My wife and I have been watching a rotating selection of TV shows lately. We get the shows from Netflix, and watch them in order. I can\u2019t help but notice that, sometimes, when we start an episode, we let the disk play right on through the opening credits. Conversely, with other shows, we habitually skip past the credits. Clearly, in the world of opening credits, not all television series are created equal.<\/p>\n
Good opening credits (in order of when I thought of them):<\/p>\n
Freaks and Geeks We\u2019re not watching all these shows, of course, these are just good openings regardless of whether I\u2019ve seen an episode lately. In fact, some of these shows aren\u2019t particularly that great \u2013 the opening song is the best part of the show. Either way, I list them here because they either have a great song, clever footage, a unique or stylized intro, or it\u2019s just nice and short. Or some combination of all that.<\/p>\n Bad Opening Credits:<\/p>\n Quantum Leap<\/strong> Battlestar Gallactica<\/strong> M*A*S*H<\/strong> Futurama<\/strong> How about you \u2013 any TV show openings you particularly like or dislike?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife and I have been watching a rotating selection of TV shows lately. We get the shows from Netflix, and watch them in order. I can\u2019t help but notice that, sometimes, when we start an episode, we let the disk play right on through the opening credits. Conversely, with other shows, we habitually skip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-film-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Northern Exposure
The Addams Family
Star Trek<\/strong> (Both the original and the Next Generation)
Gilligan\u2019s Island
Mission: Impossible
The Flintstones
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Jeffersons,
Wonderfalls
The Simpsons
The Office
The Muppet Show
All in the Family
The Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n
So, first there\u2019s an opening scene that explains the premise. This, I have no problem with. But then, there\u2019s a really long, really dated song and, just when you think it\u2019s all over, you realize they haven\u2019t even flashed the actors names on the screen yet, and a whole other verse begins.<\/p>\n
This one is a lot like Quantum Leap, what with it\u2019s \u201chere\u2019s the whole premise\u201d thing. After the teaser, though, the credits finally come on and then \u2013 after the credit are over! \u2013 we are treated to a bizarre montage of scene that we will see in the upcoming episode. Talk about spoilers.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing wrong with the music\u2026if this was a drama. My sister used to watch this show all the time, and after sitting with her through the opening credits, I\u2019d get up and leave because I was so depressed. Some people claim this is a comedy, but I\u2019ll never know because I can\u2019t get past the first thirty seconds.<\/p>\n
Just a big, bloated, confusing mess. It nearly induces a seizure.<\/p>\n