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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Apr 12, 2016 14:41:39 GMT -5
Not the best.
Not the worst.
The most.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Apr 12, 2016 15:28:55 GMT -5
[jokingly inserts Too Many Cooks]
This makes me think of the Baron Vaughn joke about Disney cartoon themes from the 90's. The singers are giving it their most...
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Post by moimoi on Apr 12, 2016 19:22:58 GMT -5
[jokingly inserts Too Many Cooks]
This makes me think of the Baron Vaughn joke about Disney cartoon themes from the 90's. The singers are giving it their most...
I love this bit and I recall thinking the same thing when I was a kid! |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Apr 12, 2016 23:38:26 GMT -5
The short-lived 80s sitcom Open All Night felt the need to use its theme song to give us the complete biography of the lead character, who ran an 24-hour convenience store.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Apr 13, 2016 16:34:16 GMT -5
The short-lived 80s sitcom Open All Night felt the need to use its theme song to give us the complete biography of the lead character, who ran an 24-hour convenience store. Dear god that seems to go on 4x longer than its actual running time. |
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 13, 2016 17:15:53 GMT -5
ding dong doodily doodily doo
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Post by moimoi on Apr 13, 2016 17:32:26 GMT -5
I'm surprised no one has posted it yet, but the Perfect Strangers theme is EPIC: from the crackerjack production values (synths, guitars, background singers), to the cinematic sweep of Balki's journey to America, to the soaring chorus of "staaanding taaall on the wings of my dreams..." I also love the idea that sharing an apartment in Chicago is such an auspicious chapter in the life journeys of these two men.
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Post by nowimnothing on Apr 13, 2016 17:47:52 GMT -5
ding dong doodily doodily doo There was a lot of hate on Dethklok in the comments for that old country article today, I just don't get it. The show just makes me smile so much. |
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Post by moimoi on Apr 13, 2016 18:06:38 GMT -5
May I nominate this one for the most "pyew-pyew" noises and fire monsters?
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 13, 2016 18:40:44 GMT -5
How about the mostyest intro that ever mosted?
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Post by Post-Lupin on Apr 14, 2016 7:49:45 GMT -5
This classic occurred to me yesterday, because reasons; Here's The Daddy... And a little shocked Douay-Rheims-Challoner hasn't put this here already... |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Apr 14, 2016 9:10:09 GMT -5
I'll submit the most-est of my early childhood... a show that was basically ALL intro/outro.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Apr 14, 2016 9:20:35 GMT -5
Post-Lupin Well that - and the Prisoner, for that matter - would have been in my 'best' column. Anyway: moimoi Greatest Spider-Man, it is known.
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Post by MarkInTexas on Apr 14, 2016 10:54:21 GMT -5
I'm surprised no one has posted it yet, but the Perfect Strangers theme is EPIC: from the crackerjack production values (synths, guitars, background singers), to the cinematic sweep of Balki's journey to America, to the soaring chorus of " staaanding taaall on the wings of my dreams..." I also love the idea that sharing an apartment in Chicago is such an auspicious chapter in the life journeys of these two men. Miller-Boyett Productions churned out a seemingly endless run of sitcoms that were, at best, mediocre, but one thing they never scrimped on were the credit sequences, almost all of which were filled with specially shot outdoor footage, usually on location where the show was set, often accompanied by a relentlessly memorable theme song. Think the Tanners cruising across the Golden Gate Bridge to the strains of "Everywhere You Look", or Laverne waving goodbye to her glove at an actual bottling facility set to "Making Our Dreams Come True". Here's another opening from their production factory, the relentlessly 70-ish credits sequence to the short-lived "Out of the Blue", a sitcom about an angel who comes to earth to be a foster father to a bunch of kids. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Apr 14, 2016 12:13:02 GMT -5
Here's a fave in the Explain Entire Series In Credits category: sometimes they'd vary the vocal so Veil would sound more desperate.
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Post by Smacks on Apr 14, 2016 12:48:02 GMT -5
The short-lived 80s sitcom Open All Night felt the need to use its theme song to give us the complete biography of the lead character, who ran an 24-hour convenience store. Dear god that seems to go on 4x longer than its actual running time. I didn't make it all the way through despite my valiant effort. |
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Post by Smacks on Apr 14, 2016 12:48:31 GMT -5
I'm surprised no one has posted it yet, but the Perfect Strangers theme is EPIC: from the crackerjack production values (synths, guitars, background singers), to the cinematic sweep of Balki's journey to America, to the soaring chorus of " staaanding taaall on the wings of my dreams..." I also love the idea that sharing an apartment in Chicago is such an auspicious chapter in the life journeys of these two men. All this AND pleated trousers. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Apr 14, 2016 15:06:53 GMT -5
Just something about live action sitcom that says 'animated intro!'
(The last is the never-aired opening sequence of one of the most notorious cancelled-right-after-airing-the-first-episode TV shows of all time.)
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Post by moimoi on Apr 14, 2016 16:54:29 GMT -5
How about the mostyest intro that ever mosted? Thanks for posting this! It really is a joy to watch - just as good as anything on MTV at the time. I agree, it is the mostiest that ever mosted. |
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 14, 2016 18:12:12 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this! It really is a joy to watch - just as good as anything on MTV at the time. I agree, it is the mostiest that ever mosted. Ha! I just watched it again. I lived in Seattle one summer long ago with a girlfriend, and for a couple of months we house-sat for one of her professors. He had a lot of interesting AV equipment including a laser disc player - pretty exciting, right? We went to the coolest video store we could find, and of all the amazing movies and shows available there we ended up renting Peewee's Playhouse on laser disc. We watched it over and over. So awesome. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 15, 2016 0:08:00 GMT -5
I'm surprised no one has posted it yet, but the Perfect Strangers theme is EPIC: from the crackerjack production values (synths, guitars, background singers), to the cinematic sweep of Balki's journey to America, to the soaring chorus of " staaanding taaall on the wings of my dreams..." I also love the idea that sharing an apartment in Chicago is such an auspicious chapter in the life journeys of these two men. We can’t show this without the same theme being applied to humanity’s journey into space, subtituted for the Star Trek: Enterprise theme: And on the topic of Trek here’s how the opening titles for The Next Generation were originally going to sound. They were certain the most…something. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Apr 15, 2016 11:34:37 GMT -5
(My conclusion from this research is Shout! Factory is the greatest company to exist.)
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 16, 2016 23:08:41 GMT -5
I'm surprised no one has posted it yet, but the Perfect Strangers theme is EPIC: We can’t show this without the same theme being applied to humanity’s journey into space, subtituted for the Star Trek: Enterprise theme: The Enterprise opening overlaid by the "Perfect Strangers" theme is beautiful. Surely one of the greatest things ever produced by the internet. The first time I saw it I nearly cried laughing. It is so perfect. I think I have finally managed to forget what the actual Enterprise theme sounds like. Thankfully. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Apr 17, 2016 2:37:37 GMT -5
This is the intro for Booker, Richard Grieco's 21 Jump Street spinoff that was cancelled after half a season and replaced by The Simpsons. It manages to be completely of its time while simultaneously being nothing like, and having far better production value than, almost any of its contemporaries.
And if you like early 90s tonal whiplash, there's a show for you with an intro to boot:
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Post by moimoi on Apr 17, 2016 10:38:54 GMT -5
This is the intro for Booker, Richard Grieco's 21 Jump Street spinoff that was cancelled after half a season and replaced by The Simpsons. It manages to be completely of its time while simultaneously being nothing like, and having far better production value than, almost any of its contemporaries Ah, that Booker intro was the best! If only the show lived up to it (though I wouldn't want to live in a world with no Simpsons in exchange for Richard Grieco, action star). |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Apr 21, 2016 10:12:11 GMT -5
There may be no TV intro more most than that. Moving on, ROGER C. CARMEL
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Post by Baron von Costume on Apr 21, 2016 10:41:39 GMT -5
Here's an entry for Mostest Canadianest!
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Apr 21, 2016 11:17:42 GMT -5
This may not be AS Canadian as Beachcombers, but god damn it, this one's got London aka The Littlest Hobo
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Apr 21, 2016 11:44:46 GMT -5
Right up there with "The Prisoner" is another fine British show with a wonderful opening sequence, that inexplicably graced the American airwaves in the mid 60's
Mrs. Peel, young Floyd says thanks.
The opening credits for M*A*S*H first episode were amazing. I found this, but the opening I remember was longer. (I had the audio recorded on a cassette). I remember it began with "My Blue Heaven" in Korean, and some dialog, and Radar suddenly yells "Choppers. Incoming!", another soldier says "I don't hear anything" and Radar yells "Wait for it!", and "Suicide is Painless begins to play. I loved those first few seasons of M*A*S*H, and become saddened when I think of the mess it devolved into at the end, when all the characters became beings of pure light instead of complex, conflicted human beings.
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Post by moimoi on Apr 21, 2016 11:52:19 GMT -5
He may not be the most, but he's everything else, from another delightfully repetitive show:
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