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Original version of The Simpsons title card with a three-eyed crow as of February 15, 2009. The Simpsons opening sequence is the title sequence of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It is accompanied by "The Simpsons Theme". The first episode to use this introduction was the series' second episode "Bart the Genius".
"The Simpsons Theme", also referred to as "The Simpsons Main Title Theme" in album releases, is the theme music of the animated television series The Simpsons. It plays during the opening sequence and was composed by Danny Elfman in 1989, after series creator Matt Groening approached him requesting a theme.
It was selected for release in a 1999 video collection of selected episodes called The Simpsons: Greatest Hits. The episode features cultural references to films such as Alien, Crocodile Dundee and Full Metal Jacket and the television series The Wonder Years. The title is a reference to the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
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The opening sequence, including the chalkboard and couch gags, was originally a video created by Australian animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon with music by Jeremy Dower. [2] After uploading the video to YouTube on February 1, 2015, producers contacted them within one day to license the video.
"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" was The Simpsons ' first clip show, created to relieve the long hours put in by all of the show's overworked staff. [5] There was intense pressure on producers of the show to create extra episodes in each season and the plan was to make four clip shows per season to meet that limit.
The scene where Homer is on a flying carpet is a parody of the film Aladdin; the Genie also makes an appearance, in which The Simpsons regular cast member Dan Castellaneta reprises his role from the Aladdin television series, The Return of Jafar, and the Kingdom Hearts video game series.