List of The Simpsons couch gags
Season 28 (2016–17)

List of The Simpsons couch gags

Section Title: Season 28 (2016–17)
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No.	Episode	Gag synopsis	Original air date	Prod. code

597	"Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"	A parody of the opening sequence from Adventure Time, featuring multiple Simpsons characters playing the roles of the Adventure Time characters, such as Bart as Finn the Human and Homer as Jake the Dog.	September 25, 2016	VABF20

598	"Friends and Family"	Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are in different positions in the living room. A hand with a myPhone taps Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie into a text, leaving Homer the only one on the couch.	October 2, 2016	VABF18

599	"The Town"	None	October 9, 2016	VABF17

600	"Treehouse of Horror XXVII"	In a spoof of Planet of the Apes, the Simpsons are being chased by couches through a field, until they are caught and imprisoned.	October 16, 2016	VABF16

601	"Trust but Clarify"	Homer reluctantly visits an art museum with Marge and Lisa. Then, in a scene drawn in the style of modern art, he finds himself on the couch with an abstract version of Maggie.	October 23, 2016	VABF21

602	"There Will Be Buds"	None	November 6, 2016	VABF22

603	"Havana Wild Weekend"	The family flies to the couch on top of Mount Olympus, but Lisa is missing. She comes out of Homer's head, and Homer steals Maggie's pacifier to close the hole in his head.	November 13, 2016	VABF19

604	"Dad Behavior"	Following an altered opening sequence where Barney destroys Bart's skateboard and the rest of the family dies in various ways, Bart, alone at home, gathers portraits of his family on the couch and turns on the TV, exclaiming, "Finally, I get the remote!"	November 20, 2016	WABF01

605	"The Last Traction Hero"	The family goes to sit on the couch, but nothing is there. A party of soldiers holds them at gunpoint with a musket, the shot fades to an oil-painting style in parody of The Third of May 1808 and Homer yells "D'oh!"	December 4, 2016	WABF03

606	"The Nightmare After Krustmas"	The Simpsons run to the couch, dressed as characters from A Christmas Carol. (Homer is the Ghost of Christmas Present, Marge is Mrs.	December 11, 2016	WABF02

607	"Pork and Burns"	The family sit on the couch. The camera pans out to reveal that they are a picture on a box for "The Simpsons Couch Gag Playset" which is on display in a store.	January 8, 2017	WABF06

608609	"The Great Phatsby Parts 1 & 2"	None	January 15, 2017	WABF04WABF05

610	"Fatzcarraldo"	The family, except Maggie, are sitting on the couch when Marge seems disgruntled. She stands up and moves the sailboat painting on the wall behind the couch to reveal a safe in the wall.	February 12, 2017	WABF07

611	"The Cad and the Hat"	Homer realizes the sailboat painting is missing, and Bart suggests that it was stolen by another animated show. Homer leaves the living room, which appears to be a two-dimensional set in a three-dimensional studio, and goes to find the painting, passing characters from South Park, who shout gibberish and curse at him, then criticizing, fights The California Raisins while they perform a song, and then finds the painting in the bedroom of the Nerd from Robot Chicken.	February 19, 2017	WABF08

612	"Kamp Krustier"	Pictures of different members the family are in the spaces at the bottom of a pachinko machine. All the spaces are filled up with many balls, except for the space with the picture of Homer.	March 5, 2017	WABF09

613	"22 for 30"	In another couch gag animated by Bill Plympton, a very amateurish drawing of the family sit on a similarly amateurish couch.	March 12, 2017	WABF10

614	"A Father's Watch"	All the Simpsons pets past and present are all on the couch.	March 19, 2017	WABF11

615	"Caper Chase"	The Simpson family arrives as X-Men characters (Homer as Professor X, Marge is Krusty, then transforms into Mystique, Lisa is Storm, Maggie is Wolverine, and Bart is Angel.) Then Stan Lee appears and says "There is nothing too short that I can't cameo."	April 2, 2017	WABF12

616	"Looking for Mr. Goodbart"	Maggie's scene from the short "Good Night", and a spoof of The Big Bang Theory opening sequence.	April 30, 2017	WABF13

617	"Moho House"	The Simpsons heads are on Chia Pets.	May 7, 2017	WABF14

618	"Dogtown"	The family climbs a snowy mountaintop, with their couch and TV carried up by the Sherpas from “King of the Hill”.	May 21, 2017	WABF15

Sentence(s)

In The Simpsons Season 28 premiere, "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus", Homer Simpson appears as Jake in an extended couch gag parodying the opening sequence of Adventure Time.

final_sentence: In The Simpsons Season 28 premiere, "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus", Homer Simpson appears as Jake in an extended couch gag parodying the opening sequence of Adventure Time.