# Ye Olde Tyme TV Showe Name That Tune **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408 "2004-08-31T13:40:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/21 "2004-08-31T18:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _Something magic in the way you hold me in your eyes > No one ever warned me love just takes you by surprise > I don’t know what’s come over me, you’ve got my hypnotized > when you look at me._ Joanie Loves Chachi. I am soooo embarrassed. > [@](#): > > _Life goes on, and so do we, > Just how we do it is no mystery. > One by one … one by one, we fill the days, > We find a thousand different ways._ Empty Nest. Actually, I’ve known all of these, I just got here late. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/22 "2004-08-31T18:38:15Z")
> [@dasgupta](#): > > **Maude** > > **The Monkees** > > **Three’s Company** I just knew those were all too easy. _Five of us, and Mom working all day, we knew we could help her…_ Sorry, I had to cut it off there or it would be too easy as well. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/23 "2004-08-31T18:46:30Z")
> [@](#): > > “Five of us, and Mom working all day, we knew we could help her…” C’mon get happy! The Partridge Family! ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/24 "2004-08-31T18:52:56Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > C’mon get happy! The Partridge Family! “C’mon Get Happy!” was indeed the first line of the chorus for most of the show’s run. But there was another. I’m not sure exactly when they used the other lyric, but I think it was during the first season, or part of the first season. Do you recall what that lyric was? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/25 "2004-08-31T19:18:41Z")
Warning: it’s a trick! _I don’t care what you say anymore this is my life go ahead with your own life leave me alone_ ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/26 "2004-08-31T19:25:43Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > _I don’t care what you say anymore this is my life > go ahead with your own life leave me alone_ “Bosom Buddies,” one of those TV shows that sucked in so many ways, but was worth watching just for the great comic team of Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. They made some lousy material shine. I always felt the same way about Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker in “Perfect Strangers.” ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/27 "2004-08-31T19:36:58Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > “Bosom Buddies,” one of those TV shows that sucked in so many ways, but was worth watching just for the great comic team of Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. They made some lousy material shine. Correct, and I agree. I suspect we’ll be knocking these out of the park until the cows come home, but here’s another anyway: _Got kinda tired of packin’ and unpackin’ town to town, up and down the dial…_ ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/28 "2004-08-31T19:53:37Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > _Got kinda tired of packin’ and unpackin’ > town to town, up and down the dial._… Baby, you and me were never meant to be, Just maybe think of me once in a while. I’m at W K R P in Cincinaaaaaaateeeeee. _You take the good, you take the bad You take them both…_ ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/29 "2004-08-31T19:57:58Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Correct, and I agree. > > I suspect we’ll be knocking these out of the park until the cows come home, but here’s another anyway: > > _Got kinda tired of packin’ and unpackin’ > town to town, up and down the dial…_ No one yyet? _WKRP In Cincinnati_ Sadly, I have nothing to offer, the theme from _Julia_ not in my repertoire. And **Gamera** , I thought I was having deja vu when I first saw _Men In Tights_. I swear all the non-topical jokes were recycled. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/30 "2004-08-31T20:06:01Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > _You take the good, you take the bad > You take them both…_ _The Facts of Life._ \ What, does no one else remember the alternate theme song from The Partridge Family? How about some really short and obvious ones: _Here’s a story…_ _Just sit right back…_ _Let me tell y’all a story…_ _A horse is…_ _Just good ol’ boys…_ ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/31 "2004-08-31T20:27:17Z")
**Brady Bunch** **Gilligan’s Island** **Beverley Hillbillies** (Nitpick: "Come and listen to a story…) **Mr. Ed** **Dukes of Hazzard** (Nitpick: “Just some good ol’ boys…”) Drifting off-topic slightly… _There are those that believe that life began out there…_ * * * _Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality…_ ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/32 "2004-08-31T20:40:24Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > _There are those that believe that life began out there…_\* _Battlestar Galactica_. (nitpick right back at you: "There are those who believe that life here began out there…) I haven’t the slightest idea on your second one. And another one to ponder: _It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere,_ _I’m all alone, more or less,_ _I want to fly, far away from here,_ _Fun, fun, fun. In the sun, sun, sun._ ---
**Author:** ![ReadMore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ReadMore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReadMore)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/33 "2004-08-31T22:25:59Z")
_…I want to fly, far away from here, Fun, fun, fun. In the sun, sun, sun…_ Red Dwarf? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/34 "2004-08-31T22:41:02Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > _Battlestar Galactica_. (nitpick right back at you: "There are those who believe that life here began out there…) I didn’t remember it that way…turns out I was remembering the [short narration](http://www.tvtome.com/BattlestarGalactica/). ::shrug:: > [@](#): > > I haven’t the slightest idea on your second one. Any takers? Here it is again: _Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality…_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/35 "2004-08-31T22:54:17Z")
_I bet we’ve been together for a million years. And I bet we’ll be together for a million more…_ _Let the time flow, Let the love grow, Let the rain shower, Let the rose flower…_ _Well, the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum…_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/36 "2004-08-31T22:56:43Z")
Oh, and _Tales from the Darkside_… ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/37 "2004-08-31T23:45:41Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > _Let the time flow, > Let the love grow, > Let the rain shower, > Let the rose flower…_ I can’t believe I know this. I am so pathetic. It’s from _Angie._ ---
**Author:** ![Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twin)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/38 "2004-08-31T23:59:09Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > _I bet we’ve been together for a million years. > And I bet we’ll be together for a million more…_ > > _Let the time flow, > Let the love grow, > Let the rain shower, > Let the rose flower…_ > > _Well, the world don’t move > to the beat of just one drum…_ First is **Family Ties** Third is **Different Strokes** No one has answered mine yet, so I’ll add a few more (an ulta-obscure one and an easy one): _Just pushing up daisies, we’re halfway to Hades, and halfway to Heaven above_ _Sometimes the world looks perfect, nothing to rearrange Sometimes you just get a feeling like you need some kind of change_ ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/39 "2004-08-31T23:59:26Z")
> [@](#): > > I bet we’ve been together for a million years. > And I bet we’ll be together for a million more… **Family Ties** > [@](#): > > Well, the world don’t move > to the beat of just one drum… **Diff’rent Strokes** 2nd one…absolutely no clue. :: previews :: > [@](#): > > It’s from Angie. :eek: ::slowly backs away from computer, walks all the way home backwards ala Homer Simpson catching Apu committing adultery:: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/40 "2004-09-01T00:04:40Z")
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