Well, hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving and didn't stuff yourself too full at the dinner table. After the events of Season 7, I felt the need to update this list, and there were quite a few candidates I considered adding. In the end though, there were only two that I believe truly warranted being added, while the rest all got moved around. Here's the first version, from a season ago. Let's see what

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Season 8 introduced some new opening sequences that were duds to put it bluntly. And there just wasn't enough room to fit even one or two of them into a Top Ten List. So I decided to bump it up to Fifteen, and since I want to be more positive than negative this one had to come first (I'm thinking I might possibly update the mane eight rankings after "The Best Gift Ever" and maybe the top ten unicorns list as well, let me know what you think of that). As always, feel free to disagree. And if

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An opening sequence can make or break your episode, first impressions are very important. And today we're going to take a look at the episode openings that for one reason or another, among the 143 episode openings, missed the mark and started their episodes off on the wrong foot. Like all my lists, this one isn't official by any means so feel to disagree.

10. Spike Bakes A Jewel Cake (Just for Sidekicks: Season 3, Episode 11)

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Season 8 brought about a few interesting opening sequences that I think were worth talking about, and ultimately I felt like they didn't quite justify bumping off some other contestants for a Top Ten list. So I expanded it to a Top Fifteen list, and this is what we have. As always, feel free to disagree. If you're curious here's the top ten version, from a season ago. Let's see what changed.

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Hope all of you stayed safe and avoided getting trampled if you had to go out shopping on this Black Friday, we're going to be ending these Top Ten lists for the show tonight, and I wanted to go out on a positive instead of a negative note. We updated the worst opening sequences last time, so now we're gonna update the best opening sequences. Here's the first version, from a season ago. Let's see what got added,

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Maybe I'll eventually do a top ten for the worst opening sequences, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, the opening sequence in any episode is important, it can make or break the tone. A good opening sequence doesn't just need to establish the main plot, or at least lead into its introduction, but it also needs to be enjoyable in its own right. It needs to be quick and to the point, but in the process it has to provide something that can stand on its own. So we're going to take

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Season 9 had a couple more opening sequences I thought were worthy of being noticed and mentioned, though for the most part I'd say that Season 9's opening sequences mostly fell somewhere in between or on the bad end of the spectrum (usually when the episode was bad the opening sequence would be bad and if it was good the opening sequence would be good). Since I did a Top Twenty Worst, I knew I had to make a Top Twenty Best to include five from Season 9. But I really struggled over that because

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Season 9 gave us a few more opening sequences, but not all of them were winners. Some of them for one reason or another didn't work out and join the ranks of opening sequences from seasons prior that are also not very good. Of course the actual episodes involved could be good or bad, a bad opening doesn't necessarily mean your whole episode is going to bomb (though a poorly done opening sequence can kill a lot of hype and interest). I decided to round up to a top twenty even though there were

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