# The most irritating theme song in TV series history. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532 "2005-10-30T01:20:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/21 "2005-10-30T18:19:12Z")
“Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air…never thought I could feel so FREEE-EEE-EEEE. Flyin’ away ON a wing and a prayer. Who could it be…” Now that that is stuck in your head for a while… 😉 I hate the Over There song, too. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/22 "2005-10-30T20:02:48Z")
I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU :eek: :eek: :eek: And add my name in with those requesting a pukey smiley! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/23 "2005-10-30T22:41:56Z")
The theme from “Full House.” All I have to hear is the “AH-AH-Ah-aaaaaaahhhhh” and I’m breaking the sound barrier to change the channel. ---
**Author:** ![revolver\_4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@revolver\_4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/revolver_4)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/24 "2005-10-31T01:47:19Z")
**The Theme from Small Wonder** I’m an expat in a Muslim country and whenever something “undesirable” is scheduled to be shown on one channel, they show this 80’s series. Why can’t they show anything else? The song is awful to start with, now it’s really unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/25 "2005-10-31T01:56:41Z")
[Ahem] \*Now, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum, What might be right for you, may not be right for some. A man is born, he’s a man of means. Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans. But they got, Diff’rent Strokes. It takes, Diff’rent Strokes. It takes, Diff’rent Strokes to move the world.\* Let’s also not forget: _I’ll be there for yoooooo-uuuuuuu…_ ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/26 "2005-10-31T01:59:38Z")
I know it was mentioned already, but I have to say that the theme song to **Friends** is the worst of all time. When it was actually playing on the radio, I started thinking I had died and gone to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/27 "2005-10-31T03:10:26Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I know it was mentioned already, but I have to say that the theme song to **Friends** is the worst of all time. When it was actually playing on the radio, I started thinking I had died and gone to hell. Second this, like nails on a chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/28 "2005-10-31T04:46:47Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > The theme from “Full House.” All I have to hear is the “AH-AH-Ah-aaaaaaahhhhh” and I’m breaking the sound barrier to change the channel. The theme song doesn’t annoy me, but the lyrics confuse me. > [@](#): > > What ever happened to predictability? > The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV. At least two of those things still exist. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/29 "2005-10-31T08:06:11Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Huh…and I wound up reading it as “irritating 1920’s-style ‘death rays’ that make you scream in your sleep”. Funny, I read it as “irritating misdeeds that make you scream into sheep” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rainbowthief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@Rainbowthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rainbowthief)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/30 "2005-10-31T08:55:44Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > [Ahem] > > \*Now, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum, > What might be right for you, may not be right for some. > A man is born, he’s a man of means. > Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans. > > But they got, Diff’rent Strokes. > It takes, Diff’rent Strokes. > It takes, Diff’rent Strokes to move the world.\* > > Let’s also not forget: > > _I’ll be there for yoooooo-uuuuuuu…_ I would like to point out that Alan Thicke is responsible for writing that and many other horrible TV theme songs. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/31 "2005-10-31T09:20:45Z")
_Crossroads_. On second thoughts, that’s got to be the most irritating TV series ever. A soap based in a motel in Birmingham. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/32 "2005-10-31T11:50:27Z")
I really hate the themesong to Monk. OK, we get it, he’s neurotic, we don’t need it rammed down our throats, thanks Randy. The first season had a really nice instrumental piece. I don’t know why they dropped it. Oh, and the Mr Belvedere theme, but mostly because I couldn’t make out what the fuck he was saying… ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/33 "2005-10-31T13:14:40Z")
I don’t know if this qualifies, but I often wake up with this theme stuck in my head: _It’s the Mr. Skullhead Show Starring him, Mr. Skullhead 'Cause it’s his show that he has, Mr. Skullhead!_ ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/34 "2005-10-31T13:30:30Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > [Ahem] > Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans. That’s “nothing but their dreams.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/35 "2005-10-31T13:43:16Z")
The theme from **Three’s Company** is pretty awful. It makes me cringe and hit the remote. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/36 "2005-10-31T15:03:39Z")
“Greeeeeeeen acres is the place to be…” Gotta be the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/37 "2005-10-31T15:13:42Z")
_The Nanny_ After the opening theme, Fran Drescher’s voice is almost soothing. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/38 "2005-10-31T15:31:11Z")
Malcolm in the Middle - as a fan of TMBG’s early albums, it hurts sooo much to hear the craptastic _Boss of Me_. Only the Friends theme can compare. Silver Spoons’ theme is not so much annoying as mind-blowingly cheesy. I find it pretty hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/39 "2005-10-31T16:20:47Z")
What about the damned Smurf song/theme? It’s awful! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532/40 "2005-10-31T18:03:23Z")
[In a previous thread discussing Weeds,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=331720) we came to the conclusion that the theme is the most stupidest and annoying theme song ever. It wasn’t unanimous-- there’s no accounting for taste. The words are dumb and that warbly voiced folksy gal singing is just the earsplitting icing on the cake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-irritating-theme-song-in-tv-series-history/328532.md?page=3)