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
Every Man a King Hotel in New Orleans brought to LSU by Long himself. An arrangement of the song was recorded by Randy Newman for his 1974 album "Good Old Boys". The song was featured in the opening credits of the 1983 movie "The Survivors", starring Walter Matthau, Robin Williams and Jerry Reed. Every Man a King "Every Man a King" is a song cowritten by Louisiana's Governor and United States Senator Huey Pierce Long Jr. Long was known for his political slogan "Every man a king," which is also the title of his 1933 autobiography and the catch-phrase of his Share Our Wealth