but Homer casts it out.

The couch is forced to support itself by stripping and selling its body after being thrown out of its apartment and nearly commits suicide by throwing itself in a garbage truck, only to be rescued by Homer. The "baby couch" then ends up being Maggie's play chair. The Simpsons run into their seats in a stadium. An announcer tells the fans to raise their cards. All of them except Homer do so. Homer follows suit a few seconds later when he realizes what he's supposed to do. The cards form a picture of the Simpson family, with Homer's card showing part of his own face.

The family are playing a Zii game in which they sit on the couch, but Homer keeps failing. Homer angrily throws his controller down and tries to sit on the real couch, but fails just like in the game. Baby Gerald chases after them and tries to smash them with a hammer, but Maggie comes to their rescue and stops him. Everytime a cel is placed, Homer is heard screaming. He then grabs a donut and eats it, with the donuts parts being shown on the cel too. In a parody of Wacky Races , the family races against many characters but all of them crash near the finish line and Grampa wins.

A tattooing needle is seen drawing a picture of the family seated on the couch. When the tattoo is finished, the view pulls back to reveal that Marge is getting a lower-back tattoo and has her dress rolled down to her waist.

She pulls her dress back up and chuckles coyly. Marge , Lisa , Maggie and Bart sit on the couch as normal. But Homer comes in later and surprises them with a bloody ax.

This zooms out to reveal " Tales from the Couch ". The family are awards. They sit on a trophy shelf and are then crushed into a "Best Grampa award", which is taken by Abraham Simpson. The couch sequence is a trailer for an action movie called The Couch. The Simpsons sit down on the couch, which zooms out to a ball whacking game. Nelson Muntz hits the target and a the living room falls in the water. The Simpsons sit on the couch while the Game Of Thrones theme plays as a knight chops Homer's head off and part of Marge's hair with a spear, making Lisa say, "Eew!

In the syndicated version, the Game Of Thrones couch gag plays, but at the end, we fade to the living room. Original airing: Homer Shake. In another Bill Plympton -animated opening, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are in a s gangster story, armed with weapons and ready to attack. When Maggie turns on the lights, everyone is in the present day, holding common objects. Maggie then fires off a Tommy gun as they sit on the couch to watch TV. Easter eggs painted to resemble Marge , Bart , Lisa and Maggie are on the couch.

Homer comes along and sits on the couch and squashes all four eggs. Breaking Bad Couch Gag. The Simpsons family are skydiving. Homer's parachute breaks and the entire family crash into the house and fall onto the couch, which breaks the couch. Note: This is the only canon couch gag.

The Simpsons are carved into a block of ice by three men. Grampa Simpson comes in and turns on the heat. The ice sculpture melts. Robot Chicken couch gag.

The Simpsons are sea creatures sitting on a shell couch before being eaten by Blinky , the three-eyed fish. They grow seeds and the TV then blows on them. The seeds fly up into the air and float around the room. Canada airing: A loon, a Canadian hockey player, John A. Macdonald and a beaver all sit on the Simpsons' couch. O Canada the national anthem of Canada plays. The Simpsons rush in and shove them aside, but their guests say nothing.

Maggie sucks on a hockey puck. The couch is behind a velvet rope and guarded by a bouncer with a clipboard. When the family approach the couch, the bouncer lets Marge , Bart , Lisa and Maggie in to sit on the couch. However, he denies entry to Homer , pointing to the clipboard and showing him that his name isn't on the list.

When Homer tries to force his way in, the bouncer hits him over the head with a nightstick. A parody of The Hobbit in which The Simpsons trek to the couch. Parody of the film Upside Down - gravity prevents the family from sitting down, with Homer falling up through the ceiling into the sky. A parody of Music Land. The Simpsons are flailing tube man balloons on a used couch lot. Balloon Bart steals a pair of scissors and cuts Balloon Homer, who flies into some power lines.

Christmas version of the opening sequence , this time, as a retelling of The Night Before Christmas. Channel Changer third Bill Plympton 's couch gag. Homer sits down to watch the Super Bowl , only to have to get up to get his six-pack of beer When Homer retrieves it, he gets shocked -- and keeps getting shocked until the town's power goes out.

Sylvain Chomet couch gag: As the Simpsons rush to the couch, the lights go off. Marge leaves to fix the fuse, and when the lights go up, the characters are drawn Triplets of Belleville -style and everything has a French aesthetic to it.

Bart plays with a do-it-yourself foie gras kit, Lisa plays an accordion, Marge cries out, "Maggie? Earth's single large land mass breaks apart into five Simpsons-shaped continents, only for a Moe -shaped asteroid to destroy the planet. Homer is the patient from the board game " Operation ," with other characters as the pieces Lisa is "Brainy" the brain , and Moe is "Elbow Bender" the elbow. When "Pain in the Butt" Bart is removed, he grabs the forceps and sticks it on the side, which causes Homer to buzz and scream in pain.

The family are at the Running of the Bulls, that are couchs as bulls. A "Minecraft" parody. The couch and the floor are covered in bubble wrap, which the family pops when jumping. In an opening directed by Michal Socha, the family takes a trip through Homer's body. Everybody is a pawn in The Game of Life , which ends with everybody and a Grim Reaper pawn on the couch.

When Comic Book Guy asks whether or not there will be another Simpsons movie , everyone except Maggie leaves; she sucks on her pacifier twice. The episode featured the longest couch gag to date, directed, written, animated, and produced by independent animator Don Hertzfeldt. The surreal sequence, projecting the fate of The Simpsons deep into the future, was described by Spin Magazine as "mind-melting" and "two of the strangest minutes of television ever to air on a major network during prime time.

The Simpsons walk in and see Itchy trying to kill Scratchy. Itchy escapes and Scratchy is living with the Simpsons now. Everything is fine until he comes with his girlfriend and his friends.

The Simpsons bring back Itchy and he kills Scratchy. A parody of the cover of the Cat Stevens album Tea for the Tillerman , with its opening track playing over it. The couch turns into Hedonismbot , all the Simpsons stand up except Homer who gets comfortable lying on Hedonismbot.

The couch is a ski lift. The family walks in, ready to go skiing. The couch rises up. Seconds later, the couch comes back down and the family are all injured. Except for Maggie, who comes in and has a medal and isn't injured.

The family is playing with their smartphones as they walk in. But, they don't pay attention to where they're going and bump into each other and fall over. They pick up their smartphones and carry on playing. There is a message that reads; "Now for obligatory Frozen reference", before cutting to a snow couch, where Lisa, appearing as Elsa , is sitting. Bart hits her with a snowball and she immediately creates a giant ice palace, with Bart stuck at the top. Homer appears as Olaf , and bites his own nose, disappointed to discover it is simply a carrot.

A piano version of Great Gate of Kiev is played in the background as the gag showcases artwork of each Simpson.

The camera turns to the Simpsons sitting at an art gallery. Homer grabs the remote control and all the artwork on the wall changes channels, pleasing the family.

They find out that someone has been eating their porridge and broke their couches but they catch Lisa who is sleeping on Bart's couch. She wakes up to find the three of them surrounding her, causing a fight between them that ends with the Simpsons eating parts of Homer's body. The scene is revealed to be a story Homer a traumatized Maggie. People start to eat each Simpson off of a sushi plate that is sitting on a moving boat, except for Homer, who falls into the water and gets eaten by a fish after the boat flips over.

Simpsons Pixel couch gag. The printer gets jammed while printing out the couch gag. The family is repeatedly sucked into a portal above the couch until Bart eventually separates from the rest, avoids getting beamed up, and closes the portal via a remote control.

He then finds a severed Homer's head. Homer, who takes longest to pop, is burned. Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie appear as penguins sitting on an ice molded couch, until they are eaten by walrus Homer. Homer fails at making goal saves; Maggie continues kicking soccer balls at him until he is buried in them. Rick and Morty couch gag. Several albums of the Beatles gets parodied by the Simpsons family and on Flabby Road they get ran over by a red Double-decker bus.

The Simpsons come in as cars: Homer as a caravan, Lisa as an electric car, Marge as a five doors van and Bart as a low-rider. Lisa connects to the charger, and when everyone gets on the couch, Maggie as a monster truck crushes them and sucks on her pacifier. The episode opens with a Kricfalusi-animated couch gag where the Simpson children are trick-or-treating before being set upon by soul-hungry spirits with a monstrous Frank Grimes among them. The spirits chase after the Simpson children to their house with the Frank Grimes monster taking Homer's soul.

Short with Santa's Little Helper titled Feast and changed to fat. He gets fed by the family till he becomes fat and is sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle, where he's fed strained prunes and dies afterwards. He's greeted by God. Parody of Star Trek, with the Simpsons family in a donut Enterprise, that shots their couch, and then gets shot by a ring of couches. Burns, Duffman, Dr. Teeny and Professor Frink's faces on them. Homer's dice lands on Mr. Burns and Homer d'ohes. The other four dices lands on Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Marge.

The couch gag is animated in Rotoscoping and Homer and Bart complains about it, till Lisa grabs the remote and switches to normal saying it was a noble experiment that failed. Homer sits on the couch, puts sunglasses on and the couch is taken to a lower level via a hidden elevator. Then, a montage showing Joe "Kaz" Kazinsky Homer and his partner, a high-tech couch chasing down their enemy, Fernando Withmore Ned on Miami of the s.

In the end, it's revealed that the scenes are a rerun from a show, to which Homer replies "Damn reruns", only for the family to be surprised by Maggie imitating the show's main heroes and setting the living room floor on fire.

Marge picks up a letter from the couch which sets the Simpsons off on a journey to find it, but Homer eventually wakes up from the dream, only to find a goodbye letter from Marge. The Simpsons, dressed as rugby players, reunite at the center and get in position. Homer tries to sneak Maggie in as a rugby ball but goes over the couch and smashes the wall where he finds the TV remote.

Roomance by Bill Plympton The television and the couch dreams of the television bouncing on the couch and both having fun. The Simpsons family wakes up from cryo sleep in a space ship except Homer. Marge opens his pod but he comes out as bones. The wall behind the couch breaks and the Simpsons themselves in Duff Stadium during a rugby match.

Homer next finds himself piled under the rugby team. Homer builds the couch in an IKEA themed instruction manual. A parody of the opening sequence from Adventure Time, featuring multiple Simpsons characters playing the roles of the Adventure Time characters, such as Bart as Finn the Human and Homer as Jake the Dog. Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward contributed to the sequence. Someone is transforming the Simpsons family in emoji for their myPhone, but Homer doesn't fit because he's too fat.

Switching to the myPad doesn't help either, so the mysterious character hits Homer with a hammer till he's unconscious. In a spoof of Planet of the Apes, the Simpsons are being chased by couches through a field, until they are caught and imprisoned. The Simpsons' couch breaks them out, and leads the family to a buried Lard Lad statue.

Homer then grabs a rock and slams it on the couch, making it unconscious. The Simpson family sits on the couch. Upon entering Homer starts hallucinating, seeing Marge and Lisa as paintings. He comes out of the museum and sees Bart, Santa's Little Helper and the whole Springfield as paintings too, he arrives home and sits on a couch with Maggie.

The whole house is a painting too so he tries to change himself in a painting, but becomes a point stile comic instead. The family flies to the couch on top of Mount Olympus but Lisa is missing. She comes out of Homer's head as Athena was fabled to have emerged full-grown from Zeus's forehead ; Homer takes Maggie's pacifier to close the hole in his head. Bart gets home and finds no one after calling "Hello?

The TV slides down a media center box, suspended on top of other media equipment. The Simpsons walks toward where the couch should be and find it empty, then they walk backwards as soldiers point musquets at them. The scene turns into a oil painting and Homer d'ohes. Homer arrives home on a ski sled, Bart hits it with his skateboard, Lisa avoids him on her bike and Marge hits him through the door with a sled led by 4 Santa's Little Helpers.

They sit on the couch, dressed as A Christmas Carol characters, with Homer holding a chalice, but Ebenezer Burns arrives and asks Smithers to release the Christmas Hounds, that attacks the family that flees, with Lisa flying.

The set is between other Simpsons merchandise t-shirt, couches, snow globes, hats, stand-up figures and a The Simpsons Video Game. The family arrives on the couch but Maggie is missing. Marge turns around, moves the painting behind the coach, opens a safe, and retrieves Maggie, revealing gold bars inside the safe. The family arrives at the couch, but Homer notices the sail boat painting has disappeared.

Bart suggests another animated show stole it. Homer walks on the set of South Park and The California Raisins but can't find it, and booes the raisins, but in the fight that follows a fire starts, he escapes through a door to find that the Nerd from Robot Chicken, who is watching a video of the previous Robot Chicken couch gag, bought it from Bart on a bid.

Homer, while the Nerd rambles on, steals the painting and leaves a paper one, and runs through the stages back home, killing the South Park characters too, announcing he did retrieve it, only to find the family replaced it, and Marge swears her disappointment. A pachinko machine is shown, with the family at the bottom. Everyone but Homer gets many balls in. Homer is sad but on opening his mouth he swallows one and chokes. The Simpson family arrives on the couch gag, hand-drawn, but Bart is missing part of his head.

A pencil draws it and reveals it is Maggie correcting it. Proceeding to eat the donut, he stabs himself in the eye with another pencil. All the past and present Simpsons' pets are on the couch. Then Stan Lee arrives and says "There is nothing too short I can't cameo". The 20th Century FOX logo explodes like a Big Bang and starts showing stills from the most iconic episodes of the show since At the end, the family arrives at the couch but it disappears leaving them on the floor.

Goodbart ". Chia Pet of the Simpson family are watered, they all grow full air, except for Homer who still has only his two hairs and a beard. While the hairs grows, he says "What? The Simpson family climb a mountain, on Homer's command, two Sherpas bring the couch and the TV to them, one of them faints and is taken away by the other. Maggie is the last to arrive and, with a pickax, destroys the frozen family, which melts.

The Simpson family is the furniture instead of the characters on the couch: Homer is the couch, Bart is the left lamp, Lisa is the right lamp, Maggie is the painting above the couch and Marge is the TV antenna. Couches comes in to sit on Homer and painting-Maggie tilts herself once they're settled. The Simpsonovich family is peeling potatoes, when suddenly they grab the couch and escape, when soldiers storm in the house.

After travelling on a boat, they arrive in the U. Moe arrives and grabs pieces of the name tags, renaming himself as Szyslak, but he is not granted entrance, and is instead quarantined. At their new home, Homer is sewing, Maggie is in a crib, Bart is playing with a baseball, Lisa is crocheting, and Marge is cleaning clothes and then hangs the couch to the clothesline.

The scene changes to a bar where Marge and Homer are sitting on the couch while other people dance. Homer tries to put his arm on Marge but she moves away. At Evergreen Terrace the family is sitting on the couch when they have to leave when the house is flooded. Springfield families find themselves on a UFO, that flies away from Earth. The Simpson family arrives at the acceptance room, where a Riggelian attaches a Riggelian family name to their name, and Homer d'ohs.

In a black and white mute movie setting, the Simpson family arrives at the couch gag and Lisa points at it and says "Look Father! A couch! Marge remarks "Proper young ladies don't point! Homer checks his pocket watch and says "Now it's 8 a.

You kids get to work! Bart and Lisa go to work at the Coal Mine through the children's entrance , but Marge follows them in saying "Kids! You forgot your sister! Descending the elevator, they find themselves in Hell. Lisa exclaims "Uh-oh! Too far! A final text onscreen says "Another Couch Gag Classic.

When the Shrimpson family arrives at the couch, they get hooked by Ned , and deposited into a capture cage. Homer says "our own home", before shrimps are revealed to be in it as well. The family arrives on the couch, then the scene transforms into a Lincoln Memorial statue, with "In couch gags we trust" written above it, which turns into a bronze coin with "Vescere Bracis Meis" "Eat my shorts" in latin written under it.

The coin is then shown given by Mr. Burns in his office to Homer as a raise, to which Homer shouts "D'oh". Lisa's Opus ". The couch burns up and the Simpson family transforms into popcorn and are laced around the Christmas tree; Homer exclaims "D'oh! The couch gives birth to a baby couch, with Dr. Hibbert performing the operation, Homer tries to hold it in his hands but drops it on the carpet. Maggie then sits down on it. Homer sings " Your Face " while his face contorts, divides and explodes.

At the end, Homer appears on the couch with the other members of the family. At the end, they sit on the couch, under the label "The Simpsons episodes" but Lisa points out they're 4 episodes early and Homer d'ohs.

Skinner does a connect-the-dots of the Simpson family , but Homer ends up having three eyes and d'ohs. Marge , Maggie , Bart and Homer are at the couch gag, but Lisa doesn't show up as she's still talking with Dewey Largo. Homer would have cut the couch out of a log with a chain saw.

The text "We're lumberjacks. Why is that funny? The family gets on the couch, and a handle comes down. The couch gets raised off the roof and is shown that it's attached to a Ferris wheel, which, destroying half the house, takes them around for one turn. The Simpson family gets printed out from printers, but Homer gets paper jammed, and then says " Mmm The Simpson family goes to sit on the couch but the couch is not there.

Marge rings a bell and Puritans starts building a wooden one. After sitting on it, Homer tries to change the channel with the remote, but one of the Puritans informs him there is no electricity, to which Homer D'ohs.

A series of clips from each season is shown for a full list, see the references page. The adult male alien asks why Homer sounds like Walter Matthau. After getting hit through the door of the Simpson house, Homer appears in Bob's Burgers , during the show's opening sequence.

He gets scared at this. Meanwhile, the family look in on him and talk about Homer, wondering what he is doing. The Simpson family gets on exercise bikes, and everyone but Homer go to move around the house with them. Homer then D'ohes. The Simpson family is inserted as toasts into the couch, transformed into a toaster, Homer gets stuck and burns out before yelling " D'oh ".

Bart , Maggie , Lisa and Marge arrive at the couch, finding Homer sleeping on it, dreaming of other opening sequences. The first, in an underwater setting, one sees Blinky flying across the title screen, then the scene at the garage sees them being mermaids, with Homer getting hit in the head by Bart, almost hit by Lisa and Marge and Maggie hitting him and swimming with him inside. Then on the couch we see Homer sleeping again, dreaming of the second sequence.

The second sees Three-eyed crow flying across the title screen, sees the normal sequence at the garage, pencil-drawn. They then arrive at the couch with Homer sleeping, starting the third sequence. The third one sees just the couch sequence with the family as atoms.

The sequences then go back to the first one, to see Homer waking up and the rest staring at him, to which Homer says "Sorry, no room. Marge , Lisa , Maggie and Bart are upside down on the ceiling.

When wampa - Homer comes to attack them, Bart uses the force to grab the light saber and cut its hand. The monster reattaches it and hugs Marge, and they all say "Merry Christmas", and then the wampa's hand comes off once again.

The Simpson family are at a football game, where on the sidelines they sit on the couch, dressed as football players, and Homer spins Maggie on his fingers, and then gets congratulated by the public.

The Simpson family arrives to find Thanos on the couch. Maggie gives him her pacifier which he places on his Infinity Gauntlet, proceeding to vaporize the family, except Maggie, who joins him on the couch.

The gauntlet proceeds to suck on the pacifier as they get comfortable to watch TV. The family arrive at the couch, where a heart shaped chocolate box is located, and fill the spot in it. Burns grabs Homer and tries to eat him, just to spit him out in disgust and Homer D'ohes. The Simpson family arrives on the couch as cups, with cup fillers on top filling them.

Homer's cup overflow and he falls on the floor, saying "Refill". Homer and Marge are partecipating at the Pyramid game show. Phrase is "Things a couch would say". Marge starts with "You sit on me, there's a remote in my crack. Marge suggests "I could use a slip cover. Finally, Marge says "Uh, you haven't replaced me since Homer arrives at the couch, with the whole scene, except him, in black and white, then he D'ohes. The family arrives at the couch, but the room looks made of paper, they touch it to check it.

Homer doesn't notice and tries to sit on the couch, falling beyond the paper on the stage. Homer folds over a piece of paper into origami, with the intention to create a swan, till it forms the family on the couch instead, exclaiming "what the?

Homer shouts "Day-oh! A target is placed on the couch, and the Simpson family is thrown at it for target practice.