"I saw the film Banksy directed, Exit Through the Gift Shop, and I thought, oh, we should see if he would do a main title for the show, a couch gag. So I asked Bonnie Pietila, our casting director, if she could locate him, because she had previously located people like Thomas Pynchon. And she did it through the producers of that film. We didn’t have any agenda. We said, 'We’d like to see if you would do a couch gag.' So he sent back boards for pretty much what you saw.... I have to say, it’s very fanciful, far-fetched. None of the things he depicts are true. That statement should be self-evident, but I will emphatically state it." – The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean to the New York TimesArts Beat column on guerilla artist Banksy's contribution to the opening of last Sunday's episode. (t/y Louis)
