I understand there are plans to have more guest animators produce couch gags. As we were watching it last week during dubbing, Matt Groening commented on how wonderful it was to see other artists’ visions of the characters. This isn’t a sequel to this first effort, just another new take on the characters. The animation is by Bill Plympton who produced another brilliant couch gag for us last season. So here it is and I’ll talk more about it after you’ve watched it. Normally, I wouldn’t tell you much about it in advance, wanting to keep the details a surprise for everyone, but FOX put the couch gag up on YouTube this morning. Well, the couch gag that was pulled from episode RABF03 back in January will finally get to air on FOX this Sunday, Maat the opening of RABF09 “Black-Eyed, Please”. You can relive that tale here, if you’d like to. I wrote in great detail about a recent couch gag that was slipped in at the last minute and how I had to come up with a score for the gag using just library music. Hyper-observant fans of the show are rewarded for their attention to the details. There will often be small tweaks of sound effects or music, or if there was any dialog in the gag, it might be changed. But even the reruns aren’t always verbatim repeats of what aired previously. I don’t have an exact number (maybe an über fan will help out in the comments), but this would mean that to date we’ve done about 350 different couch gags. We do about two-thirds new and one-third recycled couch gags each season. If you haven’t seen it in a while – or maybe ever – here is couch gag #1. I was amazed that on top of everything else that goes into producing a weekly animated series that they were going to put fresh content into the Main Title every week (of course this also included new smart-alecky things for Bart to write on the chalkboard every week). I asked Matt Groening and Sam Simon if the plan was to animate a new gag every week and they told me yes. It was clever and funny, but I had no idea what the long-term plan for the couch gags was until I went to music spotting for episode 7G03 “Homer’s Odyssey” and noticed that there was a different gag in the Main Title. I remember seeing the first couch gag way back in late 1989 as part of the opening for episode 7G02 “Bart the Genius”. In the last month, I’ve put in a lot of extra effort on our couch gags.
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