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TBS accounts for 16 shows here, running from 1986 to the present, and 16 opening title sequences between them.

Animation leads with eight, then comedy with six.

None of them rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

16 shows · 16 sequences · oldest first

8 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.

Still from the opening titles of Takeshi's Castle1 sequence

Takeshi'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
Still from the opening titles of American Dad!1 sequence

American 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
Still from the opening titles of Hana Yori Dango1 sequence

Hana 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
Still from the opening titles of Code Geass1 sequence

Code Geass

2006–2008MBS / TBSAnimation

Mecha and monarchy over a rock track, with the aristocratic cast posed like a fashion shoot.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Clannad1 sequence

Clannad

2007–2009TBSAnimation

A Kyoto Animation adaptation that spends a full season setting up what the second season does to you.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood1 sequence

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

2009–2010MBS / TBSAnimation

Alchemical circles and transmutation, animated at a scale the first adaptation could not afford.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Conan1 sequence

Conan

2010–2021TBSComedy

The show Conan O'Brien built after losing The Tonight Show, opening on a cartoon of himself.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Haikyu!!1 sequence

Haikyu!!

2014–2020MBS / TBSAnimation

Volleyball animated with the weight of a fight scene, over a rock track that never lets the tempo drop.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Angie Tribeca1 sequence

Angie Tribeca

2016–2018TBSComedy

A police procedural played entirely as Airplane!, produced by Steve Carell and shot at that density of joke.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee1 sequence

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

2016–2022TBSComedy

A weekly satire whose opening graphics were redesigned more often than most dramas change a season.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of My Hero Academia1 sequence

My 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
Still from the opening titles of Search Party1 sequence

Search Party

2016–2022TBS / HBO MaxComedy

A missing-person search taken up by four Brooklynites who mostly want something to be part of.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Detour1 sequence

The 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
Still from the opening titles of Final Space1 sequence

Final Space

2018–2021TBS / Adult SwimAnimation

A prisoner adrift in space with an alien that everyone in the galaxy wants.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Miracle Workers1 sequence

Miracle Workers

2019–2023TBSComedy

An anthology that keeps its cast and changes everything else — heaven, the Dark Ages, the Oregon Trail, the apocalypse.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Jujutsu Kaisen1 sequence

Jujutsu 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