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The Couch Gags
The following is a brief description of many of the opening couch gags in the show.
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Bart is squeezed off and pops into the air; during the shot of the TV, he
is seen coming down
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The couch falls apart when everybody is on it
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Homer is squeezed off his side of the couch
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Maggie is squeezed off and pops into the air; she comes right down into
Marge's arms
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Everybody fits on the couch
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The couch falls through the floor
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The "Simpson Shuffle"
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The couch unfolds into a bed
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Maggie ends up in Marge's hair
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Everybody fits, including Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II
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Grampa is lying on the couch sleeping
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Homer tips the couch over sideways; Maggie falls off, but lands on a
couch cushion which is on the floor
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The couch is gone; everyone looks around the empty spot
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Homer bumps the others off the couch
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The couch tips over backwards; Maggie pops up from behind it
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The couch tips over backwards, and everybody crashes through the back
wall
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They sit, then Homer pulls Santa's Little Helper out from beneath him
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Everybody forms a pyramid
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A space alien hears them coming, pulls a cord, and disappears through a
trap door in the floor
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Bart lands on everyone's lap
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Homer gets to the couch first and lies on it; the others sit on him
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The seat cushions are missing; when they sit, they "fall into"
the couch
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Two burglars are holding the couch as everybody sits on it; they are
dumped off and the couch is carried away
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Santa's Little Helper is on the couch and keeps everyone else off
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Everybody cartwheels to the couch (Maggie falls in her attempt and hops
there) and strikes a "Ta-Da" pose
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Everybody bounces up and down on the couch; Homer bounces from one side
to the other
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Everybody except Maggie bang their heads together and lie unconscious on
the floor
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Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the Flintstones
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The couch swallows everybody as it transforms into a monster
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The couch rotates 180 degrees through a secret door in the wall; an empty
couch takes its place
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As Maggie is already seated, Homer, Marge, and Bart run "past the
edge of the film" and scurry back to the couch
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Simpson-sized skeletons sit on the couch
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The couch deflates (as if filled with air)
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Everybody has somebody else's head, which they remove and switch
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There's a wooden chair in place of the couch; the adults share it, with
the children on their laps
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Everybody forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number
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Everybody is "miniature" and must climb the "giant"
couch; Maggie has to be pulled up
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Everybody sits, just before the room is filled with other regular
characters
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Everybody gets caught in a net that was spread on th floor
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Everybody runs into each other and shatters on the floor; Santa's Little
Helper examines the damage
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Everybody runs into each other and end up on the couch as a five-headed
"blob"
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Everybody runs into each other and there's an explosion; eventually, the
pacifier lands and bounces away
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Everybody, plus the couch, is crushed by a foot that is reminiscent of
how "Monty Python's Flying Circus" opens
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Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by an identical Simpson family
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A Zombie Simpson family crashes through the floor from below and sits on
the couch
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The couch is painted on a wall, which everybody runs through
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A fat man takes up most of the couch; everybody squeezes into the tiny
spot remaining
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The room is dark as five pairs of eyes go to the couch; light reveals
that it's only eyes, as eyeless bodies quickly enter, sit down, and reattach to
the eyes
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Everybody sits, then notice they're on the set of "Late Show with
David Letterman" as "Dave" turns face forward
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Everybody pokes their head up from behind the couch (Maggie does it from
behind a cushion on the couch)
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Everybody sees two couches, then they each split into two halves, each
half sitting on a couch
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Everybody is shaped like a ball and bounces around before landing on the
couch and returning to normal
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Everybody sits, then Homer gets up, rips the FOX logo from the screen
corner, and they all stomp on it
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Everybody begins seated as if on an invisible couch; the couch comes in
in pieces and forms itself atop them, causing them to fall to the floor
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The floor is well underwater, and only the tops of everybody's heads are
visible until they reach the couch (Bart is using a snorkel)
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Everybody is "beamed aboard" the couch in original "Star
Trek" style (complete with sound effect)
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Everybody enters with a mismatched head and limbs (for example, one of
Bart's legs is now Lisa's right arm, and Lisa's arms are where her legs should
be)
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Everybody bounces up off the couch and gets their heads stuck in the
ceiling
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Everybody chases the couch as it, along with the back wall, moves
backwards away from them
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Everybody runs by the same TV and couch again and again, all except
Maggie grinning the whole time
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Everybody runs to the couch from a different side (Marge runs down the
side of a wall) in an M.C. Escher-style house
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The "James Bond" film opening, only with Homer in front of the
couch firing the gun
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In black & white, everybody (wearing Mickey Mouse gloves) waves their
hands in circles
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A giant Maggie, a slightly smaller Lisa, and so on down to a tiny Homer,
sit on the couch
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As the couch moves aside, everybody lines up in front of a police lineup
height chart
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The couch acts like a FAX machine, and a sheet with a picture of
everybody (in couch-sitting position) comes up from the back and slides beneath
it
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Everybody, including SLH, Snowball II, and Grampa, appear in eight
squares "Brady Bunch" style (with the couch in the middle); all but
Grampa run to the couch
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Everybody is wearing fezzes and drives around in minicars like Shriners
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Everybody runs to the couch, entirely gray; the colors are then
spray-painted on them
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Everybody drops from above, hanging from their necks by nooses; Maggie
still manages to suck her pacifier
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Everybody is a wind-up doll
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Everybody is put on the couch by a pinsetter, after Snowball II is scared
off by the pin-clearing bar
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Everybody is a sea-monkey and swims to a couch made of clam shells to
stare at a treasure chest
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omer pulls a drain plug from the floor, and everybody and everything is
sucked down the drain
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Everybody sits, then inside a mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an
identical couch
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A big game hunter sits on the couch, with a "Homer-skin rug" on
the floor and the others' heads on the wall
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Everybody sits, bathed in flourescent "black light", until
Homer turns on the lamp
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As Death begins on the couch, everybody runs up to the couch
and falls over dead
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Everybody lands on the couch via parachute except Homer, who lands on the
floor with an unopened chute
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Everybody is in western gear as they sit on the couch, when then gallops
away into the desert
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Everybody is a clear balloon, which float onto the couch and then pop
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A takeoff on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band
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Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart red; Homer slaps
Bart on the head, turning him normal
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Everybody and everything is upside-down, until everybody falls off the
couch and onto the "ceiling"
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Homer puts a coin in the "Vend-A-Couch", then bangs the back
wall; the couch then falls on him
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Everybody flies in on jet-packs; Maggie flies in last and lands on
Marge's lap
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Everybody is involved in a giant game of Whack-A-Mole; Homer ends up
getting whacked
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Grampa is sleeping in a convertible bed, which they convert back to a
sofa (with him in it) and sit on it
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The couch remains empty while everybody waits outside as Homer struggles
to open the front door
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The couch is in an "America Onlink" window, which takes its
time loading everybody before being interrupted