# Words to old sitcom themes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603 "2003-08-21T05:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tim\_Winker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@Tim\_Winker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_Winker)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/21 "2003-08-22T18:09:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\*From the early 60’s…Harrigan and Son… > > _H - A - double R - I - G - A - N spells Harrigan > Proud of all the Irish blood that’s in me; Divil a man can say a word agin me. > H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see, > Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That’s me!_ \*\* That must be where Gilligan got it from that _Gilligan’s Island_ episode… G – I - double L - I…G - A - N spells Gilligan. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/22 "2003-08-27T06:52:34Z")
Hawaii 5-0 had words too it was called “you can count on me” i have an MP3 of sammy davis jr singing it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/23 "2003-08-27T22:45:56Z")
i remember when a few friends and i found out that the theme to star trek (os) had words. they were in one of the multitude of “about star trek” books that every serious trek fan would buy and read, and read, and read. we decided the next time we watched an episode we would try singing along… we didn’t get past the second syllable, the music takes quite a leap there and we were laughing way to hard to continue. i still laugh about it when i think of it. i could swear i remember uhura singing part of the theme song in one of the episodes. perhaps it was one of those vulcan harp moments. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/24 "2003-08-28T00:39:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tim Winker \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > > From the early 60’s…Harrigan and Son… > > > > H - A - double R - I - G - A - N spells Harrigan > > Proud of all the Irish blood that’s in me; Divil a man can say a word agin me. > > H - A - double R - I - G - A - N, you see, > > Is a name that a shame never has been connected with, Harrigan, That’s me! > > That must be where Gilligan got it from that _Gilligan’s Island_ episode… > > G – I - double L - I…G - A - N spells Gilligan. \*\* Both got it from George M. Cohen. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/25 "2003-08-28T04:08:40Z")
Co_han_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/26 "2003-08-28T11:32:36Z")
Fred Sanford Fred Sanford had a son Named Lamont And they lived in a junkyard And Grady was their crazy friend… It fits if you do it right 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![the\_O-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@the\_O-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O-man)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/27 "2003-08-28T13:03:11Z")
I had a friend who used to sing: “Dum Da Da da Da, it’s the Odd Couple Theme song.” I don’t think he got any further than that one line, but it used to drive me crazy. We were in the play together in high school. Wow, and here are the actual lyrics: [http://www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/OddCoupleSong.html](http://www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/OddCoupleSong.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/28 "2003-08-28T13:20:28Z")
During the Woodlawn Boneyard Crawl, we visited the simple grave of Harrigan himself, Edward Harrigan, and his family. Of course, the guide said, everybody who knows who he was starts to sing the song. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/29 "2003-08-28T16:03:04Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*Co_han\* \*\* Thanks! I tried Google to get the right spelling, I guess there’s too many who use the wrong one. No wonder I couldn’t find him on the [Internet Broadway Database](http://www.ibdb.com/). ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/30 "2003-08-28T16:36:31Z")
My 10 year old self remembers: Perry may- **son** **STINKS**! Perry may-_ **son** **STINKS** _! ---
**Author:** ![ThatDuckIsEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@ThatDuckIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatDuckIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/31 "2003-08-28T19:52:59Z")
I know the entire lyrics to Car 54 Where Are You? Thank you, Nick at Nite. And I can’t NUMBER the variations my sisters and I made up to The Brady Bunch Theme…some of them X-rated. I can hear my mother now yelling from the kitchen: “KNOCK IT OFF!” or “DOLLAR!!” (the charge for using a bad word in her presence) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/32 "2003-08-28T20:42:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew \* > \*\ ***The Andy Griffith Show** theme was actually called “The Fishin’ Hole.” [Here](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/thefishi.htm) are the lyrics (and chords, no less). Check out the splendid version of the song by Henry Kaiser. \*\* I truly believed I would be the only one to come up with gem! The thing that makes the Kaiser version so good is the vocal talet of (I forget her name exactly, I think its Cary Sheldon (?), was involved with the Dead and possibly teaches music in the Bay area). A performance so sweet, it’ll rot your teeth. 😃 ← those teeth, too! I also forget the exact album title. Something about Knowing History and Being Condemmed to Repeat It. Find it, hear it, love it. * * * How is Rap like Porn? Both are better with the sound turned off. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/33 "2003-08-28T21:04:24Z")
[Falling](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Guild/2057/lynch/falling.html), the theme from _Twin Peaks_, actually has words written by David Lynch. More in the spirit of the OP : “Here’s the A-Team! It’s the A-Team! They’re an A-Team, escaped from Vietnam.” (I know they didn’t do that, but I don’t care.) ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/34 "2003-08-28T23:15:47Z")
\*They’re My Three Sons, Not your three sons, Not his three sons, Just My Three Sons. First is Rob And then there’s Chip And Ernie, too, They’re My Three Sons.\* That was before I knew about the ABC years, of course. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/35 "2003-08-29T15:27:13Z")
I believe I read once that the composer of the theme to _The X-Files_ made up lyrics to it for his own enjoyment that began: _The X-Files is a show. Its theme is by Mark Snow._ ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/36 "2003-08-29T15:58:09Z")
www.geocities.com/tvshowthemelyrics/ I really love the theme to Courtship of Eddie’s Father and to Cops. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/37 "2003-08-29T20:20:57Z")
Morey Amsterdam wrote lyrics for the Dick Van Dyke theme, but I don’t think they were official. They sang them on a recent reunion show. > [@](#): > > So you think that you’ve got trouble? > Well, trouble’s a bubble, > So tell old Mr. Trouble to get lost… ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/38 "2003-08-29T20:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rico \* > \*\*Now, will someone please tell **cadolphin** that _Crime Scene Investigation_’s theme song by the Who is really _Who Are You_ and not _New Orleans_? She won’t believe me. \*\* If it was the latter, they’d obviously save it for another inevitable spinoff: _CSI: New Orleans_. (Sounds good, but it’s no _Law and Order: Elevator Inspectors Unit_.) ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/39 "2003-08-29T20:37:00Z")
Slightly off topic… from that movie with Jack Lemon and James Garner as Ex-Presidents: “Hail to the Chief, he’s the Chief and he needs hailing.” ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603/40 "2003-08-31T07:01:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by koeeoaddi \* > \*\*My 10 year old self remembers: > > Perry may- **son** **STINKS**! > Perry may-_ **son** **STINKS** _! \*\* I heard some comedian singing it as: Perrrrrry -MASON Perrrrrry - MASON He always gets his man but he’s to faaaat to CHASE EM [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-to-old-sitcom-themes/196603.md?page=3)