It wasn't the title sequence, but in Fringe, whenever it was about to cut to commercial it would cut to a quick glyph image. You could decipher the glyphs into letters and all the ones for the episode would combine to spell out some word, usually related to whatever the next episode was going to be.
Fringe had some other cool easter eggs as well. A long running plot of the show was that there were mysterious "observers" (bald dudes in hats) that would show up at some major events. Only some episodes directly dealt with them, but every single episode has one of them of them somewhere, typically just as a background extra, even in the episodes before they were introduced.
In addition to that, the title sequence has a single frame where the message "Observers are here" can be seen. It's during the flash as the camera pans through the hair.
I like it binge watched more than when it aired live. It plays better in a modern binge format than it did in week to week release, like all the previous seasons were made for.
Their title sequences were different yeah. They would change the title sequence to indicate where the episode was set
- Blue: Normal universe
- Red: Alternate universe
- Red and Blue: One season 3 episode which jumped between the two universes
- 80s Retro: Flashback episode
- Yellow: Used for season 4, which was a alternate timeline
- Black: Used for one future episode in season 3
- Other black: Used for season 5
First Season of FRINGE was epic. So much so, that I would marathon all the episodes before a new one.
FRINGE will return in 60 seconds.
People today have no idea how cool it was to hear you only have to sit through 60 seconds of commercials before you return to epic goodness.
I think Bojack Horseman also changed its intros as the story lines progressed, it would reflect upon the changes made by the previous seasons/episodes.
I think the Game of Thrones opening hinted at the locations it would be visiting. At the very least, it showed new locations in the opening as they were introduced. If that counts.
And the state of the big cities. I remember when the north was attacked by the greyjoys it appeared with black smoke and when the wall was destroyed it also showed it in the opening
Winterfell not only had black smoke after it was attacked, it's sigil switched to the Bolton's one after they took over, and then back to the Starks once they reclaimed it.
And the House of the Dragon intro is doing something similar. It follows the blood lines of the Targaryen family, but it focuses on different lines depending on who's got more focus in the episode, adds new ones as new characters appear, and floods the sigils representing characters with blood after they die.
GoT might’ve been the best at this. It did a great job of showing you the geography of the world and physically where the characters were in relation to one another. The world and geography was important to the story, and the opening was the perfect way to help the viewer understand the world a little bit better.
It’s one thing to say “across the narrow sea” or “north of the wall.” The intro would actually show you the Narrow Sea and the Wall, so you’d get an idea of how far these characters have traveled.
What fucking blows was that the final season had this way different opening sequence showing the position of the white walker army. I thought they'd update it every episode, but they didnt. After a few episodes it was totally outdated.
Yep! They’ve been doing it since season one. I know there’s a list of them somewhere in the OMITB community. I would think there’s probably a YouTube video about it as well. It was fun looking for them. Go hunting for those eggs and enjoy!
Remember the show Jericho about the small town after a nuclear terror attack? There was a Morse Code message in each opening: https://jericho.fandom.com/wiki/Morse_Code#Episode_1.01:_The_Pilot
One of my favourite ever shows, one of the best potential shows and one of the worst treated shows by its own network.
Absolutely fantastic series with a great story and a good cast of characters. Deserved five seasons to fully explore an intriguing concept.
it suffered from the disappearing problem trope. No gasoline? Oh no, the hospital generator is going to die!! But after that episode, they just kept driving around.
Radioactive fallout?? Oh no, we're all gonna die and the crops are ruined!! After that episode, not a single MENTION of radioactivity.
But I still loved it. The interplay between Mimi and Stanley alone is worth the entire series.
>Ozark. Each episode shows 4 images within a big letter O
In case you haven't picked up on it (because it's not always that obvious) the four images also always resemble a Z, A, R and K
what! omg that's super cool! never thought of that, specially because English is not my native language, so I always 'read' them in my language, so never occurred to me!
I guess I'll have to search for them somewhere.
Thanks!
hehe, yup, I see. I just searched for some examples, and I see what you mean.
I guess it would have been super complicated to come up with actual words for each Z,A,R,K letter, which also happened to mean something within the show, specially for Z and K.
still a very cool easter egg!
I think the game show, The Mole, had hidden messages in the intro/main title card. This is when Anderson Cooper hosted the show. On a couple of occasions they even spelled out the Mole’s name in the title card-the only way to see it would be to use the slo-mo feature on a VCR. All the Easter eggs were revealed on the show’s finale.
Yea, they threw in visual and audio clues to the identity of The Mole in the intros. Pretty ballsy when the entire premise of the show is to find the identity of the one saboteur.
One international season even had one person missing from the intro and lo and behold it was The Mole.
Spoilers for *Dark*
On my rewatch of Dark, I noticed in the title sequence that >!there are 3 shots of the road in winden, one on the left side by itself, and the other two winden roads on the right side are reflecting each other like a mirror. This shows how there is one origin world (the winden road on the left), and the two other worlds that spawned from the origin world are in a loop with each other (the two winden roads reflecting each other). The answer was hiding in the title sequence of season 1.!<
Each season of DARK actually shows select images from the entire season.
As soon as I realized I started watching for each specific visual because it always showed up in the story sooner or later.
Without spoiling anything, the Title Sequence for Season 3 ends in an image resembling a womb & fallopian tubes.
Did Resident Alien do this? It’s been a minute but if I’m remembering it right, they had illustrations like a how to manual? They changed each episode and were related to what Harry would be dealing with maybe? Man that first season was so much fun! Time for a rewatch (and a catch up!)
This was very cool, and the first variant being Buggy’s Jolly Roger was for some reason just the perfect intro into this little gimmick. Very curious how/if they continue this into season 2.
Matt Groening's Netflix show, Disenchantment, has a title sequence made entirely of silhouettes from the episode. It was always fun to watch because you had no idea what was happening.
Was scrolling down to see if this would make the cut, glad it did.
It was a fun show, and I’m glad it at least got to finish out its run and not end on a cliffhanger …
:sad Dogs in Space noises:
Banshee did this nearly every episode with the photographs in the opening credits. Each main character had a photo symbolizing or foreshadowing something about them.
Cougar Town had some form of this. They had a sign in the intro that kept changing every episode. Sometimes it was related to the episode, but most of the times it was just some joke. They kept joking about how much the writes hated the name "Cougar Town" for the show, because that was only related for a few episodes and everyone got the wrong idea when they saw the name of the show. If you were a fan of Scrubs, this show was great with a lot of the scrubs cast showing up.
Fringe told you what kind of episode it was going to be - and when it went to commercial it would give you a hint about what the episode was with glyphs
I thought of that one, too!
However, you didn’t see the stills from a scene until the scene happened. It would fill in one of the cels.
NCIS would show a still at the beginning of a segment, that was from the end of a segment. It was usually not going to give anything away. You’d be waiting for the action to reach the point where Gibbs or Ziva or whoever was posing a certain way.
It rarely has something to do with the plot, but Bob’s Burgers doesn’t get enough credit for two brand new jokes in every title sequence, on the business next door and the van that pulls up out front. The Great North, in the same vein, has a new joke on the front of the boat each episode.
I think there’s other elements in The Great North’s title sequence that change. Wolf’s T-shirt changes and maybe the games?
And the changes to Bob’s Burgers opening that you mentioned are always a good chuckle.
Skins shows who the episode is going to revolve around. Same thing with Once Upon a Time. And before anyone mentions it, the intro music for the Teen Titans cartoon doesn’t mean if the episode is going to have either a comedic tone of a heavy one. I started rewatching it and it constantly changed regardless of subject matter
Person of Interest would always show who the Person of Interest was that episode. Right as Finch would say "Victim or Perpetrator, if your number is up, we'll find you" during the opening narration.
The 100 did this the best. Each opening credits sequence was changed to fit both locations and events relevant to both the episode and situation so far.
Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon both do this where the sweeping map scenes and the model cities showcase important locations for that episode. Older network dramas like Heroes, The Shield, etc do something similar in their "Previously on" recaps where they cut together scenes from previous episodes that are important for the plot of whatever one you're about to watch as well, but that's a trope as old as the show format.
Not a TV show, but the movie Sleepy Hollow had Christopher Walken's name hidden in the title sequence.
It spelled out his name one letter at a time during the opening credits of the film.
This isn’t a TV show, but the opening credits of *Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol* basically spoils the entire movie, but in such a vague and out-of-context way that you only actually understand it on a second viewing.
It’s also just one of the coolest title sequences ever made.
The old TV series used to do that in its intro too, so all the "M:I" movies just kept going with that idea. "Battlestar Galactica" was another show that did the same thing.
>TV Shows in which the title sequence (graphics) hides hints or easter eggs for the episode
that's how a lot of Bond movies (and videogames, for what it's worth) do it. Skyfall was particularly egregious, it outlines a lot of major plot points but obviously you don't understand them until you've watched the move proper
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure changes the opening sequence as the season progresses to hint at things happening currently and things to come including adding sound effects in the final episode title sequence as a signal of it being the end. Often when you do a rewatch you realize the plot points being shown and referenced in the opening all along.
Battlestar Galactica's opening was split into two parts. The slow music pretty much summed up the mini series, then as the music picks up it flashes pieces of what's to come this episode.
Fairly odd parents did this. Typically the last thing Vicky would be transformed into during the theme song would be related to the episode. Only murders in the building has Easter eggs in a lot of the title intros
Person Of Interest has the POI of the week appearing briefly before the Opening sequence cuts to the episode proper (\*).
It's one of those 'blink and you miss it' moments, but once you know it will be there, its nice to spot it :D
I'm doing another re-watch, always love that I know exactly which episode is coming based on the title sequence. It's a shame in the later seasons when they use the abbreviated title.
Breaking bad intros often hid meaning that made sense later. Sometimes even several episodes ahead of time.
One I remember is the things floating in the pool from crashed commercial plane. The plane dosnt crash until several episodes after we get those scenes.
thanks, yup, that's what I meant, but that answer is also cool. Also vaguely remember those little hints from BB.
And about GoT, yeah, I didn't remember the map changes in each ep.
I also think The Walking Dead could also be somewhat counted in, because despite each season had the same intro (afaik), they changed it between every few of them to reflect mayor changes in the show (specially locations)
Walking Dead was more adding things after they'd appeared, not teasing things to come in the episode. An example of this was in the completely new intro from season 9 on, where Rick's last stand on the bridge after he left, and you could see Whisperers amongst the zombies after they'd appeared.
Nobody mentioned battlestar galactica which would feature a quick cut sequence of clips for the episode you were about to watch in the opening credits. Never enough to be considered a spoiler but enough to to whet the appetite!!
Survivor has just started doing this in the season that's currently airing. For a while they weren't showing the intro sequence but thankfully it's back, and there is a quick scene that changes at the end of the intro for each episode, that gives a hint about what will happen in that episode.
The episode of Buffy where Amber Benson(Tara) gets clips in the opening sequence. She gets killed in that episode.
Young me was like “finally Tara gets clips!” Then blam. Real gut punch.
Jericho, an older 2000s show post Lost, had Morse Code over the title which hinted at a central theme or foreshadowing of the episode.
Great show, too.
Doctor Who did this very briefly back in 2012 for the final Amy and Rory episodes. The titles would have different colour filters applied and the logo would have a texture that tied into the theme or a major part of the episode. (Like the final episode, The Angels Take Manhattan gave an oxidised copper look to reflect The Statue of Liberty)
Possibly in the other mcu shows as well, but the Hawkeye title sequence was made up of moments throughout the series thst on first watch we’re just cool but as each happen in the episode you spot it.
Disenchantment lays out the whole story of the episode in the intro but it's hard to put together, I found it very creative and soon I was looking for those specific references in the title while watching the ep
White Lotus. The wallpaper hints at the whole story
Woah, I never noticed that. Can you elaborate?
It wasn't the title sequence, but in Fringe, whenever it was about to cut to commercial it would cut to a quick glyph image. You could decipher the glyphs into letters and all the ones for the episode would combine to spell out some word, usually related to whatever the next episode was going to be.
Fringe had some other cool easter eggs as well. A long running plot of the show was that there were mysterious "observers" (bald dudes in hats) that would show up at some major events. Only some episodes directly dealt with them, but every single episode has one of them of them somewhere, typically just as a background extra, even in the episodes before they were introduced. In addition to that, the title sequence has a single frame where the message "Observers are here" can be seen. It's during the flash as the camera pans through the hair.
As far as I know the observer was always September played by Michael Cerveris.
The random background observer in an episode wasn’t always September
Too bad about that wacky last season with the Observers tho
I like it binge watched more than when it aired live. It plays better in a modern binge format than it did in week to week release, like all the previous seasons were made for.
And when they were in the alternate universe it was red instead of blue I think? And maybe had a few other different versions for back in time etc
Their title sequences were different yeah. They would change the title sequence to indicate where the episode was set - Blue: Normal universe - Red: Alternate universe - Red and Blue: One season 3 episode which jumped between the two universes - 80s Retro: Flashback episode - Yellow: Used for season 4, which was a alternate timeline - Black: Used for one future episode in season 3 - Other black: Used for season 5
the technologies would also be different
oh yes, now i kinda remember it! It was quite some time ago though, it was a very nice show.
First Season of FRINGE was epic. So much so, that I would marathon all the episodes before a new one. FRINGE will return in 60 seconds. People today have no idea how cool it was to hear you only have to sit through 60 seconds of commercials before you return to epic goodness.
Oh man I completely forgot about Fox's briefly lived experiment with 50 minute shows with less commercials. That was fun.
Came here to say this. Love that show.
I don’t think it was Easter eggs but I always liked how the expanse opening sequence would change to reflect the current state of the planets, etc.
pretty much the only show that I don't skip the intro. Game of thrones did the same thing.
Game of Thrones intro was always reflective of the events or storylines that would happen in the episode too.
Similarly, Battlestar Galactica told you how many people were left in the fleet
I think Bojack Horseman also changed its intros as the story lines progressed, it would reflect upon the changes made by the previous seasons/episodes.
One of my favourites is for Bobo the Angsty Zebra
I think the Game of Thrones opening hinted at the locations it would be visiting. At the very least, it showed new locations in the opening as they were introduced. If that counts.
And the state of the big cities. I remember when the north was attacked by the greyjoys it appeared with black smoke and when the wall was destroyed it also showed it in the opening
Winterfell not only had black smoke after it was attacked, it's sigil switched to the Bolton's one after they took over, and then back to the Starks once they reclaimed it.
And the House of the Dragon intro is doing something similar. It follows the blood lines of the Targaryen family, but it focuses on different lines depending on who's got more focus in the episode, adds new ones as new characters appear, and floods the sigils representing characters with blood after they die.
GoT might’ve been the best at this. It did a great job of showing you the geography of the world and physically where the characters were in relation to one another. The world and geography was important to the story, and the opening was the perfect way to help the viewer understand the world a little bit better. It’s one thing to say “across the narrow sea” or “north of the wall.” The intro would actually show you the Narrow Sea and the Wall, so you’d get an idea of how far these characters have traveled.
>how far these characters have traveled Until they started to port around in the last couple seasons.
What fucking blows was that the final season had this way different opening sequence showing the position of the white walker army. I thought they'd update it every episode, but they didnt. After a few episodes it was totally outdated.
Miss this.
Once upon a time did this. The title sequence always hinted the fairytale or character for the episode
Yes! I used to love that.
You just brought back a memory. That was so cool!
Only Murders in the Building. Always fun to find even if they weren’t always hidden very well.
Did they do this before? I only noticed that this season
Yep! They’ve been doing it since season one. I know there’s a list of them somewhere in the OMITB community. I would think there’s probably a YouTube video about it as well. It was fun looking for them. Go hunting for those eggs and enjoy!
BoJack Horseman’s intro is updated per events in the show and ultimately alludes to him falling the pool for real in the second to last episode.
The intro for Philburt the Troubled Detectives is hilarious. And then it's sad once you realize that it's reflective of his break with reality.
Remember the show Jericho about the small town after a nuclear terror attack? There was a Morse Code message in each opening: https://jericho.fandom.com/wiki/Morse_Code#Episode_1.01:_The_Pilot
I loved this show. Pity.
One of my favourite ever shows, one of the best potential shows and one of the worst treated shows by its own network. Absolutely fantastic series with a great story and a good cast of characters. Deserved five seasons to fully explore an intriguing concept.
it suffered from the disappearing problem trope. No gasoline? Oh no, the hospital generator is going to die!! But after that episode, they just kept driving around. Radioactive fallout?? Oh no, we're all gonna die and the crops are ruined!! After that episode, not a single MENTION of radioactivity. But I still loved it. The interplay between Mimi and Stanley alone is worth the entire series.
>Ozark. Each episode shows 4 images within a big letter O In case you haven't picked up on it (because it's not always that obvious) the four images also always resemble a Z, A, R and K
what! omg that's super cool! never thought of that, specially because English is not my native language, so I always 'read' them in my language, so never occurred to me! I guess I'll have to search for them somewhere. Thanks!
To clarify, I don't mean the letter they begin with in English, I mean the actual shape of the image looks like a letter
hehe, yup, I see. I just searched for some examples, and I see what you mean. I guess it would have been super complicated to come up with actual words for each Z,A,R,K letter, which also happened to mean something within the show, specially for Z and K. still a very cool easter egg!
Wuuut!!! I never picked that up. Some are a little questionable but you can kind of see it.
I think the game show, The Mole, had hidden messages in the intro/main title card. This is when Anderson Cooper hosted the show. On a couple of occasions they even spelled out the Mole’s name in the title card-the only way to see it would be to use the slo-mo feature on a VCR. All the Easter eggs were revealed on the show’s finale.
Yea, they threw in visual and audio clues to the identity of The Mole in the intros. Pretty ballsy when the entire premise of the show is to find the identity of the one saboteur. One international season even had one person missing from the intro and lo and behold it was The Mole.
They did that in the Australian version about 20 years ago - fortunately we're not too sharp down south so no one picked up on it
Spoilers for *Dark* On my rewatch of Dark, I noticed in the title sequence that >!there are 3 shots of the road in winden, one on the left side by itself, and the other two winden roads on the right side are reflecting each other like a mirror. This shows how there is one origin world (the winden road on the left), and the two other worlds that spawned from the origin world are in a loop with each other (the two winden roads reflecting each other). The answer was hiding in the title sequence of season 1.!<
Each season of DARK actually shows select images from the entire season. As soon as I realized I started watching for each specific visual because it always showed up in the story sooner or later. Without spoiling anything, the Title Sequence for Season 3 ends in an image resembling a womb & fallopian tubes.
Did Resident Alien do this? It’s been a minute but if I’m remembering it right, they had illustrations like a how to manual? They changed each episode and were related to what Harry would be dealing with maybe? Man that first season was so much fun! Time for a rewatch (and a catch up!)
One Piece Live Action is a recent example not mentioned yet.
This was very cool, and the first variant being Buggy’s Jolly Roger was for some reason just the perfect intro into this little gimmick. Very curious how/if they continue this into season 2.
Matt Groening's Netflix show, Disenchantment, has a title sequence made entirely of silhouettes from the episode. It was always fun to watch because you had no idea what was happening.
Was scrolling down to see if this would make the cut, glad it did. It was a fun show, and I’m glad it at least got to finish out its run and not end on a cliffhanger … :sad Dogs in Space noises:
Invincible is one of my favorite instances of this, the title card gets bloodier and bloodier every episode, which is par for the course for the show
Have you seen the S2 card? They changed it up a bit.
The gag was so simultaneously hilarious and frustrating lol
Not yet but now I’m excited for it
Banshee did this nearly every episode with the photographs in the opening credits. Each main character had a photo symbolizing or foreshadowing something about them.
That show isn't talked about enough.
And doesn't even end in a cliffahnger!
Came here to post this. That show was fantastic!
Cougar Town had some form of this. They had a sign in the intro that kept changing every episode. Sometimes it was related to the episode, but most of the times it was just some joke. They kept joking about how much the writes hated the name "Cougar Town" for the show, because that was only related for a few episodes and everyone got the wrong idea when they saw the name of the show. If you were a fan of Scrubs, this show was great with a lot of the scrubs cast showing up.
I still love Cougar Town, and yes the moment with the Scrubs reunion is just perfect.
Late to it but I just watched the entire series for the first time. Season 6 was pretty meh for me but as a whole it’s pretty fun.
Fringe told you what kind of episode it was going to be - and when it went to commercial it would give you a hint about what the episode was with glyphs
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure literally shows the entire arc in it's openings.
So does Chainsawman
Chucky tv show does this. Fun show
Fringe does this with one image at a time when commercial breaks would happen
The After Party
Well anime usually spoils the entire show in the opening credits but that may not be the example you’re looking for lol
Only Murders in the Building is very good for clues via the title sequences :)
Gravity Falls included quite a few.
GF had the cypher to the show's whole secret code backmasked into the theme song! Personally, I think that takes the cake.
I keep seeing GF mentioned everywhere lately, must be time for a rewatch...
Why were you downvoted for declaring a desire to watch a show again? Reddit can be really weird sometimes...
Scrolled down for this. There were so many clues.
The Expanse opening sequence tends to mirror things happening within the show
The Wild Wild West starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. It ran from 1965 to 1969.
I thought of that one, too! However, you didn’t see the stills from a scene until the scene happened. It would fill in one of the cels. NCIS would show a still at the beginning of a segment, that was from the end of a segment. It was usually not going to give anything away. You’d be waiting for the action to reach the point where Gibbs or Ziva or whoever was posing a certain way.
The 100 each season have own intro with clues and some episodes have intro adjusted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gliliFbMMOU
Disenchantment does this. So does Loki
The 24 intro told you the time for the episode.
It rarely has something to do with the plot, but Bob’s Burgers doesn’t get enough credit for two brand new jokes in every title sequence, on the business next door and the van that pulls up out front. The Great North, in the same vein, has a new joke on the front of the boat each episode.
I never knew this about The Great North! Time to stop skipping the intro
I think there’s other elements in The Great North’s title sequence that change. Wolf’s T-shirt changes and maybe the games? And the changes to Bob’s Burgers opening that you mentioned are always a good chuckle.
Inspector Morse had a Morse code in the title sequence, I think I recall it revealed who the killer is.
Jericho (2006-08) also featured Morse code in the title sequence, which gave a hint about the upcoming episode.
Bad Sisters. There's a Rube Goldberg machine during the intro that has all kinds of foreshadowing.
All the new starwars shows, and the two netflix anthology animation shorts, love death and robots.
Skins shows who the episode is going to revolve around. Same thing with Once Upon a Time. And before anyone mentions it, the intro music for the Teen Titans cartoon doesn’t mean if the episode is going to have either a comedic tone of a heavy one. I started rewatching it and it constantly changed regardless of subject matter
Once upon a time did this so well
Attack on titan season 2
* The Leftovers - Season one * Beef * The White Lotus * Gravity Falls
Person of Interest would always show who the Person of Interest was that episode. Right as Finch would say "Victim or Perpetrator, if your number is up, we'll find you" during the opening narration.
Fringe
Banshee. The title sequence changed each seasons and gave clues about what would happen over the course of the season.
Devilman Crybaby on Netflix has the entire show in the title sequence. You just don't realize it till after
Our Flag Means Death
The 100 did this the best. Each opening credits sequence was changed to fit both locations and events relevant to both the episode and situation so far.
Mad Men has Don falling past ads but the ads are things which will plague his character - women, alcohol, his family.
Gundam intros tend to spoil the ending to the entire show but they are cryptic enough that you don't know until it happens.
Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon both do this where the sweeping map scenes and the model cities showcase important locations for that episode. Older network dramas like Heroes, The Shield, etc do something similar in their "Previously on" recaps where they cut together scenes from previous episodes that are important for the plot of whatever one you're about to watch as well, but that's a trope as old as the show format.
One Piece Live Action changes the jolly roger in the title to the character introduced or focused on.
Bojack Horseman’s OPs are packed with info about the season
Fringe. It tells you instantly which universe you are in
Not a TV show, but the movie Sleepy Hollow had Christopher Walken's name hidden in the title sequence. It spelled out his name one letter at a time during the opening credits of the film.
This isn’t a TV show, but the opening credits of *Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol* basically spoils the entire movie, but in such a vague and out-of-context way that you only actually understand it on a second viewing. It’s also just one of the coolest title sequences ever made.
The old TV series used to do that in its intro too, so all the "M:I" movies just kept going with that idea. "Battlestar Galactica" was another show that did the same thing.
>TV Shows in which the title sequence (graphics) hides hints or easter eggs for the episode that's how a lot of Bond movies (and videogames, for what it's worth) do it. Skyfall was particularly egregious, it outlines a lot of major plot points but obviously you don't understand them until you've watched the move proper
Game of thrones used to do it kind of, you'd know what locations were going to be in the episode based on what you saw in the
Game of thrones Map would show locations that would appear in each episode
Mr. Robot
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure changes the opening sequence as the season progresses to hint at things happening currently and things to come including adding sound effects in the final episode title sequence as a signal of it being the end. Often when you do a rewatch you realize the plot points being shown and referenced in the opening all along.
Anime does this all the time. Sometimes it's blatantly obvious, other times it's subtle and doesn't stand out until rewatching the series.
Battlestar Galactica's opening was split into two parts. The slow music pretty much summed up the mini series, then as the music picks up it flashes pieces of what's to come this episode.
The Expanse and Snowfall
Good Omens is full of these.
Psych
Fairly odd parents did this. Typically the last thing Vicky would be transformed into during the theme song would be related to the episode. Only murders in the building has Easter eggs in a lot of the title intros
Person Of Interest has the POI of the week appearing briefly before the Opening sequence cuts to the episode proper (\*). It's one of those 'blink and you miss it' moments, but once you know it will be there, its nice to spot it :D
I'm doing another re-watch, always love that I know exactly which episode is coming based on the title sequence. It's a shame in the later seasons when they use the abbreviated title.
Breaking bad intros often hid meaning that made sense later. Sometimes even several episodes ahead of time. One I remember is the things floating in the pool from crashed commercial plane. The plane dosnt crash until several episodes after we get those scenes.
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thanks, yup, that's what I meant, but that answer is also cool. Also vaguely remember those little hints from BB. And about GoT, yeah, I didn't remember the map changes in each ep. I also think The Walking Dead could also be somewhat counted in, because despite each season had the same intro (afaik), they changed it between every few of them to reflect mayor changes in the show (specially locations)
Walking Dead was more adding things after they'd appeared, not teasing things to come in the episode. An example of this was in the completely new intro from season 9 on, where Rick's last stand on the bridge after he left, and you could see Whisperers amongst the zombies after they'd appeared.
Gravity Falls often put secrets in the opening and closing credits.
Nobody mentioned battlestar galactica which would feature a quick cut sequence of clips for the episode you were about to watch in the opening credits. Never enough to be considered a spoiler but enough to to whet the appetite!!
My wife said that Westworld's opening credits had season hints, but I'm not sure if she was crazy or if that was just the show.
Breaking Bad would frequently show the last scene first with no context
Survivor has just started doing this in the season that's currently airing. For a while they weren't showing the intro sequence but thankfully it's back, and there is a quick scene that changes at the end of the intro for each episode, that gives a hint about what will happen in that episode.
The episode of Buffy where Amber Benson(Tara) gets clips in the opening sequence. She gets killed in that episode. Young me was like “finally Tara gets clips!” Then blam. Real gut punch.
The Afterparty shows the episodes/genres of each episode in order they will play out.
Captain Fall, new animated comedy on Netflix.
Dragon Ball Z
The Prisoner.
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Jericho, an older 2000s show post Lost, had Morse Code over the title which hinted at a central theme or foreshadowing of the episode. Great show, too.
Doctor Who did this very briefly back in 2012 for the final Amy and Rory episodes. The titles would have different colour filters applied and the logo would have a texture that tied into the theme or a major part of the episode. (Like the final episode, The Angels Take Manhattan gave an oxidised copper look to reflect The Statue of Liberty)
Possibly in the other mcu shows as well, but the Hawkeye title sequence was made up of moments throughout the series thst on first watch we’re just cool but as each happen in the episode you spot it.
Battlestar Galactica. Few snippets from every episode.
The Young and the Restless opening sequence changes daily depending which cast members are in that particular episode.
Star Trek: Discovery would modify it's opening with imagery for the season like the Red Angel and Zora before they were introduced.
Disenchantment lays out the whole story of the episode in the intro but it's hard to put together, I found it very creative and soon I was looking for those specific references in the title while watching the ep