Matt Selman revealed that couch gags no longer appeared in every episode of the newer seasons of The Simpsons, as he and the creatives didn’t want to trim the story to accommodate them. Speaking with ...

The Simpsons' intro has ended with its titular family sitting on a sofa in countless outlandish ways. However, the iconic couch gags are far less frequent these days. Showrunner Matt Selman explained ...

In the early years of The Simpsons, the famous "couch gag" was always featured at the start of each episode. More recently, couch gags are scarcely used, and the reason why mostly boils down to ...

There are currently 784 episodes of The Simpsons as of the time of this publication with Season 36 currently 15 episodes into its stretch. When accounting for the number of couch gags that are ...

Matt Selman said on the Friday, April 17 episode of the Four Finger Discount podcast that he's "not gonna cut the storytelling short" to make room for longer intros "Sometimes the show is short and we ...

The Simpsons viewers noticed how couch gags, a trademark feature of the animated sitcom’s introductory sequence, no longer appeared as often in later seasons. Recently, in an interview, one of the ...