As stated by William Holden
Ya know those 3 notes that play in the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve that are supposed to make you think “Superman”? It took me forever to realize that the melody was supposed to make me think “Superman”, even though I watched those movies a lot as a child.
I’m blanking on this (maybe it’s just me; I got my third vaccination yesterday and am a little fuzzy-headed today). Could you post a YouTube video and indicate the minutes and seconds? I’m trying to imagine it, and what I’m hearing in my head is the Star Wars theme. 
9 Seconds into the theme it kind of says “Superman!” with its note. I tried to link to it at that time.
Oh, yeah! Now I remember! Thanks. Yeah, kind of sounds like “Su-perman.”
It helps that the credits were somewhat synced to that moment to make the title show up just when it played.
Well, lookit that. I was going to say it might be a coincidence, but… lookit that.
There are a couple of scenes in Modern Family in which it looks like one of the actors is trying hard not to break character. Although there are probably many, I’m not sure about these two, because I haven’t recorded them and it could be my imagination.
One is when Manny falls asleep at a party or something and his prankster friends draw a pointy beard on his little chin. Musing Jay’s recommendation of “prank ‘em back,” he gazes into a mirror and strokes the beard, looking crafty. Gloria is standing behind him, and it looked to me like she was trying not to laugh.
The other scene is at the end of an episode in which Gloria is taking some kidding from everyone about her accent. She eventually explodes (and Jay, from his “interview” shot, is comparing it to working with explosives), but, before that happens, it looks like Jay, who has no lines in the scene, can’t take his eyes off of her and is trying hard not to laugh as he waits for the explosion.
The TV show did the same thing. Even playing the three notes again when the title appeared.
The James Bernard Horror of Dracula theme also did the same thing. The primary motif is “DRA cu la”.
Found the TV Tropes page for this trope: Fanfare - TV Tropes
I’m, surprised no one mentioned the theme from the FBI.
The lyrics are:
“The F-B-I!
A Quinn Martin Product!”
I know! I saw the stage play quite a while ago and was shocked when they said she was only 50. I’d always assumed at least 70, too.
In the Twilight Zone episode “Kick the Can” that poor old fart who gets left behind when all of his friends in the Sunnyvale Rest Home have their youth restored was, at the time of filming, the better part of a decade younger than I am right now.
– Tom Lehrer
Colonel Potter, the old man of MASH 4077, is younger than me (depending on which story you believe about his age).
You mean when he was in MASH? He was only 67 when that show ended, and I think that’s a little older than the character was supposed to be.
Nicholas Colasanto was 58 years old when he began playing Coach on Cheers. I am 58 now. I’m not that old… am I???
I mean when he was on MASH, when his age was sometimes fifty and sometimes over sixty - but always apparently about a generation older than anyone else around. However old I am (and come to think of it, I am about a generation older than a number of folks I work with), I’m not at the “about ready to retire to a quiet place in the country and live out my few remaining years” age that Potter is (which reflected more of Harry Morgan’s real age in the 1980s and the different view of aging that was held in the 1950s and 1970s)