History Main / EpisodeTitleCard

** In the English version of ''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.

* ''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''.

* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'' uses the same shot of Someplace Else with the episode title appearing over it while Donkey reads the title.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', and its SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra uses a title card consisting of a white background with text reading the season number and name, the episode number, and finally the episode's title (e.g. Book One: Water ([[GratuitousForeignLanguage 水]]), Chapter 12: The Storm).

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' uses a white background with text reading "Book One:Water/Two:Earth/Three:Fire Chapter (Episode #):Title"

* A subversion of the character reading it is usually done in ''{{Tokusatsu}}'' with the narrator reading it usually in a menacing voice. Toru Ohira is especially fond of this, being the voice of Darth Vader in the Japanese dub of ''Franchise/StarWars'', he sometimes likes to read titles in a villain-like manner.

** Special mention goes to ''Danny Phantom'', 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.

** Before and during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters "The Gunfighters"]], each episode would have an individual title, which led to some confusion later when the process was abandoned in favour of naming the current serial instead, usually after one of the episodes in the serial but occasionally arbitrarily. For instance, one serial was called "The Mutants" by the writer, and consisted of episodes called "The Dead Planet", "The Survivors", "The Escape", "The Ambush", "The Expedition", "The Ordeal" and "The Rescue", but the title used by the BBC today is... [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]].
** A CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase title card got used accidentally, twice — [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages "Dr. Who and the Savages"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians "Doctor Who and the Silurians"]]. This would not be odious if the [[IAmNotShazam character's name was "Dr. Who" (it's not)]]. (In the early years the scripts were in fact routinely titled "Doctor Who and..."; these longer titles persisted through to the Target novelizations until the late 1970s, but the "Doctor Who and" was (''almost'') always removed for the onscreen title cards.)
** Some late Creator/WilliamHartnell stories dealing with technology went through a phrase of using idiosyncratic title cards — notably [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines "The War Machines"]] (which made the text flash line by line as if a computer was printing it out) and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]] (which made the titles appear over bundles of MatrixRainingCode supposed to evoke listening stations).

* ''Series/ICarly'' and ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' rarely have title cards except for extended episodes (like the former's "iShock America" - or "[[MarketBasedTitle iShock The World]]" depending where you are) or on rare occasions a regular-length episode (like the latter's "The Breakfast Bunch"). On the other hand, their joint spinoff ''Series/SamAndCat'' uses title cards on all its episodes except "[=#Pilot=]."

** The [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls 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.

* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'''s card has a reverse painted silhouette of TheHero Usagi accented by pastel roses, (two of which are in her hair) and pink ben-day dot ribbons. Her [[RapunzelHair long pigtails]] frame the episode number and title at right.

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''WesternAnimation/TheJellies'' is a rare example of an adult cartoon with title cards at the beginning of each episode.

* Pink Panther and Sons features the titular cast together.

* ''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 5th season, fans lamented the appearance of the "slot machine" title card, in which the slots landed on a particular character's face. Since ''Follow the Bouncing Ball'', there's now a short clip from the episode instead.