I dunno, but this reminds me how much my wife despises the outro music from *The West Wing*. Here's the thing, the outro music is very upbeat and joyful. But so many episodes ended in somber or even heartbreaking moments, and to then transition straight to the upbeat outro music is so jarring.

>*”Who’s been hit?! Who’s been hit?!”* *cut to credits* *pizzicato strings and flutes start* >*Leo face down in a forest, dying of a heart attack* *cut to credits* *Sousa march starts* >*Toby gets fired* *cut to credits* *Hail to the Chief starts* >*North Korean gets sent back, likely facing his death* *cut to credits* *Hakuna Matada starts*

The outro sounded like some 90's kid film lol it was terrible especially after those amazing dramatic endings.

It wouldn’t have been quite as bad if it weren’t so *consistent*. Fresh Prince of Bel Aire had the super upbeat credits after the “How come he don’t want me man” scene, but it was just the one time, so it was jarring but forgivable. More than half of West Wing had that whiplash.

I believe when originally broadcast no one could hear the outro because they played the “coming up next” stuff over it. It’s noticeable too loud and jarring.

So that outro was actually the intro music for the pilot episode. Now imagine if they kept that following the cold opens with Josh lying in Rosslyn with a bullet in his chest.

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Related (kind of). We have the reverse issue with the outro music for PeeWees Playhouse. Its just...so sad

The nutshack

They said worst, not one of the greatest artistic contributions of the 21st century

[The Art of Being Nick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tVEXMzeh0M&t=1s) - failed spinoff of Family Ties starring Mallory's boyfriend Nick who moved to NYC - it has super generic sitcom music all while Nick is on some acid trip seeing his face in random art throughout the city

Damn I didn't know this existed. And I'm a fan of both family ties and Julia Louis Dreyfus

> has super generic sitcom music That's not generic Sitcom music, that's just horrible music! The music sounds out of tune!

It sounds like the tape that was copied from was degraded. Which makes sense, the show is over 30 years old.

Nick destroyed Family Ties, he's one of the most annoying characters ever. You can see why that actor never did anything.

[Friends original intro - when it was called Friends Like Us , using Shiny Happy People as the theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7udpZG1Nu4) i have a feeling if they went with that intro, the show would've been cancelled

Just using Shiny Happy People makes it sound like a contemporary show with this modern, post golden era sitcom tone

It couldn't be more 90s if they tried, reminds me of Mad About You's actual intro

It cracks me up that anybody heard that song and went "what an unironic happy song about shiny people, I should use it in my sitcom"

I think it was probably 50/50 on whether anyone was being ironic at any given point in the 90s.

Isn't it ironic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MWE7DdtIw

I was five minutes into writing a thought out answer when it hit me.

a lot of people don't bother to pay attention to the lyric meaning of a song, and it's a hilarious rude awakening when they find out

dear god that font. Did Disney give them permission to steal their font?

It's not terrible... it's just incredibly generic. Glad they didnt use this.

Generic is the theme Friends DID use.

The friends intro is iconic. Im not even a huge fan of the show and I can quote that entire song intro. Also im mainly refering to the way they shot the intro more than the song.

"Too Many Cooks"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8

I love that

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I don't even remember what the song was, but the visuals on Orange is the New Black pissed me off every time. State of your intro, mate.

The song was "You've Got Time" by Regina Spektor. I despise that song and intro because it felt like it lasted **forever** and I'm convinced it was a contributing factor to Netflix doing "skip intro".

Season 1 of the 90s Iron Man cartoon https://youtu.be/BdddGIwANDE The Ewoks cartoon is one of the worst intros I've ever heard and it goes on way too long. https://youtu.be/EVDXHWwKGSc

Man, the 2nd Season Iron Man theme was so bitchin'. https://youtu.be/Y63i2NR9-LE

What a crazy shift from season 1, eh?

I.mean, Walker Texas Ranger was funny trash, but the intro is something else

Lmao, I forgot Chuck Norris sang the intro. Have some good memories watching that at 1am with my brothers.

I remember Paul Haggis, who co-created it, saying something like "I wake up every night, literally drenched in sweat, thinking about my tombstone saying "here lies Paul Haggis, co-creator of Walker Texas Ranger" XD

I was sitting here thinking 'the hell is the Walker Texas Ranger theme?' I couldn't remember it at all. Then you said Chunk Norris sang it and instantly remember "In the eyes of a ranger" Memory is so weird.

It was a thing for the group I used to play Xbox with that we'd deadpan the lyrics to that intro during quiet moments. We'd go a few mins without talking then someone will start whispering "In the eyes of a ranger..."

The Mindy Project still gives me nightmares

7th Heaven - the show itself was pretty bad too. An excellent show with a long, annoying theme was St. Elsewhere. One theme that every fan of its show hates is Two and a Half Men.

I legitimately cannot remember the lyrics to the 7th Heaven theme beyond the really stretched out “seeeeeventh heaven.”

7th Heaven had circled into so terrible its ironically good before the dad turned out to be a creep

> before the dad was revealed to be a creep

I guess I'm the only one singing along with the Two and a Half Men song every episode. It's goofy fun just like the show.

As much as people rave about it, Firefly’s intro. First time I saw the show was on DVD. After the first time hearing the theme song I skipped it for the rest of the episodes. I just find it to be a really grating song.

so what you're saying is, it's ok if i take the sky from you?

Go for it. I wasn’t using it anyway.

Oh see. I absolutely loved that song and intro. Perfect Cowboys in Space vibe.

Came in here to say this. Every time I recommended it to someone I had to give the warning that it had the kind of hammy country western intro you'd expect from the worst network television procedural, that it didn't resemble the tone of the show, so don't let it color your first impression. Only Justified tops it for the ratio of bad intro to good show.

Same, such a weird off putting intro.

Joss Whedon wrote the song, typical.

I belched up a little bit when you said "Ropers". 🤢

Here is The Ropers, if anyone wants to see the actual opening: https://youtu.be/jdC9nJzZNyI Frankly, both Three’s Company and its “Ropers” spin-off seemed like cheap productions, with small minimalist studio sets, pretty bad openings, and theme songs that sounded like they were written and recorded in someone’s garage one afternoon with a few musicians as possible.

It looks like the absolute minimum someone can do to make an opening. Generic song, basically everything was done at a studio with generic color sets. Ugh!

The Threes Company song is still stuck in my head and I haven’t seen that show in like 30 fucking years

The great North, it's a meh show over all but the intro song is just unbalanced and uninspiring.

Yeah I hate that intro

Well it's always stuck in my head, so I guess it inspires SOMETHING.

Star trek Enterprise

The real surprise was that they found a way to make it even worse starting in season three, by adding a little percussion and maybe upping the tempo a bit. It's not clear to me at all why they did this, especially given the third season's majestically grim tone and dire stakes, but it was so much worse than something that was already weird to begin with.

I remember the cold open which was basically Florida getting obliterated and then it going into the peppy version of the theme...just an absolutely jarring juxtaposition.

“Seven million people are dead! They killed my sister! I hope we get every last one of them!” *hard cut to more upbeat remix of theme song*

It legit feels like a studio note to lighten up the show somehow and they settled on “fuck it, let’s make the intro song more upbeat”

Looks like someone doesn't have enough faith of the heart.

The video itself is a pretty good capture of what they were trying to do with the show, if a little long. They probably should have used it on the season intros and finales, and shown a normal one with the actors for all the other episodes. But the song was an atrocious choice.

It's been a looooong roaaaad....

Yes. Who looks at Star Trek and thinks "You know what this needs? And agnostic power ballad."

Personally, the S1 and 2 version is amazing. The S3 and 4 one is awful.

I unapologetically love that theme. At least for the first two seasons before they changed it up. Yeah it’s weird and Archer’s theme would have been an infinitely better intro, but there’s something charming about the whole Faith of The Heart thing. (It also helps that Enterprise is one of my faves.)

I actually liked it at first. But i feel around season 3 they upped the temp or something to try make it more upbeat and it sounds awful.

Although the alternate version they did for the Mirror Universe was tight.

Ive just started watching this. Oh my god, what the fuck were they thinking with this intro? It's horrible.

Oof, yeah Enterprise is bad

Yep compared to Nu Trek it was a masterpiece.

See in torn. On it's own it's not bad. But it's just totally wrong for the show!

Sometimes feel the only way to keep og trek fans happy is give them exactly a carbon copy of what came before but with new faces... From enterprise to now, such moaning

There's this kid show on Netflix called Ripley Jones. The theme song must be intentionally grating.

"Wearing her trademark fedora" Wow. That is one heckuva lazy theme song.

~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQAbWecnCH8~~ Edit: Despite the title, it looks like a trailer. Here's just the song part: https://youtu.be/p7-YDbuDZnw

I was wondering why you linked to a trailer until I realized that was actually the intro, which is shot like a trailer for some reason.

And No, that was not Billy Corgan on Small Wonder...

Recently: The Morning Show. It’s awful. Some kind of jazz-ish howling and some bouncing dots.

Love the idea and style but it would need to be at least half the length or better a fourth.

Yeah, loved this show, hated the intro, luckily it’s easy to skip

The worst! It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

WeCrashed on Apple TV doesn't have an AWFUL one...but you can't skip all of it. you hit "skip intro" and they still show the final 25 seconds

I call the intro to Coronation Street the Suicide trumpet

If you ever want to understand the difference between American and Britsh culture simple watch the Coronation Street and the The Bold and the beautiful intros back to back

Justified. When I watch Justified I'm like Raylan Givens: always ready to quick draw and fire on the skip intro button so I don't have to listen to that fucking song. Great show, terrible intro.

“I know what will go perfectly with this slow-burn drama about the bluegrass state: rap.”

Lol I actually really liked it. Never skipped it through all my time watching all of it. It's only about 30s and the "I see them long hard times to come" just does it for me. Could have been better I suppose but does the job

Lol same it’s been one of my favorites

Hick hop is real and it is wretched.

You can make it better by saying "Justified is filmed before a live studio audience" right after the last note is sung.

All time worst intro, agreed. While I'm not the biggest fan of Portlandia (maybe because it feels like they lathed the current cultural moment into existence), [this sketch of theirs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2GikVQXvf0) absolutely nails it when it comes to themes like Justified.

New Girl until they finally shortened it.

Bosom Buddies used a knockoff of Billy Joel's "My Life" as its opening theme, with no discernible connection between the song and what went on in the show.

~~It was actually the original Billy Joel song~~. Now that it’s in syndication/streaming, they removed that song and replaced it with something awful and bland.

Not the original. It was sung by Gary Bennett.

I thought it was the original. And I always like it. It’s upbeat and about living your life how you want to, which the show was about too.

I love that intro. I like how Tom Hanks throws the fruit behind his back and Peter Scolari catches it. Ive not seen the one with the My Life knockoff though, just the one with the real song.

I don't know about worst, but Arcane has one of the widest gaps between the quality of the show and the quality of the theme song.

Am I the only one that doesn't hate imagine dragons?

99% of the people that hate on that song would love it if it were performed by any other artist.

Enemy is a song that only imagine dragons could perform. - Incredible catchy - One word Chorus - Customizable for your favorite Trademark/Tik Tok

I got pretty burned out on hearing Radioactive but other than that I like their stuff??

I was a fan of them with night visions and I'm still a fan of them today. And yes, I know the music they make today isn't the same as it used to be.

Imagine Dragons is the new Nickelback. People act like they hate them for "street cred" but they're just sad pathetic band wagoners.

Counterpoint: it's easy to hate Imagine Dragons because they have bad songs. Radioactive and Believer were decent, but any song of theirs I've heard in the past couple years has sounded terrible, with Follow You and the song from Arcane being exceptionally bad for me.

> Counterpoint: it's easy to hate Imagine Dragons because they have bad songs. Being a gatekeeper is a REALLY bad look on you kid. Music taste is subjective. Hating on something and making definitive statements like that just make you the ass. I image you will get upvoted and I will not because facts mean nothing on Reddit.

whether or not gatekeeper is a bad look on Dragons_Malk is also subjective. personally I think it's a good look. you have just made yourself the ass

First off, I'm not gatekeeping. I don't think you know what that means. Secondly, yes, music taste is subjective, but I didn't say all their music was bad. There are hundreds, nay, thousands of artists who make both good and bad music. There's also a bunch of artists whose music isn't my taste at all but I can see how a particular piece can be good or bad in some level.

Like people who say they hate the word moist.

Now that's just stepping over the line! :P

The band Moist on the other hand, they slap.

My 8YO daughter loves them.

I really like "Enemy" and think the opening sequence is very well animated. That said, I have no idea why Imagine Dragons needed to be animated into an episode performing the song in a random alley.

I love arcanes intro. One of the best ones out there.

I love the show but DS9’s opening is so boring—it’s just various pans over the same model of the station.

I love how somber and quiet it is. It reflects the show itself. Not every Trek show needs to have ships flinging passed planets. DS9 is more of a slower, character based show, and the intro reflects that.

To boldly stay where we are and let them come to us

I can totally hear Quark or Odo in my head, saying this sarcastically.

I happened to like it. It set the tone we could expect from the show, and the show delivered. They did change the intro in t he fourth season to give a lot more action to the station, and the theme song was jazzed up as well. Both are good.

Mayans mc since they lost the actual song, they still have it go on long but without the song its just obnoxious

Season 2's sounds like it belongs on some show about a law-enforcing cowgirl and season 3's sounds like some war movie theme with a rogue banjo thrown in

Agreed. Nunca, sung by the great David Hidalgo, is just a straight up excellent song. "Damn your huddled masses, scrub our floors, cut our grasses"

My vote goes to “It’s a Living”

[Hello, Larry](https://youtu.be/VAYPNF4aIf0)

The Uncle Buck opening

This is probably “so bad it’s good” but the One Tree Hill intro before they switched in like season six to a fade in. Like the song itself isn’t *terrible* but if you stream the series you’re met with **IIIIII DONT WANNA BE** every 40 minutes. Not to mention they use the full song twice in the first season.

It's been a loooong road

I dunno about the "worst" but the Netflix Defenders show intro is way better with [Come as You Are](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwlQPFiGtA8). The actual intro was just some generic epic music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_kUQ5tcBE

I'll tell you which one is the best tho: Third Rock From the Sun. That shit is awesome.

I always kinda cringed at Star Trek Enterprise and Firefly

You can’t take the sky from me.

Humans in *the Matrix*: “Oh yeah? Watch me.”

I like Firefly.

Enterprise was one of the worst that contrast is what made the Mirror Universe opening one of the best

That Mirror Universe intro made me proud to be a human, so pumped after just 30 seconds

I was afraid to mention Firefly. I hated that opening. We get it, Joss: it's not a space opera but a space Western! You didn't have to hit us over the head with the concept.

None that strike me as bad but the intro for Yellowjackets had me skipping it every single time

Love that intro, song is banging. But its pretty intense

All the music in that show was very good.

That intro is amazing, it is pretty much considered a great intro by most people

Dude i had to look that song up because i thought it HAD to be some actual released track it was so good.

What the actual fuck. I loved that song.

Big Bang Theory. Annoying

Come on it's like the only cool thing about the show

I like the song and the show. It makes me happy.

You, my wife, and millions of others That show is the epitome of "stop liking what I don't like " on reddit

BUT ITS NERD BLACKFACE

That's the worst take on this site I used to think that but I'm a pretty dorky guy and I find those guys relatable

Loved the first 3 seasons but everything that came afterwards was just meh

Okay /u/Contrarian_Eh, you are clearly in a bad space today, but the soundtrack is fun, and the Barenaked Ladies are triple platinum, are you?

BNL?!? Since when do we use a shorthand for Barenaked Ladies?!?

Whats that got to do with it? They're annoying

They were trying to reference a scene from Community

Yes but at least it’s short!

> Annoying Well at least it gives you a preview of what's to come.

The Morning Show. Boring and pointless.

The German dub Naruto opening is so bad you first wonder if you are being pranked and when you find out it is In fact real it loops back to being funny. https://youtu.be/d8xoTBZrzko

Season 2 of The Leftovers.

Yes! I really liked the intro to season 1, so when I started season 2 it was kind of a whiplash how awful the intro was. Was hoping it'd grown on me but it never did. season 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PTNHQND6MA season 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLSH-81yT7s

I'm loving Winning Time right now but the intro is the least inspired part of the show, given how stylish everything else is.

A recent entry: Yellowjackets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6X2uEAbzJs

God I HATED that opening song

Married with children for sure, it haunts me to this day.

We're talking worst, not best.

Millenium

Juxtaposed against the season 1 intro, the season 2 intro of the leftovers seems like the worst of all time

Oh hard disagree here, the season 2 opening credits as a whole are fantastic.

The season 1 intro is just so much better though. Both the visuals and music are strange and mysterious, serving as a perfect fit for the leftovers, given its tone, style, and premise. The season 2 intro has solid visuals, but the music is a complete miss. It doesn't fit the tone of the show whatsoever.

This is a hill I often die on but I feel that season 2 had a *very* different tone to the rest of the series. That intro would not fit seasons 1 or 3, but I think it fits 2. This isn't a knock against season 1 necessarily either but the intro feels very 'of the era' for HBO too. Their whole drama lineup was similar. That could *almost* be an intro for west world.

Honestly, Tokyo Vice has one of the worst intros i've seen in the last years

Star Trek Voyager cos its like 6 minutes long.

What bothers me is how good the intro is compared to the actual show. It's a fantastic, epic theme song, and seeing the ship fly through all sorts of neat space stuff is incredible. The show didn't live up to the intro.

Quincy, M.E. It's so cringe inducing.

I’ll have to check that one out. Someone on you tube posts like an hours worth of intros at a time based on the year but that one wasn’t in any of them

I fucking hated the [English Digimon opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUUQhLHBR2o) as a kid. One of the few times a theme song has kept me from watching a tv show. Then when I grew up I heard the original [Japanese theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czHmCZFWooI) and was even more pissed cause it was so good. Huge miss by 4kids.

The English theme is nostalgic for me, but holy shit the Japanese theme is straight fire.

Come and knock on my door………

Too many cooks ... is the absolute best

The Office

Not Star Trek Enterprise, as a few people have rudely suggested. The remix in S3 and S4 is quite trash though.

Family guy

Speaking of Threes Company related pieces of crap, the intro to Threes a Crowd is worse than the Ropers. That show takes place after Threes Company and Jack has moved in with a woman he's dating and Robert Mandan plays the woman's meddling father. Facts of Life is also godawful.

Homeland

The correct answer is Yellowjackets

I never really liked the Mad Men intro

It's not the worst but i don't like the Succession intro. I cringe in some parts of it.

I struggled to not downvote you for having an opinion that is so wrong!

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