Deadsplinter Up! All Night: TV Party!

We got nothing better to do!

18/2/21 Loveshaq 32

Tonight we are having a TV party, what’s your favorite TV show theme song or one that just brings that nostalgic smile to your face?  Lots of classic baselines come to mind but here’s a few of mine…

The greatest theme song of all time?  I will definitely die on this hill!  If you don’t agree I might have to give you one across the lips, you big dummy!  Sanford and Song Theme

For my Canadian friends, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – Having an Average Weekend (Theme from Kids in the Hall)

and the coolest bass & sax combo?  I can name that theme in 2 notes… Night Court Theme.

and how could I not put this last one (you know it’s coming…wait for it…) First, some trivia.  The wave in the opening shot is Sunset Beach but Sunset is a right break so they reversed the film to make it a left (I don’t know why).  The hotel they zoom into Jack Lord on at :15, the Ilikai is where we stayed when my Dad first got stationed in Hawaii and still stands but is now mostly condos.  The cemetery they show at :59 is Punchbowl, a volcanic crater, the National Memorial of the Pacific where over 53,000 war veterans are interred.  We have a place there for my Dad’s ashes to be placed with my Mom when she passes.  Hawaii 5-0 Theme

Time for you to change the channel and give us your favorites. If you are not a TV person, I’ll except movie themes but I draw the line at video games. Thanks for your support!

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32 Comments

  1. I posted this once before, great theme song for a great show.

    Polaris  – Hey Sandy theme from The Adventures of Pete and Pete

     

     

  2. Childhood memories 

     

  4. ill go with my favourite remix of a favourite theme

    • lol…..man….they packed a lot into 36 seconds

  6. oh wait…..i cant leave this out


    its forever stuck in my head

  7. A few more

    The theme To It’s Garry Shandling’s Show sung by Flo and Eddie although it was usually done by Bill Lynch

     

     

     

    Grouplove –  Back In the 90’s – closing theme to Bojack Horseman

     

     

     

    Deadboy and the Elephantmen – Stop I’m Already Dead theme from iZombie

     

     

  8. All solid choices, Loveshaq.  For my money, I’ll go with Barney Miller as one of the greatest theme songs ever.


     
    Mrs. Butcher and I will frequently lament the passing of great TV theme songs with full orchestras or big bands.  The Seinfeld theme can never stand up to the great themes of the 60s and 70s, and it just got worse from there.

  10. Both ITC shows.  One epic, the other… epic bad.  Both had cool intros.



  12. The senator while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity…


  13.  
    And I was a bit too young to have watched this show (although certainly not to have *heard* of it), but this was a bit of a belated pleasant rediscovery as well:


  14. The intros changed with the seasons.

    And this last one (I swear!), forever associated with pastels and chin stubble.

    • I’ve never heard of Rocco’s but that sure sounds like the B-52s.  We can do a whole DUAN on famous bands doing cartoon themes.  I have a ton in mind but Pain definitely is the first that pops in my head.
       
       
       


       
       

      • It is the B-52’s ! 😃

  19. Man, get here late and a lot of the good ones are gone! KITH, Muppets, WKRP, Peaky. A few that have stuck with me.
     
    Magnum! (Miss Meme’s favorite)


     
    Waitresses!

     
    Refreshments!

    • Hell yeah!  Great picks!  Especially Refreshments – King of the Hill!

  20. Shlemiel, shmazzal, hassenpfeffer incorporated:
     


     
    Spun off from the happiest of days (a song so popular that it was a best-selling 45 in the 1970s):
     

     
    Milwaukee, Minneapolis, what’s the difference?
     

     
    Or, if you’re still in the Midwest, in Chicago there was:
     

     
     
     
     

    • I forgot to mention that as a wee lad growing up in a dull suburb in the 1960s and 1970s I loved MTM and Newhart because it showed me a future I thought I might want. Maybe like Newhart I could find my own Emily but I’d be childless and living in an apartment, not some drab Levittown-style ranch, or maybe like Mary I’d live in a charming, quirky Victorian alone and have a bff like Rhoda. These shows were revolutionary for their time, whether they knew it or not. “All in the Family” was groundbreaking for its time too but it still depicted a married couple in a house with a daughter and a Meathead son-in-law. “Maude” was liberated and all but she was (re)married and living in a suburb and didn’t seem to have a job. “The Jeffersons” were Black and living in a deee-luxe apartment in the sky in Manhattan but they were a married couple with a grown son. The “Good Times” family lived in public housing in Chicago but they were a married couple with three children. 
       
      As it turned out I turned out to be a latter-day Louise “Weezy” Jefferson, living with my Black husband in an apartment in Manhattan, minus the grown son but with my own complement of wacky neighbors, and not the free-spirited Mary who famously threw disastrous parties. No, my parties sometimes wind up more like this:
       

    • Penny Marshall is a crazy Lakers fan!   Bob Newhart is a National treasure! Nice picks & welcome back.  

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