# Favorite/least favorite TV show theme songs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231 "2011-02-22T15:43:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/41 "2011-02-23T14:35:24Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Did you know that not everyone gets the same version? I _think_ that in Sweden we get the second one from that video but now I’m not sure. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5i5ERDE\_2E](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5i5ERDE_2E) > > Hmm, I’ve never noticed before but it really, for some reason, reminds me of the intro to Metroid Prime: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYWzL8KTICY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYWzL8KTICY) Weird. I wonder why they did that? Interesting observation on Metroid > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > My top three are Big Bang, Twilight Zone (which have been mentioned) and Hogan’s Heroes (which has not). Had to look up [Hogan’s Heroes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnqJHorpOkk). I know I’ve seen it exactly once, so not familiar with the theme/ I still have some in mind, but I want to see if people list them first… Oh, and **Chefguy** got to Mission Impossible before me… ---
**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:** [February 23, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/42 "2011-02-23T14:37:20Z")
Hogan’s Heroes is one that you recognize instantly. And of course Twilight Zone has entered into our culture . When something creepy happens, someone is going to start with the do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/43 "2011-02-23T14:37:42Z")
I really like “Little Boxes” from Weeds: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Ys9RkvxgI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Ys9RkvxgI) (I hope that’s the Malvina Reynolds version, I can’t hear it at work). Worst might be “Men” from Two and a Half Men. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/44 "2011-02-23T14:43:42Z")
Forgot to mention the Dukes of Hazzard. Great visuals to go with it- the outhouse blowing up, Daisy in her bikini, the General jumping through the air, Daisy in her bikini… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/45 "2011-02-23T14:45:21Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > My least favorite is [Night Gallery](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9pToHSFdwk). Holy cats did it scare the livin’ crap out of this latch key kid. In the same vein, my least favorite is probably the theme from Tales From The Darkside. That thing starts up and I’m a tween again, lying in my bed unable to sleep because my mom is watching TFTD downstairs and I can hear the intro. Yeah, I was kind of a wimp (“was” being conditional, since I STILL don’t voluntarily watch horror movies or shows). ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/46 "2011-02-23T14:52:39Z")
[Unsolved Mysteries](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2S6ZQn9lvk&feature=related) scared me. Also like the theme for a show called “Sightings”, which I can’t find a link to. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/47 "2011-02-23T15:41:58Z")
My kids adore the theme song to Raising Hope: Daddy-O by Freelance Economy. They don’t really know the words, they just make up a sound ending in -O, then sing, “Oh, oh, oh.” It’s super cute, though I’ll be in trouble when they clue in to “Birth control, no, no, no.” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/48 "2011-02-23T15:46:46Z")
Lots of good choices here, but you’ve all missed the best theme song ever: **Magnum. P.I.** **Hawaii 5-0** and the original \*\*Star Trek \*\* theme song are close second and third. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/49 "2011-02-23T15:49:48Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > [Unsolved Mysteries](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2S6ZQn9lvk&feature=related) scared me. > > Also like the theme for a show called “Sightings”, which I can’t find a link to. [Here you go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1Eo0Kip4I) ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/50 "2011-02-23T15:50:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Here you go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv1Eo0Kip4I) Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/51 "2011-02-23T16:35:50Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > In the same vein, my least favorite is probably the theme from Tales From The Darkside. That thing starts up and I’m a tween again, lying in my bed unable to sleep because my mom is watching TFTD downstairs and I can hear the intro. Yeah, I was kind of a wimp (“was” being conditional, since I STILL don’t voluntarily watch horror movies or shows). Oh hells yeah. Let’s make it a trifecta and add [The Outer Limits](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtjhWhw2I8). I actually liked all three shows but continually made the mistake of watching them alone or late at night, or both. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/52 "2011-02-23T17:47:30Z")
Favorite theme? Pretty much the theme to any Norman Lear sitcom; he was the patron saint of awesome theme songs! [All in the Family](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6x917VXg2A&feature=related) [Maude](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9NY8R-LmIw&feature=related) (with Donny Hathaway!) [Sanford and Son](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE) honarable mention to Good Times and One Day at a Time Least favorite? Seinfeld. It seems like they put out the least possible effort they couldd. Plus the lack of decent theme songs recently is largely due to its influence. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/53 "2011-02-23T20:14:03Z")
[Courtship of Eddie’s Father](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGu0m08Etm8). Harry Nilsson. But I also have to mention [Wings](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvT76jEQ1v0). (Franz Schubert’s Piano sonata No. 20 in A Major). ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/54 "2011-02-23T20:51:42Z")
[The Waltons.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXWdQNzSb4) A beautiful melody, beautifully played. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/55 "2011-02-23T20:58:30Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > [Courtship of Eddie’s Father](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGu0m08Etm8). Harry Nilsson. People, let me tell ya 'bout my best friend… When I was a kindergartner, in the mid-70s, we used to get _Courtship_ in syndication in the afternoon. I had morning K, so every weekday I’d come home to watch the show. I have very fond early memories of it. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/56 "2011-02-23T23:43:23Z")
Not my favorite show, but no one’s mentioned [Scrubs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTSBvXRwMI) yet. (full song – I really like it). ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/57 "2011-02-24T01:29:43Z")
Some favorites: [The Name of the Game](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-xExiIxS48) [Barney Miller](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTS85T-rw_4&feature=related) [The Virginian](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWet2qgieVc) ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/58 "2011-02-24T01:46:05Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > Favorite theme? Pretty much the theme to any Norman Lear sitcom; he was the patron saint of awesome theme songs! > [All in the Family](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6x917VXg2A&feature=related) > [Maude](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9NY8R-LmIw&feature=related) (with Donny Hathaway!) > [Sanford and Son](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqazleR3FE) > honarable mention to Good Times and One Day at a Time Ooh, so close, but you left out the best theme song ever: The Jeffersons. “Movin’ on up/To the East Side…” I just heard it used the other day as a reference in a different show. Even though I haven’t seen The Jeffersons in quite a while, I find myself bursting out with the theme at least once a week. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/59 "2011-02-24T02:05:50Z")
I’ve been watching 3rd Rock From the Sun on Netflix the last few days and really love the intro music. It’s a bit quirky and upbeat so it really fits the show well. Catchy little tune as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231/60 "2011-02-24T05:11:21Z")
I agree with the Dopers who said **Community** and **Scrubs**. I’ll also add **Flight of the Conchords** , **The Office** , and **Bored to Death**. The worst theme song? [Californication](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5qM_MQ5AtM&feature=related). A pity, too, because the show is so great. But the only thing I can think when I hear this is, _They just completely did not give a shit what the intro song was_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-least-favorite-tv-show-theme-songs/572231.md?page=4)