10 Catchiest Theme Songs... by cljohnston108

Of all of them I'd say that only Scrubs could be described as catchy. The others may be appropriately themed to their show but that doesn't make them catchy.

Off-hand I can name these catchy themes:

Banana Splits
The Monkees
Scrubs (as mentioned by the list)
Rockford Files
A-Team
Red Hand Gang
Only Fools And Horses
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
Doctor Who (depending on the version)
Magnum PI

Plus I could possibly include Buffy, Quantum Leap, Robot Chicken, Due South as well.

I'm sure there are plenty more catchy themes ou there....

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:08 AM

DMI

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.

While that list is absolute garbage, I can't stop laughing at the Jabba the Hutt parody of the Parks and Rec theme song. By the way, Parks and Rec and The Office and other shows on that list are very good in my opinion, but I never cared at all about their theme songs. I like the theme to the office but "Most Catchy?" Meh.

I started to do my own list and rail against them for excluding shows like Friends, Cheers, A-Team, The Jeffersons and Happy days but then I read their rule that the shows has to be post 2000 and discovered that's really hard. Besides Firefly what can we really add to the list?

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:25 AM

IMNOTHERE

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Originally posted by lwaves:
Banana Splits

Have you seen Kick-Ass yet?

Quote:

Doctor Who (depending on the version)

Original 60s/70s version, made by gluing together lots of bits of magnetic tape, of course - Duh! Actually the 11th Doc version music is starting to grow on me to the extent that, by the end of this series I might not hate it, nah, Delia Derbyshire or nuthing.

Meanwhile, most of the Gerry Anderson shows had notable theme tunes, esp. Thunderbirds.

Now, Best SF theme, for me, would have to be the Also Sprach Zarathustra overture (2001 and, if my childhood memories are to be trusted, the Apollo programme coverage). Hell, the whole score for 2001 was inspired (even if it wasn't original). Not sure about catchy, though (esp. the Ligetti bits!)

Doctor Who a close second, though.

Star Wars theme? Pah. Thunderbirds is better!

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:34 AM

(With words)
Firefly
Ben 10
Fruity Oaty Bars
Spider-man (60's cartoon)
Rescue Me

(Without words)
Buffy
Star Trek TOS
The Prisoner
UFO
Alias

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:19 AM

IMNOTHERE

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
(With words)
...
Buffy

Whuh? Shome mishtake shurely?

Quote:

(Without words)
Star Trek TOS

Ahem:

Beyond
The rim of the star-light
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.
But tell him
While he wanders his starry sea
Remember, remember me.

(Lyrics by Gene Roddenberry)

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:23 AM

GRRRRRR ARGHHH

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:28 AM

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Originally posted by ImNotHere:
Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
Banana Splits

Have you seen Kick-Ass yet?

Hell yeah I saw it. Loved that whole sequence with the theme playing over the top. Coolest movie since....maybe forever. Need to see it again to decide.

I hadn't picked up on the fact that they went for post 2000 shows only. That really does limit their choice. It's still a crappy list though.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:53 AM

IMNOTHERE

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
GRRRRRR ARGHHH

I stand corrected.

But then you have Alias under the wrong heading - Bad robot!!!

(Or was that just the sound of you attempting to gnaw your own leg off in reaction to being reminded of the Trek lyrics? Its not that they're bad, its just impossible not to imagine them being performed by William Shatner...

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:02 AM

FARFLY

My favorite is the Wonderfalls song.

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:17 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST

The Fall Guy and Dukes of Hazard. Plus that guitar riff from Buck Rogers.

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:34 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Quote:
Originally posted by DMI:
While that list is absolute garbage, I can't stop laughing at the Jabba the Hutt parody of the Parks and Rec theme song. By the way, Parks and Rec and The Office and other shows on that list are very good in my opinion, but I never cared at all about their theme songs. I like the theme to the office but "Most Catchy?" Meh.

I started to do my own list and rail against them for excluding shows like Friends, Cheers, A-Team, The Jeffersons and Happy days but then I read their rule that the shows has to be post 2000 and discovered that's really hard. Besides Firefly what can we really add to the list?

I'm with you. And I was thinking maybe The Sopranos ("Woke Up This Morning"), but it started in '99, so misses the cut.

But if you want REAL catchy theme songs, stuff like the Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Andy Griffith Show, All In The Family, MASH, Flipper, Lassie, Maude, Welcome Back Kotter, WKRP In Cincinnati, and othrs way more than top that list. Hell, I never even knew "Alias" or "Boston Legal" *had* theme songs.

Mike

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:25 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
GRRRRRR ARGHHH

The laughing Chrisisall

Go back to Trekkie School!

You just got pwned!

Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:40 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Go back to Trekkie School!

You just got pwned!

A polite effue to you sir.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:59 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

Anyone mention Wonder Woman? GI Joe? Original Land of the Lost? Batman(60s)?

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:44 PM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by Peulsar5:
GI Joe?

CRASHING THROUGH THE SKY
COMES A FEARFUL CRY

Really, anything from the 80s was awesome. The golden age of Saturday Morning cartoons. Perhaps the best possible era to grow up in.

(EDIT: replaced with a version that's actually synched.

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:16 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

The one, the only...

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:35 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
GRRRRRR ARGHHH

The laughing Chrisisall

A best of thread. Nobody mentions Dark Angel. hmmm.

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
GRRRRRR ARGHHH

The laughing Chrisisall

A best of thread. Nobody mentions Dark Angel. hmmm.

A fantastic show but is the theme song catchy?
I personally don't think so as I never found myself humming it after a viewing like I do with most of the others.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Friday, April 30, 2010 12:18 AM

BANKSY

Only fools and horses has probably got catchiest theme song of anything ever.

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Friday, April 30, 2010 4:18 AM

DMI

Expired, forgotten, spoiled rotten.

I'd reiterate that the shows have to be post 2000 but it really is useless explaining rules to a bunch of browncoats.

Any one up for spaceball in the taglog?

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Friday, April 30, 2010 5:39 AM

ZEEK

That list is pretty bad. Smallville? How is that in any way catchy? Sorry but Firefly's theme is not catchy either.

I'm fine with the big bang theory and how I met your mother.

I'm throwing the spectacular spider-man out there even though it's probably not watched by many.

Wonderfalls is a good choice.

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Friday, April 30, 2010 7:26 AM

SUASOR

Futurama
Dead Like Me
Mash
Lost (for sheer brevity)
24 (ditto)

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Friday, April 30, 2010 8:52 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
Sorry but Firefly's theme is not catchy either.

How do you figure? I thought "catchy" meant "easy to hum/sing along with"?

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Friday, April 30, 2010 10:58 AM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb

Quote:
Originally posted by DMI:
I'd reiterate that the shows have to be post 2000 but it really is useless explaining rules to a bunch of browncoats.

Any one up for spaceball in the taglog?

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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

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You're going down!!!

Or are we on the same team? I can never remember.

Also, Monk had a theme song.

And I thought John Doe's theme music was cool.

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Friday, April 30, 2010 1:11 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

Quote:
Originally posted by DMI:
I'd reiterate that the shows have to be post 2000 but it really is useless explaining rules to a bunch of browncoats.

Any one up for spaceball in the taglog?

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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

http://www.blogiversity.org/blogs/dmi/default.aspx

We aim to misbehave.

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Friday, April 30, 2010 2:20 PM

BORIS

what about the theme songs from: Malcolm in the Middle, The Fall Guy, and The Greatest American Hero...and The Muppet show...and Sesame Street. all catchy theme songs I had the Sesame Street song on in a loop in my head for years but have forgotten most of the words now. "come and play evrythings a-ok...blah blah blah and blah blah where we'll meet blah blah blah can you tell me how to get how to get to Sesame Street.

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Friday, April 30, 2010 2:27 PM

KAREL

Flying on duct tape and a damaged registry.

Barney Miller

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Friday, April 30, 2010 2:29 PM

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Originally posted by boris:
The Greatest American Hero

YEAH! That was COOL!!! AND on the radio endlessly.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, April 30, 2010 5:00 PM

PEULSAR5

We sniff the air, we don't kiss the dirt.

Quote:

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Originally posted by boris:
The Greatest American Hero
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YEAH! That was COOL!!! AND on the radio endlessly.

Can't BELIEVE I forgot that!

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Friday, April 30, 2010 9:42 PM

SINGATE

Screw it I'm gonna go really old school: Mighty Mouse.

"Here I come to save the day!!!!!"

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Friday, April 30, 2010 11:58 PM

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Originally posted by singate:
Screw it I'm gonna go really old school: Mighty Mouse.

"Here I come to save the day!!!!!"

Oh yeah!!!
I loved that show. Thanks for sending me down Memory Lane.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:56 PM

Ah, Wonderfalls - great show and catchy quirky theme song. Great choice.

Me, I nominate George of the Jungle.
(allow to simmer and...............)

SGG

Tawabawho?

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Sunday, May 2, 2010 8:59 PM

Shit, I forgot my main mouse - Mighty Mouse (the old 60s version). Boy, this does bring back memories. Thanks Singate.

Captain Kangaroo.

SGG

Tawabawho?

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Sunday, May 2, 2010 9:07 PM

I do believe no one has mentioned the easiest of all theme songs to remember.............

Book 'em, Dano:

Hawaii Five-0

Other catchy theme songs, blast from the past:

Rockford Files
Facts of Life
One Day at a Time
Knight Rider...........

and my mom's all-time fav:

Quantum Leap

SGG

Tawabawho?

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Sunday, May 2, 2010 9:11 PM

Saw Kick-*** and absolutely loved the theme song they used. It fit perfectly and made it all the more fun. I'm gonna go see it again, couldn't do it this weekend (family obligations) but soon though.

As an aside: Wasn't Nick Cage brilliant as well as the young lady Chloe. they made the movie.

SGG

Tawabawho?

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Monday, May 3, 2010 5:08 AM

TAIJA

I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause..

I know, it's not from the 2000s. But come on, it's Pokémon - you know you love it.

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Monday, May 3, 2010 6:03 AM

DALILABA

Mighty Mouse

Mister Trouble never hangs around
When he hears this mighty sound
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way
Yes sir when there is a wrong to right
Might Mouse will fight fight fight
On the sea or on the land
He has the situation well in hand

Yeah....after 50 some years...still catchy.

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Saturday, May 8, 2010 4:20 PM

OPERATIVE1

Mmmmm Mighty Mouse takes me back down memory lane too.

I've had the theme to Firefly stuck in my head for days at a time.

Banana Splits
Wonderfalls
Mighty Mouse

Nostalgia Hmmmmm

Operative1

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Sunday, May 9, 2010 2:54 PM

ZZETTA13

I get this tune in my head now and then

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Sunday, May 9, 2010 5:17 PM

OPERATIVE1

Yeah, this was a genuine and cool theme song. They shouldn't have made that piece of live action crap, ruined the whole shebang. No emo, whining anime hero here, just straightforward and genuine cartoon.

Operative1

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Sunday, May 9, 2010 5:24 PM