Totally Spies!
2001–2014TF1Cartoon NetworkAnimation
Three Beverly Hills schoolgirls working for a spy agency, made in France and drawn in a style borrowed from anime.
Totally Spies! kept one opening title sequence, 41 seconds long, across season 7.
At 41 seconds, it opens well under the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on TF1 in 2001, when Samurai Jack, Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Ed, Edd n Eddy were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 7
41sPosted by the series' own channel as the seventh season's intro.
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