To me, the uncontested worst T.V. Show theme ever is the theme to NUMB3RS. I love the show, but the theme makes me wince.
I’ve never been a big fan of the CSI theme either. The song by itself is awesome, I just think as a theme song for CSI it’s stupid and obvious. If Roger Daltry were dead, he’d be spinning in his grave.
Compared to those two themes, the “Two and a Half Men” theme is brilliant, poetic masterpiece.
My nominee for the best TV show theme is from “Veronica Mars” (“We Use to be Freinds” by the Dandy Warhols)
I’m a fan of the classics. Gilligan’s Island, Mr. Ed, Green Acres, Welcome Back Kotter and The Greatest American Hero to name a few. I’ll also give a nod to MST3K (I would love any song with a robot roll call).
As for instrumentals, I’d say Sanford and Son and Taxi.
I’m not really sure if you’d call it a song or just an opening, but the beginning of Listen Up bugs me (all the characters shouting the name of the main character until he shouts “Listen Up!”)
I honestly can’t think of any theme songs I really hate.
The Star Trek: Enterprise opening theme was so awful that upon hearing it for the first time on the show’s premiere, I changed the channel and refused to watch that show ever again.
It’s too bad you stopped watching. They made the theme to Enterprise EVEN WORSE last season, when they added some extra drums or something.
To me, though, the Enterprise theme is at least forgiveable due to the message they are presenting with the video montage. It’s somewhat inspirational…
Amen on Green Acres, Kotter, and TGAH. Three songs I sing endlessly whenever I hear them! Believe it or not!
I agree since it communicated just the right tone for the show: Edgy and just a little disturbing. Other examples of themes songs that seemed to express the show are: Mission Impossible and Peter Gunn.
I heartily agree. Bad, even by the low standards of a Diane Warren-penned song. It especially irritated me that the splash credits at the opening of every episode trumpeted “theme by Diane Warren.” Blech.
Thank god… someone else agrees with me about CSI. I used to get into arguments with my parents over that damned show and its theme song because it JUST DOESN’T FIT with the tone of the series.
That, and I hated it and I occasionally had to watch it during dinner. Feh.
That was a great little ditty. Cute visuals that went with it, too. Too bad the show didn’t last.
I really enjoyed the interplay between Bruce Campbell and Angela Dotchin. Verne Troyer was very funny, too, in small doses (which is the only size dose he comes in).
If you like that, you would have LOVED the theme to the 50’s sitcom “I Married Joan.” It featured an a capella men’s choir.
For instrumentals, I think “Peter Gunn” may be the coolest theme ever, with “Mission Impossible,” “Twilight Zone” and “Hawaii 5-0” close behind.
For vocals, I really liked the “Beverly Hillbillies” – especially the full-length version with the banjo/fiddle breakdown. “Green Acres” perfectly captured the fractured surrealism of the show. And I always had a soft sport for “WKRP in Cincinatti” which was surprsingly sad for a sitcom.
