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* Some special versions of the company's jingle were made to fit certain episodes of the Simpsons.
 
* Some special versions of the company's jingle were made to fit certain episodes of the Simpsons.
** On [[Treehouse of Horror Series|Treehouse of Horror]] episodes from [[Treehouse of Horror II|II]], there is a pipe organ playing the jingle minorly and a girl screaming.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror II|II]] and [[Treehouse of Horror III|III]], the organ played, without the scream.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror IV|IV]], the scream was added in.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror VI|VI]], the jingle was played as a Myst/Philip Glass Homage as heard in Homer³.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror VII|VII]], [[Treehouse of Horror VIII|VIII]] (along with [[Treehouse of Horror XVII|XVII]], [[Treehouse of Horror XVIII|XVIII]] and [[Treehouse of Horror XX|XX]]), [[Treehouse of Horror XI|XI]], [[Treehouse of Horror XIII|XIII]], [[Treehouse of Horror XIV|XIV]], and [[Treehouse of Horror XVI|XVI]] the organ played slightly different kinds of logos.
 
**** It seems [[Treehouse of Horror VII|VII]] has one of the most scariest screams in this logo, due to it being a different kind of scream.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror IX|IX]], the organ played, but the scream was replaced with Regis Philbin screaming, "My eyes, my beautiful eyes!" as heard in The Terror of Tiny Toon.
 
*** [[Treehouse of Horror X|X]]'s version of the logo is a reuse of [[Treehouse of Horror II|II]], [[Treehouse of Horror III|III]], [[Treehouse of Horror IV|IV]], [[Treehouse of Horror V|V]] and [[Treehouse of Horror IX|IX]] in terms of the organ.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror XII|XII]], the scream is being heard during the organ.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror XV|XV]], the scream was replaced with Homer screaming through this logo and 20th Century Fox Television logo, similar to [[The Blunder Years]]. This variant was reused in [[Treehouse of Horror XXII|XXII]] and [[Treehouse of Horror XXIII|XXIII]].
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror XIX|XIX]], the jingle was played in a 'Peanuts' style heard in It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse which was then reused in [[Gone Abie Gone]].
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror XXI|XXI]], the organ played but the original scream was replaced by a Wilhelm scream.
 
*** On [[Treehouse of Horror XXIV|XXIV]], the original scream was replaced with people shouting the phrase, "One of Us!".
 
** On some episodes that feature songs during the closing credits, the closing song continues playing over the logo.
 
*** [[Dancin' Homer|Capital City]]
 
*** [[Lisa the Vegetarian|Maybe I'm Amazed]]
 
*** [[The Old Man and the "C" Student|Can't Buy Me Love]] (This also ran into the 20th Century Fox TV logo)
 
*** [[Bye Bye Nerdie|Always Safety First]]
 
*** [[Papa Don't Leech|America's Back and We're Feeling Patriotic]]
 
** Numerous other alternate versions of the theme have been used over the years.
 
*** [[Lisa the Greek|Whistle then Marching Band]]
 
*** [[Homer at the Bat|Cricket bat then Baseball Organ]]
 
*** [[The Otto Show|Electric Guitar]]
 
*** [[Kamp Krusty|Mexican Style then Olé chant]] (Used on the album ''[[Songs in the Key of Springfield]]'')
 
*** [[$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)|Vegas style then slot machine]] (Used on the album ''[[Songs in the Key of Springfield]]'')
 
*** [[Lisa's Wedding|Renaissance]] (Used on the album ''[[Songs in the Key of Springfield]]'')
 
*** [['Round Springfield|First Saxophone]]
 
*** [[Summer of 4 Ft. 2|Second Saxophone]]
 
*** [[Lisa's Sax|Third Saxophone]]
 
*** [[Miracle on Evergreen Terrace|Christmassy]]
 
*** [[Margical History Tour|Similar Renaissance]]
 
** The only time the logo can be seen within the episode was in [[You Kent Always Say What You Want]], where after being interrupted by the 20th Century Fox TV logo when saying 'The truth is-', Homer on a white screen whispers to the fourth wall, "OK. What I was going to say was-," before the 'shush' interruption and the end credits.
 
** Some episodes might use a sound bite from the episode, or use a voiceover from a character in that episode that plays alongside the jingle or replacing the jingle.
 
*** These kind of variants are possibly inspired by the 'Deedle-Dee Tag' of Deedle-Dee Productions as heard in nearly every episode of [[Mike Judge]]'s animated comedy King of the Hill.
 
**** [[Lady Bouvier's Lover|I'm sorry.]]
 
**** [[Homer the Great|Shut up.]]
 
**** [[Bart vs. Australia|Didgeridoo]]
 
**** [[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)|Loud Gunshot!]]
 
**** [[The Canine Mutiny|Jamming.]]
 
**** [[All Singing, All Dancing|(Gunshot) You too, Gracie music dude. Gaw!]]
 
**** [[When You Dish Upon a Star|Homer, we're out of vodka.]]
 
**** [[Wild Barts Can't Be Broken|Don't tell me to shush, you stupid lady.]]
 
**** [[Sunday, Cruddy Sunday|Silence!]]
 
**** [[Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"|(Gunshot) (Thud) (Three More Gunshots)]]
 
**** [[Monty Can't Buy Me Love|Ooh, I hear this really sucks.]]
 
**** [[Brother's Little Helper|Oh, why'd you have to shush, you ruined the whole show.]]
 
**** [[Little Big Mom|You hit her pretty hard there, Rick.]]
 
**** [[Saddlesore Galactica|Worst episode ever.]]
 
**** [[Pygmoelian|Oh, yeah.]]
 
**** [[Bart to the Future|Moochie-moochie.]]
 
**** [[Last Tap Dance in Springfield|Tappa-Tappa-Tappa.]]
 
**** [[A Tale of Two Springfields|Disconnection]]
 
**** [[Insane Clown Poppy|Shut up, Updike!]]
 
**** [[Worst Episode Ever|Why, you ill-mannered sack of crap.]]
 
**** [[Day of the Jackanapes|Mukluk.]]
 
**** [[Trilogy of Error|(Basic laughter) En Français. (French laughter)]]
 
**** [[I'm Goin' to Praiseland|Cough]]
 
**** [[Children of a Lesser Clod|Pokémon? Pokémon? Where the pokey and the man and the thing with the guy comes out...]] (overran into the 20th Century Fox TV logo)
 
**** [[The Bart Wants What It Wants|Whassup?]]
 
**** [[The Old Man and the Key|This has been a Gracie Films presentation.]]
 
**** [[How I Spent My Strummer Vacation|Simpson!]]
 
**** [[Smart and Smarter|Oh, shush yourself.]] (Heard again in "[[The Great Simpsina]]" as said by [[Ewell Freestone]])
 
**** [[Don't Fear the Roofer|Badabing, badaboom. And we're done.]]
 
**** [[The Homer of Seville|Plácido Domingo's Soprano Voice]]
 
**** [[Husbands and Knives|Might be some wrong words there, but uh, pretty much nailed it.]]
 
**** [[O Brother, Where Bart Thou?|Folk singers never say, "Take it, Naked Bacon".]]
 
**** [[Once Upon a Time in Springfield|Penelope vocalising]]
 
**** [[Million Dollar Maybe|Soon you will be...]]
 
**** [[The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed|L'Chaim]]
 
**** [[The Squirt and the Whale|Whale call]]
 
**** [[Angry Dad: The Movie|Why didn't you say that a minute ago? Don't take any of my ideas.]]
 
**** [[The Falcon and the D'ohman|Shush me again, and I'll take your head clean off.]]
 
**** [[The Ten-Per-Cent Solution|Oh, grow up!]]
 
**** [[Moe Goes from Rags to Riches|I'm in hell.]]
 
**** [[At Long Last Leave|The Outlands]]
 
**** [[Brick Like Me|Marge's shush]]
 
**** [[The Simpsons Guy|Peter Griffin sings the jingle: And now the show is over now.]]
 
**** [[Covercraft|Sammy Hagar laughing]]
 
** [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] has the most dialogue in the variants he has been heard in:
 
*** [[Duffless|Ringing bicycle bell then giggling]]
 
*** [[Bart Star|You're cut too, Shushy!]]
 
*** [[They Saved Lisa's Brain|Larry Flynt is right. You guys stink.]]
 
*** [[The Mansion Family|Don't shush me, you rich bastard!]]
 
*** [[Missionary: Impossible|Save me, Jebus!]]
 
*** [[Homer vs. Dignity|Baby made a boom-boom.]]
 
*** [[Simpsons Tall Tales|Oh, boy. Buffalo testicles.]]
 
*** [[The Parent Rap|Cobras!]]
 
*** [[The Blunder Years|Screaming]] (overran into the 20th Century Fox TV logo which was then re-used in "[[Treehouse of Horror XV]]", "[[Treehouse of Horror XXII]]" and "[[Treehouse of Horror XXIII]]").
 
*** [[O Brother, Where Bart Thou?|Do you guys know 'Funkytown'?]]
 
*** [[Thursdays with Abie|Hey, shush yourself!]]
 
*** [[A Midsummer's Nice Dream|Jeez, sorry Dave.]]
 
*** [[The Yellow Badge of Cowardge|Usher, will you stop that person who's shushing?]]
 
** The only visual variation of this logo was in "[[Last Tap Dance in Springfield]]", where after the "Shhh!" we hear Little Miss Vicki saying "Tappa, tappa, tappa" and then the logo's main animation slides up to take up the top half of the screen, while the bottom half has an animated black-and-white scene of a cat rubbing its eyes (with fake prop arms from offscreen) and smiling (this was in an old Miss Vicki movie Lisa was watching).
 
** In two episodes, the jingle is played at the start of the logo and then a sound is heard. In "[[All Singing, All Dancing]]", [[Snake Jailbird]] shoots his gun to stop the music as in the credits and says, "You too, Gracie music dude. Gaw!" and in [[Elementary School Musical]], a cow moo is heard at the very end of the jingle.
 
  
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== Trivia ==
 
It is often speculated that the main chorus of the 1990 song entitled King of Wishful Thinking by the British pop band Go West can be heard in this musical signature. This has been fervently denied by some members of the successful pop band, though others have expressed their displeasure.
 
It is often speculated that the main chorus of the 1990 song entitled King of Wishful Thinking by the British pop band Go West can be heard in this musical signature. This has been fervently denied by some members of the successful pop band, though others have expressed their displeasure.
  

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Gracie Films is an American film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986. The company has produced many award-winning films and television series, some of which include Broadcast News and Jerry Maguire, but most notably, The Simpsons. The company is primarily associated with film studio and distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment, but it still has an office at the 20th Century Fox lot due to the indefinite contract Gracie Films has had with Fox for the last 20 years for The Simpsons.

The Gracie production logo depicts noisy movie patrons at a movie theater hearing a woman in the back row saying "Shhhhh!" so the title, the company's name, can be projected, and that the company's musical signature can be heard. Some special versions of the company's jingle were made to fit certain episodes of the Simpsons.

Variants

Main article: Gracie Films gags
  • Some special versions of the company's jingle were made to fit certain episodes of the Simpsons.

Trivia

It is often speculated that the main chorus of the 1990 song entitled King of Wishful Thinking by the British pop band Go West can be heard in this musical signature. This has been fervently denied by some members of the successful pop band, though others have expressed their displeasure.

The company's production office is located in the Sidney Poitier Building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California.

References in The Simpsons

  • Homer once claimed in his first ramble that he created Gracie Films.[1]

Notable TV series and films

  • The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1990)
  • Broadcast News (1987)
  • Big (1988)
  • Say Anything (1989)
  • The Simpsons (1989–present)
  • War of the Roses (1989)
  • Sibs (1991–1992)
  • Phenom (1993–1994)
  • The Critic (1994–1995)
  • I'll Do Anything (1994)
  • Jerry Maguire (1996)
  • The Daytrippers (1996)
  • Bottle Rocket (1996)
  • As Good as It Gets (1997)
  • Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
  • What About Joan? (2001–2002)
  • Spanglish (2004)
  • The Upside Down Show (2006)
  • The Simpsons Movie (2007)

External links

References