Does anyone know why they stopped the scenes at the beggining of the episodes?

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Does anyone know why they stopped putting scenes before the opening theme? We used to have some good funny scenes, but after the first few episodes of Season 2 they stopped doing them, except for the occasional 'Futurama is brought to you by'

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On one of the audio commentaries they said they felt they needed to get to some action to wake people up and they felt that the theme music could do that.

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Tech term: "Cold opening".

What davids said, plus they had a lot more story to fit in in later episodes.

I'm still disappointed that they didn't have the Professor walk away with a giant feather in his hat in the cold opening for The Series Has Landed.

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yeh the giant feather would have worked better i fell, even though the little bird was good

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I'm still gutted that they dropped the whole "Well i am already in my pyjamas".

Everyone in the world would be quoting that one.