Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is heard over the opening credits, featuring Carnegie Hall parody "Corny-gie Hall". Afterwards, a musicologist, played by Elmer Fudd (voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan) appears in an ill-fitting tuxedo and glasses, directly parodying the Deems Taylor introductions in "Fantasia." He struggles against his uncooperative clothing as he delivers his introductions using his characteristic rhotacism: ""And as we hear the whythmic stwains of the haunting wefwain, wisten to the wippwing whythm of the woodwinds, as it wolls awound and awound, and it comes out here..."" (referencing the lyrics to the popular song "The Music Goes Round and Round", as well as the popular dance orchestra, Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm).