Cowboy Bebop

Iirc the GoT intros gave you a hint about the episode by highlighting the map areas that the episode was going to cover. But S8 ended up being so bad that it went back in time and ruined the entire series for me, so I never rewatched it and might be misremembering.

Right now I never skip the intro for What We Do in the Shadows. It’s the same every time, but the song is just too much fun to skip. I am probably on my fourth watching of that series.

I think I also sit through most of the Star Trek intros just because I enjoy the visuals.

No one said Futurama yet?

• Succession (and it's not even close, this is clear cut #1 for the slap factor)
• Bluey
• Halt and Catch Fire
• True Detective S1
• The Righteous Gemstones (cheating since it's only 10 seconds)
• The Brady Bunch
• Dragonball Z (Toonami airing)
• Scooby Doo, Where Are You? S2
• White Lotus S1 (this is so close to Succession for me)
• Westworld S1
• Severance

For me, The Expanse

House

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Westworld

Take my love, take my land..

Peacemaker, I watched that intro every single time.

Sopranos.

No love for Stranger Things intro here 😟

Futurama

Mythbusters

King of the Hill

Metalocalypse

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Cowboy Bebop and Bluey.

Dexter was great, set a good vibe that matched the shows tone.

Game of thrones was just really well done with good music.

Buffy. Great high energy start, especially after the explanation intro. Goes straight to action

Lost, its short but it was atmospheric, cryptic and the reason it's short is they wanted to use the time for more story, as the ad levels had increased tv wide so on broadcast tv it was a nice non monetary move from that show specifically.

Firefly. Not enough episodes to get sick of it.

Friends, but only a few times no skip, if its binged.

Battlestar Galactica. Gives a few hints of what's to come in the episode, without being spoilers.

Bluey is fun, kids love it and dance to it.

Thundercats, duck tales, gummi bears, chip n dale. They make me nostalgic for childhood, when you couldn't skip.

Edit:typos

Gravity Falls

Gravity Falls.

Firefly, because the music was so good

Westworld .

And top gear (the proper Clarkson/Hammond/May one, not that other thing)

Dexter. Always makes me want to eat an eggs and ham breakfast.

House. The original intro with Tear Drop is a banger.

King of the Hill, Twin Peaks.

The Expanse

The Expanse, the music is awesome

Better Call Saul

Short, sweet, and generally relevant to the episode in an almost easter-eggish way.

Malcolm in the Middle. Haven’t seen it in years, but I never skipped the theme song.

Bluey!

The Wire

Gotta keep the devil in his hole

Animaniacs!

https://youtu.be/Zd2Prf-D-_8?si=xMX1u-ETzv31Sr_d

What they do in the shadows

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked…

• Twilight Zone (1959–1964)

• Firefly

• Venture Bros.

• Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Maria Holic / Maria Holic: Alive

The Simpsons

Band of Brothers

Trailer park boys. The only peaceful moment in any episode is the opening.

Doctor Who

Westworld, the Expanse

White Lotus

Parks & Recreation

Such a fun song, the montage is adorable, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome

Taskmaster has an absolute banger intro

Basically any HBO show, they are always pretty iconic. Special shoutout to The Wire

Hannibal the series had an amazing intro.

Dexter

Adventure Time, Come on grab your friends ...

I’ve got faith 🖖

Dark

It is mind bending and believe changes with each episode

Too many to list: Buffy, Brooklyn 99, Firefly, Stargate SG1...

Trailer Park boys!

The Office 🎹 🎶

Westworld

True Detective S1 & S4

Slow Horses

Westworld

Tuca and Bertie

Good Omens

The Love Boat

M.A.S.H

Community

Dexter

Ozark: for the cryptic panel of images foreshadowing the episode.

Rockford Files: for the answering machine recordings.

Evangelion, Zombie land saga, Samurai Jack

Bojack horseman

Gravity Falls, Bluey, Futurama, Bob's burgers, Cheers, Sealab 2021

Adventure Time, just good vibes

Babylon 5. I'm not totally sure, but I think it was the first time that the intro changed from one season to the next.

So I didn't end up watching the whole show, but Neil Patrick Harris completely kills it with his theme song for A Series of Unfortunate Events.

MST3K

Adventure Time

I don't skip intros. It sets the tone for what is about to come.

True Detective, it has amazing composite video effects

Succession

I watch almost all intros. The only exception would be if I'm watching multiple episodes back to back and I know there are no variations in the intro.

The intro usually sets the tone for the show, so I like to watch them.

Bojack Horseman

Mashle

Brooklyn 99

Peacemaker!

!bluey@lemmy.world

partly nostalgia but really, it's just great; the Simpsons intro. Also the original Roswell from 2000's had a great intro song, it's the only Dido song I like besides the Eminem sample.

This thread needs more Stargate, those intros are basically a montage of the most epic scenes from previous seasons

Knight Rider

MacGuyver

A-Team

"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit...”

i usually only watch the first episode intro, and then the finale intro, except for cases where the intro is a banger like:

bojack horseman

breaking bad

too old to die young

Halt And Catch Fire

Battlestar Galactica, Haven, Fringe, Orphan Black,

and there are a few more I don't skip more often than I do, like DS9, Stargate: Atlantis, Rome and the Tudors.

Some series just have really nice intros!

I loved the Raised By Wolves intro, the music was beautiful. The show was very love it or hate it and has sadly been cancelled :(

Also loved the creepy? music on the Severance intro.

I always wait for kirk to say "Space" before skipping the intro to Star Trek, always gets a chortle from my partner and I.

Narcos

Insert Kermit dance gif

Futurama

Doctor who (tenth seasons specifically)

Orange is the New Black I sang along every time.

Farscape - just love the music.
Babylon 5 season 3. Same reason. Why did they use this music only in the intro of season 3 is beyond me. (Although they used it in outro in season 4). The rest of the seasons they have very cheesy music in the intro.

Too Many Cooks.

Attack on Titan. Surprised it got no mention here.

Cowboy Bebop
Game of Thrones
Bobs Burgers
The Simpsons

I haven't seen anyone say The Boondocks yet. That show has a banger of an intro.

I don’t think I saw it, but Community and Arrested Development.

The Sopranos

What we do in the shadows.

Can't believe no one mentioned Mad Men yet!

True blood, ultimate vibe setter

I usually don't skip intros

I used to not skip POI(Person Of interest), every intro had characters from the episode.

Bluey Bob's Burgers Steven Universe The Owl House Big bang theory

Beastars for sure. The song itself is Wild Side by ALI.

Black Sails!

X Files

New intro to true detective. Its a refreshing change from all the GoT type intros that has become ubiquitous.

I'm going to cheat and say Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul.

All of them. I don't skip intros and I've never understood why anyone does.

For me its Amazons Wheel of Time series. Seeing the threads get woven into the images of the world and then all coming together to be spun by the great wheel gets me emotional. They could bomb the remaining seasons and I would still be grateful for the opening.

MacGyver

• Jeeves and Wooster.
• Narcos
• Westworld
• Good Omens
• Twin Peaks
• Flowers
• Sherlock
• Peaky Blinders (I'm sorry)
• Medici
• Vikings
• Disenchantment
• Kingdom (the stephen fry show)

I cannot believe there's so many. And I'm sure I've missed a few. Damn

Big mouth, has a great opening song "Changes" by Charles Bradley

Mob Psyco 100

Dark. Westworld.

The Wire

Most if not all shows. The intro was made by passionate musicians, animators, editors, and other creative people who work on my favorite shows. It's part of the presentation and the vibe of the program. It's like skipping the opening scene. But to answer your question more directly, I watch every single last second of any Trek intro.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)

Peacemaker

The Equalizer.

The OG one from way back when.

Star Trek Enterprise

lol jk

Moonlighting

Muppet Show

Hill Street Blues

First time around there was no option to skip them. Perhaps that's a contributing factor to why they're so good and re-watchable.

For me, Justified.

A lot of people dislike that song, but I love it. It's a nice 'new south' sound.

I didn't see anyone else mention this: Mob Psycho 100. Every one of those intros are bangers.

Braindead, a new song by Jonathan Coulton every week

All of them. Why would I skip an intro? Intros are cool, and, rarely, they might change, possibly for in-show reasons. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is famous for doing this, and even some American shows have taken after it in that regard.

The Wire. The opening themes are pretty great (with the exception of Season 5) and for some intangible reason the intro always feels like a core part of setting me up emotionally for the episode. Especially with Season 4. The ominous and dark rendition from the Baltimore school kids feels like an essential mood setting piece for a very sobering season.

Grimm. In the first few seasons they had very very short intros with little hints of what the story would be in it.

Franklin. Whenever I watch that guilty pleasure cartoon, I will absolutely refuse to skip the intro no matter how many episodes I'm watching.

Supernatural and Peacemaker

Not mentioned yet: Lie to Me intro. Love how they show little twitches and movements and close it with open emotions.

Prime's Jack Ryan. It's hypnotic. Somebody put in a lot of work.

• Sons of Anarchy
• Bosch/Bosch:Legacy
• Alias

The rest I was going to suggest have been mentioned already!

Inside Job. The original song the intro samples isn't that great. But the intro to the show has an amazing beat that I wish went on for longer then it does.

Oh, I never skip intros. I also don't usually watch multiple episodes in a row though, so maybe that's why.

I don't skip any of them. They're so short nowadays, anyway. If I'm impatient enough to skip the opening, then I'm probably not that into it and shouldn't be watching the show anyway.

Anyway, Law & Order, lol

Invasion

Thanks to those beautiful souls actually linking the intros in this thread so we can watch them lol

Adventure time, the song is a banger and the whole thing lasts like 15 seconds.

I really like the intros of Attack on Titan

I pretty much exclusively watch animes with killer intros, so I don't skip any of them

I ain't skipping Noir's, or Akudama Drive's, least of all Land of the Lustrous

Gate sucks but everything by Kishida Kyoudan and the Akeboshi Rockets fuckin slaps

Haibane Renmei's intro feels good to listen to, it's like a warm blanket for the soul

Top gear

Jujutsu Kaisen

Avatars intro slaps. I'll never skip it.

The Peripheral. The graphics are cool and I really dig the main theme music for it’s menace.

Narcos, that music is my jam!

I listened to the Inside Job theme for all 6 minutes 54 seconds it would play (22 seconds per episodes). It never overstayed its welcome

I skip all the intros after watching them once. Knocking 2min off an episode really adds up.

Pokemon. And I will sing the whole thing shamelessly.

Death note https://youtu.be/mX9BwDfXzNg

The intro from the 80's Saturday morning cartoon M.A.S.K. That song was epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNbp0u8WjA

You're welcome.

Veronica Mars We used to be friends.

The Legend of Vox Machina

Human Target until they messed up the intro (and everything else) with the disastrous season 2.

The music and art were top-tier and set me up for adventure.

For those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xFMyhBYx8.

30 Rock!

WUN PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Star Trek

American Horror Story

Although I don't usually skip intros unless I'm in a serious binge mood or short on time.

Deep Space 9 from season 4 onwards. I found it pretty boring and lifeless in the earlier seasons. The ships at and around the station made it a lot more interesting, and i like the updated music

Most of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba intros.

I wasn't the hugest fan of the overall show--it was fine--but I enjoyed how they mixed up the intro song for The Leftovers. I oftened listened through the credits as a result.

For Kimmy Schmidt, you definitely need to skip the intro on the finale movie.

Farscape. The music is unlike anything I've heard before. I bought the soundtrack based on that one piece of music, but everything else on it is disappointingly normal.

The expanse. The music paired either the visuals is :chefkiss:

It's an anime, and nearly cheating but for me it was Mushoku Tensei Season 1

There was an intro song, but while it was playing there would be B Rolls of whatever part of the setting was pertinent for the episode.

It was awesome, but then they did a normal intro for Season 2, which struck me as a bad decision.

Tokyo Vice has a pretty cool opening with moving Yakuza tattoos.

John from Cincinnati grew on me and then I had to watch it. That song feels so much like 2pm on a Saturday in a beach town in Southern California

I loved The Good Fight opening sequence as it's pretty cool and they were changing and updating it often - https://youtu.be/5xWE5R6qEQQ

True Blood had a great opening

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

edit: wrong link

most of the demon slayer ones, Kizuna no Kiseki is by far my favourite opening song at the moment.

Daredevil (the design and music is sick) and The Morning Show (the animation is very captivating to me)

Lately OMitB, before I'd say TBBT, from the old times you won't skip on the A-Team opening theme or the Italian version of Hazzard

Many of my favorites are listed here but one I didn't see is Money Heist.

South land

The Jeffersons. Sandford and Son.