The Simpsons is the only show where you are interested in the opening credits. Why? Because of the couch opening. Each show has a different entrance to sitting on the couch. I know these are not all of them so if you can remember others please let me know.
Bart
is squeezed off and pops into the air; during the shot of the TV, he is
seen coming down
The couch falls apart when everybody
is on it
Homer is squeeezed off his side
of the couch
Maggie is squeezed off and pops
into the air; she comes right down into Marge's arms
Everybody fits on the couch
The couch falls through the floor
The "Simpson Shuffle"
The couch unfolds into a bed
Maggie ends up in Marge's hair
Everybody fits, including Santa's
Little Helper and Snowball II
Grampa is lying on the couch sleeping
Homer tips the couch over sideways;
Maggie falls off, but lands on a couch cushion which is on the floor
The couch is gone; everyone looks
around the empty spot
Homer bumps the others off the
couch
The couch tips over backwards;
Maggie pops up from behind it
The couch tips over backwards,
and everybody crashes through the back wall
They sit, then Homer pulls Santa's
Little Helper out from beneath him
Everybody forms a pyramid
A space alien hears them coming,
pulls a cord, and disappears through a trap door in the floor
Bart lands on everyone's lap
Homer gets to the couch first
and lies on it; the others sit on him
The seat cushions are missing;
when they sit, they "fall into" the couch
Two burglars are holding the couch
as everybody sits on it; they are dumped off and the couch is carried away
Santa's Little Helper is on the
couch and keeps everyone else off
Everybody cartwheels to the couch
(Maggie falls in her attempt and hops there) and strikes a "Ta-Da"
pose
Everybody bounces up and down
on the couch; Homer bounces from one side to the other
Everybody except Maggie bang their
heads together and lie unconscious on the floor
Everybody stops as the couch is
occupied - by the Flintstones
The couch swallows everybody as
it transforms into a monster
The couch rotates 180 degrees
through a secret door in the wall; an empty couch takes its place
As Maggie is already seated, Homer,
Marge, and Bart run "past the edge of the film" and scurry back
to the couch
Simpson-sized skeletons sit on
the couch
The couch deflates (as if filled
with air)
Everybody has somebody else's
head, which they remove and switch
There's a wooden chair in place
of the couch; the adults share it, with the children on their laps
Everybody forms a chorus line,
which turns into a large production number
Everybody is "miniature"
and must climb the "giant" couch; Maggie has to be pulled up
Everybody sits, just before the
room is filled with other regular characters
Everybody gets caught in a net
that was spread on the floor
Everybody runs into each other
and shatters on the floor; Santa's Little Helper examines the damage
Everybody runs into each other
and end up on the couch as a five-headed "blob"
Everybody runs into each other
and there's an explosion; eventually, the pacifier lands and bounces away
Everybody, plus the couch, is
crushed by a foot that is reminiscent of how "Monty Python's Flying
Circus" opens
Everybody stops as the couch is
occupied - by an identical Simpson family
Zombie Simpson family crashes
through the floor from below and sits on the couch
The couch is painted on a wall,
which everybody runs through
A fat man takes up most of the
couch; everybody squeezes into the tiny spot remaining
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
Everybody sits, then notice they're
on the set of "Late Show withDavid Letterman" as "Dave"
turns face forward
Everybody pokes their head up
from behind the couch (Maggie does it from behind a cushion on the couch)
Everybody sees two couches, then
they each split into two halves, each half sitting on a couch
Everybody is shaped like a ball
and bounces around before landing on the couch and returning to normal
Everybody sits, then Homer gets
up, rips the FOX logo from the screen corner, and they all stomp on it
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
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)
Everybody is "beamed aboard"
the couch in original "Star Trek" style (complete with sound
effect)
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)
Everybody bounces up off the couch
and gets their heads stuck in the ceiling
Everybody chases the couch as
it, along with the back wall, moves backwards away from them
Everybody runs by the same TV
and couch again and again, all except Maggie grinning the whole time
Everybody runs to the couch from
a different side (Marge runs down the side of a wall) in an M.C. Escher-style
house
The "James Bond" film
opening, only with Homer in front of the couch firing the gun
In black & white, everybody
(wearing Mickey Mouse gloves) waves their hands in circles
A giant Maggie, a slightly smaller
Lisa, and so on down to a tiny Homer, sit on the couch As
the couch moves aside, everybody lines up in front of a police lineup height
chart
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
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
Everybody is wearing fezzes and
drives around in minicars like Shriners
Everybody runs to the couch, entirely
gray; the colors are then spray-painted on them
Everybody drops from above, hanging
from their necks by nooses; Maggie still manages to suck her pacifier
Everybody is a wind-up doll
Everybody is put on the couch
by a pinsetter, after Snowball II is scared off by the pin-clearing bar
Everybody is a sea-monkey and
swims to a couch made of clam shells to stare at a treasure chest
Homer pulls a drain plug from
the floor, and everybody and everything is sucked down the drain
Everybody sits, then inside a
mouse hole, a mouse family sits on an identical couch
A big game hunter sits on the
couch, with a "Homer-skin rug" on the floor and the others' heads
on the wall
Everybody sits, bathed in flourescent
"black light", until Homer turns on the lamp
As Death begins on the couch,
everybody runs up to the couch and falls over dead
Everybody lands on the couch via
parachute except Homer, who lands on the floor with an unopened chute
Everybody is in western gear as
they sit on the couch, when then gallops away into the desert
Everybody is a clear balloon,
which float onto the couch and then pop
A takeoff on the cover of The
Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Bart is green; Homer changes TV
channels, turning Bart red; Homer slaps Bart on the head, turning him normal
Everybody and everything is upside-down,
until everybody falls off the couch and onto the "ceiling"
Homer puts a coin in the "Vend-A-Couch",
then bangs the back wall; the couch then falls on him
Everybody flies in on jet-packs;
Maggie flies in last and lands on Marge's lap
Everybody is involved in a giant
game of Whack-A-Mole; Homer ends up getting whacked
Grampa is sleeping in a convertible
bed, which they convert back to a sofa (with him in it) and sit on it
The couch remains empty while
everybody waits outside as Homer struggles to open the front door
The couch is in an "America
Onlink" window, which takes its time loading everybody before being
interrupted
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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