# Favorite opening credits **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-opening-credits/288548 "2005-02-05T18:28:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-opening-credits/288548/41 "2005-02-07T11:58:54Z")
Here’s a second vote for **Raising Arizona** , where you see the entire montage of Nick Cage and Holly Hunter’s backstories as criminal and cop in about eight minutes, accompanied by Beethoven’s _Ode to Joy_ on banjo. By the end, you’re so into the movie you don’t even notice that the titles haven’t rolled yet. They get to the yodelling bit and the titles right after the wedding, if I recall correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-opening-credits/288548/42 "2005-02-07T19:41:30Z")
**Salem’s Lot** : It’s been many, many years since I’ve seen it. I don’t know how well it’s held up over time. But seeing the original miniseries as a ten-year old, they really freaked me out and established a creepy mood. **the Shining** : That long helicopter tracking shot of Jack Torrence’s car driving through the Rockies and reaching the Overlook Hotel. Brrrr!!! Chills! Chills! Chills! ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-opening-credits/288548/43 "2005-02-08T00:09:14Z")
> [@Jurph](#): > > Here’s a second vote for **Raising Arizona** , where you see the entire montage of Nick Cage and Holly Hunter’s backstories as criminal and cop in about eight minutes, accompanied by Beethoven’s _Ode to Joy_ on banjo. By the end, you’re so into the movie you don’t even notice that the titles haven’t rolled yet. They get to the yodelling bit and the titles right after the wedding, if I recall correctly. Actually, a little after that. They tell how Ed can’t have kids and discuss the quints before they roll the credits. But yes, very effective use of delayed credits. > [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I always thought the opening credits of Green Acres were pretty funny. They’d be printed on shirts, hanging laundry, and so forth. Oliver seemed to be oblivious to these, of course. Not always. Once, after the credits had run, Oliver opened the closet and it says “Carpentry - Alf and Ralph Monroe” and Oliver says, “They’re not supposed to get a credit” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-opening-credits/288548/44 "2005-02-08T18:28:49Z")
What? No mention of the **Naked Gun** movies? ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-opening-credits/288548/45 "2005-02-08T19:18:17Z")
[It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxzZz0xfHR0PW9ufGZiPXV8cG49MHxxPUl0J3MgYSBNYWQsIE1hZCwgTWFkLCBNYWQgV29ybGR8bXg9MjB8bG09MjAwfGh0bWw9MQ__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1) [Amelie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxzZz0xfHR0PW9ufGZiPXV8cG49MHxxPUFtZWxpZXxteD0yMHxsbT0yMDB8aHRtbD0x;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1) (some fun trivia - The things that the little girl is doing during the credits relate directly to what credit is being listed on screen). [A Shot in the Dark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058586/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxzZz0xfHR0PW9ufGZiPXV8cG49MHxxPUEgU2hvdCBpbiB0aGUgRGFya3xteD0yMHxsbT0yMDB8aHRtbD0x;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-opening-credits/288548.md?page=2)