# What show had the worst theme song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256 "2018-08-08T00:39:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/1 "2018-08-08T00:39:42Z")
I’ve been enjoying binge-watching the old 1990s police show, “Homicide: Life on the Street”, but I have to say, while it was a great show, it’s theme song sucks big red rocks. [Here it is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-qF2bpNHQ) What say you, Teeming Millions? What’s the worst theme song? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/2 "2018-08-08T00:58:07Z")
My least favourite (at least recently) is the various quotes with skoodily-be-bop jazz in the background at the beginning of “Homeland”. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WYtPEoymxI) ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/3 "2018-08-08T00:58:19Z")
It might depend on your attitude toward irony. Some theme songs trying to be “the embarrassingly bad theme song” may have been bad at one level and good at another level. [starts singing, out of tune and without rhythm] “Wayne’s world, Wayne’s world, party time, excellent!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/4 "2018-08-08T01:07:59Z")
There are bad TV themes? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/5 "2018-08-08T01:09:30Z")
Personally I’ve always found the _Love Boat_ theme repulsive, but for pure, unimaginative schlock, it’s had to beat [From a Birds-Eye View](https://youtu.be/OpGybFEcLxA?t=121), a short-lived sitcom from the 1970s. And I’ll throw in [Small Wonder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bZ8z4OIMo), because that show was a contender for “worst” in every possible category. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/6 "2018-08-08T01:20:04Z")
If we’re talking about shlock, I’ll go with _ **The Brady Bunch** _: I'll start singing this when I really want to annoy someone. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/7 "2018-08-08T01:30:37Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > [“From a Birds-Eye View”](https://youtu.be/OpGybFEcLxA?t=121) Ha! 'Cause Millicent Martin is a _bird_, in’t she! Geddit, mate? A _bird_! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/8 "2018-08-08T01:34:41Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > It might depend on your attitude toward irony. Some theme songs trying to be “the embarrassingly bad theme song” may have been bad at one level and good at another level. > > [starts singing, out of tune and without rhythm] “Wayne’s world, Wayne’s world, party time, excellent!” 🙂 In the same vein, there’s _ **Two and a Half Men** _: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bc58X_ahMQ) ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/9 "2018-08-08T01:35:49Z")
I hate the Hotel Hell [theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA37EWSMp3Q). Just sounds so friggin’ amateurish. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/10 "2018-08-08T01:38:33Z")
[The Banana Splits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u1VCPdplQ4) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/11 "2018-08-08T02:11:43Z")
Star Trek: Enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/12 "2018-08-08T02:20:14Z")
[quote=“hogarth, post:2, topic:819256”] My least favourite (at least recently) is the various quotes with skoodily-be-bop jazz in the background at the beginning of “Homeland”. [/QUOTE] I’d say anything “jazzy” fits the bill. Homeland isn’t the worst of the bunch, but it’s bad. Comedians in Cars getting Coffee is unwatchable because that horrible theme song permeates the entire episode. HBO had a run where all their intros were god awful, True Blood was terrible. I hate Orange is the New Black, so the new skip intro feature on Netflix is a god send. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/13 "2018-08-08T02:29:51Z")
[quote=“hogarth, post:2, topic:819256”] My least favourite (at least recently) is the various quotes with skoodily-be-bop jazz in the background at the beginning of “Homeland”. [/QUOTE] In the early seasons, the opening credits included a brief shot of a young girl playing a trumpet. I always assumed that this was supposed to be a young Carrie Mathison, and at some point we’d learn that Carrie had studied the trumpet as a child and dreamed of being a famous jazz musician. But as far as I can recall, this never came up in the show at all. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/14 "2018-08-08T03:45:17Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Star Trek: Enterprise. It would be my pick, not only because it is awful, but because it is so unexpectedly and unnecessarily so. > [@Omniscient](#): > > I’d say anything “jazzy” fits the bill. Homeland isn’t the worst of the bunch, but it’s bad. Comedians in Cars getting Coffee is unwatchable because that horrible theme song permeates the entire episode. HBO had a run where all their intros were god awful, True Blood was terrible. I hate Orange is the New Black, so the new skip intro feature on Netflix is a god send. But don’t forget the [original _Game of Thrones_ theme from the mid-Nineties premier](https://youtu.be/2fPgIIB67bw) before the revamp that made it so popular. Unfortunately, they had to kill of Sean Bean because he was so obviously older, but the rest of the cast did well to maintain their appearances despite the decade and a half gap between the first and second series even if Isaac Hempstead Wright did grow a foot and a half in the interval. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Sloe\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sloe\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloe_Moe)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/15 "2018-08-08T04:05:04Z")
ALF Sugar Time Alias ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/16 "2018-08-08T04:08:34Z")
The theme of [Three’s Company](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TjDgcqa_H0) always got on my nerves. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/17 "2018-08-08T05:20:40Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Star Trek: Enterprise. I came in here specifically to mention this. Does this song say _Star Trek_ to you? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_yijcWsLda8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yijcWsLda8) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/18 "2018-08-08T06:59:08Z")
The theme to “Justified” always made me grimace all through it, when I couldn’t ff through. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/19 "2018-08-08T07:21:16Z")
Babylon 5. Can anyone remember it? I’ll bet you can’t because the score sounds like it was picked out of a Musak track. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256/20 "2018-08-08T07:23:27Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Star Trek: Enterprise. My head nearly exploded when I heard this song playing on the radio shortly after this shows premiere. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-show-had-the-worst-theme-song/819256.md?page=2)