Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Name: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Genre: Comedy

2015–2019The CWComedy

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A musical comedy that threw away its theme song every year and wrote a new one, each arguing with the last about whether the word in the title is fair.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend rebuilt its titles: four distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–4, running between 29 and 54 seconds.

At 54 seconds at its longest, it opens well above the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on The CW in 2015, when America's Next Top Model, Supernatural and Veronica Mars were also on the network.

Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; Crazy Ex-Girlfriend did so three times.

4 sequences325th most looked up of 760 in the 2010sIMDb ↗

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All 4 opening title sequences

Season 1

33s

Posted by Rachel Bloom's own channel. A bright ensemble number that keeps stopping to object to being called crazy — "the situation's a lot more nuanced than that."

Season 2

29s

"I'm Just a Girl In Love." The defence drops and the song simply insists love excuses everything, staged as a 1940s dream ballet. Also from Bloom's channel.

Season 3

45s

"You Do/You Don't Want To Be Crazy." The third year turns the word over properly, and the sequence turns with it — the staging is a horror film by the end.

Season 4

54s

"Meet Rebecca!" The last one is about the first three: a cheerful introduction to a character the audience has watched for four years, cut off before it can finish the sentence. Four seasons, four completely different sequences — one of the cleanest examples in this catalogue of a show using its titles as an argument with itself.

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