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CocoaNuts
Jun 12, 2020
Best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-OnRQ4P0VY


Worst (I cringe every time I hear this blasted music):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q30NmhoJve8

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muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Best: Human Target s1

Worst: Human Target s2

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


Best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7fO2i9y94

No other show has melted as many faces with the opening theme as that one did.

Worst: an unresolvable tie of dozens and dozens of shows

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
Best: Red Dwarf

Worst: The Guild

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope
Do ending theme songs count?

Anyway, worst:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZFdKW43yGM

edit:

Sash! posted:

Worst: an unresolvable tie of dozens and dozens of shows

While this is objectively true, I'm having a hard time picking a "best" because I like too many theme songs.

YeahTubaMike fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Jul 14, 2020

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilAJJ3WHg6g

Best in terms of just being a great song

Jose Oquendo
Jun 20, 2004

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie
The Miami Vice theme has to be up there as one of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiErxa9YDeo

CocoaNuts
Jun 12, 2020

Jose Oquendo posted:

The Miami Vice theme has to be up there as one of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiErxa9YDeo

Agreed. It's a good one.

RYYSZLA
May 11, 2013
Best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMEXPkPmmq0

1.0_8-whatsyourask.m4p by Mac Quayle, AKA Mr. Robot theme tune

(honorable mention to 1.2_1-I will be CTO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5m895E1sQ)

Annnnd tied for best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGfjXqp-lA


annnnnd worst:
Captain Scarlet. Just because you can't get it out of your head for weeks.

Erghh
Sep 24, 2007

"Let him speak!"
Sylvester Levay owned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfmowbNlK0

also obligatory mention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ragUeIkKA

For worst was thinking Manimal but really

Sash! posted:

Worst: an unresolvable tie of dozens and dozens of shows

Sentinel Red
Nov 13, 2007
Style > Content.
S-Tier: Miami Vice, The Equalizer, Airwolf, Thundercats, Ulysses 31

F-Tier: ALF, The Raccoons; Babylon 5

Splint Chesthair
Dec 27, 2004


Best:

https://youtu.be/IzfockTg57g

Worst for me was Smurfs. Hearing that was almost enough to make me stop watching TV.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

There is an utterly shameful lack of Mike Post here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKD3YXbyd2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4-aEGvqQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGw2tPecgv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DouX9Ubw-Xw

Timby fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jul 15, 2020

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



The Master (lifted from a Bond film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZp_wbv0h4

And, of course, Knight Rider

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

Vastarien
Dec 20, 2012

Where I live is nightmare, thus a certain nonchalance.



Buglord
The bestest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOeIFx3ML8

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



Posted by someone else in another thread, but drat if it isn't an awesome theme!

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope
I'm just going to assume ending themes count, and I'm going to add multiple favorites, because that's how the thread goes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxUbgEHP2Qg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWHVvXUw-RU

sticklefifer
Nov 11, 2003

by VideoGames

YeahTubaMike posted:

I'm just going to assume ending themes count, and I'm going to add multiple favorites, because that's how the thread goes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxUbgEHP2Qg

On that note, Tank! is still great and I hope they bring it back for the live action series.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
Best: Mission:Impossible, Hawaii Five-O (original), SWAT (original), Rockford Files

Worst: Friends, Enterprise.

PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.


Knight Riders opening credits always made the show seem a lot cooler than it actually was.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

sticklefifer posted:

On that note, Tank! is still great and I hope they bring it back for the live action series.

I like Tank but nowhere near as much as Real Folk Blues. Plus, I sang Real Folk Blues for karaoke so I have a soft spot for it. When I took Japanese in college, someone introduced me to Cowboy Bebop in an "I know you don't like anime, but" kind of way, and the theme songs were by far the best part, imho.

Speaking of anime theme songs that I've sung in karaoke...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xKWiCMKKJg

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk

(High Quality)

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Time for some loving culture here:

Dangerman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLgNPYw9QMw

The Prisoner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygLg-7G0Xp0

Bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeMlZINyKtA

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Best: Attack on Titan opening 2

Worst: Attack on Titan opening 4

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



V

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPojPH68IA

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames
https://youtu.be/5h48SKQ1pbc

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5ZLRqVPupo

Really all the Disney Afternoon shows that were based off a movie had rad arrangements for the theme song.


Perhaps the greatest example of an extremely lopsided good intro:good show ratio.

Darth Brooks
Jan 15, 2005

I do not wear this mask to protect me. I wear it to protect you from me.

Timby posted:

There is an utterly shameful lack of Mike Post here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM

Agreed. The song really set the mood for the show.

Darth Brooks fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jul 17, 2020

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6i9AAtuk8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63i2NR9-LE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqdkDwOY9fw

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBAyirWug1Y

Second Best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz29uticRHQ

CocoaNuts
Jun 12, 2020

Timby posted:

There is an utterly shameful lack of Mike Post here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2fGzKiqRM


Defund this theme music!!!


Just kidding (sorta).

;)

CocoaNuts
Jun 12, 2020
It may not be obvious because of the links versus words, but we have three votes for The Greatest American Hero in this thread so far. It seems to be the front-runner. Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

CocoaNuts posted:

It may not be obvious because of the links versus words, but we have three votes for The Greatest American Hero in this thread so far. It seems to be the front-runner. Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...

Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be?

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

CocoaNuts posted:

It may not be obvious because of the links versus words, but we have three votes for The Greatest American Hero in this thread so far. It seems to be the front-runner. Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...

I don't even remember ever watching the show. Maybe once or twice when I was like 7 or something but it stuck in there good.

precision
May 7, 2006

by VideoGames

CocoaNuts posted:

It may not be obvious because of the links versus words, but we have three votes for The Greatest American Hero in this thread so far. It seems to be the front-runner. Believe it or not, I'm walking on air...

It seriously owns!

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
More best:

Lost in Space Season 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1bEpmmGMs

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Sentinel Red posted:

S-Tier: Miami Vice, The Equalizer, Airwolf, Thundercats, Ulysses 31

F-Tier: ALF, The Raccoons; Babylon 5

I don't have much love for The Raccoons, but I hope you're not referring to the end theme here

https://youtu.be/usFFKNRB2z8

EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jul 17, 2020

Darth Brooks
Jan 15, 2005

I do not wear this mask to protect me. I wear it to protect you from me.

Rockford Files was God tier theme music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1Cx26-928

This has the theme and other solos and cues from the show..

Jose Oquendo
Jun 20, 2004

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

The themes for all those Irwin Allen shows are really good.

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Alris
Apr 20, 2007

Welcome to the Fantasy Zone!

Get ready!
UFO is very underrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slYW7kkHyI4

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