Which TV series intros do you not skip by choice?
Which TV series intros do you not skip by choice?
For me it was GoT, I just thought the miniature landscapes looked way too cool. Also I am watching Kimmy Unbreakable which has a theme song that I think is pretty catchy.
Iirc the GoT intros gave you a hint about the episode by highlighting the map areas that the episode was going to cover. But S8 ended up being so bad that it went back in time and ruined the entire series for me, so I never rewatched it and might be misremembering.
Right now I never skip the intro for What We Do in the Shadows. It’s the same every time, but the song is just too much fun to skip. I am probably on my fourth watching of that series.
I think I also sit through most of the Star Trek intros just because I enjoy the visuals.
- Succession (and it's not even close, this is clear cut #1 for the slap factor)
- Bluey
- Halt and Catch Fire
- True Detective S1
- The Righteous Gemstones (cheating since it's only 10 seconds)
- The Brady Bunch
- Dragonball Z (Toonami airing)
- Scooby Doo, Where Are You? S2
- White Lotus S1 (this is so close to Succession for me)
- Westworld S1
- Severance
No love for Stranger Things intro here 😟
Futurama
Mythbusters
King of the Hill
Metalocalypse
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Dexter was great, set a good vibe that matched the shows tone.
Game of thrones was just really well done with good music.
Buffy. Great high energy start, especially after the explanation intro. Goes straight to action
Lost, its short but it was atmospheric, cryptic and the reason it's short is they wanted to use the time for more story, as the ad levels had increased tv wide so on broadcast tv it was a nice non monetary move from that show specifically.
Firefly. Not enough episodes to get sick of it.
Friends, but only a few times no skip, if its binged.
Battlestar Galactica. Gives a few hints of what's to come in the episode, without being spoilers.
Bluey is fun, kids love it and dance to it.
Thundercats, duck tales, gummi bears, chip n dale. They make me nostalgic for childhood, when you couldn't skip.
Edit:typos
Gravity Falls.
Gravity Falls
Westworld .
And top gear (the proper Clarkson/Hammond/May one, not that other thing)
Malcolm in the Middle. Haven’t seen it in years, but I never skipped the theme song.
King of the Hill, Twin Peaks.
https://youtu.be/Zd2Prf-D-_8?si=xMX1u-ETzv31Sr_d
What they do in the shadows
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked…
The Wire
Gotta keep the devil in his hole
The Simpsons
Animaniacs!
White Lotus
Band of Brothers
Such a fun song, the montage is adorable, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome
Westworld, the Expanse
Hannibal the series had an amazing intro.
Bojack horseman
Basically any HBO show, they are always pretty iconic. Special shoutout to The Wire
I watch almost all intros. The only exception would be if I'm watching multiple episodes back to back and I know there are no variations in the intro.
The intro usually sets the tone for the show, so I like to watch them.
Dexter
The Office 🎹 🎶
So I didn't end up watching the whole show, but Neil Patrick Harris completely kills it with his theme song for A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Succession
Adventure Time
This thread needs more Stargate, those intros are basically a montage of the most epic scenes from previous seasons
Trailer Park boys!
Too many to list: Buffy, Brooklyn 99, Firefly, Stargate SG1...
partly nostalgia but really, it's just great; the Simpsons intro. Also the original Roswell from 2000's had a great intro song, it's the only Dido song I like besides the Eminem sample.
I don't skip intros. It sets the tone for what is about to come.
I usually don't skip intros
Cowboy Bebop
Game of Thrones
Bobs Burgers
The SimpsonsBattlestar Galactica, Haven, Fringe, Orphan Black,
and there are a few more I don't skip more often than I do, like DS9, Stargate: Atlantis, Rome and the Tudors.
Some series just have really nice intros!
I always wait for kirk to say "Space" before skipping the intro to Star Trek, always gets a chortle from my partner and I.
Too Many Cooks.
X Files
What we do in the shadows.
Fringe
All of them. Why would I skip an intro? Intros are cool, and, rarely, they might change, possibly for in-show reasons. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is famous for doing this, and even some American shows have taken after it in that regard.
I used to not skip POI(Person Of interest), every intro had characters from the episode.
Knight Rider
MacGuyver
A-Team
"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit...”
True blood, ultimate vibe setter
Can't believe no one mentioned Mad Men yet!
Big mouth, has a great opening song "Changes" by Charles Bradley
lol jk
I'm going to cheat and say Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul.
Dark. Westworld.
I skip all the intros after watching them once. Knocking 2min off an episode really adds up.
The Wire. The opening themes are pretty great (with the exception of Season 5) and for some intangible reason the intro always feels like a core part of setting me up emotionally for the episode. Especially with Season 4. The ominous and dark rendition from the Baltimore school kids feels like an essential mood setting piece for a very sobering season.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)
For me its Amazons Wheel of Time series. Seeing the threads get woven into the images of the world and then all coming together to be spun by the great wheel gets me emotional. They could bomb the remaining seasons and I would still be grateful for the opening.
The Equalizer.
The OG one from way back when.
Moonlighting
Muppet Show
Hill Street Blues
First time around there was no option to skip them. Perhaps that's a contributing factor to why they're so good and re-watchable.
The Wire
I wasn't the hugest fan of the overall show--it was fine--but I enjoyed how they mixed up the intro song for The Leftovers. I oftened listened through the credits as a result.
Braindead, a new song by Jonathan Coulton every week
Not mentioned yet: Lie to Me intro. Love how they show little twitches and movements and close it with open emotions.
Supernatural and Peacemaker
Prime's Jack Ryan. It's hypnotic. Somebody put in a lot of work.
- Sons of Anarchy
- Bosch/Bosch:Legacy
- Alias
The rest I was going to suggest have been mentioned already!
I didn't see anyone else mention this: Mob Psycho 100. Every one of those intros are bangers.
Grimm. In the first few seasons they had very very short intros with little hints of what the story would be in it.
Franklin. Whenever I watch that guilty pleasure cartoon, I will absolutely refuse to skip the intro no matter how many episodes I'm watching.
Thanks to those beautiful souls actually linking the intros in this thread so we can watch them lol
Inside Job. The original song the intro samples isn't that great. But the intro to the show has an amazing beat that I wish went on for longer then it does.
Adventure time, the song is a banger and the whole thing lasts like 15 seconds.
I don't skip any of them. They're so short nowadays, anyway. If I'm impatient enough to skip the opening, then I'm probably not that into it and shouldn't be watching the show anyway.
Anyway, Law & Order, lol
Oh, I never skip intros. I also don't usually watch multiple episodes in a row though, so maybe that's why.
Veronica Mars We used to be friends.
The Legend of Vox Machina
I pretty much exclusively watch animes with killer intros, so I don't skip any of them
I ain't skipping Noir's, or Akudama Drive's, least of all Land of the Lustrous
Gate sucks but everything by Kishida Kyoudan and the Akeboshi Rockets fuckin slaps
Haibane Renmei's intro feels good to listen to, it's like a warm blanket for the soul
I really like the intros of Attack on Titan
Death note https://youtu.be/mX9BwDfXzNg
Deep Space 9 from season 4 onwards. I found it pretty boring and lifeless in the earlier seasons. The ships at and around the station made it a lot more interesting, and i like the updated music
Star Trek
American Horror Story
Although I don't usually skip intros unless I'm in a serious binge mood or short on time.
Top gear
Lately OMitB, before I'd say TBBT, from the old times you won't skip on the A-Team opening theme or the Italian version of Hazzard
The intro from the 80's Saturday morning cartoon M.A.S.K. That song was epic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNbp0u8WjA
You're welcome.
Most of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba intros.
WUN PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Human Target until they messed up the intro (and everything else) with the disastrous season 2.
The music and art were top-tier and set me up for adventure.
For those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xFMyhBYx8.
I listened to the Inside Job theme for all 6 minutes 54 seconds it would play (22 seconds per episodes). It never overstayed its welcome
Avatars intro slaps. I'll never skip it.
Pokemon. And I will sing the whole thing shamelessly.
The Jeffersons. Sandford and Son.
It's an anime, and nearly cheating but for me it was Mushoku Tensei Season 1
There was an intro song, but while it was playing there would be B Rolls of whatever part of the setting was pertinent for the episode.
It was awesome, but then they did a normal intro for Season 2, which struck me as a bad decision.
most of the demon slayer ones, Kizuna no Kiseki is by far my favourite opening song at the moment.
Many of my favorites are listed here but one I didn't see is Money Heist.
Daredevil (the design and music is sick) and The Morning Show (the animation is very captivating to me)
South land
The expanse. The music paired either the visuals is :chefkiss:
I loved The Good Fight opening sequence as it's pretty cool and they were changing and updating it often - https://youtu.be/5xWE5R6qEQQ
John from Cincinnati grew on me and then I had to watch it. That song feels so much like 2pm on a Saturday in a beach town in Southern California
Farscape. The music is unlike anything I've heard before. I bought the soundtrack based on that one piece of music, but everything else on it is disappointingly normal.
For Kimmy Schmidt, you definitely need to skip the intro on the finale movie.