As Marge and Homer walk home, we see Apu, Manjula, and the octuplets outside of the Kwik-E-Mart, singing, "Don't stop, make it pop". Title; Springfield Swoop; Chalkboard Gag; Homer Leaves Work; Grocery Check-Out; Lisa's Sax Solo; Homer Driving; Bart Skateboarding; Marge Driving; Lisa On Her Bike; Pan Across Springfield; Driveway; Couch Gag; Credits. In the opening to "To Surveil With Love", the Simpsons characters lip sync to Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" as part of the "Fox Rocks" event on the FOX Network. After 429 episodes and 20 years on television, the US TV hit show The Simpsons has revamped its opening sequence for the show's HD premiere. This also appeared on many FXX reruns of episodes like Blood Feud. We fly over the power plant and tire yard, toward downtown Springfield. (Sherri and Terri are huge compared to Milhouse and Lisa.). Lots more to come, request your favorites! 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. Secondly it shows us Bart writing on the skating board and when bill rings he jumps out of the school skating on air and then crosses the traffic. 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. On "Million-Dollar Abie", the opening goes from Lisa's sax solo to the driveway scene. Or so one enterprising fan discovered with this mashup that re-cuts Simpsons moments into a new Wire-style opening sequence—complete with a … It begins with Lisa waking up in her room and sings "Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy", and Bart opens a door from behind and says, "Yo, what up girl" in his voice, rather than the original. The Simpsons’ intro was changed not once, but twice since the series first premiered. Ironically, Homer being hit by Marge's car would later be incorporated into the mid-Season 20-present opening (although obviously without Homer being killed or becoming a permanent hood ornament). As the theme song ends, the camera cuts to the Simpsons' television set that displays the first two opening credits in a wiggly yellow font similar to the "THE SIMPSONS" text from the beginning (Created by Matt Groening; Developed by James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon). During the couch gag, the cyberspace fluctuates before forming a rift that has the family alternating between various forms, referencing various incarnations of them before disintegrating into multiple bits as it shows a surreal pillar showing, Additional chalkboard gags are sometimes written by Bart during the episodes outside of the opening. The theme song featured in the Game of Thrones opening sequence was arranged by The Simpsons composer Alf Clausen and used in the Simpsons opening as well. The Simpsons® is a registered trademark of 20th Century Fox. It begins with two lines of instrumental "O Christmas Tree" and then the normal theme music begins. When a box of Krusty-O's is scanned, the total amount on the register changes from $236.60 to $243.26, which means the price of the cereal is $6.66. There has, of course, also been a few other one-off opening sequence changes, such as the real-life opening sequence (), the first TV opening sequence after the … Their glorious family project is a remake of “The Simpsons”′ iconic opening sequence, and yes, it is very much deserving of being shared and viewed countless times on social media. Bart skateboards by and turns the corner with a muted whoosh. As the camera is zooming out, Maggie looks at Marge, then back at the road. The camera rapidly pans outside of the bus and zooms into Moe's Tavern, where Sam (barfly) is fighting a random man, Larry (barfly) is fighting Barney, and Lenny and Carl are strangling each other. The full opening even became absent after "Homer Scissorhands". 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. 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. However, on syndicated airings on some stations, they cut out this opening. When Homer left his car, there aren't any boxes in the garage but when Homer runs away from the car, there are boxes. Mrs. Krabappel forces Bart to write "I Will Not Fake My Way Through Life" in "Bart Gets an "F"". The Simpsons have been sharing our lounge rooms for 26 years. This would not change, until "When Flanders Failed" of Season 3. The zip-pan to the right shot includes: the highway, Milhouse throwing a baseball, kids playing in a yard, Nelson and thugs with kid in trashcan, Richard and Lewis, Jimbo threatening Martin, Mr. Winfield and Sylvia Winfield in rocking chairs, Patty and Selma suntanning with cone bikini tops, Kent Brockman reporting, Sherri and Terri holding hands, Herman, Grampa and Jasper holding a book, the retirement castle, man reading the retirement castle sign, old folks walking out (like those that Marge sees holding hands in 7G11), Sam holding thumbs up, Lou and Eddie behind a barricade, Marvin Monroe holding a clipboard, Wendell with his head out of the bus ready to vomit, Dr. Hibbert comparing notes with Monroe, two blond girls, cat-eye glass girl in street, Otto next to broken down bus, a bucktoothed boy from orchestra in street, a mountain on the background, a bluebird that Maude sees, Flanders house, Ned and Todd holding another bluebird. The quitting whistle blows, much to Homer's glee as he hears it, so he gleefully removes his hazmat suit helmet, puts down the tongs and leaves the building, not noticing the carbon rod that accidentally bounced into his back. FXX has a special opening for their reruns of "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife". The sequence differs from episode to episode, usually with a different Chalkboard Gag, Couch Gag, and a Saxophone Solo from Lisa. You can find details by clicking above. There is an Elfman version of the cut and condensed theme, but only in FXX reruns of "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". (NOTE: In "Barting Over", when the camera shifts to its sight at the school, part of the end credits music is playing until Bart runs out of the classroom, after chopping the chalkboard an axe.) The camera zooms in on the town, with several major landmarks popping-up. As Bart jumps off the pile, Barney Gumble is revealed under the pile and belches drunkenly. This part may be of variable length, and a split second longer than the previous opening. 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. The sequence was completely remade for The Simpsons Movie and features the orchestrated version of "The Simpsons Theme" as adapted by Hans Zimmer, which is slightly different from the first track of The Simpsons Movie: The Music CD. As the theme song ends, the camera cuts to the TV set and show the credits (Created by: Matt Groening. It began on December 17, 1989 with the series premiere, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” and ended on May 13, 1990 with “Some Enchanted Evening”. The sequence was used instead of the regular opening titles on the episode "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife", first broadcast on FOX on March 26, 2006 with the images during the driving scenes mirrored so that the cars appeared to be driving on the right side of the road with the steering wheel on the left side of the car. new Simpsons opening sequence is 16:9. The TV set (close-up) is orange-brown, with an antenna to the top left. 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. Marge Simpson doesn’t appear a lot in the opening sequence as she only appears twice. At home, Homer pulls into the driveway. The scene continues to zoom in through a window of Springfield Elementary, where Bart is writing the Chalkboard gag. 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. The cashier rings her up at as $847.63 and Maggie is mistakenly packaged in a brown bag after the camera pans towards a different shot of Marge and the cart. Bart skates in with a big grin, past a store with an "Open" sign as he turns into a corner. Maggie pops out of the bag, and Marge sighs in relief as she and Maggie exit the supermarket. (NOTE: The episodes, "Little Orphan Millie" and "Husbands and Knives" has some voices accompanying the people Bart skateboards past.) Danny Elfman was called back to re-arrange the theme for the second season. Homer's car arrives with the Pig Crap silo strapped on top. Season Two started the more familiar opening titles which ran until now. The new sequence was unveiled when the show made the switch to HDTV on US network Fox this week. Also, Bart's chalk still squeaks, unlike later episodes onward. The sequence begins with Bart writing lines on the chalkboard, writing "I will not wait 20 years to make another movie." How did “The Simpsons” manage to track down Banksy, the pseudonymous British artist, and get him to create the powerful opening-credit sequence from Sunday’s episode, which seems to reveal the torturous sweatshop responsible for the show’s creation? Since season 3, the show has used an arrangement of the opening theme by Alf Clausen, which is less staccato and more polished compared to other versions. At the Kwik-E-Mart, Marge is placing groceries to be gift-wrapped and accidentally places Maggie, who gets gift-wrapped as well. We've meticulously listed them below. On the small screen!!" Meanwhile, in the Simpson living room Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees wait vainly for the family to arrive. Community Discussion . new Simpsons opening sequence is 16:9. This was often shown on almost all of the seventh season episodes. A large group of tired and sickly artists draw animation cels (even though we no longer use cels for today's animation) amongst piles of human bones and toxic waste, and a female artist hands a barefoot child employee an animation cel, which he washes in a vat of biohazardous fluid. This is followed by the Couch Gag. The toys are then placed into a cart pulled by a panda which is driven by a man with a whip. Since mid-Season 20, the title sequence format has changed, and each episode has a Title Screen Gag, Billboard Gag, and Lisa playing a different musical instrument rather than her saxophone. 1. Bart also passes a three-story glass and concrete building, a four-story orange building, and some trees and bushes. Instead, the camera very quickly pans over a static landscape shot of various Springfield locales and a mix of both familiar and relatively unknown characters. However, they fall off the ladder as they hear the whistle for the end of the shift. The camera then zooms through the window where Bart is writing lines for detention ("I will not illegally download this movie") before finishing with Green Day who are hosting a concert at Lake Springfield, playing their version of the theme song and using a teleprompter to get its "lyrics" right. From February 2009, The Simpsons is aired in High Definition and widescreen. Lisa races in on her bike and slams into Bart's broken body. "Painless Dentistry" is replaced with "Candy Dandy" as we move towards the Springfield Elementary School, which is now orange with purple accents instead of lavender. We fade into a dark blue screen. This opening goes from the "P" of the title card to Bart's classroom, then cuts directly to the driveway scene after Bart exits the classroom. The walls are now dark-green and Bart's chalk does not squeak in later episodes of the second season and beyond. Since it debuted in season 5, it has normally featured Clausen's arrangement, which has markedly different instrumentation than other Clausen versions during the classroom scene. It's easy, free, and your work on the wiki can be attributed to you. On some broadcasts of "Some Enchanted Evening", at the power plant, the top circle dims red and the bottom circle dims green. (NOTE: Season One's Springfield swoop is relatively crudely animated (similar to the animation used within the Season One episodes), and was redone. Instead of the usual chalk, Bart chooses to write the message in blood (dipping the brush into a jack-o-lantern bucket when it's time for a refill). We slowly zoom down the street while passing by Semi-Painless Dentistry towards the purple-colored Springfield Elementary School. (The couch gag from "Pulpit Friction" actually becomes part of the episode's plot.). The final use of the chalk squeaking was in "Homer Defined." It breaks like glass, and Homer is seen choking Bart. After 30 seasons, The Simpsons’ opening credits sequence is certainly iconic, but it has changed significantly since the original episodes aired. The bike moves into the garage, the door already opening for Homer's car, as Lisa runs to the door. In the check out line, Marge reads her Mom Monthly magazine with an ad for Frosted Krusty Flakes on the back. In "The Great Simpsina," the entire opening, including the title card, was completely skipped. There are two differences in this scene for this version of the intro: The co-worker is replaced with Mr. Burns and Smithers, looking at a layout plan. The pre-sequence scene is displayed in a 16:9 television aspect ratio, with black matte bars at either end of the screen. Next the camera cuts to Springfield Elementary where Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney are hoisting Martin up a flagpole by his underwear and saluting as if he were a flag. 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. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Homer's car comes from left to right, makes the turn into the driveway and stops as the camera zooms in onto the car. While some of the old parts remain (Bart still writes on the chalk board, Lisa still saxes her way out of music class, and Homer still throws radioactive … Behind him, a bald co-worker is holding a sandwich with tongs, and takes a bite after the whistle blows. A portrait of George Washington hangs on the right side of the chalkboard, and a bookcase full of books sits behind him. We see the power plant, welcome sign, and Springfield Prison behind the plant. At the Nuclear Power Plant, Homer is working on a candy cane and Lenny is changing the number of stock and brick markets remaning from 24 to 23 when the whistle blows, and Lenny falls down, like in the normal opening sequence, and Homer heads for home, unaware of the candy cane in the back of his coat. The overall opening is similar to the Season 2-20 opening sequence, although with the following differences: Bart, after writing "I will watch all 600 episodes without sleeping", leaves the school via skateboard, also bouncing off Barney in a leaf pile. The camera cuts to a slightly low shot of Lisa, wobbling back and forth on her bike, with a large stack of books in the bike basket and her saxophone case behind her. Homer is shown first, driving down the street, and uncomfortably discovering the rod in his back. The HD pan shot was used as a mural in the eating area at. The sequence once again opens with the show's title zooming in on the camera. 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