The best intro was for Rocko’s Modern Life before they fucked it up with the B52s version.
What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence?
Submitted 4 days ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
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skeezix@lemmy.world 4 days ago
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
There’s nothing quite like hearing a song from the opening of a telly show and thinking “that’s bloody great”, only to discover that the opening credits use the best bits of the track and the rest of it is rubbish!
I’ve discovered some pretty great tunes though
Charles Bradley’s cover of Ozzy’s “Changes” is amazing, from the opening of “Big Mouth”
crozilla@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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!
gabbath@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So many to choose from… I’ll just say Jessica Jones and Boston Legal because I haven’t seen them here.
HarryOru@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Favorites:
- Veronica Mars (just the perfect match for the show’s vibe and a damn catchy song)
- Fringe (loved how they used it later in the series to match the universe/time period the episode was set in)
- True Blood (a classic, wish the show matched its atmosphere beyond season 1)
- Jessica Jones (so underrated)
- Severance (extremely creative and memorable)
- Stranger things (hate the show, but the intro is undeniably brilliant in its simplicity)
Honorable mentions:
- Yellowjackets (fun!)
- Dexter (love the concept, hate the song)
- The 100 (after a basic title card in season 1 they actually added an intro for the rest of the show, with the content changing to match the theme and setting of each season)
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.
Katrisia@lemm.ee 3 days ago
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.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Clone High and Sealab 2021 are both so good. 20 years later and they’re still stuck in my head.
gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk 4 days ago
MacGyver? youtu.be/UKTNWI0eYJ4
Sh0ckw4ve@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Jeeves and Wooster is top notch
VHS@hexbear.net 3 days ago
The Wire and True Detective both have great intros
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Best: Gilligan’s Island, The Nanny, Green Acres, Get Smart, Underdog.
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ll mention one that I don’t see. The song for What We Do In the Shadows is very catchy.
Honeybee@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Just the best for me
The Wire
The Unit
Futurama
Johny Questenshu@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Favourite intros:
- Vinyl TV show
- Season 1 of Bad Sisters
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The answer to both is … the Logan’s Run TV show theme song.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 days ago
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
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Not sure why, but I really liked the Raised by Wolves intro.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 days ago
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 )
trolololol@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Law and order.
That midi sound is so dated that it should be retired by old age by human age standards lol
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 days ago
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The ones that are fast-forward proof to me are Star Trek TNG & the last of us.
illi@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Definitely Stargate SG-1 for music. Game of Thrones for the sequence (music too though).