Yeah, but it always bugged me how the credits ended, with Will standing on the doorstep doing a dopey head spin.
The already mentioned Rocford Files were great, partly because they always started with a different telephone answering machine message (back when answering machines were strange and exotic), covering topics from Rockford’s buddy Angel calling to bum some money to a clerk at the bank wanting Jim to come in and pay on a bad check.
In the cartoons I shouldn’t be watching category, I like the credits to Kim Possible .
Despite the fact that I no longer watch the show, I think the opening to Desperate Housewives was pretty good.
As for schmaltzy, but good: The Wonder Years. I’m even willing to bet that most children of the 80s will agree with me. It set the tone for the show and that song instantly brings back memories of Kevin and Winnie.
I don’t have any “Hall of Shame” entries - I think I shut bad theme songs out of my mind.
I feel I have to mention NYPDB. Because I’ve been to those places. Been to the 9th precinct. Been to Mars. Know the guy who made the junk sculpture they show (I hope they paid him for it!)
Twin Peaks had a great opening, with the theme by Badalamenti and that machine shaping the saw blades. Both quite hypnotic, putting you in the perfect mood for an adult dose of surrealism.
For Hall of Shame, I’m not going to even try to come close to The Ropers. It’s not often that the OP wins the thread, but that is the case here.
I’m not listening to it, because I’m at work, but I only recall one theme song for the show;s run, so I hope I’ve got this right. Imagine it slowed down and played more “spooky”, and tell me if it doesn’t sound like the theme from The X Files.
I just wanted to mention here that 2 years ago I was in Krasnoyarsk, a city of about 900,000 in Siberia, Russia. In the apartment, I had the TV on, and all of the shows were in spoken in Russian, of course (which I do not speak or understand).
But then a show came on that had theme music that was very reminicient of “The Nanny”, including the animation and characters. Then the show started, and it starred an actress who looked somewhat like Fran Drescher, and spoke (in Russian) with the same nasel voice and distinctive laugh. It was kinda amusing to watch - they just reproduced the show for a Russian language audience.
It’s in reference to the movie. A character therein wishes to commit suicide, and the doctors enlist the aid of the dentist, known as ‘Painless’, to trick him into thinking he’s succeeded. It’s a dark-humor moment that works out quite well.
It’s actually Painless (‘The Painless Pole’ *) that wants to commit suicide. Because he thinks he’s gone queer because he wasn’t able to get it up with one of his girlfriends.
They have a rather major setup for it - modelled after the last supper - where they give Painless a pill they say will kill him, have him lie down, then have a nurse climb in with him to reassure him of his heterosexuality. I’ve always assumed that the pill was something that was supposed to get him up (because you’d presumably want him to in this situation), but I don’t think that they actually mentioned that.
A triple threat nickname - referenced that he was the camp dentist, that he was Polish, and that he had a huge wang - so prodigious was his member, in fact, that the MEN in the camp took turns peeping at him in the shower, to get a glimpse of it.
:dubious: I’m sorry, but I keep listening to it and it just doesn’t click. The opening notes match up, but then it’s a completely different melodic structure. I can’t hear the resemblance.
I always feel like I’m missing stuff because youtube never works for me so I have no idea what this or this represent.
Since everything I could think of has been mentioned I’ll just throw my votes to
Hall of Fame:
Police Squad
Get Smart
Mission Impossible
The X-Files
The Simpsons
Futurama
Hall of Shame:
Eh … I gotta go with Enterprise
I’m sorry, but I keep listening to it and it just doesn’t click. The opening notes match up, but then it’s a completely different melodic structure. I can’t hear the resemblance.