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- Season 1, Episodes 2-13 (January 14-May 13, 1990)
- Seasons 2-19, Season 20 Episodes 1-9 (October 11, 1990-January 25, 2009)
- Season 20, Episodes 10-21, Seasons 21-Present (February 15, 2009-present)
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The Opening Sequence is one of the most notable hallmarks of The Simpsons.
The sequence differs from episode to episode, usually with a different Chalkboard Gag, Couch Gag, and a Saxophone Solo from Lisa. Since mid-Season 20, the title sequence format has changed, and each episode has a Title Screen Gag, Billboard Gag, and Lisa playing a different musical instrument rather than her saxophone.
Because the first season and series premiere was a Christmas special, the first opening sequence was introduced in the second episode, "Bart the Genius". It is more crudely animated (looking similar to the animation used within the first season's episodes) than Season 2 onward, and it was done entirely by Kevin Petrilak.
We fade into a dark blue sky with a stratus cloud in the middle. The "Ahh Chorus" synthesizer pad plays (which actually starts playing just before the fade in) as the stratus cloud begins to part, and the yellow text, "THE SIMPSONS", (which is the exact same text that was later used in the Season 2-20 intro, but is somewhat a dark yellow that has a light yellow glow effect to it) emerges from the parting stratus cloud, thickens just after it appears, and begins to zoom in as the cloud continues to part away. Singers intone "The Simpsons..." (NOTE: The Season One version of the theme, arranged by Danny Elfman, was a bit more crude, and more staccato, for lack of a more descriptive term, than the version used later). The cloud disappears from both sides as the text zooms in closer, and the camera moves through the letter "P" into a birds-eye view of Springfield. We swoop over the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and the Springfield Tire Yard, fading into a street in Downtown Springfield afterwards. We slowly zoom down the street while passing by Semi-Painless Dentistry towards the purple-colored Springfield Elementary School. (
We fade into the school's entrance that the camera zooms onto for a bit and then pans by it to an open window. We zoom in through the school window, and Bart is seen in a classroom writing a unique phrase repeatedly on the chalkboard as punishment. In the classroom, the walls are either gradient purple or gradient blue-violet, and a bulletin board with three crude drawings is hung next to Bart. He stops writing and looks at the board unamused. As the school bell rings, Bart turns towards the door, happily grins and leaves the classroom. The camera zooms out of the room and pans towards the school's entrance, where Bart happily bursts out of the front doors on his skateboard, flies past the flag pole, dives back down, and skateboards past a big field with trees (which is obviously drawn very crudely, similar to the backgrounds of Season One episodes) while going farther away.
Then it cuts to inside the Power Plant, where Homer is seen working on a carbon rod in his hazmat suit. The quitting whistle blows, much to Homer's glee as he hears it, so he gleefully removes his hazmat suit helmet, puts down the tongs and leaves the building, not noticing the carbon rod that accidentally bounced into his back. Behind him, a bald co-worker is holding a sandwich with tongs, and takes a bite after the whistle blows. The caution sign over Homer's head has two holes on the right side, both blank.
The scene then cuts to Marge and Maggie checking out at a supermarket. In the check out line, Marge reads her Mom Monthly magazine with an ad for Frosted Krusty Flakes on the back. Maggie is inadvertently scanned along with the groceries, without the cashier noticing. The cashier rings her up at as $847.63 and Maggie is mistakenly packaged in a brown bag after the camera pans towards a different shot of Marge and the cart. Marge wonders where Maggie is while turning her head from the left. Maggie pops out of the bag, and Marge sighs in relief as she and Maggie exit the supermarket. The scene cuts to the school once again, where Dewey Largo's band is practicing. Students in the room (right to left):
African-American kid, brown haired boy playing bass violin (back row), Nina Skalka (front row), Mr. Largo, thin curly haired girl (back row), Girl with glasses, Adrian Belew.
The sequence once again opens with the show's title (which is directly ripped from the Season One intro, but is in light yellow, has light-orange outlines around the letters, and, as it zooms in closer, has the rest of the intro superimposed inside the hole of the "P" which then reveals itself as the camera goes through the "P") zooming in on the camera and going through the "P" while clouds part away. But this time, the sky is light blue, and the clouds are now beige-colored cumulus clouds (similar to the clouds in the backgrounds of Season 2-early Season 20 episodes, and here, the clouds are painted so their paint streaks are noticeable). As the camera swoops over Springfield, we see the power plant, welcome sign, and Springfield Prison behind the plant. We fly over the power plant and tire yard, toward downtown Springfield. Semi-Painless Dentistry is now replaced with Candy Dandy as we move towards Springfield Elementary School, which is now orange with purple accents instead of just purple. The infamous streetlamp glitch happens as we move toward the school—it snaps violently to the right (this is only in a handful of episodes from seasons 2-early season 20).
The sequence of Bart writing the Chalkboard Gag is also redone. The walls are now dark-green, there is a clock showing 4:00 PM, and a wastebasket is seen near to Bart's right side. A portrait of George Washington hangs on the right side of the chalkboard, and a bookcase full of books sits behind him. Bart stops writing for a second and looks at the chalkboard unamused. When the school bell rings, he happily opens his mouth as he looks towards the door, runs out of the classroom, skateboards out of the school while grinning, flying gleefully past the flagpole (NOTE: The episode "Little Orphan Millie" has Bart laughing as he runs out of the classroom), falls back down, and passes by a three-story glass/concrete building, a four-story orange building, trees and bushes. The animation used during this scene (which looks similar to the animation and backgrounds used in Season 2-8 episodes) is much smoother and the perspective problem is solved. The scene cuts to Homer, once again working on the rod and leaving the plant while the rod bounces into his back as the quitting whistle blows. There are two differences in this scene for this version of the intro: The co-worker is replaced with Mr. Burns and Smithers, looking at a layout plan. When the quitting whistle blows, Mr. Burns puts his watch up to his ear and shakes it, as if he believes it has stopped. The caution sign over Homer's head has a green light on top, and a red light on the bottom.
It then cuts to the supermarket, where Marge is reading the same Mom Monthly magazine (with the same Frosted Krusty Flakes ad on the back cover) from the previous intro. The supermarket's ceiling and walls are orange instead of red. Maggie's arms are also now straight down instead of her hands on her hips, and as she is checked out, the cash register flashes $847.63. Back at the school, Lisa is shown at band rehearsal, with a slightly deeper sax solo (either the Simpsons theme or, since Season 3, a different tune). Also, the colors of Lisa's saxophone, the background, and the school band characters are ripped from the Season One intro, but looks more updated than in the previous intro.
Afterwards, Homer is seen driving home from work and throwing the rod out of the window after he uncomfortably feels it, but does not bounce near Moe's Tavern. Bart skateboards in with a big grin, passing by a store with an "Open" sign as he turns into a corner. He makes a better turn, with both feet on the board. He then passes by Helen Lovejoy, carrying bags from the Springfield Mall, passes a book store, dodges to the right, and passes by Apu Nahasapeemapetilon walking his pet dog. Bart then dodges left, passes by Moe Szyslak, holding a towel and standing in his tavern's entrance, passes by an approaching Barney (who belches) on his left, passes by Jacques (who's walking right) carrying a bowling ball and dodges left. A TV store with Krusty the Clown faces on the TV sets appear in the window. Bart looks at it for a second, then grins again. He passes by Bleeding Gums Murphy, who's standing on the street with his sax around his shoulder. Bart finally passes by Clancy Wiggum standing by the corner, who yells and shakes his baton at Bart as he leaves the screen (NOTE: The episodes "Little Orphan Millie" and "Husbands and Knives" have some voices accompanying the people Bart skateboards past). The Springfield Town Square with the Statue of Jebediah Springfield is seen in the background. Marge's car comes from the right and turns towards the street that Bart crossed.
Since this version of the intro, Marge's car is her orange-colored station wagon instead of her red sedan. The low shot of the car approaching doesn't appear after the car's first turn and before Maggie steering the second time; instead, the low shot of the approach is seen right after Maggie steers the second time (NOTE: The shots of Maggie steering, the shot of the car turning, and the low shot of the car approaching are directly ripped from the Season One intro). In the next scene, Lisa's bike sequence was removed. Instead, the camera very quickly pans over a static landscape shot of various Springfield locations and a mix of both familiar and relatively unknown characters. The zip-pan to the Simpson house includes, from left to right:
The highway, kids playing in a yard, Milhouse playing baseball with Lewis and Richard, Nelson and the Weasels bullying a kid in a trashcan, Jimbo and Kearney threatening Martin, Mr. Winfield and Mrs. Sylvia Winfield in rocking chairs, Patty and Selma suntanning in bathing suits with cone-shaped bikini tops, Kent Brockman reporting, a cameraman filming Kent, Sherri and Terri holding hands, Herman, Grampa holding a book, Jasper, the Springfield Retirement Castle, man reading the retirement castle's sign, old folks walking out (like those that Marge sees holding hands in "Life on the Fast Lane"), a man giving a thumbs up, Lou and Eddie behind a barricade, Marvin Monroe writing while holding a clipboard, Wendell with his head out of the bus ready to puke, Dr. Hibbert comparing notes with Monroe, White-Haired Girl, Girl with glasses, Otto chilling next to his broken school bus, unnamed white-haired girl with blue dress, the same buck-toothed boy from the band, an unknown mountain in the background, 744 Evergreen Terrace, Maude (looking at a bluebird), Todd, Ned (with another bluebird on his hand), and 742 Evergreen Terrace.
This new HD sequence opens once again with the show's title zooming in on the camera while moving forwards through clouds (here, the clouds look extremely similar to the clouds seen in the backgrounds of mid Season 20-present episodes, and the title is the same color as the Season 2-early Season 20 title, but the letters look better, cleaner, and more three-dimensional, but they're not as wiggly as the Season 1-early Season 20 title). A crow with three eyes flies by as the chorus sing the title. The crow caws as the camera goes through the "P", and it continues to swoop over Springfield where it goes by the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and the Springfield Tire Yard. Then we see Jimbo Jones and Kearney Zzyzwicz saw off the head of the Jebediah Springfield statue in front of the town square (a reference to The Telltale Head, when Bart cut it off). You can see Springfield Town Hall, The Android's Dungeon, Krusty Burger, Phineas Q. Butterfat's Ice Cream, Pawn Shop and other buildings in the background. The head then falls off on Ralph Wiggum, about to eat an ice cream. For the first twelve HD episodes, he said different things after the head fell on him, but this stopped since Season 21.
Panning behind Ralph, the camera passes by The Android's Dungeon and a Lard Lad Donut Statue (where the crow lands) on the left and a new Billboard gag, which changes in every episode, on the right. The scene continues to zoom in through a window of Springfield Elementary, where Bart is writing the Chalkboard gag. (NOTE: The newest opening spends a lot more time on the previous gags, so the pan to the Springfield Elementary School to Bart's classroom is quicker, with slightly less time to read the gag before it's all in view). In the classroom, the portrait on the wall is of Homer as an astronaut instead of George Washington. The bell rings and Bart zooms out of the school, onto his skateboard, and lands into a pile of leaves Groundskeeper Willie has just finished raking up. As Bart jumps off the pile, Barney Gumble is revealed under the pile and belches drunkenly. The next scene shows Homer getting ready to head back home with a uranium bar stuck on his back. In the background, Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson are putting up the number three over the number two on a sign that says 'Days Without An Accident.' However, they fall off the ladder as they hear the whistle for the end of the shift.
The next shot shows Marge reading a magazine with an ad on the last page for Absolute Krusty Vodka (a parody of Absolute Vodka) and Maggie, with Selma Bouvier and Patty Bouvier purchasing Laramie cigarettes. The items on the conveyor belt include Tomacco juice and Mr. Sparkle power clean detergent (labeled in katakana). When a box of Krusty-O's is scanned, the total amount on the register changes from $236.60 to $243.26, which means the price of the cereal is $6.66. Maggie is inadvertently scanned too, which doubles the register total to $486.52, and she is mistakenly packaged with the groceries. The cashier's race has also been changed, from the original yellow representing Caucasians, to a darker color, possibly indicating an African-American. Marge looks mildly concerned but smiles as Maggie pops out of the bag. Maggie then sees Baby Gerald and shakes her fist at him as Gerald does the same. During Lisa's sax solo, more "common" characters are shown in the orchestra. Recognizable characters include (back row, right to left) Wendell, Database, Martin Prince, Jessica Lovejoy (the daughter of Reverend Lovejoy), Richard, and Lewis, and (front row, right to left) Janey, Milhouse, Sherri and Terri, and Lisa. Sherri and Terri are now texting on their phones instead of playing their flutes. Also, Largo dismisses Lisa earlier, showing her longer. At the end of her solo, she ducks inside briefly for a flourish and smiles. This part may be of variable length, and a split second longer than the previous opening. Also, there is an additional picture of Bleeding Gums Murphy on the wall. Starting with "Judge Me Tender," Lisa occasionally plays different instruments, aside from the saxophone. In other episodes, Lisa plays a trumpet. In a season 22 episode "500 Keys", Lisa plays the violin, while in "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" and "At Long Last Leave," she plays a tuba. Lisa also plays a harp in "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" and "D'oh Canada", while in "Orange is the New Yellow", she plays the theremin.
Meanwhile, after Homer discards the uranium bar, it lands on Otto Mann (this time there is no dust when the rod bounces away). Otto, not knowing what it is, eats it. Bart skateboards by and turns the corner with a muted whoosh. He passes Sideshow Bob, who tries to kill Bart by swinging a machete, Helen Lovejoy, Apu and his eight children, Moe (at Moe's), Comic Book Guy, Disco Stu (who protests, sometimes audibly), a window of HD televisions showing Krusty, Eleanor Abernathy (a.k.a. Crazy Cat Lady), the Rich Texan, who shoots his guns and once again, Clancy Wiggum who waves his nightstick. Hans Moleman peeks out the manhole in the street, but Marge's car slams it shut with a clang as it passes by, with Wiggum looking on in confusion due to his nightstick accidentally hitting Marge's car. In this scene, Grampa is seen in the passenger seat during the Marge reveal (but not until then), with Maggie in the middle. When they honk the horn, he wakes up confused and loses his false teeth as he was sitting right next to them in the car. The camera very quickly pans over the same static landscape shot of various Springfield locations and a mix of both familiar and relatively unknown characters like the Season 2-early Season 20 opening, but this time it includes a lot more familiar characters, even God and the Devil. The new shot includes:
Agnes and Chalmers interrogating Skinner, Milhouse playing ball with Richard and Lewis, Willie on his tractor, Ralph playing on Frank Grimes' grave, Martin about to be beaten by Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph, Squeaky-Voiced Teen, Quimby and Miss Springfield wearing each other's sashes, Chazz Busby, Captain McCallister holding a three-eyed fish, Patty and Selma still sunbathing in their suits, Cletus and Brandine with Plopper, Kang and Kodos in their UFO, Burns and Smithers, Kent and a cameraman, Sherri and Terri still texting, Krusty smoking on a wall with "El Barto" graffiti, Bumblebee Man and Luigi watching the UFO, Eddie and Lou at the bus roadblock, Snake stealing Lou's gun, Fat Tony with Legs and Louie burying someone, Miss Hoover changing the flat tire on the broken-down bus, Wendell still leaning out of the bus, kids in front including Janey, Dr. Hibbert with a clipboard (but no Monroe), Duffman, Jessica Lovejoy, Mr. Teeny and Sideshow Mel, God (whose head is off-screen) fighting the devil (who's standing on a tower), and Rod and Todd playing in their yard.
During the driveway scene, there is oil stain on the pavement. Marge is seen driving her car, but inside the car, we can see she's using her telephone as opposed to having both hands firmly on the steering wheel, resulting in the main change being instead of running away from Marge's car and screaming, Homer is hit with the car and flattened on the hood; instead of running through the door, he is hurled grunting through it by inertia, leaving a Homer-shaped hole. Upon entering their house, the couch gag follows. The living room is mostly the same, but the TV is now a widescreen HD model, with the antenna still on top. Again, a widescreen set, with four unmarked buttons on the right, speakers below. A VCR or some unit is on top still. As the theme song ends, the HDTV showing the "Created By/Developed By" credits falls off as if it was mounted on the wall, but that was only used in the first few HD episodes. Also, unlike the previous opening sequences, there is no cut to black, and the episode begins immediately. On some episodes, starting with "Bart Gets a Z", the HDTV showing the opening credits stands there for a couple of seconds (does not fall off as if it wasn't hung on the wall) before the episode immediately begins.
Approximately the first half minute of the opening, (until Homer leaving work) remains the same, with a few oddities: the word "BANKSY" is sprayed onto a number of walls and other public spaces, including the billboard gag from "Take My Life, Please". The chalkboard gag "(I must not write all over the walls)" is written all over the classroom walls, clock, door, and floor.
After the Simpsons arrive at home, the camera cuts to a shot of them on the couch, then zooms out to show this as a picture hanging on the wall of a fictional overseas Asian animation and merchandise sweatshop. The animation color quickly becomes drab and gray, and the music becomes dramatic and similar to that of Schindler's List.
A large group of tired and sickly artists draw animation cels (although cels are no longer used for this show) amongst piles of human bones and toxic waste, and a female artist hands a barefoot child employee an animation cel, which he washes in a vat of biohazardous fluid.
The camera tracks down to a lower floor on the building, where small kittens are thrown into a woodchipper-type machine to provide the filling for Bart Simpson plush dolls. The toys are then placed into a cart pulled by a panda which is driven by a man with a whip. A man shipping boxes with The Simpsons logo on the side uses the tongue from a decapitated dolphin head to fasten shut the packages. Another employee uses the horn of a sickly unicorn to smash the holes in the center of The Simpsons DVDs. The shot zooms out to reveal that sweatshop is contained within a grim version of the 20th Century Fox logo, surrounded by barbed wire, searchlights, and a watchtower. The entire scene is running on the Simpsons' TV set.
After season 1, there were several different edits done for this opening. The two original edits (condensed and short) had their own musical arrangements done by both Elfman (season 2) and Clausen (season 3-present), and the cut-and-condensed version also had its own Clausen arrangement. Others were edited from longer versions of the opening. FXX r...
Marge's Son Poisoning opening Live action
In 2006, Sky1 in the United Kingdom began advertising The Simpsons using a live-action recreation of the series' opening sequence directed by Chris Palmer. It was the second time they had done so, the first being in September 2000 as part of a weekend celebrating the 10th anniversary of the show premiering in the UK. Except for the very first shot with the "THE SIMPSONS" text appearing out of the clouds, every piece of the opening is present in this version, with even multiple chalkboard and couch gags filmed. Attached to the end of this sequence is the message "Come home to The Simpsons on Sky One." A version was also made for cinema distribution. Because the live action sequence was made in the UK, there are some slight cultural differences, such as Homer and Marge driving on the left in a right hand drive car, the actor playing Chief Wiggum wearing a British police uniform, and the quick swoop between the Marge and Maggie and Homer car sequences has been removed. The sequence was used instead of the regular intro in "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife", first broadcast on Fox on March 26, 2006 with the shots during the driving scenes mirrored so that the cars appeared to be driving on the right side of the road with the steering wheel on the left side of the car. This intro was produced by Pipeworks Software and directed by Chris Palmer. For later reruns, Season 17 DVD prints, and the Disney+ of the episode, the second version of the condensed opening from "Million Dollar Abie" was used. S17 E15. Homer Simpson This is Your Wife
Treehouse of Horror IX
Unlike several of the Treehouse of Horror episodes, this episode uses a Halloween-style version of the cut-and-condensed opening. At the beginning, the sky is eerily dark with redrawn versions of the clouds, thunder and lightning. The "THE SIMPSONS" text is somewhat the same, except that it's golden-yellow and is redrawn. The camera goes through the "P" to the classroom as usual, but the speed of the text zooming in is somewhat slower. In the classroom, Bart writes "The Simpsons Halloween Special IX." in blood (dipping the brush into a jack-o-lantern bucket when it's time for a refill). After he exits the classroom, Homer pulls into the driveway. Bart skateboards in from the right, jumps the retaining wall, and bounces off the roof of Homer's car only to land with a thud in the driveway. Lisa races in on her bike and slams into Bart's battered body. The impact launches her from the bike, and Lisa is firmly lodged into the wall of the garage, just above the door. Marge and Maggie cheerily drive in, beeping their horn, but Homer is too slow in getting out of the way. He becomes a permanent hood ornament for Marge's car. Meanwhile, in the Simpson living room Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees wait vainly for the family to arrive. Freddie glances at his watch, and says they should have arrived by now. Jason just shrugs and takes things in stride. Ironically, Homer being hit by Marge's car would later be incorporated into the mid-Season 20-present opening (although obviously without Homer being killed or becoming a permanent hood ornament).
Christmas (Kill Gil, Volumes I & II and The Burns and the Bees)
A Christmas-themed version was animated for "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2" and later re-aired in "The Burns and the Bees". It begins with two lines of instrumental "Jingle Bells" and then the normal theme song begins. This version is similar to the normal version, except for several key differences: 1.Everything outside is covered with snow. 2.Bart's skateboard has been replaced with a snowboard. 3.Everyone is wearing winter clothes. 4.Mr. Burns and Smithers have been replaced by a Scrooge-esque Burns and Ghost of Marley-esque Smithers, and there are several Christmas banners in the plant. 5.Lisa's saxophone solo is a jazzy version of "Deck the Halls." 6.Bleeding Gums Murphy, who is now deceased, has been replaced with Jasper in a Santa costume. Maude Flanders and Marvin Monroe, however, remain in the pan across Springfield, despite having also passed away. 7.Marge and Maggie's supermarket and car sequence have unfortunately been cut. 8.Wendell is in the sax solo part. 9.Patty and Selma are making snow angels. 10.Wendell is talking to a girl outside instead of laying out sick on the bus.
The opening sequence is parodied in several episodes of The Simpsons:
•Additional chalkboard gags are sometimes written by Bart during the episodes outside of the opening. These episodes include "Bart Gets an F", "Bart the Murderer" and "Separate Vocations".
•In "Simpsons Bible Stories", Bart is writing a chalkboard punishment in hieroglyphics when he hears Milhouse's horn being blown and leaves the classroom.
•A short parody as "The Thompsons" in "Cape Feare", when the Simpsons go into the witness protection program to avoid Sideshow Bob.
•In "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", on Parent-Teacher Night, Mrs. Krabappel gives Marge a full report on how badly Bart has been behaving in school, and then forces her to write "I will try to raise a better child" on the blackboard.
•In "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em", Bart forces Principal Skinner to write "A Baby Beat Me Up" on the blackboard.
•Sherri and Terri are actually huge compared to Milhouse before the new opening sequence.
•It is frequently suggested that Maggie scans for $847.63 because that was the average monthly cost of raising an infant in 1989.
•Before the new opening sequence, Marge's car is a sedan instead of a station wagon. And Homer’s car is a 1963 Dodge Dart instead of a Pink Sedan.
•The Uranium Rod that accidentally gets caught on Homer's back looks suspiciously like the Carbon rod from Deep Space Homer.
•On the season 2-20a opening sequence, When Homer left his car, there aren't any boxes in the garage but when Homer runs away from the car, there are boxes.
•On the season 2-20a opening sequence, in the wide shot of Springfield Elementary, the windows have four panes each and are shut. However, in the closer-up shot of the school as the scene zooms in on Bart, the windows have far more panes and are partially open.
1.http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2027768,00.html
2.https://books.google.com/books?id=UOGTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA70
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Opening sequence. The Opening sequence is one of the most notable hallmarks of The Simpsons. Each episode opening differs from episode to episode, usually with a different Chalkboard Gag, Couch gag, Saxophone Solo, and Billboard gag (post Season 19).
garvey@simpsonsarchive.com Last revised November 26, 2023 This document describes opening sequence in detail, listing the types of openings used, and noting differences from episode to episode and from season to season. If you'd like to know what opening any particular episode used, search for the episode code on this page.
The Simpsons Intro Season 1 1990. The original long season 1 intro with Danny Elfman 's first arrangement. The Simpsons Intro Season 2-20 1990-2008. The original long season 2-early season 20 intro with Alf Clausen's arrangement. The Simpsons Theme Song is one of the most recognizable theme songs in American television history.
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