# Best TV Themes #1: Just Kidding! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063 "2005-07-04T22:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/21 "2005-07-05T09:42:07Z")
Clearly, I’m younger than most of the people in this thread. Some themes I remember from my childhood: Robotech (I added lyrics as a kid.) Transformers Gummi Bears (’…bouncing here and there and everywhere, high adventure that’s beyond compare…’) GI Joe - nobody else like the Real American Hero? Spiderman ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/22 "2005-07-05T10:10:04Z")
I like the grandiose themes of 80s primetime soaps, like Dallas and Dynasty. For me, the theme from West Wing is reminiscent of those. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/23 "2005-07-05T11:26:43Z")
The King Kong cartoon King Kong ten times as big as a man ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/24 "2005-07-05T12:07:10Z")
Tetsuwan Atomu/Astro Boy! _There you go Astro Boy, On your flight into space, Rocket high! Through the sky! What adventures soon you will make!_ (Everyone in Japan still knows this song!) More recently, the X-Men cartoon theme. I’d second the Robotech theme, but it’s sadly been driven out of my head by the original (Japanese) Macross theme. Fortunately, there’s a clip available at the [Robotech.com](http://Robotech.com) site… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/25 "2005-07-05T12:10:09Z")
George, George, George of the Jungle Strong as he can be George, George, George of the Jungle Watch out for that tree. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/26 "2005-07-05T12:18:28Z")
_Scooby Dooby Doo Where are You? We’ve got some work to do now …_ … and I forget the middle part … _If we can count on you, Scooby Doo, I know we’ll catch that villain!_ I’ve also been known to hum _George, George, George of the Jungle_. Ah! The classics. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/27 "2005-07-05T15:37:23Z")
26 posts and nothing for the old **Bugs Bunny** show??“Overture, \ the lights, This is it, the night of nights, No more rehearsing and nursing the part, We know every part by heart!..” Now THAT is a theme song! ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/28 "2005-07-05T16:03:30Z")
Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web! Any size! Catches thieves just like flies! Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man! Is he strong? Listen, bud: he’s got radioactive blood! Can he swing- from a thread? Take a look- overhead! Hey, there… there goes the Spider-Man! In the chill of night- at the scene of the crime. Like a streak\* of light- he arrives, just in time! Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Wealth and fame, he’s ignored: action is- his reward! To him… Life is a great big bang-up! Where ever there’s hang-up- You’ll find the Spider-Man! (\*) or is it “beam” of light? Also: Flintstones! Meet the Flintstones! They’re a modern Stone Age fam-i-ly! From the – town of Bedrock They’re a page right out of his-to-r!y! Let’s ride – with the family down the street! Through the – courtesy of Fred’s two feet! (ta da da DA) When you’re – with the Flintstones Have a Yabba Dabba Doo time A Dabba Doo time We’ll have a gay old time! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/29 "2005-07-05T16:10:40Z")
I sing a really good Vegas lounge/Rat Pack-style rendition of the Spider-Man theme. Performed it at the 2000 San Diego Comic Con, I did. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/30 "2005-07-05T16:17:03Z")
**Ulysses 31** [http://www.sfxb.co.uk/animated/ulysses31.html](http://www.sfxb.co.uk/animated/ulysses31.html) How did it go? I can’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/31 "2005-07-05T16:21:20Z")
[Found it](http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/ulysses.htm)! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/32 "2005-07-05T22:34:54Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > [Found it](http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/ulysses.htm)! Ohmyghod, that site has the lyrics for _The Littlest Hobo_! I owe you a damnfine bottle of beer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/33 "2005-07-05T22:48:41Z")
Thunder, thunder, thunder thunder-CATS! ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Gene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Soylent\_Gene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Gene)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/34 "2005-07-05T23:12:07Z")
Tom Slick, Tom Slick Let me tell you why He’s the best of all good guys Tom Slick, Tom Slick In the Thunderbolt Grease Slapper when he’s on your tail… You cant stop him cuz he cannot fail. Tom Slick, Tom Slick!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/35 "2005-07-05T23:30:45Z")
_Mission: Magic_ by Rick Springfield. _Kidd Video_ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/36 "2005-07-05T23:51:07Z")
Marshall, Will and Holly, On a routine expidition… \ AAAAAAHHH! etc. ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/37 "2005-07-06T00:43:55Z")
Hey, hey, hey! It’s Faaaaaaaat Albert! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/38 "2005-07-06T00:52:16Z")
_Voltron: Defender Of The Universe_–" Ready to form Voltron! Activate Interlock! Dynatherms Connected! Infracells Up! Megathrusters are GO!" _BattleStar: Galactica: TOS_– **great** theme song. _The Peter Gunn Theme_ was from a very early TV detective, & is a classic. I nominate this for Best Instrumental Themesong. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/39 "2005-07-06T03:18:41Z")
> [@EnderWay](#): > > Underdog - Once he was like lightning I hope you mean “Speed of lighting” "When in this world The headlines read of those whose hearts are filled with greed who rob and steal from those who need to right this wrong with blinding speed Goes Underdog (underdog) Underdog (underdog) Speed of lighting, roar of thunder fighting all who rob or plunder" Anyone remember Funky Phantom “He was a ver-ver-very Funky Phantom he pops right in just when we need him most with his cat Boo, and you can’t do without him the cat and that Funky Phantom ghost” ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063/40 "2005-07-06T03:22:31Z")
Danger Mouse had a really cool theme. And it’s out on DVD, too! Also, _every time_ I think of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I get the cartoon theme stuck in my head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-tv-themes-1-just-kidding/311063.md?page=3)