I find the Peacemaker intro quite catchy.
I know it is a spoof but even though I hate it I will watch Too Many Cooks all the way through when it pops up.
What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros?
Submitted 2 months ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
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jonesey71@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Kyle@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Too many cooks is the best wrong answer. Must resisted watching this again.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Sealab 2021. It’s been 20 years and it’s still stuck in my head
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Sealab intro was amazing
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Storm warning.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The Wire - same song, different take (Tom Waits, no less)
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gotta say: The Simpsons. Danny Elfman made one of the most iconic intro songs, and while I’m not sure the Simpsons was the first to do it, the varying intros was another iconic element.
I really like the intro for Disenchantment as well.
LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Two Severance’s intros are great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKT5bwMkOAw Also many animes have epic openings.
harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Best (that haven’t already been mentioned by others):
(The rest are so iconic I’m not even gonna bother linking them.)
- The Twilight Zone
- Gilligan’s Island
- Golden Girls
- The Wonder Years
- The X-Files
- Cheers
Worst: I dunno, because my criteria for “worst” is being forgettable.
Polarizing/YMMV:
- M*A*S*H
- Cops
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Best and worst - Star Trek Enterprise.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Great intros: Psych, Wynonna Earp, Leverage, Motherland: Fort Salem, Stargate SG-1, Buffy, Angel, Dark, Yellowjackets
Worst intros? Any that are just the name of the show for a few seconds
klu9@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 2 months ago
have you tried leverage redemption?
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The first season of True Detective had an excellent intro sequence. HBO generally does a good job with their series.
BurningRiver@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Peacemaker. It’s so corny, but it makes me laugh and I couldn’t ever skip it.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 months ago
MASH
yes I’m old
Skavau@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For me:
Babylon Berlin intro captures the art, the deco, and the fear of what the viewer knows is going to come of that time period.
Black Sails just perfect
Raised by Wolves I was hit and miss on this in many ways, but this intro is great - albeit I think slightly misleading as to its overall tone.
Pennyworth I thought S1 was a bit silly, but what an intro.
Happiness This is just fun, and fits the show brilliantly
See also isn’t bad
Song of the Bandits The song on the YT video isn’t great here imo, but they actually mix it up in the show proper and use different songs. And some really fit the theme.
If we’re talking about music in general through the show rather than just the intro - The Korean High Fantasy series Arthdal Chronicles. Some stunning, music, throughout, the show. It was also kinda like watching a JRPG (even if Korean).
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Westworld intro is fuckin great
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I’ll always enjoy the intro to stargate atlantis just because the whole concept of the city (and it’s appearance) is so fucking cool, even with the noticably… Sufficient… CGI it’s so inherently neat that it’ll remain impressive.
Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Simpsons is pretty original
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Original version way too long though, and the HD version is awful
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Won’t ever forget this little ditty.
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Weeds. I believe starting in S2, they start doing the same song, same intro, but in different styles. I believe they even had green day cover it at one point.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I loved the S01 intro!
End0fLine@midwest.social 2 months ago
I never skip Star Trek Voyager’s intro. I love both the music and the visuals.
WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Arthur and the Knights of Justice: awful show but badass 90s cartoon intro.
Clone High: more shows should give me a theme song I can recite to explain the show to others.
Daria: amazing show and the intro just fits the era and mood perfectly
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
Intro rocks!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
The Captain Scarlet Intro goes hard.
xye@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Disney absolutely butchered the art of intros for its Star Wars shows by simply…not having them really. And I think it sucks.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The White Lotus Season seasons 1 and 2. I find the third season intro really flat in comparison.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I don’t know any bad TV intros. My favorites are Burn Notice and Leverage, and I’m unsure if it’s nostalgia but my absolute favorite was always Renegade
“He was a cop, and good at his job, but he committed the ultimate sin and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops who tried to kill him, but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands. An outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter, a renegade.”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I sometimes still randomly hum/whistle the theme for Doug.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Legendary intro: Mr Bean
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The Greatest American Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbErkiebkwo
TheLoneMinon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Dan da Dan. Show itself is alright, but the opening fucking SLAPS
raparperi11@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Someone just reminded me of Marienhof theme the other day and damn it still slaps even if the show is just a German soap opera.
trd@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Derrick.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know Game of Thrones got a ton of hate after a while, but I loved the intros. They were unique to the setting that was going to take place in that episode.
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They evolved to show the status of the elements on the map as events unfolded, it was honestly a really good subtle recap of major happenings up to that point in the story
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months ago
And helping people understand westeros. The geography was such an important part of the story, it was a great way to show a map without being boring.
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I loved Game of Thrones and Westworld. The music was bangin’ and the visuals were just amazing.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
not sure why it got so much hate, i was expecting s8 to be terrible and it wasnt 😂