Gender "Homer's Odyssey". In more recent seasons, the couch gags have tended to be more outlandish and absurd, sometimes showing the Simpson family sitting on the couch in different types of media (claymation, live-action, flipbook animation, etc.). "Beware My Cheating Bart" has what was the longest couch gag on the show, beating out the previous record held by Season 18's "Homerazzi"'s evolution gag by eight seconds (the current longest couch gag is the Rick and Morty Couch Gag from Season 26's "Mathlete's Feat"). Blinky is the Springfield Curling team's mascot. Relatives Move it, Football Head! Lisa is tasked to collect several 3-Eyed Fish for the Sea Captain (though she decides to secretly free them all instead). A creator of the internet, he has recently taken on notable creative commissions both popular (a highly coveted gig doing a couch gag for The Simpsons) and artistic (his 2017 music video for Moby earned a top prize at Annecy). He defended Blinky saying he was the next step in the evolutionary ladder and not a horrible mutant. Mutant Fish The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant caused the mutations. The Simpsons Arcade Game: Blinky also appears in The Simpsons Arcade Game and can be picked up and thrown at an enemy. Blinky After I draw one character on a page I try to make the next one fit into the negative spaces of the other one's silhouette. The extra length of the gag would compensate for the shorter episode. One of the most memorable couch gags involved the Simpsons arriving to find The Flintstones sitting on the couch. He follows the ice flow Bart is riding on, and after a few seconds jumps out of the water to try and hit him. Status During the shot of the television set following the couch shot Bart is seen falling back down in front of the TV. As a publicity stunt Mr. Burns has dinner at The Simpsons home, and Marge unexpectedly serves the Blinky that Bart had caught earlier. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. It was first featured in Season 4's "Kamp Krusty", but was later used in repeat airings (and in international airings) of "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" (which originally used the couch gag from "Bart After Dark" where the living room is a detailed replica of the Beatles "Sgt. Most couch gags are used at least twice, with a second occurrence usually in the same season as the first. Since it was used in a total of eight episodes to date, this extra-long couch gag has mostly been used when episodes were in danger of being too short. Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employees, Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/3-eyed-fish-found-near-argentinean-nuclear-power-plant_n_1067679.html, Power Plant Employee (Simpson and Delilah), Power Plant Employee (Life on the Fast Lane), Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Blinky?oldid=949736, 3-Eyed, Orange Creature from the Black Lagoon. This has become less common in more recent seasons, as the required length for each episode has been reduced due to additional advertising. Another extra-long couch gag is when the family tries to sit on the couch, but it tries to attack them. The baby couch is now Maggie's chair. A couch gag is a running visual joke in the Opening Sequence of The Simpsons. 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