Big City Greens Main Theme

* S3A; S4-present
* S3B (Pie Hard-Long Goodbye)
* S3B (Country Side-Homeward Hound)
* S2C
* S1-S2B
* Blood Moon
* Chipocalypse Now
* The Move
* Virtually Christmas

*You may be looking for the series ending theme*
The ***Big City Greens* Main Theme** is the song that plays before every episode of the series, save for "Blood Moon" and "Green Christmas". First presented at Comic-Con 2017,

## Lyrics

The song mostly has no lyrics, aside from whistling, but just before the Cricket and Tilly tractor sequence, a chorus can be heard singing "One, two! One-two-three-four!" A chorus of "nah-nah-nah" vocals can also be heard in the following sequence.

In the second half of Season 3, the theme song is done in a country/western style instead of the light pop version from the previous intros. A fiddling violin replaces the whistling and "nah-nah-nah" vocals, and the "countoff" vocals are replaced by a twanging string similar to a Jew's harp.

## Synopsis

### Space Chicken-Chipwrecked

The song begins at the Greens' country farm. Bill has finished packing items into the Kludge. Cricket blows into a window, forming condensation. Inside the car, Cricket and Tilly are excited, and Bill worried. They drive into Big City.

At the Green's House, we see the four Greens, each with their name displayed alongside them; they perform a short action according to their personality:

* Cricket strikes a pose, and a frog leaps out of his front pocket.
* Tilly waves to the audience.
* Bill, holding a basket of produce, kisses a tomato.
* Gramma is knitting in peace, when she notices the camera is on her; yells at the audience and closes her shades.

It then cuts to four different screens showing the four Greens.

The screen cuts to Cricket and Tilly riding a tractor on the pavement, and to the two making snow angels on cement. It then cuts to the two and Remy jumping over the fence from Big Coffee; Tilly nails it, Remy tumbles and Cricket inadvertently causes the fence he's on to fall, revealing an angry Gloria. It then cuts to Cricket about to hammer a nail into something (potentially the roof of the house) next to a terrified Bill. Just as he nails it, though, it cuts to Cricket leaping off a building in his underwear and making a splash in a sewer.

It then cuts to the family animals stacked on top of each other, and Cricket trying to balance himself. In the end, Cricket is able to balance himself. The other Greens judge him: Bill and Tilly both give 10, but Gramma gives 2. It then shows three shots of Cricket running out the door, the Greens together, and the Greens on their front yard (Bill waving at the audience) as the show's logo and "Created by the Houghton Brothers" appear on the top and bottom of the screen, respectively. The family chicken clucks and lays an egg.

### Shortened version

In some episodes, the intro is shortened to make room for commercials. The shortened version cuts most of the scenes apart from the lawnmower scene and the sewer scene. From those scenes onward, everything is normal apart from some music cuts. This mostly, if not always occurs after a previous consecutive episode.

### 'Rent Control-Gloria's Café

The theme song is the same with the only difference being that due to Big Coffee closure, instead of jumping the fence, Cricket and Tilly jump on Gloria's bed in the basement (and Tilly's earrings are visible). The shots of Big Coffee are updated to have a "FOR LEASE" banner on the front (some shots have no banner on them).

### Boss Life-Dirt Jar

The theme is the exact same as the previous version with the only major change being the empty Big Coffee building replaced with the Gloria + Green Café. Also, the background in some of the shots, the end shot for example, have been redrawn and recolored to reflect the new animation style, such as more prominent shades and drop shadows.

### Country Side-Homeward Hound

This theme song is a complete overhaul from all the previous intros in order to reflect the transition from Big City to Smalton for Season 3B, which started in Dirt Jar and will continue into The Move.

The first part of the intro is a complete reverse of the previous three intros, beginning with Bill packing the Kludge ready to leave the Greens' house, Bill closes the Kludge door as Cricket and Remy blow condensation on the rear window, then there is a shot of the kids and Bill all looking excited (while Remy is worried). The Kludge then drives out of Big City. (Note: Similar to the Chipocalypse Now variant of the intro, the Kludge passes the "Now leaving Big City" sign, whereas in the previous three intros, the Kludge passes the "Welcome to Big City" sign. Whereas the Kludge goes from left to right into the city in the previous three intros, the Kludge this time goes from right to left, out of the city.)

Just like the previous intros, we see the Greens outside the Greens' country house, showing each of the Greens doing something with their names displayed aside them:

* Cricket, with hay in his mouth, strikes poses, and a frog hops out of his pocket, taking the hay with it.
* Tilly looks confused, then various animals surround her and she smiles and waves to the audience.
* Bill, smiling widely, holds up a big barrel of produce; unlike before, he does not kiss a tomato.
* In place of Gramma, Nancy and Remy are sitting on the porch swing, then they notice the audience and Nancy gives a big push.

Like before, it cuts to each of the Greens striking poses during the "countoff" line; like before, Nancy and Remy replace Gramma's scene.

It then cuts to Cricket and Tilly riding a tractor across a garden site (instead of across a sidewalk), startling various animals and farmers, one of them in particular being Good Ol' Joe. It then cuts to Cricket and Tilly making mud angels in the pigpen (instead of cement angels in the pavement). After that, similar to the first intro, it cuts to the three kids vaulting over a fence with corn in their mouths; Cricket falls on his post, revealing a very angry Bill (in place of Gloria). In the next scene, instead of helping Bill hammer a nail, Cricket is helping Nancy screw in a screw while holding a wrench, but seems to hammer it anyway. Before he nails it, it immediately cuts to Cricket running in his underwear just like the previous intros, but instead of jumping off a building into a manhole, he jumps off a cliff and scatters various blue jays, and splashes into a water hole with Tilly and Remy. It then cuts to the Greens and Remy stacking on each other (instead of the farm animals) with Cricket at the top, who is holding Phoenix; he steadies himself and Marjorie, Miss Brenda and Melissa (replacing Tilly, Bill, and Gramma) all score him perfect 10s, although Melissa spits out her card which has been chewed up.

It then shows freeze-frames of Cricket running out of the house like in the past three intros, the Greens and Remy all together causing mayhem, and ending with a long shot of the country house as the show's logo and "Created By" titles are displayed, but with the inclusion of Nancy and Remy, and their farm animals. A red chicken then clucks and lays an egg like before.

### Pie Hard-Long Goodbye

The intro is still the same for Country Side-Homeward Hound, the only difference is that Alice has been added to the end of the intro.

### Truck Stopped-Green Trial

The theme reverts back to how it was for the S3A version. It uses the same scenes and the original music, but with very few changes:

* The close-up shots are changed to show pairs instead of a single person: First Cricket and Nancy, then Tilly and Bill, then Gramma and Gloria, and last Remy and Vasquez.
* The scene between the kids making cement angels and Cricket trying to hammer a nail has been changed to one where Nancy waves from the country house window, then the Kludge pulls up for the kids and Bill to wave back.

### Bad Dad-Chipped off (currently)

The intro is the same as the last version, with the only difference being Nick Mulligan now waves along with Nancy from the window beside her, reflecting him moving in to the country house with her.

## Variants

### Halloween

#### "Blood Moon" version

Seen in "Blood Moon" after the pre-intro scene. This version of the intro is much more ominous (e.g. the music, cutting to different scenes with e.g. Bill screaming ("Blue Tater") and instead of Cricket and Tilly making cement angels it shows their tombstones) and has a red tint to it. Otherwise, the rest of the intro, scene-wise, is unchanged.

Another change is in the characters during their intro shots where their names are displayed, neither of them move:

* Cricket is a zombie.
* Tilly is a fire ghost.
* Bill is Frankenstein's monster.
* Alice is a skeleton.

The ending shot features the characters' eyes being bloodshot. The condensation on the Kludge's window also reads "HELP". The "Welcome to Big City" sign also reads "GET OUT".

Throughout the title sequence, scenes from random episodes flash in this order:

* Supermarket Scandal (the Greens in fear from people in Bill's vision)
* Blue Tater (Bill getting attacked by birds)
* Raccooned (shot of a raccoon at the end of the episode)
* DIY Guys ("Rick" the skeleton at Overhaüls)
* Bear Trapped (Daisy roaring)
* Cricket Versus (Cricket the Tomato-nator)
* Steak Night (the rat Tilly "talks" to)
* Gramma's License (the reaper in Gramma's driving test)
* Bear Trapped again (Remy playing dead in the diversion)
* Steak Night (again) (Cricket traumatized he lost the steaks)

#### "Squashed!" version

Same as the "Blood Moon" version, but with a few tweaks:

* The video is tinted purple instead of red.
* A synthesizer is used for the main instrument.
* A skeleton is in the Kludge as Bill closes the trunk.
* Cricket's condensation reads "RUN".
* The Welcome to Big City sign reads "WE'RE DYING TO MEET YOU".
* During the Greens' titles, they are once again shown as different monsters, only this time they're animated. Their titles are also glowing green.
	+ Cricket is a fish man.
	+ Tilly is a ghost with her skeleton visible.
	+ Bill is a pirate.
	+ Gramma is a werewolf.
* A male voice whispers the "1, 2, 1-2-3-4" part.
* The scenes of Cricket and Tilly riding the tractor on the sidewalk and tombstones replacing their cement angels remain the same.
* Gloria and Gramma are dressed as witches cooking Cricket in a pie, as Tilly watches in horror from a cage.
* In the scene where Cricket is hammering with Bill holding the nail, he turns into a goblin before the hammer comes down and turns into an axe.
* When Cricket jumps into the manhole, the water is black goo as before.
* Cricket stands atop the skeletons of the farm animals and falls down instead of balancing. The cards the Greens hold up read "UFO".
* In the final scene with the Greens in front of their house, they get abducted.

Like the "Blood Moon" version, scenes from random episodes flash in this order:

* Hiya Henry (Tilly performing onstage with Henry)
* Bill-iever (Cricket as an alien)
* Dinner Party (Lightning flashing)
* The following occur in succession (during the "one, two, three, four"):
	+ Forbidden Feline (Cricket freaking out over Mr. Grigorian)
	+ Hurty Tooth (A delusional Tilly chasing Cricket)
	+ Bill-iever (again) (Bill after seeing Alien Cricket)
	+ Urban Legend (Gramma scaring away the baseball kids)
* Quiet Please (The librarian rounding on the Greens)
* Urban Legend (again) (Gramma as a swamp witch)

### Christmas

There are currently two Christmas variants, as of "Long Goodbye". One version of the intro is seen in "Green Christmas"' cold open, intersecting with the ending of "The Best Part of Christmas".

The second Christmas variant contains 3D animation due to Cricket and Remy being in virtual reality during the intro. The intro consists of them flying through the vast land of the Christmas update of *"Outpost Infinity"*, and fighting the monsters inside the game. The music is a variation of the original theme, similar to "Country Side"-"Pizza Deliverance" and "Pen Pals-Long Goodbye" with its country version.

### Instrumental

An instrumental version of the theme can be heard in the game *Big City Battle!*. There are no vocals, and the chicken clucking at the end of the intro is not heard.

### *Theme Song Takeover*

The first *Theme Song Takeover* version of the theme is sung by Gramma. It describes how life was for Gramma in her day, and how she had it hard while her grandchildren have it easy.

The second *Theme Song Takeover* version of the theme is sung by Bill. It describes how Bill can manage to create his own farming show.

The third *Theme Song Takeover* version of the theme is sung by ZOMBIES stars, Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly.

The fourth *Theme Song Takeover* version of the theme is sung by unnamed announcer, which serves as an April's Fool joke.

The fifth *Theme Song Takeover* version of the theme is sung by Vasquez. It describes how Vasquez protected Remy and how the gnome scares him.

### "Chipocalypse Now"

This version of the intro is pretty much a dark reprise of the usual intro, reflecting Chip's victory over the Greens:

* The whistling track is sung in a minor key.
* It starts with the Greens' apartment neighbors leaving Elkins Street, reversing the scene where the Greens leave the country:
	+ Brett closes the trunk of the moving van, like how Bill closed the trunk of the Kludge.
	+ Mr. Grigorian closes the front door just like Cricket did, and Tilly and Anoush put their hand/paw on the window as a last farewell, mimicking Cricket breathing condensation on the window.
	+ The parents and Gramma react in horror/anger at the "Wholesome Foods coming soon" sign in front of their house, and the kids wave goodbye as the van leaves. In the original, the kids are excited while Bill is nervous, and they excitedly wave goodbye as they leave the country.
	+ The transition is accompanied by a Wholesome Foods van instead of a generic minivan. It also passes the opposite way.
* The neighbors pass the "Now leaving Big City" sign, whereas in the regular intro, the Kludge passes the "Welcome to Big City" sign -- a complete reverse of the original. While the Kludge goes from left to right into the city, the moving van goes from right to left, out of the city.
* The music in this theme song is similar to the Halloween theme song.
* Some of the Greens' scenes are replaced with ones for Chip:
	+ The Greens' introduction shots on the front yard are replaced with one for Chip in his office, who glares evilly out his window, takes off the detonation plans and reveals the final target: The Greens' house. The camera then zooms in on this last one as the Greens see Chip step before them, appearing between his legs.
	+ Instead of close-ups of the Greens doing several silly poses, we get close-ups of Chip going mad with demolition plans.
	+ Cricket and Tilly are chased down the sidewalk by Chip in a bulldozer, instead of them riding a tractor and surprising townsfolk.
	+ Chip is making a cement angel instead of the kids, as they stand off to the side, annoyed.
* The "nah-nah-nah" vocals are replaced by an ominous-sounding choir.
* The scene of Cricket, Tilly and Remy vaulting over the Big Coffee fence, with Cricket's post falling down and revealing an annoyed Gloria, Cricket hammering Bill's finger, Cricket jumping into a manhole and standing on a tower of farm animals, is replaced with a pan down and zoom out to the Greens watching horrified behind a fence as the Megastore is being constructed.
* The freeze-frames of Cricket exiting the house happily and the Greens snuggling together are replaced with ones of Cricket exiting the house looking up in horror, and the Greens plus Nancy huddled together and pointing around them in a worried manner.
* When the house with the show's logo is displayed, it zooms out in steps to reveal the Megastore constructed around their house, with the logo staying on the house and appearing very small, with the "Created by the Houghton Brothers" text appearing along the bottom its normal size. In addition, the logo falls down after the last note of the song plays, like how one of the chickens lays an egg in the original.

### "The Move"

In "The Move", the regular main theme does not play, but the melody is heard throughout and in the ending scene.

## Trivia

* Although the series generally starts with the opening theme, the double-length episodes start with a cold open, similar to Disney Channel's live action shows and older Disney Channel cartoons, as well as some of Big City Greens' sister cartoons such as *Gravity Falls*.
* The intertitle card as shown at the end of the intro is seen in "Stuck at Home", without any titles.
* The opening theme was animated by Rough Draft Korea.
	+ However, the "Chipocalypse Now" and certain scene of the "Squashed!" opening were animated by Sugarcube.
* Despite the animation being updated as of "Big Deal", the theme song's animation does not reflect said change.
	+ The animation would indeed change in "Boss Life"; the ending is most notably sharper.
* A prototype version of the season 3B intro was leaked, and had Gramma, the final one instead removes her completely.
	+ The sound of the hen clucking is also missing in the prototype, as after the song ends, no other audio is heard.
	+ This prototype will likely used for Pie Hard

## Errors

* The Kludge has one seat row rather than two seat rows.

## Gallery

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## Songwriters & Composers

APPELBAUM DAVID N,

DIEDEN COLIN LOUIS,

DIPANNI MATTHEW DAVID,

EARL KATHRYN JAYNE,

HOGAN JOSHUA JON MICHAEL,

HORSLEY JOACHIM,

WARREN ANDREW D.

BMI Work ID #50552859 (Chipocalypse Now)