# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/61 "2004-09-01T18:08:25Z")
A new one, from myself : Cloud of smoke and he appears, Master of surprise. Who’s that cunning mind behind That shadowy disguise? ---
**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:** [September 1, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/62 "2004-09-01T18:21:54Z")
> [@Twin](#): > > 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_ I don’t think anyone has got this yet. It’s from **Nearly Departed** , great comedy show starring Eric Idle as a ghost. Also unanswered : _The sound of hoofbeats cross the glade, Good folk, lock up your son and daughter, Beware the deadly flashing blade, Unless, you want to end up shorter_ That’s from the first series of **The Black Adder** Now try this one: \*Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee’s dead. The morning’s looking bright. And your shrink ran off to Europe and didn’t even write. And your husband wants to be a girl. Be glad there’s one place in the world … \* ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/63 "2004-09-01T18:40:56Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Ahem. [http://www.relaxorium.com/freak/](http://www.relaxorium.com/freak/) - Freakazoid lyrics detailed. > > Your new one sounds like Suicide is Painless, from MASH. Yup. It’s the second verse from _Suicide Is Painless_ - much better known in its instrumental version. And I stand by the way I heard the theme from _Freakazoid_. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/64 "2004-09-01T18:57:27Z")
Here are a few 1- There’s a magic in the early morning we found, When the sun rise smiles on everything around. It’s a portrait of the happiness that we feel and always will… 2- Lovable, gullible, armless, harmless, ten foot tall and wet… 3- All good heroes love a good, big fight Open up the bomb bays and brighten up the night. We applaud the people who laud us, You pull the roses, We punch the noses, That’s what we’re heroes for. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/65 "2004-09-01T19:06:33Z")
> [@Kilt-wearin' man](#): > > Yup. It’s the second verse from _Suicide Is Painless_ - much better known in its instrumental version. And I stand by the way I heard the theme from _Freakazoid_. I dug up a couple more sites - they seem to side with me on this one - but they’ve got annoying pop-ups. I won’t link them because they give all kinds of other show’s lyrics, and I don’t want to spoil the contest, but they’re early in the Google results for Freakazoid lyrics. Maybe I still have a few taped episodes… ah! At home, I have a WAV of the opening theme. And there’s an MP3 of it on the earlier site linked. Maybe listen again? ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/66 "2004-09-01T19:27:46Z")
> [@](#): > > You shut your mouth > How can you say > I go about things the wrong way? > I am human and I need to be loved > Just like everybody else does Charmed BTW, **Bambi** , I had to go and find the “Cities of Gold” song yesterday as well. I found it on a pretty cool site: [http://80scartoons.co.uk/](http://80scartoons.co.uk/) Check it out, it’s got some great stuff, don’t know if a US version exists or not. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/67 "2004-09-01T19:54:01Z")
Let me try for a Trifecta: > [@](#): > > The street that wears a fancy label, > That’s glorified in song and fable. > The most exciting people pass you by, > Including a private eye. That’s, IIRC, the theme from **77 Sunset Strip**. > [@](#): > > You shut your mouth > How can you say > I go about things the wrong way? > I am human and I need to be loved > Just like everybody else does That’s _How Soon Is Now_ by the Smiths, covered by the band Love Spit Love and used as the theme song to **Charmed**. > [@](#): > > I know that you can lend a helping hand. > Because there’s good in everyone > And a new day has begun > You can see the morning sun if you try. > And I know, things will be better That’s Jose Feliciano’s theme for **Chico and The Man** which might have a title in and of itself but I have no idea what it might be. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/68 "2004-09-01T20:27:19Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > What a great place to rest your bones and mighty fine for skippin’ stones, > You’ll feel fresh as a lemonade, a-settin’ in the shade. “Fishin’ Hole,” _The Andy Griffith Show_ > [@Peter Morris](#): > > Roll out of bed, > Mr. Coffee’s dead. > The morning’s looking bright. > And your shrink ran off to Europe and didn’t even write. > And your husband wants to be a girl. > Be glad there’s one place in the world … “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” _Cheers_ * * * Here’s a new one: \*Beyond The rim of the starlight My love Is wand’ring in star flight I know he’ll find in star clustered reaches Love, strange love a star woman teaches I know His journey ends never . . . \* ---
**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:** [September 1, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/69 "2004-09-01T21:04:46Z")
… His Star Trek will go on forever. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/70 "2004-09-01T22:04:24Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Like a beautiful child > Growing up, free and wild. > Full of hopes and full of fears, > Full of laughter, full of tears, > Full of dreams to last a year _Seattle_, as it was performed as the theme to “Here Come the Brides,” the show that gave us Bobby Sherman _and_ David Soul. Ooh, I get to do one now, don’t I? Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo, Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo … BTW, I once owned a book of TV theme lyrics. The _Bonanza_ song was evidently performed by the Cartwrights on one episode. I read that it was so embarrassingly bad the episode is rarely repeated. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/71 "2004-09-01T22:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo, > Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo **BATMAN!!!** The indisputable Leader of the gang He’s the boss, he’s a VIP He’s a championship… ---
**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, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/72 "2004-09-01T22:40:20Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > The indisputable > Leader of the gang > > He’s the boss, he’s a VIP > He’s a championship… **Top Cat** , right? I was trying to remember that one just the other day. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/73 "2004-09-01T22:49:42Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > **BATMAN!!!** no, that would be : Na-na na-na na-na na-na Na-na na-na na-na na-na… > [@](#): > > The indisputable > Leader of the gang > > He’s the boss, he’s a VIP > He’s a championship… Hes the most tip top Top Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/74 "2004-09-01T22:52:20Z")
> [@Saltire](#): > > Another easy one: > > _Who can turn the world on with a smile?_ _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ (which changed the final line of the opening theme from “You might just make it after all” to “You’re gonna make it after all” after the show had established itself as a hit) Some new ones: _Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?_ (not originally written as the theme for the show) In a similar vein: _Flagstaff, Arizona: don’t forget Winona_ _Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win._ (lyrics never heard on the actual program, AFAIK) ---
**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:** [September 1, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/75 "2004-09-01T23:02:19Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > 3- All good heroes love a good, big fight > Open up the bomb bays and brighten up the night. > We applaud the people who laud us, > You pull the roses, > We punch the noses, > That’s what we’re heroes for. **Hogan’s Heroes,** though the lyrics were not ever used on the show. _Sometimes we quarrel but then How we love making up again._ ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/76 "2004-09-01T23:41:28Z")
[QUOTE=Julius Henry_Sometimes we quarrel but then How we love making up again._[/QUOTE] **I Love Lucy** and she loves me… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/77 "2004-09-02T00:13:55Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > no, that would be : > > Na-na na-na na-na na-na > Na-na na-na na-na na-na… Pish-tosh, old bean. Observe: \*\*Q: What does Batman do in the Bat-room? A: Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo, Doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo \*\* _Seven year-old boys from miles around erupt in uncontrollable paroxysms of laughter._ And now this **Q: What does Batman do in the Bat-room? A: Na-na na-na na-na na-na Na-na na-na na-na na-na…** _Crickets chirping, a few puzzled “huh?”'s from the seven year-old boys._ It’s all about which reading makes the joke work, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/78 "2004-09-02T00:18:56Z")
I don’t think this easy one has been mentioned yet: _Riverboat, ring your bell,_ _Fare thee well, Anabell,_ _Luck is the lady that he loves the best._ _Natches to New Orleans,_ _Livin’ on jacks and queens…_ And as a side note, I never knew that the theme from _Bonanza_ had any lyrics until the gang at _Cheers_ tried to sing it on one show. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/79 "2004-09-02T00:27:35Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > In a similar vein: _Flagstaff, Arizona: don’t forget Winona_ Gotta go with _Route 66_ Try this: _Goin’ down that long lonesome highway Bound for the deserts and the plain Sure ain’t nothin’ here gonna tie me And I got some folks I’d like to see again._ ---
**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:** [September 2, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408/80 "2004-09-02T00:38:55Z")
Oh yeah? Q) How does Bruce Wayne’s mother call him in from play when it’s time to eat? A) dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner, BATMAN Here’s an easy one. “There a voice that keeps on calling me down the road that’s where I’ll always be. Every stop I make I make a new friend Can’t stay for long, just turn around, I’m moving again.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-olde-tyme-tv-showe-name-that-tune/262408.md?page=5)