I know! But it’s like drowning in sugar-spiked honey.
I don’t know if I’ll call it the worst ever, but “Believe It or Not”, the theme to The Greatest American Hero, is definitely in the running. It’s a really bad example of a really bad genre. It barely has any connection to the series it’s the theme song for. And, unlike most theme songs, it managed to get some airplay on the radio.
When my kids were watching Pokémon that song really grated on me for whatever reason.
You listen to Tony Schiavone’s podcast, don’t you?
Still, you gotta admire a songwriter rhyming ‘Flushing, Queens’ and ‘crushing scenes.’
The Facts Of Life.
Malcolm in the Middle.
I know it’s done by TMBG, but it sounds like what you’d get if you asked a couple of 13 year old boys to “sing” in as irritating a manner as possible.
One Day at a Time theme was not good.
BTW Rob Reiner is really into TV themes. He was on a show once and people named all kinds of obscure themes and he knew them and sang a bit of each one.
Even “Uh, oh! Chango!”? How about the Calliopa Saxafier Trumparina Claribassa Trombaphone?
The theme wasn’t that bad - it was those opening credits with the women on the trampoline that soured it for me. Well, that, and Barbi Benton’s attempts at acting.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. There was nothing wrong with the original, instrumental theme - especially the second version, with the key change (in the original episodes, when Diana Hyland was still alive, it was in a different key).
“Give me some men/who are stout-hearted men”? I … don’t think so. :dubious:
Which is what Sherwood Schwartz intended; he had to come up with a similar theme to sell Gilligan’s Island to CBS (he talks about this in his History of American TV interview). The one used in the unaired pilot was very different from the one we know and love today; the big thing at the time (the pilot was filmed in November 1963) was Harry Belafonte–calypso-type music:
Don't know about you, but I'm glad they changed it!I’ll bet Mark Hamill still kicks himself for dropping out of that role. Imagine where his career might otherwise be today.
Roseanne. Saxophone is an awful instrument which should be left to the ash heap of the 80s.
Without the Banana Splits, there’s no Buffalo Soliders.
What about The King of Queens (which show is aired repeatedly, ENDLESSLY, 10 times a night at LEAST on cable)…‘Mah eyes are gettin’ weary…mah back is gettin’ tight…blah blah blah . cash mah check and drivin’ home to yoooooooooouuuuu.’ :rolleyes: And all they do on the show is fight! So trashy and countrified, even if it is about a couple of goobers living the dream in Queens. It’s awfully close to the equally awful trashy countrified Christmas song about some guy drivin’ home for the holidays. :rolleyes:
Monk traded down from one I liked a lot to one that was just kind of okay.
Bonkers
Starski and Hutch
V
Cover Up
The Invaders
The Jeffersons never sounded good. Nor did the theme for Maude. For that matter, Those were the Days was a bag of whistling farts. Norman Lear did some decent, challenging shows, but the theme songs were all worth muting.
They really had to, though. The Belafonte version is nearly 2 minutes long, and that might be ok but there was really no way to shorten or condense it to half that.
I will agree to this. It had to be Kevin James writing these lyrics. I have to switch the channel before the “on the Queensboro Bridge tonight” line is sort of sung. (shudders)
And you’re right: it belongs to a different kind of show where people are stable and love each other. Not shows that are “how the hell did he land HER” kind of shows. Eeeeeee, Leah!
We all know that Mancini could bring the goods when he wanted to. If it’s like drowning in sugar-spiked honey, I have to assume Mancini wanted it to be like drowning in sugar-spiked honey. And for Bob Newhart, in the '80s, on CBS, sugar-spiked honey worked.
No, the back-up during the chorus is just “Men, men, men men-- men, men, men men!” That part.
I always thought the theme to Maude was supposed to be campy.
I always wondered if it was inspired by this.
I never liked Friends– neither the title track nor the show!