The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love

Howling at a concrete moon.

Visual Media used: The Simpsons, World of Tomorrow Episodes 1-3, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Rejected

Music used (chronologically): Má vlast (Smetana), The Midnight Wood (Hyper Light Drifter), Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 (Chopin), Old Sir Symon the King (Concerto Caledonia), Kinderszenen Op. 15 No. 1 (Schumann), Petrichor (Hyper Light Drifter), Rain of Brass Petals (Silent Hill 3), The Nutcracker Suite- Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovsky), Read Access Memory (Superhot: Mind Control Delete), Kinderszenen Op. 15 No. 10 (Schumann)

Description Credit: Moe Szyslak and Lisa Simpson
Classical Music from WikiCommons and the European Archive

[MrPooleish]

"Adults suck and then you are one" is not a truth I was willing to grapple with today.

[KOCoyote]

I watched a breakdown on a Simpson's couch gag and now I am suddenly, deeply, existentially sad.

[AM]

that thing about homer being a teenager in the 90s snapped a bit of my brain off

[leephillips]

I thought they were being so self-aware making that couch gag, then I found out it was made by a guest animator with practically no supervision.

[arforafro]

This is why Alzheimer's is so horrible, quoting an old man from a story saw posted somewhere: "I had a long life; I had memories of it, its unfair that I cannot remember anything"

[mwkcope]

"What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!" - Clay Kaczmarek

[giveluminacatnobles]

Theres a sad beauty in how it goes from
"You are Lisa Simpson"
All the way to
"I am Simpson"

[Fexxis_]

One thing I remember for an earlier season, Lisa tells Bart that “every week Homer goes on some other wacky adventure. It’ll be back to normal by next Thursday.”

[TKBadMoon]

"This opening was made by Don Hertzfeldt"

Everything instantly made sense.

[oldscoolest]

My favorite couch gag is the one where Homer evolves from a bacteria, goes through all of history, until the moment he is sitting on the couch. And then Marge asks him "what took you so long"

[aputridpileofb-movies]

I think perhaps the 'I will never forget you' sequence is meant to be near the end of the universe, perhaps only minutes away from it.

[lucienr]

I would love if they did a "Treehouse Of Horror" episode where everyone remembers all the past episodes and realizes they're trapped in some endless time bubble. They'd quickly spiral into madness and, depending on how dark Disney is willing to go, do some really dark and disturbing things.

[PhantamSam]

I was genuinely expecting this video to end with the Simpson’s credits

[RinLockhart]

"Now is the envy of all of the dead."
"Okay."

oh my god

[satyasyasatyasya]

"'Now' is the envy of all of the dead."

my god... that hits

[nachoijp]

"we are happy family", "I wil never forget you", "Still love you Homar"... The simple but eternal values for which we loved The Simpsons.
In a way, it's nice to think that they still milk the series because those values still resonate with us. It shines a hopeful light in the audience, even if the series is a fiery mountain of tires.

[sonicthehedgegod]

i never fail to lose it at “i will read one of his letters to you now: Oh God. Oh God. Oh. Oh holy mother of God.” that’s like one of the funniest fucking lines

[Silver-Arrow]

Imagine if the Simpsons pulled a space dandy where homer actually remembers everything that happened in the past quadrillion episodes but just chooses to live with it

[echoedblur]

The grandfather bit was honestly terrifying, especially with the details about how differently time passes in the cube. Being completely alone, without a body or any sensory experiences, unable to properly communicate or end your existence, for hundreds and thousands of years... God that's scary. Reminds me of certain Black Mirror episodes, too.

[purplehaze]

I interpreted the intro as a critique of the series’ direction.
It displaying the show in tens of thousands of years might have been in reference to the refusal to let it die.
It’s literally the show that gave name to the phenomenon of Flanderization, so the slow degradation of the characters down to their base elements could be in reference to that.