Comedy · 2020s
The 2020s account for 54 of the 654 comedy shows here, and 54 opening sequences.
Apple TV+ carries the most, with 13.
54 shows54 sequences
1 sequence
Ted Lasso
Twenty-two seconds of Richmond's own stadium seats, photographed close and covered in fan graffiti, over a brass hook — brisk, warm, and gone before it can outstay itself.
- Season 2
1 sequence
The Bear
A kitchen show with no main titles at all — it opens cold, every week, which is exactly the sensation of a service starting.
- Season 3
1 sequence
Shrinking
Hand-drawn scribbles over domestic footage, in the register of a therapist's notebook margin.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Peacemaker
The entire cast dancing in formation, in costume, completely deadpan, to Wig Wam's 'Do Ya Wanna Taste It'. No plot content whatsoever, and the best argument on this site for titles as a bit.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Only Murders in the Building
The Arconia drawn as a cutaway illustration with the residents inside it, redrawn each season as the building's secrets change.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Chair Company
Tim Robinson on a man who will not let a collapsing office chair go.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Betty
A group of women skateboarding in New York, expanded from the film Skate Kitchen.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Abbott Elementary
A Philadelphia public school shot as a documentary, and the first network comedy in years to become a hit on its own terms.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Emily in Paris
Paris as a postcard rack — every landmark in order, photographed exactly as the show's protagonist would photograph them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Man on the Inside
A retired professor sent undercover into a care home, from the creator of The Good Place.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Hacks
Las Vegas residency glamour, played straight enough to sting — a comedian's brand doing the work of a title sequence.
- Season 1
1 sequencePalm Royale
Late-sixties Palm Beach as a resort brochure — pastels, poolside and social climbing, all rendered with a completely straight face.
- Season 1
1 sequencePlatonic
Hand-lettered titles over Los Angeles in the afternoon, keeping the show's register exactly: pleasant, and slightly off.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNever Have I Ever
Mindy Kaling's high-school series, narrated by John McEnroe for reasons the titles do not explain.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSomebody Somewhere
Kansas roads and grain elevators, filmed without a trace of irony — a small show that declines to make its setting a joke.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBad Sisters
Five sisters and the man they intend to kill, arranged like a family portrait that keeps rearranging itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Rehearsal
Constructed sets and blueprints presented with total sincerity, which is the only register the show ever uses.
- Season 2
1 sequencePanchayat
An engineering graduate taking a village secretary's job in Uttar Pradesh because nothing better came.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSchmigadoon!
A couple trapped inside a Golden Age musical that will not let them leave until they find true love.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAdults
Five friends sharing a Queens house and failing at adulthood.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLoot
Extreme wealth drawn as a cheerful animated inventory — yachts, jets and foundations, arranged like a toy catalogue.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBusiness Proposal
A blind date under a false identity that turns out to be with the company's chief executive.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHow I Met Your Father
The How I Met Your Mother format restaged, with the same framing device and fifteen seconds of titles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Curse
Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie's series about a house-flipping couple, whose opening credits are different in every single episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMythic Quest
Twelve seconds of game-engine fantasy, presented with the seriousness of a launch trailer for a product nobody in the show can finish.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAvenue 5
A cruise-line logo in space, thirteen seconds long, with all the confidence of a company about to be sued.
- Season 2
1 sequenceShe-Hulk: Attorney at Law
A lawyer who is also a Hulk, in the one Marvel series that opens like a network sitcom and means it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Queen
A modern chef's soul trapped in a Joseon queen's body, from the Chinese web series Go Princess Go.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCunk on Earth
Philomena Cunk presenting human civilisation, opened by a ten-second parody of every documentary open ever made.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Afterparty
A different genre pastiche for every episode's narrator, which makes the titles the most honest summary the show could give of itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBig Boys
Jack Rooke's university comedy, which uses short animated stings rather than one fixed opening.
- Season 1
1 sequenceColin From Accounts
An Australian comedy that begins with a hit dog and is named after him.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTime Bandits
The Gilliam film as a series, made by the Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows writers.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRun
Two people who agreed years ago that either could send one word and the other would drop everything.
- Season 1
1 sequenceGirls5eva
A one-hit girl group reassembling in their forties, opened by their own hit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWhite House Plumbers
Eleven seconds of period government typography, played as though the men behind it were competent.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Franchise
The crew of a failing superhero film, from Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDoogie Kameāloha, M.D.
The Doogie premise moved to Oʻahu, with a title sequence built as a scrapbook rather than a montage.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceThe Baby-Sitters Club
The Ann M. Martin books adapted with a hand-lettered, sticker-book title sequence.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
The Henson revival, which rebuilds the 1983 theme shot for shot with new puppets.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoonbase 8
Three astronauts in an Arizona simulator, none of whom will ever go to the moon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmandaland
The Motherland spin-off, following the one character everybody else in it could not stand.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnimal Control
Municipal animal control officers, in the only workplace sitcom where the supporting cast bites.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChad Powers
A disgraced quarterback who returns to college football in prosthetics under an assumed name.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDTF St. Louis
A local weatherman in slow motion for a minute and a half, gold serif credits laid over him, to the back half of the Fifth Dimension's 'Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In'.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Great
Catherine's rise told as farce, and billed on screen as an occasionally true story.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMargo's Got Money Troubles
A dolls'-house assault course in hard candy colours, Margo tumbling room to room while the credits ride the furniture.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Roommate Is a Gumiho
A nine-tailed fox nine hundred years from becoming human, sharing a flat with the student who swallowed his bead.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Paper
The Office's documentary crew turning up at a dying Ohio newspaper, twelve years after they left Scranton.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Sex Lives of College Girls
Four roommates at a Vermont university, from Mindy Kaling, who has made this arrangement work before.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSt. Denis Medical
A short-staffed Oregon hospital, filmed as though a documentary crew had turned up and stayed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceStick
A washed-up golfer coaching a teenager, and one of the few 2025 series whose service posted its own titles.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Ted
The talking bear from the films as a 1990s teen sitcom, with everyone recast younger.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWizards Beyond Waverly Place
Wizards of Waverly Place continued a generation on, with the original lead handing the family over.
- Season 1