List of The Simpsons couch gags
Season 24 (2012–13)

List of The Simpsons couch gags

Section Title: Season 24 (2012–13)
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No.	Episode	Gag synopsis	Original air date	Prod. code

509	"Moonshine River"	In this homage to the short film, The Longest Daycare, the Simpsons are butterflies that come out of their cocoons. Baby Gerald tries to kill them and Maggie stops him and all four of them fly off into the sunset.	September 30, 2012	PABF21

510	"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"	Halloween XXIII (Halloween episode)	October 7, 2012	PABF17

511	"Adventures in Baby-Getting"	(Opening Credits Shortened by Canada and repeat of KABF16's opening sequence/International/Online airing/The Simpsons are bit by bit flipped onto the couch via animated cels (reruns)	October 21, 2012	PABF18

512	"Gone Abie Gone"	In a parody of Wacky Races, the Simpsons race against many characters (all with bizarre racing vehicles), but all of them crash near the finish line and Grampa wins.	November 11, 2012	PABF16

513	"Penny-Wiseguys"	The Simpsons are drawn as a tattoo on Marge's lower back.	November 18, 2012	PABF19

514	"A Tree Grows in Springfield"	Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie sit on the couch. An axe-wielding, maniacal Homer in a hockey goalie mask comes out swinging.	November 25, 2012	PABF22

515	"The Day the Earth Stood Cool"	none (opening credits shortened)	December 9, 2012	PABF20

516	"To Cur with Love"	none (opening credits shortened)	December 16, 2012	RABF01

517	"Homer Goes to Prep School"	The Simpsons are various entertainment award trophies (Homer is an Oscar, Marge is an Emmy, Lisa is a Grammy, Maggie is the Stanley Cup, and Bart is a purple version of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award).	January 6, 2013	RABF02

518	"A Test Before Trying"	The couch sequence is a trailer for an action movie called The Couch.	January 13, 2013	RABF03

519	"The Changing of the Guardian"	The couch is the chair in a dunk tank. After the Simpsons sit down, Nelson hurls a ball at the target and the family falls into the water.	January 27, 2013	RABF04

520	"Love is a Many-Splintered Thing"	The Simpsons all look like Moe Szyslak (again) and announce that their new sitcom The Szyslaks has been cancelled.	February 10, 2013	RABF07

521	"Hardly Kirk-ing"	A knight comes in and chops Homer's head (and most of Marge's hair) off (premiere airing)/repeat of the Game of Thrones couch gag from "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart," with the scene of the knight beheading Homer added (rerun)	February 17, 2013	RABF05

522	"Gorgeous Grampa"	A parody of the Harlem Shake viral video called Homer Shake (original airing)/none in the international and online airings (opening credits shortened).	March 3, 2013	RABF06

523	"Black Eyed, Please"	In another Bill Plympton-animated couch gag, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are in a 1930s gangster story, armed with several weapons.	March 10, 2013	RABF09

524	"Dark Knight Court"	Maggie, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are painted on Easter eggs and placed on a grass nest on a couch. Homer comes in and sits on the eggs.	March 17, 2013	RABF10

525	"What Animated Women Want"	Special intro parodying the opening to the AMC dark comedy/drama Breaking Bad in which Marge makes blue cupcakes for a church bake sale while Homer spies on her.	April 14, 2013	RABF08

526	"Pulpit Friction"	The Simpson family are skydiving. Homer's parachute breaks, the entire family crashes into the house and fall onto the couch, similar to the couch gag for "You Only Move Twice" and "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer," only in this version, the couch gag is a plot point in the episode.	April 28, 2013	RABF11

527	"Whiskey Business"	The Simpsons are carved into a block of ice by three men. Grampa Simpson comes in and turns on the heat, and the ice sculpture melts.	May 5, 2013	RABF13

528	"The Fabulous Faker Boy"	Everyone and everything in Springfield is animated a la Robot Chicken, ending with the family getting strapped to the couch and forced to watch The Simpsons by the half-robot, half-chicken creature.	May 12, 2013	RABF12

529	"The Saga of Carl"	The Simpsons are sea creatures sitting on a shell couch. All of them get eaten by Blinky, the three-eyed fish.	May 19, 2013	RABF14

530	"Dangers on a Train"	Five dandelions bloom and turn white on the couch. The TV sneezes, blowing the white dandelion seeds in the air, which turn into multiple Homers, Marges, Barts, Lisas, and Maggies (This couch gag was submitted by Cheryl Brown, who won the Simpsons Create-A-Couch-Gag contest in America)/The family sits with a Canadian loon, a hockey player, John A.	May 19, 2013	RABF17

Sentence(s)

The Harlem Shake was the couch gag for the "Gorgeous Grampa" episode.

final_sentence: The Harlem Shake was the couch gag for the "Gorgeous Grampa" episode.