Television

The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
He's a one boy cuddly toy, my up, my down, my pride and joy

Welcome Back, Kotter

Yeah. we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot, Welcome back

Hey baby, I hear the blues a-callin', tossed salads and scrambled eggs

The sound of hoof beats cross the glade! Good folk, lock up your son and daughter! Beware the deadly flashing blade, unless you want to end up shorter!

WooooWeeeeeeHooooooo HeeeeeeHoooooooWooooooooo

The Unskippable

Littlest hobo.

I'm not saying it because it's good - it's okay - but just to implant the song in your head.

You're already singing it now.

I got implanted one Friday as I was leaving work: I walked past a peer's desk and he sang the words, "There's a voice...", and I was earwormed for 3 months.

I hate openers. The shorter the better.

I really like the theme song to ALF

I feel like this question is invalid with anime not being explicitly included or excluded.

Included, it's simply not fair to anything not anime. I could take the ten, hell, the 25 best anime openings, exclude them, and still be able to post examples that utterly destroy any TV series you could name. It's not hard.

Excluded, it's a lot more fair.

Say what you want about anime animation, but the animators put their best work into the opening. And the music? Anime is to Japanese pop and rock what MTV was to American pop and rock in the 1980s, the hit maker. These songs are reaching international audiences and getting people to check out the rest of their music. Some Japanese bands refuse to use anime for exposure, but a lot of them live and die from it. I think ONE OK ROCK finally relented just to shut people up (and they went with a children's programme, Beyblade X), but a lot of other bands are known because of the anime series people first heard them in.

It's been 16 years, but one of anime's top-rated series still has an outstanding first opening. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OP 1 "Again" by YUI

Invincible intro sequence, it's short, but they do so much with it and really use it in meta ways

For the best I submit 1990 Bezerker intro: https://youtu.be/evQd6TVa8H4 And outro: https://youtu.be/8MlYBcRr-dU The worst: Most other anime

Ba-dah ba-dah ba-dah baaaahhh-daaaah!

Best: Logan's Run

Worst: Anything else

For best I'd say daily dose of sunshine. It's so simple, yet so effective for me..

For worst...? Ehhh, not sure rlly

All of Crazy Ex Girlfriend's were great

Guuummibäääärn

Nobody mentioned the absolute banger of Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs. You're welcome.

His dark materials has a great visual and song that I think is very underrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbrGQ1HXIu0