Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care cause I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me
I don’t think I’ve ever skipped it in my life.
Our local Browncoats chapter rents out a theater once a year to watch Serenity, and everyone singing along with the song is so glorious
This was going to be my answer. I’m so glad it’s the top comment.
For those curious it’s from firefly
Absolutely top-tier opening theme, certainly in contention for best. Definitely all-time best soundtrack, taken as a whole, no contest.
I was afraid I was gonna have to say Tank!, but ya beat me to it, ya beautiful bastard.
Worst is MASH, imho. The intro music is on par with a dose of phenobarbital.
Suicide is Painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it,
If I please!
I got the album with that single. It’s good.
God dammit.
The Cheers theme song encapsulates a whole region of my childhood brain. I still get chills of nostalgia whenever I hear it.
Also, the theme to Trailer Park Boys builds a particular ball of sadness and nostalgia in my stomach.
I’ve never seen (or at least paid any attention to) a single second of Cheers.
But then, I was young when Dad watched it. At the time, if it wasn’t a cartoon, I was completely uninterested by what passed as entertainment for adults.
But I definitely remember hearing the song and seeing the visuals of the old newspapers in that intro.
Yeah the visuals of seeing those turn of the 19th century bar-goers was what got me most. I was just old enough to want to be interested in what the grown ups were into. I think I thought Ted Danson was a “cool guy” and I had a crush on Kirstie Alley. Other than being given studio audience ques, I’m not sure I followed any of the plot. In the same vein, I watched Moonlighting because I thought it would make me clever. Looking back I was probably the kind of kid that I would have found annoying.
Doctor Who - lots of variants over the years but it’s other worldly and really fits the show.
Knight Rider was a theme I always loved
Seconding Firefly
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ theme was groundbreaking comedy on TV for the time because it took an internet trend and did the thing
Gilligan’s Island is cultural bedrock
So was Friends
Greatest American Hero, a song about a guy forced to have super powers that just wants to be boring. Best part of the show was the song.
The Muppet Show
Fresh Prince
Believe it or not, I’m walking on air – I never thought I could feel so free
Flying away on a wing and a prayer – Who could it be?
Believe it or not, it’s just meOn the most sensational inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational This is what we call the Muppet Show!
Game of Thrones, hands down. Different every time and focused on where most of the episode would take place.
If we can’t agree on that one, then it’s Airwolf.
Different every time and focused on where most of the episode would take place.
It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to work this out. I really appreciated it once I realised.
I had to read that fact online.
Had the Airwolf game on commodore 64, that tune was an absolute banger
take my love, take my land – Firefly
The X-Files is iconic
X-Men, Batman and Gargoyles all have fantastic openings.
I always loved the fact the Game of Thrones opening showed the specific places we would visit in each episode.
Babylon 5 has a different intro each season, and the season three opening in particular hits really hard the first time you get to it.
Brisco County Jr had a theme that was so inspiring, NBC bought the rights to use it for the Olympics.
🎶 It’s been a long road… 🎵
If we’re going with Star Trek, I have to say TNG season 3 is the one that gets me the most. That little flute soothes my soul. Although I do also have soft spot for the incredibly chill DS9 opening.
Every trek theme is great. My favorite is Voyager’s.
Not Enterprise
I though so too but then it grew on me.
Like a fungus.
Stockholm Syndrome
You have to say whether it’s for worst or best
It’s too controversial to state either way.
🎵 Gettin’ from here to there 🎶
Definitely the worst intro song.
Only surpassed as the worst theme song by the season 2 theme song which was then surpassed by the season 3 theme song. I couldn’t believe I’d actually miss that original version.
Are ya ready kids?!
aye-aye, Captain!
I don’t know about best, but I will always watch the intro for the first season of Peacemaker. It is so absolutely ridiculous. The second season opening is good, too, but not quite as classic.
The second season doesn’t have the same “new experience” feel, but I love it.
Peacemaker season 1 is my favorite intro of all time. Everyone should watch the first ten minutes of the first episode leading into the intro.
Twin Peaks must be the best one for me. I never got to see it when it was new (too young), but happened to hear the intro music and opening shots before my parents switched the channel. That minute stayed with me till I was in my late teens and bought the show on DVD.
The worst? Maybe Sex and the City, but that’s also because I find the main characters self-centred and morally repulsive, which the intro communicates quite efficiently.
Best: The Expanse Worst: Star Trek Enterprise
