Moe Szyslak (also a caveman) passes by Homer with a brief "Hey" and devolves into a ratlike mammal. After surviving the meteor crash that kills the dinosaurs, Homer then evolves into different types of monkeys as he goes through a jungle, then becomes more human as an Ice Age occurs, transforming from a Neanderthal, to a Cro-Magnon, and finally to an upright-walking caveman. Burns) until he becomes a prehistoric lizard that evolves into a rat and nearly gets attacked by a T-Rex who looks like Bart but is stopped by a stegosaurus that looks like Lisa. The season 18 episode, " Homerazzi", has another extra-long couch gag (beating out the Powers of Ten parody seen on " The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" and rerun, with different dialogue, on " On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" and " Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" by 25 seconds), called " Homer's Evolution", where Homer goes through evolution, starting out as a unicellular being and dividing rapidly until he becomes a jellyfish, then a common fish (that almost gets captured by an octopus that looks like Mr. This couch gag was first seen on " Marge's Son Poisoning", then rerun on the season seventeen finale " Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play". Other couches attack people (though Moe is able to fight them off by shooting them with his shotgun), with the closing scene as Homer going into a couch store, sitting down, and being attacked. This has become less common in more recent seasons, as the required length for each episode has been reduced due to additional advertising.Īnother extra-long couch gag is when the family tries to sit on the couch, but it tries to attack them. The extra length of the gag would compensate for the shorter episode. Used a total of eight times to date, this extra-long couch gag has mostly been used when episodes were in danger of being too short. The living room background makes way to reveal unicyclists and elephants in a large production number. The most-used couch gag in first-run primetime airings called the " Circus Line Couch Gag", first used in " Lisa's First Word", involves the family forming a chorus line with a group of dancers. This is one of the few couch gags that continue into the closing shot of the TV, as well as the first one using this. During the shot of the television set following the couch shot Bart is seen falling back down in front of the TV. When the family sits down on the couch, Bart is squeezed off the couch and pops up into the air. The second episode (aired and produced), " Bart the Genius", features the first couch gag to be aired. The first episode of the series to air, " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (episode 7G08), didn't feature a couch gag.
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