All Time Worst Theme Music
 

We've had a handful of "favorites/best" tv theme music threads, let's hear about the worst.

I just started watching Anything But Love on DVD and I have to say, it has the most god-awful intro music ever broadcast on television. I used to watch it when it originally aired and I must have banished the song from memory. Or maybe they changed themes starting the second season, but damn it is terrible.

Frasier gets a special nod for being the front-runner of non-intros and ushering in the trend of less is more. Which brings us to ER which had one of the greatest openings ever, but starting this year, is now one of the worst.

Maude

The New Zoo Revue
What About Brian - Calling All Friends

Babe Zaharias was a really good athlete
Good at track and field and professional golf too
Amelia Earhart flew a lot of airplanes
Except for that one time when she didn't come back
...

das

first season of star trek enterprise. It was like Micheal Bolton.

I know I'll probably get skinned alive, but Futurama. The bells always sounded too Christmas-y to me. I, of course, got used to them, but I can remember watching the first few episodes and going "What the hell is up with these bells?"

Life Goes On (More like worst cover ever)

Wasn't it Ronan Keating? Not that there is much difference.

Yes, we're going to beat this joke until it's dead. :)

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I liked the theme, but the melody sounded a little too close to "Louie, Louie."

Jericho...beep beep beep beep beep beep
;)

60 Minutes. God, that annoying tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick!

I swear that one actually somehow gets funnier the more I see it. :lol:

The theme song from THE L WORD. Absolutely ghastly.

Cosby Show. It was the beginning of the end of great theme songs once that show became a hit with that horrid jazz music for a theme.

what did they do to it? just chop it down?

Didn't we do something like this already?

No. It's slightly different. Not much, but slightly. They wanted to follow in the ten-second theme trend started, I believe, by Lost. Heroes is doing it too.

So, i'd have to pick these three as "worst".

it certainly was better than the remix used in season 3.

I imagine it may not be popular opinion, but I've always hated the "Law and Order" theme.

Grrr.... I like the theme song, the 'Good Times' theme song on the other hand was pretty awful.

Do,do, do,do do,dodo, bum,bum, bum,ba, da!

I agree, I loved the old ER theme. one of my fav's of all time but the new one pretty much sucks.

I think if it came down to it my #1 pick for the worst theme song of all time would have to be...........

Lost- i know its not the kind of show to have a theme song but the supposed to be 'spooky' opening just sounds 'corny'.

Just "annoying" themes..

I think having a conversation with yourself is the first sign of schizophrenia.




My vote goes to South Park. I can't understand a thing they say. I get something like: "...Goin' down to South Park gunna have myself a time...friendly faces everywhere, blah, blah, blah, without temptation...."

I'd have to disagree with you.

And so do I.

Well at least you agree with yourself. When you come to a disagreement is when the trouble starts. :)

Well, IMHO, no discussion of "All Time Worst Theme Music" will be complete without mentioning Over There. There should be some kind of law that the person that develops the series should be banned from doing the theme song, too. God, it was awful!

Webster, Full House, the Designing Women theme with Ray Charles. LA Law played out quick and became annoying by the second season.

You beat me to it!

Girls in tight dresses
who drag with mustaches...

:suicide:

Will & Grace...hate that.

Cosby Show is really bad.

friendly folk

They took the cool intro with the cast and chopped it down to about a 5 second shot of the logo.

Like I said before, Frasier did micro-intro long before Lost & Heroes around, so they get the blame from me.

D'oh! I even posted in that. To be fair, worst & annoying are quite different. I posted in that thread that Smallville is annoying, but I wouldn't consider it bad, much less one of the worst ever.

Which Cosby Show theme? They had a different arrangement of it each season. Did one version stand out as being worse than the others for you, or do you hate them all equally?

For myself, I can't stand the "acapella" version they used around the 4th or 5th season. You know, the one with the voices going, "Doop, do doo wah. Doop doodily doo."

All in the Family... some may think it's endearing to hear Archie and Edith, but it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. The first season of Magnum PI wasn't very thrilling either.

Absolutely anything that Mike Post did the theme for.

Weeds. Though not so grating in the second season when they had different artist cover it each week.

I must be one of the very few around that likes The L Word's opening song...

Woah, woah, woah! I love the Cosby theme. Ok, not all of them as most were pretty bad (especially the first one where the cast is playing football, and the one where they're dancing callipso), but the one where everyone is dressed up dancing in front of the Apollo signage is awesome. One of my favorite intros/themes.

Those of you against micro-intros, do you actually watch the whole thing every week? I fast-forward past every single theme song for every show I watch.

To answer the question, Gilmore Girls has the worst by far - I've never been able to sit through the whole song.

I agree with this. It was such overindulgent crap. Didn't they play it at the beginning and end of each episode, too, or was it just at the end?

Blasphemy!

The Everybody Hates Chris theme is pretty bad.

Oh, and Seinfeld. Sorry, but I hate that snapping popping crap.

Friends, too. Every time I happen to catch the opening (which isn't often) I hope that this is the time they all drown in that fucking fountain.