{"id":6859,"date":"2025-04-10T05:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6859\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T05:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:32:26","slug":"heres-how-many-couch-gags-there-really-have-been-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/6859\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How Many Couch Gags There Really Have Been (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Simpsons has become famous over the years for the many couch gags that help to kick off each episode, but there are a lot fewer of them than you would think after 35 years of the animated series. The Simpsons is now airing the second half of Season 36 of the animated series, <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/anime\/news\/simpsons-family-guy-bobs-burgers-season-renewals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and has been renewed for four more seasons as part of a legendary deal with Fox<\/a>. As it gets ready to continue through the foreseeable future to get to Season 40 of the series, there are bound to be many more couch gags helping each new episode get fans ready for the wackiness to come. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tVideos by ComicBook.com\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 784 episodes of The Simpsons as of the <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/anime\/news\/the-simpsons-ralph-father\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">time of this publication with Season 36 currently 15 episodes into its stretch<\/a>. When accounting for the number of couch gags that are entirely unique, and skipping over those that had small changes or adjustments with future appearances, there are actually much fewer couch gags for the series overall than you\u2019d expect. The current total when counting each unique couch gag across these 36 seasons is 456, but does account for a little over 58% of the animated series\u2019 history. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Simpsons-Couch-Gags-How-Many.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1306694\"  \/>20th Television Animation<\/p>\n<p>How Many Couch Gags in Each Season of The Simpsons<\/p>\n<p>When accounting for unique couch gags in The Simpsons, and not counting those with just small adjustments, the breakdown of couch gags per season is as such: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Season 1 \u2013 5<\/li>\n<li>Season 2 \u2013 10<\/li>\n<li>Season 3 \u2013 12<\/li>\n<li>Season 4 \u2013 12<\/li>\n<li>Season 5 \u2013 12<\/li>\n<li>Season 6 \u2013 11<\/li>\n<li>Season 7 \u2013 13<\/li>\n<li>Season 8 \u2013 14<\/li>\n<li>Season 9 \u2013 17<\/li>\n<li>Season 10 \u2013 11<\/li>\n<li>Season 11 \u2013 16<\/li>\n<li>Season 12 \u2013 11<\/li>\n<li>Season 13 \u2013 10<\/li>\n<li>Season 14 \u2013 11<\/li>\n<li>Season 15 \u2013 12<\/li>\n<li>Season 16 \u2013 15<\/li>\n<li>Season 17 \u2013 13<\/li>\n<li>Season 18 \u2013 13<\/li>\n<li>Season 19 \u2013 13<\/li>\n<li>Season 20 \u2013 18<\/li>\n<li>Season 21 \u2013 17<\/li>\n<li>Season 22 \u2013 17<\/li>\n<li>Season 23 \u2013 13<\/li>\n<li>Season 24 \u2013 19<\/li>\n<li>Season 25 \u2013 19<\/li>\n<li>Season 26 \u2013 18<\/li>\n<li>Season 27 \u2013 16<\/li>\n<li>Season 28 \u2013 18<\/li>\n<li>Season 29 \u2013 12<\/li>\n<li>Season 30 \u2013 14<\/li>\n<li>Season 31 \u2013 13<\/li>\n<li>Season 32 \u2013 9<\/li>\n<li>Season 33 \u2013 7<\/li>\n<li>Season 34 \u2013 8<\/li>\n<li>Season 35 \u2013 5<\/li>\n<li>Season 36 \u2013 3 (So Far) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This count also does not factor in any of the special makeovers for the opening credits as those are different from the classic couch gag itself. These are the Simpsons Family entering their home to sit on their couch, and something wacky happens. As noted through these counts, there are some interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/anime\/news\/the-simpsons-longest-animated-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trends heading into the later seasons of the animated series<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/anime\/news\/the-simpsons-will-apu-return-voice-actor-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Simpsons Star Discusses If He\u2019ll Ever Return To Legendary Role<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Simpsons-Family.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1303261\"  \/>20th Television Animation<\/p>\n<p>The Simpsons\u2019 Couch Gags Have Become Less Important<\/p>\n<p>The interesting shift when looking back on all of the couch gags through The Simpsons thus far is that by the much more recent years there are far less unique couch gags. Starting in the 20s, The Simpsons instead moved away from repeating couch gags as well. Many of the classic episodes would reuse a particular couch gag later in the season, but <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/anime\/news\/the-simpsons-family-guy-bobs-burgers-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this became less common in the high definition era<\/a>. Instead, many of the openings were cut short entirely to fit more story into a particular episode. <\/p>\n<p>Rather than repeating, these chances for couch gags would be removed entirely. It meant a longer episode overall (as the opening theme sequence does take important time away from the 21-22 minute allotted for each story), but it is something of note as part of the many changes to the series over the years. With over half of The Simpsons\u2019 run overall featuring a unique couch gag to start them off, however, it really has been a good run so far. As the show gets closer to Season 40, t<a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/anime\/news\/the-simpsons-ending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here are likely going to be even more to come<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Simpsons has become famous over the years for the many couch gags that help to kick off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[4002,77,968,4003,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-6859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-animation-genre","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-regular-news","11":"tag-the-simpsons-tv-show","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114312035933852594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}