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Skavau @lemm.ee

2w ago

What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros?

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I know Game of Thrones got a ton of hate after a while, but I loved the intros. They were unique to the setting where the episodes were going to take place.
The worst intros are the long ones that never change, but are on every episode.
- The series went to shit, but the intros got me hooked from the very beginning (like, holy hell, what is this?) and I never skipped a single one, even at the end when I was pretty much done with it all.
  Also, remember the single episode that just started with the Hound? That was a trip, when you expect the music and map.
- 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
  
  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.
- I loved Game of Thrones and Westworld. The music was bangin’ and the visuals were just amazing.
- not sure why it got so much hate, i was expecting s8 to be terrible and it wasnt 😂

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.
- Too many cooks is the best wrong answer. Must resisted watching this again.

Sealab 2021. It's been 20 years and it's still stuck in my head
- Sealab intro was amazing
- Storm warning.

The Wire - same song, different take (Tom Waits, no less)

Lots of bests, but here's some I didn't see.
The Expanse.
Babylon 5, especially season 3(?) change with "It failed."
Old school original Battlestar Galactica.
Knightrider and Airwolf.
Worst? If you can't remember them, they must be bad.
- The Expanse intro was so good
- especially season 3(?) change with "It failed."
  I just watched Babylon 5 for the first time last year, and that part of the intro got an actual spoken "fuck yeah!" out of me

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.

For me, Dexter.

Two Severance's intros are great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKT5bwMkOAw Also many animes have epic openings.

Best (that haven't already been mentioned by others):
Get Smart
Perfect Strangers
(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:
MASH
Cops

Best and worst - Star Trek Enterprise.

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.
Warrior
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).

The first season of True Detective had an excellent intro sequence. HBO generally does a good job with their series.

Peacemaker. It’s so corny, but it makes me laugh and I couldn’t ever skip it.

MASH
yes I'm old

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.

Simpsons is pretty original
- Original version way too long though, and the HD version is awful

Westworld intro is fuckin great
https://youtu.be/elkHuRROPfk

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
- The one that started it all?
- have you tried leverage redemption?

Won't ever forget this little ditty.

I never skip Star Trek Voyager’s intro. I love both the music and the visuals.

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
- King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
  Intro rocks!

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.
- I loved the S01 intro!

The Captain Scarlet Intro goes hard.

The White Lotus Season seasons 1 and 2. I find the third season intro really flat in comparison.

Disney absolutely butchered the art of intros for its Star Wars shows by simply…not having them really. And I think it sucks.

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 that 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."

I sometimes still randomly hum/whistle the theme for Doug.

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.
- Derrick.

The Greatest American Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbErkiebkwo

Dan da Dan. Show itself is alright, but the opening fucking SLAPS

Legendary intro: Mr Bean

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