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March 07, 2009

OPENING SEQUENCE -Desperates Housewives The initial idea for the show opening sequence was Cherrys own, and after having asked sixteen companies to come up with suggestions how to best realize it,...

OPENING SEQUENCE -Desperates Housewives

The initial idea for the show opening sequence was Cherrys own, and after having asked sixteen companies to come up with suggestions how to best realize it, the producers finally hired Hollywood-based yU+co to provide the final version.

According to the yU+cos official website, the idea behind the sequence is to evoke the show's quirky spirit and playful flaunting of womens traditional role in society.The images featured are taken from eight pieces of art, portraying domesticity and male-female relations through the ages.

The first image shows Lucas Cranach the Elders painting Adam and Eve. A snake passes an apple to Eve before another, larger, apple, with the words Desperate Housewives written on it, falls on Adam. Then follows the tomb paintings of Queen Nefertari of Egypt, the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses the Great. An animation of Queen Nefertari is seen standing within her tomb being overwhelmed by what appear to be countless children surrounding her.

Next appearing is The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck painted in 1434 Giovanni Arnolfini is seen eating a banana and throwing the skin on the floor, leaving it for his wife to sweep it away. The painting American Gothic by Grant Wood from 1930 then follows, and the farmer is shown smiling as he is touched on the chin by a pin up as his apparently disapproving wife frowns in front of a tin of canned sardines.

The can appears on a kitchen work surface when the World War II poster Am I Proud! is shown, depicting a woman holding cans and jars including Andy Warhols Campbell's Soup Cans. The soup can then falls into the hand of a man featured in pop art work by Robert Dale, Couple Arguing and Romantic Couple. After the woman in this pictures is seen crying and giving her male companion a black eye, the image folds away, and the tree from Cranachs painting reappears with the snake wrapped around it and the four main characters Bree, Lynette, Susan and Gabrielle appearing under the tree, each catching an apple. There is one variation for the opening theme (For DVDs), where Susan is in the Egyptian art, Lynette's in the can of sardines which close, resembling her face, Bree caught an apple, and passes it to Gabrielle.

The music for the openings is composed by Danny Elfman, and has been awarded both an Emmy Award and the BMI TV Music Award. In 2005 it was included on the album Music from and Inspired by Desperate Housewives.

When an episode is running too long, only the first sequence (the falling apple) is kept. From "Now You Know" and onwards, only the main chorus of the theme is heard, which is the falling apple scene, and the photograph of the four lead actresses, crediting Marc Cherry as creator.

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