# The GOAT movie or TV credits? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 27, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522 "2025-08-27T08:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Happytree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happytree/32/3555_2.png) [@Happytree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happytree)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/41 "2025-08-27T21:58:10Z")
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, of course! I’m a tad younger than most folks here, but to me, it’s a classic. The opening theme, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/42 "2025-08-27T22:16:48Z")
The closing credits for _The Naked Gun_ are fun. All the bit part actors are credited with their spoken line of dialog. For opening title sequences, I’ll nominate _Catch Me If You Can_. Not Saul Bass, but clearly influenced thereby. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/43 "2025-08-27T22:44:06Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Game of Thrones. I don’t want to open a whole separate thread to ask this, but is there a name for that specific type of opening credits? Others that come to mind are Daredevil, The Crown, or The Last Of Us. There are probably more that I’m forgetting or not aware of. But basically where they show something forming out of nothing, or flowing and changing. I find those kinds of credits fascinating to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/44 "2025-08-27T23:09:42Z")
My kids and I loved the credits to “Gravity Falls”, especially when they started embedding ciphers in them…we’d pause and write them down, figure them out later. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/45 "2025-08-27T23:21:29Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I like the postcard montage at the beginning of _National Lampoon’s Vacation_. Something about it just epitomizes the American road trip In the same vein, the opening credits for _Up In The Air_ are a neat slideshow of what you might see on a cross-country flight from your window seat (plus a cool song) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LfFEDVE4bR4/hqdefault.jpg "Up in the air - Title sequence") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfFEDVE4bR4) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/46 "2025-08-27T23:47:59Z")
I wanted to say, “just about anything from Saul Bass”. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/47 "2025-08-28T00:01:27Z")
The closing credits for the final episode of Severance season 2 are pretty cool, and definitely inspired by Saul Bass: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mwmZJFUVjb4/maxresdefault.jpg "Severance Season 2 Finale End Credits Sequence") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmZJFUVjb4) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/48 "2025-08-28T00:06:06Z")
For opening sequence, whether or not there are any actual credits in it, I nominate Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (original theater release version; there is an extended version but I don’t think the added bits are necessary for an intro). Here is an explanation from a channel called The Art of Storytelling that explains it better than I could. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TSL87h2CaYw/maxresdefault.jpg "The Genius Of The Lord Of The Rings Prologue") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSL87h2CaYw) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/49 "2025-08-28T00:09:20Z")
Alternative, if you want something shorter, is this intro bit from the Bruno Cremer version of Maigret. I used to watch these with English subtitles all the time on the MHz channel, when my cable system carried it. Less than a minute, and you are ready for 50’s Paris on the Quai des Orfevre. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WtPFYjnp6Ek/hqdefault.jpg "Maigret Bruno Cremer intro theme") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtPFYjnp6Ek) ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/50 "2025-08-28T00:26:17Z")
I think the [Opening credits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G29EyeGzm9w) to the series **Succession** is one of the GOATS because it sets the mood perfectly before the story even begins. Grainy home-video clips of kids playing spliced with skyscrapers and boardrooms show a family warped by power and money. The fractured editing mirrors the broken relationships, and Nicholas Britell’s score (which is fantastic)—classical piano colliding with hip-hop beats—captures old money clashing with new swagger. The unnamed children make it feel both personal and universal, as if any heir could be trapped in this cold cycle. By the time the credits end, you already feel the wealth, dysfunction, and dark comedy that define the show. And the [series](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7660850/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_succession) itself is a GOAT, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/51 "2025-08-28T00:41:24Z")
_A Nero Wolfe Mystery_ from the beginning of the century, the one with Maury Chaykin as Wolfe. Every episode had customized animation and music to fit the random chronology of the adaptations. Good music, too. ---
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As for kids’ cartoons, the [opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvUapuVf5Y) **to Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse** is a GOAT because it packs style and story in under a minute. Johnny Holiday’s jazzy, hard-swinging trumpet line sounds more like a noir detective show than a kids’ cartoon. When I was 4, I thought that song was da bomb (and I still think it’s a toe-tapper). The mix of parody and earnestness spoofs Batman before Adam West but still plays as straight action for kids. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-goat-movie-or-tv-credits/1022522/53 "2025-08-28T00:55:57Z")
The theme music to Dead Like Me seemed perfect for its sense of humor and dark subject matter. And I can’t believe (it or not) that I’m the first to mention the theme to Greatest American Hero. Truly an anthem for an unsuspecting yet good hearted guy gifted a super-suit. ---
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I think the intro to Beavis and Butt-Head is beautiful in its stupid simplicity. ---
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Pretty great I didn’t remember those… ---
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I don’t know if this counts since it was only used in one episode, but I really liked the montage at the beginning of The Bear episode “Review”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Dhn8gQsV2GE/hqdefault.jpg "THE BEAR S1E7 INTRO") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhn8gQsV2GE) ---
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> [@garygnu](#): > > The closing credits for _The Naked Gun_ are fun. All the bit part actors are credited with their spoken line of dialog. “It’s Enrico Palazzo!”: Joe Smith “Who are you guys?”: Susan Jones As I recall, the same thing was done in _Airplane_. One other thing about the ZAZ films was that they threw in irrelevant things in the midst of the end credits. You’d see things like: Second unit director: Bill Reynolds Second unit camera: Jerry Anderson Location scout: Christine Rogers Author of “A Tale of Two Cities”: Charles Dickens Second unit editing: Mike McCarthy ---
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I wished more movie credits provided the dialog lines for the bit actors, just to make it easier to identify them. Sometimes minor characters are identified only by the character’s name, which may not have been clear to the viewer. ---
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I also love the closing sequence of Grand Prix, with James Garner standing in the middle of the empty track, looking so lonely as he hears the roar of the cars in his imagination. It’s one of my favorite movie endings ever. ---
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