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Gravity Falls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DUpDxFJyg

Song: 7/10. Its a good song and it fits the show well. Lighthearted but just a touch creepy, honestly I feel like it could have played a bit more into that mystery tone and that would have been even better. But I do immediately recognize it as the Gravity Falls theme despite only seeing a couple of episodes.

Video: 9/10: This video does an excellent job of setting the mood and showing you what you are going to get from this show. Big foot tracks and weird symbols. Mystery and locations that seem perfect for a scary story (especially the last second of the postcard and flashing images). But also very silly characters because this is still a kids cartoon. You definitely get a taste of the location and for the different main characters. It gives a bit of that Scooby Doo vibe of goofy people dealing with mysteries and the supernatural. I love the time passing that they have going in the landscape shots, I feel like you don't see that as much in cartoons as you do in live action. And the hints of all the creepy things around them are great.

Does it make me want to watch: 2/5. It definitely doesn't look like your typical kids cartoon and I love Scooby Doo so I do think about giving it a try with the wife sometime. I've heard good things. Based just on this opening though Mabel really stands out as just being pure silliness and makes me worried I will just find her annoying.

Maniac Score: +2. As you can probably tell at this point I love openings that set a mood and really go together and this one does that.

Total Score: 20

For my own amusement I played the Gravity Falls video with the Succession theme song and that also works well with it, though the video is definitely too silly for that song at points.