The family sits on the couch Homer pulls a distressed Santa’s Little Helper out from under him. The family sits the couch tips over backwards and crashes into the back wall. Repeat of 7F03's gag (only Homer doesn't yell, "D'oh!" when the couch falls through the floor) " One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
The couch falls over backwards Maggie peeks from behind. Homer squeezes everyone off the couch one by one until he has the couch all to himself. The family comes in and finds the couch missing.
Homer tips the couch over on its side and Maggie sits on a fallen couch cushion. Grampa is asleep on the couch and gets startled awake when the family comes in. The pets (Santa’s Little Helper and Snowball II) join the family on the couch. The family (except for Maggie) sits on the couch Maggie then peeks her head out of Marge’s tall hair. " Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" The family sits down and the couch folds into a bed. Homer yells, “D’oh!”Įveryone is in a line in front of the couch and does a “Walk Like An Egyptian” style shuffle, then jumps on the couch with their arms in a “ta-da” pose. The family sits on the couch and the couch falls through the floor. (Meant to be first couch gag in production order) (This couch gag also appears in the arcade game.)Įveryone sits on the couch nothing happens.
The family sits Maggie is squeezed off, up into the air and out of frame, but Marge catches her as she falls back down. The family sits Homer is squeezed off and lands on the floor with a thud. The family sits the couch falls apart under their weight, leaving them sitting on cushions on the floor. (This is the only time the couch gag visually continues into the closing shot of the TV.)
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Meanwhile, baby Maggie is a floating blob that occasionally demands the audience, “Make purchase of the merchandise,” while Bart is a four-armed, fanged blob struggling to deliver his own catchphrase: “Don’t … don’t have cow … man.The family sits Bart gets shot up in the air, then falls when the scene cuts to the TV credits. Homer is a floating head atop three wavering tentacles and Marge is an ill-defined mound of hair, while Lisa has become a one-eyed monstrosity with a periscopic mouth that repeats the mantra, “I am Simpson” (a heartbreaking variation on the famous season two affirmation, “You are Lisa Simpson”). After a brief stop in 1987 and his earliest incarnation, Homer is thrust forward to “Septembar 36.4, 10,535.” By this distant date, the Simpsons have devolved into crude, mutated versions of themselves. So, when Hertzfeldt has a chance to experiment with these iconic characters, he almost immediately sends them deep into a horrifying future. They remain the same age for decades, seem to have little or no memory of most of the events that have made up the three-decades-plus of their eternal present, and show no signs of ever eventually aging naturally or dying. These are characters that exist seemingly outside of time. It’s easy to see, then, why something like The Simpsons might appeal to Hertzfeldt. This ability to remain unchanged for years and decades on end makes The Simpsons a kind of platonic ideal of a sitcom. This is something that is (for now at least) only possible with animation. Bart and Lisa, children in the 1980s, remain children well into the 21st century, just as their parents remain in their 30s, all of them still played by the same actors. The Simpsons itself has even mocked this reality on more than one occasion. The characters have adventures over the course of an episode, only to return to the status quo by its conclusion. One of the underlying premises of the American network sitcom has always been that things don’t change. While much of this longevity can be attributed to the show’s quality and popularity (especially early on), the fact that the show is animated has had an undeniable impact on its ability to remain essentially unchanged for decades.
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The Simpsonsis the longest-running American animated show, longest-running American sitcom, and the longest-running scripted American TV series on primetime, both in terms of seasons and number of episodes.
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