A new one, from myself :
Cloud of smoke and he appears,
Master of surprise.
Who’s that cunning mind behind
That shadowy disguise?
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 … *
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.
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.
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?
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/ Check it out, it’s got some great stuff, don’t know if a US version exists or not.
Let me try for a Trifecta:
That’s, IIRC, the theme from 77 Sunset Strip.
That’s How Soon Is Now by the Smiths, covered by the band Love Spit Love and used as the theme song to Charmed.
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.
“Fishin’ Hole,” The Andy Griffith Show
“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 . . . *
… His Star Trek will go on forever.
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.
BATMAN!!!
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.
no, that would be :
Na-na na-na na-na na-na
Na-na na-na na-na na-na…
Hes the most tip top
Top Cat.
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)
Hogan’s Heroes, though the lyrics were not ever used on the show.
Sometimes we quarrel but then
How we love making up again.
[QUOTE=Julius HenrySometimes we quarrel but then
How we love making up again.[/QUOTE]
I Love Lucy and she loves me…
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.
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.
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.
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.”