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Some great responses so far.
I'm going to go with The Day Today. It perfectly captures the tone of early nineties news and current affairs shows, and it's unnecessary grandiose, bombastic, urgent and it just keeps on going for far too long. It couldn't be more well-suited to the show.
Tokyo Ghoul, but I feel like anime is cheating here.
The song — unravel — is about going mad, which what the show is about.
The Sopranos
Hill Street Blues
Dawsons Creek
White Lotus, any and all the seasons
Not a single vote for Cheers?
Madness.
🎶Sometimes you wanna go, where everybody knows your naaaame.🎶
Original Knightrider, andere Vikings
Well this is my jam.
Gilligans island The fall guy Greatest american hero Original mission impossible Gi joe
If i think of more i wilp edit.
First season of True Detective was superb: Far From Any Road by The Handsome Family
The Leftovers (my absolute favorite show of all time and severely underrated imo) altered its opening theme a few times, but the standard season 2 version was my favorite: Let the Mystery Be by Iris DeMent
Umm the duck tales theme song reigns supreme
Gummi Bears must be up there too.
Bojack Horseman comes to mind. It has some similarity to one of my other favorites, Mad Men
Here's the full length version of Bojack's Theme that you didn't know you wanted:
The whole soundtrack is up on Qobuz, Spotify, Deezer, etc.
Shouts to Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days
Surprised nobody's mentioned Firefly yet. It's really good.
Also Pokemon , duh!
Dexter's is also really good. The video too, not just the song. Fitting and eerie and also makes me hungry every time.
True blood also fun and catchy
Also really enjoy Halt and catch fire for that 80s synth vibe.
Also, peaky blinders! Nick cave's voice is just...yeah xD
Stranger things? Cheers? Friends? Community? Lots of pretty good ones out there. Hard to choose, really.
Dexter's intro is one of those that I never skipped. Oddly mesmerizing. I can perfectly visualize it in my mind even now.
Same same! So good!
Think for me it's probably the expanse for how well suited the opening and theme is to expressing the vibe of the show.
Other shows I'd rate the theme music/opening vibe favourably include:
The 4400 (2004 version)
Battlestar Galactica
Community
Foundation
Flight of the Conchords
Halt and catch fire
Mandalorian
Silo
Westworld
Let Me tell you, unfortunately you are all wrong on this one.
Luckily I am here to guide you towards the truth: Mystic Knights Of Tir Na Nog
The version for German TV got an alternative intro. It's the best.
I've always loved the X-Files intro, it fits so well and has stuck with me ever since I first watched it.
Gummi bears, ducktales, airwolf
Inspector gadget had a pretty great one for a cartoon. Also an honorable mention for giligans Island.
I can't really put them in any order but the Transformers theme from Lion slaps hard like an oil tanker.
British edition:
The Prisoner
Doctor Who
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Benny Hill