Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Name: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Genre: Comedy

2013–2021FoxNBCComedy

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Precinct signage and a horn line in twenty-one seconds — a cop show opening with no sirens in it.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine rebuilt its titles: two distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–8, each running 21 seconds.

At 21 seconds at its longest, it opens well under the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on Fox in 2013, when Mad About You, America's Most Wanted and The X-Files were also on the network.

Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Brooklyn Nine-Nine did so once.

2 sequences60th most looked up of 760 in the 2010sIMDb ↗Official site ↗

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All 2 opening title sequences

Seasons 1–5

21s

The original: precinct signage, a horn line, and the squad walking six abreast to close it — footage shot back at the pilot and used unchanged for five years.

Seasons 6–8

21s

Rebuilt after Chelsea Peretti left. Hitchcock and Scully get a card for the first time, shot specifically for this version, and Gina is painted out of the six-abreast walk she had been in since the pilot. Same theme throughout.

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