History Main / OpeningCreditsCastParty

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

** The two parter "The One That Might Have Been" went to the trouble of re-recording it with the alternate versions of the characters (most obviously the straight-haired Businesswoman Pheobe, the glasses-wearing Writer Chandler, and of course, Fat Monica). And in this reality, Rachel ''isn't'' really part of the gang, but is there anyway.

If they're not just standing there, they're on the move, walking together like a chorus line, and that blurs things even more. They're all dressed and made up like their characters on the show, but why would they be all walking together, and so purposefully? It feels like the camera has caught the actors heading for the set at the top of the shooting day. If it's particularly heroic, it's a PowerWalk, but it might just be the cast walking together in a tight group in exactly the sort of fashion you'd never see them do on the show itself.

* The opening credits of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' end in a PowerWalk with all the main characters.

* Slightly subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', due to it taking place during the closing credits of season 3, rather than the opening credits, but the sequence depicts Anne, Sprig, Hop Pop, and Polly messing around, dancing, and laughing together in a fantasy [[Animesque anime-like]] world.

** The two parter "The One That Might Have Been" went to the trouble of re-recording it with the alternate versions of the characters (most obviously the stright-haired Businesswoman Pheobe, the glasses-wearing Writer Chandler, and of course, Fat Monica). And in this reality, Rachel ''isn't'' really part of the gang, but is there anyway.

* Most openings of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' / ''Case Closed'' feature really big Cast Parties - the detective kids, the Mouris, the Tokyo Police, Hattori and Kazuha, FBI, end so on.

** The less-noticeable but possibly more bizarre flashes shown of all ''eight'' cast members [[SocialSemiCircle huddled around the far half of a pool table]], ''Last Supper''-style with some combination of them attempting to somehow play in those cramped conditions is another example.

* The sister show of ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'', ''Series/MelrosePlace'', had one of these at the very earliest stages (i.e., pre-Heather Locklear), with the huge, unwieldy cast marching down the eponymous street arm in arm in an intimidating phalanx of put-on camaraderie. The shot appeared both at the start of the credits and at the end, too, just to remind you that you really did see something that false in the opening titles. The less-noticeable but possibly more bizarre flashes shown of all ''eight'' cast members huddled around the far half of a pool table, ''Last Supper''-style with some combination of them attempting to somehow play in those cramped conditions is another example.

What's perhaps strangest about this trope is that, whereas the TitleSequence is most often compiled by raiding your own show for clips, these awkward group portrait or kick-line moments usually have to be filmed specially, on purpose. The other big problem here is that if the cast changes, you have to reshoot the cast party with the new cast, sometimes over and over again--perhaps unpleasantly drawing attention to [[PutOnABus missing faces]] and [[TheScrappy unloved interlopers]].

Supertrope of the VFormationTeamShot, where the Gang of Five poses in a heroic V. Compare the TeamShot, where the gang are posed together. Compare TitleMontage, where the opening titles harvest various clips from the show instead.

Supertrope of the VFormationTeamShot, where the Gang of Five poses in a heroic V. Compare the TeamShot, where the gang are posed together. Compare TitleMontage, where the opening titles use clips from the show.

Supertrope of the VFormationTeamShot, where the Gang of Five poses in a heroic V. Compare the TeamShot, where the gang are posed together.

* The early seasons of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' followed the family around the dinner table. In later seasons the opening had to be changed due to the [[TheOtherDarrin replacement of a main cast member]]. They switched from eating pizza to Chinese food to playing poker with pretzels and candy. They forfeited the OpeningCreditsCastParty in favor of a montage of [[ThroughTheYearsCredits time-progressed photos]] of each cast member as they were credited. Which lampshaded the cast change.

[[folder:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]

* In the fifth and final opening of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', there's a long shot where the main and supporting casts pass the POV on all sides with jubilant expressions, regardless of whether the person next to them is a staunch ally or sworn enemy.
* The opening of ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' shows all three main organizations quickly, nicely lined up for a split second.

** In later seasons this becomes Aames, Kay, and Newton ''very unconvincingly'' [[https://youtu.be/mkytMx-kPWE?t=446 washing dishes together]].