The TV show theme song? I've been mucking around with an article recently about TV theme songs and which ones are the best (Happy Days, Cheers) and which ones are the worst (Friends) and it struck me that they rarely have theme songs anymore. Why?
I think it began around the time of 90210 and it's spin off Melrose Place. While both of them may've had banging tunes, you couldn't sing a long with either. A tragedy. Even Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours, has been chopped down to about 3 lines. Now it's all about hangin' by the pool with skinny Toady.
It is possible that the reason theme songs have fallen by the wayside is because almost every single show on TV is about crime, criminals, the law, forensics, criminology, criminal profiling and other such solemn topics. It'd be a bit insensitive to be singing along to the likes of 'Now the world don't move to the beat of just one drum...' if half the cast are dead from some terrorist bombing.
Thank goodness all these new channels have appeared showing repeats of our favourite shows and theme songs. I can now sing along to the cracking tunes of The Love Boat and Family Ties and learn valuable lessons from each episode.
Just as well too because for a while I thought I was going to have to resort to singing Katy Perry when Masterchef comes on. Not cool.
LOL, they had a skit about this on the Academy Awards a couple of years ago!!! They said that LOST was the shortest and most ridiculous theme opening of all time. It goes for like 4 seconds. very funny
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