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Some opening or closing credits sequences show a bit of the show to give you an idea of what it's about. The music is just there, but it serves mainly as background music to the action —the characters aren't playing an active role in the music or the description (for example, The Simpsons or Friends), or it serves as a Theme Tune Roll Call to describe the characters (but again they don't take an active role in the sequence).

Then there are those opening or closing credit sequences set up more like a music video. The characters sing along, dance to, or in general, take an active role in the music.

See also Theme Tune.


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     Anime & Manga 

  • K-On!
    • Both the opening and closing are music videos for the girls' band.
    • Done again in the movie at the end.
  • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya- Hare Hare Yukai is an example of the dance variety of this trope
  • Kodocha
  • Pokémon: The Series has had a few ending songs like this, combining this trope with the Image Song.
    • Maemuki Roketto Dan (Team Rocket)
    • Polka o Dolka (Meowth)
  • The eighth Naruto Shippuden ending, Bacchikoi, is sung and danced by Lee, Naruto, Guy, Sakura, Ino and Hinata.
  • The end credits of The Reflection has silhouettes of the real-life members of idol group 9nine dancing to the song "SunSunSunrise".
  • The opening credits of Yuri!!! on Ice, "History Maker(s)", has Victor, Yuri, and Yurio skating to the song.

     Films — Live-Action 

  • For Your Eyes Only: the only James Bond film where the singer of the theme (Sheena Easton) actually sings during the credit sequence.
  • The Pink Panther series combines this with an Animated Credits Opening, in which the animated panther dances to the theme song during the opening credits.
  • My Best Friend's Wedding starts out with an opening credits sequence that might as well be a music video for "Wishin' and Hopin'": a bride and her bridesmaids (not any of the film's stars) dance around a monochrome (pink) backdrop.
    • The sequence is directly referenced in the Brazilian movie Zoando na TV. In that case, the bride in question is the main character.

     Live-Action TV 

  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air had a "TV size" Will Smith music video for the open.
  • All in the Family: "Boy, the way Glenn Miller played..."
  • Averted (strangely enough) in The Monkees.
  • The "Five O'Clock World" and "Cleveland Rocks" openings for The Drew Carey Show.
  • Sesame Street (even moreso recently; the open from 2000-on was actually made to look very music video-like.)
  • That '70s Show. The main characters are singing along with the theme music playing through a car stereo.
  • Hull High: Less with singing along and more the choreography (one of the creators was Kenny Ortega).
  • The Happy Days spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi, in which the titular couple sought to make it as a singing duo, had them singing the opening theme, "You Look at Me", first in a deserted club and then in front of an enthusiastic audience.
  • Common enough in music-heavy '70s variety shows, including Donny And Marie and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.

     Video Games  

  • Disgaea 2 was a fairly straightforward music video animated opening with a few sight gags for humor, but Disgaea 3 took it to levels of precision parody, channeling Lucky Star and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya so well that if you weren't familiar with those series you'd think that it's a straight example.

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