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The following is a list of couch gags seen in the opening sequence of The Simpsons for Seasons 26 through 30.
Season 26[]
553 | September 28, 2014 | Homer heads to the couch with a strange device that accidentally turns time back to the late 1980s, morphing his face and body to its original incarnation in the process. He tries to reverse the process, but slams time forward to the 106th century where Marge is a clump of talking hair and Maggie is a free-floating blob that demands people to buy "SAMPSANS"-branded products. | Clown in the Dumps | SABF20 | |
554 | October 5, 2014 | The Simpsons find Itchy about to kill Scratchy on the couch. Homer intervenes by removing Itchy and allowing Scratchy to stay on the couch for several months, which ultimately starts annoying the family. Homer brings back Itchy who effectively murders Scratchy. | The Wreck of the Relationship | SABF17 | |
555 | October 12, 2014 | A parody of the cover of the 1970 Cat Stevens album Tea for the Tillerman, with its title track playing over it. | Super Franchise Me | SABF19 | |
556 | October 19, 2014 | None | Treehouse of Horror XXV | SABF21 | |
557 | November 2, 2014 | None | Opposites A-Frack | SABF22 | |
558 | November 9, 2014 | The Simpsons sit on the couch, but it turns out to be Hedonismbot. | Simpsorama | SABF16 | |
559 | November 16, 2014 | 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 most of the family members have been injured. Maggie, the only family member who made it out unscathed, comes in with a medal. | Blazed and Confused | TABF01 | |
560 | November 23, 2014 | 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. | Covercraft | TABF02 | |
561 | December 7, 2014 | 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 ice palace, with Bart stuck at the top. Homer appears as Olaf, bites off his own nose, disappointed to discover it is a carrot. | I Won't Be Home For Christmas | TABF03 | |
562 | January 4th, 2015 | 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. | The Man Who Came to Be Dinner | RABF15 | |
563 | January 11, 2015 | In an updated version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, bear versions of Homer, Marge and Bart are shown walking into their home. 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 told to a traumatized Maggie. | Bart's New Friend | TABF05 | |
564 | January 25, 2015 | No Gag | The Musk Who Fell To Earth | TABF04 | |
565 | February 8, 2015 | The Simpsons are pieces of sushi sitting on a sushi plate, which itself sits on a moving boat. People start to eat each Simpson off of it, except for Homer, who falls into the water and gets eaten by a fish after the boat flips over. | Walking Big & Tall | TABF06 | |
566 | February 15, 2015 | A pixelated version of the opening theme. | My Fare Lady | TABF07 | |
567 | March 1, 2015 | The printer gets jammed while printing out the couch gag. A "Paper Jam" error appears, prompting the printed Homer to mutter "Mmmm. Paper Jam." | The Princess Guide | TABF08 | |
568 | March 8, 2015 | No Gag | Sky Police | TABF09 | |
569 | March 15, 2015 | 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 head. | Waiting for Duffman | TABF10 | |
570 | April 19, 2015 | Five ears of corn are placed on the couch, which then heats up in order to pop the Simpson family. Homer, who takes longest to pop, is burned. | Peeping Mom | TABF11 | |
571 | April 26, 2015 | Repeat of SABF15's gag, except the Grim Reaper pawn is replaced with an Abe Simpson pawn.
The couch gag was originally supposed to be a shorter gag, with the family (except Maggie), in snow suits, are ice climbing to the top of an ice shelf. Homer then asks for the couch, which a man brings up, and the family sits. Another man brings the TV in, but collapses, and the man who brought the couch up is shocked and carries the other man to safety. Maggie appears, who finished her ice climb, but hits her ice axe on Homer's foot, causing the couch and the family (but Maggie) to freeze and melt. This gag was actually released as a promo image for the episode prior to airing. Due to shortness, it was replaced. |
The Kids Are All Fight | TABF12 | |
572 | May 3, 2015 | Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie appear as penguins sitting on an ice molded couch, until they are eaten by walrus Homer. | Let's Go Fly a Coot | TABF13 | |
573 | May 10, 2015 | Homer fails at making goal saves, as Maggie, who is dressed as a soccer player, kicks soccer balls at him until he is buried in them. | Bull-E | TABF15 | |
574 | May 17, 2015 | Rick and Morty crash into the living room, killing the Simpson family, and attempt to revive them. | Mathlete's Feat | TABF16 |
Season 27[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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575 | September 27, 2015 | A parody of several Beatles album covers.The last cover features a double-decker bus running over the Simpsons who were recreating the Abbey Roadwalk. | Every Man's Dream | TABF14 | |
576 | October 4, 2015 | No Gag | Cue Detective | TABF17 | |
577 | October 11, 2015 | Each Simpson parks a spot on the couch until a monster truck Maggie runs them over. | Puffless | TABF19 | |
578 | October 18, 2015 | No Gag | Halloween of Horror | TABF22 | |
579 | October 25, 2015 | A John Kricfaulsi-styled couch gag where the Simpson children (Bart, Lisa and Maggie) 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 from his body and eating it. | Treehouse of Horror XXVI | TABF18 | |
580 | November 8, 2015 | Short with Santa's Little Helper titled feast and changed to fat. He gets fed by the family until he becomes fat and is sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle, where he's fed strained prunes and dies afterwards. After being greeted by God, Santa's Little Helper sees the Fit Dog Heaven but God sends him to Fat Dog Hell where a sign says free pizza. | Friend with Benefit | TABF21 | |
581 | November 22, 2015 | Parody of Star Trek, with the Simpsons family in a donut Enterprise that shoots their couch, and then shot by a ring of couches. | Lisa with an "S" | TABF20 | |
582 | December 6, 2015 | Homer rolls the dice, which reveals all the Simpsons, but his side flips to Mr. Burns. Homer then says "D'oh!" | Paths of Glory | VABF01 | |
583 | December 13, 2015 | Homer and Bart complain about the animation in the gag. Lisa tells them it's called rotoscoping. | Barthood | VABF02 | |
584 | January 3, 2016 | No Gag | The Girl Code | VABF03 | |
585 | January 10, 2016 | While sitting alone on the couch, Homer puts on his shades and descends into an opening sequence of "La-Z Rider" that pays homage to TV shows and films from the 1980s. | Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles | VABF04 | |
586 | January 17, 2016 | No Gag | Much Apu About Something | VABF05 | |
587 | February 14, 2016 | 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. | Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4 | VABF07 | |
588 | February 21, 2016 | The Simpsons family dressed as rugby players reunites 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. | Gal of Constant Sorrow | VABF06 | |
589 | March 6, 2016 | Roomance by Bill Plympton. The television and the couch dream of the television bouncing on the couch and both having fun. At the end of the dream, the television tries to bounce on the couch but the plug line stops it and crashes. | Lisa the Veterinarian | VABF08 | |
590 | March 13, 2016 | None | The Marge-ian Chronicles | VABF09 | |
591 | April 3, 2016 | Homer sends text messages to the family with emojis. | The Burns Cage | VABF10 | |
592 | April 10, 2016 | In space, Marge and the kids wake up and find a skeleton Homer in his sleeping chamber. | How Lisa Got Her Marge Back | VABF11 | |
593 | April 24, 2016 | Disney couch gag | Fland Canyon | VABF12 | |
594 | May 8, 2016 | The Simpsons run into the breakaway banner that has the couch. | To Courier with Love | VABF14 | |
595 | May 15, 2016 | None | Simprovised | VABF13 | |
596 | May 22, 2016 | Homer builds the couch in an IKEA themed instruction manual. | Orange is the New Yellow | VABF15 |
Season 28[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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597 | September 25, 2016 | The entire couch gag is a parody of the Adventure Time intro. | Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus | VABF20 | |
598 | October 2, 2016 | A hand holding a myPhone captures Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Bart, in a text that says "Couch Gag", leaving Homer on the couch. When the myPhone tries to capture Homer, it can't, and he says, "I'm too fat!" The hand then comes back with a myPad, but it doesn't work either. At the end, a hammer hits Homer on the head, making him unconscious. | Friends and Family | VABF18 | |
599 | October 9, 2016 | No couch gag. | No couch gag. | The Town | VABF17 |
600 | October 16, 2016 | In a couch gag named, "Planet of the Couches", 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. | Treehouse of Horror XXVII | VABF16 | |
601 | October 23, 2016 | Marge and Lisa push Homer into a art museum. He then looks at distorted paintings and then sees the world like the paintings. He walks out of the art museum to see a distorted Springfield, and walks back to his home and sits on the distorted couch with a distorted Maggie. Homer tries to blend in, but ends up in the wrong art form, and says D'oh! in a speech bubble. The TV Scene is also distorted. | Trust But Clarify | VABF21 | |
602 | November 6, 2016 | No couch gag. | No couch gag. | There Will Be Buds | VABF22 |
603 | November 13, 2016 | The Simpsons are Greek gods who fly onto a couch made out of clouds.. Lisa is missing, and she flies out of Homer's head with Homer's Odyssey. Homer grabs Maggie's pacifier to plug in the hole in his head. | Havana Wild Weekend | VABF19 | |
604 | November 20, 2016 | All of the Simpsons die during their normal parts of the intro, except Bart. Homer chokes on the rod, Lisa crashes into the door, Maggie drives the car while Marge is sleeping and crash into the ocean. When Bart gets to the couch, he wonders where everyone is and realizes that they're dead. He grabs photos of all the Simpsons and pretends they are with him and finally gets control of the remote. | Dad Behavior | WABF01 | |
605 | December 4, 2016 | The family walks toward where the couch should be and find it empty, then they walk backwards as a group of Russian soldiers point guns at them. The scene turns into a oil painting and Homer says "D'oh!" | The Last Traction Hero | WABF03 | |
606 | December 11, 2016 | The Simpsons run to the couch, dressed as characters from A Christmas Carol. (Homer is the Ghost of Christmas Present, Marge is Mrs. Cratchit, Lisa is Martha Cratchit, Maggie is The Ghost of Christmas Future, and Bart is Tiny Tim.) Mr. Burns (dressed as Ebeneezer Scrooge) says "Release the Christmas hounds!", making them appear and barking at the family, making them scream and run off of the couch. | The Nightmare After Krustmas | WABF02 | |
607 | January 8, 2017 | The Simpsons sit down on the couch that is revealed to be a sticker on a "Couch Gag Play Set". The set is between other Simpsons merchandise (t-shirt, couches, snow globes, hats, stand-up figures and a The Simpsons Video Game). Bart asks Marge to get one, but Marge refuses, even if it's 3 for $1. | Pork and Burns | WABF06 | |
608 | January 15, 2017 | No couch gag. | No couch gag. | The Great Phatsby: Part One | WABF04 |
609 | January 15, 2017 | No couch gag. | No couch gag. | The Great Phatsby: Part Two | WABF05 |
610 | February 12, 2017 | All of the Simpsons sit on the couch except for Maggie, they look for her, but then Marge lifts the sailboat painting to reveal a safe and then opens it. Maggie is in the safe, Marge pulls her out and places her on the couch. | Fatzcarraldo | WABF07 | |
611 | February 19, 2017 | 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 boos 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. | The Cad and the Hat | WABF08 | |
612 | March 5, 2017 | 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. | Kamp Krustier | WABF09 | |
613 | March 12th, 2017 | Bill Plympton's fifth couch gag. In the living room, crudely-drawn versions of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart walk in and sit on the couch. As the camera pans upwards, it is revealed that Maggie drew the crudely-drawn family, and she continues drawing. The camera continues to pan upwards as Lisa is drawing Maggie, Bart is drawing Lisa, Marge is drawing Bart, and Homer is drawing Marge while holding a bitten donut and another pencil in his other hand. When Homer tries to finish his donut, the pencil on his other hand stabs him in the face as he screams in pain while blood squirts out. The scene stops as Bill Plympton's signature appears and Homer finishes screaming. | 22 For 30 | WABF10 | |
614 | March 19th, 2017 | Most of the Simpson family's pets are seen on the couch, including Santa's Little Helper, Snowball V, Santa's Little Helper's puppies, Pinchy, Plopper, Mojo the Helper Monkey, Nibbles, Stampy, Hendrix, Strangles, Laddie, Raymond Bird, Chirpy Boy, Bart Junior, the Bolivian tree lizard, Bart's raccoon, Princess, Pokey, the Screamapillar, Jub-Jub, and a cow. | A Father's Watch | WABF11 | |
615 | April 2nd, 2017 | The family arrives at the couch dressed up as X-Men characters. Homer is Professor X, Marge is Mystique, Bart is Angel, Lisa is Storm, and Maggie is X-23. Stan Lee appears and complains, "There's nothing too short that I can't cameo!" | The Caper Chase | WABF12 | |
616 | April 30th, 2017 | In a parody of the intro to The Big Bang Theory, a song plays to the tune of The Big Bang Theory theme, and the intro zooms through the universe. We get close up to the planet Earth and learn a brief history of The Simpsons from the beginning to present day while brief second screenshots of older Simpsons moments are shown. We then see the Simpsons run to the couch and sit on it, which then disappears out from under them. | Looking for Mr. Goodbart | WABF13 | |
617 | May 7th, 2017 | The Simpsons are shown as Chia Pets on a plant display cart instead of the couch. Someone off-screen waters them, and the grass in each of the family members grow. However, only Homer's sideburns and beard succeed to grow, but his two head hairs grow in seconds later. This is the very first couch gag to appear in place of the intro (meaning that the episode immediately begins with the couch gag). | Moho House | WABF14 | |
618 | May 21st, 2017 | The family (except Maggie), in snow suits, are ice climbing to the top of an ice shelf. Homer then asks for the couch, which a man brings up, and the family sits. Another man brings the TV in, but collapses, and the man who brought the couch up is shocked and carries the other man to safety. Maggie appears, who finished her ice climb, but hits her ice axe on Homer's foot, causing the couch and the family (but Maggie) to freeze and melt. | Dogtown | WABF15 |
Season 29[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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619 | October 1st, 2017 | No couch gag. | No couch gag. | The Serfsons | WABF17 |
620 | October 8th, 2017 | No couch gag. | No couch gag. | Springfield Splendor | WABF22 |
621 | October 15th, 2017 | The Simpsons are all different furntiure in their living room (Homer as the couch, Marge as the TV, Bart as the lamp next to the phone, Lisa as the other lamp, and Maggie as the sailboat painting). The different pieces of furniture sit on Homer. | Whistler's Father | WABF16 | |
622 | October 22nd, 2017 | No couch gag. | No couch gag. | Treehouse of Horror XXVIII | WABF18 |
623 | November 5th, 2017 | TBA | The family goes through different decades. First, they appear in the 1800s as the Simpsonovich family, where they run in to the 1800-style living room, sit on the couch, and peel potatoes. When they hear a knock, they lift the couch and take it with them as they leave the room and three soldiers come in. The Simpsonovichs are now sitting on their couch on a ship with many other people and their couches. They leave the ship and are now in the US, where they are granted access. However, the Szyslaks don't get access, so they get quarantined. Then, the Simpsons are in the early 1900s, where they are living in a small apartment doing things; Homer is sewing, Maggie is in a crib, Bart is playing with a baseball, Lisa is crocheting, and Marge is doing the laundry, including hanging the couch outside to dry with the other clothes. Next, the Simpsons are in the 1950s, where only Homer and Marge are sitting on the couch while other couples are dancing. Then, the Simpsons are in the present day, where they are in their normal living room, but the house starts to get flooded, so they lift their couch and leave the house with it. Finally, they are in the future, where they're sitting on the couch in a UFO with other Springfieldians as the UFO flies away from Earth. The Simpsons arrive in the acceptance room, where a Rigellian places a Rigellian family name next to the Simpsons' name, to which Homer shouts, "D'oh!" | Grampy Can Ya Hear Me | WABF19 |
624 | November 12th, 2017 | TBA | TBA | The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be | WABF20 |
625 | November 19th, 2017 | TBA | TBA | Singin' In The Lane | WABF20 |
626 | December 3rd, 2017 | TBA | TBA | Mr. Lisa's Opus | XABF01 |
627 | December 10th, 2017 | TBA | TBA | Gone Boy | XABF02 |
628 | January 7th, 2018 | TBA | TBA | Haw-Haw Land | XABF03 |
629 | January 14th, 2018 | TBA | TBA | Frink Gets Testy | XABF04 |