My favorite intros are Bebop, Bojack, and Malcolm in the Middle, probably in that order

Shout-out to Kimmy schmidt

If I'm nostalgic, Cheers and the wonder years. Maybe fresh price.

The winner is original Addams Family

Best: Game Of Thrones. Mad Men. Season 1 Westworld.

The Expanse is one I never skipped once on watch or rewatch (I was even annoyed that it wasn't regular until season 2).

For me, it's gotta be Peacemaker, decent song, totally out of place dancing, love it.

Cowboy Bebop.

https://youtu.be/EL-D9LrFJd4

Peter Gunn [the original and still kicking]

https://youtu.be/oysMt8iL9UE

Star Trek: Enterprise

A more serious list:

• House MD
• Dexter
• Daredevil

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Was always a fan of the Airwolf theme song

Brooklyn 99

Not the best per se but I really liked Severance

Firefly

Tru Blood

X-Files song is a banger. Sequence goes to Westworld.

I think Munsters is a close 2nd for song.

Season 1 of The Wire.

It built an atmosphere of shady incompetence in the police and gang members alike.

It was interesting how it was redone for each season.

It was the same song but different angles like each season took a different look at what makes crime move through all the parts of society.

Best X-Men animated series, worst Night court

The season two intro for House of the Dragon is a whole other level of awesome (S1's intro was all sorts of "meh").

It's basically a recap of events in the form of a tapestry being woven in real time.

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

The Gravity Falls and Inside Job themes go hard

Community, original Magnum PI, Buck Roger’s, original Battlestar Galactica. All had great songs that just didn’t get old.

The intro for Scavengers Reign is the absolutely perfect complement to the show. Ethereal, melancholic, and tense, just like the atmosphere of the story. Also it's super short. Watched it every episode

Itay not be the opening song or sequence, but the opening scene in the umbrella academy were always amazing when they did a song/dance number. Their soundtrack spanning the whole series were full of bangers... But the best has to be season three episode one, the dance off with the sparrow academy.

Slow Horses intro is called Strange Game
Written and performed by Mick Jagger
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tegw25qqbAs

I’m a huge fan of shows that just have a title splash screen and play the intro credits unobtrusively over the first 1/3 of the show.

I always skip intros, if I can, mostly because I binge stuff and those intros can be minutes long, serving absolutely no purpose. I especially hate when they are 10+ minutes into the episode, and I have to wake my keyboard up to skip them.

There's nothing quite like hearing a song from the opening of a telly show and thinking "that's bloody great", only to discover that the opening credits use the best bits of the track and the rest of it is rubbish!

I've discovered some pretty great tunes though

Charles Bradley's cover of Ozzy's "Changes" is amazing, from the opening of "Big Mouth"

The best intro was for Rocko’s Modern Life before they fucked it up with the B52s version.

Definitely Stargate SG-1 for music. Game of Thrones for the sequence (music too though).

The first thing that always pops into my head upon seeing this question is Hawaii 5-0... I never even watched that show, but it's got a kick-ass theme song. 😅

Psyche is my favorite

Worst? Star Trek Enterprise comes to mind

Best? I always loved the rebooted battlestar galactica intro

30 Rock, hands down. That jazzy into is just ti die for!

I’ve always thought that a bad intro song tanks a show (back when you couldn’t skip them). Conversely, a good one makes people stick around and give the show a chance, so it’s more likely to succeed.

Re: the OP question: Magnum PI (OG) SNL intro music 30ROCK Friends (ugh, I know, it was catchy…) Venture Bros. Archer Futurama …and more!

Clone High and Sealab 2021 are both so good. 20 years later and they're still stuck in my head.

Best: Money Heist and more recently Arcane League of Legends

Dark has an amazing intro. So damn good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c399HPb01s

Jeeves and Wooster is top notch

Dexter

I like the intros in True Detective (S1), and X-Files. Animated: X-Men TAS, Gravity Falls, BoJack Horseman.

From the top of my head, I didn't enjoy much the Six Feet Under and the Spinning Out intros because they were too long.

Babylon 5 has the best intros to a show. It changed each season.

Favorites:

• Veronica Mars (just the perfect match for the show's vibe and a damn catchy song)
• Fringe (loved how they used it later in the series to match the universe/time period the episode was set in)
• True Blood (a classic, wish the show matched its atmosphere beyond season 1)
• Jessica Jones (so underrated)
• Severance (extremely creative and memorable)
• Stranger things (hate the show, but the intro is undeniably brilliant in its simplicity)

Honorable mentions:

• Yellowjackets (fun!)
• Dexter (love the concept, hate the song)
• The 100 (after a basic title card in season 1 they actually added an intro for the rest of the show, with the content changing to match the theme and setting of each season)

I can't really think if any "worst" ones although in general I don't like when shows only do static or just very low-effort title cards. Some examples that come to mind are Breaking Bad and The Boys.

MacGyver? https://youtu.be/UKTNWI0eYJ4

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2G8ySKNgA&ab_channel=BrandonK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMC1u4JeedU&ab_channel=Backto2000s

The ones that are fast-forward proof to me are Star Trek TNG & the last of us.

Just the best for me

The Wire
The Unit
Futurama
Johny Quest