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8	It's been three and a half weeks since they announced that your favorite canceled show is gonna receive reruns. They just gotta bring back the theme song, you think to yourself over and over, that's part of its identity. Come the golden hour, you press the power button and flick your way to the appropriate channel for the cascade of memories to pour upon you... only to find the theme song isn't quite the way you remember it all those years ago.
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10	Maybe they took out an insignificant word from a verse, maybe they used a different tune altogether, or perhaps they tacked on an instrumental melody in place of what used to be a lyric-based song. Heck, they might have taken one of the already-existing theme songs endemic to just one season, and applied it to episodes from every other season. In some cases, the change might not even be the music, but rather an alteration of visuals. Whatever the business, your prime-time herald of onscreen goodness has been thrown in the gutter in favor of a revised, bootstrapped, or entirely new idea.
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19	* Intro/Outro sequences are shorter in North America than in Japan to make room for more commercials. Many anime shows are shown with different and shorter opening and ending sequences on American broadcast television, even when they were dubbed uncut, though the home video releases usually have the original Japanese sequences.
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21	* ''Manga/DragonBall'' originally used two opening animations and four ending animations, but the English dub and [=DVDs=] only use opening 1 and ending 2. This is apparently because Creator/{{Toei\|Animation}} only gave them a single clean opening and ending, [[BadExportForYou and have not given any foreign dubs the other versions at all]]. Despite this, intro 2 is used in the obscure Harmony Gold dub.
22	* A variation: During the Creator/AdultSwim run of [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime adaptation]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', only two of the series' four opening sequences were shown, because the bands that performed those songs made a deal with Creator/CartoonNetwork in order to try and branch out into the North American market.
23	* Inverted with ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}''. The second-season opening was only shown once due to an error on Cartoon Network's end in North America. Other times the second season opening was replaced with first-season opening, even though some fans thought the second-season song was better. Outside the continent, the second-season theme was aired properly.
24	* Due to music rights and cost issues, Creator/{{Funimation}}'s DVD release of the first half of ''Manga/{{Kodocha}}'' used the second opening sequence for all episodes. And taking things one step further, they were forced to excise or change references to the song and the band, to the point of ''[[BadExportForYou completely muting the audio]]'' in some scenes (like the one in the first 16 episodes) where the song or some remix thereof was used. This only affected the Japanese audio track.
25	* ''Anime/SpeedRacer'', when it aired in the 90s, had a much more stylized logo than the one used in the original 1960s run. The Funimation Blu-Ray version uses the 1960s logo in the intro whereas the box art and marketing material use the more familiar 1990s logo.
26	* Creator/{{Sunrise}} usually has a few openings for each show (usually four per 50 episode series), but decided to have just two openings in the English version of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', the second and fourth.
27	* One of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' endings was skipped for the North American version and replaced with the ending that followed it due to [[ReReleaseSoundtrack music rights issues]].
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31	* Many early sitcoms worked a sponsor into the open credits; these are cut short to remove the plug or (as in ''Series/ILoveLucy'' below) replaced entirely.
32	** ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': adopted the short "blackboard" opening for syndication.
33	** ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' has done it, unfortunately.
34	** ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' did it, too.
35	** The rarely seen original title sequence of ''Series/ILoveLucy'' had [[AnimatedCreditsOpening stick-figure cartoon caricatures]] of Lucy and Desi, ending with them enjoying a Philip Morris cigarette. This was replaced with the now-iconic "heart" opening for the show's syndication.
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37	* Reruns of ''Series/ThreeTwoOneContact'''s first season replaced the original title sequence with the 1983-1986 version. The show's {{recut}}, ''Classroom Contact'', used an edited version of the Season 6 & 7 sequence.
38	* ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' (1976-1978). The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBj5ZdTpU_4 main title for the second season]] was markedly superior to that of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcba-ZgtsT4 first season]], so in reruns they went back and changed the first season's episodes' main titles to those of the second season.
39	* When ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' aired in syndication, and on Creator/DisneyChannel, the season four opener was used in place of the old intros used in those previous three seasons, though, oddly, the season two and three openers are each much shorter than season four's. The sequences used in seasons 5-7 were kept intact for those respective seasons.
40	* One [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPBAzCP-e4E rerun]] of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" used the Seventh Doctor's opening credits, with the Fourth Doctor's face superimposed over the Seventh's.
41	* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' uses only the "Cleveland Rocks" opening on syndication.
42	* Creator/{{TBS}} uses an SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic-robbing alternate opening when rerunning ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.
43	* Lucille Ball's follow-up sitcom ''Series/TheLucyShow'' had a new opening sequence practically every season during its original run. Season 1 had [[AnimatedCreditsOpening stick-figure cartoon caricatures]] of Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance, reminiscent of the original ''Series/ILoveLucy'' openings; season 2 had a montage of publicity stills; season 3 had a compilation of footage from the previous 2 seasons, and season 4 introduced the famous "kaleidoscope" opening. Season 5 began with a whimsical cartoon bouncing ball opening, with Lucy's head popping out of a jack-in-a-box, but Lucille reportedly did not care for it and the series reverted back to the kaleidoscope intro for the remainder of its run (albeit with re-orchestrated theme music underscoring it). The kaleidoscope intro was commonly used for every episode in syndication, with Vivian Vance's name cut-in instead of Gale Gordon's for the first 3 seasons.
44	* ''Series/TheMonkees''' two openings are similar, but the second season version mixes newer episode clips with older ones. The second season version is the only one used in syndication.
45	* ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'': Since Season 2, reruns of Season 1 have the first opening removed and replaced with the second.
46	* Reruns of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' use the third season credits sequence exclusively, most noticeably replacing the fifth season's rearranged theme.
47	* When the original ''Series/RandallAndHopkirkDeceased'' series was first broadcast, some episodes had a different title sequence, as shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug9P_yDJtz0 here]]. Later reruns replaced it with the graphic titles seen on all modern broadcasts. It's not known why two different variants were made, but one possible explanation is that the previous opening sequence explained the premise of Marty Hopkirk being a ghost, which viewers would have eventually become familiar with.
48	* ''Series/ReadingRainbow'' did this, to the disappointment of those who fondly remember the trippiness of the original intro. This resulted in some pretty awkward transitions, with the newer title sequences from 1999 and 2000 cutting to episodes from as early as 1983.
49	* ''Series/RedDwarf'', when Creator/TheBBC re-edited it to add more special effects (à la the ''Franchise/StarWars'' reissues), added a new title sequence for all the seasons.
50	* When the junior high episodes of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' are rerun, they show an intro similar to the rest of the show. The junior high years were originally aired as ''Good Morning Miss Bliss'' and had entirely different music.
51	* When pre-season 25 ''Series/SesameStreet'' episodes were repackaged as part of later seasons, the original opening and closing credits (among other things) were replaced. Also, when recurring segments such as "Sesame Street News Flash" and "Monsterpiece Theater" had their title sequences updated, the newer openings often got applied to older segments.
52	** In between seasons 30 and 31, some season 29 episodes were reran with the then-current opening replacing the season 24 opening.
53	* Some syndication packages for ''Series/{{Space 1999}}'' dubbed the 2nd-season theme music over the opening credits for the 1st-season episodes, even though the 2nd-season theme didn't mesh at all well with the jump-cut credit sequences which were originally cut to fit Barry Grey's original theme. A few packages even replaced the entire opening-credit sequence, despite the fact that there were several significant cast changes between the two seasons. (Creator/BarryMorse [Professor Bergman], featured in the first-season credits, had left the show, while Tony Anholt [Tony Verdeschi] and Creator/CatherineSchell [Maya], both prominently featured in the 2nd-season credits, were never seen or even mentioned in the first season.)
54	* ''Series/StargateSG1''[='s=] original opening sequence consisted of the camera panning around an Ancient Egyptian statue while the credits displayed (this is StockFootage from the credits of the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie). This was used for the entirety of its run on Creator/{{Showtime}}, with the exception of Season 3. Since moving to the SciFi Channel, all subsequent re-airings of Season 1-5 episodes use the Season 3 opening. Oddly, the [=DVDs=] use the Season 3 opening for Seasons 1-3, but the Egyptian statue opening for Seasons 4-5.
55	* For the two-hour series premiere of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', a version of the titles is used which lists the actors names without also listing who they play, as in every other episode of the show. This was intended to evoke a theatrical movie feel, but when the two-hour was split into separate episodes for syndication, the regular title sequence is used instead for both parts.
56	* Viewers might not realize that ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' had four seasons, since the opening for the second season was mysteriously deleted and that of the third took its place. Creator/DisneyPlus put it back, though.
57	* When you watch a syndicated rerun of a first-season episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', the odds are 50-50 that the original title sequence (with the Music/BernardHerrmann music) will be replaced by the second season opening (the first one to use Marius Constant's more familiar theme).
58	* The pilot of ''Series/YesMinister'' had a [[UniquePilotTitleSequence different title sequence]] from the other episodes, which was replaced by the normal one in reruns.
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62	* In the 1990s, there was an alternative opening to ''Series/{{Joe 90}}'', which was almost identical to the original but inexplicably replaced the original animated logo with an inferior non-animated version.
63	* Reruns of Season One of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' often used the second season's title sequence, where all the characters appear in arches, and Gonzo sticks his head out of the "O" playing a trumpet, rather than the actual title sequence, in which a handful of characters appear in rows, and then on a pyramid, and Gonzo bangs the "O" like a gong.
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67	* The broadcast syndicated reruns of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' from seasons 1 to 4 replace the changing newspaper headline CouchGag to the opening where Roger appears in Stan's car and has on a different costume [i.e., his hockey player costume from "Return of the Bling", his SassyBlackWoman character from "Oedipal Panties", his Francine costume from "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls", etc.] The Creator/{{TBS}} and Creator/AdultSwim airings have the original openings for both the early episodes and the new ones.
68	* An unusual case for ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': episodes 20-26 broadcast overseas before airing in North America, and boasted the same opening used in preceding episodes. However, Creator/DisneyXD decided to tack recaps onto the beginning of ''their'' broadcasts, which resulted in the theme song becoming replaced by a short expository speech (which doubles as a promo for the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse). When the show became available for legal download, streaming, and home video purchase, the recaps and expository speeches got removed to make room for the original theme song.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' changed their opening titles in each of its three first-run seasons as well as the song for it. "Can't Buy Me Love" was season one, "Help!" for season two and "And Your Bird Can Sing" for season three. When the cartoons were screened on Disney Channel, they were screened sans openings, closing and bumpers. When it ran on MTV, they applied the season three opening.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' had two different title sequences--one for the ABC show Saturday mornings and the other for the weekday series on Fox (which ran concurrently with the ABC show during the 1991-92 season).
71	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' had a different opening sequence when it originally ran on the Creator/DisneyChannel, but the opening was changed when it went into syndication as part of WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon. The syndication opening is what's been used in airings since, as well as on the [=DVDs=].
72	* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'':
73	** Later remastered airings of Season 2 episodes "Whose Birthday is It" and "Super Spies", as well as all home media releases, used the Season 3-4 intro (with the Explorer Stars and Diego) in place of the original one, leading them to be confused as part of a newer season.
74	** The first two Season 3 episodes, "Dora Had a Little Lamb" and "The Lost City", opened with the Season 1-2 intro on their DVD releases, while TV airings had them open with the Season 3-4 intro.
75	* Some reruns of ''WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1967'' remove the OpeningNarration, which details the names and powers of each Fantastic Four member.
76	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''[='=] original title sequence (featuring entirely different animation and a different, InstrumentalThemeTune) was replaced with the now-familiar "Meet the Flintstones" opening in the show's third season, and was rarely seen until Creator/CartoonNetwork came along.
77	* The original intro sequence to ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', used only in the show's first two seasons, was replaced in syndication by the second intro sequence from seasons 3-5. It then inverted the trope on the [=DVDs=], when the third intro sequence was replaced by the second (the later seasons, which had the third intro sequence, were never syndicated), but kept the first intro sequence intact.
78	* When Jay Ward's ''WesternAnimation/HoppityHooper'' went into syndication as ''Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show," it opened with a still shot of the title card with Uncle Waldo (one of the characters on the show) thrusting his cane like a fencing foil while the original HH theme ("Fight Fierce, Young Teddy!") plays. It was spliced onto the original title animation of the O's in Hoppity's name turning into Hoppity, Waldo and Fillmore.
79	* To match the '80s revival, ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''' first season lost not only its original opening, but also its original end credits and LaughTrack, until Creator/CartoonNetwork restored them.
80	* When Season 1 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' were reran on Teletoon separately as opposed to their original TwoShorts format, the original intro and closing credits were replaced with the ones from Season 2.
81	* When Teletoon aired the first season of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', which they normally don't have the rights to, in November 2013, the original theme song was replaced with the then-current one. Despite this, they had uploaded a video of the original intro to the Cartoon Network Canada website.
82	* When the original ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' series and [[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfJonnyQuest the 1986 revival]] were syndicated together on ''The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera'', the original show's title sequence was replaced with the revival's. Even the {{Episode Title Card}}s were redone in the new series' style, with the writers' names added.
83	* Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' used the same animation for its intro sequence in both the USA and Canada, but used different music depending on where you watched in. In Canada, ''Little Bear'' used [[https://youtu.be/igFWpoTEayk?si=BK-y3RMLDypMdEkw Schubert's Allegro Vivace in D Minor]] for its intro sequence while in the USA used [[https://youtu.be/QsdLFZ0gbUc?si=MIt3sd9YGlpW5Hov an original tune]] for its Creator/NickJr airings.
84	* North America's Disney airings of ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' all had its original "I'm Madeline" opening replaced with the "Hats Off to Madeline" used in ''The New Adventures of Madeline''. Inverted with Disney Asia's airing of the second season of ''The New Adventures of Madeline'' though, in which they replaced the third opening, "Oh, Madeline", with "Hats Off to Madeline".
85	* When Creator/{{CBS}} brought ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' back in repeats in 1974 after a two-year breather, in mid-season they replaced the ending credits sequence with an edited celebrity-less and vocal-less sequence from ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' but with the credit list of ''Where Are You!'' over a static picture of Scooby. The "we'll be right back" bumpers from ''Movies'' replaced the original bumper from ''Where Are You!'' The opening titles for season two were different from the season one openings.
86	* The debut show of the ''[[WesternAnimation/ItsPunkyBrewster Punky Brewster]]'' cartoon had a scene where after Glomer lands on Punky and she hugs him, he leaps out of Punky's arms as the rainbow gateway to his home is disappearing. The frames of him leaping out of Punky's arms were cut in the 12 other shows of the first season then restored throughout season two.
87	* While most airings of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'' in syndication retain [[https://youtu.be/mp5KYnvLaqU?si=2txnglceiurcJphx its usual instrumental theme music]] and intro sequence, the show's Creator/NickJr airings uniquely gave the show [[https://youtu.be/37tdTQ5jFl8?si=ffFnJbqkGNe-jUkb a newer, more upbeat theme song]] that included a different arrangement of clips from the show, as well as lyrics where the original intro had none.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episodes from seasons 1 to around 6 replaced the original {{Couch Gag}}s with the couch gag from the season five episode "Rosebud" [[note]]The episode where Mr. Burns finds his long-lost teddy bear, Bobo[[/note]] where The Simpsons rush to the couch, only to find clones of themselves on the couch (unless the episode was a ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode, in which the original couch gag or opening is shown intact). When more episodes were put into syndication, the original couch gags were kept in (except for the season eight episode "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show". In the original airing, the couch gag was a repeat of the one from "Bart After Dark"[[note]]The burlesque house episode[[/note]] where The Simpsons are part of a Simpsonized version of Music/TheBeatles' ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper]]'' album. In syndication, the Simpsons' ''[[SgtPeppersShoutOut Sgt. Pepper]]'' album couch gag is replaced with the one from "Kamp Krusty" in which The Simpsons rush to the couch and meet WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones. The reason behind this change was because "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show" is the episode that broke ''The Flintstones''' record for longest-running animated prime-time show.)
89	* The syndicated version of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'', known as ''Smurfs Adventures'', uses a shortened version of the original show's Season 4 intro sequence, though with no Smurf hopping onto a mushroom at the end when the show's title (modified to read SMURFS ADVENTURES with the "created by Peyo" byline added) is displayed. However, two episodes from Season 6 use the original Season 6 intro instead.
90	** For seasons 1 through 4, the Season 4 closing theme is also used for the closing credits, instead of the original respective NBC version arrangements. For season 1, the closing theme was shortened to match, while in seasons 2-4, the longer version of Season 4's closing theme was used. Starting with season 5, the original NBC closing themes are used, although the intro sequence above remains the same.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has a syndication-only version of the opening for seasons 1-9.
92	* During ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats''' original run, some first-season reruns used the second-season opening.
93	* When [[Creator/{{Syfy}} the Sci-Fi Channel]] reran ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' in the mid-90s, a new title sequence was crafted using the animation for the season 2 intro combined with the theme song used for seasons 3 and 4.
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