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Silviecat44 @vlemmy.net

2y ago

What tv show intro do you never skip?

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Game of Thrones. Best part of the latter seasons.
- Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklage, Peter Dinklate
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHlzIgSvnYc
- This. Just because I want to see what regions the episode will be taking place in.
- I love the GoT intro, but at nearly 2 minutes long, I almost always skip it.

Bojack Horseman, the song slaps and there's way too many Easter eggs and jokes slipped onto the various intros to ignore them.
- I love how the intro changes depending on what happened in the previous episode, or what will happen. Take Bobo the Zebra. A changing intro gives me a reason to watch it, and yes the song slaps. I particularly love the full version we don't get to hear a lot of.

My wife claps during the Friends intro credits. Every time. EVERY. TIME.
She'll be in the other room, and hear it on the TV... I hear the clap clap, clap clap from her as it plays.
- The song lives rent free in my head regularly
- Found out when I worked at a grocery store that there is a "full version" of the Friends intro, because it was in the playlist of music that would play on the store speakers
- I can’t stand that show (or Jimmy Fallon’s), but the CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP hook slaps.
  Matt LeBlanc and Jimmy Debate: How Many Claps Are in the Friends Theme Song?

For me its Gravity Falls. I love the music.
- I should rewatch it soon, probably one of my favorite tv-shows of all time
- Also some things are different in some episodes

Succession. Love the music.

Breaking Bad
- Better Call Saul as well!
  
  Yes so short and sets the tone perfectly. Also, it pays off in the last few episodes!
- I appreciate short and to the point intros like Breaking Bad
- Tbf it would be hard to reach the skip button before it's already over

Expanse!
a) it's really cool how they update the credits to go with the storyline b) watching as Mars/Earth/Luna build and grow over time b) I want to float around Saturn
- Lots of people mentioning Expanse. I might have to check it out
  
  It's my favourite sci-fi show in a long time. The first season is a little slow but stick with it.

Back in the 90's...

The Expanse. Just so beautiful!
- Seconded. The Expanse's intro song is amazing!

The Sopranos, it really sets the mood. Game of Thrones too. And The Wire!
I liked the Dexter intro too. Breaking Bad, though its pretty short. And House MD when it was Massive Attack.
- All of those HBO shows have great intros. I've heard HBO had a thing where they forced their showrunners to come up with an iconic and high quality intro. Apparently Mike Judge didn't really want to do a big long intro for Silicon Valley, so they compromised and came up with the short intro that has tons of little hidden details.
- Hold up... they stopped using Massive Attack as the intro music for House? I must have stopped watching it by the time it changed.
  
  When they put it up on streaming it changed. They had different songs in different regions when it originally aired and the streaming version uses one of the other songs. Seems like a licensing thing?

Scrubs - it is short enough not to skip it and it's also fairly catchy!
- Malcolm in the Middle and Community for me, for the same reasons.
  
  Malcolm in the Middle's slaps because it's played by They Might Be Giants

Parks and recs because it's so upbeat. Homeland too but for an entirely different reason

Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Ba ba baa ba baaaaaaa
  It's an absolute ear worm haha
  
  I'm so glad they never changed it like so many shows do

Twin Peaks
- How's Annie?
- God I miss it :'(
- Twin Peaks is arguably the most beautiful intro ever.

First season of true detective

White lotus. So funky

Neon Genesis Evangelist 🙏🔥

All of them. Intros set a mood, and that’s a really important part of consuming any piece of content for me.

Doctor Who.
- dundundundun dundundundun
  
  Omg it's been years since I watched it and I just heard the theme in my head like it was the first time... I need to rewatch it now
  
  OOOH Wahhh OOOOH EEEEE Woooo EEE OOO ohhh ooooh ooooh oooh

The Office US. Gets all the happy chemicals flowing.
Actually, now that you reminded me of Gravity Falls, that one too. And for me at least, in both cases the music is doing the heavy lifting. Such great tunes, how can you skip that?
Speaking of great music, I haven't watched a full episode of GoT, but the intro is amazing! I look it up every now and then just to listen.
- I haven’t watched much of the office US but I can agree that the intro is very solid
  
  If you decide to watch through it, the “Office Ladies” podcast is a great companion reference.

Star Trek: TNG

Peacemaker

King of the hill

Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica TOS.
Edit with links: https://youtu.be/7vIVFgXaxsU https://youtu.be/3NPpcpIfuJo

The Wire
- Which season is your favourite opening? I think in general mine is season 2

Spectacular Spiderman

Malcolm in the Middle

season 1 and 2 of ST: Enterprise
But also all other ST shows.

If it's less than 10 seconds, I won't skip because it's equally a hassle to skip. So far that's only been maybe Scrubs? These 90 second intros can buzz off man... GoT, Westworld, motherland... No thanks.
- The Good Place and The Mandalorian I really like mostly because they are very short and to the point.

Babylon 5
- Man, I don't think I would have seen B5 mentioned this far up over on Reddit... Me like.

Duck Tales.
https://youtu.be/V8yr3vTgTok

Spongebob Squarepants!

Raised by Wolves
Haunting music and visuals. Check it out on YouTube if you've never seen/heard it!

The Office. It's a nice tune, at some point the intros are already shortened by the makers. Also Family Guy. Just keep it playing in the background while I'm getting a drink or take a leak.

Mushoku Tensei / Jobless Reincarnation
Great music, setting mood in an exceptional way, every episode different background / scenes in it, exceptional for world-building.
- Really excited to see season 2 next month.

Dunno about intro but I never skip the outro of jujutsu kaisen

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

DuckTales.
In general a lot of the older cartoons had banger intros.

Raised By Wolves.
Haunting visuals and music. YouTube it if you haven't seen it yet. Gives me shivers everytime.

Star Trek Next Generation

For sure Supernatural. I always rock out to it!
- And I also never skipped the mid-season finale song! Loved it!

Bob Morane

Friends
Gilmore Girls
Generally just shows, which I love to sing along to
- For the music but with no singing:
  Cowboy Bebop
  Mad Men
  Game of Thrones

"Wake up this morning, got myself a gun"

Fringe - especially the 80s flashback version.

Evil.

Young Sheldon. Short and sweet.

Adventure Time
- Such a classic

ER and Third Watch speaking of 90's shows, but also Ted Lasso and Brooklyn Nine - Nine

True Detective S1

From. Que Sera, Sera by The Pixies.
- Same here! Despite being 2 minutes long, I absolutely love that intro and never skip it, even during rewatches.

Narcos

True Blood

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