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The following is a list of couch gags seen in the opening sequence of The Simpsons for Seasons 6 through 10.
Season 6[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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104 | September 4, 1994 | The Simpsons sit down in midair; the couch builds itself on top of the family and makes them fall. | "Bart of Darkness" | 1F22 | |
105 | September 11, 1994 | The living room floor is a shallow body of water. The Simpsons swim their way to the couch. Once on the couch, Bart removes his scuba mask and Homer dries out his ear by sticking his finger in it. | "Lisa's Rival" | 1F17 | |
106 | September 25, 1994 | repeat of 1F02's gag | "Another Simpsons Clip Show" | 2F33 | |
107 | October 2, 1994 | The family is beamed onto the couch, Star Trek-style. | "Itchy & Scratchy Land" | 2F01 | |
108 | October 9, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag (first airing)/no gag (repeats) | "Sideshow Bob Roberts" | 2F02 | |
109 | October 30, 1994 | The Simpson family members are built à la Frankenstein’s monster with each other’s body parts. They exchange body parts until they nearly match.(Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror V" | 2F03 | |
110 | November 6, 1994 | repeat of 1F06's gag | "Bart's Girlfriend" | 2F04 | |
111 | November 13, 1994 | The Simpsons sit on the couch and get shot into the ceiling, with only their legs and feet showing. | "Lisa on Ice" | 2F05 | |
112 | November 27, 1994 | In a loose parody of the film, Time Bandits, the family chases after the couch and the back wall as it slides down an endless hallway. | "Homer Badman" | 2F06 | |
113 | December 4, 1994 | The family run in from the side past a repeating background shot of the couch and TV (a parody where 1950s and 1960s cartoons repeated backgrounds in order to save money.) | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" | 2F07 | |
114 | December 18, 1994 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Fear of Flying" | 2F08 | |
115 | January 8, 1995 | The living room is at the center of an M.C. Escher's Relativity style environment with multiple staircases and conflicting perspectives; the family enters from various directions (and dimensions) and sits. | "Homer the Great" | 2F09 | |
116 | January 22, 1995 | The living room is seen through the barrel of a gun with music typically heard in a James Bond film playing. Homer walks in and fires at the unseen gunman. The screen “bleeds” red and falls. | "And Maggie Makes Three" | 2F10 | |
117 | February 5, 1995 | The living room is shown in black and white. The Simpsons—animated as smiling, rubber-hosed cartoon characters of the early 1930s—come in and do a stiff dance. | "Bart's Comet" | 2F11 | |
118 | February 12, 1995 | repeat of 1F22's gag | "Homie the Clown" | 2F12 | |
119 | February 19, 1995 | repeat of 1F17's gag | "Bart vs. Australia" | 2F13 | |
120 | February 26, 1995 | repeat of 2F01's gag (except the Simpsons now appear on the couch in a burst of whitish-blue light as seen on the show Quantum Leap). | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" | 2F14 | |
121 | March 5, 1995 | The family's heights are reversed; Maggie is now the largest while Homer is the smallest. Bart's height is still the same. | "A Star is Burns" | 2F31 | |
122 | March 19, 1995 | repeat of 2F05's gag | "Lisa's Wedding" | 2F15 | |
123 | April 9, 1995 | repeat of 2F06's gag | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" | 2F18 | |
124 | April 16, 1995 | repeat of 2F09's gag | "The PTA Disbands" | 2F19 | |
125 | April 30, 1995 | repeat of 2F31's gag | "'Round Springfield" | 2F32 | |
126 | May 7, 1995 | repeat of 2F10's gag | "The Springfield Connection" | 2F21 | |
127 | May 14, 1995 | repeat of 2F11's gag | "Lemon of Troy" | 2F22 | |
128 | May 21, 1995 | repeat of 2F07's gag | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" | 2F16 |
Season 7[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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129 | September 17, 1995 | The theme from "Dragnet" plays as the couch slides away and a police lineup height chart unfurls from above. The family lines up in front of it.). | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" | 2F20 | |
130 | September 24, 1995 | Like a fax machine, the couch ejects a sheet of paper with a screenshot of the family, which then floats up into the air, before sliding beneath the couch. | "Radioactive Man" | 2F17 | |
131 | October 1, 1995 | Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa (who’s sleeping), Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a Brady Bunch-style nine-square grid, with the couch in the center square. Everyone (except Grampa) runs to the center square. | "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" | 3F01 | |
132 | October 8, 1995 | The family drive around the room in go-karts, wearing Shriner fezzes. They line up in front of the couch and honk their horns simultaneously. | "Bart Sells His Soul" | 3F02 | |
133 | October 15, 1995 | The Simpsons are colorless blobs. Mechanical arms color and detail the family. | "Lisa the Vegetarian" | 3F03 | |
134 | October 29, 1995 | The family are hanged on nooses, staring blankly. Despite being dead from asphyxiation, Maggie manages to suck on her pacifier. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror VI" | 3F04 | |
135 | November 5, 1995 | The Simpsons are malfunctioning wind-up dolls who buzz and waddle their way to the couch (or at least near it). | "King-Size Homer" | 3F05 | |
136 | November 19, 1995 | A bowling pin clearing bar scares Snowball II off the couch, then a pinsetter places the family on the couch like bowling pins. | "Mother Simpson" | 3F06 | |
137 | November 26, 1995 | The whole room is under water, the couch is made of clam shells, and a treasure chest is in place of the TV. Sea monkey versions of the family members swim in and sit on the clam couch. | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" | 3F08 | |
138 | December 3, 1995 | A montage of couch gags from 8F18, 9F02, 9F10, 9F09, 8F09, 1F02, 2F31, 2F09, 2F06, 1F17, 2F11, and 9F08. | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" | 3F31 | |
139 | December 17, 1995 | The family sits on the couch. Homer notices a plug in the middle of the floor and pulls it. Everyone and everything gets sucked down the drain. | "Marge Be Not Proud" | 3F07 | |
140 | January 7, 1996 | The family sits. The camera then zooms in through a mouse hole, where a family of mice with similar features to the Simpson family rush to the couch and sit as well. | "Team Homer" | 3F10 | |
141 | January 14, 1996 | Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are moose heads on the wall and Homer is a bearskin rug on the floor. A game hunter comes in, sits on the couch, and smokes a pipe. | "Two Bad Neighbors" | 3F09 | |
142 | February 4, 1996 | The living room is bathed in black light, with the Simpsons in fluorescent colors while a hard rock guitar riff plays. Homer turns the light on and the normal music plays. | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" | 3F11 | |
143 | February 11, 1996 | repeat of 2F17's gag (but this time, the paper doesn't slide back under the couch) | "Bart the Fink" | 3F12 | |
144 | February 18, 1996 | repeat of 3F01's gag | "Lisa the Iconoclast" | 3F13 | |
145 | February 25, 1996 | repeat of 3F02's gag | "Homer the Smithers" | 3F14 | |
146 | March 17, 1996 | repeat of 3F03's gag | "The Day the Violence Died" | 3F16 | |
147 | March 24, 1996 | repeat of 3F05's gag | "A Fish Called Selma" | 3F15 | |
148 | March 31, 1996 | repeat of 3F06's gag (all airings)/ repeat of 9F08 for edited version | "Bart on the Road" | 3F17 | |
149 | April 14, 1996 | repeat of 3F08's gag | "22 Short Films About Springfield" | 3F18 | |
150 | April 28, 1996 | repeat of 3F07's gag | "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" | 3F19 | |
151 | May 5, 1996 | repeat of 3F09's gag | "Much Apu About Nothing" | 3F20 | |
152 | May 19, 1996 | repeat of 3F11's gag | "Homerpalooza" | 3F21 | |
153 | May 19, 1996 | repeat of 2F17's gag | "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" | 3F22 |
Season 8[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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154 | October 27, 1996 | The Grim Reaper is on the couch. The family runs in, but keel over and die one by one. The Reaper then puts his feet up on the corpses of the Simpson family. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror VII" | 4F02 | |
155 | November 3, 1996 | Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie deploy parachutes as they fall from the sky onto the couch. Homer comes down screaming and lands on his face from an unopened parachute pack. | "You Only Move Twice" | 3F23 | |
156 | November 10, 1996 | The couch sits in the middle of a desert; the family, in western cowboy garb, sits on the couch, which gallops off into the sunset. | "The Homer They Fall" | 4F03 | |
157 | November 17, 1996 | Clear blue bubble versions of the family members float into the room, land on the couch, and pop. | "Burns, Baby Burns" | 4F05 | |
158 | November 24, 1996 | The whole scene is a Simpsons rendition of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album, featuring a large crowd of regulars, several objects associated with the show, and wax statues of the Simpsons as they were on The Tracey Ullman Show. The last chord to the Beatles song, "A Day in the Life" plays instead of the traditional Simpsons music as the family comes in, standing front and center and dressed in Sgt. Pepper regalia. Homer looks around and turns to look at the crowded scene behind him. | "Bart After Dark" | 4F06 | |
159 | December 1, 1996 | The family sits down, but now Bart is green. Homer fiddles with the TV antenna and Bart changes to red. Homer then returns to the couch, and smacks Bart in the back of the head in order to return him to his normal color (yellow). | "A Milhouse Divided" | 4F04 | |
160 | December 15, 1996 | Everybody and everything is upside-down. The Simpsons (also upside-down) come in and sit on the couch, but end up falling on the ceiling/floor. | "Lisa's Date with Density" | 4F01 | |
161 | December 29, 1996 | The couch is replaced with a coin slot and the words “Vend-A-Couch” written on the wall. Homer puts a coin in; nothing happens. Homer pounds on the wall four times before the couch falls on him. | "Hurricane Neddy" | 4F07 | |
162 | January 5, 1997 | repeat of 3F23's gag | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)" | 3F24 | |
163 | January 12, 1997 | The family flies into the room wearing jet packs. Maggie spirals in last, landing in Marge's lap. | "The Springfield Files" | 3G01 | |
164 | January 19, 1997 | The couch is now a giant Whack-A-Mole game, with the Simpson family as the moles. The clown hallucination music from the season six episode “Homie the Clown” plays as an unseen player tries to hit one of the Simpson moles and successfully gets Homer (who shouts "D'oh!" as he's hit by the mallet). | "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" | 4F08 | |
165 | February 2, 1997 | The couch is folded out into a bed with Grampa sleeping on it. The Simpsons fold the couch in (with Grampa shouting "Huh?" before he's folded in) and sit. | "Mountain of Madness" | 4F10 | |
166 | February 7, 1997 | The living room is empty. Cut to outside where Homer is struggling with a locked front door while the other members of the family wait impatiently. | "Simpsoncalifragi-listicexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" | 3G03 | |
167 | February 9, 1997 |
repeat of 4F06's gag |
"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" | 4F12 | |
168 | February 16, 1997 | The living room is in an “America Onlink” window on a computer screen. An unseen computer user tries to download the family, but the download shows no signs of progress after a few seconds and the user tries to exit the window (which also doesn’t work). | "Homer's Phobia" | 4F11 | |
169 | February 23, 1997 | repeat of 4F01's gag | "Brother from Another Series" | 4F14 | |
170 | March 2, 1997 | The couch is on the deck of a ship at sea in rough waters, sliding back and forth with the tilt of the ship. The family, dressed in rain gear, sits on the couch, before an enormous wave washes them away. The TV surfaces moments later. | "My Sister, My Sitter" | 4F13 | |
171 | March 16, 1997 | repeat of 4F03's gag | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" | 4F15 | |
172 | April 6, 1997 | repeat of 4F05's gag | "Grade School Confidential" | 4F09 | |
173 | April 13, 1997 | repeat of 4F10's gag | "The Canine Mutiny" | 4F16 | |
174 | April 20, 1997 | repeat of 4F08's gag (only now, the sounds of the mallet hitting the family members are more aggressive and the music is sped up) | "The Old Man and the Lisa" | 4F17 | |
175 | April 27, 1997 | repeat of 4F07's gag | "In Marge We Trust" | 4F18 | |
176 | May 4, 1997 | repeat of 4F04's gag | "Homer's Enemy" | 4F19 | |
177 | May 11, 1997 | no gag (special opening) | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" | 4F20 | |
178 | May 18, 1997 | repeat of 4F01's gag | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" | 4F21 |
Season 9[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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179 | September 21, 1997 | The family comes in, dressed as the Harlem Globetrotters, passing a basketball to each other while Sweet Georgia Brown plays. Maggie dunks the ball into the basket above the couch, hitting Homer on the head. | "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" | 4F22 | |
180 | September 28, 1997 | The Simpsons are dressed as astronauts and sit on the couch just as it blasts off into space. | "The Principal and the Pauper" | 4F23 | |
181 | October 19, 1997 | Homer runs in alone and stands in front of the couch. The top half of him pops off and on to the couch revealing a smaller Marge standing inside the lower half of Homer, like a Russian nesting doll. The top half of Marge pops off revealing Bart, whose top half pops off revealing Lisa, whose top half finally pops off to reveal Maggie, who stays in the middle of Homer’s body and sucks on her pacifier. | "Lisa's Sax" | 3G02 | |
182 | October 26, 1997 | The Simpsons sit on the couch. Metal shackles restrain their wrists and ankles and a metal cap comes down on all of their heads. The family writhes in pain as they get electrocuted. (Halloween episode) | "Treehouse of Horror VIII" | 5F02 | |
183 | November 2, 1997 | The couch is a trough filled with water. The Simpsons, with their rears on fire, rush to the trough and sit to extinguish the fire. They all sigh in relief as steam billows out. | "The Cartridge Family" | 5F01 | |
184 | November 9, 1997 | The family sits. An auto-crusher compresses them all into a rectangular block. | "Bart Star" | 5F03 | |
185 | November 16, 1997 | Bart runs in and spray-paints the family onto the couch, tagging it with an "El Barto" signature, then runs off. | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" | 5F04 | |
186 | November 23, 1997 | The living room is a sauna, with three men in towels relaxing. The Simpsons (also in towels) arrive, but leave sheepishly as the three men glare at them. | "Lisa the Skeptic" | 5F05 | |
187 | December 7, 1997 | The family sits; Matt Groening's live action hand spins the Screenshot around, smearing the shot's paint. | "Realty Bites" | 5F06 | |
188 | December 21, 1997 | The Simpsons sit on the couch as normal. The camera zooms out and reveals that the living room is part of a snow globe that two hands shake to make the snow fall. (Christmas episode for this first usage) | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" | 5F07 | |
189 | January 4, 1998 | The floor is a treadmill. Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie run in place for a few seconds, then successfully dismount, while Homer gets stuck on it, yelling, "Marge, stop this crazy thing!" a la George Jetson in the original closing credits of The Jetsons. | "All Singing, All Dancing" | 5F24 | |
190 | January 11, 1998 | The Simpsons go to sit on the couch, but the couch gets pulled back as they sit, causing them to fall on the floor. Nelson Muntz comes from behind the couch and laughs. | "Bart Carny" | 5F08 | |
191 | February 8, 1998 | Similar to the couch gag in "Homer's Triple Bypass", the Simpsons are minimized and trying to get on the giant couch. Unlike the couch gag to "Homer's Triple Bypass," the family takes a little longer to climb onto the couch and, once they reach the top, Santa's Little Helper grabs Homer and carries him away in his mouth. | "The Joy of Sect" | 5F23 | |
192 | February 15, 1998 | The Simpsons are frogs (with Maggie as a tadpole) jumping to a lily pad "couch". Homer turns on the TV with his tongue (According to the season 9 DVD commentary, Dan Castellaneta's daughter came up with the idea for this couch gag). | "Das Bus" | 5F11 | |
193 | February 22, 1998 | repeat of 5F01's gag | "The Last Temptation of Krust" | 5F10 | |
194 | March 1, 1998 | repeat of 5F03's gag | "Dumbbell Indemnity" | 5F12 | |
195 | March 8, 1998 | A vine grows in the middle of the living room and sprouts into a tree bearing Simpsons family versions of various fruits and vegetables: Bart is a strawberry, Homer is a squash, Marge is an asparagus, Maggie is broccoli, and Lisa is a pineapple. | "Lisa the Simpson" | 4F24 | |
196 | March 22, 1998 | repeat of 5F04's gag (but this time, Bart peeks from around the TV first to make sure the coast is clear) | "This Little Wiggy" | 5F13 | |
197 | March 29, 1998 | In a parody of the Rocky & Bullwinkle bumpers, the Simpsons fall off a cliff during a lightning storm as the Rocky & Bullwinkle theme plays throughout. Their eyes are shown floating towards the heavens. The scene then cuts to The Simpsons sprouting from the ground amidst a garden of flowers. Bart spits up a clod of dirt. | "Simpson Tide" | 3G04 | |
198 | April 5, 1998 | repeat of 5F05's gag | "The Trouble with Trillions" | 5F14 | |
199 | April 19, 1998 | repeat of 5F06's gag | "Girly Edition" | 5F15 | |
200 | April 26, 1998 | The Simpson family find themselves in Mrs. Krabappel's classroom where Bart is writing the blackboard punishment phrase, "I will not mess with the opening credits", making a chalkboard gag within a couch gag. | "Trash of the Titans" | 5F09 | |
201 | May 3, 1998 | repeat of 5F07's gag | "King of the Hill" | 5F16 | |
202 | May 10, 1998 | repeat of 5F08's gag | "Lost Our Lisa" | 5F17 | |
203 | May 17, 1998 | repeat of 5F11's gag | "Natural Born Kissers" | 5F18 |
Season 10[]
# | Airdate | Screenshot | Gag Name | Episode | Code |
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204 | August 23, 1998 | repeat of 5F08's gag | "Lard of the Dance" | 5F20 | |
205 | September 20, 1998 | Similar to the couch gag in Marge vs. the Monorail, the living room is filled with supporting characters from the show. Unlike the episode, the living room is now a movie theater and the Simpsons are shuffling their way through to find a seat. After they sit down, Homer leans in and eats from the Comic Book Guy's popcorn tub. | "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" | 5F21 | |
206 | September 27, 1998 | Two firemen hold the couch like a safety net. Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie land safely on the couch. Homer, however, falls screaming through the floor. | "Bart the Mother" | 5F22 | |
207 | October 25, 1998 | The family never makes it to the couch; Bart falls off of his skateboard. Lisa gets catapulted into the garage roof, and Homer gets run down by Marge (with Maggie next to her as they honk horns) as she drives into the garage. Meanwhile, in the living room Freddy Krueger (of the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies) and Jason Voorhees (of the Friday the 13th movies) sit on the couch, wondering where the family is. | "Treehouse of Horror IX" | AABF01 | |
208 | November 8, 1998 | Marge enters with a laundry basket, humming as she hangs wet sheet versions of Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie on a clothesline. | "When You Dish Upon a Star" | 5F19 | |
209 | November 15, 1998 | The family sits. A safety bar lowers over their laps and the couch zooms around the room like a roller coaster car. | "D'oh-in' in the Wind" | AABF02 | |
210 | November 22, 1998 | The family sits. Salon-style hair dryers descend onto their heads, then lift up, revealing the family members all have swapped hairdos. Homer has Maggie's spikes, Marge has Bart's spikes, Bart has Lisa's spikes, Lisa has Homer's "combover," and Maggie has Marge's big, blue bouffant (the weight of which causes her to fall off the couch). | "Lisa Gets an "A"" | AABF03 | |
211 | December 6, 1998 | repeat of 5F11's gag | "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" | AABF04 | |
212 | December 20, 1998 | repeat of 5F03's gag | "Mayored to the Mob" | AABF05 | |
213 | January 10, 1999 | repeat of 5F06's gag | "Viva Ned Flanders" | AABF06 | |
214 | January 17, 1999 | In a parody of the famous scene in Dr. Strangelove where Slim Pickens’ character rides the bomb, the Simpsons (wearing white cowboy hats) straddle the couch as it drops from a bomb bay door. The Simpsons scream, “Yahoo!” as they plummet into oblivion. | "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" | AABF07 | |
215 | January 31, 1999 | The living room is in shallow water and the Simpsons sit on the couch. When an iceberg floats by, the couch sinks vertically like the RMS Titanic and the family clings to dear life as it goes under. Maggie resurfaces on a couch cushion moments later with the remote control in hand. | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" | AABF08 | |
216 | February 7, 1999 | repeat of 5F19's gag | "Homer to the Max" | AABF09 | |
217 | February 14, 1999 | repeat of AABF03's gag | "I'm with Cupid" | AABF11 | |
218 | February 21, 1999 | repeat of AABF02's gag | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" | AABF10 | |
219 | February 28, 1999 | repeat of 5F22's gag | "Make Room for Lisa" | AABF12 | |
220 | March 28, 1999 | Marge and Homer are depicted as children while Bart and Lisa are depicted as adults (and Maggie is a baby doll in Homer’s arms). Homer reaches for the remote control, but Lisa slaps it away from him. | "Maximum Homerdrive" | AABF13 | |
221 | April 4, 1999 | The family slips on banana peels on the floor, flipping upside-down in the air, but all land safely on the couch. | "Simpsons Bible Stories" | AABF14 | |
222 | April 11, 1999 | repeat of AABF07's gag | "Mom and Pop Art" | AABF15 | |
223 | April 25, 1999 | repeat of 5F21's gag | "The Old Man and the "C" Student" | AABF16 | |
224 | May 2, 1999 | repeat of 9F08's gag | "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" | AABF17 | |
225 | May 9, 1999 | repeat of AABF08's gag | "They Saved Lisa's Brain" | AABF18 | |
226 | May 16, 1999 | The Simpsons sit on the couch, but get sucked inside and come out looking like a shredded piece of paper. | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" | AABF20 |