# What's the most hated TV Show music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321 "2012-05-18T14:53:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/1 "2012-05-18T14:53:54Z")
This exciting thread ([Poll: Who’s the most hated TV character?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=651907)) made me wonder if we might identify (and maybe have a poll on) the shittiest music on TV – now and forever. My first two to come to mind are the “background” music on _Grey’s Anatomy_ which finally drove me away from the show, and the ridiculous repeating theme on _Lost in Space_. I’m sorry if you happened to love either or both of those, and I won’t be surprised if you hate(d) some of my favorites. But it ought to be fun building a list, right? Links to YouTube would be great! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/2 "2012-05-18T14:57:16Z")
The theme song to _Star Trek: Enterprise_ was pretty awful. Edit: [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/3 "2012-05-18T15:34:28Z")
Do they even play TV theme songs any more?.. I will agree with the melancholy songs blaring over any dialogue during Grey’s, very annoying. And I always LOVED the theme song and opening bits for Grey’s, now it’s never seen :(… OK - The song from Friends - I loathe Friends anyhow, but the song just stinks in its own right. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/4 "2012-05-18T17:13:37Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The theme song to _Star Trek: Enterprise_ was pretty awful. > > Edit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ) Shows what I know – that was one of my favorite things about the show! :o;)😃 ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/5 "2012-05-18T17:17:44Z")
The song from Friends wouldn’t have been so loathsome if I hadn’t been forced to listen to it 10 zillion times when my daughter watched the show. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/6 "2012-05-18T17:23:32Z")
[da da da da da da BATMAN!!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP-NglUeZU) ---
**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:** [May 18, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/7 "2012-05-18T17:25:44Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The theme song to _Star Trek: Enterprise_ was pretty awful. > > Edit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ) Agree. How about the theme from “The Brady Bunch”? I sing it when I’m in a vindictive mood and want to piss people off… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/8 "2012-05-18T17:29:01Z")
[Barney and Friends: I love you.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKO_r76kfQ) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/9 "2012-05-18T17:33:07Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The theme song to _Star Trek: Enterprise_ was pretty awful. > > Edit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8OpsPok6iQ) I think the reason so many people detested the Enterprise theme was because it wasn’t some kind of majestic piece of music composed for the series (or in the case of ST:TNG at least a redress of the theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture), but rather a pop tune composed by Diane Warren and lifted from the film Patch Adams. It was also sung by a Rod Stewart soundalike. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t1sYjDc8i4I/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGBMgHyh_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLChKvn_38cj3yMSdZ1mu975u2Y1MQ "Faith of the Heart by Rod Stewart") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1sYjDc8i4I) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/10 "2012-05-18T17:36:14Z")
While I like [the theme song from _Lou Grant_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwb2UNMNTZ4), I think it was ill-suited to the show itself. And [the theme to The Dick Van Dyke Show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_8QW8LO-c) is frustrating because it starts out as something you can hum along to and then kicks my sinuses right in the crotch. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/11 "2012-05-18T17:40:06Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > [Barney and Friends: I love you.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKO_r76kfQ) You may pick up your first prize blue ribbon at the judge’s table. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/12 "2012-05-18T17:45:09Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bhHrOgOkXZw/hqdefault.jpg "little house on the prairie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhHrOgOkXZw) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/13 "2012-05-18T17:46:10Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > … and the ridiculous repeating theme on _Lost in Space_. It has wrecked my mind to realize that John Williams composed this monstrosity: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80TAVW3paBA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80TAVW3paBA) ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/14 "2012-05-18T17:47:17Z")
I also hate Storage Wars ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/15 "2012-05-18T17:53:16Z")
“Greatest American Hero” Most annoying earworm! ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/16 "2012-05-18T17:57:03Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [da da da da da da BATMAN!!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qP-NglUeZU) You take that back! I always liked King of Queens, but thought the theme song sounded so cheesy and generic it could have been used for 1000 different sitcoms. If we want to talk about the greatest, that would be the closing theme to WKRP. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/17 "2012-05-18T18:01:40Z")
I actually think this theme is awesome in its bizarre split personality, but: [Space: 1999](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLhdY6_juDk&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Stelios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Stelios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stelios)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/18 "2012-05-18T18:05:49Z")
I hate, hate, _hate_ the theme tune to the otherwise excellent show _Weeds_. You know the one, it’s that god awful, drippy-hippyish, spiteful, sanctimonous, patronising, flat out _nasty_ little ditty about how everyone who doesn’t flee the cities, join a commune and scrape a living hawking wood carvings and healing crystals is “All made out of ticky-tacky”. It’s the only song I’ve ever heard that makes me genuinely angry. It’s [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM) if you really want to listen to it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Stupid hippie bullshit… ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/19 "2012-05-18T18:13:33Z")
Huh. I think that’s a fantastic song, though I’m familiar with the Pete Seeger version. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321/20 "2012-05-18T18:14:58Z")
> [@Stelios](#): > > I hate, hate, _hate_ the theme tune to the otherwise excellent show _Weeds_. You know the one, it’s that god awful, drippy-hippyish, spiteful, sanctimonous, patronising, flat out _nasty_ little ditty about how everyone who doesn’t flee the cities, join a commune and scrape a living hawking wood carvings and healing crystals is “All made out of ticky-tacky”. It’s the only song I’ve ever heard that makes me genuinely angry. > > It’s [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM) if you really want to listen to it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Stupid hippie bullshit… It’s not a song about people who refuse to flee cities and live in a commune. It’s about people who live in the suburbs. And if you ever take a look at suburbs, especially the early ones like Levittown, they can be soul-deadening. And ticky-tacky was a fairly accurate description of the quality of their building materials. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-hated-tv-show-music/622321.md?page=2)