Gordon's Simpson's Page of Couch Openings
These are some of the couch openings at the begining of the Simpson's.
Last updated November 30th 1997
LIST OF COUCH OPENINGS - Seasons 1-8
compiled by Don Del Grande, del_gran@ix.netcom.com
Episode numbers indicate the couch scene used when the episode was shown for
the first time; in some cases, the one used in Canada is listed where it was
"original" and the USA one was repeated
Syndicated showings (for seasons 1-7) use these couch openings except where
marked:
* indicates the 1F01 opening is used
= indicates the 7F14 opening is used
? indicates the episode has not been shown in syndication yet
Note 9F21 uses only its first couch opening in syndication
7G02*,7G07* Bart is squeezed off and pops into the air; during
the shot of the TV, he is seen coming down
7G03*,7G10* The couch falls apart when everybody is on it
7G04*,7G13 Homer is squeezed off his side of the couch
7G06*,7G12 Maggie is squeezed off and pops into the air; she
comes right down into Marge's arms
7G09,7G01 Everybody fits on the couch
7F03,7F12,7F22, The couch falls through the floor
9F06*
7F02,7F13,7F23 The "Simpson Shuffle" (see notes)
7F01,7F15 The couch unfolds into a bed
7F05*,7F16* Maggie ends up in Marge's hair
7F08,7F14* Everybody fits, including Santa's Little Helper and
Snowball II
7F07*,7F17* Grampa is lying on the couch sleeping
7F06=,7F18 Homer tips the couch over sideways; Maggie falls off,
but lands on a couch cushion which is on the floor
7F09,7F19 The couch is gone; everyone looks around the empty spot
7F10*,7F20* Homer bumps the others off the couch
7F11,7F21* The couch tips over backwards; Maggie pops up from
behind it
7F24*,8F22 The couch tips over backwards, and everybody crashes
through the back wall
8F01,8F12 They sit, then Homer pulls Santa's Little Helper out
from beneath him
8F03*,8F14 Everybody forms a pyramid
8F04*,8F16 A space alien hears them coming, pulls a cord, and
disappears through a trap door in the floor
8F05,8F15* Bart lands on everyone's lap
8F06*,8F17 Homer gets to the couch first and lies on it; the
others sit on him
8F07,8F19 The seat cushions are missing; when they sit, they "fall
into" the couch
8F08,8F20 Two burglars are holding the couch as everybody sits on
it; they are dumped off and the couch is carried away
8F09,8F21 Santa's Little Helper is on the couch and keeps everyone
else off
8F10,8F23 Everybody cartwheels to the couch (Maggie falls in her
attempt and hops there) and strikes a "Ta-Da" pose
8F11 Everybody bounces up and down on the couch; Homer bounces
from one side to the other
8F13* Everybody except Maggie bang their heads together and lie
unconscious on the floor
8F24 Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by the
Flintstones
8F18,9F15* The couch swallows everybody as it transforms into a
monster
9F01*,9F12 The couch rotates 180 degrees through a secret door in
the wall; an empty couch takes its place
9F02*,9F14* As Maggie is already seated, Homer, Marge, and Bart run
"past the edge of the film" and scurry back to the couch
9F04 Simpson-sized skeletons sit on the couch
9F03 The couch deflates (as if filled with air)
9F05,9F17 Everybody has somebody else's head, which they remove and
switch
9F07,9F18* There's a wooden chair in place of the couch; the adults
share it, with the children on their laps
9F08*,9F13*,9F16*, Everybody forms a chorus line, which turns into a large
9F22*,2F08 production number
9F09,9F20 Everybody is "miniature" and must climb the "giant"
couch; Maggie has to be pulled up
9F10 Everybody sits, just before the room is filled with
other regular characters
9F11,9F19 Everybody gets caught in a net that was spread on the
floor
9F21a,1F08,1F21 Everybody runs into each other and shatters on the floor;
Santa's Little Helper examines the damage
9F21b*,1F11 Everybody runs into each other and end up on the couch
as a five-headed "blob"
9F21c*,1F09*,1F20 Everybody runs into each other and there's an explosion;
eventually, the pacifier lands and bounces away
1F02,1F12,2F33 Everybody, plus the couch, is crushed by a foot that is
reminiscent of how "Monty Python's Flying Circus" opens
1F01 Everybody stops as the couch is occupied - by an
identical Simpson family
1F04 A Zombie Simpson family crashes through the floor from
below and sits on the couch
1F03 The couch is painted on a wall, which everybody runs
through
1F05,1F13 A fat man takes up most of the couch; everybody
squeezes into the tiny spot remaining
1F06,1F15,2F02*, The room is dark as five pairs of eyes go to the couch;
2F04 light reveals that it's only eyes, as eyeless bodies
quickly enter, sit down, and reattach to the eyes
1F07*,1F19* Everybody sits, then notice they're on the set of "Late
Show with David Letterman" as "Dave" turns face forward
1F10 Everybody pokes their head up from behind the couch
(Maggie does it from behind a cushion on the couch)
1F14 Everybody sees two couches, then they each split into
two halves, each half sitting on a couch
1F16 Everybody is shaped like a ball and bounces around
before landing on the couch and returning to normal
1F18 Everybody sits, then Homer gets up, rips the FOX logo
from the screen corner, and they all stomp on it
1F22,2F12 Everybody begins seated as if on an invisible couch;
the couch comes in in pieces and forms itself atop
them, causing them to fall to the floor
1F17,2F13 The floor is well underwater, and only the tops of
everybody's heads are visible until they reach the
couch (Bart is using a snorkel)
2F01,2F14* Everybody is "beamed aboard" the couch in original
"Star Trek" style (complete with sound effect)
2F03 Everybody enters with a mismatched head and limbs
(for example, one of Bart's legs is now Lisa's right
arm, and Lisa's arms are where her legs should be)
2F05,2F15 Everybody bounces up off the couch and gets their
heads stuck in the ceiling
2F06,2F18 Everybody chases the couch as it, along with the back
wall, moves backwards away from them
2F07,2F16 Everybody runs by the same TV and couch again and
again, all except Maggie grinning the whole time
2F09,2F19 Everybody runs to the couch from a different side (Marge
runs down the side of a wall) in an M.C. Escher-style
house
2F10,2F21 The "James Bond" film opening, only with Homer in front
of the couch firing the gun
2F11,2F22 In black & white, everybody (wearing Mickey Mouse
gloves) stands and makes circles with their hands
2F31,2F32 A giant Maggie, a slightly smaller Lisa, and so on down
to a tiny (not younger) Homer, sit on the couch
2F20 The couch moves aside as everybody lines up in front
of a police lineup height chart
2F17?,3F12,3F22 The couch acts like a FAX machine, and a sheet with
everybody (in couch-sitting position) on it comes up
from the back of the couch and slides under it
3F01,3F13 Everybody, including SLH, Snowball II, and Grampa, are
in nine squares "Brady Bunch" style (with the couch in
the middle); everybody but Grampa runs to the couch
3F02,3F14 Everybody wears fezzes and drives in minicars, like
Shriners
3F03,3F16 Everybody runs to the couch, entirely gray; their
colors are then spray-painted in
3F04? Everybody descends from above, hanging by their necks
from nooses; Maggie still sucks her pacifier
3F05,3F15 Everybody is a wind-up doll
3F06,3F17? Everybody is placed on the couch by a pinsetter, after
Snowball II is scared off by the pin-clearing bar
3F08,3F18? Everybody is a sea-monkey and swims to a couch made of
clam shells to stare at a treasure chest
3F31? A sequence of openings: 8F18, 9F02, 9F10, 9F09, 8F09,
1F02, 2F31, 2F09, 2F06, 1F17, 2F11, and 9F08
3F07?,3F19 Homer pulls a drain plug from the floor, and everybody
and everything is sucked down the drain
3F10 Everybody sits, then inside a mousehole, a mouse family
sits on an identical couch
3F09,3F20 A big game hunter sits on the couch with a "Homer-skin
run" on the floor and the others' heads on the wall
3F11,3F21? Everybody sits, under flourescent "black light", until
Homer turns on the lamp
4F02 Death begins on the couch; as everybody runs up to the
couch, they fall over dead
3F23,3F24 Everybody lands on the couch via parachute except Homer,
who lands on the floor with an unopened chute
4F03 Everybody is in western gear as they sit on the couch,
when then gallops away into the desert
4F05 Everybody is a clear balloon, which float onto the
couch and then pop
4F06 A takeoff on the cover of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band"
4F04 Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart
pink; Homer slaps Bart on the head, turning him normal
4F01 Everything and everyone is upside-down - until everyone
falls off the couch and onto the "ceiling"
4F07 Homer puts a coin into the "Vend-A-Couch", then bangs
the back wall; the couch then falls on him.
3G01 Everybody flies in on jet-packs; Maggie flies in last
and lands on Marge's lap
4F08 Everybody is involved in a giant Whack-A-Mole game;
Homer ends up getting whacked
7G08 (the Christmas Special), 7F04, 8F02 (the first two Halloween
Specials), 7G05, and 7G11 do not have couch openings
The "Simpson Shuffle": everybody is in a line in front of the couch; they
do two "Egyptian struts" (right arm up, left arm down, wrists at 90-degree
angles) in one direction, then two in the other, then sit on the couch
with arms in a "ta-da" position
9F04, 1F04, 2F03, 3F04, and 4F02 are Halloween Special couch openings
9F21 used three openings (shown in order 9F21a, b, c); between openings,
a clapboard marked "Couch Gag - Take 2 (3)" appeared, and someone shouted
"Take Two (Three)"
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