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Hey folks, Barb here.

Here's a recording of my latest cafe note, The Couch Gag.

As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at Letters atcafe.com.

Dear listener, one of my favorite parts of one of my favorite television shows is the couch gag.

Each episode of The Simpsons, the animated series on Fox, opens with a zany ride through the

fictional town of Springfield, showing each of the five main characters racing home to plop

down in front of the TV set on the family couch. But in each episode, the final frame is different.

One time, the couch appeared to be on the moon,

with the characters in spacesuits.

Another time, the family members were depicted as Mount Rushmore.

Silly fun.

But the latest couch gag in American culture

is making me wince a little.

A false claim was posted on social media last month

that GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance

had confessed in his memoir to having had sex with a couch.

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