Adult Swim opening titles
Adult Swim accounts for 36 shows here, running from 1994 to the present, and 36 opening title sequences between them.
Mostly animation — 29 of the 36.
None of them rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.
36 shows · 36 sequences · oldest first
7 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequence
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
A 1960s Hanna-Barbera superhero repurposed as a chat-show host, and the programme every Adult Swim series descends from.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Home Movies
Nineteen seconds, squiggle-drawn, from the series that established the improvised-dialogue style its creator would later bring to Bob's Burgers.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAqua Teen Hunger Force
A rap theme introducing three fast-food items who do not solve crimes, performed with the conviction of a show that does.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHarvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Birdman as a lawyer representing Hanna-Barbera characters, opened in the register of a network legal drama.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSealab 2021
A 1972 Hanna-Barbera series redubbed into something else entirely, keeping the original's animation and none of its intentions.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Brak Show
The Space Ghost villain relocated to a 1950s sitcom family, with the sitcom open played completely straight.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSamurai Jack
A villain narrating his own defeat of the hero, over graphic-design animation that owes more to UPA than to Saturday morning.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Venture Bros.
Jonny Quest's adventure-cartoon grammar played straight and then left to rot for fifteen years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTom Goes to the Mayor
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's first series, animated from photographs of the cast with almost no motion.
- Season 1
1 sequence12 oz. Mouse
Drawn deliberately badly in flat colour, and the show that pushed hardest at what the block would broadcast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoral Orel
Stop-motion in the Davey and Goliath idiom, which by its third season had stopped being a parody at all.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRobot Chicken
A chicken reanimated with machinery and forced to watch television, which is the show's premise and its title sequence at once.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSquidbillies
Appalachian squids, with a theme song rerecorded by a different artist almost every season — one of the longest-running rotating title sequences on American television.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Boondocks
Aaron McGruder's strip animated in an anime register, opened by Asheru's theme over ink-wash stills.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMetalocalypse
A death-metal theme written and performed by the show's creator, for a cartoon about a band whose concerts have a body count.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSuperjail!
A prison inside a volcano inside another volcano, animated with more detail per frame than the slot required.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Public-access video aesthetics reproduced exactly and then broken — twenty-two seconds that set the terms for a decade of internet comedy.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChildrens Hospital
A hospital soap parody that changed its own premise whenever it got bored, Rob Corddry's first series.
- Season 3
1 sequenceNTSF:SD:SUV::
A procedural parody whose title is an acronym joke that never resolves, opened in fourteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Dynamite
The blaxploitation pastiche film continued as a series, with the seventies title grammar intact.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Eric André Show
A talk-show set destroyed by its own host before the first guest arrives — an opening that is demolished and rebuilt every episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Pickles
A family dog who is secretly satanic, opened in the visual language of a wholesome fifties cartoon.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Rick and Morty
A montage of adventures that mostly never happened, re-cut every season out of clips from episodes that do not exist.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBlack Jesus
Aaron McGruder's live-action series, with Jesus living in Compton.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMike Tyson Mysteries
Scooby-Doo's structure with Mike Tyson, a ghost, a pigeon and an adopted daughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFinal Space
A prisoner adrift in space with an alien that everyone in the galaxy wants.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLazor Wulf
A wolf with a laser bolted to his back, in fourteen seconds of open.
- Season 1
1 sequencePrimal
Twenty seconds of charcoal and blood, with no dialogue anywhere in it — which is also true of most of the series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTuca & Bertie
Buildings with faces and plants with opinions — a city drawn as though everything in it is slightly alive, which in this show it is.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Smiling Friends
A tiny company whose job is making people happy, with a title card that is over almost before it starts.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequence
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
The Blade Runner world animated, set between the two films.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTeenage Euthanasia
A Florida funeral home, and a mother resurrected by embalming fluid.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Adventures with Superman
Clark, Lois and Jimmy in their twenties, animated in an anime register with an opening to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnicorn: Warriors Eternal
Genndy Tartakovsky's reincarnated heroes in an alternate nineteenth century, animated on a hand-painted look.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCommon Side Effects
A mushroom that cures anything, and everyone who would rather it did not exist.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLazarus
Shinichirō Watanabe's series with action by Chad Stahelski, opened to Kamasi Washington.
- Season 1