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« on: January 26, 2006, 06:13:04 PM »

I just love TV theme songs.. my newest favorite is the OC theme song, "California" by Phantom Planet (never seen more than five minutes of the show, though). I hate the chorus, though, but the verse melody (represented in the shortened version by the piano intro) is awesome.
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2006, 06:14:50 PM »

I'll take the Monkees theme.
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2006, 06:15:29 PM »

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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2006, 06:23:24 PM »

Yeah, Monkees Theme is great.

Twin Peaks ("Falling")
Knight Rider (lame show, great theme)
Cops (hilarious song...so bad)
"Them From Route 66"
Seinfeld (great parody of lame sitcom themes, and mercifully short)
Night Court (so bad, a comedy classic)
I Dream of Jeannie
Fuckin Dallas
Gilligan's Island
The X-Files
Ren and Stimpy
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2006, 06:26:25 PM »

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Anyone for People's Court (amazingly, a part of the score for a trash 70's combo beach-mad-girl-stalker flick called Malibu High, and reused for the Court)?
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2006, 06:34:51 PM »

Theme from the Monkees
Friends (i uded to do this in a medley with Pleasant Valley Sunday)
Barney Miller
MASH
The Simpsons
the version of Hnadbags and Gladrags used in the BBC office
Monty Python (yes, I know it's Sousa's "Liberty Bell March")
Marshall Crenshaw did a kick ass cover of "Bad Boy" for the american version of Men Behaving Badly.
Cheers
That 70's show (I like Cheap Trck's version of "In The Streets")

and my all time favorite......

The Greatest American Hero ...... thank you Michael Moore for using this song so hilariously in Fahrenheit 911!!
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2006, 06:36:46 PM »

To be a little deja-vu (bringin' in two other threads), how about This Wheel's On Fire, from Absolutely Fabulous?
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2006, 06:37:08 PM »

Saved By The Bell: The College Years. The "today, today, today" bit does it for me.

But, seriously...

The State
Green Acres
Swat Kats
M*A*S*H
Gigantor (Helmet's version, anyways)
The Banana Splits (dreadful, but...)
Adventures of Pete & Pete (so many memories of this one)
Ren & Stimpy
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2006, 06:39:00 PM »

Ren and Stimpy
The Adventures of Pete and Pete

You beat me to it. I love these two, too.
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2006, 06:40:15 PM »

I don't even remember the Pete and Pete theme song.

The Are You Afraid of the Dark? one is just chilling, though.
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2006, 06:40:52 PM »

Ren and Stimpy
The Adventures of Pete and Pete

You beat me to it. I love these two, too.

Those are really great.  Almost all of the Pete music was great.  How can you not remember "Hey Sandy," Aegir?

I forgot The Kids in the Hall.
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2006, 06:43:11 PM »

The theme forHey Dude sucked, but it might be my favorite.
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2006, 06:45:29 PM »

The theme forHey Dude sucked, but it might be my favorite.

Dude, just watch out for that killer cacti.
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2006, 06:47:46 PM »

I can even remember full episodes of Pete and Pete.

I don't understand why the theme song has completely left my head.
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2006, 06:55:30 PM »

Seasons 1 & 2 are available on DVD and great, as were nearly all programs from the golden age of Nick.
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« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2006, 06:58:34 PM »

Seasons 1 & 2 are available on DVD and great, as were nearly all programs from the golden age of Nick.

They just cancelled season 3, though.

And aside from Clarissa Explains It All, what are other old Nick shows are on DVD?  Last time I checked there were none.
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« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2006, 07:05:40 PM »

No Season 3? Poor sales?

I don't know of any other Nick shows on DVD, though there probably won't be anymore, seeing that Pete is probably one of the more requested titles and the sales are apparently still very low.
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« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2006, 07:06:16 PM »

"And Your Bird Can Sing" from The Beatles' cartoons and those songs at the beginning of The Three Stooges shorts...
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« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2006, 07:08:14 PM »

No Season 3? Poor sales?

I don't know of any other Nick shows on DVD, though there probably won't be anymore, seeing that Pete is probably one of the more requested titles and the sales are apparently still very low.

I thought you were saying nearly all old Nick shows were on DVD.

Paramount hasn't said why season 3 was cancelled.  It was supposed to come out next month, I think.  And I think their website still lists it, though that's apparently a mistake.  Maybe it has something to do with an extra or some rights issue.  If the sets sold poorly it's because Paramount did sh*t to get them out there.  You can find both sets at Best Buy now, but when the first one came out it wasn't even in their system.
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« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2006, 07:14:08 PM »

Paramount is horrible. And the Best Buy in my neck of the woods did not receive Pete Season 1 until late August. These sets were cursed.
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« Reply #20 on: January 26, 2006, 07:17:11 PM »

The Jeffersons (written by Jeff Barry) cracks me up for some reason. Maude, too.
To me, Mike Post's TV show themes were typically interesting.
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« Reply #21 on: January 26, 2006, 07:28:14 PM »

When I was five or so, I got my mom to get me the Rockford Files theme on a single.  For some reason I loved that music.
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« Reply #22 on: January 26, 2006, 07:35:09 PM »

The Rockford Files was a hit single, I remember that, so was the theme from SWAT.

I love me some Pink Panther theme, which we can cite here since it was used in the TV cartoons, too. Grin

I always liked the closing theme of the Monkees, "For Pete's Sake," tons better than the opening. Love Mick's vocal.

Welcome Back, Kotter
The Odd Couple
Star Trek
Dark Shadows
Hill Street Blues
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« Reply #23 on: January 26, 2006, 07:35:55 PM »

Paramount is horrible. And the Best Buy in my neck of the woods did not receive Pete Season 1 until late August. These sets were cursed.

Exactly.  Once 2 came out.
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« Reply #24 on: January 26, 2006, 07:47:40 PM »

Some of my favorites:

The Pink Panther
Green Acres
Andy Griffeth
Seinfeld
Everybody Loves Raymond (gotta love the keyboard)
Peter Gunn Theme
Batman: The Animated Series (the first series)
Family Guy (the instrumental version during the end credits)
oh there's others I just can't think of any at the moment
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