(upbeat jazz music) (audience applauding) - [Narrator] At the start of the second season, viewers are presented with an entirely new main title sequence.

It's the result of a happy accident.

- I said, "Okay, let's wrap it up and go."

And Carl said, "Oh my God, I forgot, John.

"We need, we need an opening."

"What do you mean?

What opening, what?"

He said, "For the show, we need to," I said... Well the first year we had had pictures.

And he was tired of that.

Carl was.

He said, "We need a little clever opening."

"Oh God, what do you wanna do?"

He said, "I don't know."

He said, "Let's do something where, "who's in the shot?"

He said, "Everybody."

I said, "Oh, Christ."

I said, "All right."

I said, "Rosie, Morey, you're there.

"And Dick comes home, and uh..." Carl said, "He falls."

I said, "Great."

(bright music) - [Announcer] "The Dick Van Dyke Show," starring Dick Van Dyke.

(whimsical music) - I said, "Print.

That's it, we did it."

Carl said, "Let's do a variation."

And he's very clever, you know?

He said, "Let's do one where he misses, "then we'll change it week by week."

(bright music) - Starring Dick Van Dyke.

(whimsical music) - It was actually two takes, that fast, maybe four minutes.

And that became the signature of the show.

(laughs) - As soon as I saw Dick Van Dyke tripping over the ottoman, and getting up with a smile on his face, I was hooked.

Because I felt like that's what Dick is here to say.

It's not a pratfall, it's a metaphor.

If you tumble, you gotta pop right up and laugh at yourself because you're ridiculous.

We're all ridiculous, and life is an absurd obstacle course of unforeseen ottomans.

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