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A Whole Bunch of Nostalgic Intros and Openings

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Introductions. Introductions are there to get you, the viewer/reader, prepared for the thing you're about to watch/read. Take this introduction for example. You're reading this now, and you're thinking "this is a terrible introduction but why is he talking about introductions? And how many times can he use the word 'introduction'?" I was feeling nostalgic and went down a rabbit hole of introductions to various things from my childhood. It made me realize how creative they were and how they sucked you into whatever you were gonna watch. As you can tell, I'm not great at them so let's just move on, shall we? First up, HBO. This really takes me back. When my parents were together, we had cable and my parents use to watch HBO every night. When they broke up, my mom got custody of me and we couldn't afford cable until I was a teenager. But upon watching this, this makes me think of when I was a little kid, sitting on the living room floor, ...