Recently started watching old 90s and 80s shows just for the fun of it, because I’m bored with all of the new stuff that’s coming out, and I fell into Knight Rider.

My review of the show so far aside, it’s got straight up the most banger theme music I have heard in a TV show in a very long time.

https://youtu.be/lxhWxv_5bQ0

It got me wondering what other TV shows have really great theme songs?

  • Exatron@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The Muppet Show

    Farscape

    Reboot

    One Piece (especially “We Are”)

    The Simpsons

    Futurama

    Animaniacs

    • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I love Farscape…I’ve been a huge fan since discovering it in 2001. I’ve watched the show from start to PK War many many times and have introduced my wife and kids to it. They have subsequently watched the whole thing multiple times as well.

      I skip the intro every single time. Sorry, but it just grates.

  • jhdeval@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well this is my jam.

    Gilligans island The fall guy Greatest american hero Original mission impossible Gi joe

    If i think of more i wilp edit.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Sometimes when I’m bored and just to fill the space I will start singing this. It’s a great theme song.

      I commented because I was thinking of the theme song for Doug and then I listened to this because I wanted to hear it again and I realized it’s a completely different song.

      It’s still a great song, though. It’s just not Doug.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3o_WBboezw

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      when I need a deep hit of nostalgia to get through some bullshit I’ll listen to the quantum leap theme and remember what it was like to sit down on the sofa drinking a pepsi and only care about where Sam found himself tonight.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I feel like as a standalone piece of music, it’s too much crammed into too little space.

      But from my vague and hazy memories of childhood reruns of Miami Vice, I feel like it fits the show very well.

      • hansolo@lemmy.today
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        4 months ago

        It lasted a season and a half or so, and never got picked up for reruns. The first time Napoleon shows up is worth it all.

      • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s fantastic, give it a watch. He’s a brash American spy who moonlights as pirate Batman, and she’s a prim and proper proto-MI6 agent, complete with steampunk Q gadgets. Verne Troyer plays a recurring villain role as Napoleon!

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      I irrationally love this song, and I know it all by heart. Once a week it pops into my head. I sing it at my cat, who is the scoundrel with a heart.

      I’m happy to know I’m not alone in my curse.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      If you’re talking about Bruce Campbell shows, it’s like nothing really holds a candle to the theme song from The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. because everyone has heard that song because it’s such a good song that America still uses it in the goddamn Olympics.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--2FWpjxhnE

      • hansolo@lemmy.today
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        4 months ago

        For years and years, I think it was NBC sports, would use a portion of the Brisco County theme during transitions. Every time, the nostalgia bullet went straight to the heart.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I don’t know. For some reason, the theme song to the greatest American hero just does not do it for me. It seems very soft, if that makes any sense.

      Like, it’s the kind of song I would imagine being played when I’m leaving the party early because I’ve really got to poop.

      And the fame theme song was interesting. I have vague memories of it in reruns also, but I don’t think I would ever jam out to it on its own.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I could not make it through this song.

      I love TOS and the next generation, but that theme song would stop me in my tracks every single time. I kind of understand why you’re saying people would leave hate for it.

      Like going from the soaring orchestral, grand, majestic themes from the next generation, and even the 60s space-optimistic Mahler-esque theme songs from T.O.S. to that sad sap Bon Jovi knockoff acoustic ballad is such a letdown.

      • ImminentOrbit@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I actually really liked that it wasn’t instrumental. It was like Star fleet, rough and new and not established and elegant.

      • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        For me, it has the very specific sound of “song my dad would’ve turned up on the radio” and I think it was aimed at his generation. He was a big fan of TOS and TNG and I am confident he would have loved ENT. But that generation was looking more back than forward by the time ENT was made, and ENTs theme has a really nostalgic, backward-facing vibe, which feels really jarring with my idea of what Star Trek is.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Game of Thrones has got to be up there. Very catchy and fairly unique, but it really captures the essence of (the best parts of) the show.

    The themes to Foundation and Severance are also both really in tune with their respective shows.

    But for me, the theme to The Expanse is my favorite. Again, it captures the essence of the show, and also like the show it’s pretty underrated.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      My college professor gave me the first book of the Game of Thrones series, and I hated it so much.

      And because of that, I just, I’ve never watched the series. Some friends of mine had it on midway through the first episode, and the only time that it caught my attention was when there were titties on the screen. Like, I do not give the first fuck about Game of Thrones.

      I have yet to see either the Expanse or Foundation.

      I have them both in my to watch list, but I can’t really comment on their themes yet.

      But Severance? I’ve watched every episode of Severance, I could not tell you what the theme song is from that show. Even if it’s really good, it’s also very, very forgettable, which, admittedly, probably fits with the theme of the show very well.

      • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Huh. I have also seen every episode and I can’t recall the theme music at all. I know it had an intro because I remember thinking the visuals were cool but I can’t bring back a single snippet of the music. Weird.

    • Ashtear@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The Expanse is the only show I’ve never once skipped the opening credits on, even on rewatch. The song’s a pitch-perfect mood throughout the whole series, and a great length, too. Doesn’t overstay its welcome.

      • Juvyn00b@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Peacemaker season one had that effect on me. Season 2 grew on me but first season was one I would never skip, even on rewatch.

    • benignintervention@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      You should check out Scavenger’s Reign! The intro music only becomes more haunting and fitting as you learn more about the story. I never skipped it and i typically don’t like title sequences

      Edit: Intro link

      • bizarroland@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Okay, that music was cool as fuck. Like, there’s so many places where that is appropriate music.

        If it were played at the denouement of any dramatic thriller where like the hero is outside of the room where the person they were trying to save is being actively killed by the bad guy before they rush in to kill the bad guy in revenge, it would fit flawlessly.

        There’s something very much about death in that song. Death and helplessness.

        • benignintervention@piefed.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Oh yeah, 100%! It also lands a little differently through the show, sometimes despairing, sometimes regretful, and even with a flicker of hope. Absolutely recommend if you’d like a sci-fi survival story that feels like a dark graphic novel. The writing is top notch

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I feel like GoT wins, both for the theme and the intro itself. It’s instantly recognizable.

      I like the Expanse theme, but I don’t think I would know it if I heard it out of context.