TBS
16 shows, 16 sequences, oldest first.
8 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequenceTakeshi's Castle
1986–1990TBSDocumentary
A hundred contestants a week storming a fortress, and the origin of every obstacle-course format that came after it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Dad!
2005–Fox / TBSAnimation
A CIA agent singing about his morning routine, in a sequence that varies its final line to suit the episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHana Yori Dango
2005–2007TBSDrama
The manga that became Boys Over Flowers in Korea and Meteor Garden in Taiwan, in its Japanese live-action form.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCode Geass
2006–2008MBS / TBSAnimation
Mecha and monarchy over a rock track, with the aristocratic cast posed like a fashion shoot.
- Season 1
1 sequenceClannad
2007–2009TBSAnimation
A Kyoto Animation adaptation that spends a full season setting up what the second season does to you.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009–2010MBS / TBSAnimation
Alchemical circles and transmutation, animated at a scale the first adaptation could not afford.
- Season 1
1 sequenceConan
2010–2021TBSComedy
The show Conan O'Brien built after losing The Tonight Show, opening on a cartoon of himself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHaikyu!!
2014–2020MBS / TBSAnimation
Volleyball animated with the weight of a fight scene, over a rock track that never lets the tempo drop.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAngie Tribeca
2016–2018TBSComedy
A police procedural played entirely as Airplane!, produced by Steve Carell and shot at that density of joke.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFull Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016–2022TBSComedy
A weekly satire whose opening graphics were redesigned more often than most dramas change a season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Hero Academia
2016–MBS / TBSAnimation
Superhero iconography by way of shonen convention, with a new opening for each season announcing how much worse things have got.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSearch Party
2016–2022TBS / HBO MaxComedy
A missing-person search taken up by four Brooklynites who mostly want something to be part of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Detour
2016–2019TBSComedy
A family road trip that goes wrong in a different way every season, written by a married couple about themselves.
- Season 4
1 sequenceFinal Space
2018–2021TBS / Adult SwimAnimation
A prisoner adrift in space with an alien that everyone in the galaxy wants.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiracle Workers
2019–2023TBSComedy
An anthology that keeps its cast and changes everything else — heaven, the Dark Ages, the Oregon Trail, the apocalypse.
- Season 2
1 sequenceJujutsu Kaisen
2020–MBS / TBSAnimation
Eve's 'Kaikai Kitan' over animation that keeps breaking its own frame — one of the sequences that made the studio's reputation.
- Season 1