From The Sopranos

The first series of The Sopranos starts with a topless Tony Soprano, watching intently as a bush in his garden starts to shake. Hesitant, he’s about to go back inside, possibly to fetch his gun, when a family of Canadian ducks waltz onto his lawn and make their home in his swimming pool. Little did the viewer realize at the time just how significant this moment was. Tony’s reaction at this point was peculiar. We hadn’t seen his character develop, so we knew little of the man, his ins and outs, his personality traits. As the ducks swam around each other, content in the water, Tony smiles a smile of the utmost satisfaction. Then comes the infamous title music. That is the beginning of the series, thematic in its portrayal of the essential inclinations of its main character as defined not by heinous acts, but by seemingly inconspicuous, relatively uneventful happenings.