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TV OPENING CREDITS Each of the following descriptions is a visual image that appears in the recurring opening credits of a television series. You must name the show. Your team has [[A ticking stopwatch rotates to the right]] to complete this bonus. 1. HOMELAND An upside-down image of Barack Obama. 2. THE AMERICANS Santa Claus is replaced by Karl Marx, and Leonid Brezhnev is waving at half of Ronald Reagan's head. 3. LAST WEEK Vladimir Putin's head is replaced by a bar of gold. TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER 4. MAD MEN Venetian blinds falling off windows. 5. THE MARY A woman begrudgingly accepts the high price of meat. TYLER MOORE SHOW 6. BOARDWALK A whiskey bottle smashing against a pier. EMPIRE 7. I DREAM OF A dancing woman is sucked into a bottle. JEANNIE 8. LAVERNE AND A bottle moves away on a conveyor belt with a white rubber SHIRLEY glove on it. 9. THE SOPRANOS Pizzaland. 10. LOUIE Ben's Pizzeria on MacDougal Street. 11. THE TWILIGHT A floating door in space. ZONE 12. GET SMART Six doors swing open of their own accord. 13. MYSTERY Seven doors slam shut of their own accord. SCIENCE THEATER 3000 14. TRUE BLOOD A dead fox decomposes. 15. THE WALKING A centipede crawls towards an empty shell casing. DEAD 16. ARCHER A silhouetted \dolphin" chases a bouncing white ball. 17. FIREFLY A spaceship flies over dozens of running horses. 18. THE BIG BANG The woolly mammoth, the Taj Mahal and Joan of Arc. THEORY 19. COMMUNITY A \Kilroy was here"-style face, Hangman, a cake with a knife in it, two angry bees, and a dragon wearing a sombrero. 20. DEXTER A man kills a mosquito, cracks an egg, and flosses. 21. MONTY A man has his torso replaced with a brown chicken's. PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS 22. ARRESTED A man dramatically cups a dove in his hands. DEVELOPMENT 23. DUCK DYNASTY A silver hood ornament shaped like a duck. 24. THE FLINSTONES A man yanks a string tied to a bird's tail. 25. THE DREW A crowd takes turns dancing in front of an ATM. CAREY SHOW 26. CHEERS A happy bald man holds up the newspaper headline \WE WIN!" 27. BREAKING BAD Bromine and barium. 28. ATTACK ON Over two dozen soldiers rise up simultaneously above the TITAN rooftops. 29. THE LATE SHOW A man passes a basketball from a high rise apartment to a man WITH STEPHEN on the rooftop across the street, for an easy slam dunk. COLBERT 30. THE WIRE A man throws a rock into a security camera, cracking the lens. 31. ECW WRESTLING Cactus Jack and Terry Funk try to avoid being hit by one of dozens and dozens of steel folding chairs flying through the air. Neither succeeds. 32. MALCOLM IN Bret \the Hit Man" Hart applies his devastating sharpshooter THE MIDDLE hold. (Hmmm... that could be WWE Raw. Or WCW Nitro, or WWE Smackdown, or WCW Thunder.) Okay, just to narrow it down, there's also a downhill skiier who's on fire. 33. THE DICK VAN Sometimes the man wins, but more often the ottoman wins. DYKE SHOW 34. DAREDEVIL Running red liquid forms a water tower, a bridge and a church. 35. BATMAN Sock, pow, zok, pow, bif, bam, sok, blap, whap, biff, and oooof. 36. SPONGEBOB The protagonist plays his nose like a flute. SQUAREPANTS 37. HOUSE OF Statues of General Winfield Scott Hancock, John Marshall, CARDS Ulysses S. Grant, and the Greek scholar Thales. 38. 30 ROCK Statues of Prometheus, Wisdom, Sound, and Light. 39. THE SIMPSONS A statue is decapitated by two local troublemakers. 40. FRASIER The outline of the Space Needle. 41. GAME OF The Narrow Sea. THRONES 42. FREAKS AND A series of people pose for photographs in a high school audito- GEEKS rium. 43. ORANGE IS THE A series of people pose for photographs in a prison. NEW BLACK 44. FAMILY FEUD Five people pose for a \photograph" by trying to remain abso- lutely still. 45. SEX AND THE A suddenly damp woman sees her own photograph on a passing CITY bus. 46. MONDAY NIGHT The most recent version of the show's opening features images FOOTBALL and audio from past broadcasts which originally aired in 1970, 1983, 1987, 1974, 2006, 1978, 2012, 2000, 1985, and 1994. 47. SONS OF Sixteen smiley faces on a man's torso. ANRCHY 48. CSI: MIAMI An airboat cruises across swampland, YEAAAHHHHH!!!! 49. THE FRESH A man pretends to spray-paint his armpits. PRINCE OF BEL-AIR 50. HAPPY DAYS A man considers combing his hair, but opts against it. 51. DOWNTON A feather duster cleans a chandelier. ABBEY.