I've been catching up on PSYCH lately, which is a whole other entry worth of an amazing show but somewhere near the opening credits I realized something. Who even has opening credits anymore?
While so many shows dropped their opening credits and settled for a quick flash of the show logo on screen (Greys, One Tree Hill, etc..), Psych is one of the few shows I can think of off the top of my head that still really does opening credits (and Royal Pains does too). I don't mean the credits with just the names of the actors (see True Blood- which has amazing and also creepy credits with a whole good/evil theme).
I mean honest to goodness - here is so and so, he plays a zany next door neighbor, look at him pet a puppy, then do a slow twirl type of credits.
Opening credits (and their amazing theme songs) used to define shows. When you heard the intensity of the ER sirens and pulsating music, you knew it was time for Clooney to save a life. When the friends theme song started, it was time to clap along and do your best impression of the Ross Gellar slow-walk. When "I Don't Want to Wait" pounded, you were prepared to scream at Dawson for being so self-centered. And when the schoolbell for Saved By the Bell rings - (yes rings- I still love watching Saved by the Bell like its 1990).
So PSYCH, which goes over and above the call of duty for credits, should be commended. There have been countless revisions to the song from Japanese to Western to 80s rock to "alien", there have been shortened versions and extended versions. It is the standard to which all opening credits should be held.
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