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What is the worst TV show opening? Let's dunk on bad TV show openings/intros (animated or live action!)
- Thread starter AuthenticM
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I am glad no one seems to have said Smallville as far as I can see.
Cuz we can dance baby. We can dance.
Cuz we can dance baby. We can dance.
Ugh yeah this is a bad one. So bland and somehow is absent of mood despite having sound & visuals. It's like a mood vacuum.
Yep. Two awful cartoons. I genuinely can't understand a single word from the Loonatics OP.
+1
I can't help but groan even when I hear the song absent of context. Doesn't help that I dislike the show as well.
What the hell,... This is creepy as fuck!
I used to like it
The French opening of DBZ. Some other European countries translated the series directly from French instead of Japanese, and these aberration song was even translated.
At least the noodle jazz is better than most of the show itself. :-)
I knew I would be stepping on some toes. I'm only in Season 2 right now... I watched the intro once in each season and then have skipped it every subsequent time because I do find the music incredibly grating.
Based on watching the first episode of evangelion, I thought the intro song was the only good thing about it. To each his own. :-)
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Was this song really in the original japanese show? I've seen a bunch of japanese openings for DBZ over the years, but never this one. I thought this one had been written and composed specifically for the French dub.
I clicked on the Pokemon Black and White video only to see 2010s kids talking about nostalgia for their childhood. If your aim was to make me feel ancient, you have succeeded.
Jack of All Trades meanwhile had a very catchy opening song.
Anyway, here's my rando 90s pick:
Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher opening theme song
The 2nd season opening theme for The WB sitcom Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
youtu.be
It's so funny, that reminds me of a LOT of tv show/sitcom intros in the 80s. There's a YouTube channel that has nothing but 80s tv show intros (even intros from the 60s, 70s and 90s, but I think they first specialized in 80s). They've got 'em up by year and timeslot (sometimes they will even show a TV Guide-esque schedule of which timeslots each were on and which ones were running against each other). There were a lot of tv shows with slow, boring intros, but the shows themselves were pretty good or funny.
Idk man, I just know how I felt about it as a kid coming off a Pokemon/DBZ/Simpsons high. I don't doubt that the show itself is good, I've thought about checking it out as an adult multiple times.
I hated the Cheers intro as a kid, too, but now it's one of my favorite all time intros for my favorite all-time TV show. I hated Cheers as a kid.
Exactly.
Holy shit. I do love Altman, maybe I should check the movie out.
Also, my other submission would be The Wire's intro. That shit is so fucking bombastic and annoying.
Lol it's the only part 4 theme that doesn't make me gag. I can't stand Breakdown or Crazy Noisy Bizarre Town.
Hated The Sopranos intro song for it's entire run. BORN UNDER A BAD SIGNNN BABBYYYYYYYY. Just nails on a chalk board for me. Just also want to say that any time music became a thing in that show it was traumatic. Especially Janice's brief venture into christian music. Meadow had some awful music plots too.
Since this is mentioned let's talk about one of the BEST opening titles.
My sister went through a long phase of liking this show and I absolutely couldn't stand it, especially the awful, saccharine theme song.
the sopranos has some great use of music. the in universe music is supposed to be bad. oh god visiting day.
i've always loved the intro but i'll give you that one, just don't conflate music storylines with actual music choices, which the show has many amazing examples of.
It's satire but I always like plugging this one; it's basically a silly montage of 70s/80s/90s intros that uhhh.. gets very weird.
that's a pretty good intro. skips the scuff. but it still has a sound specific enough to represent the show.
Heh this always stood out to be as such a weird inclusion. The vocals just sounded.... wrong. :P
I forgot the first season's OP zoomed in on a random girls ass with the show's logo. Who thought that was a good idea? lol
JUST ANOTHER DAAAAAAAAAAAY
The Degrassi intro got worse and worse over time, but it's got nothing on the credits version. Holy shit, that shitty acoustic cover.
The Degrassi intro got worse and worse over time, but it's got nothing on the credits version. Holy shit, that shitty acoustic cover.
At least, it often signifies a horrible Claire centric episode is over.
I got that, I just generally hated those plots as much as the music that came with.
I hate-love it
as someone who is slowly making my way thru all of Star Trek (in a very weird order, just recently finished TNG and I'm going back to TOS which I wish I watched first) I am excited to get to Enterprise solely for the intro. Well, that and the dog.