Theme Tunes to Television Programmes That, In Some Musical Way I Can't Explain Here, Incorporate the Title in the Melody

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"Cooooooooooooronation Street,
Cooooooooooooronation Street"

You don't hear that? Maybe it's only me... (xp)

'Streeeeeet', that should be

Doctor Whoooooo
Doctor Whoooooo
Doctor Who, Doctor Who

you forgot the small "(it's on tv)" at the end

xps

I'm sure composers do this a lot

The La-ast of
The Summer Wine
The La-ast of
The Summer Wine

never saw Dog Borstal but it's theme should've been a rework of 'Rock Lobster' so you could sing the title accordingly

"The Last of the Summer Wine" definitely works

It's Top of the Pops
It's Top of the Pops

(71-77 only)

# Fuck Off I'm Ginger,
Fuck Oooff I'm Gingeeer,...

"Let's go down to Albert Square
We'll meet all the Ea-eastenders there-ere"

"Daaaa daaaa da da da Blockbusters!"

Blips at start of Inspector Morse in theory spell out morse in morse, actually the first gap is too long so they spell ttorse.

[film not tv but]

"Indiana, Jones
Indiana, Jo-o-ones"

on a similar note:

STAR WARS!
RETURN OF THE JEDI!
RETURN OF THE JEDI!
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!
A NEW HOPE, WAS THE SUBTITLE
WAS THE SUBTITLE
OF EPISODE 4

also:

'Allo allo, allo allo, allo aaaaaaa-llo'

nabisco's law and order lyrics to thread

"Emmerdale Farm, it's Emmerdale Farm
Emmerdale Farm, it's Emmerdale Farm
Emmerdale Farm, it's Emmerdale Farm"

... written, of course, when "Emmerdale" was called "Emmerdale Farm"

Oh, we do "Whooohooohooo Doctor Whooooo" all the time. I'm so glad it's not just us.

NINENINENIIIIINE

(although the digits appeared on-screen with every orchestral hit so that's cheating slightly)

"It's Mastermiiiinnnndd...MAS-TER..."

"...with rubbish Jon Hymphryyyyys, anddumbeddownlikemostothershowsnowadaaaays..."

"Heartbeat, why are you shit?
Cos you are on ITV..."

apart from the Heartbeat one I'm not getting any of these ?

ITV NEWS! (Dan dan dan da-da-da-da)
ITV NEWS! (Dan dan dan DAN!DA-DA-DAN!)

I don't get the Star Wars one at all, is it supposed to follow the main theme?

Another example from the movies, "The Third Man", given that the composer was Austrian:

"Dritte Mann, der dritte Mann
Dritte Mann, der dritte Mann
Dritte Mann, der dritte Mann..."

There's a guy on YouTube who writes and performs lyrics to movie themes. He's a smug tit.

Woorrrllddd....
IT'S WEEKEND WORLD!!! dum dum da dum

IT'S WEEKEND WORLD!!! dum dum da dum

IT'S WEEKEND

don't you know that this is the weekennnnnnddddddddd

WORLD!

Doctor Whoooooo
Doctor Whoooooo
Doctor Who, Doctor Who

Haha I sing this every time!

Also House M.D., but just singing the credits:

House M.D. – lead role: Hugh Laurie
Lisa Eddelstein plays Cuddy
Jennifer Morrison: her, too
Robert Sean Leonard as Wilson
(etc etc)

and to outro:
createdbyDavidShore....

law and order time
it's law and order ti-ime

- courtesy J0hn D.

Kay why double-youuuuuuuuu
News ray di ohhhhhhhh
ten six tyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

http://www.whatheck.com/uploaded_images/bill-murray-791763-791963.png

"star wars, nothing but star wars, gimme those star wars, don't let them die..."

My best example of this is still Entertainment Tonight:

Entertainment Tonight
(it's my favorite show)
Entertainment Tonight
(it's so great, you know)
It's time to watch Entertainment Tonight and learn some stuff

P.S. I think the full L&O lyrics I came around to, based on John D's lines, were

Law & Order show
Law & Order show now
Law & Order time

First comes the law part
and then comes the order part
First we'll arrest them
and then we'll indict them and
THEN

there is gonna be a twi - ist
and it'll blow your mind

Law & Order show....

They don't ever actually say Batman in the theme song, it's just trumpets that make you think "batman"

Whiney, I thought you couldn't possibly be correct about that, but I've just checked it out and by jove you are! I think there are voices in there, but their just going 'ba-ba'.

'they're just going'

This is the theme to Gary's show.
The theme to Garry's show.
Garry called me up and asked
Would I write his theme song?
I'm almost half-way finished,
How do you like it so far?
How do you like the theme to Garry's show?

This is the theme to Garry's show.
The opening theme to Garry's show.
This is the music that you hear
As you watch the credits.
We're almost at the part
Where I will start to whistle
Then we'll watch "It's Garry Shandling's Show"

(whistle whistle whistle whistle)
(whistle whistle whistle whistle)
Now it's time for Garry Shandling's Show.

We're almost at the part
Where I will start to whistle

This was always my favourite part - because after that he does whistle!

And here - wonderfully and bizarrely - are is Flo and Eddie doing the theme to Garry's Show...

Related note: I have had the theme from Growing Pains stuck in my head for about two days, to the point where the title has started replacing the lyrics:

Show me your growing pains
Don't waste another minute on your growing pains
I'll be there til the end
and growing pains will now begin

As long as we've got our growing pains
We've got the pains sitting right in our hands
Baby growing pains, growing pains
We're totally growing, and we have got the pains

Feel free to kill me

Not quite the same, but I've always replaced the line from Diff'rent Strokes that goes "A man is born, he's a man of means" with "There's a man in charge and his name is Conrad Bain."

It's Jurassic Park
Not just any park
It's Jura-sssic Paaark

wtf the Batman theme totally says Batman! Lots! Liars. Surely. But then I do do this all the time. I'm yet to work out one for University Challenge.

I'll never forget the name of the guy who wrote the theme for "The X-Files," thanks to these lyrics he mentioned in a TV Guide interview:

"The X-Files is a show/ With music by Mark Snow"

X-files:

its the x-fiillles
orbs and other things
para-norm-al activity
govern-ment de-nies knowledge
bust-ing throoouugh doooors
scary hand body floating
...
eyeball

Spiderman

...Emmerdale Farm, it's Emmerdale Farm"

... written, of course, when "Emmerdale" was called "Emmerdale Farm"

― Tom D.

ITS STILL CALLED THAT IN MY HOUSE, so the song still works. mind you i sing the title to all theme tunes. yes, even Lost. and Casualty. and Eastenders. The Bill is quite hard tho.

i'm fucking hilarious, me. i may have mentioned this before (that i sing the theme tunes, not that i'm fucking hilarious - which is implicit)

Animal Hos-pi-tal
Animal Hos-pi-tal
With Rolf Harris
And rabbits
And Gi-i-i-raffes

It's 6 o'clock on a Thursday evening
Now let's all watch Quantum Leap
About a guy who travels ba-ack in time
Invariably to the fi-ifties..

(or something)

"Cooooooooooooronation Street,
Cooooooooooooronation Street"

I can't even bring the Coronation St theme tune to mind right now (spot the southerner) but I fear I'm doomed to hear this to the sax solo in Baker St for the rest of my life

Needs addition(s):

"Cooooooooooooronation Street (doo be doo),
Cooooooooooooronation Street (doo be doo)
Coooooooooornation Street! Cor O Nation Streeet! (dum de dum dum)..."

Blips at start of Inspector Morse in theory spell out morse in morse, actually the first gap is too long so they spell ttorse.

― ledge, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:52 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know that "Some Mother's do have them" is the title of the song tapped out in morse code?

Blind Date
Blind Date
Blind Date with Cilla Black

Blind Date
Blind Date
She'll send you to Iraq

Blind Date
Blind Date
You'll want to hurry back

But you
Have to
Hang out with some weird guy

Here they are now
The A-Team
Driving around
In their black and re-ed van (Boom Boom)

Here they come now
Fighting lots of crime
Here they come now....

Murdoch is crazy he's the funniest one
Hannibal's the leader but he's also old
Face is so handsome and probably gay
While BA is crazy and he'll kick your ass

etc... (haven't thoguht any of these through tbf).

Jeop-ar-dy
It's Jeop-ar-dy
Jeop-ar-dy
Iiiin theformofaquestion

Jeop-ardy
It's Jeop-ar-dy
Jeop-ar-dy
Trebek! and must-ache let's go!

There was some SNL sketch that did this with the Mad Men song and now I can't hear it without going "Mad Men, Mad Men..."

This reminds me of my friend who allegedly thought as a kid that there were words that went with the Beavis and Butthead theme. Anyways they went: "Here they are no-ow beea-vis and Butthead/ two cool dude that are groo-vy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCTMNPiaO2I

Oh, Mastermiiind
Oh, Mastermiiiiiind
Oh, MAstermiiiiiiinnnnnd
SIT DOWN!

Sit in the chaiiir
Sit in the chaaaiiiiirrr
Sit in the chaaaaaiiiiirrrr
QUESTIONS!

It's a video game, but Sonic does this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ZXAucBpAM

Sonic the hedgehog
Wags his finger at the screen
That's it

Yes, vg+ (xpost)

Now do one for "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here"

never watched it. but i think adam and joe once did a song that went 'iacgmooh / iacgmooh / i don't really watch it i've got better things to do'

"Joe 90"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI7vAclaszc

Better watch out, here they come now
It's THE BILL!
Go hide your stash, cos they're coming
It's The BILL!

Don't cut off a finger
Next - time
You are
Chopping up
Spuds
Unless you want to go straight
Off to Ca-su-al-tyyyy

Whatever you do
Don't fall off a ladder
Or get stung by bees
Unless you like being whipped
Straight off to Casualtyyyy

Allo Allo is simply:

'Allo Allo
'Allo Allo
'Allo Allo -lo 'Allo

etc..