# TV/Movie themes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-themes/471657>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 7, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-themes/471657 "2008-11-07T16:45:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-themes/471657/41 "2008-11-09T23:37:33Z")

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> [@phil417](#):
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> On late 1960’s-early '70’s Saturday morning tv:  
> HR Puffinstuff (“who’s your friend when things get rough?” You can’t do a little 'cause you can’t do enough.")  
> The Banana Splits ("one banana, two bananas, three bananas, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.

Well, now there are some flashbacks to childhood. Typing of which, while in university the theme song to the Waltons once woke me up in the middle of the night when I’d fallen asleep with the tv.

I’ll add to the list:  
The theme to St. Elsewhere  
The Stompin’ Tom Connors theme for Marketplace, sadly no longer used:

“Oh, yes we are the people running in the race,  
Buying up the bargains in the old marketplace,  
Another sale on something, we’ll buy it while it’s hot  
And save a lot of money spending money we don’t got.”

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**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-themes/471657/42 "2008-11-10T08:54:01Z")

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> [@TV\_time](#):
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> Groucho’s theme music from **“You Bet Your Life”**. I am pretty sure the music predated the television show, probably from a movie of his and his brothers (which no doubt someone will quickly name). Anyway, two notes of that and you think of Groucho.

It’s from “Animal Crackers,” and you can hear it in its original context [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9hJaEDmF4). (Takes a little while to get into it). And a damned catchy tune it is, too!

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**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-movie-themes/471657/43 "2008-11-11T04:53:00Z")

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The opening music for the original **Jonny Quest** show. It was just about my favorite when I was a kid, and I still think it rocks – the adrenalized percussion and frantic horns, spiced up with incidental gunfire and pterodactyl shrieks ,make for a thrilling two-minute instrumental.

I always thought **The Sopranos** and **Oz** had pretty damned cool opening theme music, too.

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