The Mary Tyler Moore Show opening sequence

[3] The original opening title sequence for the show begins with the name of its star across the screen in the Peignot font, which then multiplies both upward and downward vertically in a number of colors, followed by a montage of Mary driving towards Minneapolis towards her new home, and walking in her new neighborhood.

In the final shot, she gleefully tosses her tam o' shanter in the air in the middle of the street; a freeze-frame captures her smiling face and the hat in mid-air.

This unwitting "extra" was Hazel Frederick, a lifelong Minnesota resident who happened to be out shopping the day the sequence was shot.

[4] Even though many people thought that the scowling woman in the opening sequence was grumpy-looking, she actually had just been concerned for Moore's safety.

"[9] The more familiar version of the song used in seasons 2–7 changed the lyrics to affirm her optimistic character, beginning with the iconic line "Who can turn the world on with her smile?"

The song has been covered by artists such as Ray Conniff, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Christie Front Drive, Sammy Davis Jr., and Twin Cities-based Hüsker Dü, the latter who also reproduced several scenes of the opening on location for their music video.

The song was also featured in a long-running commercial for Chase bank in the mid-2000s, and was sung in the TV series 7th Heaven in the episode "In Praise of Women" during the birth of the Camden twins.

The 2000 TV movie Mary and Rhoda started with the original version of the song and then switched to the Joan Jett cover.

In 2001, The New York Times stated that it is not unusual for people walking along the mall to be so reminded of the show that they toss their hats in the air, as Mary did at the end of the sequence.

[12] Many in the press were skeptical of TV Land's motive at first, some claiming it was a marketing strategy, and one Macalester College professor stating that it was "like honoring a unicorn.

For an updated sequence used during the fourth season, Mary visited the completed building and was seen riding up the escalator in the Crystal Court.

This exposure on prime-time television predated, by two months, the official presentation by architect Philip Johnson of the completion of the project in Architectural Forum.

A scene with school children and a crossing guard was shot at the north end of the lake at Franklin facing south.

In the "Saturdays of Thunder" episode of The Simpsons (also produced by Mary Tyler Moore creator James L. Brooks), Homer criticizes his sister-in-law Patty's Mary Tyler Moore style hairdo, to which her sister Selma insists he be ignored, retorting, "You can turn the world on with your smile," in reference to the theme song's opening lyric.

During the closing credits of the spin-off Rhoda, she also tries to fling her hat in the air while in the middle of Times Square, but it just falls to the ground and she must sheepishly pick it up.

In the first episode of Suddenly Susan, Brooke Shields' character hears the theme song from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and throws her remote control in the air.

[26] Peter Griffin wins a piano competition in the Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent" by playing "Love Is All Around".

The Latest Buzz twice parodies the hat toss: in the pilot "The First Issue", Rebecca (one of the new teen writers of Teen Buzz magazine) throws her hat up before leaving the office, which fails to come down; this is revisited in the series finale "The Final Issue" (which involves the staff's firing, similar to the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show), as one of the replacement teen writers, Lucy, does the toss with the same result, down to Rebecca giving the same advice to Lucy that her boss DJ gave to her during her first week on the job after the hat toss mishap.

In 2006, Canadian singer Serena Ryder pays homage to the title sequence of the Mary Tyler Moore show in her video for "Good Morning Starshine".