Our Favorite TV Themes of the ’90s
It’s time to discuss our favorite TV themes of the ’90s! Awww shit…
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Ah, the 90s. Only one show(major network) did I care about so my list is simply one theme song and it’s so good, no need for all that sitcom stuff…
Twin Peaks(theme) by Angelo Badlamenti. He and David lynch crafted something so perfect and timeless that it will live on forever.
Paul, there is an Ab Fab episode where the main character's boyfriend found 'the lost Beatles tapes', I think you would really enjoy it, cameo from Elton John too
top 5 only for me: Drew Carey Show, the PJs, Animaniacs, Ren & Stimpy and number one 3rd Rock from the Sun
Kids in the hall and the Ren and Stimpy theme
I don’t have much to add (apart from saluting Crystal for MST3K!), but I will say that, possibly my favorite theme and show from the 90s was the animated version of The Tick. Fantastic show with a wonderful sense of humor and an infectious, fun theme. Give it a watch—you’ll thank me later.
The Ren & Stimpy Show "Dog Pound Hop" is a banger.
There's also the song Step By Step by the Crests. Old school doo-wop i.e. Tommy core. 😉 And maybe Saved By The Bell was the Robin Gibb song? And maybe Wings should've used a song by… Wings?
I liked Paula Cole. I still do. I guess her lyrics can be annoyingly "I am me. I am fire. I am power" etc, but I still have a soft spot for her. Ha.
Kudos for the Living Color and Martin mentions. I'm borderline love/hate for the Seinfeld show itself let alone its theme. Bruce Miller composed the Frasier theme and it was indeed sung by Kelsey Grammer. Either way, I don't like that one. Ha! Sorry.
I'm surprised Paul and Tommy don't remember the show Oz since I believe it was the first popular "gritty" show HBO had before the Sopranos which premiered a few years after Oz did. Hell, Peter Criss was in an episode or two of that show. He talks glowingly about it in his book.
The theme to Friends being a "Starbucks version of Beatles power pop". Interesting. Might actually be my favorite 1990s TV theme tune. Ha! I actually had to learn the song in my chorus class in Junior High and my mother got me the CD single of the Rembrandts' This House Is Not A Home which had their version of the Friends theme as the second track/"B-side". So, I guess I have a soft spot for it for those reasons. I started watching the show when they began to have reruns of it but I stopped after a while.
I guess I'm the only one who couldn't get into Freaks And Geeks.
Another show I never watched but kinda dug the theme was Coach. And a show that used a previously established song as its theme but it made sense considering who the star of the show was, Tracey Takes On (Tracey Ullman) and her version of They Don't Know. Sadly, I never watched much of that one. Was too young for it at the time. Ha. My mother watched some of it, though, as she did her show on Fox which introduced us to the Simpsons.
And possibly a VERY obscure theme because the show was local in the NYC area and a kids show that I watched mainly because they would show Looney Tunes cartoons in between – Steampipe Alley. Was my introduction to none other than Mario Cantone who hosted it and has since said he hated doing. Ha! Was on from 1988-1993, so it could be both a 1980s and a 1990s show, I guess. His impression of Julia Child is still killer to me and they did other odd bits on the show like Find Sammy Davis Jr's Eye In The Stuffing. Yes, this was a kids show. Amazing, huh? Good times. 😉 You can find clips of it here on YouTube, which sadly is the only way one can see them now since they apparently erased the master tapes. Thankfully, a clip of Marky and Joey Ramone on the show popped up on the Ramones Raw DVD years ago as well.
Speaking of Sex And The City, I'll just tell this story. – Chris Tardio. One probably doesn't know him by name but he's popped up on many different TV shows and movies through the years, including a few episodes of the Sopranos where he was paired with Lillo Brancato who is probably best known as the star (along with De Niro anyway who also directed it) of A Bronx Tale. Anyway, me and my parents used to live next door to Chris and his family (his brother and his parents) and on occasion when my mother and I would be in the swimming pool, we'd see him come out in their backyard in his swimming trunks and just lay on the deckchair to get a tan. Yeah, he was one of those. Ha! He started out as a model but then I guess started to get acting gigs afterwards including, besides the Sopranos, Sex And The City. So…. in 2003, Elvis Costello is hosting David Letterman's show because Dave was out with the shingles and they had several guest hosts filling in and Elvis was one of them and did a surprisingly good job with it, I thought. One of the guests that night with Kim Cattrall. And I dunno, she comes out and it's like I had a Monkee Davy Jones "stars in my eyes" moment. Yeah… I liked her. So, much later on, I'm flipping through the channels and come across Sex And The City, and I just put it on out of curiosity and I see Chris Tardio is in this episode. "Cool!", I thought. And then he starts making out with Kim Cattrall. "Wow…", I thought. And in the same episode, Alanis Morissette is playing Spin The Bottle with Sarah Jessica Parker and THEY end up kissing each other. Mind blown. I tell my father this and days or weeks later ends up talking to Chris on the phone and says to him, "My son hates you now." "Why?", Chris responds. "Because you made out with Kim Cattrall", he answers. He starts laughing and says something about that she had bad breath anyway. Of course I didn't really hate him and I'm sure he knew that hence his laughter. If he made out with Debbie Harry on the other hand…… Let's just say politics is only ONE reason why I'm not that keen on James Woods. (Check out Videodrome if you haven't already. In my opinion, Debbie's best acting performance and not just because of "that" scene. Ha.)
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The Simpsons timeline gave me a good laugh, it might actually surpass human existence.
Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwww!
Crystal wins this week with MST3k on her list!
Freaks and Geeks is a cute af show w a great cast and phenomenal soundtrack.
The Wonder Years was a great show and tune.
90s wasn't strong tv wise.
We watched recent Wonder Years series as a family. Cancellation was BS. Bertolino – watch both when you get a chance.
Well awwright…hello my musical family and friends. Happy Halloween!! So we're talking about the 90s TV theme songs…this is where I was watching most of everything good or bad and recognized majority of theme songs. So I have 7 honorable mentions, my Top 10 and 3 of my worst. So let's begin..
Honorable Mentions:
Boy Meets World
Kenan & Kel
The Nanny
Family Matters
New York Undercover
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (I've cheated on this one)
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper (not Alice lol. The En Vogue, Dawnn Lewis and Holly Robinson version)
My Top 10:
10. Beavis And Butt-Head
9. Sister, Sister
8. The X-Files
7. Gullah Gullah Island
6. All That
5. America's Funniest Home Videos
4. Living Single
3. The Steve Harvey Show
2. Martin
And my number one favorite 90s TV theme song goes to:
1. The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
Now onto my worst:
Home Improvement
Homeboys In Outer Space
And my number one worst TV theme song goes to:
Barney & Friends (I cannot stand Barney…ugh! The real true purple dinosaur I would love to hang out with is Dino.)
Well that's my lith lith. Can't wait to do cartoons next week.
It's the TGIF of countdowns and this is where the fun begins in the early 90s there were so many iconic themes and then there's the latter half of the 90s where it started getting cheesy
These were my big TV years (7-17) so I have a LOT of runner ups.
1. The Red Green Show (Canada) (1991-2006)
2. Friends (1994-2004)
3. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996)
4. Family Matters (1989-1997)
5. The Wonder Years (1988-1993)
6. Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? (1991-1995)
7. Saved By the Bell (1989-1993)
8. Seinfeld (1989-1998)
9. Dinosaurs (1991-1994)
10. Knowing Me. Knowing You With Alan Partridge (UK) (1994-1995)
Honorable mentions
Northern Exposure. Full House, Doogie Howser MD, America's Funniest Home Videos, Blossom, Step by Step, Grace Under Fire (Lady Madonna), Life Goes On (Obladi-Oblada), Sister Sister, Drew Carey, Muppets Tonight, The Weird Al Show, WWF Smackdown, That 70s Show, In Living Color.
Since y'all are having a separate episode for cartoons, I deliberately kept them out of these lists. That list will be about as long as this one.
Favorite 90's TV theme :
The Outer Limits (John Van Tongeren)
If I have Full House in my head I can’t recall Family Matters and vice versa.