Editing In Living Color (section)

=== Opening credits ===
For the first episode, an exotic-looking logo was used for the opening credits. However, after the band [[Living Colour]] claimed in a lawsuit that the show stole the band's logo and name,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-08-ca-455-story.html |title=Living Colour band sues Fox |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 8, 1990 |access-date=September 3, 2010}}</ref> the logo was changed to one with rather plain-type letters of three colors. The show title itself is a homage to the [[Logo of NBC#Introduction of the Peacock (1956–1959)|NBC Peacock]] tag line, "The following program is brought to you in living color" from the 1960s when television was transitioning from [[Black-and-white television|black & white]] to [[Color television|color TV]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnvDVaiHXjM NBC Peacock clips] (posted to YouTube on Nov 4, 2011)</ref>

In the first two seasons, the opening sequence was set in a room covered with painters' tarps. Each cast member, wearing black-and-white, played with brightly colored paint in a different way (throwing paintballs at the camera by hand, [[spray painting]] the lens, using a roller to cover the camera lens, etc.). The sequence ended with a segue to a set built to resemble the rooftop of an apartment building, where the show's dancers performed a routine and opened a door to let Keenen Ivory Wayans greet a live audience.

For the third and fourth seasons, an animated sequence and different logo were used. Cast members were superimposed over pictures hanging in an art gallery and interacted with them in different ways (spinning the canvas to put it right-side up, swinging the frame out as if it were a door, etc.). The final image was of the logo on a black canvas, which shattered to begin the show. The fifth season retained the logo, but depicted the cast members on various signs and billboards around a city (either New York or Chicago), ending with the logo displayed on a theater marquee. The main title sequences were created by [[Klasky-Csupo]], best known for ''[[Rugrats]]'' and produced by Robert Jason with some graphics by Beau Tardy.

The [[Hip hop music|hip-hop]] group [[Heavy D & the Boyz]] performed two different versions of the opening theme. One version was used for the first two seasons and remixed for the fifth, while the other was featured in the third and fourth seasons.