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A live-action movie or TV show that has an opening credits sequence that is cartoon animated with all sorts of wacky hi-jinks. The opening may foreshadow the plot, set up the backstory, or just be emblematic of the story's theme.
Very popular in the films of the 1980s.
Film
- Mannequin
- Ruthless People
- Nanny Mc Phee
- The Pink Panther (the titles of which spawned its own show)
- One Crazy Summer is a semi-example (not strictly credits, and justified by the main character being a cartoonist)
- Juno (although it was more rotoscoped than actually animated).
- Catch Me If You Can
- Auto Focus
- It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- ''Monsters, Inc. is a semi-example, since the movie itself was animated, though the opening credits were in 2-d instead of cgi.
- Bewitched
- I Dream Of Jeannie
- Last Call with Carson Daily
- The Private Eyes (early 80s comedy starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway)
- The Nanny
- Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
- The Partridge Family
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- 70s Brit Com On The Buses.
- Late 60s/early 70s kid's fantasy series Catweazle.
- 70s Euro wacky athletics show Jeux Sans Frontieres (aka It's A Knockout)
