What TV show intro will you never skip?

Firefly

Cowboy Bebop

Yes love the jazz music and all the ambient lighting space zoom zoom interstellar travel shooshooo so cool.
- Ok 3 2 1 let’s jam
  (the song is now playing in your head on repeat)

It's been a long road...
Yass, at first I hated it but it's my favorite intro and overall Trek now 😄
I think you'll enjoy this if you haven't already seen it.
https://youtu.be/OnQNdNSgiKc

Breaking bad

And better Call Saul. Mostly because they're so short it's over by the time you find the remote.

Star Trek (TNG / VOY)

Right there with you.

Dan Da Dan

https://youtu.be/a4na2opArGY

I was about to post the same.
That’s on Netflix is it any good? I always say the title like DAN DAN DAN like a dramatic reveal
- I enjoy it, it's a decent twist on "nerd boy meets girl who brings him out of his shell" that mixes japanese occult with aliens, a small bit of high school slice of life, and shounen anime type battles where cleverness wins. Characters are written well, imo. Good humor.
  That said, the season ends about an episode and a half past where it probably should have, on a particularly ugly cliffhanger when there were a few better cliffhangers they could have ended it on just slightly earlier. And there are two scenes, one in (I think) the first episode and one in the last episode of the season that are needlessly exploitative (not the best description) of a teen girl.
  Girl is moments away from being raped by an alien probe, with alien tech-penis visibly inching towards her in the first episode. In the last episode of the season, same girl who has now regularly been a self sufficient ass kicker gets cornered in a mixed hot springs and for arbitrary reasons suddenly can't defend herself as she begins to be assaulted. Her head is held under the water as it cuts to black and the season ends. Just yuck. Apparently in the manga it's not even the end of a chapter, so the anime runners went out of their way to end the season on that.
  That said, part of the inciting incidents of the show is a ghost stealing the male mc's penis. So it's not entirely one sided in terms of the sexual ick, but it seems to dwell on the shit against the female characters like it wants that to be titilating. There's no cheesecake/fanservice shots of the male MC mid-sexual assault, but there are of the female characters.

Game of Thrones, Djawadi's theme is amazing and captured the tone perfectly.

Bluey

Arcane.

Oh, oh the misery!

Ducktales wohooo

The Expanse. Really enjoyed the visuals of progress with that great soundtrack.

it is extremely well done
The best part about it is the subtlety. Tiny shifts across a season. Few changes in visuals across the entire run.
It is the most lovely theme song I've heard.

Gravity Falls

I love the remixed version for the finale

Futurama

It’s so short that you might as well sit through it.

Peacemaker

DO YA REALLY WANNA DO YA REALLY WANNA TASTE IT??

Why is this so far down…

Daredevil, it's spectacular

Severance. Maybe it's just being a hobby 3d artist that makes every frame of that delicious intro so captivating

Know where can I find a breakdown of the symbolism behind the intro?
For me, it's hard to watch. I feel like I got bungeed down into the deepest depths of the bottomless Uncanny Valley, coming back up covered in oily black ooze, but I look down at its just my hands, my clothes, my normal skin. I think I'd appreciate it more if I knew what and why what was going on.
- Not a breakdown of the whole intro exactly, but this breaks down the melody musically and makes some comments about how it relates symbolically.
  https://youtu.be/LQg1TMEEPnQ

What we do in the shadows

avatar and legend of Korra. they're just banger intros

Bojack Horseman!

Futurama

Too Many Cooks

🎶Too many cooks!🎶

Raised by Wolves, the best intro ever made IMO. And currently Dope Thief, also superb.

Raised by Wolves: https://youtu.be/xHyq5UCVh4w

Dope Thief: https://youtu.be/XJiC12bioso

Angel and Buffy.

House. I feel bad for anybody who's not seen it with the original intro music.

The OG was Teardrop by Massive Attack, right?
- Teardrop, yep!
- Yes! It sets the tone for the show so perfectly. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I pulled up the first episode on Hulu... the new music gives a completely different tone. It's terrible!
- Wait...so what is it now? And when/why was it changed?

Surprised I didn't see Evangelion on here (unless I missed it).

What we do in the shadows.

King of the hill.

Bluey.

Battlestar Galactica (the remake with Eddie Olmos) . It changes throughout the series, and it highlights important bits.

I'd say Firefly too, but that's just because it's awesome. Airwolf was the same way, back in its heyday, and it was cool in ways that knight rider wasn't.

But I'm here only for Battlestar today. So say we all.

Lucky Star!

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. That song is catchy as all hell .

Peacemaker. The same catchy song and love the dance routine.

i loved the first season intro but the second was so disappointing ):
- Yeah agreed on that i go back sometimes and listen to season one just for the theme then skip to season 2 episode

Just finished Tokyo Vice and didn't once skip the intro

Resident Alien, mainly because they change the graphics for every episode and throw in a gag.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind

Understanding is a three edged sword.

I always like that jazzy intro tune to "The Nanny".

The lack of Neon Genesis Evangelion on this list disappoints me.

Halt And Catch Fire.

The Simpsons.

There's something new to see every time! I've only just got back into watching the early seasons again recently.

Serial Experiments Lain

Bojack horseman and lower decks

The white lotus. I didn't like season 3's theme as much as the first 2's but I still like to listen

I was unsure about the season 3 one at first but liked it more every episode.

Hogans Heroes

whoever skips the x-men intro deserves to be thrown into the ocean

Babylon 5. First show to change the intro with each new season, IIRC.

Black Sails

Twin Peaks

Hell ya! Whole soundtrack is amazing!

SpongeBob SquarePants

Bones

But might be cheating since it's The Crystal Method. https://youtu.be/trmaxIG-1bE

Band of Brothers. The intro is so long, but feels like an important part of the whole experience.

General Hospital, I have life, so I won't even start watching this show.

WKRP in Cincinnati

The Simpson's

Abbott Elementary cos it's seconds long

Suits or Suits LA. Catchy tune

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

GUMMI BEARS, BOUNCING HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE!!!!

Also, literally eating gummi bears right now.

Bobs burgers

Lots of good mentions. Especially The Expanse and Bluey.

I'd like to highlight the masterpiece that was Andor S1 intros though.

What We Do In The Dark.

I'll never listen to the song for no reason on its own, but I'll never skip it either.

Money Heist

Sharp Objects had different intros per episode, but they were all good. My favorite is episode 2.

Also, The Leftovers.

Peacemaker, love it

Black Mirror. It is sufficiently short to never need skipping.

Sakamoto days.

Raised by Wolves had a great intro theme and art style.

I would list the great Star Trek opening themes, but honestly they are long and can be a bit much when you're on your like eighth episode in a row.

Moone Boy

Where's me jumper? Sultans of Ping. Absolute banger. Will never skip. May replay multiple times.

Star Trek Next Generation

https://youtu.be/dSlGxtOTbbI
Now with doppler effects!

All of them, I never skip the opening. But my top 5 favorites are

Land of the Lustrous (my most listened to song on YT Music for 3 years running)

Read Or Die

Noir

Akudama Drive

Orb: On The Movements Of The Earth

And for something that isn't weeb shit, Psych

+1 for Psych.

I didn't like the show all that much but American Gods had possibly the greatest title sequence ever made.

It's a brilliant fever dream mixing mythology and technology, drugs and sex which perfectly fits the themes of the show. That thumping electronic music suits the neon in the titles and that tired groan at the end puts an exclamation point in the whole thing.

The Sopranos.

Even when I'm knowingly watching another HBO show, I always hope that the Sopranos theme comes up after the HBO static
- [grin] I get that!
  I'm sure that there are others I used to like - I'm an old fart - but this is the only one that occurs to me now.
  For some reason, my long term memory stopped in the late nineties. I'm convinced that there are series I've watched that I loved that it's going to take a replay to remember that I loved the incoming theme.
  There were several cult shows on BBC2 and ITV back then: Thirty-Something, a few about UK barristers, Moving Story. Damned if I can remember any of the theme tunes.

the office

Silo. I like the music so much!

...and also: Gargoyles!

One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness, it was a world of fear, it was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night. We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken and we live again!
We are defenders of the night. We are gargoyles!

Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

Star Treks Voyager and Lower Decks.

Parks and rec'

ER.

Granted I haven't watched ER since it was on TV in the 90s, but I have gone out of my way to hear that glorious theme song so many times!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjCnHJ8wIuM

King Of The Hill

Warrior had such an awesome intro, we never skipped it.

Samurai Champloo and totally different genre but Craig of the Creek

Solar Opposites

Each intro is narrated by one of the main characters and each time something different is said at the end.

Family Guy

Star Trek Enterprise

And as an italian 90s kid, all cartoons on air in the 2000s

Are you kidding about enterprise?
- IT'S BEEN A LOOOOONG ROOOAD
  no really I completely understand it can sound cringe but I enjoyed singing it almost every time

I never skip intros. I love them all.

Idk man. Anime ones are long af
- I suppose i don't watch shows with intros i want to skip.