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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
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.
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.
Following the death of recurring guest star Marcia Wallace, the episode acknowledged her passing during the chalkboard gag. [4] The producers planned to retire her character after all the remaining episodes that she had recorded had aired.
The episode received mixed reviews with praise going to the couch gag with Rick and Morty. Dennis Perkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode a D, saying "as the final act of "Mathlete's Feat", the final episode of the 26th season of The Simpsons went to commercial, I was genuinely pissed at how disjointed, lazy, and downright lousy this season ...
Mikey Cahill of the Herald Sun picked the episode's chalkboard gag, "Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does", as one of his favorite chalkboard gags in the history of the show. [ 6 ] Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide said in a review of the sixth season DVD that he did not "share the same level of enthusiasm for it" as Mirkin ...
The chalkboard gag reads "I was not the Sixth Beatle", a reference to the "Fifth Beatle". The chalkboard on The Simpsons: Christmas 2 DVD reads "I will not surprise the incontinent". This is the chalkboard gag from the season 12 episode, "Insane Clown Poppy". The episode's plot is similar to the film The Magic Christian:
A gag is usually an item or device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help and keep its wearer silent. This is usually done by blocking the mouth , partially or completely, or attempting to prevent the tongue , lips , or jaw from moving in the normal patterns of speech.