Flashing ambulance and police lights. Aerial shot of freeway median-strip greenery with sounds of a revving motor. A silent little freeze-frame in black and white of a zippy car. Aerial shot of cars zooming along with more revving. Expensive aerial pan of Hollywood sign. And at the end—predictably—sounds of a car crash, repeated twice, while the camera swoops in like it will collide with a building in downtown LA. Final freeze-frame shot of the LA cityscape. Loop to flashing lights.

Except for the big-deal, twin curved screens, you might think you’d bumbled into a semester’s end show for an intro