Battle of the Instrumental TV Show Theme Song EARWORMS!

[short bus president]

I'm prone to the Gomer Pyle march and the Mork & Mindy song, myself, but in listing these out, I can recall each of them having earwormed me in the past. Which do you 'spose is the single most accursed affliction of them all?

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

1. Other - Charlies Angles.... Oh, and Mission Impossible

[ET Awful]

2. Miami Vice? Hogan's Heroes? I Dream of Jeanie?

:)

[short bus president]

10. Ooooooohhh... Hogan's Heroes...

another in the military march genre, and a far better tune than the Gomer Pyle, theme, too.

Good thing nobody mentioned the Andy Griffith whistle thing, 'cuz THAT'LL stick in yer head like nobody's business!

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

3. And, DAMMIT now I have Gomer Pyle theme stuck in my head!!

x(

[short bus president]

5. Share the love!

I'm sure yer office mates would love to join you in that one...

;-)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

7. They are already plotting my death for the "Just a gigalo" earworm I left

them with on Friday....

bozzy bozzy bop... zitty bop...

[Theres-a]

4. The kids in the hall

But I liked when that song was stuck in my head

[no name no slogan]

11. Thank you!!!

"Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet" was the band.

And thanks to you, I now have THAT earworm instead of the insipid Mike Post-penned "Hill Street Blues" theme.

:thumbsup:

[underpants]

6. BOAM.....babaBOAM...babaBOAM......babababababble BOAM...

Barney Miller

[short bus president]

8. D'OH!

A fine choice!

[Sporadicus]

9. Perhaps Too Far Back for Some DUers...'It's About Time'

On CBS Sunday evenings in 1966-67, this show follows two astronauts who bust through the barrier of time, end up in prehistoric times, and meet a cave-couple played by Joe E. Ross & Imogene Coca. I remember that the astronauts returned to modern times later in the season with the cave-couple in tow, but I'm hazy what hilarity erupted as a result. I don't recall much more about the show, but the theme song has somehow gotten resurrected as an earworm sporadically over the years.



I DO remember a take-off from the theme song, with which my pubescent classmates would pummel one another:

'It's about time,
it's about space,
it's about time
to slap your face!'
***SLAP***

[ewagner]

12. LA Law theme

I liked the saxaphone....

for years The Rockford Files Theme by Mike Post was maddening earworm...............

[zbdent]

13. SWAT

Come on . . .

[tsakshaug]

14. Sing along with MASH

Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...

:
that suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.

I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and...





The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.





The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.





The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...





A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
is it to be or not to be
and I replied 'oh why ask me?'





'Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
...and you can do the same thing if you please.

[BurtWorm]

15. Barney Miller's opening bassline is not a bad earworm to have.

The Andy Griffith Show is very difficult to get rid of.