Seasons 4, 5 and 6 played off the Season 2 color palette. Gibbons described Season 4 as a “subversive” way to see smiling, happy faces, and Season 5 leaned into the cast’s chemistry as if they all “popped from the same zygote.”
Season 7
Season 7’s key art became a fan favorite for encapsulating the show’s journey thus far, including highlights such as the aforementioned mittens for kittens and showcasing the group as a dysfunctional family. And with Season 7 airing in 2011, the art happened at a time when social media sites such as Twitter were becoming increasingly popular.
“We started moving away from the heads, expanding the landscape into full figurative art. And there was a gentleman that used to head up our on-air, and he had this book of crazy album art that was just beyond hideous, and it was laugh-out-loud funny,” Gibbons said. “And the sites online when social media was taking off where you could see all these family pictures, and you were like, ‘Oh, my God. Who okayed this?’ We were just looking at families and grouping them together in their idiosyncratic collective, and we thought it would be great because they are a family.”
Season 8
Season 8 took the gang’s color palette to a new level, showcasing the group in another family-style photo full of blank looks and blonde hair. Season 8 promos also famously showcased a “replacement” cast, with the gang being supposedly changed for actors such as Haley Joel Osment.
