![]() As the school bell rings, Bart turns towards the door, happily grins and leaves the classroom. He stops writing and looks at the board unamused. In the classroom, the walls are either gradient purple or gradient blue-violet, and a bulletin board with three crude drawings is hung next to Bart. We zoom in through the school window, and Bart is seen in a classroom writing a unique phrase repeatedly on the chalkboard as punishment. ![]() We fade into the school's entrance that the camera zooms onto for a bit and then pans by it to an open window. The difference in perspective is especially noticeable, for instance in the power plant's cooling towers - which looked quite flat in the Season One opening). ( NOTE: Season One's Springfield swoop is relatively crudely animated (similar to the animation used within the Season One episodes), and was redone. We slowly zoom down the street while passing by Semi-Painless Dentistry towards the purple-colored Springfield Elementary School. We swoop over the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and the Springfield Tire Yard, fading into a street in Downtown Springfield afterwards. The cloud disappears from both sides as the text zooms in closer, and the camera moves through the letter "P" into a birds-eye view of Springfield. Singers intone "The Simpsons." ( NOTE: The Season One version of the theme, arranged by Danny Elfman, was a bit more crude, and more staccato, for lack of a more descriptive term, than the version used later). The "Ahh Chorus" synthesizer pad plays (which actually starts playing just before the fade in) as the stratus cloud begins to part, and the yellow text, "THE SIMPSONS", (which is the exact same text that was later used in the Season 2-20 intro, but is somewhat a dark yellow that has a light yellow glow effect to it) emerges from the parting stratus cloud, thickens just after it appears, and begins to zoom in as the cloud continues to part away. We fade into a dark blue sky with a stratus cloud in the middle. It is more crudely animated (looking similar to the animation used within the first season's episodes) than Season 2 onward, and it was done entirely by Kevin Petrilak. Season 1, Episodes 2-13 (January 14-May 13, 1990) īecause the first season and series premiere was a Christmas special, the first opening sequence was introduced in the second episode, " Bart the Genius". 6.11 Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass opening.6.4 Christmas (Kill Gil, Volumes I & II and The Burns and the Bees). ![]()
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