Fun fact: Danny Elfman sang the 'The Simpsons' part with two friends. He made more royalties singing the show's title, than he did composing the theme tune.
Not at all! I prefer the intros before the switch to HD, because how Homer is portrayed as a goof, but smart enough to dodge the damn car. They just want him to look like a complete idiot which is why he gets hit by the car in the current intro
yeah, it's hard to believe that back in the day, Bart simply stole the bus stop instead of dodging recurring characters on the side walk, and Lisa got to the house first before homer and Bart did.
@@neo-warkid4edwards222 Amazing how quickly they discarded this intro but then kept the same one from Season 2 and onward for the next eighteen and a half years. I think this one could have lasted a few more seasons. This one is a rarity to watch in reruns because Season 1 has so little episodes and you barely see it aired compared to the latter seasons.
0:45 Fun Fact: Even though Lisa's saxophone is a Baritone Saxophone, the saxophone that plays in that version is actually a Tenor Saxophone. It was, however, a real Baritone Saxophone later on as the series goes on, which is why later on, it is an octave lower than this first one.
I remember I didn't know what this show was called when I saw it on TV when I was little so I just referred it to as "The yellow people" and turns that it became to be one of my most favorite shows
This theme absolutely did not have to go as hard as it does. They're so much musical motion. A different composer would never have made such an involved theme for a cartoon sitcom.
i also prefer how the season 1 intro sounds. that's just because that's the intro the theme was originally composed for. the newer intros have a couple of edits that also make it sound a bit janky
I have never seen this intro before. It feels so weird not seeing certain things from later seasons, but also can't believe they cut out Lisa on her bike!
@@neo-warkid4edwards222 what recurring characters they only ever appeared in the s1 intro. and they broke most of the simpsons animation rules with the spikey hair and homer muzzle
I really wish they kept the old composer because the instruments on this version of the theme song sounds so much better. However, I like the Season 2 one a lot too.
If you had to ask me the top 3 Opening Credit sequences, #3 would be Dexter (the concept of how simple, everyday things can be brutal in a sort of context), The X Files would easily be the greatest of all time (the music, imagery, "forbidden movie feel", everything) and this is the second greatest of all time... it's basically an entire show in and of itself. There's nothing better to lots of people than the escapist feel of getting off work or school and going home, and we see it from four different perspectives- all as thrilling as one another, along with the commute home, and their racing to the couch to watch TV- and the 700 different variations of that they've done so far. It just brings back memories, doesn't it?
0:31 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
the longest runnning animated tv show is sazae san, a japanese slice-of-life show about a middle aged mother that somehow was so popular it's been running consistantly without cancellation since 1969 whereas doctor who was cancelled in 1989.
fun fact: the angry, hostile expression with downward slanting eyelids shown by homer as he ditches the radioactive material at 0:53, was forbidden by Groening in the style of later Simpsons drawings. there were some issues with the style of the characters at 1:00 too that made them get cut from the intro. basically it was "forbidden" for any character to have too similar appearance to any of the main characters and these came too close to that mark.
Sally Stevens the solo tenor in Burt Bacharach's 'South American Getaway' from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid adds her vocals to this as well as in many songs in many Simpsons episodes 🙂
I am little tiny baby child so I haven’t watched the original Simpsons but this theme song wants me to watch all the episodes first to last, the theme song is amazing. It is a masterpiece and I am amazed about how good it is, it is a lot better that many other theme songs. I don’t know what else to add to this so I will start watching Simpsons now
And wonder of wonders, if you take into account the background music playing at the same time, then the "-simp-" is an harmonic Major 2nd Interval and the "-sons!" is an harmonic minor 2nd interval! I know that's going to mean nothing to a lot of you, but if you are a music student trying to learn the difference between an harmonic Major 2nd and an harmonic minor 2nd, that knowledge is manna from Heaven!
Damn. The show should have ended by the time the movie was released at best. This intro shows what the show could have been remembered as. And not as a show that went on for way way too long.
SPOILER ALERT Well, now that I think of it, the only inappropriate thing the Simpsons had in Season 1 is just language. And one episode where Homer danced at a strip club, and another one where Bart declares war.
I think Lisa's sax solo in the season 1 theme is the best just because in the most others, its just freestyle, while in this one she does an amazing sax remix of the Simpsons' theme.
I've tried looking online in the past to see if anyone else has noticed but the sign saying "Welcome to Springfield Nuclear Power Plant" is misspelled.
Fun fact: Danny Elfman sang the 'The Simpsons' part with two friends. He made more royalties singing the show's title, than he did composing the theme tune.
Never knew that..but listening to it again that is def Danny Elfman doing the low part.
Holy shit, I can only imagine how much in royalties the two friends must have also made!
Makes sense
@@jamesni4498 I always thought it was homer haha
Fun fact: Danny Elfman is a satanic pedophile.
Never realized this was a Danny Elfman composition, but listening to it now, it makes perfect sense.
@Shadow Ninja Trust me, I know. Danny Elfman is my favorite composer right now, with Williams not far behind. I just never realized this was him.
EXACTLY
@@logan_page ww
@@logan_page What ´bout Zimmer? :´(
What about Joe Hisaishi?
Disney +: asks me if I would like to skip intro.
Me: how bout no.
My brother would usually skip this intro, along with Star Vs.’s intro. Really ticks me off
Who would even skip the simpsons intro? It’s honestly one of the best intro’s ever to a show
@@ScoutSunset the star vs intro is fire
Yesh
I’m with you on that. I love watching chalkboard and Couch gags on every intro.
0:47
That version of the jazz solo has always been my favorite.
Same
Same, I wish they kept it.
Agreed 100%
@@jeremyknight9980 they didn’t keep it cuz Lisa plays a baritone sax, not a tenor sax
@@rugbyplayer9100 Oh, I didn't know there was a difference, I know nothing about variations of instruments.
The older episodes have much more vivid instruments.
Season One (and the earliest parts of Season Two) had a different composer.
@TheVoiceOfTruth you're the hipster for preferring this objectively inferior opening.
SonicMaster Sword p
ye
I’m on Season 10 Episode 2 (May 28, 2020)
But I started by April 30 and maybe end by August 7 which is 99 days of watching all 684 Simpsons episodes
Am I the only one who misses Homer running away from the Car; instead of being run over by Marge in the newer seasons?!!
Not at all! I prefer the intros before the switch to HD, because how Homer is portrayed as a goof, but smart enough to dodge the damn car. They just want him to look like a complete idiot which is why he gets hit by the car in the current intro
Not at all! I like it better to it was funnier and I could introduce people to The Simpson’s in a better way
No you're not the only one
Marge runs Homer over? I have to catch up
Me
I can’t believe this was the first intro to the Simpsons what a classic
yeah, it's hard to believe that back in the day, Bart simply stole the bus stop instead of dodging recurring characters on the side walk, and Lisa got to the house first before homer and Bart did.
@@neo-warkid4edwards222 Amazing how quickly they discarded this intro but then kept the same one from Season 2 and onward for the next eighteen and a half years. I think this one could have lasted a few more seasons. This one is a rarity to watch in reruns because Season 1 has so little episodes and you barely see it aired compared to the latter seasons.
Homer Screams
0:45 Fun Fact: Even though Lisa's saxophone is a Baritone Saxophone, the saxophone that plays in that version is actually a Tenor Saxophone. It was, however, a real Baritone Saxophone later on as the series goes on, which is why later on, it is an octave lower than this first one.
I was wondering why it sounded different here because I remember later on through the series, the notes sounded alittle lower
@@Tick_Tock_Soon Lmaooo
Moosic
@@elitezenkai9435 lol
boy i hope somebody got fired for that blunder
Danny Elfman is a musical genius
Or a magical Elf, man...
lol
Wow this show looks really interesting, i have a feeling its going to be a big hit one day
LMAO! :D
I still think that
No, this show looks ugly. Why are the characters yellow? And this Bart character is a unlikable child. This show is gonna get cancelled soon, watch.
@@georgeliquor1236 Twitter be like:
yeah and I think that those people on the bus stop are totally gonna stick around
Did anyone see the Bart Simpson look a like at the bus stop?
It’s the one in the middle
Maybe it’s one of his uncles
I also noticed Chief Wiggums wife Sarah in the crowd
Yep
The one that have a red shirt with a blue jacket
I was today years old when I realized that Danny Elfman composed this theme song! It seems so obvious now, but yeah... the man is amazing.
I don’t know Danny elfman but I love him for that intro that he creat
Can’t believe The Simpsons has been airing on tv for the past 30 years. Iconic!!! 👑
One of the most greatest and memorable opening sequences in television cinema. To this day I still get chills and goosebumps. 😍😎👍💯
*the greatest
Just here to help with your grammar, for anything in your life
0:45 the jazz solo sounds amazing
God I love the first season of the show. So authentic and fresh.
Someone: spends all of their money just to have a streamer say his name
His children: 0:10
Crzygamer The Simp’s Sons
Crzygamer i approve this as an intellectual joke
XD what if he has a girl child
@@boombrickfilms3642 umm I guess it would be 'The Simpsdaughters'
@@mattal722 lol yah
Homer: 🍩😕🍺
Marge: 😒
Bart: 🤥🛹
Lisa: 🤔🎷
Maggie: 🍼
Ok.
Marge:
🟦
🟦
🟦
😒
Mr.burns: 😈💲
@@RobertoDeMundo H
@@RobertoDeMundo True doe
The bit were Bart takes away the bus stop sign and makes the people run after the bus is definitely my favourite part of this season 1 intro
i know, they should've kept it
@@GlitchedBruh_ManIsCrazy I 100% agree
@@LiamCameron294 yeah it was a great detail
I remember I didn't know what this show was called when I saw it on TV when I was little so I just referred it to as "The yellow people" and turns that it became to be one of my most favorite shows
This intro sequence comes from the episode, Homer's Odyssey.
I can literally remember what episode they come from with the smallest detail.
This theme absolutely did not have to go as hard as it does. They're so much musical motion. A different composer would never have made such an involved theme for a cartoon sitcom.
Right??? It's a triumph. I'm trying to write an essay on why it's so fantastic
I remember watching this show when I was a kid I still love this show!!!!
MAGGIES BEEN A BABY FOR 31 YEARS??? *the simpsons never age. They will be... INEVITABLE*
-Thanos 2018
Bart's been in the 4th grade for 32 years. A new record.
A logical reason would be 'cause of the nuclear power plant.
I probably prefer the Season 1 intro over the others, just looking at the cruder drawings and animations in the present is very charming
The imperfections give it substance and life. The new animation is so robotic and stiff that each episode looks like it was made in an assembly line
i also prefer how the season 1 intro sounds. that's just because that's the intro the theme was originally composed for. the newer intros have a couple of edits that also make it sound a bit janky
I never even watched the show why is the theme so nostalgic tho
Same here
@@cameronmcgeough8005 I don't want to
@@cameronmcgeough8005 says who?
@@cameronmcgeough8005 not literally everyone loves it
@@cameronmcgeough8005 well I am sorry but I don't like it at all so there just deal with it and stop being so pushy
God, old simpsons just gives you that fuzzy warm feeling only a family could give.
On this day in 1989 & still going 2018
Ya mean 1989 to 2019
2019
Near 2020 lol
Near 2069 lol
2020
The soundtrack to 6pm every Sunday evening (UK) of my 90s childhood. The calm before the storm of the school week ahead.
Ahh my favorite show: The S I M P S.
The season 1 intro don’t look that different it just doesn’t have all the characters yet.
Jed Hutchins season ones intro has so many problems and animation errors
Taken from the episode homers odyssey
1:25 first couch gag EVER
Actually it wasn’t. It was the couch gag for the 10th episode
Withmuck guy 336 I thought I was the second one but ok
It's not the first one, but it is one of the earlier ones.
The first couch gag is one where the family sits down and Bart gets expelled from the couch.
Actually the first couch gag was in some enchanted evening which was
supposed to be the pilot episode
The couch gag was a normal one.
I have never seen this intro before. It feels so weird not seeing certain things from later seasons, but also can't believe they cut out Lisa on her bike!
@jamainegardner and they also cut out the people at the bus stop!
Yeah, that cut with Lisa and her bike has some satisfying animation
here after Maytree's audition on AGT
I just love this classic, catchy song. The theme song is so relatable too.
I just noticed that Lisa got home before Homer in this intro. Compared to later ones where she arrives later and nearly runs into Homer.
yeah, I noticed that too, plus bart stole the bus stop instead of just dodging recurring characters on the side walk
@@neo-warkid4edwards222 what recurring characters they only ever appeared in the s1 intro. and they broke most of the simpsons animation rules with the spikey hair and homer muzzle
0:45 I really got used to Lisa’s solo in season 2 that every time I’d sing this, it’d usually transition to the second tune.
I really wish they kept the old composer because the instruments on this version of the theme song sounds so much better. However, I like the Season 2 one a lot too.
0:48 always makes me smile, that one bit is just so iconic with early Simpsons
0:40 proof Maggie is adopted
Hollie Charles yeah Maggie is adopted
Bruh
@@mugiwara-ya7308 she has Lisa’s spikes in her hair tho
If you had to ask me the top 3 Opening Credit sequences, #3 would be Dexter (the concept of how simple, everyday things can be brutal in a sort of context), The X Files would easily be the greatest of all time (the music, imagery, "forbidden movie feel", everything) and this is the second greatest of all time... it's basically an entire show in and of itself. There's nothing better to lots of people than the escapist feel of getting off work or school and going home, and we see it from four different perspectives- all as thrilling as one another, along with the commute home, and their racing to the couch to watch TV- and the 700 different variations of that they've done so far. It just brings back memories, doesn't it?
No.
@@HonestAbe18 Yes.
@@YouCantDeleteDenzelL lol Just messing with you, mate.I totally agree with you.
And they say the Kardashians are the most iconic family
Good one Danny
0:31 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
NOOOOOOOOOOO HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME
Oh! those were the good ol days when television was still great and you would've never gotten bored with stuff like this
1:01 for some reason these guys weren’t in the 750th episode intro
Wow just a couple of months, when I was born and this shows still running since then.
WOW!!! 27 years this shows been on. That has to be the longest running show ever!
Actually no, Doctor Who began in 1963, and has lasted ever since.
Doctor Who had multiple cancellations during that time.
That’s true you need to get your facts right
Ps doctor who sucks
Darker Bit. *uk
the longest runnning animated tv show is sazae san, a japanese slice-of-life show about a middle aged mother that somehow was so popular it's been running consistantly without cancellation since 1969 whereas doctor who was cancelled in 1989.
I had to listen to this for my music homework 😂
Like that's true
that tritone
lol
0:11
i've been using this to remember what a tritone sounds like
fun fact: the angry, hostile expression with downward slanting eyelids shown by homer as he ditches the radioactive material at 0:53, was forbidden by Groening in the style of later Simpsons drawings.
there were some issues with the style of the characters at 1:00 too that made them get cut from the intro. basically it was "forbidden" for any character to have too similar appearance to any of the main characters and these came too close to that mark.
Legend has it those people are still chasing the bus to this day!
I wish this show would still have the traditional cel animation
Happy 34th anniversary to The Simpsons!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Sally Stevens the solo tenor in Burt Bacharach's 'South American Getaway' from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid adds her vocals to this as well as in many songs in many Simpsons episodes 🙂
I love this show and the theme song is so good
Homers scream is so iconic
1:12 I never understood why they cut this part out from the later intros, it feels weird without it.
same
Or the original people from the bus stop.
I finally found a high quality theme of season one
This is my favorite song from my favorite show from simons its funny but its sad too l like whatching it i love whatching this show
Milhouse: *exists*
0:11
1:01 dude has barts hair lmao
Kernisha Duvall i notice that
I ADORE Simpsons, best cartoon, best all-American-standardised-family, best characters and what not! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ love love love
1989: Catchy and regular theme song
2021: 0:31 AMONGUSAMOGNUSAMONGUSAMONGUSAMONGUSAMONGUSAMONGUSAMONGUS:MOYAI:FARTFARTFARTAMONGUSAMONGUS
Matt Groening is a living legend at least when it come to cartoon comedy 😂👍
I was 8 when this premiered, even then I knew this was a big deal.
I am little tiny baby child so I haven’t watched the original Simpsons but this theme song wants me to watch all the episodes first to last, the theme song is amazing. It is a masterpiece and I am amazed about how good it is, it is a lot better that many other theme songs. I don’t know what else to add to this so I will start watching Simpsons now
0:10 when people worship women
In twenty years i'll bé the Simpsons legend
Imigane watching this for the very first time when it released and it just became god...
This gives me such nostalgia
0:48 I Like This Part💖💖💖💖
That beginning tri tone hits like no other
I love how they all got home at the same time to watch TV!
When you say "hi" to a girl 0:11
the SIMP
The Simps
The Simpso
+JurassicParkFan
The Simpson
@Business Bighead The Simpsons 2
The Simpsons was the 1st show in 1989
Marty McFly II those were only shorts
@Israel Soares Cunha only the shorts, yes, the actual show starting from season 1 debuted in 1989
And wonder of wonders, if you take into account the background music playing at the same time, then the "-simp-" is an harmonic Major 2nd Interval and the "-sons!" is an harmonic minor 2nd interval!
I know that's going to mean nothing to a lot of you, but if you are a music student trying to learn the difference between an harmonic Major 2nd and an harmonic minor 2nd, that knowledge is manna from Heaven!
Amazing and iconic opening.
0:31 Homer Be Lookin Kinda Sus 😂
Amogn us
Simpsons predicted Among us.
I learned more from life watching The Simpsons growing up that actually participating in it 😂😂😂
📺
this thing but in "your best nightmare" style (Freak Choir, Iconic bass sound, fast drums) sounds so cool and funny at the same time
Damn. The show should have ended by the time the movie was released at best. This intro shows what the show could have been remembered as. And not as a show that went on for way way too long.
Lyrics:
The Simpsons
You forgot "Daaaah da da dadaaaah da da da dadadada dadadadadaaaah dadadada."
0:55 Anything may become a your dead, but nothing matter
its really good
dat sax though
The simp 0:12
1:02 one of the people at the bus stop looks like an adult version of Bart.
I just randomly felt like listening to the Simpsons intro
it first aired 4 days after taylor swift was born 😱
LOVE THIS CARTOON
Me too
The Simpsons theme song had some catchy
chords 🥰🥰❤️💞💞
One of the Goats of TV! 💪
I love Simpsons
The Simpsons was more of a kids cartoon in Season 1 and the Tracey Ullman Shorts.
Leonard Gelin Here in Australia in the DVD Boxset it has a G rating on it for kids and rest of them are either PG or M for Mature Audiences.
Jed Hutchins on Disney plus it’s PG rating
SPOILER ALERT
Well, now that I think of it, the only inappropriate thing the Simpsons had in Season 1 is just language. And one episode where Homer danced at a strip club, and another one where Bart declares war.
Fox isn't a kids network though.
So cool
I think Lisa's sax solo in the season 1 theme is the best just because in the most others, its just freestyle, while in this one she does an amazing sax remix of the Simpsons' theme.
0:32 among us
I've tried looking online in the past to see if anyone else has noticed but the sign saying "Welcome to Springfield Nuclear Power Plant" is misspelled.
Not sure when it was fixed but it's correct in season 2 openings.
Patrick Zweygardt I did.
Long Live The Simpsons, dude! : )
My childhood wrapped into a song…🐐 tv theme song.