That’s innovation! But the second verse throws in such curveballs as “source,” “endorse,” and… uh… back to “horse” and “course.” But for a TV show about a talking horse and his beleaguered human friend, there’s nothing wrong with simple. The first verse simply rhymes “horse” and “of course” four times.
It arrived during the third season, and was later added to the first two for syndication. Fun fact: the famous big-band rave-up was not the theme song for the first two-plus seasons. And you do, because no matter how much TV you did or didn’t watch as a kid, somewhere in your brain there is a picture of Fred Flintstone sliding down the back of his dinosaur crane (amazing how domesticated they all seemed to be, given what we know happened at Jurassic Park) into his waiting rag-top car. They’re the modern stone-age family, don’t you know. Josh Jacksonįew shows have ever been introduced with shouts of “Hiya!” But the Western that gave the world Clint Eastwood also gave us one of the best scenes in The Blues Brothers. His NBC Nightly News score is pretty great, too. This piece originally composed by Williams for the 1984 Games in Los Angeles has been the heart of NBC’s Olympic coverage ever since. Better than the intro to Wide World of Sports.
Plus, how great is it, really, to rhyme “horse” with “of course”? Here are the 50 Best TV Theme Songs of All Time.īetter than Charles Fox’s Monday Night Football theme music. What will the future of TV intros bring? That we cannot say, but in the meantime we can celebrate old-school classics and some newer favorites (including those mood setters). There have been a few exceptions, like the quirky series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but they are also quasi-musicals already.
More contemporary series like The Witcher and The Righteous Gemstones created incredibly catchy tunes within their respective shows, but alas, they will never break out into the intro (although unofficially they are definitely the shows’ theme songs). Sometimes those wordless ditties are pure gold, like the harrumphing waltz that begins every Curb Your Enthusiasm-or, for that matter, M*A*S*H*-but it’s not exactly the stuff of Archie and Edith at the piano or the old-timey photos ahead of Cheers, when a show’s theme could tell you a little story by itself. But it’s basically mood music, kind of like the screeching techno that began each episode of Silicon Valley. More paired-down and wordless intros have dominated, like in the case of two TV titans, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, but that’s not always a bad thing-led off every episode with a memorable credit sequence that captured an essence of the show- Mad Men’s ratting drums and melodramatic strings, Breaking Bad’s simmering slide guitar and sinister hissing. In 2008, Paste claimed “there’s no denying we’re past the golden age of the TV show theme song.” More than 10 years later, that still feels pretty true.
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