Subscribe now for more The Simpsons clips. The Simpsons throw it back with a retro-inspired couch gag by guest animator Steve Cutts. One of several gags in its introduction, The Simpsons always rush home and gather in front of their TV on the couch before each episode begins. Of the 671 (at the time of writing) episodes produced, we’re whittling it down to just 10 of best couch gags The Simpsons has ever produced. 25M views 7 years ago TheSimpsons HomerSimpson AniDom. Published With thousands of episodes, The Simpsons has a huge inventory of unique gags in its intros, with the couch gag representing their best work. Back in 2013, he created "Film Noir" for the show's "Black-Eyed, Please" episode. The classic whiteboard gag has been examined time after time, but the longer and often much more detailed couch gag is the focus of our list today. Submissions for couch gags were taken between September 30 and November 15, 2012, and the voting period lasted between January 24 and February 11, 2013. Over the years, the show’s opening sequence has seen an endless amount of variation. The Simpsons Couch Gag Contest was a contest organized by FOX where viewers write their own idea for a couch gag. The prolific animator’s long list of shorts, including his early Plymptoons, harkens back to the days when indie animation, at its best “worst,” was gleefully subversive. January 8, 2016, 1:38pm GIF and screencaps via The Simpsons couch gag has introduced the show for 27 seasons. Plympton has been riffing on bizarre, animated happenings in and around human faces for decades now, including his hilarious and beautifully grotesque Oscar-nominated 1987 short, Your Face. A couch gag by ERIC GOLDBERG What I like the new The Simpsons episodes is how they give other animators a a chance to make these experimental couch gags. In the all-new The Simpsons episode, “Manger Things,” airing this Sunday, March 21 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX, a secret about Flanders’ past is revealed and a never-before-seen room is discovered in the Simpson home. To help celebrate this Sunday’s epic 700 th The Simpsons episode, indie animation legend Bill Plympton has created a brand-new couch gag, “Homer’s Family.” Series fans, as well as animation fans, are in for a treat, as Homer births his clan in a most unusual way.
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