List of couch gags/Season 26-30

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 26 through 30.
== Season 26 ==
553	September 28, 2014	150px	Homer heads to the couch with a strange device that accidentally turns time back to the late 1980s, morphing his face and body to its original incarnation in the process. He tries to reverse the process, but slams time forward to the 106th century where Marge is a clump of talking hair and Maggie is a free-floating blob that demands people to buy "SAMPSANS"-branded products. 	Clown in the Dumps 	SABF20
554	October 5, 2014 	 	The Simpsons find Itchy about to kill Scratchy on the couch. Homer intervenes by removing Itchy and allowing Scratchy to stay on the couch for several months, which ultimately starts annoying the family. Homer brings back Itchy who effectively murders Scratchy. 	The Wreck of the Relationship	SABF17
555	October 12, 2014 	 	A parody of the cover of the 1970 Cat Stevens album Tea for the Tillerman, with its title track playing over it. 	Super Franchise Me 	SABF19
556	October 19, 2014 	 	None 	Treehouse of Horror XXV 	SABF21
557	November 2, 2014 	 	None 	Opposites A-Frack 	SABF22
558	November 9, 2014 	 	The Simpsons sit on the couch, but it turns out to be Hedonismbot. 	Simpsorama 	SABF16
559	November 16, 2014 	 	The couch is a ski lift. The family walks in, ready to go skiing. The couch rises up. Seconds later, the couch comes back down and most of the family members have been injured. Maggie, the only family member who made it out unscathed, comes in with a medal. 	Blazed and Confused 	TABF01
560	November 23, 2014 	 	The family is playing with their smartphones as they walk in. But, they don't pay attention to where they're going and bump into each other and fall over. They pick up their smartphones and carry on playing. 	Covercraft 	TABF02
561	December 7, 2014 	 	There is a message that reads: “Now for obligatory Frozen reference”, before cutting to a snow couch, where Lisa, appearing as Elsa, is sitting. Bart hits her with a snowball and she immediately creates a ice palace, with Bart stuck at the top. Homer appears as Olaf, bites off his own nose, disappointed to discover it is a carrot. 	I Won't Be Home For Christmas	TABF03
562	January 4th, 2015 	 	A piano version of "Great Gate of Kiev" is played in the background as the gag showcases artwork of each Simpson. The camera turns to the Simpsons sitting at an art gallery. Homer grabs the remote control and all the artwork on the wall changes channels, pleasing the family. 	The Man Who Came to Be Dinner	RABF15
563	January 11, 2015 	 	In an updated version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, bear versions of Homer, Marge and Bart are shown walking into their home. They find out that someone has been eating their porridge and broke their couches but they catch Lisa who is sleeping on Bart's couch. She wakes up to find the three of them surrounding her, causing a fight between them that ends with the Simpsons eating parts of Homer's body. The scene is revealed to be a story Homer told to a traumatized Maggie.	Bart's New Friend 	TABF05
564	January 25, 2015 	 	No Gag 	The Musk Who Fell To Earth 	TABF04
565	February 8, 2015 	 	The Simpsons are pieces of sushi sitting on a sushi plate, which itself sits on a moving boat. People start to eat each Simpson off of it, except for Homer, who falls into the water and gets eaten by a fish after the boat flips over. 	Walking Big & Tall 	TABF06
566	February 15, 2015 	 	A pixelated version of the opening theme. 	My Fare Lady 	TABF07
567	March 1, 2015 	 	The printer gets jammed while printing out the couch gag. A "Paper Jam" error appears, prompting the printed Homer to mutter "Mmmm. Paper Jam." 	The Princess Guide 	TABF08
568	March 8, 2015 	 	No Gag 	Sky Police 	TABF09
569	March 15, 2015 	 	The family is repeatedly sucked into a portal above the couch until Bart eventually separates from the rest, avoids getting beamed up, and closes the portal via a remote control. He then finds a severed Homer head. 	Waiting for Duffman 	TABF10
570	April 19, 2015 	 	Five ears of corn are placed on the couch, which then heats up in order to pop the Simpson family. Homer, who takes longest to pop, is burned. 	Peeping Mom 	TABF11
571	April 26, 2015 	 	Repeat of SABF15's gag, except the Grim Reaper pawn is replaced with an Abe Simpson pawn.
The couch gag was originally supposed to be a shorter gag, with the family (except Maggie), in snow suits, are ice climbing to the top of an ice shelf. Homer then asks for the couch, which a man brings up, and the family sits. Another man brings the TV in, but collapses, and the man who brought the couch up is shocked and carries the other man to safety. Maggie appears, who finished her ice climb, but hits her ice axe on Homer's foot, causing the couch and the family (but Maggie) to freeze and melt. This gag was actually released as a promo image for the episode prior to airing. Due to shortness, it was replaced.	The Kids Are All Fight 	TABF12
572	May 3, 2015 	 	Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie appear as penguins sitting on an ice molded couch, until they are eaten by walrus Homer. 	Let's Go Fly a Coot 	TABF13
573	May 10, 2015 	 	Homer fails at making goal saves, as Maggie, who is dressed as a soccer player, kicks soccer balls at him until he is buried in them. 	Bull-E 	TABF15
574	May 17, 2015 	 	Rick and Morty crash into the living room, killing the Simpson family, and attempt to revive them. 	Mathlete's Feat 	TABF16
== Season 27 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
575	September 27, 2015	 	A parody of several Beatles album covers.The last cover features a double-decker bus running over the Simpsons who were recreating the Abbey Roadwalk. 	Every Man's Dream 	TABF14
576	October 4, 2015 	 	No Gag 	Cue Detective 	TABF17
577	October 11, 2015 	 	Each Simpson parks a spot on the couch until a monster truck Maggie runs them over. 	Puffless 	TABF19
578	October 18, 2015 	 	No Gag 	Halloween of Horror 	TABF22
579	October 25, 2015 	 	A John Kricfaulsi-styled couch gag where the Simpson children (Bart, Lisa and Maggie) are trick-or-treating before being set upon by soul-hungry spirits with a monstrous Frank Grimes among them. The spirits chase after the Simpson children to their house with the Frank Grimes monster taking Homer's soul from his body and eating it. 	Treehouse of Horror XXVI 	TABF18
580	November 8, 2015 	 	Short with Santa's Little Helper titled feast and changed to fat. He gets fed by the family until he becomes fat and is sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle, where he's fed strained prunes and dies afterwards. After being greeted by God, Santa's Little Helper sees the Fit Dog Heaven but God sends him to Fat Dog Hell where a sign says free pizza.	Friend with Benefit 	TABF21
581	November 22, 2015 	 	Parody of Star Trek, with the Simpsons family in a donut Enterprise that shoots their couch, and then shot by a ring of couches. 	Lisa with an "S" 	TABF20
582	December 6, 2015 	 	Homer rolls the dice, which reveals all the Simpsons, but his side flips to Mr. Burns. Homer then says "D'oh!" 	Paths of Glory 	VABF01
583	December 13, 2015 	 	Homer and Bart complain about the animation in the gag. Lisa tells them it's called rotoscoping. 	Barthood 	VABF02
584	January 3, 2016 	 	No Gag 	The Girl Code 	VABF03
585	January 10, 2016 	 	While sitting alone on the couch, Homer puts on his shades and descends into an opening sequence of "La-Z Rider" that pays homage to TV shows and films from the 1980s. 	Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles 	VABF04
586	January 17, 2016 	 	No Gag 	Much Apu About Something 	VABF05
587	February 14, 2016 	 	Marge picks up a letter from the couch which sets the Simpsons off on a journey to find it, but Homer eventually wakes up from the dream, only to find a goodbye letter from Marge. 	Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4	VABF07
588	February 21, 2016 	 	The Simpsons family dressed as rugby players reunites at the center and get in position, Homer tries to sneak Maggie in as a rugby ball but goes over the couch and smashes the wall where he finds the TV remote. 	Gal of Constant Sorrow 	VABF06
589	March 6, 2016 	 	Roomance by Bill Plympton. The television and the couch dream of the television bouncing on the couch and both having fun. At the end of the dream, the television tries to bounce on the couch but the plug line stops it and crashes. 	Lisa the Veterinarian 	VABF08
590	March 13, 2016 	 	None 	The Marge-ian Chronicles 	VABF09
591	April 3, 2016 	 	Homer sends text messages to the family with emojis. 	The Burns Cage 	VABF10
592	April 10, 2016 	 	In space, Marge and the kids wake up and find a skeleton Homer in his sleeping chamber. 	How Lisa Got Her Marge Back 	VABF11
593	April 24, 2016 	 	Disney couch gag 	Fland Canyon 	VABF12
594	May 8, 2016 	 	The Simpsons run into the breakaway banner that has the couch. 	To Courier with Love 	VABF14
595	May 15, 2016 	 	None 	Simprovised 	VABF13
596	May 22, 2016 	 	Homer builds the couch in an IKEA themed instruction manual. 	Orange is the New Yellow 	VABF15
== Season 28 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot 	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
597	September 25, 2016	 	The entire couch gag is a parody of the Adventure Time intro. 	Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus 	VABF20
598	October 2, 2016 	 	A hand holding a myPhone captures Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Bart, in a text that says "Couch Gag", leaving Homer on the couch. When the myPhone tries to capture Homer, it can't, and he says, "I'm too fat!" The hand then comes back with a myPad, but it doesn't work either. At the end, a hammer hits Homer on the head, making him unconscious. 	Friends and Family 	VABF18
599	October 9, 2016 	No couch gag.	No couch gag. 	The Town 	VABF17
600	October 16, 2016 	 	In a couch gag named, "Planet of the Couches", the Simpsons are being chased by couches through a field, until they are caught and imprisoned. The Simpsons' couch breaks them out, and leads the family to a buried Lard Lad statue. Homer then grabs a rock and slams it on the couch, making it unconscious. The Simpson family sits on the couch. 	Treehouse of Horror XXVII 	VABF16
601	October 23, 2016 	 	Marge and Lisa push Homer into a art museum. He then looks at distorted paintings and then sees the world like the paintings. He walks out of the art museum to see a distorted Springfield, and walks back to his home and sits on the distorted couch with a distorted Maggie. Homer tries to blend in, but ends up in the wrong art form, and says D'oh! in a speech bubble. The TV Scene is also distorted. 	Trust But Clarify 	VABF21
602	November 6, 2016 	No couch gag.	No couch gag. 	There Will Be Buds 	VABF22
603	November 13, 2016 	 	The Simpsons are Greek gods who fly onto a couch made out of clouds.. Lisa is missing, and she flies out of Homer's head with Homer's Odyssey. Homer grabs Maggie's pacifier to plug in the hole in his head. 	Havana Wild Weekend 	VABF19
604	November 20, 2016 	 	All of the Simpsons die during their normal parts of the intro, except Bart. Homer chokes on the rod, Lisa crashes into the door, Maggie drives the car while Marge is sleeping and crash into the ocean. When Bart gets to the couch, he wonders where everyone is and realizes that they're dead. He grabs photos of all the Simpsons and pretends they are with him and finally gets control of the remote. 	Dad Behavior 	WABF01
605	December 4, 2016 	 	The family walks toward where the couch should be and find it empty, then they walk backwards as a group of Russian soldiers point guns at them. The scene turns into a oil painting and Homer says "D'oh!" 	The Last Traction Hero 	WABF03
606	December 11, 2016 	 	The Simpsons run to the couch, dressed as characters from A Christmas Carol. (Homer is the Ghost of Christmas Present, Marge is Mrs. Cratchit, Lisa is Martha Cratchit, Maggie is The Ghost of Christmas Future, and Bart is Tiny Tim.) Mr. Burns (dressed as Ebeneezer Scrooge) says "Release the Christmas hounds!", making them appear and barking at the family, making them scream and run off of the couch. 	The Nightmare After Krustmas	WABF02
607	January 8, 2017 	 	The Simpsons sit down on the couch that is revealed to be a sticker on a "Couch Gag Play Set". The set is between other Simpsons merchandise (t-shirt, couches, snow globes, hats, stand-up figures and a The Simpsons Video Game). Bart asks Marge to get one, but Marge refuses, even if it's 3 for $1. 	Pork and Burns 	WABF06
608	January 15, 2017 	No couch gag.	No couch gag. 	The Great Phatsby: Part One 	WABF04
609	January 15, 2017 	No couch gag.	No couch gag. 	The Great Phatsby: Part Two 	WABF05
610	February 12, 2017 	 	All of the Simpsons sit on the couch except for Maggie, they look for her, but then Marge lifts the sailboat painting to reveal a safe and then opens it. Maggie is in the safe, Marge pulls her out and places her on the couch. 	Fatzcarraldo 	WABF07
611	February 19, 2017 	 	The family arrives at the couch, but Homer notices the sail boat painting has disappeared. Bart suggests another animated show stole it. Homer walks on the set of South Park and The California Raisins but can't find it, and boos the raisins, but in the fight that follows a fire starts, he escapes through a door to find that the Nerd from Robot Chicken, who is watching a video of the previous Robot Chicken couch gag, bought it from Bart on a bid. Homer, while the Nerd rambles on, steals the painting and leaves a paper one, and runs through the stages back home, killing the South Park characters too, announcing he did retrieve it, only to find the family replaced it, and Marge swears her disappointment.	The Cad and the Hat 	WABF08
612	March 5, 2017 	 	A pachinko machine is shown, with the family at the bottom. Everyone but Homer gets many balls in. Homer is sad but on opening his mouth he swallows one and chokes. 	Kamp Krustier 	WABF09
613	March 12th, 2017 	 	Bill Plympton's fifth couch gag. In the living room, crudely-drawn versions of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Bart walk in and sit on the couch. As the camera pans upwards, it is revealed that Maggie drew the crudely-drawn family, and she continues drawing. The camera continues to pan upwards as Lisa is drawing Maggie, Bart is drawing Lisa, Marge is drawing Bart, and Homer is drawing Marge while holding a bitten donut and another pencil in his other hand. When Homer tries to finish his donut, the pencil on his other hand stabs him in the face as he screams in pain while blood squirts out. The scene stops as Bill Plympton's signature appears and Homer finishes screaming. 	22 For 30 	WABF10
614	March 19th, 2017 	 	Most of the Simpson family's pets are seen on the couch, including Santa's Little Helper, Snowball V, Santa's Little Helper's puppies, Pinchy, Plopper, Mojo the Helper Monkey, Nibbles, Stampy, Hendrix, Strangles, Laddie, Raymond Bird, Chirpy Boy, Bart Junior, the Bolivian tree lizard, Bart's raccoon, Princess, Pokey, the Screamapillar, Jub-Jub, and a cow. 	A Father's Watch 	WABF11
615	April 2nd, 2017 	 	The family arrives at the couch dressed up as X-Men characters. Homer is Professor X, Marge is Mystique, Bart is Angel, Lisa is Storm, and Maggie is X-23. Stan Lee appears and complains, "There's nothing too short that I can't cameo!" 	The Caper Chase 	WABF12
616	April 30th, 2017 	 	In a parody of the intro to The Big Bang Theory, a song plays to the tune of The Big Bang Theory theme, and the intro zooms through the universe. We get close up to the planet Earth and learn a brief history of The Simpsons from the beginning to present day while brief second screenshots of older Simpsons moments are shown. We then see the Simpsons run to the couch and sit on it, which then disappears out from under them. 	Looking for Mr. Goodbart 	WABF13
617	May 7th, 2017 	 	The Simpsons are shown as Chia Pets on a plant display cart instead of the couch. Someone off-screen waters them, and the grass in each of the family members grow. However, only Homer's sideburns and beard succeed to grow, but his two head hairs grow in seconds later. This is the very first couch gag to appear in place of the intro (meaning that the episode immediately begins with the couch gag). 	Moho House 	WABF14
618	May 21st, 2017 	 	The family (except Maggie), in snow suits, are ice climbing to the top of an ice shelf. Homer then asks for the couch, which a man brings up, and the family sits. Another man brings the TV in, but collapses, and the man who brought the couch up is shocked and carries the other man to safety. Maggie appears, who finished her ice climb, but hits her ice axe on Homer's foot, causing the couch and the family (but Maggie) to freeze and melt. 	Dogtown 	WABF15
== Season 29 ==
# 	Airdate 	Screenshot 	Gag Name 	Episode 	Code
619	October 1st, 2017 	No couch gag.	No couch gag. 	The Serfsons 	WABF17
620	October 8th, 2017 	No couch gag.	No couch gag. 	Springfield Splendor 	WABF22
621	October 15th, 2017 	 	The Simpsons are all different furntiure in their living room (Homer as the couch, Marge as the TV, Bart as the lamp next to the phone, Lisa as the other lamp, and Maggie as the sailboat painting). The different pieces of furniture sit on Homer. 	Whistler's Father 	WABF16
622	October 22nd, 2017 	No couch gag.	No couch gag. 	Treehouse of Horror XXVIII 	WABF18
623	November 5th, 2017 	TBA 	The family goes through different decades. First, they appear in the 1800s as the Simpsonovich family, where they run in to the 1800-style living room, sit on the couch, and peel potatoes. When they hear a knock, they lift the couch and take it with them as they leave the room and three soldiers come in. The Simpsonovichs are now sitting on their couch on a ship with many other people and their couches. They leave the ship and are now in the US, where they are granted access. However, the Szyslaks don't get access, so they get quarantined. Then, the Simpsons are in the early 1900s, where they are living in a small apartment doing things; Homer is sewing, Maggie is in a crib, Bart is playing with a baseball, Lisa is crocheting, and Marge is doing the laundry, including hanging the couch outside to dry with the other clothes. Next, the Simpsons are in the 1950s, where only Homer and Marge are sitting on the couch while other couples are dancing. Then, the Simpsons are in the present day, where they are in their normal living room, but the house starts to get flooded, so they lift their couch and leave the house with it. Finally, they are in the future, where they're sitting on the couch in a UFO with other Springfieldians as the UFO flies away from Earth. The Simpsons arrive in the acceptance room, where a Rigellian places a Rigellian family name next to the Simpsons' name, to which Homer shouts, "D'oh!"	Grampy Can Ya Hear Me 	WABF19
624	November 12th, 2017	TBA 	TBA 	The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be	WABF20
625	November 19th, 2017	TBA 	TBA 	Singin' In The Lane 	WABF20
626	December 3rd, 2017 	TBA 	TBA 	Mr. Lisa's Opus 	XABF01
627	December 10th, 2017	TBA 	TBA 	Gone Boy 	XABF02
628	January 7th, 2018 	TBA 	TBA 	Haw-Haw Land 	XABF03
629	January 14th, 2018 	TBA 	TBA 	Frink Gets Testy 	XABF04
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