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Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Normally, these types of threads are a discussion - everyone comes in and says that X or Y is the worst, whatever. This is not a discussion, this is a thesis:

The worst TV show theme song is "I Know You Know" for the show Psych.

Consider:
-The song is performed by the show's producer's vanity band "The Friendly Indians"
-It is annoyingly catchy without any substance
-It yells PSYCH! in the last line in a really jarring way because that's the name of the show, do you get it??
-Every season they get the idea to cutesy it up with varyingly awful results, from a cover with a bunch of extraneous sleigh bells for Christmas to another one sung in piss-poor first-year Spanish and apparently recorded in a broom closet
-The show is actually decent for goofy syndicated trash, making it all the more tragic

The evidence is all there.

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Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
Almost every bullet point u list seems to backhanded praise this song so it may not be worst since u like it?

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

I assure you I do not.

ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus
Malcom in the Middle

Roylicious
Feb 21, 2012

Braver than the cops
ain't afraid of no chaps
If they steppin up on me
I just start bustin some caps
Star Trek Enterprise

TelevisedInsanity
Dec 19, 2008

"You'll never know if you can fly unless you take the risk of falling."
Drake & Josh

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Strong Contenders:

* Happy Days
* Scrubs
* Chuck
* Angel
* Charles in Charge
* Friends
* Two and a Half Men
* Star Trek: Enterprise
* Family Guy
* American Dad

My vote goes for Enterprise.

The actual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5zmCcUYcSY

The one that got voted down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zuObd_gSKw

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

ChesterJT posted:

Malcom in the Middle

This is by They Might Be Giants, and was pretty cool when it came out.

E: I found the lovely Spanish version of Psych's intro, it's in s7e4 and sounds like they recorded it using tin cans and string for microphones.

Panamaniac
Jun 18, 2007

HEROES NEVER DIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4C7vSByMM

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
it definitely was not the theme to punky brewster

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


It's this. I skip it every single time because it's so bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBITGyJynfA





Also if I'm allowed to say it, every single anime series because they're like 5 minutes long and have lyrics to sing along to. If that's not a reminder to never watch anime then I don't know what is.

spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

Sesame Street

Smash it Smash hit
Dec 30, 2009

prettay, prettay
castle kids

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro
South Park, but only because I loving hate Primus

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
https://youtu.be/QrGrOK8oZG8

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

88h88 posted:

It's this. I skip it every single time because it's so bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBITGyJynfA





Also if I'm allowed to say it, every single anime series because they're like 5 minutes long and have lyrics to sing along to. If that's not a reminder to never watch anime then I don't know what is.

I actually like the OitNB theme, it's rad. The problem is it's a show that you binge watch and the theme song is like four minutes long because there's so many drat characters and actors, so after about episode three on any given night it's like "god, shut up Regina."

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Roylicious posted:

Star Trek Enterprise

they fixed it in the 4th season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk1NK8AXepk

my wheelhouse
Nov 2, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2sBURgUBI

Julias
Jun 24, 2012

Strum in a harmonizing quartet
I want to cause a revolution

What can I do? My savage
nature is beyond wild

This is actually a really catchy, if cheesy, theme! I also loved the gag from Seinfeld with it.



Hah!

But for real, none of you guys have suggested anything close to the horror that is Kung-fu Dino Posse

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

Booblord Zagats posted:

South Park, but only because I loving hate Primus

ya primus sucks

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
As long as we got each other, we got the world spinning right in our hands... the key change at the end. "Baby rain or shine, all the time" I mean it's out of like at least 2 of those dudes range. :colbert:

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

As long as we got each other, we got the world spinning right in our hands... the key change at the end. "Baby rain or shine, all the time" I mean it's out of like at least 2 of those dudes range. :colbert:

lol if you dont scream this at people while playing counterstrike

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

hth posted:

lol if you dont scream this at people while playing counterstrike

Lol if people aren't joining in for the harmonies. :v:

Schweinhund
Oct 23, 2004

:derp:   :kayak:                                     
When FOX changed the baseball music from this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl_wxr0OnW8

to this human being bullshit

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

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


While the actual theme song was whatever, I really hated the opening to The Pacific, that HBO miniseries about WWII. Mainly because it seems like it just goes on forever.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

88h88 posted:

Also if I'm allowed to say it, every single anime series because they're like 5 minutes long and have lyrics to sing along to. If that's not a reminder to never watch anime then I don't know what is.

i don't even like anime, but i do enjoy the cowboy bebop opening and ending themes

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

YeahTubaMike posted:

i don't even like anime, but i do enjoy the cowboy bebop opening and ending themes

The whole Bebop soundtrack is absolutely killer whether or not you like the series or anime or whatever. My father in law was on a real jazz/bebop/big band kick a few months ago and I threw on the soundtrack and he was floored.

I've heard the composer Yoko Kanno rips off a ton of other music, which sucks, but it's still really drat good music and I think like 99% of the Bebop soundtrack is original anyway.

Dr. Pangloss
Apr 5, 2014
Ask me about metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology. I'm here to help!

muscles like this? posted:

While the actual theme song was whatever, I really hated the opening to The Pacific, that HBO miniseries about WWII. Mainly because it seems like it just goes on forever.

Band of Brothers had this issue, too. Awesome miniseries, but wading through that opening every time was the worst.

House of Cards, too.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

food court bailiff posted:

The whole Bebop soundtrack is absolutely killer whether or not you like the series or anime or whatever.

the egg & i is one of the worst songs i've ever heard, but the rest is decent

quote:

I've heard the composer Yoko Kanno rips off a ton of other music, which sucks, but it's still really drat good music and I think like 99% of the Bebop soundtrack is original anyway.

there's one song, and i don't remember the name of it, but it heavily rips off "chameleon" and in a way that makes it significantly worse. in particular i remember an absolutely abysmal bari sax solo.

real folk blues is unassailable though

Mr. Meagles
Apr 30, 2004

Out here, everything hurts


home improvment had a good theme song

it had lots of the funny sounds the tool man makes in it

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

In between the lines there's a lot of obscurity
I'm not inclined to resign to maturity
If it's all right, then you're all wrong
Why bounce around to the same drat song
You'd rather run when you can't crawl

I know, you know
That I'm not telling the truth
I know, you know
They just don't have any proof
Embrace the deception
Learn how to bend
Your worst inhibitions tend to PSYCH you out in the end

In between the lines there's a lot of obscurity
I'm not inclined to resign to maturity
If it's all right, then you're all wrong
Why bounce around to the same drat song
You'd rather run when you can't crawl

I know, you know
That I'm not telling the truth
I know, you know
They just don't have any proof
Embrace the deception
Learn how to bend
Your worst inhibitions tend to PSYCH you out in the end

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Looks like someone got psyched out by their worst inhibitions.

Nutsngum
Oct 9, 2004

I don't think it's nice, you laughing.

Dr. Pangloss posted:

Band of Brothers had this issue, too. Awesome miniseries, but wading through that opening every time was the worst.

House of Cards, too.

Pretty much. Thankfully I could skip ahead watching it on my computer but that would have been painful back in 2001.

SneekieBinder
Aug 23, 2007


The theme song for the 90s America's Funniest Home Videos was terrible.

"Red, white and bluuuuuue,
the funniest things you dooooooo,
America,
America,
this is yooooooooou."

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007
Two and a Half Men is the only TV show theme song that actually gives me douche chills when I hear it so I choose that.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

SneekieBinder posted:

The theme song for the 90s America's Funniest Home Videos was terrible.

"Red, white and bluuuuuue,
the funniest things you dooooooo,
America,
America,
this is yooooooooou."

Every once in a while when I'm extremely hung over this will pop into my head, and it is at that point that I pray for the cold embrace of the grave.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

It was short-lived, no one watched it, and now it's a dumb meme but even so.... The Nutshack deserves special mention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO_KxGlY62g

Other special mention, the "so ridiculously bad it ends up being awesome" Perfect Strangers

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

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Firefly's is so bad I never made it past the opening credits

MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Sep 28, 2016

caligulamprey
Jan 23, 2007

It never stops.

The public domain song they used for the DVD release of Married... With Children is upsetting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xad-StH-7BY

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YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

caligulamprey posted:

The public domain song they used for the DVD release of Married... With Children is upsetting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xad-StH-7BY

hahahaha

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