Because the live action sequence was made in the UK, there are some slight cultural differences, such as Homer and Marge driving on the left in a right hand drive car, the actor playing Chief Wiggum wearing a British police uniform, and the quick swoop between the Marge and Maggie and Homer car sequences has been removed. Obviously they didn't. It then cuts to the supermarket, where Marge is reading the same Mom Monthly magazine (with the same Frosted Krusty Flakes ad on the back cover) from the previous intro. It has also been the only short version of the theme to be released on CD. Maggie, who is sitting on the conveyor belt, is inadvertently scanned along with the groceries as Marge reads a magazine. 1 & 2" and later re-aired in "The Burns and the Bees". The shot zooms out to reveal that sweatshop is contained within a grim version of the 20th Century Fox logo, surrounded by barbed wire, searchlights, and a watchtower. Marge and the hen then surface, but Maggie does not. [33] Jean first took note of Banksy after seeing his 2010 film Exit Through the Gift Shop. The second HD Christmas version appeared in "I Won't Be Home for Christmas". In the living room, the painting above the couch is a crooked sailboat pic (which has been seen within the show since Season 2), and, sometimes, the living room rug can be seen (which was sometimes used in the couch gag for some episodes, but is now frequently seen in the couch gag since the mid-Season 20-present intro was introduced). The camera then pans across Springfield and then cuts to the driveway scene. When the end-of-shift whistle blows, Mr. Burns checks his wristwatch to see if it is working, he then starts shaking it suggesting that it isn't working. In this abbreviated version of the opening, the camera goes directly from the "P" to the driveway scene, followed by the couch gag. A VCR or some unit is on top still. Also, Bart's chalk still squeaks, unlike later episodes onward. The sequence starts with Lisa waking up and then grabbing Milhouse's glasses. When the quitting whistle blows, Mr. Burns puts his watch up to his ear and shakes it, as if he believes it has stopped. Next, when Maggie is seen at the steering wheel, when the camera zooms out, it reveals that she is actually driving the car while Marge is sleeping in the backseat. After the switch to HD production, Lisa has also occasionally performed her solo on an instrument other than the saxophone. A slightly longer and lower-pitched scream was used in "Simpson and Delilah", while Homer's scream from the season 1 opening was reused in "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish". "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" was the first new episode to air following the release of The Simpsons Movie, and the episode's opening sequence is a callback to the film. The sequence of Bart writing the Chalkboard Gag is also redone. The Springfield Town Square with the Statue of Jebediah Springfield is seen in the background. "Million Dollar Abie" introduced a version of the opening that had a similar sequence to the condensed version, but was edited from the full version. "), until Marge pulls in. The opening still contains the Springfield swoop, the chalkboard gag, and Homer at the power plant, but after that it cuts to Lisa's sax solo. Marge and Homer get home where Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are dancing and singing "Tik tok, on the clock." Cut to Homer driving his bobsled, he discards the candy cane from earlier, which Otto Man takes and smokes like a bong, and Bart snowboards past the Grand Pumpkin, who is holding a sign saying "Wrong Holiday", Selma and Patty, who are dressed as Elsa and Anna from Frozen, and Snake Jailbird getting beaten up by a charity Santa. Maggie is shown in a booster seat in the middle while Grampa sleeps next to her. "Simprovised" is the twenty-first episode of the twenty-seventh season of the animated television series The Simpsons, and the 595th episode of the series overall. “The Simpsons” Opening Credits Now Being Couch-Sourced The longest-running prime-time animated series in history could use some help coming up … You have to actually draw it. Bill Plympton has written and animated six couch gags, one for "Beware My Cheating Bart" where Homer falls in love with the couch...until he meets Marge, one for "Black Eyed, Please" in which Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are in a 1930s gangster story, armed with several weapons which are revealed to be gifts once Maggie turns the light on. However, this short version used in both said episodes is completely different than the Season 2-present short version where it goes from the "P" to the driveway. This version debuted on December 16, 1993 in the episode "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)". Marge is now driving an orange station wagon instead of a red sedan, reflecting the change in the show. Bart as Kristoff hits her with a snowball and she immediately creates a giant ice palace, with Bart stuck at the top. Bart comes by on his skateboard, with pursed lips in a half grin. Series creator Matt Groening gave the idea his blessing, and helped try to make the sequence as close to Banksy's original storyboards as possible. The camera zooms out to reveal a live-action scene (taken from the episode "Hazard Pay") of Walter White and his partner Jesse Pinkman sitting on a couch drinking beer and watching the sequence on a TV. is used alongside the original season 2 scream in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", having Homer scream once: when Lisa drives past and when Marge pulls in. "Barting Over" and "Homer's Paternity Coot" used similarly edited versions of the full opening, cutting from Lisa's sax solo to Marge and Maggie in the car. He looks over his left shoulder, then his right, and he runs into the house. ", Banksy told The Guardian that his opening sequence was influenced by The Simpsons' long-running use of animation studios in Seoul, South Korea. The camera tracks down to a lower floor on the building, where small kittens are thrown into a woodchipper-type machine to provide the filling for Bart Simpson plush dolls. This message, which changes from episode to episode, has become known as t… Second promotional picture featuring the billboard gag in which Bart writes all the walls, The Simpsons S17 E15. It retained the title screen gag, the Springfield swoop with the billboard gag, and the chalkboard gag with Bart, but cuts from Bart bouncing on Barney to Homer driving home from work. Bart steals the bus stop sign, causing folks … Bart skateboards by and turns the corner with a muted whoosh. The gag generally changes from episode to episode, and usually features the Simpson family's living room couch. On the big screen!" The zip-pan to the Simpson house includes, from left to right: The highway, kids playing in a yard, Milhouse playing baseball with Lewis and Richard, Nelson and the Weasels bullying a kid in a trashcan, Jimbo and Kearney threatening Martin, Mr. Winfield and Mrs. Sylvia Winfield in rocking chairs, Patty and Selma suntanning in bathing suits with cone-shaped bikini tops, Kent Brockman reporting, a cameraman filming Kent, Sherri and Terri holding hands, Herman, Grampa holding a book, Jasper, the Springfield Retirement Castle, man reading the retirement castle's sign, old folks walking out (like those that Marge sees holding hands in "Life on the Fast Lane"), a man giving a thumbs up, Lou and Eddie behind a barricade, Marvin Monroe writing while holding a clipboard, Wendell with his head out of the bus ready to puke, Dr. Hibbert comparing notes with Monroe, White-Haired Girl, Girl with glasses, Otto chilling next to his broken school bus, unnamed white-haired girl with blue dress, the same buck-toothed boy from the band, an unknown mountain in the background, 744 Evergreen Terrace, Maude (looking at a bluebird), Todd, Ned (with another bluebird on his hand), and 742 Evergreen Terrace. [36] A man shipping boxes with The Simpsons logo on the side uses the tongue from a decapitated dolphin head to fasten shut the packages. Maggie and Marge are then seen driving a sleigh pulled by multiple Santa's Little Helpers, only to end up in a race with Waylon Smithers and Mr. Burns (pulled by the hounds), the Cat Lady (pulled by her cats), the Sea Captain (pulled by seals) and Krusty the Clown (pulled by Mr. Teenies), but continue normally after Mr. Burns' hounds chase the other sleighs. He wakes up Barney in the process, who then grabs his skateboard and breaks it in half, forcing him to walk home. The credits. It was used again in Season 16's "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister," although the TV uses the tune from the short version. The TV version of this opening has the caption "In Stereo Where Available". However, they fall off the ladder as they hear the whistle for the end of the shift. On the 1998 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment UK VHS release of the direct-to-video fantasy family comedy film Casper Meets Wendy, along with the season 2 episode "Bart the Daredevil" itself in PAL pitched tone, the words “In Stereo, Where Available” appear under the words “The Simpsons”. British graffiti artist and political activist Banksy is credited with creating the opening titles and couch gag for this episode, in what amounted to the first time that an artist has been invited to storyboard the show. [26] We also see that the Simpsons' house is still under construction and the silo is strapped to Homer's car. On the small screen!!"). Because the first season premiere was a Christmas special, the first opening sequence was introduced in the second episode, \"Bart the Genius\". As the school bell rings, Bart turns towards the door, happily grins and leaves the classroom. Due to this new format, the opening credits sequence had to be reanimated. Plopper the pig is also featured for the first time in the series, during the couch gag and Homer refers to him as "my summer love."[27]. Back at the school, Lisa is shown at band rehearsal, with a slightly deeper sax solo (either the Simpsons theme or, since Season 3, a different tune). Amid Amidi of Cartoon Brew calls the opening revolutionary and explains that "in 35 short and sweet seconds, he liberates the animation of The Simpsons from years of graphic banality. This opening retains the title card and the Springfield swoop, but after the shot of the street with the school in the distance, it fades into an exterior shot of 742 Evergreen Terrace (the Simpson home), which is the infamous three-quarter front view of the house for "Bart the General", and a front facing view of the house for "Life on the Fast Lane", and cuts to the first scene of the episode, therefore starting it from there. Some episodes, starting with "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution", used a shorter version of this opening, in which after the bell rings in Bart's classroom, we cut to the rest of the driveway scene, after Homer has pulled in. A completely different sequence was created for The Simpsons Movie and features an orchestrated version of "The Simpsons Theme" as adapted by Hans Zimmer. None of the things he depicts are true. Another one is that Bart's classmates Martin and Wendell appear in the background. The only two episodes with the short version of the opening are "Bart the General" and "Life on the Fast Lane". The first was at the start of the second season when the entire sequence was reanimated to improve the quality and certain shots were changed generally to add characters who had been established in the first season. [20] An extended couch gag was also seen in the first episode to use the new opening sequence, "Take My Life, Please", where the family chases their couch on a tour across the world. Tips: Use the button at the top of your picture to download it to your computer! The tune when the quick pan is seen and when Homer arrives at the driveway is different (sounding similar to the tune heard in the Season One intro when Homer pulls into the house's driveway), and Homer's scream is more high-pitched. [36] The toys are then placed into a cart pulled by a sad panda which is driven by a man with a whip. In the syndicated version for the episodes from seasons 1 to 5, the couch gag for the episode is usually replaced with the one from season five's "Rosebud" where The Simpsons find an exact double of themselves on the couch (though the syndicated versions of the later episodes retain their original couch gags). The crossover episode "Simpsorama" begins with a parody of the Futurama title sequence, which includes the Futurama theme music and a text reading "A show out of ideas teams up with a show out of episodes. [33], The Simpsons is storyboarded at Film Roman, a company based in California. The scene continues to zoom in through a window of Springfield Elementary, where Bart is writing the Chalkboard gag. Al Jean deemed it "crazier than we thought" and "the most insane one we've ever done". The bike moves into the garage as the garage door opens for both the bike and for Homer's car, as Lisa runs to the front door. However, Al Jean disputed this, saying "[The animation department] didn't walk out. The TV set is in a different angle. The scene cuts to the school once again, where Dewey Largo's band is practicing. On their way to their house at 742 Evergreen Terrace, the members of the family weave dangerously through traffic and in between fellow Springfield citizens. The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes. The Simpsons is one of the most important works of art of the 20th Century, a show which redefined animated comedy in the 1990s and changed television forever. Homer pulls into the driveway and parks, after which Bart bounces his skateboard off the car roof and follows Lisa toward the door. Fox's standards and practices department demanded a handful of changes, but, according to Jean, "95 percent of it is just the way he wanted. Hans Moleman pokes his head out from a manhole, which slams down on him when Marge drives over it in her car. Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, Phineas Q. Butterfat's 5600 Flavors Ice Cream Parlor, $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling), A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again, http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2027768,00.html, https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Opening_Sequence?oldid=936837. The crow caws as the camera goes through the "P", and it continues to swoop over Springfield where it goes by the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and the Springfield Tire Yard. Also, there is an additional picture of Bleeding Gums Murphy on the wall. [4] In The Simpsons Movie, the gag, "I will not illegally download this movie", is a reference to piracy. For example, in the storyboards, the workers were wearing conical Asian hats, but these were removed. The Simpsons’ intro was changed not once, but twice since the series first premiered. This opening was used very frequently in seasons 22 and 23, alongside the short opening. In 2006, Sky1 in the United Kingdom began advertising The Simpsons using a live-action recreation of the series' opening sequence directed by Chris Palmer. The Opening Sequence is one of the most notable hallmarks of The Simpsons. [25] Bart writes "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie" on the chalkboard and skateboards through Springfield, which is still recovering from the dome incident. "[30] It ends with a couch gag with the Simpsons sitting on the couch, only to find out the couch is actually Hedonismbot. Panning behind Ralph, the camera passes by The Android's Dungeon and a Lard Lad Donut Statue (where the crow lands) on the left and a new Billboard gag, which changes in every episode, on the right. She goes into the kitchen to begin baking cupcakes, using food coloring to turn the batter blue and adding frosting and sprinkles in other shades of this color. Hans Moleman peeks out the manhole in the street, but Marge's car slams it shut with a clang as it passes by, with Wiggum looking on in confusion due to his nightstick accidentally hitting Marge's car. Unlike the other two opening sequences, Marge's car now hits Homer and carries him on the hood until it stops short, flinging him ahead to smash a Homer-shaped hole through the door. Bart's skateboard has been replaced with a snowboard. Again, a widescreen set, with four unmarked buttons on the right, speakers below. The caution sign over Homer's head has two holes on the right side, both blank. It depicts Homer using a time-traveling remote control to regress to his original 1987 character model from The Tracey Ullman Show then accidentally going into a distant future incarnation of the show called The Sampsans where he and his family have evolved into grotesque, mindless, catchphrase-spouting mutants, which also say to 'buy their merchandise'. When possible, Bart is shown deliberately disobeying the line that he is writing on the chalkboard (e.g. In this last instance, she drags the instrument with her and continues playing once Mr. Largo orders her out of the room. The camera cuts back to Maggie, revealing that the wheel is just a toy for her car seat, as the camera pans out to show Marge driving. The piece, which took two days to create, has been noted by Elfman as the most popular of his career. Homer gets out just in time to see Marge's car. Back at school, Dewey Largo conducts the students playing "Jingle Bells" but is interrupted by Lisa playing her sax loudly, so Largo silently orders her to leave, and when Lisa briefly opens the door to play her sax again, the snow above her falls on her. [39] Originally, they only wanted him to do the storyboards and then let their regular crew animate it, but Kricfalusi insisted on doing the animation himself, explaining that "If we had done it that way, no one would even have known that I had anything to do with it because it would have ended up on model and all pose to pose". This may have been intended to show the poor quality of the plant. The two original edits (condensed and short) had their own musical arrangements done by both Elfman (season 2) and Clausen (season 3-present), and the cut-and-condensed version also had its own Clausen arragement. However, on syndicated airings on some stations, they cut out this opening. This sequence opens with the show's title in yellow approaching the camera through misty cumulus clouds[1] in a dark blue sky. Homer's car comes from left to right, makes the turn into the driveway and stops as the camera zooms in onto the car. Others were edited from longer versions of the opening. The Outer Limits (1963) (TV Series) Bart then dodges left, passes by Moe Szyslak, holding a towel and standing in his tavern's entrance, passes by an approaching Barney (who belches) on his left, passes by Jacques (who's walking right) carrying a bowling ball and dodges left. Homer then grabs Plopper, proclaims that he is his "summer love", and Plopper oinks. In a season 22 episode, Lisa plays the violin, while in "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" and "At Long Last Leave," she plays a tuba. Groundskeeper Willie walks in with a Jack Daniels in his hands and sings "Before I leave, brush my teeth, with a bottle of Jack." Who: ... Joel decided there was only one solution: re-create the opening credits … What: A re-creation of the opening credits from The Simpsons. In a more subtle ode to Cincinnati, Selman said "WKRP in Cincinnati" was referenced twice in the episode, in the opening and closing credits. The camera cuts to a slightly low shot of Lisa, wobbling back and forth on her bike while on her way home, with a large stack of books in her bike's basket and her saxophone case behind her. That statement should be self-evident, but I will emphatically state it. It eventually made a comeback in "A Test Before Trying". So, in a bid to remind UK Simpsons fans exactly where the show belongs, they’ve made this, a recreation of the show’s opening credits, using real people, and some very old cars. The first six notes are played with a couple of horns instead of xylophone dings, then the seventh note is drawn out, with a drum roll leading to a quick repeat of that note, and the start of the episode. At band practice, Mr. Largo dismisses Lisa, who plays a solo as she leaves and then pokes her head back in the door to finish it. The final use of the chalk squeaking was in "Homer Defined." These episodes include ". Also, unlike the previous opening sequences, there is no cut to black, and the episode begins immediately. The Multi-eyed squirrel from the movie is seen jumping onto Bart's shoulders, but is hit by a wrecking ball into a billboard of "Burns' Constructions," suggesting that Mr. Burns is attempting to regain his lost wealth by making money from the incident. With tires screeching, the car passes by a farm and makes a tight curve. This season was also the start of Lisa's variable saxophone solos (previously, she always played the main theme melody), and Homer's exclamations at the driveway were changed to their more well-known versions (the newly recorded "D'oh! Lisa is shown next at band practice. Homer, dressed in the dark hat and sunglasses Walter dons for his "Heisenberg" persona, sneaks a taste of the batter while Marge is baking and is later woken from a nap by the smell. The next shot shows Marge reading a magazine with an ad on the last page for Absolute Krusty Vodka (a parody of Absolute Vodka) and Maggie, with Selma Bouvier and Patty Bouvier purchasing Laramie cigarettes. A variety of different screams were also used throughout the season, when Marge pulls in. The Simpsons pays tribute to the thrilling cable drama by parodying its opening credits and throwing a few Springfield twists in for good measure. ), hidden student, Lewis Clark, Beethoven's bust on cabinet. Since this version of the intro, Marge's car is her orange-colored station wagon instead of her red sedan. At the end of her solo, she ducks inside briefly for a flourish and smiles. This part may be of variable length, and a split second longer than the previous opening. [39], The couch gag for the episode was critically acclaimed by television critics. It was not used during seasons 10-12 (aside from season 9 holdovers), but it made a comeback in season 13 and has remained in regular usage since. Then Maggie is seen actually driving the car while Marge is asleep in the back seat, causing Marge to, when waking up and realizing what is going on, try to take back the wheel only to drive off a cliff road. When Marge and Maggie honk their respective horns, Grampa is startled awake and his dentures fall out. Also, the main change is that instead of running away from Marge's car and screaming, Homer is hit with the car and flattened on the hood; instead of running through the door, he is hurled grunting through it by inertia, leaving a Homer-shaped hole. Inside the car, Maggie is shown steering the wheel. During all of this, the full version of the theme song plays. (The couch gag from "Pulpit Friction" actually becomes part of the episode's plot.). 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