Have you see the Ramones do their version?
Regarding theme songs which explain the setup of the show, my favorite quote about these was from Sherwood Schwartz, creator and co-writer of the theme songs of Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch. When he was asked why the theme songs to these two shows explained their premise, he replied, “Because the confused cannot laugh.” Makes sense to me.
Nope - the Black Pill was a sedative - knocked him out, then Lt Dish came in with Hawkeye, he left her alone after showing her the “Pride of Hamtramck” (you know, I don’t think they name it in the movie, but they do in the book), and she (presumably) had sex with him while he was out (I guess to make him think it was a dream?)
In the morning he didn’t remember any of it (but he was out of his funk), and Lt Dish flew out of Korea with a very… contented look on her face
Already listed and I agree should be in the Hall of Fame:
Fresh Prince of Bel Air (but the full version – you don’t hear it too often)
**NYPD Blue
Hill Street Blues** (the best for setting a mood)
Other that are deserving:
**Mad About You
The Andy Griffith Show** (check out that swinging accompaniment to the whistling w/ drums and bass)
Golden Girls (never could find out who sings that)
I Dream of Jeannie (okay, but the animation set out the premise quite well)
For the Canadians on the boards, I’d add Made in Canada for its use of The Tragically Hip’s Blow at High Dough. This is in addition to all the other reasons I liked the show. How can you go wrong with Rick Mercer playing a character called Richard Strong?
continuing MASH hijack
I take it the details are from the book? (Never been able to find a copy, so I’ve not read it. Read one of the highly mediocre sequels, though.) I wouldn’t be surprised if I forgot some details from the last time I watched the movie (probably almost two years ago, at this point), but I remember thinking that from the first time I watched it…
Thanks for filling it in, in any case.
Some info on the Hawaii Five-O montage near the bottom of this page.
The hula dancer is from the original pilot movie, in which she actually appears. Also, in the opening montage, you also get to see her face, unlike the series, where you just see her swiveling hips.
My pick is “You’re not the boss of me now…You’re not the boss of me now…You’re not the boss of me now…and you’re not so big”.
I think it’s a great opening…“life is unfair.”
“POLICE SQUAD…IN COLOR!” 
Gotta agree with The Avengers and Twin Peaks --possibly two of the best ever!
HoF:
The Addams Family
F Troop (first season)
NUMB3RS (when they had an opening credits sequence)
Green Acres --not the theme song, but the “produced/written/directed by” credits; the characters would occasionally acknowlege the presence of the credits.
MST3K , since no one has mentioned it yet. Specifically, after season 1 and before the Sci-Fi Channel.
The Outer Limits (60’s version)
Any Gerry Anderson show
The Adventures of Superman
HoS:
The later Cosby Show seasons
Family Ties --blech!
George Lopez
And I HATE that cheesy CG opening to American Idol !
Featuring Rex Harrison as Abraham Lincoln!
I don’t know what radio station you listen to, but rest assured, the theme to Enterprise is definitively not “Country.”
If anything, it vaguely reminds me of Boston.
The best animated opening of all time. The music. The playing with the WB logo. The fact that they’re confident enough in the iconicness of the character to not complicate the sequence with actually showing or the name of the show! They just demonstrate the badass.
And then they did a spinoff set in the future where the hero was a teen, and gave it a techno/rock opening score. And it didn’t suck. At all.
The latter was designed by Darwyn Cooke. Who wrote the brilliant The New Frontier and is now filling the late Will Eisner’s prodigious shoes in The Spirit.
No love for The Wild, Wild West?
Hall of FAME, baby!
Has anyone said The Muppets Show for Hall of Fame yet? I’d always sing along.
The movie follows the book fairly well - also in that Frank and Hot Lips were quite minor characters.
Which sequels did you read? There are two diverging sets. The one by Hooker, Mash Goes to Main, Mash Mania, and I think one other, are quite good, and some of the later ones react against the show to some extent. Hawkeye and friends in Maine use Democrat as a curse, and tells a great story at a trial about how he got a dragon to wipe out Hiroshima when the A bomb didn’t work. Not exactly Alan Alda territory. The set of TV spinoffs (MASH goes to Paris is one) suck from the little I could make myself read. I seem to remember Henry being in them - whoops. 
(Hope I don’t need a spoiler box for that!)
I’d have to nominate Farscape for the Hall of Fame - these are the season 3 credits.
Season 1 and 2 used different scenes, but the same voiceover, but both the scenes and voiceovers changed in Season 3 and Season 4 to reflect Crichton’s journey throughout the universe.
So we went from:
“On a ship, a living ship full of strange alien lifeforms” and “I’m just looking for a way home” (Season 1 and 2)
to:
“Aboard this ship, this living ship full of escaped prisoners - my friends” and “Earth is unprepared…snip…should I stay?..but then you’ll never know the wonders I’ve seen” in Season 3
to:
“I’ve made enemies…powerful…dangerous…now all I want is to find a way home and warn Earth” and “Look upward and share the wonders I’ve seen” in Season 4.
E.
It was one of Hooker’s. Mash Mania, I think. I don’t remember too many details though. Henry visited them at one point, I do remember.
I think part of what bugged me was that Hawk, Trap, Spearchucker, and Hook all ended up together after the war, which didn’t strike me as particularly likely. Also, that Hawk and Trap came across as jerks, more than the charming rogues of the movie and early TV episodes. Probably due to the ‘reacting against the TV series’ aspect. (Also, maybe because Hooker alone wasn’t as talented as Hooker adapted by Ring Lardner and Robert Altman and acted by Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould.)
Upon reviewing (the things I do for the SD shudder) it has a country-ish flavour–the strumming guitar, the backbeat and the folksy sound–but it’s also very reminiscent of soft-pop ballads, so I call it a draw.
Also upon reviewing The Mothers-in-Law theme, the opening phrases for The X-Files theme go la-mi-re-mi-so-mi, la-mi-re-mi-la-mi; the opening phrases for The Mothers-in-Law theme goes la-mi-mah-re-do-la, so-la-mi-re-mi-la-mi (and I have no idea if that makes any sense whatsoever, but there you go). So the second phrases of each song match up, but the first ones throw you for a loop.
Tonight’s special guest star… Lorne Greene!
“Faith of the Heart” (aka "Where My Heart Will Take Me) was originally recorded by Rod Stewart and was played over the closing credits of the motion picture Patch Adams. It was re-recorded for Enterprise by a British pop singer named Russell Watson. The song was composed by Diane Warren, whose other compositions include “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing” by Aerosmith, “If I Could Turn Back Time” by Cher, and “Not A Dry Eye In The House” by Meat Loaf. Her Wikipedia article criticizes her as a “jump the shark” songwriter whose songs artists turn to when their careers are in a slump.