Can you name a great TV series that had terrible theme music?

[red dog 1]

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"Rescue Me", was a TV series about firefighters that was on the FX Network for 7 seasons
(2004-2011)

I loved the show, and have watched every episode of the first 4 seasons, and the first half of Season Five.

It was a "Dramedy" a dramatic comedy, but there are some truly hilarious scenes, especially in Season Three (Firefighter Sean Garrity is my favorite character)

The show stars comedian/actor Denis Leary, who also co-created the show.

IMO, it's as good a television series as I have ever seen; and I highly recommend it

However, the opening theme music is terrible!

It's a heavy metal song called "C'mon, C'mon" by a band named The Von Bondies....
who's lead singer screams out the disharmonious lyrics like a Banshee on Meth.

I have to push the mute button every time that song comes on...it's awful!


Do you know of a great TV series with a terrible musical theme?

[ZombieHorde]

1. American Dad. nt

[stopbush]

2. Modern Family

Big Bang Theory is pretty bad, too.

Big Love was awful as well.

[JonLP24]

3. Turn: Washington's Spies

There are quite a few. "Little boxes" on Weeds. The theme to Outlander and The Affair.

[alarimer]

8. I kind of like "Little Boxes" myself

It's really about the banality of the suburbs and life in it and describes Agrestic perfectly. Which was sort of the theme of "Weeds" as well.

[red dog 1]

13. "Little Boxes" was a Pete Seeger song that Malvina Reynolds had a hit with,

written specifically about the houses on the hillside in Daly City, CA, (Westlake)
along Skyline Blvd, just south of San Francisco.

I often drove along that road; and I always wondered why anyone would want to live in a house propped up by huge timbers, especially in an area that has a history of earthquakes.

I liked the song too.

[Brother Buzz]

15. The other way around: It was Malvina Reynolds' song that Pete Seeger had a hit with.

Malvina Reynolds' release was a few years later, and I liked it much better then Seeger's version.

[red dog 1]

17. My mistake!

You're absolutely right.

So it was Malvina Reynolds who looked up at those houses propped up by long timbers and then wrote a song about them.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Malvina Reynolds was a native Bay Area resident

She was the quintessential West Coast activist we all grew up to emulate.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. Met her back in the 60s

My family went to the oldest Unitarian church in Houston. They invited her.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. The Enterprise Star Trek series.

It was one of the things that turned off when it was first aired.

I did catch it on Netflix after it was cancelled. I really enjoyed the show on second look.

[3catwoman3]

6. Truly terrible.

The song itself was not so bad, but it just didn't fit. All the other strictly instrumental Trek themes were quite stirring.

I just got my college bulletin, which had the Enterprise on the cover. I was surprised and delighted to learn that Alexander Courage, composer of TOS iconic theme music, attended the Eastman School of Music, which is a part of my alma mater, the University of Rochester,

[Orrex]

7. Oh goodness, yes indeed

I made it about two lines into the lyrics during the pilot episode and had to hit mute. To this day I've never heard the whole song.

100% off-tone for the show and for that whole dramatic universe.

[Marc2010]

10. Thank you. It sounded like it was a better fit for Dawson's Creek.

[True Dough]

5. Don't know if this one airs in the U.S.

But we get it here in Canada. If it ever comes on while I'm in front of the TV, I automatically reach for the remote.

[lame54]

9. Three's Company...

Hilarious show - Terrible theme song

[red dog 1]

11. I loved Three's Company too!

It was a crappy theme:

"Come and knock on our door
We've been waiting for you
Where the kisses are hers
And hers, and his,
Three's company too."

I liked Norman Fell a lot
(He hung out with the "Rat Pack"..Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy David Jr.,Shirley McClaine et. al.)
He played the landlord Stanley Roper on Three's Company, and was pretty good, I guess.

But the show got funnier, in my opinion, when the new landlord, Ralph Furley, came aboard.
Don Knotts always cracked me up.

[lame54]

12. John Ritter + Don Knotts = Comedy Genius

[red dog 1]

14. John Ritter was great!

He died way too young.

I think "Bad Santa" (Billy Bob Thornton) was his last movie, and he was great in that too

[lame54]

16. Yes...

That and Slingblade

He was was going next level in his career - died way to young

A lot of people dismissed him but I always appreciated his talent

[red dog 1]

18. Yeah, he was also great in Slingblade.

The sad part about his death was that it was preventable.

Apparently, the ER doctor misdiagnosed him
He needed immediate heart surgery, but didn't get it.