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This further confirmed the feasibility of using sound-speed UCT to detect breast lesions, allowing higher contrast settings and improved threshold values for more prospective assessment of mass detection in the future. These more accurate sound-speed characterizations also applied to characterizing higher sound-speeds for malignant than benign lesions. One potential way to characterize a breast lesion is to compare a sound-speed tomogram with the corresponding CURE attenuation and reflection images.
Statistically, the malignant lesions have elevated sound-speed and attenuation relative to surrounding tissue Greenleaf et al. The architectural distortion at the tumor region in the reflection image is another indicator of cancer Stavros et al. The addition of reflection and attenuation data can potentially further improve the separation of benign from cancer as illustrated in the color-coded fused image in Figure Studies based on such image fusions are undergoing in our group. Color-coded fused image for a breast with an infiltrating ductal carcinoma.
CURE images are constructed from the same data, so they can be fused together without any geometric discrepancies. The third potential clinical application of UCT is to monitor clinical response of breast cancer patients to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Although chemotherapy is widely used to treat cancers, it is important to identify patients who are not responding to chemotherapy as early as possible, to avoid unsuccessful treatment strategies and unnecessary side effects Rousseau et al.
Accurate evaluation of a tumor's response to therapy is also necessary to plan for surgery Partridge et al. In an ongoing study, we have used CURE images to monitor the progress of chemotherapy for six patients. CURE exams were performed at each cycle of chemotherapy. The sound-speed distribution from each scan was reconstructed to track the change in size, shape and mean sound-speed of the tumor.
Compared with MRI, a significant potential advantage of using our sound-speed tomograms for chemotherapy monitoring is the low cost for both patients and health care providers. Again, the greater potential accuracy of sound-speed measurements with the TV bent-ray algorithm and the ability to increase the contrast over the background makes this a more feasible procedure which could easily be automated and compared for patients at each follow-up visit over time.
The time resolution was 2 weeks. The large mass is in the 2 o'clock position and shows dramatic shrinkage over time. There are several limitations in our study. First, the performance of our tomography algorithm declined when the lesion size dropped to and below the elevation beam width 5 mm for our ring array , since the signal dilution led to a loss of contrast. Another important factor influencing the performance of our algorithm is the signal-to-noise ratio of the acquired patient data. Although our in-house time-of-flight picker was tolerant to white noise, coherent noise in the ultrasound data might still affect the performance of the picker Li et al.
Thus, low signal-to-noise of the data might affect the accuracy of our time-of-flight picks. Consequently, bigger data errors would degrade the reconstructed sound-speed tomograms. Second, the trade-off between image resolution and computation speed needs to be balanced. For a typical breast scan with 76 slices, three-iteration inversion of the whole stack with 2 mm by 2 mm grid points on a 2. Since most parts of our current algorithm implementation are sequential, the computation speed can be improved by parallelizing the code.
Finally, the clinical implications suggest that it will be important to assess the relative contrast levels for algorithms in defining thresholds for viewing images on a prospective basis. Accurate depictions of local areas of increase sound-speed may then become more reliable parameters for diagnostic assessment in clinical applications. We developed a TV based bent-ray tomography algorithm for imaging the sound-speed distribution of the breast. We applied this algorithm to 61 breast datasets acquired using our clinical prototype CURE.
Our sound-speed images showed that the TV regularization, in combination with bent-ray tomography, better defined lesion edges and improved not only spatial resolution but significantly improved tissue contrast for better lesion conspicuity over background. Fatty and dense tissues could be well separated and mean sound-speeds of malignant lesions was higher than that of benign masses on average. Fusing sound-speed images with the corresponding attenuation and reflection images may help differentiate benign from malignant breast lesions.
The lower costs compared with MRI and the lack of radiation exposure potentially allows UCT a prominent role in the future for therapeutic interventions, either for breast density deduction or cancer treatment. The authors wish to thank Lisa Bey-Knight for her help in recruiting patients and data collection. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Huang also acknowledges the support of the U. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Author manuscript; available in PMC Feb 6. Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer. The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at Ultrasound Med Biol.
See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract We discuss a bent-ray ultrasound tomography algorithm with total-variation TV regularization. Ultrasound tomography, Total-variation, Sound-speed, Breast imaging. Open in a separate window. Ultrasound sound-speed tomography Based on the Radon transform, classical tomography reconstruction using filtered back-projection FBP cannot take ray bending into account. Define sharpness of lesion edges To define sharpness of lesion edges in a more illustrative way, we took the TV tomogram in Figure 4a as an example: Select region of interest ROI Two methods were used to isolate lesions in the sound-speed tomograms as described in the following.
RESULTS Phantom study An initial phantom study was performed to justify the selection of imaging parameters and evaluate the accuracy of our algorithm for the in vivo study. Table 1 Comparison of calculated and known sound-speeds for breast phantom. In vivo study Total-variation L1-norm regularization vs. Table 2 Comparison of sharpness of lesion edges. Table 3 Mean sound-speed with standard deviation SD.
Table 4 Mean sound-speed with standard deviation SD. Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank Lisa Bey-Knight for her help in recruiting patients and data collection. Ray linking for computed tomography by rebinning of projection data. J Acoust Soc Am. A ray tracing approach to restoration and resolution enhancement in experimental ultrasound tomography.
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Reconstruction of ultrasonic sound velocity and attenuation coefficient using linear arrays: Inverse scattering theory within the Rytov approximation. Inverse formula for inverse scattering within the Born approximation. Physical properties of tissue. Development of ultrasound tomography for breast imaging: Detection of breast cancer with ultrasound tomography: Wavefront distortion measurements in the human breast.
Novel approach to evaluating breast density utilizing ultrasound tomography. Volumetric breast density evaluation from ultrasound tomography images. Quantitative cross-sectional imaging of ultrasound parameters. Clinical imaging with transmissive ultrasonic computerized tomography. Ultrasonic computed tomography for breast examination. The L-curve and its use in the numerical treatment of inverse problems. Computational inverse problems in electrocardiology. Mammographically determined breast density and cancer risk. Experimental studies in transmission ultra-sound tomography.
Recent activity in ultrasonic tomography. Inverse scattering solutions by a sinc basis, multiple source, moment method—Part I: Apparatus and method for imaging with wavefields using inverse scattering techniques. Second-order method for the first arrivals in smooth media. Comparison of the performance of screening mammography, physical examination, and breast US and evaluation of factors that influence them: An analysis of 27, patient evaluation.
The couch scene is a near-complete jigsaw puzzle, with Homer's and Maggie's heads missing. Two hands with five fingers on each hand instead of four and colored in a realistic peach skin tone instead of The Simpsons cartoonishly bright yellow put the heads in place, then, noticing Homer and Maggie are switched, fixes them and says, "Woo-hoo! A metal detector and a security guard are on the side of the couch.
Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie make it past the detector, but Homer sets it off. After three failed attempts, Homer is stripped down to his underwear and inspected by the guard with a handheld scanning wand.
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Filmed in claymation, the Simpsons are colored balls that roll to the couch. A green ball rolls in along with them and forms into Gumby. The Simpsons sit down on the couch as normal. The family runs in to sit on the couch, but it turns into a monster and chases them out of the house. Everyone's couches come to life and start attacking and swallowing the people sitting on them. The purple-haired twins, Sherri and Terri, are swallowed by their beanbag chair, policemen Eddie and Lou are trapped in their squad car as a band of couches rock it back and forth, Professor Frink is attacked by a futuristic flying couch with laser weaponry, and Moe takes a swig of booze and blasts his attacking booths and barstools with his shotgun.
Meanwhile, Homer takes refuge in a store called "Couch World", and sits, sighing in relief—until the sentient couches in the store pile on top of him. The camera zooms out to reveal that the family and the living room are part of a zoo exhibit on Kang and Kodos's home planet, Rigel IV. The couch is replaced with a bird's nest and the family members take their usual places. A large bird flies in and feeds Homer a worm. A pair of animated hands deals a wild royal flush the jack of diamonds [Bart], the queen of diamonds [Marge], the king of diamonds [Homer], the ace of diamonds [Lisa], and a joker [Maggie] onto the couch.
A photographer comes in and snaps their family portrait, which sets off a slideshow of the family in normal , normal, yet weary-looking , Homer is dead, somber music plays, Marge is dressed in black, and the kids are in their church clothes , Marge is married to Lenny; the kids start to age , Marge is gone; the kids are still aging; Lenny and Carl are now caring for the kids , Marge returns and is now married to Jimbo Jones; the kids are still growing up , Jimbo Jones is gone; Homer is now a robot; Bart and Lisa are now teenagers while Maggie is now a young girl , and everyone in the Simpson family is a robot.
In a parody of the Bonanza opening, a map of frontier-era United States is burned out in the center, revealing The Simpsons on horseback. The Bonanza theme plays instead of the usual Simpsons music. Homer is added by a robotic arm and the conveyor belt continues moving. The living room is blocked by a laser security system. The Simpsons carefully slip through the beams and make it to the couch, but once the lasers vanish, Homer's head falls to the floor.
The family played by live-action actors and actresses from the UK sit on the couch just as the animated Simpsons opening comes on. The couch is replaced by four wooden chairs. When the music stops, everyone except for Homer grabs a seat. Homer groans in disappointment. Everyone but Homer sits on the couch. A vending machine filled with every castmember including The Simpson family from the show appears instead of the couch. Ralph Wiggum comes in, selects a Homer figurine, and bites the head off before leaving. The family sits down and gets moved across the floor in a car wash, where they get sprayed with water, squirted with hot wax, and scrubbed with brushes.
Marge's hair turns puffy, Maggie's pacifier turns up missing, and everyone looks sad as three men wipe them dry and one of them puts a new pacifier in Maggie's mouth. The Simpsons get dragged and dropped onto a desktop picture of the couch before getting dragged and dropped again in the recycle bin. The Simpsons's eyes are visible in the dark. When the lights come up, the Simpsons are revealed to have the bodies of cockroaches.
The Simpson roaches scatter with Maggie hiding behind the couch. A pair of cartoon hands cuts a piece of paper into the shape of Homer. The hands then pull out the paper to reveal a chain shaped like the rest of the Simpsons family members. Homer can be heard yelling, "Whoo-hoo! The family in Christmas attire sits on the couch, and the camera pulls out to reveal they are reflected in decoration which is on a Christmas tree, and Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II rest nearby.
All of the Simpsons are infants who crawl to the couch while "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" plays in the background. When they reach the couch, everyone reverts to their normal ages save Maggie, who is already a baby. The Simpsons are stand-up paper dolls in their underwear; a pair of hands puts clothes on them, after which they smile and sit on the couch.
Getting out of the ocean, Homer evolves into a prehistoric lizard that extends his tongue to snack on an insect that resembles his power plant coworker, Lenny. Homer then evolves into a slightly larger lizard with a scale on his back that sees a pterodactyl resembling Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, flying overhead.
Homer then evolves into a rat that gets chased by a Tyrannosaurus Rex resembling Bart, who then gets into a battle with a stegosaurus resembling Lisa. Homer hides in a hole just before a large asteroid crashes on Earth, wiping out all dinosaur life. Homer comes out of the hole, passing the skeletal remains of T-Rex Bart, before changing into a sloth, then a monkey as he approaches a jungle, becoming more apelike as he swings through the trees. Leaving the jungle, a brief Ice Age occurs as he evolves from a Neanderthal, to a Cro-Magnon, to an upright walking caveman.
Caveman Homer passes by Moe who is also a caveman , the latter of which devolves into a rat creature. As Homer continues walking, he evolves into men from different historical eras a nomad from the Middle Ages, a Spanish explorer, a Pilgrim, and a Victorian-era intellectual until he finally enters the present day, evolves into his modern self, and comes home, stepping over Santa's Little Helper as he goes inside the house.
With the rest of the family sitting on the sofa, Marge asks, "What took you so long? Similar to the couch gag from the season five's " Rosebud ", the Simpsons sit on the couch as normal. Then a second Simpson family crams themselves on the couch. Soon more and more Simpson clones overrun the house, spilling out of the chimney and upstairs windows. To coincide with the opening sequence depicting a destroyed Springfield from The Simpsons Movie being rebuilt , the Simpsons run to their near-dilapidated house and find Plopper the pig on the couch. Homer cuddles it and says, "My summer love!
The living room is made of Lego bricks and the family members are built one by one out of them. Homer can be heard shouting, "Woo-hoo! The family sits down as normal, except Maggie is missing. Homer looks to the empty space where Maggie is, then gets lifted by a giant Maggie as the camera pulls out to reveal the living room being part of a dollhouse and the family as the dolls that live within. Maggie puts the miniature Homer in her mouth and sucks it like a pacifier.
The family already seated on the couch appears on the cover of Modern Couch Gag magazine. A pair of cartoon hands opens up a book called "The Simpsons" and reveals a pop-up centerfold of the family sitting on the couch. A magician walks into the living room and uses his cape to make the couch and family members appear.
A medieval tapestry based on the famous Bayeux Tapestry shows Ned Flanders and his family stealing the Simpsons's couch. The Simpsons then sail over to the Flanders' castle, fight them for the couch, and return with the couch and Ned Flanders' chopped corpse. The Simpsons are sitting perfectly still on the couch. The camera pans out again to reveal that the couch scene is a painting at a museum. A mobile is above the couch.
The Simpsons run in and hook themselves onto it. Homer's weight tips the mobile. Two hands add pegs to a Lite-Brite picture of the family on the couch. The picture lights up and Maggie sucks on her pacifier. There are five dots on the couch. Professor Frink comes in with an eye dropper and squeezes water on all of the dots, which sprout into sponge doll versions of The Simpsons, except Homer isn't full grown. Professor Frink walks off and comes back with a bucket of water.
He splashes it on Homer and Homer sprouts to his normal height. Coyote drawn Simpsons-style paints the couch on the wall of the living room and sneaks off. The Simpsons run in and smack face-first into the wall. Maggie runs in and does the Roadrunner's trademark "Meep, meep!
The rest of the Simpsons peel themselves off the wall and sit on the painted couch, but Homer falls through, leaving a hole in the wall. Light flute music plays as a paintbrush dabs at the empty couch, making Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Maggie appear one by one. The Simpsons sit on the couch and are suddenly encased in a block of carbonite.
Boba Fett of Star Wars fame appears and carries off the family. The Simpsons rush in and find themselves in a national park viewing area overlooking a Mount Rushmore -esque mountain carving of the family sitting on the couch. Bart can be heard yelling, "Ay, caramba! In a reverse parody of The Wizard of Oz , The Simpsons in their colorful world are sucked up by a tornado and put on a farmland shown in black and white.
Instead of a couch, there are five cuckoo clocks on the wall. Wooden cuckoo clock statues of The Simpsons pop out one by one. Instead of the living room, the Simpsons dressed in togas are in the ancient city of Pompeii and race to sit on a bench. Suddenly, Mount Vesuvius in the distance erupts and covers the family in ash.
Similar to the couch gag in the season 9 episode, " Trash of the Titans ," The Simpsons run in and find Bart writing on the blackboard as punishment. Unlike the couch gag on "Trash of the Titans," the Simpsons are in their own living room, the blackboard is on wheels instead of on the wall, and Bart is writing "I will not bring the chalkboard home" instead of "I will not mess with the opening credits". The living room is encased inside of a plastic toy box labeled "The Simpsons Couch Gag ".
The Simpsons rush to the couch and sit down. He looks at the audience and comments, "Worst The family rush into the living room to discover that the couch is missing. Through the window, Homer spots the couch escaping down the road, and the family gives chase. The Simpsons follow the couch to various destinations throughout the world, such as the streets of San Francisco , the water canals of Venice and inside a palace room in India before finally catching up with it in outer space. Homer directs the couch towards Earth, and the family dressed as astronauts like in the couch gag to " The Principal and the Pauper " crashes through the ceiling into the living room.
Homer pulls out a remote from underneath him and turns on the TV The Simpsons travel through a chain of past iconic American sitcoms: Frasier Crane until they finally reach their own sitcom and sit on the couch, sighing in relief.
The Simpsons come in and find their couch beaten and torn. Funeral music plays as they bury the couch in the backyard. The Simpsons then visit a ranch to pick out a new couch. The Simpsons sit on a black and white spotted couch, which throws Homer off it. The scene then cuts to The Simpsons in their living room, sitting on their new couch.
Homer is in a body cast and turns on the wall-mounted flatscreen TV. The couch is strung up like a pinata. A blindfolded Ralph Wiggum comes in, swinging a stick and hits the couch, making the Simpsons spill out on the floor. The Simpsons are dog show participants being led on leashes by men in fancy suits. A judge awards Bart the blue ribbon, and Homer attacks Bart. The Simpsons are a meal at a fancy restaurant Homer is a garden salad, Lisa's face appears in a bowl of soup, Marge is a plate of spaghetti and meatballs, Bart is a T-Bone steak, and Maggie is the mint that comes with the restaurant bill , which The Comic Book Guy eats.
After he wipes his mouth with a napkin, a stain appears that resembles The Simpsons sitting on the couch. The screen is white. A cartoon left hand flips an animation cel that has eyes on it, flips another that has Homer's skeleton sitting cross-legged, flips another that has Homer's stomach and a can of Duff beer on the lap, flips another that has Homer naked, another where the rest of the family are fully clothed and sitting in mid-air, and another where The Simpsons are in their living room and sitting on the couch.
Marge notices Homer is still naked and pulls down an animation cel that has Homer's clothes. The living room is covered in thick, jungle plants. The Simpsons slash their way through in order to reach the couch, and find an ape version of the Simpson family already seated. The ape-Simpsons hoot and screech, scaring off the human Simpsons. There's an Olympic-sized pool leading to the couch. The Simpsons take their places on the marks and swim to the couch once a starter pistol goes off.
Marge is first, Lisa's second, Bart is third, and Maggie is last. The family looks around, wondering where Homer is. Cut to a shot of an unconscious Homer floating facedown in the pool. The living room is the seating area in the Colosseum during the era of the Roman Empire. The Simpsons dressed in togas rush to an empty space to sit down. The sounds of a gladiator match can be heard offscreen.
The audience cheers as the head of a gladiator flies into the audience. A large marble rock is in the living room where the couch should be. A stereotypical French sculptor quickly chisels out a statue of The Simpsons sitting on the couch. The sculptor then turns the statue of the Simpsons into a statue of a Civil War soldier on a horse. Similar to the couch gag from the season 11's " Missionary Impossible ", the Simpsons are at an underground train station where a train pulls in and opens its doors, revealing the living room, complete with couch.
The Simpsons get in and sigh as the door closes and the train pulls off. The Simpsons, wearing white cowboy hats, exchange gunfire around the couch. Maggie comes out from behind the sailboat picture on the wall and blasts the room with a machine gun. The living room is a clearing during the Stone Age and the couch is a log floating on a tarpit.
The Simpsons dressed as cavemen and cavewomen rush to the log and sit down, only to sink into the tar. Cut to the modern day where The Simpsons are well-preserved skeletons on display at a museum. Instead of the couch, The Simpsons dressed as Victorian-era Christmas carollers appear next to a Christmas tree and sing a parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas," featuring twelve Grampas grumbling as they stand in a customer return line , eleven Barneys belching as they lie drunk in the snow , ten Lennys leaping over a fence , nine Carls dancing in a ballroom , eight Moes a-milking, seven Selmas smoking, six Flanders praying, five golden Frinks Professor Frink's heads are on five gold coins , four crawling nerds Database, Wendell, Martin, and Milhouse crawling from Nelson Muntz , three-eyed fish Blinky from " Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish " , two special Ralphs, and as the Simpsons walk to the couch , a Maggie in a Snuggly.
The Simpsons and Marge's sisters Patty and Selma gather around the dinner table for a Thanksgiving meal, but soon gather their plates and head for the couch where they watch a football game on TV. The living room furniture the couch cushions, the rug, the flat-screen TV, and the lamps are all dancing to disco music just as The Simpsons come in. Once Homer yells, "Hey! Homer is standing on a coiled platform, which launches him and the rest of the Simpson family through a pinball game called "Couch Gag Chaos.
The couch is seen inside a human egg. Each family member is a sperm cell swimming towards and penetrating the egg to sit on the couch. The zygote then divides multiple times, forming a Mr. Homer runs to the couch first. When Homer gets an incoming call from Mr. Burns, he screams and swallows the phone. Cut to reveal Grampa getting his fortune read by the gypsy from " Hex and the City ". Grampa gasps and turns the Death card towards the gypsy.
The gypsy drops dead. The facade of the house collapses on top of them, but does not crush them, thanks to the empty window pane. The Simpsons chase after the couch through the articles on The Springfield Shopper. The couch gives in and reunites with the family after seeing an ad about it in the classified section. Special opening with Lisa and several other characters—main, ancillary, and one-shot lip-synching to Kesha 's " Tik Tok ," which culminates into The Simpsons sitting on their couch as everyone in town lifts them up.
Nelson constructs a miniature Simpsons toy, then blows it up with a firecracker. Harold from the children's book, Harold and the Purple Crayon draws The Simpsons' living room just as they run in to sit. Homer asks Harold to draw him a beer, and Harold obliges. Homer pats the child on the head. Homer and Bart appear as hand puppets, and the puppets begin attacking each other. The view pans down, and Homer is shown choking Bart himself. The man eats the cupcake and walks off as the banner falls on the disappointed family. The family finds a dead man on their living room floor, then run from the police in their couch.
They are soon arrested, identified in a line-up, and executed on an electric couch. The family is seen seated on the couch. The camera pulls back to reveal this as a picture hanging in a sweatshop where Asian workers most of which are women and children are producing merchandise and animation cels for the show. The camera pulls back further to reveal that the sweatshop is in the 20th Century Fox Building This special opening was animated by graffiti artist Banksy. The Simpsons rush to and sit down on the couch. Daredevil Lance Murdock jumps his motorcycle over the family and crashes into the door.
In the style of the James Cameron film Avatar , the Simpsons get inside a transporter and are seen as members of the Na'vi tribe. Na'vi Bart tames a wild flying couch before the family sits down in front of the TV wearing blue and red 3D glasses. Professor Frink is on the couch and shoots the family with a shrink ray.
Now microsized once again , the Simpsons make their way to a mousetrap baited with cheese that they use as a couch, only for the mousetrap to snap on everyone seated.
Different scenes of Springfield are shown on an Advent calendar. The December 24 section depicts the Simpsons on the couch, with Santa Claus. The couch wakes up, shaves, has breakfast, rides a subway, clocks in outside of the Simpsons' back door, and takes its place as everyone runs in and sits on it. The Simpsons are depicted as scoops of ice cream in a giant sundae, which Santa's Little Helper eats. Homer injures his leg as he runs to the couch with the rest of the family.
As Homer is carried off in a stretcher, Mr. Burns signals for benchwarmer Barney Gumble to run in and take Homer's place. The Simpsons are hockey players similar to the couch gag from season 16's " There's Something About Marrying " who get sent to the penalty box couch for fighting during a game. On a "The Simpsons Couch Gag Game" video game, the five family members are selected as players and sit on the couch. Similar to the season six couch gag for " Lisa on Ice ," the family sits on the couch, only to be sprung off by the cushion springs in this version, the family springs into the viewer's TV screen rather than get shot through the ceiling.
The living room setting with the family seated on the couch is shown as a VHS cover inside an abandoned video rental store "Million Dollar Video" that subsequently gets demolished. The couch is on display at the Smithsonian Museum much like Archie Bunker 's chair. The Simpsons dressed as burglars sneak in and bypass security to get to the couch.
The entire couch scene is drawn and animated by John Kricfalusi. A sword with the label "Property of Ned Flanders" is stuck on the couch. Homer tries to remove it, but cannot. Flanders tries and is successful. Homer and the rest of the family sit on the couch as Flanders leaves. The Simpsons are gingerbread people who run on a plate set out for Santa Claus. Gingerbread Homer eats his own arm. In a Victorian-period setting, the lights go out and there is a gunshot.
When the lights come up, Homer is found dead and Bart is arrested for his father's murder. Marge the real culprit sits on the couch and hides the smoking gun in her hair. Unlike the couch gag from that episode, the Simpsons are shown racing through New York City to get to Letterman's studio, David Letterman guest stars as himself, and Letterman actually speaks to the family.
Moe and everyone else on the show come in to congratulate the Simpsons on completing episodes, but Lisa using a copy of Simpsons World tells him that this is the th episode. A frame-by-frame montage of every previous couch gag starting with the one from " Bart the Genius " and ending with the one from "The Daughter Also Rises" is shown, followed by a new couch gag where the Simpsons sit on the couch, then the camera zooms out to reveal a "" mosaic made up of stills from past couch gags.
The family sits down, but now Bart is green. AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. The ape-Simpsons hoot and screech, scaring off the human Simpsons. The sound-speed tomogram in Figure 5a was multiplied by the mask image, and the resulting image is shown in Figure 5c with all 0s except that the original sound-speed values are unchanged within the ROI. Coyote drawn Simpsons-style paints the couch on the wall of the living room and sneaks off. The higher contrast for the fibroadenoma is confirmed by the sound-speed tracing Fig.
The mosaic falls apart and reveals Homer and Bart strangling each other in tuxedos. A spoof of the intro to HBO's adventure fantasy series Game of Thrones , with the buildings rising out of the ground, being driven by cogs, and a giant couch overlooking the entire town. The family lays on a layer of seaweed covered with rice on the floor in front of the couch, which is then rolled up and sliced like sushi. Maggie pops out from one of the pieces.
The Simpsons sit on a couch in , where a banner that reads, "America: Most Powerful Nation in the World" hangs on the wall behind them. As the years pass, several popular recurring and one-shot Simpsons characters e. The couch gag ends when the year hits and Maggie holds a miniature Chinese flag. An animated short by Bill Plympton in which a young Homer falls in love with the couch The couch tries to reunite with Homer after having a "baby couch," but Homer casts it out. The couch is forced to support itself by stripping and selling its body after being thrown out of its apartment and nearly commits suicide by throwing itself in a garbage truck, only to be rescued by Homer.
The "baby couch" then ends up being Maggie's play chair. The couch gag is on a card stunt where people in an audience—usually at a baseball or football game—hold up cards to form a giant picture showing the family on the couch, with one picture missing. Homer puts his picture up to cover the gap. Everybody is playing the "Simpsons Couch Gag for the Funtendo Zii ", but Homer is having trouble getting his video game avatar to sit on the couch, just as he keeps missing in real life.
In this homage to the short film, The Longest Daycare , the Simpsons are butterflies that come out of their cocoons.
Baby Gerald tries to kill them and Maggie stops him and all four of them fly off into the sunset. In a parody of Wacky Races , the Simpsons race against many characters all with bizarre racing vehicles , but all of them crash near the finish line and Grampa wins. The Simpsons are drawn as a tattoo on Marge's lower back. Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie sit on the couch. An axe-wielding, maniacal Homer in a hockey goalie mask comes out swinging.
The scene freezes and becomes the cover for a Tales from the Crypt -style horror comic book. After they sit on the couch, they get crushed into a steel cube that reads "World's Greatest Grampa," which Abe accepts as his award. The couch is the chair in a dunk tank. After the Simpsons sit down, Nelson hurls a ball at the target and the family falls into the water. The Simpsons all look like Moe Szyslak again and announce that their new sitcom The Szyslaks has been cancelled. In another Bill Plympton -animated couch gag, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are in a s gangster story, armed with several weapons.
When Maggie turns on the light, the scene reverts to the present day with everyone carrying snacks to the couch. Maggie shoots off a Tommy gun. Maggie, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are painted on Easter eggs and placed on a grass nest on a couch. Homer comes in and sits on the eggs. The Simpson family are skydiving. Homer's parachute breaks, the entire family crashes into the house and fall onto the couch, similar to the couch gag for " You Only Move Twice " and " El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer ," only in this version, the couch gag is a plot point in the episode.
The Simpsons are carved into a block of ice by three men. Grampa Simpson comes in and turns on the heat, and the ice sculpture melts. Everyone and everything in Springfield is animated a la Robot Chicken , ending with the family getting strapped to the couch and forced to watch The Simpsons by the half-robot, half-chicken creature. The Simpsons are sea creatures sitting on a shell couch. All of them get eaten by Blinky , the three-eyed fish. Five dandelions bloom and turn white on the couch.
The end credits continue the couch gag by showing everyone in Springfield being let in and the families from Family Guy , Bob's Burgers , American Dad! A parody of The Hobbit in which The Simpsons trek to the couch. Everyone except Maggie tries to get to the couch as if they are climbing from a different direction, but gravity is pulling them away. Homer fails and falls up through the ceiling into the sky. The Simpsons are flailing tube man balloons on a used couch lot. Balloon Bart steals a pair of scissors and cuts Balloon Homer, who flies into some power lines.
Christmas version of the regular opening, this time, as a retelling of " The Night Before Christmas ". Another Bill Plympton animated couch gag in which the family change reality as they channel surf. Homer sits down to watch the Super Bowl , only to have to get up to get his six-pack of beer When Homer retrieves it, he gets shocked — and keeps getting shocked until the town's power goes out the couch gag itself is an ident for UK's Channel 4.
As the Simpsons rush to the couch, the lights go off. Marge leaves to fix the fuse, and when the lights go up, the characters are drawn Triplets of Belleville -style as this couch gag is directed by Sylvain Chomet and everything has a French aesthetic to it. Bart plays with a do-it-yourself foie gras kit, Lisa plays an accordion, Marge cries out, "Maggie?
Earth's single large land mass breaks apart into five Simpsons-shaped continents, only for a Moe-shaped asteroid to destroy the planet.