The latest Simpsons couch gag was... bizarre

Imagining The Simpsons in the future, it's like none of the ones that have come before.

Over the weekend, the first episode of the 26th(!) series of The Simpsons aired. Entitled 'Clown in the Dumps', it was a highly publicised episode as there had been rumours an important character was going to be killed off.

In the end, (although a character did die) the surreal couch gag that ran as usual before the episode turned out to be much more of a talking point .