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Couch OpeningsMaintained by Don Del Grande (ddelgran@simpsonsarchive.com) Italian and French versions of this list are also available (click on the appropriate language). Episode numbers indicate the couch scene used when the episode was shown for the first time; in some cases, the one used in Canada is listed where it was "original" and the USA one was repeated; also, some episodes did not have a couch opening the first time they aired in the USA but did for subsequent airings The couch openings are also used in syndication except when marked: |
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| * | 1F01 couch opening is used | |
| ** | See note below: | |
| 7F06 uses the 7F08 couch opening | ||
| 9F21 uses only 9F21a | ||
| 4F12 uses the video from the 8F24 couch opening, but the sound from the 4F12 couch opening; it is possible that the switch was made because 4F12 was the 167th episode to air, surpassing the 166 of The Flintstones as the most for a prime-time animated series | ||
| 4F19 uses the 3F23 couch opening | ||
| FABF12 uses the DABF02 couch opening | ||
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| 7G02*, 7G07* | Bart is squeezed off and pops into the air; during the shot of the TV, he is seen coming down |
| 7G03*, 7G10* | The couch falls apart when everybody is on it |
| 7G04*, 7G13 | Homer is squeezed off his side of the couch |
| 7G06*, 7G12 | Maggie is squeezed off and pops into the air; she comes right down into Marge's arms |
| 7G09, 7G01 | Everybody fits on the couch |
| 7F03, 7F12, 7F22, 9F06* | The couch falls through the floor |
| 7F02, 7F13, 7F23 | The "Simpson Shuffle": everybody is in a line in front of the couch; they do two "Egyptian struts" (right arm up, left arm down, wrists at 90-degree angles) in one direction, then two in the other, then sit on the couch with arms in a "ta-da" position. |
| 7F01, 7F15 | The couch unfolds into a bed |
| 7F05*, 7F16* | Maggie ends up in Marge's hair |
| 7F08, 7F14* | Everybody fits, including Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II |
| 7F07*, 7F17* | Grampa is lying on the couch sleeping |
| 7F06**, 7F18 | Homer tips the couch over sideways; Maggie falls off, but lands on a couch cushion which is on the floor |
| 7F09, 7F19 | The couch is gone; everyone looks around the empty spot |
| 7F10*, 7F20* | Homer bumps the others off the couch |
| 7F11, 7F21* | The couch tips over backwards; Maggie pops up from behind it |
| 7F24*, 8F22 | The couch tips over backwards, and everybody crashes through the back wall |
| 8F01, 8F12 | They sit, then Homer pulls Santa's Little Helper out from beneath him |
| 8F03*, 8F14 | Everybody forms a pyramid |
| 8F04*, 8F16 | A space alien hears them coming, pulls a cord, and disappears through a trap door in the floor |
| 8F05, 8F15* | Bart lands on everyone's lap |
| 8F06*, 8F17 | Homer gets to the couch first and lies on it; the others sit on him |
| 8F07, 8F19 | The seat cushions are missing; when they sit, they "fall into" the couch |
| 8F08, 8F20 | Two burglars are holding the couch as everybody sits on it; they are dumped off and the couch is carried away |
| 8F09, 8F21 | Santa's Little Helper is on the couch and keeps everyone else off |
| 8F10, 8F23 | Everybody cartwheels to the couch (Maggie falls in her attempt and hops there) and strikes a "Ta-Da" pose |
| 8F11 | Everybody bounces up and down on the couch; Homer bounces from one side to the other |
| 8F13* | Everybody except Maggie bang their heads together and lie unconscious on the floor |
| 8F24 | Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the Flintstones |
| 8F18, 9F15* | The couch swallows everybody as it transforms into a monster |
| 9F01*, 9F12 | The couch rotates 180 degrees through a secret door in the wall; an empty couch takes its place |
| 9F02*, 9F14* | As Maggie is already seated, Homer, Marge, and Bart run "past the edge of the film" and scurry back to the couch |
| 9F04 | Simpson-sized skeletons sit on the couch |
| 9F03 | The couch deflates (as if filled with air) |
| 9F05, 9F17 | Everybody has somebody else's head, which they remove and switch |
| 9F07, 9F18* | There's a wooden chair in place of the couch; the adults share it, with the children on their laps |
| 9F08*, 9F13*, 9F16*, 9F22*, 2F08, AABF17, CABF13, DABF06 |
Everybody forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number
During 9F22, in the "The Thompsons" opening, everyone runs to a couch on a houseboat, where fish then fall on them |
| 9F09, 9F20 | Everybody is "miniature" and must climb the "giant" couch; Maggie has to be pulled up |
| 9F10 | Everybody sits, just before the room is filled with other regular characters |
| 9F11, 9F19 | Everybody gets caught in a net that was spread on the floor |
| 9F21a, 1F08, 1F21 | Everybody runs into each other and shatters on the floor; Santa's Little Helper examines the damage |
| 9F21b**, 1F11 | Everybody runs into each other and end up on the couch as a five-headed "blob" |
| 9F21c**, 1F09*, 1F20 | Everybody runs into each other and there's an explosion; eventually, the pacifier lands and bounces away |
| 1F02, 1F12, 2F33 | Everybody, plus the couch, is crushed by a foot that is reminiscent of how Monty Python's Flying Circus opens |
| 1F01 | Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by an identical Simpson family |
| 1F04 | A Zombie Simpson family crashes through the floor from below and sits on the couch |
| 1F03 | The couch is painted on a wall, which everybody runs through |
| 1F05, 1F13 | A fat man takes up most of the couch; everybody squeezes into the tiny spot remaining |
| 1F06, 1F15, 2F04 | 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 |
| 1F07*, 1F19* | Everybody sits, then they notice they're on the set of Late Show with David Letterman as "Dave" turns face forward |
| 1F10 | Everybody pokes their head up from behind the couch (Maggie does it from behind a cushion on the couch) |
| 1F14 | Everybody sees two couches, then they each split into two halves, each half sitting on a couch |
| 1F16 | Everybody is shaped like a ball and bounces around before landing on the couch and returning to normal |
| 1F18 | Everybody sits, then Homer gets up, rips the FOX logo from the screen corner, and they all stomp on it |
| 1F22, 2F12 | 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 |
| 1F17, 2F13 | 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) |
| 2F01, 2F14* |
Everybody is "beamed aboard" the couch in original Star Trek style (complete with sound effect)
The two episodes' couch openings are slightly different; 2F01 has the family initially appear as black "starry" images before "fading in", while 2F14 has them appear amidst a burst of light |
| 2F03 | 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) |
| 2F05, 2F15 | Everybody bounces up off the couch and gets their heads stuck in the ceiling |
| 2F06, 2F18 | Everybody chases the couch as it, along with the back wall, moves backwards away from them |
| 2F07, 2F16 | Everybody runs by the same TV and couch again and again, all except Maggie grinning the whole time |
| 2F09, 2F19 | Everybody runs to the couch from a different side (Marge runs down the side of a wall) in an M.C. Escher-style house |
| 2F10, 2F21 |
The "James Bond" film opening, only with Homer in front of the couch firing the gun
The two episodes' couch openings have the same video but slightly different audio |
| 2F11, 2F22 | In black & white, everybody (wearing Mickey Mouse gloves) waves their hands in circles |
| 2F31, 2F32 | A giant Maggie, a slightly smaller Lisa, and so on down to a tiny Homer, sit on the couch |
| 2F20 | As the couch moves aside, everybody lines up in front of a police lineup height chart |
| 2F17, 3F12, 3F22 | 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 |
| 3F01, 3F13 | 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 |
| 3F02, 3F14 | Everybody is wearing fezzes and drives around in minicars like Shriners |
| 3F03, 3F16 | Everybody runs to the couch, entirely gray; the colors are then spray-painted on them |
| 3F04 | Everybody drops from above, hanging from their necks by nooses; Maggie still manages to suck her pacifier |
| 3F05, 3F15 | Everybody is a wind-up doll |
| 3F06, 3F17 | Everybody is put on the couch by a pinsetter, after Snowball II is scared off by the pin-clearing bar |
| 3F08, 3F18 | Everybody is a sea-monkey and swims to a couch made of clam shells to stare at a treasure chest |
| 3F31 | A sequence of openings: 8F18, 9F02, 9F10, 9F09, 8F09, 1F02, 2F31, 2F09, 2F06, 1F17, 2F11, and 9F08 |
| 3F07, 3F19 | Homer pulls a drain plug from the floor, and everybody and everything is sucked down the drain |
| 3F10 | Everybody sits, then inside a mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an identical couch |
| 3F09, 3F20 | A big game hunter sits on the couch, with a "Homer-skin rug" on the floor and the others' heads on the wall |
| 3F11, 3F21 | Everybody sits, bathed in flourescent "black light", until Homer turns on the lamp |
| 4F02 | As Death begins on the couch, everybody runs up to the couch and falls over dead |
| 3F23, 3F24 | Everybody lands on the couch via parachute except Homer, who lands on the floor with an unopened chute |
| 4F03, 4F15 | Everybody is in western gear as they sit on the couch, when then gallops away into the desert |
| 4F05, 4F09 | Everybody is a clear balloon, which float onto the couch and then pop |
| 4F06, 4F12** | A takeoff on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| 4F04, 4F19** | Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart red; Homer slaps Bart on the head, turning him normal |
| 4F01, 4F14,4F21 | Everybody and everything is upside-down, until everybody falls off the couch and onto the "ceiling" |
| 4F07, 4F18 | Homer puts a coin in the "Vend-A-Couch", then bangs the back wall; the couch then falls on him |
| 3G01 | Everybody flies in on jet-packs; Maggie flies in last and lands on Marge's lap |
| 4F08, 4F17 | Everybody is involved in a giant game of Whack-A-Mole; Homer ends up getting whacked |
| 4F10, 4F16 | Grampa is sleeping in a convertible bed, which they convert back to a sofa (with him in it) and sit on it |
| 3G03 | The couch remains empty while everybody waits outside as Homer struggles to open the front door |
| 4F11 | The couch is in an "America Onlink" window, which takes its time loading everybody before being interrupted |
| 4F13 | The couch is sliding on the deck of a ship; when everybody (in raingear) sits on it, they are covered by a wave |
| 4F22 | To the tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown", everybody enters dressed as Harlem Globetrotters |
| 4F23 | Everybody runs to the couch dressed in space suits; the couch then "lifts off" into space |
| 3G02 | Homer stands in front of the couch; the top half then comes off (and lands on the couch), revealing Marge, then Bart, Lisa, and Maggie |
| 5F02 | Everybody sits on the couch, then metal helmets fall on their heads and they are shackled in before being electrocuted |
| 5F01, 5F10 | Everybody has their rear ends on fire as they run to a water-filled couch |
| 5F03, 5F12, AABF05 | Everybody sits on the couch and is crushed into a rectangular block auto-crusher style |
| 5F04, 5F13 | Bart spray-paints everyone onto the couch, adding an "El Barto" signature |
| 5F05, 5F14 | Three men in towels are on the couch, which is part of a sauna |
| 5F06, 5F15, AABF06 | Everybody sits, then a human hand spins the picture around |
| 5F07, 5F16 | The couch is inside a snow globe |
| 5F24 | The floor is a treadmill; Homer falls and says "Marge, stop this crazy thing!" George Jetson-style |
| 5F08, 5F17, 5F20 | Nelson pulls the couch back, and everyone ends up sitting on the floor |
| 5F23 | Everyone is miniature (like in 9F09), only this time Santa's Little Helper takes Homer away in his mouth |
| 5F11, 5F18, AABF04 | Everyone is a frog (Maggie a tadpole) jumping to a lily pad; Homer turns on the TV with his tongue |
| 4F24 | A vine grows in the middle of the room; everyone appears as a fruit or vegetable |
| 3G04 | A takeoff on "Rocky & Bullwinkle" where everyone pops up from out of the ground |
| 5F09 | Everyone except Bart runs into Bart's classroom, where he writes "I Will Not Mess With The Opening Credits" on the chalkboard |
| 5F21, AABF16 | A number of Springfieldians are sitting in chairs in front of the couch, as if in a movie theater |
| 5F22, AABF12 | Two firemen carry the couch and catch everybody falling from above - except Homer, who falls through the floor |
| AABF01 | Freddy Kruger of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason of Friday the 13th sit on the couch and wonder where everyone else is |
| 5F19, AABF09 | Marge carries in a laundry basket and hangs the others on a clothesline |
| AABF02, AABF10 | The couch turns into an amusement park ride |
| AABF03, AABF11 | Everybody is put under a hair dryer and ends up with someone else's hair; the weight of Marge's hair causes Maggie to tip over |
| AABF07, AABF15 | The floor opens and everybody falls while "riding" it "Dr. Strangelove"-style |
| AABF08, AABF18 | The couch, floating on water, hits an iceberg and sinks; Maggie resurfaces on a cushion |
| AABF13, BABF08 | An adult Bart and Lisa and a young Homer (with a Maggie doll) and Marge go to the couch; Homer takes the remote from Lisa, but Lisa slaps his hand and he gives it back |
| AABF14 | Everybody slips on banana peels, but end up on the couch anyway (Maggie ends up in Marge's arms) |
| AABF20, BABF05 | The couch is a paper shredder; everybody ends up sucked into the couch and comes out in strips |
| AABF23, BABF14 | Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the Simpsons from The Tracey Ullman Show; all ten of the Simpsons run off screaming |
| AABF22, BABF18 | Everybody is white with numbers "paint by numbers" style; artists enter and paint in the colors |
| AABF21, BABF12 | Marge erases the Matt Groening signature on the floor; Matt appears and rewrites it (with his right hand) |
| BABF01 | Everybody appears as a character from a previous Halloween Special; Maggie disintegrates Lisa |
| AABF19, BABF13 | A bouncer lets everybody except Homer onto the couch |
| BABF02,CABF15 | A cement truck pours cement versions of everybody onto the couch; Homer breaks in two |
| BABF03, CABF05 | The couch rotates 180 degrees through the wall, replaced by Vincent Price with Ned Flanders shackled upside-down |
| BABF07 | Everybody slides down a fire pole - except Homer, who gets stuck in the hole in the ceiling |
| BABF04, CABF16 | Everybody is a crash test dummy; the couch crashes into the TV |
| BABF06, CABF10 | A psychiatrist is sitting next to the couch; Homer lies on it and says "Oh, Doctor, I'm crazy" |
| BABF09, CABF09 | Dressed in karate gear (with black belts), everybody chops up the couch |
| BABF10, CABF11 | Everybody (except Maggie) is driving a bumper car; Homer is bumped by the others against the back wall |
| BABF11, CABF17 | The couch is in Evergreen Terrace subway station; everybody gets aboard a train |
| BABF16 | Everybody (except Maggie) walks barefoot over hot coals |
| BABF15 | Everybody swings in on vines "Tarzan"-style; Homer swings out of the room |
| BABF19 | Bart puts a coin in the "magic fingers"; the couch vibrates its way off the screen |
| BABF20 | Bart puts a Whoopee Cushion under the couch seat, which Homer sits on |
| BABF17, CABF21 | Everybody freezes in mid-air as the camera pans "The Matrix"-style from the TV to the couch |
| CABF01 | Everybody (except Maggie) is dressed as one of the Teletubbies (and Maggie applauds as they enter) |
| CABF04, CABF14 | Everybody skateboards off a ramp onto the couch, except that Homer lands on the floor |
| CABF02 | Santa's Little Helper dances on his hind legs like Snoopy as everybody watches |
| CABF03 | The couch is in a fishbowl; everybody is wearing scuba gear |
| CABF06, CABF20 | Everybody is in a football uniform and piles on a football; Maggie leaves the pile and spikes the ball |
| BABF22 | Everybody lands on the couch via a Futurama-style tube, except that Fry is in place of (and is then sucked up and replaced by) Bart |
| CABF08 | In front of a "valet" sign, the "teenage kid" pushes the couch into place |
| CABF07 | Everybody ice skates to the couch; Homer's end of the couch falls through the ice |
| CABF12, CABF18 | The couch is outside a prison wall; everybody is dressed in prison clothes as they tunnel to the couch |
| CABF22 | Everybody jumps off a sailboat, which turns out to be the sailboat painting above the couch |
| DABF02, DABF12 | Everybody (except Maggie, replaced by a "7") is in the window of a five-reel slot machine |
| DABF01, DABF11 | A gardener trims a hedge into the shape of everybody on the couch |
| DABF03, DABF13 | A giant clamp (like on the prize machines in arcades) grabs Homer by the head and lifts him off the couch |
| DABF05, DABF16 | In black and white, Homer appears as Charlie Chaplin in silent film style, with the others as "extras" |
| DABF04, DABF14 | Two "Repo Depot" men take the couch away |
| DABF07, DABF15 | The pimple-faced teenager is making out with a girl on the couch |
| DABF09, DABF17 | Blue Man Group perform in front of the couch |
| DABF08, EABF10 | The couch opening is drawn as a flipper book in pencil, with the pages flipped by real hands |
| DABF10, EABF08 | Everybody is a marionette, and they run into each other; the puppeteer, Matt Groening, gives up in disgust |
| DABF22, EABF11 | Homer is on water skis, with the others on him, as he ski-jumps over sharks; everybody lands on the couch, but Homer is without his legs, which are in the shark's mouths |
| DABF20, EABF19, GABF13 | Homer goes through the Get Smart! opening, but when he falls through the bottom of the telephone booth, he lands on the couch (where the others are already sitting) |
| DABF18, EABF07 | The couch is drawn on a "Sketch-A-Etch" |
| DABF21 | A mouse cursor drags Homer from the left side of the couch to the right, changes the wall color to green, and replaces the boat painting with the Mona Lisa |
| EABF01, EABF09 | Homer uses the remote to switch everyone to the caveman era, then the Roman era, then back to the present |
| EABF02, EABF12 | Everybody is deep-fried in a fast-food fryer, then emptied onto the couch and salted |
| EABF03, EABF14 | In black and white, everyone is wearing early-20th-century clothing and is watching the TV from a girder at a construction site |
| EABF04, EABF15 | Everybody sticks their head through a wall of them sitting on the couch (but in different positions), which is photographed |
| EABF06, EABF16 | Everybody is picked up off the couch by a baby as if they were dolls |
| EABF05, EABF17 | Everybody and everything is gingerbread; Homer takes a bite out of Bart |
| EABF13 | Everybody is a mime, walking against the wind and then sitting on a non-existant couch |
| EABF18, FABF10 | Everybody grows old and turns into dust |
| EABF20, FABF11 | A Polaroid photo "ejects" onto the couch; it develops into a photo of the family |
| EABF22, FABF12** | There is a Play-Doh press on the back wall; it presses Play-Doh versions of everybody out onto the couch |
| FABF01, FABF15 | Everybody slides down "batpoles" and end up on the couch, in Batman-style costumes, in the "Batcave" |
| FABF02, FABF18 | The couch is a street bench in Japan, and everyone is a famous anime character (for example, Homer as Ultraman and Bart as Astro Boy) |
| FABF03, FABF13 | Somebody throws knives at the wall while everyone is seated on the couch |
| FABF04 FABF14 | Everybody is squeezed like frosting out of a pastry bag onto the top of a cake |
| FABF05 | Everybody's head pops out of a giant piece of apple pie |
| FABF06, FABF17 | A tray is placed into a microwave, and everybody rises from it |
| FABF07 | A woman throws some seeds into a plot of dirt where the couch usually is, and waters them; everybody sprouts up like plants |
| FABF09 | Everybody is a bag on a moving dry-cleaning rack, which stops over the couch |
| FABF08, GABF05, KABF02 |
The couch scene pans out until it reaches intergalactic space, where the galaxies
are replaced with atoms, which pan out until they reach Homer's head and then the
couch scene again
Actually, there are slight differences between the three; Homer says "Wow" in FABF08, "Cool" in GABF05, and "Weird" in KABF02; also, Kang and Kodos are heard laughing in GABF05 and KABF02 |
| FABF20, GABF11 | Everybody sits on the couch, which is outside - and which is catapulted |
| FABF19 | Everybody runs to where the couch is supposed to be, but isn't - because it then falls on top of them |
| FABF22, GABF14 | Everybody looks like Moe |
| FABF21, GABF15 | The couch is attached to a giant fish, which eats everybody |
| FABF16 | Without music, everybody enters and sits on the couch; Lisa says, "What, can't we sit on the couch without something happening?", and Homer is then harpooned |
| GABF01 | Everything is made of sand; everybody crawls to the couch and sits on it, after which everything collapses, revealing the desert sun |
| GABF02 | Everybody gets on top of one another in front of the couch, forming a totem pole |
| GABF03 | Everybody is a chess piece (Homer the King, Marge the Queen, Lisa the Knight, Bart the Rook, and Maggie the Pawn) and hops to the couch |
| GABF04 | Everybody is wearing an ice hockey uniform and skates around the couch; Homer carries the Stanley Cup (with Maggie inside it) |
| GABF06, HABF12 | The room is dark, except for a number of pairs of eyes; the lights come on to reveal a surprise party for the Simpsons as they approach the couch, causing Homer to collapse |
| GABF07 | "Homer" removes his Homer head mask, revealing himself to be Sideshow Bob, who then pulls out a knife and goes after Bart |
| GABF08, HABF08 | A roasting spit comes out of the wall and through the couch, while the floor opens up to reveal fire; the spit rotates the couch, and everyone on it, over the flames |
| GABF12, HABF13 | Five miniature vehicles enter, only to transform (literally) into the Simpsons |
| GABF10, HABF11 | The couch scene is a jigsaw puzzle, with the heads missing; two hands put the heads in place, then, noticing Homer and Maggie are switched, fixes them and says, "Woo-hoo!" |
| GABF09 | Everybody is a balloon which floats to the couch, except for Homer, who is popped by Snowball II |
| GABF18 | Everybody walks through a metal detector; after four failed attempts, Homer (who is stripped down to his briefs) is scanned by a security guard with a handheld scanning wand |
| GABF16, HABF05 | Six clay balls roll around the floor, eventually becoming the family - and Gumby |
| GABF19, HABF09 | Everybody sits on the couch, then the TiVo "Delete This Recording Now?" appears; when the show is "deleted", the screen goes black |
| GABF20, HABF16 | Springfield's couches (no to mention loungers, booths, and barstools) rise up against their masters |
| GABF21 | The living room is inside an "Earth Family" exhibit in a Rigelian zoo |
| GABF22 | The couch is replaced by a nest; a giant bird feeds Homer a worm |
| HABF02, HABF10 | A pair of animated hands deals five cards onto the couch; the jack (Bart), queen (Marge), king (Homer), and ace (Lisa) of diamonds, and a joker (Maggie) |
| HABF01, JABF10 | The couch appears on the front page of the Springfield Shopper under the headline "COUCH GAG THRILLS NATION" |
| HABF03, HABF14 | A photographer takes the family picture on the couch, which becomes a series of family portraits from 2006 to 2013; the 2013 photo has everybody as a robot |
| HABF04, JABF08 | The Bonanza opening, complete with its theme music |
| HABF06 | The couch enters on a conveyor belt; Homer is added by a mechanical clamp |
| HABF07 | Everybody has to crawl under lasers to get to the couch; after all of the lasers are turned off, Homer's head falls to the floor |
| HABF15, JABF11 | There are four chairs in place of the couch; everybody plays musical chairs |
| HABF18 | Everybody except Homer get on the couch, then "King Homer" reaches through a window, grabs Marge, and climbs to the top of a building while biplanes fly around them |
| HABF20, JABF09 | Ralph selects a Homer doll from a vending machine, and bites his head off |
| HABF21, JABF13 | The couch, and everyone on it, goes through a car wash |
| HABF19, KABF13 | Everyone is drag-and-dropped onto the couch, which is then drag-and-dropped onto a wastebasket; a computer menu item "empty trash" is then selected |
| HABF22, JABF07 | Everyone is a cockroach; when the lights turn on, they all scatter |
| JABF02 | Someone (who sounds a lot like Homer) makes paper dowls of everyone |
| JABF01, KABF21 | Everyone sits on the couch, which is reflected in an ornament on a Christmas tree |
| JABF03 | Everyone, plus the couch, is pinned to a bulletin board |
| JABF05 | Everyone is an infant until they reach the couch, then they revert to their normal ages |
| JABF04 | Everyone is a stand-up paper doll; a pair of hands puts clothes on them, after which they sit on the couch |
| JABF06, JABF18, KABF12 |
A single Homer cell starts dividing, then becomes a creature which eventually evolves
into present-day Homer
In JABF06, when Homer gets to the couch, Marge asks him what took him so long; in JABF18, she asks if he brought the milk |
| JABF12 | Two Simpson families end up sitting on the couch, with more Simpson families filling up the room, eventually overflowing the entire house |
| JABF20 | The pig from the movie is on the couch; as everyone sits, Homer holds it in his lap, calling it "my summer love" |
| JABF21 | Everybody and everything is made of Lego |
| JABF19 | Everybody except Maggie sits on the couch, then a giant hand grabs Homer; it turns out the couch is inside a dollhouse, and Homer was grabbed by the "real" Maggie, who puts him in her mouth |
| JABF22 | The couch, with everybody on it, is on the cover of Modern Couch Gag magazine |
| JABF17, KABF11 | The couch, with everybody on it, is inside a pop-up book |
| KABF01 | A magician makes the couch, and then everybody sitting on it, appear from out of nowhere |
| KABF03, KABF10 | A medieval tapestry shows Les Flanders taking away the couch of Les Simpsons, only for Les Simpsons to regain the couch (and Flanders, in pieces) in battle; the "Created By" and "Developed By" credits were part of the tapestry |
| KABF04 | The couch scene is on a painting, with the inscription, "Ceci n'est pas une couch gag." ("This is not a couch gag") |
| KABF05 | Everyone attaches themselves to a mobile hanging in front of the couch |
| KABF06 | The couch scene is on a Lite-Brite |
| KABF07 | Professor Frink puts drops of water onto five pills on the couch, which turn into spongy Simpsons; he needs a bucket of water to get Homer to full size |
| KABF08 | Wile E. Coyote paints a couch onto the wall, and everybody but Maggie runs into the wall; Maggie makes the Road Runner "Beep Beep" sound (and sticks out her tongue Road Runner-style) as Marge, Bart, and Lisa sit on the couch, but when Homer tries it, he crashes through the wall |
| KABF09 | Everyone is painted onto the couch with a giant paint brush |
| KABF17 | Everyone is encased in a block of carbonite (like Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back) |
| KABF15 | Everyone is at the base of a mountain, on which is carved The Simpsons sitting on a couch |
| KABF14 | The couch, with everyone on it, is taken up into the air by a tornado, then lands on a farm, with everything in black and white |
| KABF18 | Everybody pops out of their own cuckoo clock |
| KABF19 | In ancient Pompeii, everybody is sitting on a stone bench, and gets covered in volcanic ash |
| KABF20 | Bart writes, "I WILL NOT BRING THE CHALKBOARD HOME," on a chalkboard in front of the couch |
| KABF22 | The couch is inside a box marked "COUCH GAG #429" (since it first appeared on the 429th episode); Comic Book Guy puts a "$19.99" sticker on it and then comments, "Worst Couch Gag Ever" |
| LABF01, LABF16 | Everyone discovers the couch has literally run off, and chase it through various sites worldwide, finally sitting on it while it is in space, after which it returns to Earth and crashes into the house |
| LABF02, LABF12, PABF05, YABF14 | Everyone goes through scenes from The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, and Cheers, before sitting on the couch and breathing a sigh of relief |
| LABF03 | The dilapidated couch is buried, and everyone goes to a "couch ranch" to get a new one |
| LABF04, MABF04 | The couch is a pi�ata; Ralph strikes it with a pole, and everyone falls out of it |
| LABF11, MABF10 | Everyone is on all fours and on leashes as if they are in a dog show; when Bart is selected as the winner, he and Homer get into a fight |
| LABF05, MABF09 |
At a restaurant, Comic Book Guy eats a salad (which looks like Homer's head), soup (Lisa), spaghetti and meatballs (Marge),
and steak (Bart), and the bill comes with a Maggie-shaped mint; when he wipes his mouth, the napkin stain is everyone on the couch
The second time LABF05 aired, on 6/28/09, there was no couch opening, as the opening credits were replaced with an airing of "Do the Bart, Man" in tribute to Michael Jackson, who died three days earlier |
| LABF06 | Blank acetate sheets are flipped over, eventually revealing everyone on the couch, but Homer is naked; Marge flips over an additional sheet with Homer's clothes |
| LABF07 | Everyone hacks their way through a jungle, only to find a gorilla Simpson family sitting on the couch |
| LABF08, MABF06 | Everyone swims to the couch from a competition-style swimming pool, except for Homer, who ends up floating face down |
| LABF10 | Everyone is in the stands at a Roman glaidtorial games; Bart catches a gladiator's head |
| LABF09 | A sculptor makes a statue of everyone sitting on the couch, then changes it to a Civil War-style general on horseback |
| LABF13 | At Springfield subway station, everyone waits for a subway, which has the couch inside; they board the train and sit on the couch as it departs |
| LABF15 | Everyone takes place in a Wild West shootout taking place around the couch |
| LABF17 | Everyone, back in caveman days, sits on a log, which sinks into a tarpit; their skeletons, still sitting on the log, are on display in a museum |
| LABF18 | Everyone, in Victorian clothing and standing around a Christmas tree, sings a modified last verse of The Twelve Days of Christmas |
| LABF19 | Marge puts a turkey on the dining room table, after which everyone, including Patty and Selma, grabs some food and moves into the living room to watch a football game on TV |
| MABF01 | The couch cushions, lamps, telephone, rug, and TV are partying before everyone arrives; the furniture then gets back into place, and everyone sits on the couch |
| MABF02 | First Homer, then everybody appear as pinballs in a Simpsons pinball machine (which is different from the two that actually exist) |
| LABF20 | Everyone is a sperm that penetrates an egg containing a couch; the egg starts dividing, and eventually becomes a baby Mr. Burns |
| MABF03 | Homer appears alone, and starts a "Couch Gag" application on his iPhone; when Mr. Burns interrupts with a phone call, Homer swallows the phone (with the others on the couch) |
| MABF05 | Everyone is a Tarot card (Homer as King of Cups; Marge as Queen of Cups; Bart as The Fool; Lisa as High Priestess; Maggie as Death) dealt onto a table; Grampa turns the Death card around and pushes it back to the fortune teller, who dies |
| MABF07 | Everyone is a bug in a garden in the backyard |
| MABF08 | The couch is in the front yard, and everyone sits on it, only for the front of the house to come down around them (they fit through the middle upstairs window), revealing that it was just a piece of wood shaped and painted like the front of the house, and the house is not there |
| MABF14, NABF05 | The couch goes through various parts of the Springfield Shopper, with everyone going after it; the couch decides to reconcile after seeing a classified ad the family had placed |
| MABF12 | Everyone in Springfield lip-syncs Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" |
| MABF13 | A pair of (animated) hands is seen opening the box of, putting together, and painting, a plastic model of the couch with everyone on it, then destroying it by setting off a firecracker; it turns out to be Nelson |
| MABF11 | Harold of Harold and the Purple Crayon draws in the couch scene with his crayon; when Homer asks Harold to draw him some beer, he does |
| MABF15 | Homer and Bart appear as puppets in a "Punch & Judy"-style show set in front of the couch; when puppet Bart hits puppet Homer, real Homer chokes real Bart |
| MABF21 | The couch is below a banner reading "22 SEASONS - CONGRATULATIONS FROM FOX"; a man comes out holding a cupcake with a candle on it, which Maggie blows out, only for the man to eat the cupcake and walk off as the banner falls |
| MABF17 | Everybody sits, then notices a dead body on the floor; Homer "drives" the couch like a getaway car, only for everyone (including the couch) to get caught, identified in a lineup, sent to prison, and eventually given the electric chair - er, couch - where they turn into a Lite-Brite picture |
| MABF18 |
Workers at an Asian factory are drawing couch scenes on cels, one of which is dipped in hazardous liquid
by a child; beneath them, more workers put out Simpsons T-shirts, stuff Bart dolls with stuffing made by
putting small animals through a woodchipper, seal boxes with the tongue of a detached dolphin's head, and
punch holes in DVDs with a unicorn's horn, all inside a factory shaped like the 20th Century Fox logo
This couch scene was done by British graffiti artist Banksy |
| MABF20 | Everybody sits, then a daredevil jumps over the couch from one side to the other on a motorcycle, only to run into something after he drives out the front door |
| NABF01, PABF15 | Everybody becomes a Na'vi avatar (from Avatar); Bart eventually captures a winged couch-like creature, upon which everybody sits and watches TV with red/blue 3D glasses |
| NABF02 | Professor Frink is on the couch and shoots a ray gun at everybody, who then shrinks; eventually, they run into a mousehole and sit on a block of cheese, which triggers a mousetrap to snap on them |
| MABF19 | An Advent calendar has a different Springfield scene for each day, with Christmas Eve having everybody on the couch with Santa (and Maggie on Santa's lap) |
| NABF03 | The couch gets out of bed, shaves, eats breakfast, rides a subway, clocks in outside of the Simpsons' back door, and takes its place as everyone runs in and sits on it |
| NABF04 | A giant hand scoops Simpsons-shaped scoops of ice cream onto a banana split, then adds chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and cherries; a giant Santa's Little Helper then eats it |
| NABF06 | Homer breaks his leg running to the couch; Mr. Burns sends in Barney off of a bench as a substitute |
| NABF07 | The living room floor is ice, and everyone is in a hockey uniform ready for a faceoff, which turns into a fight broken up by referees Lenny and Carl; everybody ends up sitting in the penalty box |
| NABF08 | On a "The Simpsons Couch Gag Game" video game, the five family members are selected as players, and after they sit on the couch, "GAME OVER" appears on the screen |
| NABF09 | Everyone sits, then the couch's cushions spring them into the viewer's TV screen |
| NABF10 | The entire couch scene is in ASCII art; Bart takes some of the letters and spells "FATSO" on top of Homer, who replies in a word baloon, "D'oh!" |
| NABF12 | The couch is on the cover of a video, which is inside an abandoned "Million Dollar Video" store with an "Out of Business" sign on it; a wrecking ball demolishes the building |
| NABF13, NABF21 | The couch is in the Smithsonian Museum; the family break into the museum at night in order to be able to sit on it |
| NABF14, PABF12 | Everything, and everyone, appears as black words on a white background |
| NABF17 | How the show might look if it was drawn by The Ren & Stimpy Show's creator, John Kricfalusi (and, in fact, he did draw the couch opening) |
| PABF02 | Homer is unable to remove a sword stuck in the couch; Ned Flanders comes by and pulls out the sword (which says "Property of Ned Flanders" on it) |
| NABF18 | Everybody is a Gingerbread cookie on a plate; Homer eats one of his own arms |
| PABF03 | In a Victorian-period setting, the lights go out, there is a gunshot, and when they come back on, Homer is dead; Bart is taken away, while Marge stuffs a gun back into her hair |
| PABF04 |
Everybody travels through the streets of New York City to reach the couch, which is on the set of Late Show with David Letterman
Note this is different from the opening in 1F07: among other things, Letterman speaks in this one |
| PABF06 | Moe leads a celebration of the show's 500th episode, only for Lisa to point out (after reading The Comprehensive 20 Year Simpsons Episode Guide and doing some counting on her fingers, when all she needed to do was check the episode list at simpsonsarchive.com, thank you very much) that it's only the 499th |
| PABF07 | Every couch gag (except for 7G09, 9F21a, 9F21b, 3F31, 5F07, and LABF13), in the order in which they first appeared, is shown; the family then sits on the couch, and the scene is pulled back to reveal other couch gags which form a giant "500", which shatters, revealing Homer choking Bart (both in tuxedoes) |
| PABF09 | Springfield resembles the opening to HBO's Game of Thrones, with the buildings rising out of the ground, being driven by cogs, and a giant couch overlooking the entire town |
| PABF08 | Everyone lays on a layer of seaweed covered with rice on the floor in front of the couch, which is rolled up and then chopped into pieces like sushi; Maggie pops out from one of the pieces, apparently still in one piece |
| PABF10 | Everyone sits on the couch, with a banner reading "America - Most Powerful Country in the World" behind them; the years pass by from 1989 to 2012, with various Simpson images appearing at appropriate times (e.g. Poochie in 1993); the banner changes to "Too Big to fail, We Hope", and Maggie ends up holding a Chinese flag |
| PABF11, RABF01 | The couch opening is a Plymptoon (directed and animated by Bill Plympton) where a young Homer falls in love with, and impregnates, a couch, only to dump it when he meets Marge, and then rescue it from a garbage truck; while Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa sit on the couch, Maggie sits on the "baby couch" |
| PABF13 | The couch gag is on a card stunt (where people in an audience hold up cards to form a giant picture) |
| PABF14 | Everybody is playing what appears to be "Simpsons Couch Gag for the Funtendo Zii", but Homer is having trouble getting Homer to sit on the couch, just as he keeps missing in real life |
| PABF21 | In a scene based on Maggie Simpson in: The Longest Daycare, everybody except Maggie is a butterfly that hatches from its own cocoon, only to be chased by Gerald wielding a mallet; they make their escape when Maggie props open a door for them with her pacifier |
| PABF16 | Everybody is on the couch, with Homer behind a steering wheel; the couch is in a Wacky Races-style race against other pieces of furniture, which is won by Grampa in a recliner when the others crash right before the finish line |
| PABF19 | Everybody is on the couch...which is tattooed onto Marge's back |
| PABF22 | Everybody is on the couch - except for Homer, who appears with a hockey mask and axe; the scene is on the cover of a "Tales from the Couch" comic book |
| PABF18 | Everybody is on the couch, but entirely black; a hand flips plastic sheets adding layers of bodies until they appear in their entirety |
| RABF02 | Everybody is an award (Homer, an Oscar; Marge, an Emmy; Lisa, a Grammy; Maggie, the Stanley Cup; Bart, a purple version of the Kids Choice Awards' orange blimp); when they get to the couch, they are compacted together into a cube stamped "World's Greatest Grampa", which Grampa picks up |
| RABF03 | The couch gag is a movie trailer for the movie, The Couch |
| RABF02 | The couch is inside a dunk tank; when Nelson hits the target, everyone falls into the water, and Homer eventually surfaces face down |
| RABF07 | Everybody is a (full-size) Moe; "The Szyslaks...already cancelled" |
| RABF05 | The PABF09 opening is used, but at the end, everyone is on the couch, and a knight decapitates Homer (and slices off the top of Marge's hair) with his sword |
| RABF06 |
Everybody does the |
| RABF09 | In another Bill Plympton-animated opening, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are in a 1930s gangster story, armed, when Maggie turns on the lights, revealing everyone in the present day...and then starts shooting a Tommy gun from the couch |
| RABF10 | Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie have their faces on Easter eggs, which are in a nest on the couch; Homer enters and sits on them |
| RABF11 | Everyone is skydiving, but when Homer's chute falls apart, he causes everyone to crash through the roof and land on the couch |
| RABF13 | A block of ice is cut into an ice sculpture of everyone on the couch; Grampa walks into the room and turns up the thermostat, causing the sculpture to melt |
| RABF12 | The show as done by Robot Chicken (who actually did the couch gag) |
| RABF14 | Everyone is a sea creature, sitting on a couch-shaped coral reef; Blinky swims by and eats them |
| RABF17 (USA) |
There are five dandelions on the couch; when the TV sneezes, the room is filled with tiny airborne Homers, Marges, Barts, Lisas, and Maggies
This was the winner of the "Create Your Own Couch Gag" contest |
| RABF17 (Canada) |
A Canadian Loon, John A. Macdonald, a hockey player, and a Canadian Beaver are already on the couch; everybody squeezes onto the couch with them, as Maggie
replaces her pacifier with a hockey puck and sucks on it
This was the winner of Global's "Create Your Own Couch Gag" contest, open to Canadians (well, except for Quebec) |
| RABF20 |
The couch has a "SIMPSONS 25th SEASON" sign behind it; a bouncer lets everyone except Homer onto the couch
This continued with still images in the closing credits; other coast members, plus the casts of Family Guy, American Dad, Bob's Burgers, and (after originally being denied, then protesting) The Cleveland Show were allowed in - but still not Homer |
| RABF16 | Lisa falls through a hole in the couch, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" style, and meets...the Hypnotoad |
| RABF18 | Everybody makes a The Hobbit-style trek to the couch |
| RABF22 | Everybody (except Maggie) tries to get to the couch as if they are climbing from a different direction, but gravity is pulling them away; Homer fails, and falls up through the ceiling into the sky |
| RABF19 | In 1620, everybody is chased onto the Mayflower (which looks like the boat in the painting above the couch) and sail to Plymouth Couch |
| SABF04 | Everyone is an inflatable "air dancer" balloon at a Used Couch Lot; Bart cuts Homer free |
| SABF01 | "Twas the Couch Gag Before Christmas", with everyone standing in front of the couch in a Victorian-era image |
| SABF03 | In another Bill Plympton-animated opening, Maggie clicks on a TV remote control, and the couch (and the background) change into various items, including a horse, a whale, a comet, and a surfboard |
| SABF06 | Homer sits down to watch the Super Bowl, only to have to get up to get his six-pack of beer...which Bart tossed over an overhead power line |
| SABF08 | Everyone sits, then the lights go out as Marge goes to change a fuse; when the lights come back on, the couch gag is drawn by Sylvain Chomet, and include Homer eating snails, Lisa trying to stop Bart from stuffing a duck with corn to make foie gras, and Marge looking for Maggie (who is in Homer's butt crack) |
| SABF07 | Earth's single large land mass breaks apart into five Simpsons-shaped continents, only for a Moe-shaped asteroid to destroy the planet |
| SABF09 | Homer is the patient in a game of Operation, with other characters as the pieces (for example, Lisa is "Brainy" (the brain), and Moe is "Elbow Bender" (the elbow)); when "Pain in the Butt" Bart is removed, he grabs the retriever and sticks it into the hole where Bart was, causing Homer's nose to light up and Homer to scream in pain |
| SABF11 | Everyone is involved in the "running of the longhorned couches"; when they get to the couch, one of them bursts through the wall behind them, pushes Homer off the couch, and takes his place |
| SABF12 | The couch gag, like the rest of the opening, is in Minecraft style; everyone sits on the couch, then a green four-legged Moe enters and explodes |
| SABF13 | The couch and the floor are covered in bubble wrap, which everyone pops |
| SABF14 | In a Michal Socha-directed couch opening, everybody takes a trip through Homer's body |
| SABF15, TABF12 | Everybody is a pawn in The Game of Life, which ends with everybody on the couch |
| SABF18 | Everybody is at San Diego Comic Fest, seated at a table along with Matt Groening; when Comic Book Guy asks about a second movie, only Maggie remains |
| SABF20 | In a couch gag designed by Don Hertzfeldt (who also made the Academy Award nominated Rejected), Homer goes back in time to April 19, 1987 (the date of the Simpsons' first appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show, then forward to the year 10,535, where episode 164,775.7 of "The Sampsans" has characters that only look vaguely like humans |
| SABF17 | Homer saves Scratchy from being killed by Itchy on the couch, but when Scratchy overstays his welcome, Homer brings Itchy back to finish the job |
| SABF19 | Random scenes of Springfield life, set to Cat Stevens's "Tea for the Tillerman", end with Homer having tea on the couch, only to cause everything to shatter when he stands up with the tablecloth tucked into his pants |
| SABF16 | The couch turns into Hedonismbot from Futurama |
| TABF01 | The couch is a ski lift chair; when it returns, everyone but Maggie is injured |
| TABF02 | Everybody is so busy looking at their cellphones that they run into each other walking to the couch |
| TABF03 | Lisa (as Elsa in Frozen) responds to a snowball from Bart by building a giant ice castle; Homer (as Olaf) bites his carrot nose, then complains that it's a carrot |
| RABF15 | Everybody is at an art museum looking at paintings of themselves; Homer takes a remote control and changes the paintings to TV programs |
| TABF05 | Homer, Marge, and Bart are the three bears, with Lisa as Goldilocks (lying on the baby bear's couch) |
| TABF06 | The couch turns into a "sushi boat", and everybody into pieces of sushi; everybody is snapped up by chopsticks except Homer, but when he celebrates, he falls into the water and a fish eats him |
| TABF07 | The couch gag is in "8-bit animation" along with the rest of the show's opening titles |
| TABF08 | Everybody sitting on the couch is a dot-matrix printer printout; when the paper jams, Homer responds, "Mmmm, paper jam" |
| TABF10 | Everyone sits on the couch, then gets sucked into a portal above the couch, then run in and get sucked up two more times; the fourth time, Bart stays off the couch, then turns off the portal, and discovers Homer's head left behind |
| TABF11 | Everyone begins on the couch as a kernel of popcorn, which pops one at a time |
| TABF13 | The couch is made of ice, in the sea in the Antarctic; everyone is a penguin except for Homer, who is a walrus who eats the others |
| TABF15 | In place of the couch is a soccer goal, which Homer tries to defend, only to end up being buried by soccer balls... kicked by Maggie, wearing a Women's Team USA uniform (just before the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup) |
| TABF16 | Rick and Morty (of the Adult Swim show of the same name) crash into the couch, killing everybody, and their attempts to clone them don't go quite according to plan |
| TABF17 | Everybody appears on Beatles covers (including The Yellow Album), only to be run over on "Flabby Road" |
| TABF19 | Everybody is a car (similar to the ones in Cars); Maggie the Monster Truck runs over the others |
| TABF18 | As part of John Kricfalusi's Treehouse of Horror opening, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie hide under the couch; Homer tells them that ghosts don't exist, after which a monster opens him up, pulls out his ghost, and eats it |
| TABF20 | The Starship Donutprize shoots a Space Couch, only to be destroyed when it is surrounded by them |
| VABF01 | A hand throws five dice from a cup; everybody appears face-up except Homer, whose die, after teetering, comes up Mr. Burns |
| VABF02 | Everybody appears rotoscoped before reverting back to their usual animated forms |
| VABF04 | Homer is on the couch alone; the opening turns into the opening credits of LA-Z Rider (by Steve Cutts) |
| VABF07 | Homer discovers a letter from the couch, saying that it has left the family, which searches for the the couch until they find it at a French Foreign Legion outpost...which is all a dream by Homer on the couch...who sees a letter from Marge saying she's leaving him because he spends too much time on the couch |
| VABF06 | Everybody is in a football uniform: Homer takes the snap (Maggie), then dives over the couch and through the wall behind it |
| VABF08 | In the show's fourth Bill Plympton-animated opening (and one of the few, if not the first, not to have any of the Simpsons in it), the couch and the TV dream of having a romance, but it is not meant to be, as the TV's plug isn't long enough for it to reach the couch |
| VABF10 | Homer sends emojis of everybody and the couch as a text message, but gets the response "Meh", "I Don't Get It", and "Needs a Payoff" |
| VABF11 | Out in space, everyone awakens from a sleep chamber, only to find that Homer is now just bones |
| VABF12 | Everybody appears as various Disney characters; Maggie as a generic 1920s-era girl, Lisa as Cinderella, Marge as Sleeping Beauty, Homer as Baloo, and Bart as the Sorceror's Apprentice |
| VABF14 | Everybody runs to the couch...and through a banner on which the couch is printed, into a football stadium |
| VABF15 | The couch opening is animated in the style of an Ikea instruction booklet as Homer tries to put together a Co�ch |
| VABF20 | The opening is done in the style of the opening credits of Adventure Time |
| VABF18 | Everyone is reduced to head icons on a smartphone's "Couch Gag" app, except for Homer, who's too fat even for a tablet, so he's hit on the head with a giant mallet |
| VABF16 | The Simpsons are captured on "The Planet of the Couches," but their couch frees them and shows them where they really are, only for Homer to kill it so everyone can sit on it |
| VABF21 | After a trip to a museum, Homer sees everything, including the couch, as abstract, but when he tries to turn abstract himself, he becomes a Roy Lichtenstein-style Ben-Day Dots character |
| VABF19 | Everybody is a Greek god on a cloud couch, except for Lisa, who is missing until she pops out of a hole in Homer's head |
| WABF01 | In the opening, Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie have problems getting home; when Bart does, he sits on the couch and puts photos of the others next to him; "Finally, I get the remote!" |
| WABF03 | The couch is missing, and everybody faces a firing squad; the scene turns into Goya's painting El 3 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid: los fusilamientos en la monta�a del Pr�ncipe P�o |
| WABF02 | Everybody is dressed as a character from A Christmas Carol; Mr. Burns, as Ebenezer Scrooge, releases "the Christmas hounds" (with antlers) |
| WABF06 | The couch is on a sticker that is part of a Simpsons Couch Gag Play Set, which itself is part of a 3 For $1 closeout sale of Simpsons items that Marge refuses to buy for Bart |
| WABF07 | Everybody but Maggie sits, then Marge opens a safe behind the sailboat painting and pulls Maggie out |
| WABF08 | Everybody sits, then Homer notices the sailboat painting is missing; he eventually gets it back from the Robot Chicken nerd |
| WABF09 | Everybody is at the bottom of a pachinko machine; Homer ends up swallowing a pachinko ball |
| WABF10 | Everyone is crudely drawn...by Maggie, who is drawn by Lisa, who is drawn by Bart, who is drawn by Marge, who is drawn by Homer, who stabs himself in the eye with a pencil |
| WABF11 | Various animals the Simpsons have owned over the years, including some of Santa's Little Helper's puppies, Spider-Pig, Furious D, and Stampy, are on the couch |
| WABF12 | Everyone is one of the X-Men; Stan Lee makes a cameo appearance |
| WABF13 | The opening is a takeoff on the opening to The Big Bang Theory, although they still insist "Barting Over" is the 300th episode |
| WABF14 | Everyone is a Chia head |
| WABF15 | The couch, and the TV, are carried to the top of Mount Everest; Maggie then taps Homer on the boot with an ice pick, and the couch, plus everybody on it, freezes and then crumbles |
| WABF16 |
The room has a Homer couch, a Bart table lamp, a Lisa floor lamp, a Marge TV, and a Maggie ship painting;
five couches enter and sit on the Homer couch
During the episode, at a hardware store, another family sits on a couch; the pimple-faced teen tells the father, "You sit on it, you bought it," and the family father says, "Doo!" |
| WABF19 | The Simpsons, and their couch, go through history, from leaving Russia through the Revolution through heading to another planet after the waters on Earth rise |
| WABF20 | The couch gag is a silent film, with Bart, Lisa, and Maggie going down an elevator in a coal mine that goes down into hell...and Bart likes it |
| WABF19 | The entire opening takes place underwater, with everyone as a fish; their couch is hooked by Ned Flanders, who puts it into a lobster cage |
| XABF01 | The couch takes the place of the Lincoln Memorial, and appears on the back of a penny |
| XABF02 | Everyone pops into a kernel of popcorn, which then become part of a garland around a Christmas tree |
| XABF04 | Dr. Hibbert "delivers" a baby couch, which Homer drops, then Maggie sits on |
| XABF06 | A remake of Bill Plympton's cartoon Your Face, with Homer as the main character |
| XABF08 | Everybody enters the Museum of Television, passes by various monuments to long-running TV series, including one that says, "Gunsmoke - 635 Episodes," and sits on a couch next to a sign saying, "The Simpsons - 636 episodes," only for Lisa to point out they're four episodes early |
| XABF07 | A dot-to-dot puzzle turns into everybody on the couch, with a three-eyed Homer |
| XABF11 | The Simpsons are lumberjacks, and turn a giant log into the couch - or at least they would have if Lisa had been there |
| XABF12 | The couch is part of a Ferris wheel |
| XABF13 | Everybody is printed from separate inkjet printers; when Homer's paper jams, he responds, "Mmmm, jam" |
| XABF14 | The couch is missing, but some Amish men enter and build a wooden one |
| XABF19 | On a planet 30 light years away, an alien Simpsons family on a couch is watching the end of the Christmas special, and "Homer" asks why Homer sounds like Walter Matthau |
| XABF17 |
Homer is "teleported" through the door in the garage, and finds himself inside of "Bob's Burgers" restaurant as the cast of that show are going through that show's opening
This was immediately followed by a second appearance of the titles, after which God joins St. Peter on the couch in heaven |
| XABF18 | Everybody is on an exercise bike; everybody but Homer rides their bike out of the living room |
| XABF20 | Everybody is a slice of toast, and comes up from the coach as if it was a toaster; Homer gets stuck and ends up being burnt |
| YABF01 | Homer is asleep on the couch as the others arrive; he dreams they are a family of merfolk, with that Homer on the couch dreaming they are in some black-and-white line-drawn art universe, where that Homer is dreaming everybody is an atom |
| YABF02 | Everyone reenacts the cave monster scene from The Empire Strikes Back (with Homer as the monster) |
| YABF03 | The couch is in a football stadium; Homer carries Maggie like a football as everyone, wearing football uniforms, sits on the couch, then Homer spins Maggie on his finger |
| YABF04 | An alien on the couch sticks Maggie's pacifier into his wrist, and everybody but Maggie disappears |
| YABF06 | Everybody jumps into a heart-shaped box of chocolates on the couch; Mr. Burns walks in and takes a bite out of Homer's head |
| YABF07 | Everybody is a cup, filled with a different drink (Duff, Diet Buzz, Lemonade, Baby Buzz, and Buzz Cola) |
| YABF08 | Homer and Marge are playing $1,000,000 Pyramid, where Marge tries to get Homer to say, "Things a Couch Would Say" |
| YABF11 | Except for Homer, who is in full color, the entire couch scene is in black and white; in fact, the couch, and the others, are entirely black with white lines |
| YABF12 | "My Three Kids," a takeoff on the opening credits of My Three Sons |
| YABF16 | Everybody except Homer tries to sit on the couch, only to discover that it, and the back wall, are a painting; Homer tries to sit, and crashes through the painting |
| YABF19 | Homer tries to make an origami swan, but it ends up being everyone sitting on the couch |
| YABF22 | Everybody impersonates Queen (with Homer as Freddie Mercury) at a concert |
| YABF20 | Everybody is a dart that hits a dartboard behind the couch...except Homer, who misses it |
| ZABF02 | Everybody is on Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride |
| ZABF04 | Ned, Rod, and Todd Flanders enter their own house, but there's no couch; Ned explains that he gave it to the poor |
| ZABF01 | Everyone is added to a couch Christmas tree ornament; when Homer is added, the tree falls over |
| ZABF05 | The couch is on a penny, which Nelson puts on a railroad track, before he gets hit by a train |
| ZABF07 | Everyone is a cat from Cats; when they start tearing up the couch, Mr. Burns appears and releases his hounds |
| ZABF09 | Lisa runs to the couch, alone; she then wonders if everyone else has forgotten Daylight Saving Time |
| ZABF11 | A phone app shows Bart, Lisa, and the two cars approaching the house; after everyone sits on the couch, the hand rates the trip 1 star and leaves no tip |
| YABF13 | Everybody is involved in extreme sports, until Homer crashes a jet plane, where it is revealed that they are all on the couch wearing VR goggles |
| ZABF12 | Everybody's clothes run to the couch; off to one side, everybody shivers in their underwear |
| ZABF13 | In an opening reminiscent of HBO's Succession, "home movies" are mixed with a clip from "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part Two" |
| ZABF19 | Everybody tries to sit on the couch, but fall to the floor; the couch is actually on a green screen controlled by Nelson |
| ZABF21 | The couch starts with black spots where everybody sits, then, layer by layer, transparent cels are added until everybody appears in full |
| ZABF15 | The couch is on the moon, and everybody, in spacesuits, bounces to it; Homer bounces off of it and into space |
| QABF02 | Everybody runs in, to find dinner set up on the floor in front of the couch, which tells them, "Go sleep on the bed!" |
| QABF01 | The living room is shown from above, and everyone except Homer is a Pac-Man ghost; Homer enters as Pac-Man and gobbles them up, only to be killed by a Flanders ghost |
| QABF05 | On what appears to be Mars, a flying saucer lands on the couch, crushing it; Marge and Maggie emerge, and join the others, all in spacesuits, except that Homer is not wearing a helmet, and his head explodes |
| QABF09 | In a couch opening by Bill Plympton entitled "Homer's Family," parts of Homer's face become Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, whom Homer then joins on the couch |
| QABF11, UABF01 |
In a couch gag by Janine Wiget & Katrin von Niederh�usern, a pair of human hands create a
Homer ink stamp from a potato, then stamp everybody's image; the Swiss army knife that cut
the potato then ends up on the couch, with everybody's head on a blade, only for Marge's blade
to cut Homer's head off
The UABF01 version did not include the portion on the couch |
| QABF14 | The couch is replaced by a nest with three eggs; Marge and Homer are birds that sit on the eggs, only for Homer to crush them |
| QABF19 | Grampa gives Maggie a cardboard castle to play with instead of her cellphone, which results in a CGI segment where "Princess Maggie" is given a flying dragon to cheer her up, only for her to burn pretty much everything in site; it ends with everybody on the couch (and everybody except Maggie scorched) |
| UABF02 | Everybody is crammed together into the shape of the couch; they separate, land on their feet, and run off in different directions |
| UABF09 | A hand moves the pieces of a "15 puzzle" to reveal everyone on the couch, only for Homer to burp and scramble the pieces again |
| UABF10 | While Lisa plays her sax, the others are notes appearing on a musical staff on the wall |
| UABF15 |
Everybody's face is carved on a mountain, Mount Rushmore-style; when Homer picks at a tree branch
sticking out of his nose, against Marge's warnings, his face falls off
At the end of the episode, everybody runs to the couch, then an entire show opening is run backwards; when Maggie is reverse-scanned over the cash register, it says, "REFUND" |
| UABF14 | A few years into the future, Bart, Lisa, and their friends are having a party, only to go into hiding when Homer and Marge come home and sit on the couch |
| UABF16 | Above a web browser's "No Internet" message, everybody, in black and white, moves across the screen as if they are part of an 8-bit video game, eventually jumping onto a couch, except for Homer, who gets stuck on a canvas |
| UABF19 | In another Bill Plympton-designed couch gag, the living room couch swallows everyone up like a tornado |
| UABF21 | The couch is replaced by a Scrabble rack, with tiles rearranging themselves until they spell "COUCH GAG" |
| OABF01 | A pair of humans (possibly Jacob's of Jacob's Food Diaries) carve and shape food into everybody, including Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II, on the couch...which then has gravy poured over it |
| OABF06 | In a stop-motion couch gag by Stoopid Buddy (makers of Robot Chicken), when Homer tugs at a loose thread in the couch, he is pulled into the couch, where he discovers, among other things, a TV Guide with a talking ALF on the cover |
| OABF09 | Everybody runs to the couch, only for "Weird Al" Yankovic to stand in front of it, playing his accordion |
| OABF10 | A pair of giant (animated) hands opens a cardboard box and pulls out the couch, then pulls out and places dolls of everybody on the couch; a bulldog comes in and grabs Homer with its mouth |
| OABF11 | While there was none at the start of the episode, there was sort of one near the end; they run to the couch in slow motion, then stare at each other before sitting down together |
| OABF13 | Everybody runs to the couch, which is surrounded by various characters (in fact, characters have been added throughout the entire opening); Homer asks quietly, "Who the hell are these people?," as the shot of the TV reveals that it is the 750th episode |
| OABF20 | Sports-car-driving Homer gets home and sits on the couch, only for Marge to enter and tell him there's no food and Santa's Little Helper got sprayed by a skunk - and then wake up at his desk at work |
| OABF19 | In a live-action opening, someone traces their hand on a piece of paper, cuts it out, and puts a beak on the thumb and some feet underneath to make it look like a turkey, which walks across the screen and pecks on some food, which causes the fingers to turn into Lisa, Marge, Bart, and Maggie; it reaches a couch, where it eats a final piece of food and poops out Homer onto the couch |
| 35ABF03 | Everyone hangs from a tree like a leaf; they shrivel up and fall off, and Groundskeeper Willy blows them offscreen with a leaf blower |
| 35ABF10 | The couch is a painting...which turns into one by Roy Lichtenstein |
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The first time HABF08 aired in the USA, with the live-action opening, a live-action version of the 7G09 opening was used
2F02 originally used the 1F06 couch opening; in syndication, it has the 1F01 couch opening; however, on the DVD, it has no couch opening 9F04, 1F04, 2F03, 3F04, 4F02, 5F02, AABF01, BABF01, RABF16, TABF18, and VABF16 are Halloween Special couch openings. 9F21 originally used three openings (shown in order 9F21a, b, c); between openings, a clapboard marked "Couch Gag - Take 2 (3)" appeared, and someone shouted "Take Two (Three)" |
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Last updated on May 5, 2024 by Don Del Grande (ddelgran@simpsonsarchive.com) |