"Didn't Care About The Show But Loved The Cartoon Intro"

I'm sure this happened to all of you as a kid at least once. Some show was on you didn't take remote interest in or even understand, but you'd still tune in for the opening credits, which were some quirky animation. Anyone got some personal examples?

I recently happened on this example on Youtube. "On The Record" was BBC 1's Sunday political show for the nineties. Naturally nearly all comments state they had no interest in the show but loved the Big Ben Crocodile intro:

Sort of: I liked Mystery Science Theater 3000 for the host segments with those puppets, years before I realized that the theater segments were the real point of the show.

I know this wasn't a cartoon, but for some reason I really loved the intro for Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Never stuck around to watch the actual show, though.

off the shits

Never cared for either Sonic Underground and SATAM but I love their theme songs. Opposite for Adventures and Boom. Enjoy the shows, don't like the theme songs.

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Sonic X now that I'm older.

Chalk Zone, but it has been years since I've seen it.

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edited 20th Apr '15 1:34:09 PM by powerpuffbats

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Thundercats...the cartoon itself was, with the exception of a few episodes, just really, really stupid and predictable...but the intro? The sole reason I kept watching the show! (Thus said, if they base it on the few good episodes, I would totally watch a Thundercats movie).

Same with Silverhawks...mediocre show but the intro, I could watch it all day.

Then there was the Robin Hood anime....it was not totally bad, but the best part was definitely the ear worm title music.

I concur with Sonic X.

This is actually both a love for the show AND theme: Fantastic Max!

"We be we baby!"

I can think of few. Rescue Bots, Defenders of the Earth, or Action Man (CGI one). Oh and second Iron Man TAS intro.

Agreed with Iron Man TAS. Also love the Super Hero Squad song but never liked the show.

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Not a show intro, but this animated E! network ID fascinated me enough to start tuning into the channel just to see if they'd play it again, despite having zero interest in their actual shows.

edited 20th Apr '15 4:09:37 PM by AllenJ

Mucha Lucha.

Mostly the part where all the other wrestlers show up and get shit eating grins on their faces as they prepare to kick the heroes asses.

Then I usually stopped caring.

One Strip! One Strip!

The only episode I remember of that show was the one were Ricochet, Buena Girl, and The Flea were all stranded on an island. I remember it because Ricochet spends most of the episode in his underwear,.

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I never liked the cartoons on this show, but the opening was great:

I'm pretty sure the show itself never even used those claymation figures

I have to echo Handsome Rob on Mucha Lucha. I still got enjoyment out of the show just for being a World of Ham, but the intro was way more badass than the show itself.

Stone Protectors wasn't a very memorable show, but it had a really awesome intro.

I can't think of any off the top of my head. I think a lot of shows that had really cool intros were shows I didn't watch much of, so I can't make any judgments about their quality.

Keep in mind the show itself doesn't have to be animated, just the intro. How many of you have looked at the beginning of a dreary adult show due to 'oh, a cartoon'?

A celebrity case, Matt Groening was apparently very disappointed by the 60s Dennis The Menace series (he apparently made Bart as representation of how he thought Dennis should have been), though loved the cartoon tornado at the start of every episode.

The Nanny was that way with me. It was on when i was little, and always liked the intro but had no idea what the show was about.

I recall the episode where Homer joins a motorcycle gang featured Jay North himself taking the piss out of his role:

"I was America's bad boy. I once hid my dad's hat! Then, another time I stepped into Mr. Wilson's flower bed. That was a two-part episode!"

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Yeah, like, I only caught one episode of Ben 10 ever... And then I looked up the intro on Youtube, but the uploader messed up the framerate, and somehow I lost all the love I had for what little I saw.

Uh, I think the opening to Sonic Underground was so awesome that it scared me off from watching the actual show for a very long time!

If I happen to come across somewhere where Family Guy is about to come on, I'll stop to listen to its catchy theme song then keep going. I don't really care for Seth Mac Farlane's adult shows.

"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."

I'm going to echo opinions on Sonic shows and Super Hero Squad and add Mega Man and Bucky O'Hare.

Old cartoons were weird like that, their intros were always so much more energetic that actual show.

Never really cared for Regular Shows's opening but I've always enjoyed the show. It's so boring. Gumball can be like that until recently when they actually started to show the full opening(which is much better than the short one).

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Now I can't listen to "Lulu's Back In Town" without thinking, "Tony Stark/Makes you feel/He's the cool exec/With a heart of steel/But where are those good old fashioned values/On which we used to rely?"

Same. Never really liked Seth's show, but I will give him credit on his voice. He's a great voice actor and singer.

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