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
Up opening sequence Up opening sequence The opening sequence to the 2009 Pixar film "Up" (sometimes referred to as Married Life after the accompanying instrumental piece, the Up" montage, or including the rest of the prologue The First 10 Minutes Of "Up) has become known as a cultural milestone, and a key element to the film's success. While the core conceit of the film was to have a house float into the sky with balloons, the filmmakers needed a rationale for why a character would do such a thing. Their solution was to show the entirety of a married couple's relationship from the