Jim's Big Ego Jim's Big Ego Jim's Big Ego is a Boston, Massachusetts-based band formed in 1995 under the leadership of singer/songwriter Jim Infantino. Among the band's songs are "The Ballad of Barry Allen," about the DC superhero Barry Allen/The Flash, a character co-created by Infantino's uncle Carmine Infantino; “Asshole”, a song about the George W. Bush administration that went viral, and "New Lang Syne" (sometimes also called "Thank God It's Over"), a new New Year's Eve song featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" in 2001. In May 2017 their song "Stress" became the intro theme for "The Jimquisition", hosted by
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons can hear us, Earthmen." The end credits sequence was originally intended to feature images of printed circuit boards and other electronic components, to reflect the Andersons's early conception of the resurrected Captain Scarlet as being a "mechanical man." In the completed sequence, the end production credits are superimposed on a series of ten paintings, which depict Scarlet in moments of extreme danger. In earlier episodes, these images are accompanied by the instrumental version of Barry Gray's "Captain Scarlet" theme music; in later ones, this is replaced by the lyrical version sung by The Spectrum. The paintings were produced by comic