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Chalkboard gag "South Park—we'd stand beside you if we weren't so scared" Some stations aired: "Je ne suis pas Français" ("I am not French") Couch gag: The family chases the couch throughout the pages of The Springfield Shopper. The couch reunites with them after seeing an advertisement about itself in the classifieds section. Episode chronology
A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.
Chalkboard gag "Spoiler alert: Unfortunately, my dad doesn't die" Couch gag: A surreal depiction of a future episode of the show created by Don Hertzfeldt.
The chalkboard gag is a reference to the advertising slogan of the lean mean grilling machine by George Foreman. The title of The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode "Skinless in Seattle" is a reference to the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle .
Romani ite domum on a reconstruction of a Roman settlement in Britain, in the Hull and East Riding Museum. Writing lines is frequently satirised in popular culture as "a symbol of futile, old-fashioned, one-size-fits-all schoolhouse discipline", as in the chalkboard gag seen at the beginning of many episodes of The Simpsons, where Bart Simpson writes lines on a chalkboard as a punishment.
The opening sequence, including the chalkboard and couch gags, was originally a video created by Australian animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon with music by Jeremy Dower. [2] After uploading the video to YouTube on February 1, 2015, producers contacted them within one day to license the video.
The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes. In this gag, Bart Simpson is writing lines on the chalkboard as a punishment; when the school bell rings, he immediately stops writing and runs out of the classroom.
Chalkboard gag "Global Warming did not eat my homework" Couch gag: Homer goes from prehistory to modern history as he starts out as a unicellular being and evolves into many creatures until he finally reaches the modern day and evolves into the present Homer. When he comes in the house, Marge asks Homer, "What took you so long?" and Homer sighs ...