The backwards x-ray during the intro to Scrubs (and then having it corrected later) was such a cute running gag! I can’t listen to the intro music without smiling, either. One of my favorite shows ever.
Tonight! James throws a bender at his tavern. Hammond shows how structurally unstable the bridge of London is by blowing it up with a single stick of dynamite, and I crash into the wall at the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix.
I love how intricate his intros used to be but then slowly devolved into this absurdly simple ones like, "Tonight, James wears a hoodie, I wear a beanie, and Hammond looks at birds"
I want to point out something because I just noticed and figure you all will enjoy the detail too.
When Annie steps on the Batman DVD and Troy walks out of his and Abed's blanket fort/bedroom, he is humming that all too familiar tune. We'll I never noticed before but he has a pretend key and pretends to lock the door of the blanket fort.
It took me a third watch through to notice and I was crying laughing when I saw it.
The singer just found Norwegian words she liked the sound of.
She wrote herself on facebook way back in 2017:
"There has been a lot of interest in the lyrics I wrote to the main title of the show Expanse so here is some info! I wanted to reference the beautiful Norwegian language..note the word reference! so below are the words I used and a very rough translation of their meaning! Clinton Shorter wrote a gorgeous and inspiring piece! Very often I am inspired while in the car or on a walk and scribble words on kleenex or my hand....not good for cataloging! All of you from Norway, feel free to laugh and cry at my lack of proper syntax and grammar, not to mention pronunciation !would love your comments, but no hate please! go elsewhere for that.
I de sa morgenen jeg (in the so tender morning I)
stige asoke (rise in search)
ja lyn tid jeg vet ha delt (yes it's lightning time I know I share)
skulder dett be na more (shouldering this I ask now for darkness)"
The *BoJack* outro is exactly what prompted me to change this setting, so now I'm passing this wisdom on to you: You can turn off autoplay next episode in your profile settings. Select "manage profiles," then select your profile, then there's a toggle switch for it there.
I think “the view from halfway down” was the most stressful episode of television I’ve ever seen? Genuinely wasn’t sure how that one would end. But man, that show has so many outstanding episodes. The underwater one, the eulogy, Princess Caroline’s granddaughter, the one with Bojack’s grandmother and what happens to her, the planetarium…
>Princess Caroline’s granddaughter
This one fucked me up hard. The delivery of that last exchange between Bojack and PC before the hard cut to credits is just something else.
I don't usually wear my heart on my sleeve (frankly I can be a little emotionally repressed), and media almost never evokes much emotion from me. BH was the first show I'd ever experienced that could ruin an entire day from the emotional strain it put on me. The episode with Sarah Lynn was the first TV episode I'd experienced that actually kinda haunted me for a bit. Then, kinda knowing the end of the show might sting, I marathoned the entire last season in my room when it came out. Didn't want my roommates to be anywhere near me. The View From Halfway Down fucking shattered me. I was a 26 year old guy fucking bawling my eyes out, and I'm not sure I can even describe why. I was just fucking destroyed. I watch anime, and everyone raves about this and that making them cry, but nothing has come even relatively close to that. Hell, the only piece of media that came close was the final episode of Midnight Gospel. That one's not easy either.
If I remember correctly, the drummer for The Black Keys wrote the intro for Bojack, with his uncle's help. It really shows whenever I listen to the band's music, too
When my kids were younger, they loved to watch Pysch. They always showed the flashback, then switched to "present day." My youngest admitted years later that he could never figure out why everything always happened on the same day in the flashbacks--he thought it said "President's Day," and wondered why everything only happened then. Gave us a good laugh!
”Amazing thing about snakes is that they reproduce spontaneously. They have both male and female sex organs. That’s why somebody you don’t trust you call a snake. How can you trust a guy who can literally go fuck themselves? Hey, snakes were fucking themselves long before Adam and Eve showed up, T.”
-Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri
I’m a little less than halfway through the sopranos rn for the first time and any time Paulie rants about some mundane topic is always the funniest shit to me. And when he repeats his jokes to someone who was sitting right next to him
“Hey, I remember every blowjob I ever got. How bout you, remember your first blowjob? How long did it take for the guy to cum? Heh, heh, heh, heh. Ya hear dat, I said ‘ya remember your first blowjob?’ He said, ‘yeah’. I said, ‘how long did it take for the guy to cum?’ Heh, heh, heh, heh”
Yes! I wasn’t expecting Daredevil to be mentioned, but I’m glad it was. Not only is the score absolutely brilliant, the visuals are a thing a beauty (ironic considering it’s a show about a blind man)
*Give me some rope, tie me to dream
Give me the hope to run out of steam
Somebody said it could be here
We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year
I can't count the reasons I should stay
One by one they all just fade away*
man you’re giving me flashbacks to visiting my grandparents 3 hours away as a kid - me and my siblings sleeping in the basement on couches and blow up mattresses, old coil heater, and the original big ass flat screen tv playing disney channel all night. kim possible, even stevens, phil of the future, that’s so raven, lizzie mcguire
i wish life was still that simple
*There's a hundred and four days of summer vacation!*
*Then school comes along just to end it!*
*So the annual problem for our generation!*
*Is finding a good way to spend it!*
*Like maybe...*
I love the episode in season 2 (maybe 3) after they introduce that theme where Sarah Silverman is complaining about the theme song of her favorite (fictional) tv shows being changed. She even make monk promise to never change the theme song should he be given a show. The whole episode is great, and her character is actually funny.
Not only is the song great as the opening theme, but they do *such* a good job of using it throughout the show. Different tempos. Different instruments. Just amazing.
Neon Genesis Evangelion[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU21rCWkuJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU21rCWkuJw)
When the chorus kicks in and the video editting starts losing the plot (1:06) it sends me to a higher plane of existence
Scrolled down too far to see True Detective season 1. God, I love tjay song.
Completely forgot about The Wire as well. Every season variation of it was good.
True Detective season 1’s intro is *perfect.* The song, the visuals, that money shot of the highways superimposed over Woody’s face. I watch it every single time.
I heard people raving about the intro so I went and looked up the song and listened to it. I was like, it's okay, just some hair metal track, not sure why it's getting all this praise.
And then I *watched* the intro. And suddenly it all made sense.
I totally lost it in the first episode talking about his not-girlfriend-girlfriend, Sharon Osborne, being pregnant.
Hey, you're invited if you wanna come to our abortion, man!
1) Daredevil, just the best moody intro
2) Community, makes me happy every time
3) Game of Thrones, you can skip season 8, but you can’t skip the intro—it is known
Old favorites: Quantum Leap and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Love the old themes that were triumphant and got you hyped for the show!
Edit: MASH for old farts who remember, Suicide Is Painless is an amazing song.
Edit 2: Thanks everyone for educating on the suicidal lyrics to Community, TIL! Still love it, but if I can substitute I’d go with “Parks & Rec”, another one that makes me happy every time.
The community theme song is so damn catchy, seriously it's the only show where I've never skipped the intro and never get tired of hearing. Who cares if it has a dark meaning, I already have suicidal tendencies so it balances it out right?
Batman the Animated Series, 90s Spider-Man, Justified, Sopranos
Everything about Justified is so damn good…
Cowboy Bebop. The music is too good.
3 2 1 let's Jam!
The Boondocks
“I am the stone that the builder refused…”
I am the visual, the inspiration that made lady sing the Blues
I am the spark that makes your idea bright. The same spark that lights the dark so that you can know your left from your right.
I am the ballot in your box, the bullet in your gun The inner glow that lets you know to call your brother son
The promise of what's to come, the story that just begun, and I'mma remain a soldier til the war is won
Judo flip. Chop chop chop.
X-men the animated series
Duna nuna nu nu NA
(*epic electric guitar riff*)
The Good Place. Its five seconds long and sandwiched between a cold open and the first act.
Reminds me of the sims every time I hear it.
Whenever I hear that jingle I feel happy instantly lol, might be my favourite show
What We Do in the Shadows [You’re Dead - Norma Tanega](https://youtu.be/V4jUZ-Ex1k0)
What a great song! Also love all the photoshopped pictures of the characters lol.
https://imgur.com/t/whatwedointheshadows/FvkuSZ3 for anyone wondering
The X Files
Yes and I associate it with Tales from the Crypt from late night Fox in the 90s, which also had an amazing intro.
I was about 4-6 years old when my mom was big into x files. That song/intro use to scare me every time.
House M.D. has a nice intro.
Massive Attack is such a great band, you could pair it with anything and it’d be a good opening.
I'm honestly surprised more shows don't use their songs as theme songs. So many of them would be great.
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3,2,1, Let's jam.
Tank is just an amazing song. https://youtu.be/n2rVnRwW0h8
Adventure time... Come on grab your friends.
Have to turn off "auto next episode" as well so that the end credits/song don't get cut short! Every episode sits between book ends of great music.
Futurama
"In hypno vision"
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD!!!
YOU CAN'T PROVE IT WON'T HAPPEN
Duck Tales
Have watched the new one the whole way through three times with my kids. Not once have we skipped the intro. Quite frequently we all sing along.
Life is like a hurricane
Here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes.
The A-Team and Samurai Champloo.
All of Watanabe’s shows I’ve seen have had absolute bangers for theme songs, I feel like you got to include Cowboy Bebop as well.
Samurai champloo ending too 👌
DuckTales
Breaking Bad because it’s like 4 seconds long, not even worth the effort of hitting skip
It’s over before I can even find the remote. Ted Lasso is the same way.
Also, better call Saul’s guitar riff intro slaps.
It cuts itself off for you so you don't need to press skip.
Scrubs Malcolm in the Middle
Yes, no, maybe.
I don't know, can you repeat the question?
You're not the boss of me now
I'm no Superman!
The backwards x-ray during the intro to Scrubs (and then having it corrected later) was such a cute running gag! I can’t listen to the intro music without smiling, either. One of my favorite shows ever.
Cheers
Sometimes you wanna go
Where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came
Law&Order! I looove that music! “Dun dun”
Top gear (the old one) Tonight!
Jessica by the Allman Brothers in case anyone wants to hear the full thing
Tonight! James throws a bender at his tavern. Hammond shows how structurally unstable the bridge of London is by blowing it up with a single stick of dynamite, and I crash into the wall at the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix.
Tonight on Top Gear James wears a hoodie, Hammond dodges an aeroplane, and I tip a caravan!
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I love how intricate his intros used to be but then slowly devolved into this absurdly simple ones like, "Tonight, James wears a hoodie, I wear a beanie, and Hammond looks at birds"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2F_NuXNV8s The everyone wears a hat intro at 0:41 always makes me laugh.
..James talks to a Man.
Og teen titans
Butterfly in the skyyyyyyy I can go twice as hiiiiiigh Just take a look, it's in a book A READING RAINBOW!
I told Pierce a thousand times, I never wanted to meet LeVar in person! I just wanted a picture. You can't disappoint a picture!
Lmao, loved Troy in that episode
I love Troy in every episode. Donald Glover was simply perfection in that role.
He was! “Yes i can. It’s all terrain, dummy!” gets me every time lol
I want to point out something because I just noticed and figure you all will enjoy the detail too. When Annie steps on the Batman DVD and Troy walks out of his and Abed's blanket fort/bedroom, he is humming that all too familiar tune. We'll I never noticed before but he has a pretend key and pretends to lock the door of the blanket fort. It took me a third watch through to notice and I was crying laughing when I saw it.
LaVar Burton's podcast is basically Reading Rainbow for adults and has filled a void in my life.
I always forget about him taking a deep breath before reading, and it's like all the stress in life goes away for two seconds.
Gravity Falls
The fact that the end of the show had a sort of remix of the intro song was also great.
the fact that sometimes there was a short version that cut out the middle was an atrocity
How else were you suppose to figure out the cypher if you did skip it?
Game of Thrones and Buffy
I have never skipped a Buffy intro in my life and I never will
Buffy has the best guitar squeal intro.
I also thought of Buffy immediately!! I also loved the intro music for Angel, those strings in the beginning are haunting.
Excellent! Came here for Buffy and Angel. Both shows have such great theme songs. Completely unskippable.
Even when Game of Thrones became unwatchable, its opening credits improved.
The Expanse
I love all the little things they hide in the opening.
*Sings in Norwegian but also not*
The singer just found Norwegian words she liked the sound of. She wrote herself on facebook way back in 2017: "There has been a lot of interest in the lyrics I wrote to the main title of the show Expanse so here is some info! I wanted to reference the beautiful Norwegian language..note the word reference! so below are the words I used and a very rough translation of their meaning! Clinton Shorter wrote a gorgeous and inspiring piece! Very often I am inspired while in the car or on a walk and scribble words on kleenex or my hand....not good for cataloging! All of you from Norway, feel free to laugh and cry at my lack of proper syntax and grammar, not to mention pronunciation !would love your comments, but no hate please! go elsewhere for that. I de sa morgenen jeg (in the so tender morning I) stige asoke (rise in search) ja lyn tid jeg vet ha delt (yes it's lightning time I know I share) skulder dett be na more (shouldering this I ask now for darkness)"
Metalocalypse
This thread is dildos.
Bojack
The bojack outro goes crazyyyyyyy
I try to hit the ‘watch the credits’ button as fast I can so I can hear the and I’m trying to hold on to my past dum dum dum part
The *BoJack* outro is exactly what prompted me to change this setting, so now I'm passing this wisdom on to you: You can turn off autoplay next episode in your profile settings. Select "manage profiles," then select your profile, then there's a toggle switch for it there.
Back in the 90s I was in a very famous TEEEEEVEEEEEEESSSHHHOOOOWWWWW *dum dum duuum*
I love the second voice that just goes "waaahh"
The way the backgrounds progress is so simple yet sets the tone for the seasons so well. I get chills every single time I see the last season's :')
I think “the view from halfway down” was the most stressful episode of television I’ve ever seen? Genuinely wasn’t sure how that one would end. But man, that show has so many outstanding episodes. The underwater one, the eulogy, Princess Caroline’s granddaughter, the one with Bojack’s grandmother and what happens to her, the planetarium…
>Princess Caroline’s granddaughter This one fucked me up hard. The delivery of that last exchange between Bojack and PC before the hard cut to credits is just something else.
And remember, all that happened on a goofy talking animal show
Free Churro is literally Will Arnett talking for 30 minutes, and it's amazing.
"No show should have that much talking. TV is a visual medium." --BoJack, in the episode just before that one
I don't usually wear my heart on my sleeve (frankly I can be a little emotionally repressed), and media almost never evokes much emotion from me. BH was the first show I'd ever experienced that could ruin an entire day from the emotional strain it put on me. The episode with Sarah Lynn was the first TV episode I'd experienced that actually kinda haunted me for a bit. Then, kinda knowing the end of the show might sting, I marathoned the entire last season in my room when it came out. Didn't want my roommates to be anywhere near me. The View From Halfway Down fucking shattered me. I was a 26 year old guy fucking bawling my eyes out, and I'm not sure I can even describe why. I was just fucking destroyed. I watch anime, and everyone raves about this and that making them cry, but nothing has come even relatively close to that. Hell, the only piece of media that came close was the final episode of Midnight Gospel. That one's not easy either.
If I remember correctly, the drummer for The Black Keys wrote the intro for Bojack, with his uncle's help. It really shows whenever I listen to the band's music, too
Yup. So good.
trailer park boys
Simpsons! It's different every time- how can you skip it?
Oh! Futurama, too. I mean its the same with like only two changes, but I LOVE the intro.
They reused couch gags a lot in earlier seasons. The chorus line one with the dancing elephants in the background was used in 8 different episodes.
King of the Hill
Prefect length, perfect tune, perfect visuals. Simple and effective. First show that came to my mind and I havent seen it in 10+ years!
Psych
When my kids were younger, they loved to watch Pysch. They always showed the flashback, then switched to "present day." My youngest admitted years later that he could never figure out why everything always happened on the same day in the flashbacks--he thought it said "President's Day," and wondered why everything only happened then. Gave us a good laugh!
You know that's right
In between the lines, there's a lot of obscurity I'm not inclined to resign to maturity
If it's all right, then you're all wrong But why bounce around to the same damn song
Sopranos
”Amazing thing about snakes is that they reproduce spontaneously. They have both male and female sex organs. That’s why somebody you don’t trust you call a snake. How can you trust a guy who can literally go fuck themselves? Hey, snakes were fucking themselves long before Adam and Eve showed up, T.” -Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri
I’m a little less than halfway through the sopranos rn for the first time and any time Paulie rants about some mundane topic is always the funniest shit to me. And when he repeats his jokes to someone who was sitting right next to him
“Hey, I remember every blowjob I ever got. How bout you, remember your first blowjob? How long did it take for the guy to cum? Heh, heh, heh, heh. Ya hear dat, I said ‘ya remember your first blowjob?’ He said, ‘yeah’. I said, ‘how long did it take for the guy to cum?’ Heh, heh, heh, heh”
"Here that T? I said when he repeats his jokes to someone who was sitting right next to him heh heh"
I’m shocked that I haft to scroll down so far to find this answer every time they ask this question.
Woke up dis mornin', got some gabagoo
My pizza never hurt nobody!
Man I scrolled way too far to find this! Best intro
It really just sets the tone for the next 50 minutes
Daredevil and Community
Daredevil's was really beautiful.
Yes! I wasn’t expecting Daredevil to be mentioned, but I’m glad it was. Not only is the score absolutely brilliant, the visuals are a thing a beauty (ironic considering it’s a show about a blind man)
Two opposites and yet I love them both
Ones a rather dark song that deals with a heavy theme And yeah daredevil is also good.
*Give me some rope, tie me to dream Give me the hope to run out of steam Somebody said it could be here We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year I can't count the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away*
Westworld
Ramin Djawadi makes the best intros
i usually don’t see Westworld as an answer to question about shows but i knew i would see it here
That Ramin Djawadi music combined with stunning visuals! *chef's kiss*
Kim Possible slaps
Call me beep me if you wanna reach me
man you’re giving me flashbacks to visiting my grandparents 3 hours away as a kid - me and my siblings sleeping in the basement on couches and blow up mattresses, old coil heater, and the original big ass flat screen tv playing disney channel all night. kim possible, even stevens, phil of the future, that’s so raven, lizzie mcguire i wish life was still that simple
The little “do do do do” is my text tone
Phineas and Ferb
*There's a hundred and four days of summer vacation!* *Then school comes along just to end it!* *So the annual problem for our generation!* *Is finding a good way to spend it!* *Like maybe...*
Building a rocket Or fighting a mummy Or climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Discovering something that doesn't exist! Or giving a monkey a shower!
Surfing Tidal Waves! Creating nanobots Or locating Frankensteins brain!
Finding a dodo bird! Painting a continent!
Or driving our sister insane! As you can see, there's a whole lot of stuff to do before school starts this fall
So stick with us, 'cause Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it alllll! Stick with us, 'cause Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it all!
Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence
*guitar*
“Come on Perry” So stick with us 'Cause Phineas and Ferb are gonna do it all!
Mom!!!!!!! Phineas and Ferb are on Reddit again!
Bob’s Burgers
I always try to read the maintenance van and the neighbours sign but can rarely do both
My wife and I split it up before we start watching so we get both.
Pro level spousing.
Ah, how could I forget Bidets and Confused
Monk - It's a jungle out there, disorder and confusion everywhere. . .
I love the episode in season 2 (maybe 3) after they introduce that theme where Sarah Silverman is complaining about the theme song of her favorite (fictional) tv shows being changed. She even make monk promise to never change the theme song should he be given a show. The whole episode is great, and her character is actually funny.
She also refers to previous cases by the episode titles.
Succession
Not only is the song great as the opening theme, but they do *such* a good job of using it throughout the show. Different tempos. Different instruments. Just amazing.
Why did I have to scroll so far down to read this. Best intro song of all time
Complete with the foreplay/cold open where the 808 comes in slowly. Ugh. Chef’s kiss.
Excellent song for that show, and all the creepy old rich kid footage is perfect.
1000x yes. Nicholas Britell blessed us with a classic the day he came up with that score.
I heard this play on TV in the background once but forgot to figure out what show it was. I'll need to give the series a try based on the intro alone.
You won't regret it. Succession is incredible.
Certified banger
Are they sticking to the playlist? Cause my whole thing was all bangers all the time.
Can’t believe this answer was so far down the list.
Neon Genesis Evangelion[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU21rCWkuJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU21rCWkuJw) When the chorus kicks in and the video editting starts losing the plot (1:06) it sends me to a higher plane of existence
A cruel angel's thesis.
The Wire True Detective season 1 Sanford and Son
You just gotta keep the devil way down in the hole!
I would always try to remember the line that was quoted in the intro and find it in the episode for The Wire
HBO is smart you can skip the intro and still see the quote.
Scrolled down too far to see True Detective season 1. God, I love tjay song. Completely forgot about The Wire as well. Every season variation of it was good.
True Detective season 1’s intro is *perfect.* The song, the visuals, that money shot of the highways superimposed over Woody’s face. I watch it every single time.
Golden girls.
Fraggle rock
Peacemaker, 100%
When that show ended I was still blasting that song
I still am. DO YOU REALLY WANNA, DO YOU REALLY WANNA TASTE IT?
Every time I started a new episode I said I was going to skip it, and each time I would get enthralled by it and couldn't.
I heard people raving about the intro so I went and looked up the song and listened to it. I was like, it's okay, just some hair metal track, not sure why it's getting all this praise. And then I *watched* the intro. And suddenly it all made sense.
It’s so ridiculously stupid. And I watched it every damn time.
It was a perfect analogy for the show. A group of people being equal parts serious and ridiculous.
Yeah. I loved that show. I thought it would be kind of bad, but it was a real surprise.
Vigilante is hilarious.
I totally lost it in the first episode talking about his not-girlfriend-girlfriend, Sharon Osborne, being pregnant. Hey, you're invited if you wanna come to our abortion, man!
1) Daredevil, just the best moody intro 2) Community, makes me happy every time 3) Game of Thrones, you can skip season 8, but you can’t skip the intro—it is known Old favorites: Quantum Leap and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Love the old themes that were triumphant and got you hyped for the show! Edit: MASH for old farts who remember, Suicide Is Painless is an amazing song. Edit 2: Thanks everyone for educating on the suicidal lyrics to Community, TIL! Still love it, but if I can substitute I’d go with “Parks & Rec”, another one that makes me happy every time.
The community theme song is so damn catchy, seriously it's the only show where I've never skipped the intro and never get tired of hearing. Who cares if it has a dark meaning, I already have suicidal tendencies so it balances it out right?
Upvote for MASH.
Upvote for your upvote for MASH
The GOT intro always really helped me know what was going on actually. Put places and character movement into perspective!
Daredevil intro is so good. So is the Punisher intro.
Forensic files