A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket adapted with a title sequence whose lyrics are rewritten for every book — the song spends every verse telling you to stop watching.
A Series of Unfortunate Events kept one opening title sequence, 77 seconds long, across seasons 1–3.
At 77 seconds, it opens well above the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Netflix in 2017, when Mystery Science Theater 3000, Arrested Development and Top Boy were also on the network.
The opening titles
Seasons 1–3
77sPosted by Netflix. This is the base version; the show rewrote the words of "Look Away" for each two-episode book, so what plays at the top of an episode is never quite this. That makes it a close relative of The Simpsons and WandaVision — a sequence that is a format rather than a fixed film.
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