Submitted 2 months ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
I’ve always thought that a bad intro song tanks a show (back when you couldn’t skip them). Conversely, a good one makes people stick around and give the show a chance, so it’s more likely to succeed.
Re: the OP question: Magnum PI (OG) SNL intro music 30ROCK Friends (ugh, I know, it was catchy…) Venture Bros. Archer Futurama …and more!
Favorites:
Honorable mentions:
I can’t really think if any “worst” ones although in general I don’t like when shows only do static or just very low-effort title cards. Some examples that come to mind are Breaking Bad and The Boys.
I like the intros in True Detective (S1), and X-Files. Animated: X-Men TAS, Gravity Falls, BoJack Horseman.
From the top of my head, I didn’t enjoy much the Six Feet Under and the Spinning Out intros because they were too long.
Clone High and Sealab 2021 are both so good. 20 years later and they’re still stuck in my head.
MacGyver? youtu.be/UKTNWI0eYJ4
Jeeves and Wooster is top notch
Dexter
I’ll mention one that I don’t see. The song for What We Do In the Shadows is very catchy.
Voyager has the best opening theme music in all of Star Trek, hands down.
Personal favorite opening song/sequence? Space Ghost Coast to Coast also Knight Rider
Just the best for me
The Wire
The Unit
Futurama
Johny Quest
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
The ones that are fast-forward proof to me are Star Trek TNG & the last of us.
So many to choose from… I’ll just say Jessica Jones and Boston Legal because I haven’t seen them here.
The Wire and True Detective both have great intros
Best: Gilligan’s Island, The Nanny, Green Acres, Get Smart, Underdog.
Favourite intros:
The answer to both is … the Logan’s Run TV show theme song.
Your Lie In April - it has the entire plot of the anime in the intro, if you know what you’re looking for. But if you don’t know what to look for, it is totally innocuous. Also the song SLAPS
Not sure why, but I really liked the Raised by Wolves intro.
Excluding anime, because that feels like cheating to have music made by professionals in the music industry involved:
Best Intro Song Hands Down: Class of 3000 tied with Code Lyoko ( either French or English because they’re both amazing )
Worst Intro Song: Regular Show ( it’s just a sound effect AFAIK and barely constitutes an intro song in my opinion )
As for sequence, that’s a tougher question for me.
Best Intro Sequence: A tie between BTAS, Batman Beyond/of the Future in Europe, I guess, and Code Lyoko seasons 2-4
Worst Intro Sequence: Regular Show ( it feels like a powerpoint presentation with an ongoing sound effect in the background to me )
Law and order.
That midi sound is so dated that it should be retired by old age by human age standards lol
Sandbag@lemm.ee 2 months ago
30 Rock, hands down. That jazzy into is just ti die for!