# Queen's "You're My Best Friend" as TV theme song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [May 4, 2000, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585 "2000-05-04T18:32:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/21 "2017-04-13T21:25:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think the most likely answer is that, insistence aside, what we have here is a mistaken/conflated memory. Can we please call it an example of the Mandela Effect? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/22 "2017-04-13T21:40:21Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > The song is used _a lot_; kind of the go to song when they want to show us the depth (and the wacky side!) of characters’ relationships. Could it be that the OPs wife heard the song so often in conjunction with these kinds of scenes that she mistakenly associated it with a particular show? That’s the most likely explanation, IMO. Any show doing a montage of how much fun two characters had together had about even odds of using that song. You can practically “remember” it being used for any two close characters of any show of the time period. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/23 "2017-04-13T21:51:53Z")
Or she heard it on the radio at some time (kind of heard to believe she hadn’t, frankly). ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/24 "2017-04-14T01:07:28Z")
I’m not having any luck tracking down a soundtrack for it, but I’m wondering about [My Bodyguard](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081207/?ref_=ttsnd_snd_tt) Or I was thinking [Over The Edge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(film)) but it’s not listed on that soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/25 "2017-04-16T11:32:14Z")
Would have been a cool theme song for “Bosom Buddies”, rather than “My Life”. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/26 "2017-04-16T12:59:33Z")
When I saw the thread title I thought, “oh sure! it was used one of those 70s TV shows.” But I can’t actually pin down what that would’ve been, and after reading this thread I suspect I also have some conflation going on with “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.” ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2017, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/27 "2017-04-16T15:57:50Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Would have been a cool theme song for “Bosom Buddies”, rather than “My Life”. I always wondered why they didn’t just use “Bosom Buddies” from _Mame_. ---
**Author:** ![QueenSong\_EddiesFather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/8797f3/32.png) [@QueenSong\_EddiesFather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenSong_EddiesFather)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/28 "2017-12-31T23:14:11Z")
I know for a fact that Queen’s “Your my best friend” was used as the theme for Eddie’s father. They replaced the Nilson song with Queen’s song for a while (this was years back in the Philadelphia area) And I remember thinking “Wow they switched songs and are now using Queens song”. I also remember thinking “Wow, Queen must be in need of money to let them use the song” My own opinion is that they used the song illegally thinking “people wouldn’t catch on”. Or it was an honest mistake by some audio/visual tech at the studio. But yes in Philadelphia Queen’s song WAS used for a while for Eddies Father. ---
**Author:** ![QueenSong\_EddiesFather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/8797f3/32.png) [@QueenSong\_EddiesFather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenSong_EddiesFather)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/29 "2017-12-31T23:18:17Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > When I saw the thread title I thought, “oh sure! it was used one of those 70s TV shows.” But I can’t actually pin down what that would’ve been, and after reading this thread I suspect I also have some conflation going on with “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.” Queen’s song was definitely used for a while as the theme song for Eddie’s father. They replaced the original theme with Queen’s song. At least in the Philadelphia area. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/30 "2017-12-31T23:43:28Z")
The OP probably is remembering a song very familiar. But still different enough to avoid copyright suits. I too, have a very strong memory of this song in a show’s opening credits. It had to be a very similar song. > **[You're My Best Friend (Queen song)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_My_Best_Friend_(Queen_song))** > > "You're My Best Friend" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by the band's bass player, John Deacon, who wrote it for and about his wife. It was first included on the 1975 album A Night at the Opera, and later released as a single. The ballad also appeared on the Live Killers (1979) live album, and on the compilation albums Greatest Hits (1981), Absolute Greatest (2009) and Queen Forever (2014). > The song reached number seven in the UK Singles Chart and number 16 on the US Billboa... > [@](#): > > The song was used in several TV shows and films such as Hot in Cleveland, Will & Grace, EastEnders, My Name is Earl, The King of Queens, the end credits of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The Simpsons,Shaun of the Dead, Peter’s Friends, and The Secret Life of Pets, in addition to the promo for the American television adaption of Wilfred. It appears in a 2016 TV commercial for PetSmart. The song was also covered in the television adaptation of School of Rock. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/31 "2018-01-01T01:07:14Z")
> [@QueenSong\_EddiesFather](#): > > Queen’s song was definitely used for a while as the theme song for > Eddie’s father. They replaced the original theme with Queen’s song. > At least in the Philadelphia area. Highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely. _The Courtship of Eddie’s Father_ was on the air from 1969 - 1972. _You’re My Best Friend_ was released in 1976 on their album _A Night at the Opera_, four years after the TV show ended. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/32 "2018-01-01T01:10:54Z")
I think he’s referring to Syndication. They may have substituted the music. Seems unlikely, but I guess it’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/33 "2018-01-01T01:28:43Z")
AFV used it as the music for a montage of people hanging with their funny pooches. Not quite the same as a theme for a whole show, but it’s my #1 association with the song. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/34 "2018-01-01T03:03:18Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I think he’s referring to Syndication. > > They may have substituted the music. > > Seems unlikely, but I guess it’s possible. If so, then they did it without permission-highly unlikely. Are there any references to this actually happening? ---
**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:** [January 1, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/35 "2018-01-01T03:11:35Z")
Why would one small market go through the trouble of pulling a syndicated show out of the line-up, redub the soundtrack at a not inconsiderable cost with music that isn’t really associated with that market, then stick it back in the lineup, all without permission? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/36 "2018-01-01T03:49:41Z")
_Bosom Buddies_ originally used a cover of Billy Joel’s _My Life_ as its theme. It was replaced in syndication by _Shake Me Loose_ by Stephanie Mills. But that was nationwide, not just in one region. Not the same thing at all. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/37 "2018-01-01T12:42:12Z")
The audio to Queen’s song does not match up to the video of _COEF_ in any way shape or form. Try to make it fit. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/38 "2018-01-01T13:29:49Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely. _The Courtship of Eddie’s Father_ was on the air from 1969 - 1972. _You’re My Best Friend_ was released in 1976 on their album _A Night at the Opera_, four years after the TV show ended. A Night at the Opera was released in Nov. 1975, not 1976. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/39 "2018-01-01T14:06:24Z")
> [@Toxylon](#): > > A Night at the Opera was released in Nov. 1975, not 1976. Close enough for rock ‘n’ roll. There is still a three year gap between the end of _Courtship of Eddie’s Father_ and the release of _You’re My Best Friend_. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585/40 "2018-01-01T14:48:45Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Why would one small market go through the trouble of pulling a syndicated show out of the line-up, redub the soundtrack at a not inconsiderable cost with music that isn’t really associated with that market, then stick it back in the lineup, all without permission? The station wouldn’t have but a Syndicator might have. It plausible they purchased the rights to the song and it only aired in a few markets since it wasn’t the most popular of shows. Maybe Queen sells the rights for cheaper than we expect? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-youre-my-best-friend-as-tv-theme-song/18585.md?page=3)