HBO intro: Which show do you first think of?

Music's already playing in my head.

no matter what show i am watching, i see the static screen and all i hear is “BOM BA-BA-BA-BOM WEEYA WEEYA WAAAAA”

I watched the intro every time on that show years ago. To this day every time I hear the static bit from HBO, I expect the theme song to start.

Always

Yes for me as well! Though I watched on DVD from my local Family Video, not through a subscription. It was my first exposure to the "bright tone".

First thing that I thought of as well

*Gotta keep the devil*

Sheeeeeeeeeit

Introducing the wire to someone new.

I just started a rewatch, I never skip the intro.

bum-bum-bum

Bum bum bum... teedeledededodododi di do da.

Same lol

Nothing beats a great theme song. It sets the tone so perfectly.

F****** finally. Too far down the list this is

For anyone who watched Curb, this has to be it. There are simply too many episodes for it to be anything else. I think people are just listing their favorite shows—someone said The Wire, which is different every season…

I’m from the UK and was staying in Atlanta GA for work in 2002 and this came on the telly for the first time for me….HBO intro will always be the sound before “Frolic” It’s a great choice of music, the frivolity of the tune but in a minor key makes it feel like trying to smile while the shit keeps pouring down Here’s a clip of the composer playing it all on piano https://youtu.be/dRm1_WK6vfU?si=p7qEaaDsLNoJsfoc

The realest answer

The only answer

Absolutely!

this one

YES!!! Frolic

No matter what HBO show I'm watching, after the HBO static, I always start humming the beginning of GoT theme.

Yep. We didn't have HBO in the UK so I p****** the show. I've literally only ever seen this intro in front of GoT lol.

This is where you can find different ages. I was too young for sopranos when it aired caught entourage late. But HBo show that I started and finished on time was game of thrones

That was the 1st show I ever watched the finale twice (back-to-back). Blown away by the Sia song.

Yes!!!

Obligatory "surprised I had to scroll this far to see this" response

Can't believe I had to scroll so far down for this comment.

That’s the music I hear. That was the first big “appointment TV” HBO show for us.

I always break out into singing the theme song, no matter what serious show is about to start, much to my partner's dismay

Carrie Bradshaw knows sex* And isn't afraid to ask

Scrolled way too far for this. My brain immediately starts singing the intro song. 

when you came in the air went out

That's series creator Tom Fontana getting the Oz tattoo in the intro.

Yep. Was my first HBO show

Definitely oz. Ahh good times. 

I thought with ally meart it was gonna be sopranos, but was Oz

Mine too! That was a wild show, good times

HUNH!

Yes, indeed.

Yep, this was my first HBO show I binged

Was looking for this one. Not that I don't love the other shows. I instantly think Oz and The Sopranos.

I may have fucked up my life flatter'n hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker, and holdin' a workin' fuckin' gold claim, and not the U.S. government tellin' me I'm trespassin', or the savage fuckin' red man or any of these other limber-d*** cocksuckers passin' themselves off as prospectors had better try and stop me.

This is my answer. That opening did some very positive auditory conditioning kind of things inside my brain. I so looked forward to each episode of Deadwood and it always delivered.

Could you have been born, Richardson, and not egg-hatched as I've always assumed? Did your mother hover over you, snaggle-toothed and doting as you now hover over me?

It’s literally derived from Dream On. People know it from other shows only because HBO adopted it for wider use.

The longer I scrolled without seeing this the older I felt.

Honestly I never watched Dream On, because I was a kid, but that’s the show I think of when I think of that opener.

Yesss I started watching it recently. Hidden gem of a show! Was it popular when it aired?

I see I'm not the only old person here...

True Roman bread, for true Romans

yeeees my answer too

No actors, prostitutes, or unclean tradesmen may attend!

I dont know why but this is the first show I think of. I think it's the first one I watched all the way through.

Rewatched not long ago and my mouth was wide open after a few episodes like... this shit came out in 2005? NO ONE was making TV like that. It was full on ancient Roman Empire, movie quality every episode. Still baffling they even attempted something that ludicrously huge and expensive and on a Network that was still just starting to spend big with Sopranos / Wire etc.

Vulcan's D*** Yessss!!! Rome was so good! No more "the audience is looking at their phone" shows and bring back the dialogue!

Thats the one, with some other channel with cartoons or something on the recall button

Came to say this, Dream On, and Arli$$

Lol yup. I am amazed this was so far down. I think we may be getting old.

Definitely Real Sex

Was the first thing I thought of, was wondering if anyone else would think of it.

About time to schedule that colonoscopy!

I literally wish I could watch Real Sex as an adult on my own television in the living room, instead of volume turned all the way down with Cartoon Network preset on the “last” button on the remote

Cicciolina!!!!!!!!!

Same

Way too low on the list before I found it.

The only correct answer

Same here and I am not sorry, it was a good time.

I’ve watched so many other HBO shows but it’s entourage for me too

Why are you apologizing for entourage?

Entourage gang! I love it tho, my favorite comfort viewing show

This was way to far down.

It was my first HBO show and bingeing the short episodes on one of those shitty stream123 types sites that would fail to load half the time, I would see this so frequently.

Its okay you're among peers

LLOYDDDDDDDD

Oh yeah!

VICTORY!

Why sadly

My answer was Entourage too. Something about this and the way it segues into the intro theme makes me immediately think of Vince and Ari and the gang.

I’ve seen so many HBO shows since then, but for some reason that’s the first song that popped in my head.

Don’t shame yourself. I’m a woman and a progressive and Entourage was funny AF. Yes, the later seasons got much shittier, but I maintain that at the beginning, the women were there DTF just as much as the guys. Ari in general was the most offensive (on every level) and he wasn’t exactly a good guy — I don’t think they were co-signing his bullshit. Would they make the show now? No, and that’s a good thing. Would I watch it if somehow they did? Probably not: my eyes are more open now and in the current climate, I tolerate a lot less. But it still was hilarious. Rhys Coiro as Billy will never not kill me. Kevin Dillon brought so much pathos to Drama. I think of the show like early Jon Moxley (pre-Dean Ambrose) where he was a drunk, brash, skanky, crazy guy with questionable attitudes and no off switch. I’m glad he grew up and got sober, but I still appreciate the raw nut job he was then.

The first 3 seasons are classic 2000s television, why do you need to apologize?

Sadly? Entourage is a fantastic show

ba da dum pum, ba da dum pum

All episodes on YouTube, rewatching these right now and having a blast!

This and Real Sex are my two earliest memories of HBO.

I said what I said

MY PEOPLE

yes!!

This is the one. I wish they hadn't done this dirty. So unique