Gracie Films/Logo Variations
NOTE: Due to The Simpsons' massive run (30 seasons and counting/over 600 episodes produced), not all variations are listed at this time. If you know of a variation that's not listed (especially from 2004 onwards/Season 16 onwards), feel free to add it if you're a writer. For a full list of variations, see here.
Logo descriptions by Logophile, lukesams, BenIsRandom,TrickyMario7654, The Simpsons Archive, Minecraft_Logan, and NightmareEnterprises
The Simpsons (Dancin' Homer) (1990): The ending of the "Capital City Song" is heard. ________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror II) (1991): An organ version of the theme is heard. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Lisa the Greek) (1992): Instead of a "Shh!", a whistle is blown and a marching band plays the theme. ________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Homer at the Bat) (1992): A crack of a baseball bat is heard and the theme is played on a stadium organ as a crowd is heard cheering. ________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Otto Show) (1992): The theme is played on an electric guitar. ________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Kamp Krusty) (1992): The theme is played by a Mexican mariachi band and some off-screen voices shout "¡Olé!". ________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror III) (1992): An organ version of the theme is heard. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Duffless) (1993): The sound effect for the Gracie Films logo is replaced by a bicycle bell being rung twice, followed by Homer giggling. Also, the logo's theme is not heard at all. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror IV) (1993): A woman is heard screaming, followed by the organ version of the theme. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons ($pringfield) (1993): A big band plays the first half of the theme, while a slot machine noise replicates the rest. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Lady Bouvier's Lover) (1994): Grandpa Abe's story is interrupted by the "Shh!" and Grandpa Abe apologizes to the "Shh!" Lady. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror V) (1994): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Homer the Great) (1995): After the Gracie lady shushes, Carl says "Shut up!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Bart vs Australia) (1995): Lisa can be heard playing a didgeridoo during the logo. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Lisa's Wedding) (1995): Trumpets and a harp play the logo's theme in the style of renaissance music. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons ('Round Springfield) (1995): The logo's theme is played by a saxophone and a piano. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)(1995):A gun shot is heard during the logo's theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Lisa the Vegetarian) (1995): "Maybe I'm Amazed" is heard over the logo. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror VI) (1995): The music is played in the style of Myst/Phillip Glass music. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Summer of 4 Ft. 2) (1996): The logo's music is played in the style of beach music with a saxophone lead. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror VII) (1996): A much higher screaming sound is heard, followed by a slow variant of the organ version of the theme. _______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Canine Mutiny) (1997): Chief Wiggum says "Jamming" over the logo. ______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Lisa's Sax) (1997): The logo's theme is played by a sax. (Likely by Lisa) ______________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror VIII) (1997): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Bart Star) (1997): After the Gracie lady shushes, Homer says "You're cut too, shushie!". _________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Miracle on Evergreen Terrace) (1997): The logo's theme is in the style of fairy tale music. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (All Singing, All Dancing) (1998): The music starts to play, but a gunshot interrupts it and Snake is heard saying "You too, Gracie-music dude, gah!" ________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror IX) (1998): Regis Philbin is heard screaming "MY EYES, MY BEAUTIFUL EYES!!", followed by the organ version of the theme. This variant is only heard in syndication and on the Season 10 DVD release. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (When You Dish Upon a Star) (1998): After the Gracie lady shushes, we hear Ron Howard saying "Homer, we're out of vodka". Also, there is no music. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Wild Barts Can't Be Broken) (1999): After the Gracie lady shushes, Crazy Old Man insults the Gracie lady by saying "Oh, don't tell me to shush! You stupid lady!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday) (1999): Instead of a "Shh!", we hear Rupert Murdoch saying "Silence!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers") (1999): Instead of a "Shh!" and the logo's theme, we hear multiple gunshots and a thud. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Old Man and the "C" Student) (1999): "Can't Buy Me Love" is heard over the logo. This also plays over the FOX logo. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Monty Can't Buy Me Love) (1999): During the logo, Lisa can be heard saying "Ooh, I hear this really sucks!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (They Saved Lisa's Brain) (1999): During the logo, Homer can be heard saying "Larry Flint is right. You guys stink!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Beyond Blunderdome) (1999): During the logo, Mel Gibson can be heard doing his Three Stooges impersonation. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Brother's Little Helper) (1999): After the Gracie lady shushes, one of the showering soldiers says: "Oh, why do you have to shush? You ruined the the whole show!" __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror X) (1999):A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Little Big Mom) (2000): During the logo, we hear Fred Mertz say "You hit her pretty hard there, Rick!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Mansion Family) (2000): Homer says after the Gracie lady shushes: "Don't shush me, you rich bastard!" However, this was not heard in syndication, though it is preserved on the Season 11 DVD. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Saddlesore Galactica) (2000): After the Gracie lady shushes, Comic Book Guy says "Worst. Episode. Ever." __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Missionary: Impossible) (2000): After the Gracie lady shushes, Homer says "Save me, Jebus!" __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Pygmoelian) (2000): After the Gracie lady shushes, Duff Man says "Oh yeah!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Bart to the Future) (2000): After the Gracie lady shushes, Bart says "Moochie, moochie!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Last Tap Dance in Springfield) (2000): After the "Shhh!" we hear Little Miss Vicki (a character in the episode) say "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). Also, on FXX airings of the episode, this variant is persevered but the 2009 logo is plastered onto the 1987 one. Gracie Films variant from "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" (note the fake cat arms!)Gracie Films (2014/LTDIS Variant) __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XI) (2000): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (A Tale of Two Springfields) (2000): Phone sounds indicating a call can't be completed are heard over the logo. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Insane Clown Poppy) (2000): After the Gracie lady shushes, John Updike laughs and Krusty the Clown yells "Shut up, Updike!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Homer vs. Dignity) (2000): During the logo, we hear Homer saying "Baby made a boom-boom." __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Worst Episode Ever) (2001): After the Gracie lady shushes, Agnes Skinner says "Why, you ill-mannered sack of crap!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Day of the Jackanapes) (2001): After the Gracie lady shushes, Krusty the Clown says "Mukluk!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Bye Bye Nerdie) (2001): "Always Safety First" is heard. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Trilogy of Error) (2001): During the logo, we hear a French teacher telling his students to laugh "en francais". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (I'm Goin' to Praiseland) (2001): After the Gracie lady shushes, some of Violet's coughing fits are heard. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Children of a Lesser Clod) (2001): During the logo, Bill Cosby says "Pokémon? Pokémon?". This also runs into the FOX logo. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Simpsons Tall Tales) (2001): During the logo, Homer says "Oh boy, buffalo testicles!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XII) (2001): The order is changed for this episode. The organ is played first and then the scream comes in as it is played. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Blunder Years) (2001): After the lady shushes, Homer is heard screaming. This also runs into the FOX logo. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Parent Rap) (2001): After the lady shushes, Homer says "Cobras! Cobras!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Bart Wants What It Wants) (2002): During the logo, Milhouse says "WAZAAAAP!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Old Man and the Key) (2002): The logo stays in its starting point while Lisa (in Elly May Clampett's accent) says "This has been a Gracie Films pray-sen-tation." The logo then proceeds normally. This is not preserved on FXX airings, though is still seen on the Season 13 DVD. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XIII) (2002): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (How I Spent My Strummer Vacation) (2002): During the logo, Mick Jagger says "Simpson!". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XIV) (2003): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Smart & Smarter) (2004): After the Gracie lady shushes, Simon Cowell says "Oh shush yourself." __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Don't Fear The Roofer) (2005): The shush and the logo jingle with Stephen Hawking saying "Badabing, badaboom. And we're done". __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XVII) (2006): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Homer of Seville) (2007): The shush and the logo jingle is replaced with Plácido Domingo holding a high note. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XVIII) (2007): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Husbands And Knifes) (2007): In place of the logo's jingle, Jack Black says "Might be some wrong words in there, but uh, pretty much nailed it." __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XIX) (2008): The logo jingle is played in a Peanuts-style jingle. Likely a reference to the third segment parodying Peanuts. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (O Brother, Where Bart Thou?) (2009): Folk Singers sing "Folk singers never say, "Take it, Naked Bacon". Homer then says "Do you guys know 'Funkytown'?" The shush or the regular logo music is not heard. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed) (2010): A group shouts "l'chaim!" in place of the shush. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Squirt and the Whale) (2010): The shush is replaced with a whale call. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Judge Me Tender) (2010): The shush is replaced with Simon Cowell laughing. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Elementary School Musical) (2010): A cow moo is heard after the logo jingle. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXI) (2010): A low-quality version of the "Wilhelm Scream" is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Ned-liest Catch) (2011): The shush is replaced with Homer saying "And if I'm dead, avenge my death!" Only heard on reruns of the episode. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Falcon and the D'ohman) (2011): Someone (Possibly Snake) says "Shush me again, and I'll take your head clean off." __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXII) (2011) and The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXIII) (2012): Homeris heardscreaming, followed by the organ version of the theme. Homer's scream is different on both. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Ten-Per-Cent Solution) (2011): Joan Rivers says "Oh, grow up!" __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Great Simpsina) (2011): After the shush, Jack McBrayer (who guest starred in the episode as Ewell Freestone) says "Shush yourself.", as the shush interrupted his song about peaches. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (At Long Last Leave) (2012): The logo jingle & music is replaced with Moe Szyslak saying "The Outlands!" __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (How I Wet Your Mother) (2012): "Dream Operator" is heard over the logo. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Moonshine River) (2012): The shush and the jingle is replaced with the sound of tribal drums. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Love is a Many Splintered Thing) (2013): The shush and the jingle is replaced with Brandine and Cletus scatting. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXIV) (2013): A group of people yelling "One of Us!" is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (White Christmas Blues) (2013) and The Simpsons (I Won't Be Home for Christmas) (2014): "The Simpsons Christmas theme" is heard over the logo. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Brick Like Me) (2014): The Gracie Films logo has Marge's shushing instead of the regular shush. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Yellow Badge of Cowardge) (2014): After the shush, Homer says "Usher, will you stop that person who's shushing". The regular music isn't heard. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Family Guy (The Simpsons Guy) (2014): The logo makes a surprise appearance before the end credits of this crossover of Family Guy and The Simpsons. We hear Peter Griffin sing along with the music, "And now, the show is over now!" __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXV) (2014): A screaming sound is heard, followed by the organ version of the theme. This is the first time in 4 years that we hear the woman screaming. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Covercraft) (2014): The shush and the jingle is replaced with Sammy Hagar laughing. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Man Who Came to Be Dinner) (2015): The Star Trek theme is heard over the logo. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Cue Detective) (2015): The shush is replaced by the pit master saying "I'm outta here". _________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXVI) (2015): Homerzilla (a character from this episode) roars, and an abridged version of the organ version of the theme is heard. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Barthood) (2015): A guitar tune plays over the entire logo, including the shushing and the jingle. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Simprovised) (2016): Instead of the regular music, we hear Homer saying "Do do do do, waiting on the pants! Oh, Bart, not culottes!" He then groans. This audio was carried from "Homer Live", a special segment that aired at the end of the episode. Part of it also plays over the FOX logo. It should be noted that this was only heard on east coast airings of the episode. West coast airings had Homer saying "And now we're flashing the credits of the many key people who worked long and hard on this, and laughter fades, someone call Uber." Part of this also played over the FOX logo. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Town) (2016): The shush is replaced by someone whispering "Departed" from a song earlier in the episode. ________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXVII) (2016): A screaming sound is heard, followed by a less acoustic organ rendition of theme with its notes having the length of the normal jingle. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
The SImpsons (The Last Traction Hero) (2016): Instead of the regular music, we hear Hawaiian-like singing. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Nightmare After Krustmas) (2016): After, the shush, Squeaky Voiced Teen sings "Throne of God!" (which is obviously off-key). There is no music here. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Pork and Burns) (2017): Instead of the shush, Plopper (better known as Spider-Pig; first appeared in The Simpsons Movie and later appeared in the season 27 episode "Puffless") squeals. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (The Great Phatsby) (2017): The music is sung by a group of female singers. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Kamp Krustier) (2017): Instead of the regular music and sounds, we hear Kevin Michael Richardson singing karaoke. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Looking for Mr. Goodbart) (2017): All of the human audience members are replaced with Peekimon creatures (the show's parody of Pokémon), animated in a pseudo-anime style. The music is the ending of the Pokémon-esque theme that plays through the credits. Gracie Films - "The Simpsons" Peekimon variant (2017)
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The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XXIX) (2018):A womanis heard screaming, followed by a synthesized pipe organ rendition of the theme. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simpsons (Thanksgiving of Horror) (2019): Instead of the lady shushing, we hear Homer gobbling like a turkey; however, the theme is normal. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
