One of the billboard gags
Beginning in 2009, with the newly animated high definition Opening Sequence, came some new running gags that would change every week. One of these gags was before we see Bart writing something on the chalkboard, we would see a building in front of Springfield Elementary School with a billboard gag on top of it that would change every episode. These gags have not been reused at all, unlike chalkboard and couch gags. However, the billboard could also not be seen when the shorter opening sequence is shown.
List
Season 20
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Krusty: Now Doing Funerals | Krusty the Clown | Take My Life, Please |
| 11 | Lost Child. No Reward. | Milhouse | How the Test Was Won |
| 12 | Moe's Tavern: Now with Electricity | Moe Szyslak | No Loan Again, Naturally |
| 13 | None | None | Gone Maggie Gone |
| 14 | Pay for Septuplets, Get Octuplets Free! | Dr. Nick | In the Name of the Grandfather |
| 15 | Support Your Local Bullies | Kearney, Dolph, and Jimbo | Wedding for Disaster |
| 16 | None | None | Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe |
| 17 | Luigi's: Home of the Breadstick | Luigi | The Good, the Sad and the Drugly |
| 18 | Principal Skinner: I Paint Houses | Seymour Skinner | Father Knows Worst |
| 19 | None | None | Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh |
| 20 | None | None | Four Great Women and a Manicure |
| 21 | Spider Pig: The Musical: Music by U2 and Alf Clausen | Plopper | Coming to Homerica |
Season 21
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If I Kill You, You Don't Pay — Dr. Nick Riviera | Dr. Nick | Homer the Whopper |
| 2 | Kwik-E-Mart: Porno Now on Lower Shelf | Apu | Bart Gets a "Z" |
| 3 | The Leftorium: Next Right | Ned Flanders | The Great Wife Hope |
| 4 | None | None | Treehouse of Horror XX |
| 5 | Don't Face This Christmas Sober | Duffman | The Devil Wears Nada |
| 6 | Dr. Otto's "Wellness" Clinic | Otto Mann | Pranks and Greens |
| 7 | Springfield Retirement Castle | Abraham Simpson (saying "Get me outta here!") | Rednecks and Broomsticks |
| 8 | None | None | O Brother, Where Bart You? |
| 9 | None | None | Thursdays with Abie |
| 10 | The Fox Network: Still Sucking After 20 Years | Maggie Simpson | Once Upon a Time in Springfield |
| 11 | None | None | Million Dollar Maybe |
| 12 | None | None | Boy Meets Curl |
| 13 | None | None | The Color Yellow |
| 14 | None | None | Postcards From the Wedge |
| 15 | Dr. Nick's. Home of the one hour sex change | Dr. Nick | Stealing First Base |
| 16 | None | None | The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed |
| 17 | Duff 200 - Nothin' But Booze | Duffman | American History X-cellent |
| 18 | Death and Taxes: Two Things I Avoid | Mr. Burns | Chief of Hearts |
| 19 | "Text Me Your Lunch Money" -ebully.com | Jimbo | The Squirt and the Whale |
| 20 | None | None | To Surveil With Love |
| 21 | Please abduct this child - Call Homer | Bart Simpson | Moe Letter Blues |
| 22 | Springfield Retirement Castle: New Vacancies Every Flu Season | Abraham Simpson, Jasper Beardly and Old Jewish Man | The Bob Next Door |
| 23 | Krusty's One-Year Sobriety Special - CANCELLED | Krusty the Clown | Judge Me Tender |
Season 22
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professor Frink's Sex/Kill bot. Make sure switch in correct position. | Professor Frink | Elementary School Musical |
| 2 | Springfield DMV - Wait Time 39 Hours (changes from 38 Hours) | Patty and Selma Bouvier | Loan-a Lisa |
| 3 | Krusty: Now Doing Funerals (with Banksy graffiti written over billboard) | Krusty the Clown | MoneyBART |
| 4 | None | None | Treehouse of Horror XXI |
| 5 | None | None | Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life |
| 6 | None | None | The Fool Monty |
| 7 | Springfield Kwik-E-Mart - Thoughtless Gifts for People You Don't Like | Apu | How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window? |
| 8 | None | None | The Fight Before Christmas |
| 9 | Luxury Cars Missing - One Window - No Cops | Snake Jailbird | Donnie Fatso |
| 10 | Spuckler Daycare Center - Just Toss 'em in the Pile | Cletus, Brandine and children | Moms I'd Like to Forget |
| 11 | None | None | Flaming Moe |
| 12 | Springfield Seafood - 50% More Fish Eyes | Blinky | Homer the Father |
| 13 | Springfield Dinner Theater - Dr. Hibbert and Mrs. Skinner Butcher Driving Miss Daisy | Julius Hibbert and Agnes Skinner | The Blue and the Gray |
| 14 | None | None | Angry Dad: The Movie |
| 15 | Springfield Mall for Rent - Free Retail Space with Every Purchase | Springfield Mall | The Scorpion's Tale |
| 16 | Springfield Wax Museum - We Fixed Our Air Conditioner | Distorted wax sculptures of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy | A Midsummer's Nice Dream |
| 17 | Do Not Accept Candy from This Bunny | Moe Szyslak | Love is a Many Strangled Thing |
| 18 | None | None | The Great Simpsina |
| 19 | None | None | The Real Housewives of Fat Tony |
| 20 | Mother's Day Special - I'm Half Off | Mrs. Muntz | Homer Scissorhands |
| 21 | Gain Weight Now - Ask Me How | Homer Simpson | 500 Keys |
| 22 | None | None | The Ned-liest Catch |
Season 23
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | None | The Falcon and the D'ohman |
| 2 | 'Learn to Speak Parrot' | The Sea Captain | Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts |
| 3 | None | None | Treehouse of Horror XXII |
| 4 | 30 lost cats. Call me | Crazy Cat Lady | Replaceable You |
| 5 | None | None | The Food Wife |
| 6 | None | None | The Book Job |
| 7 | None | None | The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants |
| 8 | Duffman is Mark Twain. Springfield Playhouse. | Duffman | The Ten-Per-Cent Solution |
| 9 | Bah Humbug & Happy Hanukkah. | Mr. Burns and Hyman Krustofsky | Holidays of Future Passed |
| 10 | Reelect Quimby: The Devil you know for 18 years | Mayor Quimby | Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson |
| 11 | Winter at Squidport - Dead Seals Wash Up Daily | None | The D'oh-cial Network |
| 12 | Bumblebee Man, Brockman and Booberella - Your Channel 6 News Team | Bumblebee Man, Kent Brockman and Booberella | Moe Goes from Rags to Riches |
| 13 | McBain's Valentine's Day Kick-Assacre. Opens February 14th - Closes February 16th | McBain | The Daughter Also Rises |
| 14 | The Kwik-E-Mart. Yesterday's Food at Tomorrow's Prices | Apu | At Long Last Leave |
| 15 | None | None | Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart |
| 16 | None | None | How I Wet Your Mother |
| 17 | None | None | Them, Robot |
| 18 | FOX: 25 Years of Televised Stuff | None | Beware My Cheating Bart |
| 19 | None | None | A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again |
| 20 | None | None | The Spy Who Learned Me |
| 21 | Sleazy Sam's: Remember That Name | Sleazy Sam | Ned 'N Edna's Blend |
| 22 | None | None | Lisa Goes Gaga |
Season 24
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McBain Capital - Consider this a hostile takeover | McBain | Moonshine River |
| 2 | none | none | Treehouse of Horror XXIII |
| 3 | none | none | Adventures in Baby-Getting |
| 4 | none | none | Gone Abie Gone |
| 5 | Springfield - unsolved murder capital of the world | Fat Tony | Penny-Wiseguys |
| 6 | This is not Santa - do not let him in | Snake | A Tree Grows in Springfield |
| 7 | none | none | The Day the Earth Stood Cool |
| 8 | none | none | To Cur With Love |
| 9 | Hair bone removal clinic - live the bone-free life | Sideshow Mel | Homer Goes to Prep School |
| 10 | Krusty - live from rehab - 8pm | Krusty | A Test Before Trying |
| 11 | none | none | Changing of the Guardian |
| 12 | Springfield Isotopes - spring training tickets available - watch me get ready | a baseball player | Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing |
| 13 | none | none | Hardly Kirk-ing |
| 14 | none | none | Gorgeous Grampa |
| 15 | Cletus' road kill dinner - it's fender-pickin' good | Cletus | Black-Eyed, Please |
| 16 | Herman's Antiques (and guns) | Herman | Dark Knight Court |
| 17 | none | none | What Animated Women Want |
| 18 | none | none | Pulpit Friction |
| 19 | none | none | Whiskey Business |
| 20 | If you haven't sent your mother flowers it's too damn late | Seymour and Agnes Skinner | The Fabulous Faker Boy |
| 21 | none | none | The Saga of Carl Carlson |
| 22 | none | none | Dangers on a Train |
Season 25
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why are you moving yourself? Bully & son moving | Kearney and son | Homerland |
| 2 | none | none | Treehouse of Horror XXIV |
| 3 | One more hour till milk expires - thank you daylight savings! | Apu | Four Regrettings and a Funeral |
| 4 | Santa's Lap - the line is already forming! Springfield Mall - never leave! | Santa Clauss | Yolo |
| 5 | Monday night football at Moe's - the screen is now clean | Moe | Labor Pains |
| 6 | none | none | The Kid is All Right |
| 7 | Moe's Tavern - we accept most fake id's | Moe | Yellow Subterfuge |
| 8 | Krusty's Kristmas Karol - with Sideshow Bob Hatchet | Krusty and Sideshow Bob | White Christmas Blues |
| 9 | none | none | Steal This Episode |
| 10 | Lard Lad Donuts - Discreetly Super-Christian | Big Donuts Boy | Married to the Blob |
| 11 | none | none | Specs and the City |
| 12 | St Patrick's Day at Moe's Leprechauns drink free | Moe | Diggs |
| 13 | none | none | The Man Who Grew Too Much |
| 14 | This easter give up Jesus for lent | Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky | The Winter of His Content |
| 15 | none | none | The War of Art |
| 16 | none | none | You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee |
| 17 | none | none | Luca$ |
| 18 | none | none | Days of Future Future |
| 19 | Total recall - all items tainted | Apu | What to Expect When Bart's Expecting |
| 20 | none | none | Brick Like Me |
| 21 | none | none | Pay Pal |
| 22 | none | none | The Yellow Badge of Cowardge |
Season 26
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Send me your lunch money online - accepting bitcoin | Jimbo | Clown in the Dumps |
| 2 | none | none | The Wreck of the Relationship |
| 3 | none | none | Super Franchise Me |
| 4 | none | none | Treehouse of Horror XXV |
| 5 | none | none | Opposites A-Frack |
| 6 | none | none | Simpsorama |
| 7 | none | none | Blazed and Confused |
| 8 | none | none | Covercraft |
| 9 | none | none | I Won't Be Home for Christmas |
| 10 | none | none | The Man Who Came to Be Dinner |
| 11 | You tried the rest... now settle for Luigi's Pizza | Luigi | Bart's New Friend |
| 12 | none | none | The Musk Who Fell To Earth |
| 13 | none | none | Walking Big & Tall |
| 14 | none | none | My Fare Lady |
| 15 | none | none | The Princess Guide |
| 16 | none | none | Sky Police |
| 17 | none | none | Waiting for Duffman |
| 18 | none | none | Peeping Mom |
| 19 | Montgomery Burns in THE JINX 2 | Mr. Burns | The Kids Are All Fight |
| 20 | none | none | Let's Go Fly a Coot |
| 21 | none | none | Bull-E |
| 22 | none | none | Mathlete's Feat |
Season 27
| # | Text | Character Shown | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | none | none | Every Man's Dream |
| 2 | none | none | Cue Detective |
| 3 | none | none | Puffless |
| 4 | none | none | Halloween of Horror |
| 5 | none | none | Treehouse of Horror XXVI |
| 6 | none | none | Friend with Benefit |
| 7 | none | none | Lisa with an "S" |
| 8 | none | none | Paths of Glory |
| 9 | none | none | Barthood |
| 10 | none | none | The Girl Code |
| 11 | none | none | Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles |
| 12 | none | none | Much Apu About Something |
| 13 | Tired of flowers? This year, send her fish! | The Sea Captain | Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4 |
| 14 | none | none | Gal of Constant Sorrow |
| 15 | none | none | Lisa the Veterinarian |
| 16 | none | none | The Marge-ian Chronicles |
| 17 | Easter Peeps - They never go bad because they were never that good | Apu | The Burns Cage |
| 18 | Punch me in the stomach for $5 cash only. | Kirk | How Lisa Got Her Marge Back |
| 19 | Assistants needed. Must be pretty and soft slapper. No Dudes. | Joe Quimby | Fland Canyon |
| 20 | Burly - Paper Towels / Pooper Towles | Nelson | To Courier with Love |
| 21 | none | none | Simprovised |
| 22 | Wilted Mother's day roses: 1% off. | Apu | Orange is the New Yellow |