List of The Simpsons couch gags
Season 23 (2011–12)

List of The Simpsons couch gags

Section Title: Season 23 (2011–12)
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No.	Episode	Gag synopsis	Original air date	Prod. code

487	"The Falcon and the D'ohman"	none (special introduction by The Comic Book Guy, followed by shortened opening)	September 25, 2011	NABF16

488	"Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"	The entire couch scene is drawn and animated by John Kricfalusi.	October 2, 2011	NABF17

489	"Treehouse of Horror XXII"	none (Halloween episode)	October 30, 2011	NABF19

490	"Replaceable You"	repeat of NABF13's couch gag	November 6, 2011	NABF21

491	"The Food Wife"	none (opening credits shortened)	November 13, 2011	NABF20

492	"The Book Job"	none (opening credits shortened)	November 20, 2011	NABF22

493	"The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"	none (opening credits shortened)	November 27, 2011	PABF01

494	"The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"	A sword with the label "Property of Ned Flanders" is stuck on the couch. Homer tries to remove it, but cannot.	December 4, 2011	PABF02

495	"Holidays of Future Passed"	The Simpsons are gingerbread people who run on a plate set out for Santa Claus. Gingerbread Homer eats his own arm.	December 11, 2011	NABF18

496	"Politically Inept, With Homer Simpson"	In a Victorian-period setting, the lights go out and there is a gunshot. When the lights come up, Homer is found dead and Bart is arrested for his father's murder.	January 8, 2012	PABF03

497	"The D'oh-cial Network"	Similar to the couch gag from the season five's "The Last Temptation of Homer," the Simpsons find themselves on the set of The Late Show With David Letterman.	January 15, 2012	PABF04

498	"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"	repeat of LABF02's couch gag	January 29, 2012	PABF05

499	"The Daughter Also Rises"	Moe and everyone else on the show come in to congratulate the Simpsons on completing 500 episodes, but Lisa (using a copy of Simpsons World) tells him that this is the 499th episode.	February 12, 2012	PABF06

500	"At Long Last Leave"	A frame-by-frame montage of every previous couch gag (starting with the one from "Bart the Genius" and ending with the one from "The Daughter Also Rises") is shown, followed by a new couch gag where the Simpsons sit on the couch, then the camera zooms out to reveal a "500" mosaic made up of stills from past couch gags.	February 19, 2012	PABF07

501	"Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"	A spoof of the intro to HBO's adventure fantasy series Game of Thrones, with the buildings rising out of the ground, being driven by cogs, and a giant couch overlooking the entire town.	March 4, 2012	PABF09

502	"How I Wet Your Mother"	The family lays on a layer of seaweed covered with rice on the floor in front of the couch, which is then rolled up and sliced like sushi.	March 11, 2012	PABF08

503	"Them, Robot"	The Simpsons sit on a couch in 1989, where a banner that reads, "America: Most Powerful Nation in the World" hangs on the wall behind them.	March 18, 2012	PABF10

504	"Beware My Cheating Bart"	An animated short by Bill Plympton in which a young Homer falls in love with the couch...until he meets Marge. The couch tries to reunite with Homer after having a "baby couch," but Homer casts it out.	April 15, 2012	PABF11

505	"A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again"	repeat of NABF14's couch gag	April 29, 2012	PABF12

506	"The Spy Who Learned Me"	The couch gag is on a card stunt (where people in an audience—usually at a baseball or football game—hold up cards to form a giant picture) showing the family on the couch, with one picture missing.	May 6, 2012	PABF13

507	"Ned 'n Edna's Blend"	repeat of NABF01's couch gag	May 13, 2012	PABF15

508	"Lisa Goes Gaga"	Everybody is playing the "Simpsons Couch Gag for the Funtendo Zii", but Homer is having trouble getting his video game avatar to sit on the couch, just as he keeps missing in real life.	May 20, 2012	PABF14

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Plympton animated the couch for the Simpsons episodes "Beware My Cheating Bart" in 2012.

final_sentence: Plympton animated the couch for the Simpsons episodes "Beware My Cheating Bart" in 2012.