# Help me figure out this 1990s kid show from a snatch of theme song

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**Created:** [November 27, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-1990s-kid-show-from-a-snatch-of-theme-song/802900 "2017-11-27T23:49:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-1990s-kid-show-from-a-snatch-of-theme-song/802900/1 "2017-11-27T23:49:27Z")

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It goes: C DEF (rest) EDD C

–where letters by themselves are twice as long as letters in a group.

My son was watching some random episode of Family Guy that had this sequence played repeatedly on like a glockenspiel or something, and it’s driving me crazy trying to figure out what show that’s from.

I don’t know if it’s related to the plot of the Family Guy episode; probably not, as my son has no idea what I’m talking about. But I _ **know** _ it’s from something.

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-1990s-kid-show-from-a-snatch-of-theme-song/802900/2 "2017-11-27T23:50:34Z")

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It may have the word “motion” in the lyrics, or something that rhymes with it.

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-1990s-kid-show-from-a-snatch-of-theme-song/802900/3 "2017-11-27T23:52:13Z")

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What else is happening in that Family Guy episode? If we can nail down which episode, perhaps we can go from there…

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-1990s-kid-show-from-a-snatch-of-theme-song/802900/4 "2017-11-27T23:55:09Z")

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Dang. It’s not “Kids In Motion,” unless they had more than one theme song.

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-1990s-kid-show-from-a-snatch-of-theme-song/802900/5 "2017-11-27T23:57:04Z")

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> [@snfaulkner](#):
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> What else is happening in that Family Guy episode? If we can nail down which episode, perhaps we can go from there…

Rats! He says he has no idea what happened in that episode. He was on his phone at the time.:rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-1990s-kid-show-from-a-snatch-of-theme-song/802900/6 "2017-11-28T02:29:36Z")

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WAG, but The Third Man Theme (from the movie of the same name) was famously performed on a zither. I don’t know if it matches your notes, but it’s easy to find on YouTube.