I was thinking about the time jimmypasta said Me-TV FM should play television theme songs so I started this.

I didn't know until just now that that absurd theme song to Maude that compares a cranky old lady to great historical figures was sung by Chicago's own Donny Hathaway! Not enough to redeem it, though. Just awful. No "This Christmas," that's for sure.

The M*A*S*H and Taxi themes were my signals that was it time to go to bed and really time to go to bed, respectively. I think if I made it past Taxi, channel 32 would show, like, Hunter or something. I don't remember the theme to Hunter.

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Miami Vice wins hands down

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Maybe not even the best theme song on NBC at its time considering L.A. Law and St. Elsewhere but it's close between all three.

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Indira Gandhi ran a whole damn country -- that isn't easy even if you're a guy.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I didn't realize the Golden Girls theme was a real song, with more words and a bridge and stuff. To say it blew my mind would be a vast understatement.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Hill Street Blues, Hill Street Blues, Hill Street Blues I've got those Hill Street Blues

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e.r. doesn't get more 90s tv drama theme music than that.

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Happy Days
Cheers
Three's Company
Sanford & Son
Different Strokes
The A-Team
The Wonder Years

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

"Welcome Back, Kotter" and "WKRP in Cincinnati" are the ones I used to sing to the most.

The Vega$ opening music on our black and white bedroom tv was my cue to pretend I was asleep.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

I am also biased, but my favorite theme music is that of The Virginian. It's actually really good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televisio ... able_Ready

I got this CD in 7th grade. Even then I dug the theme to Twin Peaks years before I had any way of watching episodes. Lots of weird selections on here. What were "Davis Rules" and "Hudson Street"? You could hoodwink people into watching some pretty crappy sitcoms in the '90s just by sandwiching them between other sitcoms you were already committed to watch. Remember all the crap that used to run between Seinfeld, Friends, and ER?

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The Jeffersons
Sanford & Son
Night Court
Taxi *
Good Times
Kotter
Miami Vice
X-Files
Law & Order
Hill St Blues
Cheers
Rockford Files
WKRP
Sopranos
Moonlighting
Frasier
ST:TNG
Flintstones


(* - not originally intended to be the theme ... 'Angela' is its name ... instead, it was going to be the title track off of the 'Touchdown' album ... listen to it and then picture an opening for Taxi with that music ... it's really super 80s sounding ... like extended Cheers filler music ... so it fits sound-wise but it's way, way too upbeat for a show with Judd Hirsch on it)

And that's the end of the thread ... thank you and goodnight.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I think that I was 12 when my dad gave me enough birthday money to hit Walgreens for a sweet 12" black and white Sampo tv.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Taxi hands down. Rhodes piano. Sentimental grubby New York City vibe.

This is sports-on-WSNS music.

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SWAT
Barney Miller
GAH
HI 5-0
Mr Ed
Best Friend
Andy Griffith Show
Monkees
Gilligan's Island
Dukes of Hazzard
Laverne and Shirley
Peter Gunn
Get Smart
AITF
Batman
M:I
Ironside
The Fall Guy
Dallas
Munsters
GOT
Sanford
Hill Street

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Why are you biased big time teacher? You didn't write or perform the song.

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Elections have consequences.

Mash
All in the Family
Speed Racer

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Elections have consequences.

Barney Miller should be on any list.

I’ll just end this thread right now and say Rockford Files.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

One of the funniest roast lines ever was Jeff Ross roasting Sandra Bernhardt .

“ Sandra Bernhardt ? I wouldn’t fuck her with Bea Arthur’s dick ! “ with Bea Arthur being on the panel

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Rules



I thought this sounded familiar...bad.

Favorite TV theme songs...Hill Street Blues, The West Wing, South Park, Always Sunny in Philly, Archer, Law & Order.

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"Dear John" even depressed an 8 year old me. At least he didn't jump off a bridge and instead he rented a bad apartment and seemingly abandoned his house.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Had that hot redhead on that show though

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I'll continue the thread by saying that this is the correct answer.

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You know me like that.

Shout-out to the Westerns

Rawhide
Bonanza
Maverick
Lone Ranger
Davey Crockett
Daniel Boone
Rifleman

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All in the Family
Sanford and Son
Dukes of Hazard

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Hawaii Five-O

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Yeah I heard that for the first time over the summer on 87.7 radio. Kind of blew me away too.

I still watch The Andy Griffith Show, and every time that theme song starts my son stops dead in his tracks and looks at the TV. The only other song he does that for is Sesame Street.

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