Characters messing with the opening

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What are some examples of characters breaking the fourth wall and changing the opening?

Reboot: The third season has a different opening, in which Megabyte does his play on Bob's opening monologue.

Recess: In the episode Lawson and his Crew, Lawson forms a gang that upstages TJ and his friends, and they replace the gang in the opening.

Kim Possible: In the episode The Ron Factor, Kim interrupts the opening.
 
"The Simpsons": 5F09 "Trash of the Titans" has a shortened clouds-to-driveway opening, but the couch gag involves the family running into Bart's classroom, where Bart is writing "I will not mess with the opening credits" on the chalkboard.
 
Twice that has happened in Teen Titans. One in "Fractured" where what would appear to be the ideal Japanese voice for Larry sings the Japanese version of the theme song while he putters around for the duration of the opening.

The second happens in "Lightspeed" where it immediately gets hacked and the Hive Five take over the show and deface the fourth wall.
 
In the Family Guy episode "Whistle While Your Wife Works", when it reaches to the "All the things that make us" part of the theme. Peter tipped over, fell down the stairs, and landed on a chorus line girl. It seemed like an outtake.
 
What About Garfiled & Friends, During The Season 1 Years, The OP had Garfiled trying to keep the U.S. Acres (Orson's Farm) Cast From Invading The OP...
 
In an early Bugs Bunny cartoon called Tortoise Beats Hare (Fred "Tex" Avery 1941) Bugs reads the title card reading the names wrong and eventually spitting out his carrot and ripping it up after reading the title.
 
Shouldn't that just be "during Season 1" or "during the first season"? Seeing as it's only one year...

Anyway, I really enjoy when shows do this. I got a question fer youse guys... Do some networks make it mandatory for a show to have a standard opening in every episode, or is it just an artistic decision? Cause if I had my own show, I'd probably want to change up the intro every once in a while, for fun. I'm surprised more shows don't do that kind of thing. I guess most shows just keep it the same because there's not enough time to change it, or for easy recognition or something, but still...
 
Guess depends on the show; the late 90s E/I cartoon "Histeria!" had various different openings, most of them parodies of other TV shows, including "The Addams Family", "Mr. Ed", and "Huckleberry Hound" (complete with the Kellogg's corn flakes rooster being startled by Loud Kiddington)...
 
"Animaniacs" broke the fourth wall all the time.

Example

Miss Flameel, the studio teacher, asks Yakko to count to one hundred. Yakko responds with "One, two, skip a few, ninety-nine, one hundred!" Miss Flameel tells him to give her all the numbers. Yakko explains to her that it is only a six-minute cartoon.:yakko:
 
What he/she said. This thread is about characters from shows interrupting or changing the opening title sequences, not just generally breaking the 4th wall.

Anyway, on the subject of Animaniacs, they've altered their opening a few times:

-On the 'international' show, the Warners sing the show's theme song in French.

-On both first season Christmas shows, snow is superimposed over the visuals and sleigh bells can be heard in the background.

-The show featuring the short "Super Strong Warner Siblings" begins the short right after the opening theme, with the Warners emerging from the title shield and walking off the set onto the studio lot.
 
That would be the Mandark ep from Season 4. "Babe Sitter"/"Mountain Mandark"/"2Geniuses 2Gether 4Ever" (the later of which Dexter got revenge at Mandark for interrupting the opening of his show).

Don't know if this counts, but the opening for the Futurama episode "Bender should not Be On TV" had the Futurama crew beatboxing over the opening instead of the regular music playing (same thing happen in the last regular Brak show episode "Cardburkey"). Not a specific visual interruption but an audio one at least.
 
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