History Main / EpisodeTitleCard

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has a character (usually Ash) reading the episode's title.

** In ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'', Cure Flora's wand blooms from a flower, and she picks it up, making petals fly over the screen. When the petals disappear, the titular is displayed over a stained-glass background.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' has a character (usually Ash) reading the episode's title.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has a character reading the episode's title.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' has a character reading the episode's title.

** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', a book will flip to show an animation of Nagisa/Natalie and Honoka/Hannah running Nagisa will trip, and the frame freezes to show the title.

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': After not giving an official title for two seasons and five episodes, the show starts displaying a title card from "Mr. Baga Ga's Service" (season 3, episode 6) and onwards.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Some other franchises give separate intertitles for each of various characters:
** WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts and WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks (the latter has a separate one for episodes where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are featured together)
** Classic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons
** WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures (principal cast)
** The end of [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Slappy Squirrel's]] theme song
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' had stylized title cards against a teal-tinted animated image of Jimmy's trademark atom symbol.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has [[http://imgur.com/a/pjowL#0 gorgeous title cards]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AlmostNakedAnimals'' pairs this with ArtShift, using a highly-detailed art style to depict a random moment from the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has been known for creative title cards featuring not only the titles of the stories but also the writer and storyboard artist, as well as a clever bit of animation. These have included D.W. interrupting Arthur in his bath and Arthur's dog, Pal, finding the title card circle empty and howling. Starting in the HD seasons (14 or 16 depending on where you live), there's now a short clip from the episode that plays inside the center circle. The episode titles are narrated by one of the characters, usually Francine or Binky.
* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' features the titular 3. Ruby Spears seasons features the 3 looking up at it and the Doc version has Alvin standing on Simon who is standing on Theodore holding the paper with the title written on it on a chalkboard.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', and its SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', uses a title card consisting of a white background with text reading the season number and name, followed by the episode number and name (e.g. Book One: Water ([[GratuitousForeignLanguage 水]]), Chapter 12: The Storm).
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had [[http://anbat.toonzone.net/galleries/index0.html gorgeously painted]] ones for the first 85 episodes, often paired with the episode's villain's {{Leitmotif}} - though a few fan favorites like "The Laughing Fish" had to make do with just the text being laid over an EstablishingShot. Sadly, after the ReTool into ''The New Batman Adventures'' the latter became the norm.
* ''[[{{Retool}} The New Batman Adventures]]'' and other ''[[Franchise/{{DCAU}} DC Animated Universe]]'' shows displayed a brief plain-text overlay of the title just after the opening credits.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoons used three sets of opening title cards. The cartoons made in London had each of the letters in "Beatles" expand and retract with the opening seven notes of the King Features Television signature theme (not always in order) then do it with the notes in the rest of the title card music with the last seven notes following the letters in order and the episode title fading in. The Australian cartoons followed the first seven notes, then the expanding letters only in single tempo to the music. The Canadian cartoons had the second half of the music abbreviated, thus rendering the expanding letters out of sync.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has a unique example, having the title card appear in-scene somewhere on the scenery.
* ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' didn't have title cards in the first four seasons. By the time Joe became the host, title cards appeared at the end of the theme song on a pennant held by Mr. Salt.
** Its reboot, ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', does feature title cards, which are superimposed over the lower third of the screen when Josh first opens the door after the opening theme.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' uses a simple blue card with the title of the episode and an object relevant to the episode. A character (usually Bluey or Bingo) says offscreen "This episode of Bluey is called “__”. The one exception is "Rain" which has no voiceover due to the episode being mostly silent.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' is notably one of the only Nicktoons that changed the format of its' title cards in the middle of the series. During the original ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, the first two seasons and the first five episodes of season three, the title cards were (fittingly) the episode title written on a chalkboard, with a drawing next to the title that had to do with the episode (during the first season and the original shorts, the drawing may or may not disappear when the credits appear on the card). Starting with "Let's Twister Again", the title cards were done in the typical format for animated shows (a picture relating to the plot of the episode), similarly to fellow ''Oh Yeah!'' spin-off ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has its title cards being typed on a black screen, simulating a computer. It first shows a screen with the "Now Loading Kids Next Door Mission- Operation:(Insert Episode's [[FunWithAcronyms Acronym]])being typed, then it shows a second screen expanding the episode's acronym, and a final screen crediting the writers and storyboard artists for the episode (beign referred to as "Writing Operatives" and "Storyboard Operatives", repsectively).
* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' has this (paired with EpisodeFinishesTheTitle) after TheTeaser, ''instead'' of a TitleSequence.
** ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'' does the same thing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheKoalaBrothers'' uses a type of title card that shows a picture of the friend Frank and Buster are helping for the episode, with the episode title displayed along the top.
* While ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' doesn't have title cards, the episode titles themselves show up in the end credits.
** Its spinoffs ''WesternAnimation/GoDiegoGo'' and ''WesternAnimation/DoraAndFriendsIntoTheCity'' do the same thing.
** As does ''WesternAnimation/HeroElementary''.
* Creator/{{Filmation}} had a number of series with title cards, including ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'', ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Blackstar}}''. These title cards were invariably accompanied by a particular musical snippet plucked from the in-series soundtrack.
** Similarly, Creator/RubySpears used title cards in practically all of its series.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' used extremely... ''distinctive'' title cards, drawn in a very Creator/SalvadorDali-esque style where everything seemed to be rubbery and/or melting. Essentially, squash-and-stretch frozen into still-life.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' uses title cards for the "Road to..." episodes. The episode titles are shown over an illustration related to the location, while the title credits are shown over illustrations of Brian and Stewie getting into hijinks. The Viewer Mail episodes also used title cards for [[ThreeShorts each segment]].
* Creator/HannaBarbera didn't use title cards for ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' when they aired in primetime, but when new episodes of ''The Jetsons'' were made for syndication in TheEighties, cards were added to the original episodes as part of the syndication package. ''The Flintstones'' remains card-free, even after decades of syndicated repeats, although the subsequent Saturday morning and syndicated spin-offs have had title cards.
** Most, if not all, Hanna-Barbera series since the early 1950s especially the Funny Animal and Superhero ones.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', of note, featured the gang running in place beneath the episode title (except for the first two episodes, which had custom title cards).
** Its knockoffs also have title cards as well.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' had episode titles but they were never shown on a title card in the original hour-slot versions. The title cards had Shaggy and Scooby shining a flashlight on a cartoon image of the episode's guest star.
*** When the show was split into two-parters in syndication, however, the individual episode titles ''were'' finally shown at the end of the first half of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/FudencioESeusAmigos'' had two types of title cards.
** In Season 1-3, they were paper backgrounds that featured childish drawings of Fudêncio and Conrado (mostly based on the title than the plot itself), with the titles being on several fonts, usually in blue or, rarely, red. After that, the page would flip and the credits would be shown, with several "X"'s appearing in front of each name, and then, the word "ZERO" would be written. Meanwhile, there was also a CouchGag; after the narrator said the title, he would say "Brazilian version: X" and "Distribution: Y", due to those phrases showing up in actual dubbings to credit the dub studio and distributor.
** From season 4 onwards, the titles were presented on a chalkboard instead. After the title narration, a paper would be pulled from above and the credits were presented like a slideshow. In the end, Fudêncio's silhouette showed up with the creators' name written on it. They also had minor differences in each season; in season 4, there was a big title, in several different fonts, with no drawing. In season 5, there were drawings, with several fonts, just like seasons 1-3. In Season 6, there were no drawings and all titles were in the same generic chalkboard font (which had already shown up in the show itself as early as season 3).
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' use title cards that depict illustrations related to the upcoming episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' uses different colored title cards which depict Molly and Scratch in an {{Animesque}} Chibi form along with some sort of trinket relating to the theme of the episode, with their clothes and poses changing to fit the theme.
* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' features Season 1 title cards with two colored silhouettes (one is dark pink that represents Ami, the other one is blue that represents Yumi).
** Starting from Seasons 2 and 3, the episode's title would appear on a board that is shown in a live-action segment.
* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' featured title cards where an animated Weasel read the title and commented on the forthcoming plot. Starting with the second season, the series used still cards in the vein of its sister show ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''.
* ''WesternAnimation/IHeartArlo'' featured title cards engraved into the staircase at Bertie's door, with Arlo and the gang adding their handprints around it along with an artifact relating to the theme of the episode.
* While the original ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' series lacked title cards, the [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015 2015 reboot series]] makes use of them, complete with a little animation.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheJellies'' is a rare example of an adult cartoon with title cards at the beginning of each episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' has an unusual one where Krypto announces not only the title of each episode, but also the writing and directing credits that follow with their own title card!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' has a rather unusual one where Mufasa says the show's name and Kion says the episode's name as it appears under the logo at the end of the theme song. In the third and final season, [[TitlePlease they are omitted but are still heard and Mufasa reads them instead of Kion.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' uses these for its ''Merrie Melodies'' and ''Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote'' segments, but the show's full episodes avert this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' uses title cards in the style of a comic book, with Lincoln always appearing somewhere in the top panel where the title is displayed, either in full or as the distinctive silhouette of his head (even in episodes where he is not the focus or is absent). The rest of the credits are shown in the lower three panels as speech and thought balloons. Beginning in Season 5, the background of the lower 3 panels change to reflect the plot of the episode.
** Its spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'', does the same, instead using papel picado sheets in place of the comic panels, and with the addition of Aztec patterns in the upper corners. Like Lincoln, one of the Casagrandes, usually Ronnie Anne or Bobby, always appears somewhere in the top picture.
* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'' has minimalistic, beautifully-drawn title cards read aloud by Molly.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' uses title cards over a solid background and the Muppet who's the main focus appearing and saying its name. Starting in Season 2, these were dropped completely.
* While the popular Hub series ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' don't have title cards in their main shows, the Littlest Pet Shop shorts and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'' theatrical shorts on one of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-r13SLLdZtZNmuC2bMnlmw Hasbro Studios' YouTube channels]] do use them.
** The series themselves use a variation, placing the title as part of the on-screen credits after the theme song, usually stating the writer underneath.
* All Creator/{{Nicktoons}} use this: ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'', ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'', etc.
** In fact, ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam!'' has its title cards shown at the END of an episode (minus episode 8 and 29).
** Special mention goes to ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', perhaps the only Western cartoon that could match ''Batman: The Animated Series'' in sheer extravagance; true to Creator/ButchHartman's geek roots, every episode has a title card drawn like a gorgeously detailed comic-book SplashPage, usually accompanied by a cheesy BMovie TagLine ("Technology and Terror Collide!"). Hartman also used elaborate title cards for his other shows, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' and ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'', but neither are as extravagant.
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' used ones with the title on a spotted background. Most episodes alternated between blue and red spotted backgrounds, as well as lighter varients that included white spots as well. The ChristmasEpisode had an animated title card which was white with black spots.
* Title cards for ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'' and ''WesternAnimation/OctonautsAboveAndBeyond'' have Barnacles reading the episode title over a little doodle of an event related to the episode (done in the style of the original books).
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': Stylized text with the title of the episode shows up within the first few seconds. "X Marks the Pot" and "Patrick's Alley" are exceptions, having full-screen title cards in the style of
''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''.
* ''WesternAnimation/RosiesRules'': Every episode has a title card accompanied by a small piece of animation, along with Rosie saying its name.
* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'': A coloured background with the title and writing credit in the middle, and images relating to the episode on the sides. Originally, it would just be the pup pertaining to the mission, but later seasons added other characters and objects.
* ''Pink Panther and Sons'' features the titular cast together.
* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** The [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 original series]] has a half-second image of the girls' color-coded silhouettes zipping by, followed by the episode's title and the writer and director credits.
** The [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016 2016 reboot]] has the episode's title with a graphic denoting an element present in the story, followed by writer and director credits. The color of the background also reflects who is the primary focus of the episode: if the background is pink, it's Blossom who's the focus; blue indicates Bubbles, and green for Buttercup. Backgrounds that are tricolor focus on all three girls together. Purple backgrounds indicate [[VillainEpisode an episode focusing on Mojo Jojo.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SantiagoOfTheSeas'' uses title cards done in treasure map illustrations with Kiko acting out the theme of the episode, as Santiago reads the title in English and Spanish.
* Each episode of ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest'' starts with the title read on a wooden sign in a desert landscape and strangely, it was sung by [[GreekChorus the prairie dogs.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did this only nine times; the most notable of these instances was [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E10BartGetsHitByACar "Bart Gets Hit By A Car"]], and a second after the title dissolved, Bart got... hit by a car. (The writers also claimed that they included it in the hope viewers would wonder if they had ''always'' had onscreen titles and they just hadn't noticed them before.) Others are "The Telltale Head", "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (celebrating six years), "22 Short Films About Springfield", "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", "Behind the Laughter", "The Book Job", "Homerland", and "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas."
** The ''Treehouse of Horror'' specials as well. Each special's constituent shorts (barring the second, due to the framing device of the stories being the Simpsons' nightmares) also have its own title card as well.
*** TheMovie also does this.
* Smurfs varies with 2 different smurfs with a yellow background. Jokey and Brainy usually.
* Snorks has Allstar, Casey, and Occy.
* Franchise/StarTrek: ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' feature episode names; the latter even uses the exact same font from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TamagotchiVideoAdventures'' videotape has a title card for its main feature, "Now Museum, Now You Don't", despite not needing one (there was only one episode ever made, assuming they even planned to make more than one episode anyway).
* ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' uses title cards every episode. Among them has a little animation in a few of them ("Muttamorphosis", "Pet Project", "Movin' On Pup", "Escaping Dog Trick" and "Mr Jolly: Man... or Mouser?")
* ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'' has a title card along with the titular team for each [[ThreeShorts episodes]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' uses title cards every episode. In the case of the ThreeShorts episodes, they only apply to the shorts themselves -- the episode as a whole has its own title that doesn't appear (such as "Henny Youngman Day", "You Asked For It, [[SequelEpisode Part 2]]", and "Life in the 90's"), the one exception being "Best O' Plucky Duck Day".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has a title card show up at the end of the episode, right before the closing credits.
* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episodes start with a good minute of the race of the episode before the scene freezes and the episode's title is shown.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' uniquely has the episode title appear about a minute in during an appropriate scene and freeze-framing for a few seconds, thus forming the title card in-series. Turned into a RunningGag in "The Matchmaker", where a new title card shows up every time Sylvia tries to distract Wander from his self-imposed mission to deliver a love letter from Lord Hater to Lord Dominator.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has a title card shown at the start of every episode, following the PreviouslyOn segment. Only the 4Kids dub averts this. Since Season 7, they are also read by the narrator.
* ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' has a rather unusual example of this trope: Wubbzy says the show's name and the episode's name as the title card is shown.
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* A subversion of the character reading it is usually done in ''{{Tokusatsu}}'' with the narrator reading it usually in a menacing voice. The late Creator/ToruOhira was especially fond of this, being the voice of Darth Vader in the Japanese dub of ''Franchise/StarWars'', he sometimes liked to read titles in a villain-like manner.