History Main / CouchGag

* ''Igloo-Gloo'' ends with Snowball {{Sleepwalking}} while holding his bunny to someplace not too far away during bedtime, with Snowflake always having to bring him back to bed.

* ''Igloo-Gloo'' ends with Snowball {{Sleepwakling}} while holding his bunny to someplace not too far away during bedtime, with Snowflake always having to bring him back to bed.

* Sometimes, before leaving, a child on ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' will double back and thank the big purple guy for his help, or just share their love with him. They may find that he has reverted already.

[[TropeNamer Named]] for one of its best-known incarnations, the family scrambling to gather on the couch during the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* ''Series/DoctorWhoMagazine'' always inculdes a joke or odd statement buried in the print indicia. This is a tradition that has come and gone over the years depending on editorial whim. (On one occasion, after it had lain fallow for some time, it suddenly said "I don't know why you're looking down here, we haven't had a joke here for ages".)

* ''Series/TheTeletubbies'' actually begins and ends with the Teletubbies emerging and reentering their dome in a random order, respectively.

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* The logo sequence for Jim Henson Pictures since the late 1990's features Kermit the Frog on a camera jib. ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'' actually plays with the sequence, creating a one-shot Couch Gag. In this case, the jib drops suddenly for a moment and scares Kermit. Turns out Animal had bumped into it and apologizes.
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[[TropeNamer Named]] for one of its most well-known incarnations, the family scrambling to gather on the couch during the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* Podcast/TheScathingAtheist opens their podcast on slightly different variations each week.

* Podcast/IWasThereToo employs this trope by replacing the final bars of the theme song with music from the scores of famous movies.

* Podcast/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast uses a different adjective in each opening narration to describe just how BIG their project of reading the Target novelizations in story order actually is: "massive" and "YUGE!" have already made appearances. As of March 2017, the Website/YouTube videos of the podcast also feature a Morphoton brain from Keys of Marinus with a different caption directed to the readers.
* WelcomeToNightVale: Cecil says a creepy non-sequiter before the pre-intro music TitleDrop,

* Podcast/DoctorWhoTargetBookClubPodcast uses a different adjective in each opening narration to describe just how BIG their project of reading the Target novelizations in story order actually is: "massive" and "YUGE!" have already made appearances. As of March 2017, the YouTube videos of the podcast also feature a Morphoton brain from Keys of Marinus with a different caption directed to the readers.

* The link back to the unabridged version on the Laconic pages of ThisVeryWiki.

* CarTalk has the credits that make fun of the various people that work on the show, occasionally changing when a new in-joke or gag presents itself, such as Doug the "Subway Fugitive". He jumped a turnstile.

** There will then be a member of the atheist/secular community to quote [[{{Futurama}} Dr. Farnsworth's]] "we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men." or some variation.

* ''Series/DoctorWhoMagazine'' always incldes a joke or odd statement buried in the print inidicia.

* When pro wrestler Wrestling/BryanDanielson was [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh-h.html Ring Of Honor World Heavyweight Champion]], he had a CouchGag of coercing the ring announcer to give him a different flattering title before every match, usually some sort of CheapHeat relating to his opponent or where he was wrestling. Said titles included "the best wrestler in the entire world, with an emphasis on entire world," "the best wrestler to ever step foot in the ECW Arena," "even better than Music/TheBeatles," "the best champion in ROH history," and "really too good to wrestle in front of all these pricks."

-->--'''{{ComicStrip/Garfield}}''', ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', "[[GrandFinale Arbuckle the Invincible/The Monster Who Couldn't Scare Anybody/The Ocean Blue]]"

** It also has TheStinger after every episode that is usually a blank screen with a joke related to the episode or a SpoofAesop. And there is also a [[TheStinger stinger]] [[UpToEleven AFTER]] TheStinger.
* ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow'', also created by LittleKuriboh, has the starting disclaimer read out in a different way each episode. The highlight would be the one sung by Kakashi 'I'm Not Music/DavidBowie' Bowie

* Most fan fictions start with a standard disclaimer about not owning the source material. Humorous fan fiction loves to play with this disclaimer.