The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
An annual quiz about the year just gone, running long past midnight and rebuilt from scratch each December.
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year kept one opening title sequence, 48 seconds long, across season 10.
At 48 seconds, it opens well above the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Channel 4 in 2004, when Time Team, Peep Show and Wife Swap were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 10
48sThe 2013 edition, which by counting from the first in 2004 is the tenth. The titles are that year's news cut up and animated, so every edition's are different by design.
More comedy opening titles from the 2000s
1 sequence
The Big Bang Theory
Fourteen billion years of natural history in twenty-three seconds, flashing past at one image per beat.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Malcolm in the Middle
They Might Be Giants' 'Boss of Me' over archive film of chaos — falling, crashing and general misadventure, cut faster than a network comedy usually dares.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Office
Scranton, a car park and a filing cabinet, shot like stock footage for a regional business — twenty-two seconds that promise nothing will happen.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Scrubs
Twelve seconds, an X-ray and a guitar — a medical comedy that spends less time on titles than most shows spend on a network ident.
- Season 1
1 sequence
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Photographs of Philadelphia over a jaunty public-domain waltz, with the episode's absurd title card dropped into the middle of it.
- Seasons 2–4
1 sequence
Modern Family
Fourteen seconds of family photographs sliding into place, and a card. Nothing else.
- Season 1