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
The Call (U.S. TV program) coast-to-coast."" This was the opening phrase used at the start of the show just before the opening title sequence. On June 14, 2010, CNBC Asia debuted their own version of "The Call". That program was anchored by Bernard Lo in Hong Kong, and ended on March 28, 2014. The United States version of "The Call" was cancelled October 14, 2011, and was replaced 3 days later by the newly expanded third hour of "Squawk on the Street". The Call (U.S. TV program) The Call is an American television business news program which on CNBC between 11AM to 12 noon ET