A Random Look at Theme Songs: Lost

This is part of an occasional look at TV theme songs. I like TV theme songs. I have almost 300 on my iPod. So every now and then, I'll do a post on them.

Presumably the most popular part of the hit ABC series Lost was it's intricate and thorough theme song.

It is hard to say if any show has ever thoroughly encapsulated the entire series into the weekly intro as well as Lost.

The tune is catchy. The lyrics get stuck in your head. And, even for a show filmed in Hawaii, the images are stunning. Imagine seeing that in HD. Breathtaking.

There is little more that can be said about the theme to Lost. Perhaps the greatest thing to ever air on broadcast television.

A Random Look at Theme Songs: The Big Bang Theory

This is part of an occasional look at TV theme songs. I like TV theme songs. I have almost 300 on my iPod. So every now and then, I'll do a post on them.



Most theme songs today provide nothing more than the chance for the show to quickly introduce the cast to a first time viewer.

The theme song for The Big Bang Theory provides a 20 second lesson on the history of the universe.

"The History of Everything" by the Barenaked Ladies does not show the cast until the final frame, but still sets the tenor for the show. In fact, most of this season the theme song could be considered the highlight of the episode.

The song is tremendously catchy (more than any other current tv theme, outside of maybe the irritating "Jabba the Hutts" of Parks and Recreation) and the split second images matching the lyrics is perfect. All in all, the best current tv theme song.

A Random Look at Theme Songs: Gullah Gullah Island

This is part two of an occasional look at TV theme songs. I like TV theme songs. I have almost 300 on my iPod. So every now and then, I'll do a post on them.

Nickelodeon shows of my childhood (the 1990s) fell within a wide range of good and bad. But all of them had one thing in common...

Awesome theme songs.

Take Gullah Gullah Island for example. Gullah Gullah Island was about an African American family living on a small island off the coast of South Carolina.

WITH A HUMAN SIZED TADPOLE NAMED BINYAH BINYAH POLLIWOG!

There is no explicable reason for this. But Binyah Binyah Polliwog, pictured above, lived with the family. The show was alright. But the theme song? The theme song was brilliant.

A Random Look at Theme Songs: The Brady Theme

This will start what will be occasional look at a TV theme songs. I like TV theme songs. I have almost 300 on my iPod. So every now and then, I'll do a post on them. This is the first.

Everybody knows the theme song to the Brady Bunch. The catchy tune, the simple lyrics that tell you all you need to know about the family from before the series began, the blue boxes with each actor looking around at each other. It may, in fact, be the single most well known theme song in TV history.

But how much do you really know about the Brady Theme?

Did you know there were two versions? While the more famous version, with the 6 children singing, was used from the second season on, the first season featured the same song, performed by the Peppermint Trolley Company.

But where the theme song really hit its stride was with the spinoffs. Oh, the spinoffs.

You see, while The Brady Bunch was unbelievably campy and outrageously cheesy, it was also very successful, and there was a constant attempt to cash in on that success.

The spinoffs (there were three) were horrible. None lasted more than one season. But they also all had one thing going for them...

An incredible theme song.

Yes, each spinoff kept the melody of the original, but altered the lyrics to fit the show.

The first was the most ridiculous. The Brady Kids was a cartoon that followed an animated Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Greg, Peter, and Bobby in their adventures along with a dog, two pandas, and a magical bird. Seriously. The theme song? Well, watch for yourself:



I mean, how fantastic is that?

It gets better. Because a few years after the original series was cancelled (thanks in part to the always controversial Cousin Oliver) they decided to do a reunion movie, that turned into a spinoff. But not just any spinoff.

The cheesiest spinoff in TV history.

See, Marcia and Jan both meet men, fall in love, and have a double wedding. But then

The house was too expensive for each couple
The only way to buy they would decide
Is to share the house by moving in together
That's the way they all became ...

Well why don't you listen for yourself:

Oh but that wasn't all for The Bradys. May I present...

The Bradys:

One can only hope a 21st century Brady's remake (on the CW?) leads to a new reincarnation of this classic theme.