The 5 Artiest Simpsons Couch Gags

Banksy, Don Hertzfeldt and more

All hail the dark lord of the twin moons!

How quickly we forget what an art school nerd Matt Groening is. Every so often, producers of The Simpsons get one of their stranger pals to offer a unique spin on the characters to open an episode, and invariably, those ideas are as good as or better than the episode itself.

Groening's high-art bonafides are real—he and illustrator Gary Panter used to "split burgers and scheme about how to invade pop culture."

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