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Couch Openings


7G02, 7G07 - Bart is squeezed off and pops into the air; duringthe shot of the TV, he is seen coming down
7G10, 7G03 - The couch falls apart when everybody is on it
7G04, 7G13 - Homer is squeeezed 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, 9FO6 - The couch falls through the floor
7F02, 7F13, 7F23 - The "Simpson Shuffle"
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, 8F21 - 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, 9F22, 2F08 - Everybody forms a chorus line, which turns into a large 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 - 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, 2F04 - The room is dark as five pairs of eyes go to the couch; 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 withDavid 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) waves their hands in circles
2F31, 2F32 - A giant Maggie, a slightly smaller Lisa, and so on down to a tiny Homer, sit on the couch
2F20 - As the couch moves aside, 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 a picture of everybody (in couch-sitting position) comes up from the back and slides beneath it
3F01, 3F13 - Everybody, including SLH, Snowball II, and Grampa, appear in eight squares "Brady Bunch" style (with the couch in the middle); all but Grampa run to the couch
3F02, 3F14 - Everybody is wearing fezzes and drives around in minicars like Shriners
v3F03, 3F16 - Everybody runs to the couch, entirely gray; the colors are then spray-painted on them
3F04 - Everybody drops from above, hanging from their necks by nooses; Maggie still manages to suck her pacifier
3F05, 3F15 - Everybody is a wind-up doll
3F06, 3F17 - Everybody is put 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 mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an identical couch
3F09, 3F20 - A big game hunter sits on the couch, with a "Homer-skin rug" on the floor and the others' heads on the wall
3F11, 3F21 - Everybody sits, bathed in flourescent "black light", until Homer turns on the lamp
4F02 - As Death begins on the couch, everybody runs up to the couch and falls 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 take off on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4F04 - Bart is green; Homer changes TV channels, turning Bart red; Homer slaps Bart on the head, turning him normal
4F01 - Everybody and everything is upside-down, until everybody falls off the couch and onto the "ceiling"
4F07 - Homer puts a coin in 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 game of Whack-A-Mole; Homer ends up getting whacked
4F10 - Grampa is sleeping in a convertible bed, which they convert back to a sofa (with him in it) and sit on it
3G03 - The couch remains empty while everybody waits outside as Homer struggles to open the front door
4F11 - The couch is in an "America Onlink" window, which takes its time loading everybody before being interrupted
4F13 - The couch is sliding on the deck of a ship; when everybody (in raingear) sits on it, they are covered by a wave



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