This is Paste Magazine’s list of the 10 Most Creative On Television. This list seems to be of shows on TV now so I Dream of Jeannie isn’t on there.
Game of Thrones is my favorite on the list, plus I learned that there is an Intro Emmy. I didn’t know that. My why-isn’t-this-one-there complaint: Fringe.
Amazing Stories (they should have put as much effort into the rest of the show).
They got my favorites with Chuck, Dexter, True Blood, and Game of Thrones.
Honorable Mention to **Psych **for the way they sometimes do alternate versions of their theme song to fit the episode.
I like Community’s opening, too.
I love the very brief but stylish titles to The Mentalist. Especially compared to what they used for the first season.
The best ever, by far:
I was into the third or fourth season when I finally figured out the (lame) joke.
Six Feet Under
Link doesn’t take me to a video.
LOVED the Dilbert opening. As for Amazing Stories. . . CGI has improved greatly, hasn’t it?
Sorry. It’s the opening for Northern Exposure.
First of all, the website in the OP’s link is a piece of shit for making you click to a second page to see the next five entries. So many sites nowadays seem to do that, and I can’t stand it. Even worse are the ten entries with ten separate pages that you so often find on entertainment-magazine websites. Just put all the shit on one page? Please?
Anyway, it’s not a current show, but my pick for best intro of all time is The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Absolutely everything about this intro perfectly captures the precise time and place in early-90s America that the show represented. All of the show’s characters are summed up perfectly by their respective clips, and the theme music is of course the phenomenal “Hey Sandy” by Polaris. If there’s a better show intro, I sure as hell don’t know about it.
If you like the intro to Game of Thrones, you might like to read the interview with Angus Wall, the guy behind the intro art.
There’s an article on the Mad Men intro too. Great site that.
I’ve also always liked the titles to Deadwood. Great imagery and music that really sets the scene.
That is a really cool site–thanks for the link!
Yeah, but MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE.
Aeon Flux, anyone?
Not just that, but the clips they show during the intro change every couple of weeks (something I noticed when I watched the first 5 seasons over the course of a month). IMDB lists 85 episodes, I’ll bet there are at least 25 to 30 distinct intro sequences. Someone puts a lot of work into that.
My question is…Is this someone’s pet project (as in, they enjoy doing it) or is someone being told to do it (“Hey, John, add that clip of Shawn putting his hand next to his head and the clip of Gus swerving to next weeks intro”)?
Game of Thrones intro. also changes to highlight key areas visited in the episode, which is cool.
I just watched it again a second ago and man, it’s powerful, especially if you know the characters. Flawed show, but amazing credit sequence.
A lot of times, if you click on the little printer icon, you get to see the whole thing as a continuous page.
Why aren’t the intros for B5 there? They changed every year to fit the year’s theme, and the music was awesome.
i agree The Simpsons with the couch gag has a really great one(s).
I appreciate Dexters intro. It’s just kinda gross and too long. I usually skip it.