The Simpsons opening sequence couch gag is shown, before the credits are displayed on a new widescreen flat panel television. Sometimes, the flat panel television falls to the floor and breaks, but unlike "Bart Gets a Z", the episode will begin then anyway. In the 500th episode, the opening sequence was a montage of all previous couch gags. Creator Matt Groening developed a lengthy opening sequence for the first season of "The Simpsons", in order to cut down on the animation necessary for each episode, but devised the two gags as compensation for the repeated material each week. In the first of the original
Peep Show (TV series) "POV", as noted by David Mitchell on the DVD commentary for the first episode of the first series. Spike TV commissioned its own version in 2008, originally to be written and directed by Robert Weide, who is the executive producer of "Curb Your Enthusiasm". It was to be written by Armstrong and Bain, but it never went to series. A book entitled "Peep Show: The Scripts and More", which featured the scripts of every episode from the first five series as well as an introduction from Mitchell and Webb, was released in 2008. To celebrate the show, Channel 4 aired