Opening Couch Gags

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Bart is squeezed off and pops into the air; during the shot of the TV, he is seen coming down
The couch falls apart when everybody is on it
Homer is squeezed off his side of the couch
Maggie is squeezed off and pops into the air; she comes right down into Marge's arms
Everybody fits on the couch
The couch falls through the floor
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.
The couch unfolds into a bed
Maggie ends up in Marge's hair
Everybody fits, including Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II
Grampa is lying on the couch sleeping
Homer tips the couch over sideways; Maggie falls off, but lands on a couch cushion which is on the floor
The couch is gone; everyone looks around the empty spot
Homer bumps the others off the couch
The couch tips over backwards; Maggie pops up from behind it
The couch tips over backwards, and everybody crashes through the back wall
They sit, then Homer pulls Santa's Little Helper out from beneath him
Everybody forms a pyramid
A space alien hears them coming, pulls a cord, and disappears through a trap door in the floor
Bart lands on everyone's lap
Homer gets to the couch first and lies on it; the others sit on him
The seat cushions are missing; when they sit, they "fall into" the couch
Two burglars are holding the couch as everybody sits on it; they are dumped off and the couch is carried away
Santa's Little Helper is on the couch and keeps everyone else off
Everybody cartwheels to the couch (Maggie falls in her attempt and hops there) and strikes a "Ta-Da" pose
Everybody bounces up and down on the couch; Homer bounces from one side to the other
Everybody except Maggie bang their heads together and lie unconscious on the floor
Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the Flintstones
The couch swallows everybody as it transforms into a monster
The couch rotates 180 degrees through a secret door in the wall; an empty couch takes its place
As Maggie is already seated, Homer, Marge, and Bart run "past the edge of the film" and scurry back to the couch
Simpson-sized skeletons sit on the couch
The couch deflates (as if filled with air)
Everybody has somebody else's head, which they remove and switch
There's a wooden chair in place of the couch; the adults share it, with the children on their laps
Everybody forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number
Everybody is "miniature" and must climb the "giant" couch; Maggie has to be pulled up
Everybody sits, just before the room is filled with other regular characters
Everybody gets caught in a net that was spread on the floor
Everybody runs into each other and shatters on the floor; Santa's Little Helper examines the damage
Everybody runs into each other and end up on the couch as a five-headed "blob"
Everybody runs into each other and there's an explosion; eventually, the pacifier lands and bounces away
Everybody, plus the couch, is crushed by a foot that is reminiscent of how Monty Python's Flying Circus opens
Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by an identical Simpson family
A Zombie Simpson family crashes through the floor from below and sits on the couch
The couch is painted on a wall, which everybody runs through
A fat man takes up most of the couch; everybody squeezes into the tiny spot remaining
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
Everybody sits, then notice they're on the set of Late Show with David Letterman as "Dave" turns face forward
Everybody pokes their head up from behind the couch (Maggie does it from behind a cushion on the couch)
Everybody sees two couches, then they each split into two halves, each half sitting on a couch
Everybody is shaped like a ball and bounces around before landing on the couch and returning to normal
Everybody sits, then Homer gets up, rips the FOX logo from the screen corner, and they all stomp on it
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
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)
Everybody is "beamed aboard" the couch in original "Star Trek" style (complete with sound effect)
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)
Everybody bounces up off the couch and gets their heads stuck in the ceiling
Everybody chases the couch as it, along with the back wall, moves backwards away from them
Everybody runs by the same TV and couch again and again, all except Maggie grinning the whole time
Everybody runs to the couch from a different side (Marge runs down the side of a wall) in an M.C. Escher-style house
The "James Bond" film opening, only with Homer in front of the couch firing the gun
In black & white, everybody (wearing Mickey Mouse gloves) waves their hands in circles
A giant Maggie, a slightly smaller Lisa, and so on down to a tiny Homer, sit on the couch
As the couch moves aside, everybody lines up in front of a police lineup height chart
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
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
Everybody is wearing fezzes and drives around in minicars like Shriners
Everybody runs to the couch, entirely gray; the colors are then spray-painted on them
Everybody drops from above, hanging from their necks by nooses; Maggie still manages to suck her pacifier
Everybody is a wind-up doll
Everybody is put on the couch by a pinsetter, after Snowball II is scared off by the pin-clearing bar
Everybody is a sea-monkey and swims to a couch made of clam shells to stare at a treasure chest
Homer pulls a drain plug from the floor, and everybody and everything is sucked down the drain
Everybody sits, then inside a mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an identical couch
A big game hunter sits on the couch, with a "Homer-skin rug" on the floor and the others' heads on the wall
Everybody sits, bathed in flourescent "black light", until Homer turns on the lamp
As Death begins on the couch, everybody runs up to the couch and falls over dead
Everybody lands on the couch via parachute except Homer, who lands on the floor with an unopened chute
Everybody is in western gear as they sit on the couch, when then gallops away into the desert
Everybody is a clear balloon, which float onto the couch and then pop
A takeoff on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart red; Homer slaps Bart on the head, turning him normal
Everybody and everything is upside-down, until everybody falls off the couch and onto the "ceiling"
Homer puts a coin in the "Vend-A-Couch", then bangs the back wall; the couch then falls on him
Everybody flies in on jet-packs; Maggie flies in last and lands on Marge's lap
Everybody is involved in a giant game of Whack-A-Mole; Homer ends up getting whacked
Grampa is sleeping in a convertible bed, which they convert back to a sofa (with him in it) and sit on it
The couch remains empty while everybody waits outside as Homer struggles to open the front door
The couch is in an "America Onlink" window, which takes its time loading everybody before being interrupted
The couch is sliding on the deck of a ship; when everybody (in raingear) sits on it, they are covered by a wave
To the tune of "Sweet Georgia Brown", everybody enters dressed as Harlem Globetrotters
Everybody runs to the couch dressed in space suits; the couch then "lifts off" into space
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
Everybody sits on the couch, then metal helmets fall on their heads and they are shackled in before being electrocuted
Everybody has their rear ends on fire as they run to a water-filled couch
Everybody sits on the couch and is crushed into a rectangular block auto-crusher style
Bart spray-paints everyone onto the couch, adding an "El Barto" signature
Three men in towels are on the couch, which is part of a sauna
Everybody sits, then a human hand spins the picture around
The couch is inside a snow globe
The floor is a treadmill; Homer falls and says "Marge, stop this crazy thing!" George Jetson-style
Nelson pulls the couch back, and everyone ends up sitting on the floor
Everyone is miniature and Santa's Little Helper takes Homer away in his mouth
Everyone is a frog (Maggie a tadpole) jumping to a lily pad; Homer turns on the TV with his tongue
A vine grows in the middle of the room; everyone appears as a fruit or vegetable
A takeoff on "Rocky & Bullwinkle" where everyone pops up from out of the ground
Everyone except Bart runs into Bart's classroom, where he writes "I Will Not Mess With The Opening Credits" on the chalkboard
A number of Springfieldians are sitting in chairs in front of the couch, as if in a movie theater
Two firemen carry the couch and catch everybody falling from above - except Homer, who falls through the floor
Freddy Kruger of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason of Friday the 13th sit on the couch and wonder where everyone else is
Marge carries in a laundry basket and hangs the others on a clothesline
The couch turns into an amusement park ride
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
The floor opens and everybody falls while "riding" it "Dr. Strangelove"-style
The couch, floating on water, hits an iceberg and sinks; Maggie resurfaces on a cushion


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