No. The first episode is the Christmas episode and didn't have the regular opening credit sequence. The first episode to feature the now familiar opening shots ends with The Simpsons rushing to the couch, sitting down, and nothing else.
The 500th Episode
The episode of the Simpsons's with the cake couch gag is in Season 22. The episode airs on September 26, 2010 and has the Simpsons sitting on a couch eating cake with a banner hanging overhead congratulating Fox.
Episode - "The Telltale Head"Episode - "Krusty Gets Busted"Episode - "Bart Gets an "F""Episode - "Stark Raving Dad"Episode - "Bart the Murderer"Episode - "Black Widower"Episode - "Lisa's First Word"Episode - "Cape Feare"Episode - "Another Simpsons Clip Show"Episode - "Sideshow Bob Roberts"THOH - "Treehouse of Horror V" (picture)Episode - "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"Episode - "Bart the Fink" (mentioned)Episode - "The Day the Violence Died" (mentioned)Episode - "Brother from Another Series"Episode - "Behind the Laughter" (picture)Episode - "Pokey Mom"Episode - "Worst Episode Ever" (picture)Episode - "Day of the Jackanapes"Episode - "Large Marge" (promotional image only)Episode - "The Great Louse Detective"Episode - "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (picture)Episode - "Mobile Homer" (couch gag)Episode - "The Italian Bob"Episode - "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (promotional image only)Episode - "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (picture)Episode - "Funeral for a Fiend"Episode - "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" (gravestone)Special - The Simpsons RideEpisode - "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"Episode - "How the Test Was Won" (couch gag)Episode - "Wedding for Disaster"Episode - "Coming to Homerica" (couch gag)Episode - "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"Episode - "American History X-cellent"Episode - "Chief of Hearts" (photo over end credits)Episode - "The Bob Next Door"THOH - "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (picture)Episode - "Holidays of Future Passed" (outline on floor)Episode - "Moe Goes From Rags to Riches" (couch gag)Episode - "At Long Last Leave"Episode - "Moonshine River"Episode - "Gone Abie Gone" (image on poker site)Episode - "A Tree Grows in Springfield" (title screen gag, "Logomania" - picture)Episode - "Dark Knight Court"Episode - "Homerland"THOH - "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"Episode - "The Man Who Grew Too Much"Episode - "Clown in the Dumps"Episode - "Blazed and Confused"Episode - "I Won't Be Home For Christmas"Episode - "Peeping Mom"
Season 1. First episode "Pilot"
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You no longer can submit your own couch gags. All you can do now (as of 02|2013) is vote on the three finalists.
ive been looking but i havent found it
It's their trademark gag, and they want to keep it fresh.
That is a running gag throughout the entire series. However, it first happened in the season one episode, "Homer's Night Out"
First a tight cleave gag, two a handkerchief in front of the first gag, three some tape and four an over the mouth gag. Nice and quiet.
The only episode that features Steve eating hot dogs is Season Four|Episode Eighteen Weiner of Our Discontent but I don't recall Steve saying anything about a gag reflex, Roger perhaps but not Steve.
Well not abused, but bloody insulted. when i first watched it i memorised the couch gag and the chalkboard and wrote it down (each simbilizes each episode) and whenever i saw it i imidietly changed the channel. but I'm Australian, and if a, lets say, German or Chinese or English watch a episode like that, and are sensitive, they may do something like that. but hey, it was the simpsons goal. Also, i hate how they tease Christians, although i like the episode where Bartgets an F, and it shows that he is good, so a miricle happens, and Homer beggins to pray. anyway, i don't blame you for being insulted.