List of couch gags/Seasons 6-10

Seasons:   1-5 • 6-10 •11-15 • 16-20 • 21-25 • 26-30
The following is a list of couch gags seen in the opening sequence of The Simpsons for Seasons 6 through 10.
== Season 6 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
104	September 4, 1994 	 	The Simpsons sit down in midair; the couch builds itself on top of the family and makes them fall. 	"Bart of Darkness" 	1F22
105	September 11, 1994	 	The living room floor is a shallow body of water. The Simpsons swim their way to the couch. Once on the couch, Bart removes his scuba mask and Homer dries out his ear by sticking his finger in it. 	"Lisa's Rival" 	1F17
106	September 25, 1994	 	repeat of 1F02's gag 	"Another Simpsons Clip Show" 	2F33
107	October 2, 1994 	 	The family is beamed onto the couch, Star Trek-style. 	"Itchy & Scratchy Land" 	2F01
108	October 9, 1994 	 	repeat of 1F06's gag (first airing)/no gag (repeats) 	"Sideshow Bob Roberts" 	2F02
109	October 30, 1994 	 	The Simpson family members are built à la Frankenstein’s monster with each other’s body parts. They exchange body parts until they nearly match.(Halloween episode) 	"Treehouse of Horror V" 	2F03
110	November 6, 1994 	 	repeat of 1F06's gag 	"Bart's Girlfriend" 	2F04
111	November 13, 1994 	 	The Simpsons sit on the couch and get shot into the ceiling, with only their legs and feet showing. 	"Lisa on Ice" 	2F05
112	November 27, 1994 	 	In a loose parody of the film, Time Bandits, the family chases after the couch and the back wall as it slides down an endless hallway. 	"Homer Badman" 	2F06
113	December 4, 1994 	 	The family run in from the side past a repeating background shot of the couch and TV (a parody where 1950s and 1960s cartoons repeated backgrounds in order to save money.) 	"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" 	2F07
114	December 18, 1994 	 	repeat of 9F08's gag 	"Fear of Flying" 	2F08
115	January 8, 1995 	 	The living room is at the center of an M.C. Escher's Relativity style environment with multiple staircases and conflicting perspectives; the family enters from various directions (and dimensions) and sits.	"Homer the Great" 	2F09
116	January 22, 1995 	 	The living room is seen through the barrel of a gun with music typically heard in a James Bond film playing. Homer walks in and fires at the unseen gunman. The screen “bleeds” red and falls. 	"And Maggie Makes Three" 	2F10
117	February 5, 1995 	 	The living room is shown in black and white. The Simpsons—animated as smiling, rubber-hosed cartoon characters of the early 1930s—come in and do a stiff dance. 	"Bart's Comet" 	2F11
118	February 12, 1995 	 	repeat of 1F22's gag 	"Homie the Clown" 	2F12
119	February 19, 1995 	 	repeat of 1F17's gag 	"Bart vs. Australia" 	2F13
120	February 26, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F01's gag (except the Simpsons now appear on the couch in a burst of whitish-blue light as seen on the show Quantum Leap). 	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma" 	2F14
121	March 5, 1995 	 	The family's heights are reversed; Maggie is now the largest while Homer is the smallest. Bart's height is still the same. 	"A Star is Burns" 	2F31
122	March 19, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F05's gag 	"Lisa's Wedding" 	2F15
123	April 9, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F06's gag 	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" 	2F18
124	April 16, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F09's gag 	"The PTA Disbands" 	2F19
125	April 30, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F31's gag 	"'Round Springfield" 	2F32
126	May 7, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F10's gag 	"The Springfield Connection" 	2F21
127	May 14, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F11's gag 	"Lemon of Troy" 	2F22
128	May 21, 1995 	 	repeat of 2F07's gag 	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"	2F16
== Season 7 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
129	September 17, 1995	 	The theme from "Dragnet" plays as the couch slides away and a police lineup height chart unfurls from above. The family lines up in front of it.). 	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" 	2F20
130	September 24, 1995	 	Like a fax machine, the couch ejects a sheet of paper with a screenshot of the family, which then floats up into the air, before sliding beneath the couch. 	"Radioactive Man" 	2F17
131	October 1, 1995 	 	Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa (who’s sleeping), Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a Brady Bunch-style nine-square grid, with the couch in the center square. Everyone (except Grampa) runs to the center square.	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" 	3F01
132	October 8, 1995 	 	The family drive around the room in go-karts, wearing Shriner fezzes. They line up in front of the couch and honk their horns simultaneously. 	"Bart Sells His Soul" 	3F02
133	October 15, 1995 	 	The Simpsons are colorless blobs. Mechanical arms color and detail the family. 	"Lisa the Vegetarian" 	3F03
134	October 29, 1995 	 	The family are hanged on nooses, staring blankly. Despite being dead from asphyxiation, Maggie manages to suck on her pacifier. (Halloween episode) 	"Treehouse of Horror VI" 	3F04
135	November 5, 1995 	 	The Simpsons are malfunctioning wind-up dolls who buzz and waddle their way to the couch (or at least near it). 	"King-Size Homer" 	3F05
136	November 19, 1995 	 	A bowling pin clearing bar scares Snowball II off the couch, then a pinsetter places the family on the couch like bowling pins. 	"Mother Simpson" 	3F06
137	November 26, 1995 	 	The whole room is under water, the couch is made of clam shells, and a treasure chest is in place of the TV. Sea monkey versions of the family members swim in and sit on the clam couch. 	"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" 	3F08
138	December 3, 1995 	 	A montage of couch gags from 8F18, 9F02, 9F10, 9F09, 8F09, 1F02, 2F31, 2F09, 2F06, 1F17, 2F11, and 9F08. 	"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" 	3F31
139	December 17, 1995 	 	The family sits on the couch. Homer notices a plug in the middle of the floor and pulls it. Everyone and everything gets sucked down the drain. 	"Marge Be Not Proud" 	3F07
140	January 7, 1996 	 	The family sits. The camera then zooms in through a mouse hole, where a family of mice with similar features to the Simpson family rush to the couch and sit as well. 	"Team Homer" 	3F10
141	January 14, 1996 	 	Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are moose heads on the wall and Homer is a bearskin rug on the floor. A game hunter comes in, sits on the couch, and smokes a pipe. 	"Two Bad Neighbors" 	3F09
142	February 4, 1996 	 	The living room is bathed in black light, with the Simpsons in fluorescent colors while a hard rock guitar riff plays. Homer turns the light on and the normal music plays. 	"Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" 	3F11
143	February 11, 1996 	 	repeat of 2F17's gag (but this time, the paper doesn't slide back under the couch) 	"Bart the Fink" 	3F12
144	February 18, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F01's gag 	"Lisa the Iconoclast" 	3F13
145	February 25, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F02's gag 	"Homer the Smithers" 	3F14
146	March 17, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F03's gag 	"The Day the Violence Died" 	3F16
147	March 24, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F05's gag 	"A Fish Called Selma" 	3F15
148	March 31, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F06's gag (all airings)/ repeat of 9F08 for edited version 	"Bart on the Road" 	3F17
149	April 14, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F08's gag 	"22 Short Films About Springfield" 	3F18
150	April 28, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F07's gag 	"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""	3F19
151	May 5, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F09's gag 	"Much Apu About Nothing" 	3F20
152	May 19, 1996 	 	repeat of 3F11's gag 	"Homerpalooza" 	3F21
153	May 19, 1996 	 	repeat of 2F17's gag 	"Summer of 4 Ft. 2" 	3F22
== Season 8 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
154	October 27, 1996 	 	The Grim Reaper is on the couch. The family runs in, but keel over and die one by one. The Reaper then puts his feet up on the corpses of the Simpson family. (Halloween episode) 	"Treehouse of Horror VII" 	4F02
155	November 3, 1996 	 	Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie deploy parachutes as they fall from the sky onto the couch. Homer comes down screaming and lands on his face from an unopened parachute pack. 	"You Only Move Twice" 	3F23
156	November 10, 1996	 	The couch sits in the middle of a desert; the family, in western cowboy garb, sits on the couch, which gallops off into the sunset. 	"The Homer They Fall" 	4F03
157	November 17, 1996	 	Clear blue bubble versions of the family members float into the room, land on the couch, and pop. 	"Burns, Baby Burns" 	4F05
158	November 24, 1996	 	The whole scene is a Simpsons rendition of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album, featuring a large crowd of regulars, several objects associated with the show, and wax statues of the Simpsons as they were on The Tracey Ullman Show. The last chord to the Beatles song, "A Day in the Life" plays instead of the traditional Simpsons music as the family comes in, standing front and center and dressed in Sgt. Pepper regalia. Homer looks around and turns to look at the crowded scene behind him.	"Bart After Dark" 	4F06
159	December 1, 1996 	 	The family sits down, but now Bart is green. Homer fiddles with the TV antenna and Bart changes to red. Homer then returns to the couch, and smacks Bart in the back of the head in order to return him to his normal color (yellow). 	"A Milhouse Divided" 	4F04
160	December 15, 1996	 	Everybody and everything is upside-down. The Simpsons (also upside-down) come in and sit on the couch, but end up falling on the ceiling/floor. 	"Lisa's Date with Density" 	4F01
161	December 29, 1996	 	The couch is replaced with a coin slot and the words “Vend-A-Couch” written on the wall. Homer puts a coin in; nothing happens. Homer pounds on the wall four times before the couch falls on him. 	"Hurricane Neddy" 	4F07
162	January 5, 1997 	 	repeat of 3F23's gag 	"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"	3F24
163	January 12, 1997 	 	The family flies into the room wearing jet packs. Maggie spirals in last, landing in Marge's lap. 	"The Springfield Files" 	3G01
164	January 19, 1997 	 	The couch is now a giant Whack-A-Mole game, with the Simpson family as the moles. The clown hallucination music from the season six episode “Homie the Clown” plays as an unseen player tries to hit one of the Simpson moles and successfully gets Homer (who shouts "D'oh!" as he's hit by the mallet). 	"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" 	4F08
165	February 2, 1997 	 	The couch is folded out into a bed with Grampa sleeping on it. The Simpsons fold the couch in (with Grampa shouting "Huh?" before he's folded in) and sit. 	"Mountain of Madness" 	4F10
166	February 7, 1997 	 	The living room is empty. Cut to outside where Homer is struggling with a locked front door while the other members of the family wait impatiently. 	"Simpsoncalifragi-listicexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" 	3G03
167	February 9, 1997 	 	
repeat of 4F06's gag 	"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" 	4F12
168	February 16, 1997	 	The living room is in an “America Onlink” window on a computer screen. An unseen computer user tries to download the family, but the download shows no signs of progress after a few seconds and the user tries to exit the window (which also doesn’t work). 	"Homer's Phobia" 	4F11
169	February 23, 1997	 	repeat of 4F01's gag 	"Brother from Another Series" 	4F14
170	March 2, 1997 	 	The couch is on the deck of a ship at sea in rough waters, sliding back and forth with the tilt of the ship. The family, dressed in rain gear, sits on the couch, before an enormous wave washes them away. The TV surfaces moments later. 	"My Sister, My Sitter" 	4F13
171	March 16, 1997 	 	repeat of 4F03's gag 	"Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" 	4F15
172	April 6, 1997 	 	repeat of 4F05's gag 	"Grade School Confidential" 	4F09
173	April 13, 1997 	 	repeat of 4F10's gag 	"The Canine Mutiny" 	4F16
174	April 20, 1997 	 	repeat of 4F08's gag (only now, the sounds of the mallet hitting the family members are more aggressive and the music is sped up) 	"The Old Man and the Lisa" 	4F17
175	April 27, 1997 	 	repeat of 4F07's gag 	"In Marge We Trust" 	4F18
176	May 4, 1997 	 	repeat of 4F04's gag 	"Homer's Enemy" 	4F19
177	May 11, 1997 	 	no gag (special opening) 	"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" 	4F20
178	May 18, 1997 	 	repeat of 4F01's gag 	"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" 	4F21
== Season 9 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
179	September 21, 1997	 	The family comes in, dressed as the Harlem Globetrotters, passing a basketball to each other while Sweet Georgia Brown plays. Maggie dunks the ball into the basket above the couch, hitting Homer on the head. 	"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"	4F22
180	September 28, 1997	 	The Simpsons are dressed as astronauts and sit on the couch just as it blasts off into space. 	"The Principal and the Pauper" 	4F23
181	October 19, 1997 	 	Homer runs in alone and stands in front of the couch. The top half of him pops off and on to the couch revealing a smaller Marge standing inside the lower half of Homer, like a Russian nesting doll. The top half of Marge pops off revealing Bart, whose top half pops off revealing Lisa, whose top half finally pops off to reveal Maggie, who stays in the middle of Homer’s body and sucks on her pacifier.	"Lisa's Sax" 	3G02
182	October 26, 1997 	 	The Simpsons sit on the couch. Metal shackles restrain their wrists and ankles and a metal cap comes down on all of their heads. The family writhes in pain as they get electrocuted. (Halloween episode) 	"Treehouse of Horror VIII" 	5F02
183	November 2, 1997 	 	The couch is a trough filled with water. The Simpsons, with their rears on fire, rush to the trough and sit to extinguish the fire. They all sigh in relief as steam billows out. 	"The Cartridge Family" 	5F01
184	November 9, 1997 	 	The family sits. An auto-crusher compresses them all into a rectangular block. 	"Bart Star" 	5F03
185	November 16, 1997 	 	Bart runs in and spray-paints the family onto the couch, tagging it with an "El Barto" signature, then runs off. 	"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" 	5F04
186	November 23, 1997 	 	The living room is a sauna, with three men in towels relaxing. The Simpsons (also in towels) arrive, but leave sheepishly as the three men glare at them. 	"Lisa the Skeptic" 	5F05
187	December 7, 1997 	 	The family sits; Matt Groening's live action hand spins the Screenshot around, smearing the shot's paint. 	"Realty Bites" 	5F06
188	December 21, 1997 	 	The Simpsons sit on the couch as normal. The camera zooms out and reveals that the living room is part of a snow globe that two hands shake to make the snow fall. (Christmas episode for this first usage) 	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" 	5F07
189	January 4, 1998 	 	The floor is a treadmill. Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie run in place for a few seconds, then successfully dismount, while Homer gets stuck on it, yelling, "Marge, stop this crazy thing!" a la George Jetson in the original closing credits of The Jetsons. 	"All Singing, All Dancing" 	5F24
190	January 11, 1998 	 	The Simpsons go to sit on the couch, but the couch gets pulled back as they sit, causing them to fall on the floor. Nelson Muntz comes from behind the couch and laughs. 	"Bart Carny" 	5F08
191	February 8, 1998 	 	Similar to the couch gag in "Homer's Triple Bypass", the Simpsons are minimized and trying to get on the giant couch. Unlike the couch gag to "Homer's Triple Bypass," the family takes a little longer to climb onto the couch and, once they reach the top, Santa's Little Helper grabs Homer and carries him away in his mouth. 	"The Joy of Sect" 	5F23
192	February 15, 1998 	 	The Simpsons are frogs (with Maggie as a tadpole) jumping to a lily pad "couch". Homer turns on the TV with his tongue (According to the season 9 DVD commentary, Dan Castellaneta's daughter came up with the idea for this couch gag). 	"Das Bus" 	5F11
193	February 22, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F01's gag 	"The Last Temptation of Krust" 	5F10
194	March 1, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F03's gag 	"Dumbbell Indemnity" 	5F12
195	March 8, 1998 	 	A vine grows in the middle of the living room and sprouts into a tree bearing Simpsons family versions of various fruits and vegetables: Bart is a strawberry, Homer is a squash, Marge is an asparagus, Maggie is broccoli, and Lisa is a pineapple. 	"Lisa the Simpson" 	4F24
196	March 22, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F04's gag (but this time, Bart peeks from around the TV first to make sure the coast is clear) 	"This Little Wiggy" 	5F13
197	March 29, 1998 	 	In a parody of the Rocky & Bullwinkle bumpers, the Simpsons fall off a cliff during a lightning storm as the Rocky & Bullwinkle theme plays throughout. Their eyes are shown floating towards the heavens. The scene then cuts to The Simpsons sprouting from the ground amidst a garden of flowers. Bart spits up a clod of dirt. 	"Simpson Tide" 	3G04
198	April 5, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F05's gag 	"The Trouble with Trillions" 	5F14
199	April 19, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F06's gag 	"Girly Edition" 	5F15
200	April 26, 1998 	 	The Simpson family find themselves in Mrs. Krabappel's classroom where Bart is writing the blackboard punishment phrase, "I will not mess with the opening credits", making a chalkboard gag within a couch gag. 	"Trash of the Titans" 	5F09
201	May 3, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F07's gag 	"King of the Hill" 	5F16
202	May 10, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F08's gag 	"Lost Our Lisa" 	5F17
203	May 17, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F11's gag 	"Natural Born Kissers" 	5F18
== Season 10 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
204	August 23, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F08's gag 	"Lard of the Dance" 	5F20
205	September 20, 1998	 	Similar to the couch gag in Marge vs. the Monorail, the living room is filled with supporting characters from the show. Unlike the episode, the living room is now a movie theater and the Simpsons are shuffling their way through to find a seat. After they sit down, Homer leans in and eats from the Comic Book Guy's popcorn tub. 	"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" 	5F21
206	September 27, 1998	 	Two firemen hold the couch like a safety net. Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie land safely on the couch. Homer, however, falls screaming through the floor. 	"Bart the Mother" 	5F22
207	October 25, 1998 	 	The family never makes it to the couch; Bart falls off of his skateboard. Lisa gets catapulted into the garage roof, and Homer gets run down by Marge (with Maggie next to her as they honk horns) as she drives into the garage. Meanwhile, in the living room Freddy Krueger (of the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies) and Jason Voorhees (of the Friday the 13th movies) sit on the couch, wondering where the family is.	"Treehouse of Horror IX" 	AABF01
208	November 8, 1998 	 	Marge enters with a laundry basket, humming as she hangs wet sheet versions of Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie on a clothesline. 	"When You Dish Upon a Star" 	5F19
209	November 15, 1998 	 	The family sits. A safety bar lowers over their laps and the couch zooms around the room like a roller coaster car. 	"D'oh-in' in the Wind" 	AABF02
210	November 22, 1998 	 	The family sits. Salon-style hair dryers descend onto their heads, then lift up, revealing the family members all have swapped hairdos. Homer has Maggie's spikes, Marge has Bart's spikes, Bart has Lisa's spikes, Lisa has Homer's "combover," and Maggie has Marge's big, blue bouffant (the weight of which causes her to fall off the couch). 	"Lisa Gets an "A"" 	AABF03
211	December 6, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F11's gag 	"Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" 	AABF04
212	December 20, 1998 	 	repeat of 5F03's gag 	"Mayored to the Mob" 	AABF05
213	January 10, 1999 	 	repeat of 5F06's gag 	"Viva Ned Flanders" 	AABF06
214	January 17, 1999 	 	In a parody of the famous scene in Dr. Strangelove where Slim Pickens’ character rides the bomb, the Simpsons (wearing white cowboy hats) straddle the couch as it drops from a bomb bay door. The Simpsons scream, “Yahoo!” as they plummet into oblivion. 	"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" 	AABF07
215	January 31, 1999 	 	The living room is in shallow water and the Simpsons sit on the couch. When an iceberg floats by, the couch sinks vertically like the RMS Titanic and the family clings to dear life as it goes under. Maggie resurfaces on a couch cushion moments later with the remote control in hand. 	"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" 	AABF08
216	February 7, 1999 	 	repeat of 5F19's gag 	"Homer to the Max" 	AABF09
217	February 14, 1999 	 	repeat of AABF03's gag 	"I'm with Cupid" 	AABF11
218	February 21, 1999 	 	repeat of AABF02's gag 	"Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""	AABF10
219	February 28, 1999 	 	repeat of 5F22's gag 	"Make Room for Lisa" 	AABF12
220	March 28, 1999 	 	Marge and Homer are depicted as children while Bart and Lisa are depicted as adults (and Maggie is a baby doll in Homer’s arms). Homer reaches for the remote control, but Lisa slaps it away from him. 	"Maximum Homerdrive" 	AABF13
221	April 4, 1999 	 	The family slips on banana peels on the floor, flipping upside-down in the air, but all land safely on the couch. 	"Simpsons Bible Stories" 	AABF14
222	April 11, 1999 	 	repeat of AABF07's gag 	"Mom and Pop Art" 	AABF15
223	April 25, 1999 	 	repeat of 5F21's gag 	"The Old Man and the "C" Student" 	AABF16
224	May 2, 1999 	 	repeat of 9F08's gag 	"Monty Can't Buy Me Love" 	AABF17
225	May 9, 1999 	 	repeat of AABF08's gag 	"They Saved Lisa's Brain" 	AABF18
226	May 16, 1999 	 	The Simpsons sit on the couch, but get sucked inside and come out looking like a shredded piece of paper. 	"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" 	AABF20
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