Well, I don’t dislike the earlier theme, but I dearly love Randy Newman’s It’s a Jungle Out There. The song was written after Tony Shaloub’s Monk character was firmly established, and the lyrics absolutely capture Monk’s paranoia. I’m a Randy Newman fan, and I think Jungle might just be his best work.
Burpo, I’ll grant that Newman is not a fine singer. I give you that.
I don’t suppose you’re referring to this series? 
This is the theme to Garry’s show
The theme to Garry’s show
Garry called me up and asked
If I would write his theme song
or. . .
I married Joan
What a girl, what a whirl, what a life!
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I don’t suppose you’re referring to this series?
Nope, current US show–here’s the theme, try not to claw your ears off!
Republic of Doyle is a CBC show. It was intended to be watched once a week on tv in Canada. (Not to say the intro isn’t lame, but it isn’t Netflix’s fault)
Theme to Newhart is pretty bad.
The interesting thing about “Too Many Cooks” is that it features Katelyn Nacon in a pre-“Walking Dead” role, before she was cast as Enid.
What?!?
Oh, that OTHER show where he’s an innkeeper in Vermont. yeah, schmaltzy uninspired strings.
For a second, I thought you meant his first show. I liked that theme, and thought it matched the show. And the time frame.
What about some horrible entrance music from pro wrestling?
The American Males theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHAQiYz7NU0
Evad Sullivan theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_VAmSsZRcs
Steven Regal’s first WWF theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci1wkgqt6g8
Hey! No dissing Henry Mancini around here.
Meet the sulky over-bulky kinda’ hulky superhero
Optimistic and electrically transistored superhero
An exotically neurotic and aquatic superhero
The Marvel Super Heroes have arrived!
Super powered from the forehead to the toes
Watch them change their very shape before your nose
See a cane-striking superhero change to Viking superhero
A humdingin’ real swinging shield flinging superhero
They’re the latest they’re the greatest ultimatest superheroes
The Marvel Super Heroes have arrived!
Doc Bruce Banner,
Belted by gamma rays,
Turned into the Hulk.
Ain’t he unglamor-ous!
Wreckin’ the town
With the power of a bull,
Ain’t no monster clown
Who is as lovable.
As ever-lovin’ Hulk! HULK!! HULK!!
When Captain America throws his mighty shield,
All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield.
If he’s lead to a fight and a duel is due,
Then the red and the white and the blue’ll come through.
When Captain America throws his mighty shield.
’Cross the Rainbow Bridge of Asgard,
Where the booming heavens roar,
You’ll behold in breathless wonder,
The God of Thunder, Mighty Thor!
Tony Stark makes you feel
He’s a cool exec with a heart of steel.
As Iron Man, all jets ablaze,
He’s fighting and smiting with repulsor rays!
Amazing armor! That’s Iron Man!
A blazing power! That’s Iron Man!
Stronger than a whale
He can swim anywhere
He can breathe under water
And go flying through the air
The noble Sub Mariner
Prince of the deep
So, beware you deadly demons
Lord Namor of Atlantis,
Is the Prince of the Deep.
If anyone disparages this (or this,for that matter), I’m writing a letter to city hall.
/sacred cows
The grotesquely monotonous piano in the Hill Street Blues theme makes me want to anthropomorphize it into some kind of physical being, allowing me to crush it, personally, and physically.
Nope, gotta disagree with you on Hill Street there. It was such an atypical musical choice for a cop show that it set up the audience from the first second with the realization that the show to come was going to break new ground. I still get all tippy tap when I hear it because that was religious show watching for me back in the day.
I found this interview with Mike Post pretty interesting:
I thought you meant the film at first. We were gonna fight.
I remember the film as great! But I haven’t seen it in like 20 yrs. I don’t remember the music at all.
A weird mix of 70’s sci-fi stuff and western motifs
Wow, when I see it, it says it’s a “Netflix original”
But then it says that about Trailer Park Boys, too, I think that’s another CBC show. (Which in no way belongs in a thread about bad theme songs.)
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I found this interview with Mike Post pretty interesting:
[/QUOTE]I like the concept of an atypical theme, too, however, a couple extra (different?) notes wouldn’t have hurt. Same reason why I’m not hot on Hornsby’s “The Way It Is”.
If only Dick Dastardly could have done something to the theme to Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste.
The band to blame - the Remnants - could have been commissioned to write some pedestrian, piss-weak, phoned-in crap-turd, or it could have been one of their own sad-ass numbers.
The world will never know now.
Not even them.
Again Imma hafta say bad taste was supposed to be cheesy. And fantastically so…