Desperate Housewives - Title Sequence

The Earth Mother: Symbolic of fruit, abundance and fertility. This character offers spiritual and emotional nourishment to those with whom she comes in contact. Often depicted in earth colours with large breasts and hips symbolic of her childbearing capabilities.

The Temptress: Characterised by sensuous beauty, this woman is one to whom the protagonist is physically attracted and who ultimately brings about his downfall.

The Unfaithful Wife: A woman married to a man she sees as dull or distant and is attracted to more virile or interesting men.

The Damsel in Distress: The vulnerable woman who must be rescued by the hero. She is often used as a trap to ensnare the unsuspecting hero.

This scene starts with Eve plucking an apple from the Tree of Life, which leads to Adam being crushed by an enormous apple. This suggests that women crush mens will to live, and destroy their lives by tempting them. It then moves on to an Egyptian mother drowning in a 'sea of children', suggesting that women are incapable of bearing a great amount of responsibility. This is then followed by a man eating a banana and throwing the skin on the floor and his pregnant wife cleaning it up, this suggests that women are still domesticated and bend to mens every wish and whim. Following this there is a man and his wife, but the husband is drawn away from his wife by a younger more attractive woman, leaving his wife alone. This suggests that women are temptresses and if you are old and unattractive you will be abandoned and replaced by a younger and more attractive woman.   After that we see a woman carrying groceries who promptly drops it as she can't carry it anymore, this suggests that women can't handle high levels of stress and pressure. Finally there is a man and a woman and the woman is crying, however she then hits the man and gives him a black eye. This suggests that women are highly emotional, but will sometimes use that against men to get back at them.