Adventure Time
2010–2018Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Twenty-five seconds of a candy world that turns out to be a post-apocalyptic one, sung by a boy and a dog who have not noticed.
Adventure Time opens with a main title sequence of 25 seconds.
At 25 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Cartoon Network in 2010, when Samurai Jack, Totally Spies! and Star Wars: The Clone Wars were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
25sThe title sequence, from Cartoon Network.
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