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
Is That All There Is? in philosopher Charles Taylor's 2007 work, "A Secular Age". Immersive theater production "Sleep No More" features both the Peggy Lee and Tony Bennett versions of the song, lip-synced simultaneously by characters in different rooms. Lee's recording is also featured in the opening sequence and the last scene continuing over the closing titles of the TV series "Mad Men", season 7, episode 8, "Severance". Is That All There Is? "Is That All There Is?", a song written by American songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller during the 1960s, became a hit for American singer Peggy Lee and an award winner