Opening Titles
The opening titles feature short clips from cult films or television shows, edited together with clips from the early seasons of the TV series. The original opening includes, in order of appearance:
- Three men fighting a giant turtle: From One Million Years B.C. (1966)
- Grinning animated man in rain: Shiogami from the anime Nazca
- The monster rising out of the ocean is the Kraken: From Clash of the Titans (1981)
- Woman being held above a nest of hungry pterodactyls: From One Million Years B.C. (1966)
- Dimetrodon -like lizard crawling on rocks: From A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Anime boy skateboarding: From the anime Nazca
- Mud-monster grabbing a woman as she kisses a man: From Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
- Man ski-jumping while ignited in flames: Thrill Seekers
- Wrestling match: Bret Hart locking Chris Benoit in the Sharpshooter during the WCW World Heavyweight Championship Match at WCW Mayhem 1999 PPV in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Robot head being assembled: From the BBC series Out of the Unknown episode Liar! (1969)
- Man attacking giant brain with an axe: From The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)
- Boxer knocking out referee: Cuban Pedro Cardenas fighting Canadian Willie DeWitt but accidentally KOing referee Bert Lowes instead, during the 1982 North American Championships in Las Vegas.
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Famous quotes containing the words opening and/or titles:
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.
The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: “Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.”
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)