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== Live-Action TV ==
* Jonathan, a minor recurring character, took over the credit sequence of the "Superstar" episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
** The musical episode "Once More With Feeling" had a mellowed version of the theme song playing over a shot of the night sky, with each actor's face appearing on the moon as he or she was listed in standard credits order.
** Similarly, a few episodes changed the [[Vanity Plate]] at the end: "Becoming, Part II" features the little monster lamenting, "I need a hug..." in place of his normal "Grr, argh!", there was a Christmas episode in which he wore a Santa hat, and the above-mentioned OMWF had him ''sing'' his grr-argh. Likewise, in the Season 7 documentary-style episode, he sing-songs ''"We are as GOODDDDSSSS"'', a running joke in the preceding episode.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' replaced its usual titles, showing a history of exploration, with a version showing a history of conquest for the [[Mirror Universe]] episode "In A Mirror, Darkly".
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* ''[[Psych]]'' is fond of doing this in "theme" episodes, usually remixing or completely changing the theme tune as well. The Christmas special featured the same lyrics and melody as the normal song, but with sleighbells and over-the-top "Christmas-y" instrumentation, while in episode 213, "Lights, Camera...Homicidio", the credits are sung in Spanish.
** Also, in Season 4's "Bollywood Homicide", the song picks up a distinctly Eastern sound; most of the theme song was sung in Hindi, and the actors' names appeared in Hindi text which then switched to English letters.
** The sixth season episode "The Amazing Psych-Man & Tap Man, Issue #2" is done with the theme redone in a heroic orchestral style and the opening sequence in comic-book panels, specifically an homage to the opening sequence of ''[[The Cape (2010 TV series)|The Cape]]''.
* Done in the two [[Something Completely Different]] episodes of ''[[News Radio]]''. The one set [[Recycled in Space|in space]] had [[Standardized Space Views]] instead of the usual [[Establishing Shot|Establishing Shots]] of New York City. The ''Titanic'' parody had an Irish folk version of the theme over sepia-tone shots of people salvaging artifacts with the actor's pictures on them.
* The ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' episode "My Dinner with Woody" had the titles done in the style of the credits of Woody Allen movies (plain white text over black).
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* Episode 26 of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has a [[Double Subversion]] of this: an announcer says the Queen might be watching, but the opening titles will proceed as usual; they don't.
** Episode 22 replaced the title with a banner reading, "How to Identify Different Parts of the Body".
** Episode 30 replaced the show's title with Tony M. Nyphot's Flying Risccu, an anagram of the show's title(the opening sketch involved a man who spoke only in anagrams).
** In a [[What Could Have Been]] example, when [[Executive Meddling]] threatened to change the show's title, the Pythons threatened that ''every week'' they would rename the show to a different [[Word Salad Title]].
* ''[[The Young Ones]]'' did this two weeks on the trot with Nasty - done in the style of a Hammer-Horror film - and Time - the first five minites including the titles sequence parodies Dallas.
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* The season 4 premiere of ''[[Eureka]]'', which involves [[Time Travel]] back to 1947, has sepia-toned visuals and replaces the whistling in the standard theme tune with a big band. The Christmas episode in the same season has everything covered in snow, with the whistling replaced by a chorus singing "fa la la".
* For the two versions of ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'''s [[Live Episode]], Jenna (east coast) and Danny (west coast) performed a version of the normally-instrumental [[Theme Tune]] [[With Lyrics]] at the ''<s>[[Saturday Night Live]]</s>[[Show Within a Show|TGS]]'' studio, with the regular opening shown on an adjacent widescreen monitor.
* ''[[Community]]'' does this fairly regularly:
** [[Halloween Episode]] "[[Community/Recap/S2 E06 Epidemiology|Epidemiology]]" featured redrawn, Halloween-themed images for each of the cast and closed with a howling wolf. It's revisited in "[[Community/Recap/S3 E05 Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps|Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps]]", with an additional image for [[Promotion to Opening Titles|Jim Rash]].
** [[Stop Motion]] [[Christmas Episode]] [[Community/Recap/S2 E11 Abeds Uncontrollable Christmas|Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas]] had the title theme integrated into the plot - Abed singing alternate lyrics while dancing from car hood to car hood.
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** The second time they did an [[Outside Broadcast]] was from [[Universal Studios]] in 1998, and the episode was called ''Noel's House Party At The Movies'', with similar titles, an episode which is considered [[Fanon Discontinuity]], if not [[Canon Discontinuity]]. However, [[Word of God]] is that the man himself would have preferred to have stayed in the UK to develop fresh ideas - mentioned on [[YouTube]].
* The [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', makes numerous changes to the title sequence.
** The titles open with a quick burst of "Joy to the World", before moving into the main theme, which now has a sleigh-bell refrain.
** The crate in the Sphinx picture is giftwrapped.
** The scarab sheds red-and-gold sparks
** The next crate is labelled "Fruitcake".
** The map is of the North Pole.
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* ''[[Histeria!]]'' had a few episodes with unique opening sequences used just for that episode.
** ''Histeria!'' probably had more opening sequences than any other show at the time.
* "The Dabba Don", an episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' wherein Fred Flintstone is accused of racketeering, has a title sequence that combines the famous ''[[The Flintstones]]'' title with a black and white montage and a theme song parody of ''[[The Sopranos]]'' opening.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' replaces its title sequence for every "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween episode.
** Also, they had Grampa rambling over the credits (until the logo at the end says "shh") and Homer moaning about being poor, complaining about the rich people in the credits as they went on (unfortunately, the latter is [[Edited for Syndication|replaced with the standard credits audio in syndication]]).
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