Top 5 TV Theme Songs 1995-1999

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious Podcast. You are joining us for an episode
<v Speaker 1>in a series of episodes where we are covering our
<v Speaker 1>top five TV themes. We started this earlier this year,
<v Speaker 1>covered our top five from the first half of the seventies,
<v Speaker 1>our top five from the second half of the seventies,
<v Speaker 1>top half of the eighties, bottom half of the eighties,
<v Speaker 1>just keep on going. And our last episode, which came
<v Speaker 1>out just last week, we did the top five TV
<v Speaker 1>themes from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety four. Today you're
<v Speaker 1>back for the Top five TV themes nineteen ninety five
<v Speaker 1>to nineteen ninety nine. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Right before we started this, d I told you I
<v Speaker 2>love doing this. It's a little bit out of my
<v Speaker 2>normal sweet spot. Yeah, and so it transports me back
<v Speaker 2>to a time that I I don't visit as much
<v Speaker 2>as nineteen eighty seven. Say sure, but so we're gonna
<v Speaker 2>do ninety five to ninety nine.
<v Speaker 1>I was.
<v Speaker 2>I got married in ninety six, So this is a
<v Speaker 2>transition in my life. It's a little bit different, which
<v Speaker 2>I think is really cool, at least for me. I
<v Speaker 2>went to college in ninety one and that's when music changed.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Right, so my high school years and my college year's
<v Speaker 2>totally different in music. And then, you know, late nineties,
<v Speaker 2>I'm married, and so my TV watching is a little
<v Speaker 2>bit different, you know.
<v Speaker 1>Right. Well, I mentioned the you know, the three and
<v Speaker 1>a half weeks that Gregory and Chants were popular in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety four on our previous episode, Right, I happened
<v Speaker 1>to go look and see what other things were on
<v Speaker 1>the top albums at that time. I mean, you had
<v Speaker 1>Pearl Jam, ten, you had Nirvana, nevermind, you had all
<v Speaker 1>of these huge albums, and then of course you've got
<v Speaker 1>Gregorian Chance. That was a little weird.
<v Speaker 2>You know, there are some mysterious shooting comments from the
<v Speaker 2>nineties that make no sense to me.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I mean, you just, in addition to the change
<v Speaker 1>in popular music from the heavy metal of the eighties
<v Speaker 1>to the alternative music that first came out like Nirvana
<v Speaker 1>and Pearl Jam, you also had the introduction of a
<v Speaker 1>whole lot more rap music, different kinds of rap music.
<v Speaker 1>You had the introduction of the New Age music, which
<v Speaker 1>was really popular at that time, and then you had
<v Speaker 1>bands like Primus that we're doing stuff that you can't
<v Speaker 1>even define, right, and so it was really an incredible
<v Speaker 1>time for music, and that translated into what we were
<v Speaker 1>hearing out of our TV shows as well.
<v Speaker 2>You mentioned the name Primus. We're going to talk about
<v Speaker 2>them here in just a minute.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, yes, we are awesome. Okay, So I see a
<v Speaker 1>cross overcoming ahead. I think so, I think so. All right,
<v Speaker 1>so we are going to jump right in. Just as
<v Speaker 1>a reminder of the rules. As long as this show
<v Speaker 1>was playing sometime from nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety nine,
<v Speaker 1>it qualifies. And we stick with songs that were composed
<v Speaker 1>specifically for the show or were otherwise going to be
<v Speaker 1>lost in the midst of history, but became super mega
<v Speaker 1>hits because they were associated with the show. That was
<v Speaker 1>Jason's pass from the last episode. Yes, Bad Boys, Bad Boys,
<v Speaker 1>What You're Gonna do? Who would know that song if
<v Speaker 1>not for the show Cops.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and I may ask for a little bend in
<v Speaker 2>the rules this time as well.
<v Speaker 1>That doesn't surprise. And by the way, I will note
<v Speaker 1>that you did not bend in the rules at all
<v Speaker 1>when we did our Top five Worst Sequels of the eighties.
<v Speaker 1>But I can accept that because eventually we will be
<v Speaker 1>doing our top five worst sequels of the nineties and
<v Speaker 1>some of those things that I had to kick off
<v Speaker 1>my list. We'll come back up. That's right, it's for
<v Speaker 1>your own good Okay. Are we ready? Yes? Now? I
<v Speaker 1>started last time, so why don't you start this time
<v Speaker 1>with your number five? Five? Number five? All right?
<v Speaker 2>This song was composed by a world famous composer from
<v Speaker 2>movies that you and I love. He was also the
<v Speaker 2>lead singer of a weird rock band that we've talked
<v Speaker 2>about on this podcast.
<v Speaker 1>I know exactly which show you were referring to, and
<v Speaker 1>it will come up later on my list at number three.
<v Speaker 1>Do you want me to name it? Or do you
<v Speaker 1>want to come back to it? Let's come back to it. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's pun it down the road, all right. This is
<v Speaker 1>my number five, all right? Now here is my number five.
<v Speaker 1>This song is only at number five because it came
<v Speaker 1>out in nineteen ninety nine. It is still going today,
<v Speaker 1>and I think I'm gonna say this now, you're gonna
<v Speaker 1>notice kind of a theme for some of the shows
<v Speaker 1>that I'm gonna mention throughout this episode that you might
<v Speaker 1>not expect. Okay, okay, again, not a show I grew
<v Speaker 1>up with, but a show my kids grew up with interesting. Okay, Now,
<v Speaker 1>this song is so catchy that before the even the
<v Speaker 1>music starts, the words of the guy who's about to
<v Speaker 1>sing you a song will tell you what you need
<v Speaker 1>to start singing in just a second. Right, but before
<v Speaker 1>I get there, let me just tell you. The show
<v Speaker 1>was created by a guy named Stephen Killenberg. He was
<v Speaker 1>a marine biology educator. He had worked at Orange County
<v Speaker 1>Marine Institute and then I guess decided he wanted to
<v Speaker 1>change his vocation and went back to school to study art.
<v Speaker 1>He gets a job working as an artist for another
<v Speaker 1>TV show called Rocko's Modern Life, which is a popular
<v Speaker 1>show itself, and then he pitches this show to the
<v Speaker 1>production company. Right, let me just tell you this show
<v Speaker 1>is the most profitable property for Paramount consumer products. What
<v Speaker 1>it is Nickelodeon's highest rated series. By twenty nineteen, it
<v Speaker 1>had generated over thirteen billion dollars in revenue. What are
<v Speaker 1>you talking about? And the theme song was also composed
<v Speaker 1>by this marine biology guy who had become an artist. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>so the song is performed by a voice actor named
<v Speaker 1>Patrick Piney. He voiced Mighty Mouse whenever they did Mighty Mouse.
<v Speaker 1>The New Adventures in eighty seven and eighty eight, which
<v Speaker 1>was a cartoon I loved at that point. Okay. He
<v Speaker 1>also voiced Uncle Traveling Matt in the animated version of
<v Speaker 1>Fraggle Rock. He voiced Mainframe for G I. Joe the Movie,
<v Speaker 1>which we may talk about later. We had a great
<v Speaker 1>suggestion from Jason Koslt to do Transformers the movie and
<v Speaker 1>possibly do it against G I. Joe the movie, and
<v Speaker 1>I think that's the perfect combination. But anyway, he voiced Mainframe,
<v Speaker 1>and he also appeared in The Terminator nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 1>What but probably you know him best when he calls
<v Speaker 1>out these words, are you already? Kid?
<v Speaker 3>I can't hear you?
<v Speaker 1>That is an excellent one. Dude. You can't hear that music,
<v Speaker 1>even not having grown up with it. I cannot hear
<v Speaker 1>that music without singing along, even if you just go
<v Speaker 1>SpongeBob square pants.
<v Speaker 2>I saw some talk show and they were interviewing people
<v Speaker 2>on the street. Yes, and they go up to people
<v Speaker 2>and they're like, who is the vice President of.
<v Speaker 1>The United States?
<v Speaker 2>And they had no idea, right, yes, And he said
<v Speaker 2>who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
<v Speaker 1>That's hilarious. Yeah, that was great. So I mentioned last
<v Speaker 1>episode when you brought up Craig t. Nelson and Coach
<v Speaker 1>that another you remember Dauber from Chach Dauber is. The
<v Speaker 1>actor's name is Bill Fagerbak yep, and he is the
<v Speaker 1>voice for Patrick SpongeBob's very best friend, Starfish. Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>I guess that's right. I hadn't put that together before.
<v Speaker 1>And Clancy Brown is mister Crabs.
<v Speaker 2>Clancy Brown, the bad guy from Highlander.
<v Speaker 1>Iconic sadly the show creator that also helped write the
<v Speaker 1>theme music. Stephen Helenbert passed away in twenty eighteen at
<v Speaker 1>only fifty seven years old. He had contracted als, but
<v Speaker 1>in Super Bowl fifty three Maroon five did a tribute
<v Speaker 1>to him on their halftime show.
<v Speaker 2>It was great, fantastic, Yeah, fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so we're to my number four.
<v Speaker 3>Four.
<v Speaker 2>This song, the original singer was a guy. Hey, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's not the important part, all right.
<v Speaker 1>He was a guy. It's just a guy, just a guy,
<v Speaker 1>Just just a.
<v Speaker 2>Guy who's sang this season one and the show did
<v Speaker 2>so well that they called in the replacement singer and
<v Speaker 2>brought in to cover the same theme song, cheap Trick.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, I got a TV theme by Cheap Trick.
<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to figure yes, yeah, I'm not got nothing.
<v Speaker 1>Keep going, Cheap.
<v Speaker 2>Trick, singer of the world famous song from Top Gun,
<v Speaker 2>Mighty Wings.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, your favorite song from that album, right.
<v Speaker 2>Along with Surrender and I Want You to Want Me
<v Speaker 2>and a billion other songs from seven.
<v Speaker 1>I think I got it. I think I had it
<v Speaker 1>before you said the seventy I know that I've got
<v Speaker 1>it now. This is the theme from that seventies show
<v Speaker 1>You Got.
<v Speaker 2>It the.
<v Speaker 1>Wisconsin. I honestly, this was in my radar. I was like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>this is a big song, and I listened to it
<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, it's not really that great. What makes
<v Speaker 1>this song great is the fact that they're all singing
<v Speaker 1>it in the car. That's true. Yeah, thanks, I mean that,
<v Speaker 1>just the humor and fun of that is what makes
<v Speaker 1>the song so great. I agree with you.
<v Speaker 2>The song is not particularly wonderful, but the participation of
<v Speaker 2>the cast and the singing and the fun and the
<v Speaker 2>rearranging seats and all that stuff, it's very Wainswell.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, by the way, I learned this today. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>The character on the show named Fez. They all call
<v Speaker 2>him Fez yes, his name is not Fes. Okay, that's
<v Speaker 2>not his name. They call him Fees because he's a
<v Speaker 2>foreign exchange student. I had never really realized that. Wow,
<v Speaker 2>this theme song does a great job of sort of
<v Speaker 2>bringing us back to a time and you would drive
<v Speaker 2>around and you're doing a whole lot of nothing, but
<v Speaker 2>you're hanging out.
<v Speaker 1>There's nothing to do, but you're hanging out with your friends. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Have you seen that nineties show? No? No, same casts back,
<v Speaker 1>but you know it's it's crazy because in the nineties
<v Speaker 1>twenty years ago. Was in the seventies.
<v Speaker 2>That is insane.
<v Speaker 1>D eighties is thirty years ago. Now, Bro, you're hurting
<v Speaker 1>my feelings. Yeah, okay, here is my number four. Okay.
<v Speaker 1>This show ran from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand
<v Speaker 1>and ten. The theme song for the show was composed
<v Speaker 1>by the group The Refreshments, which when I first moved
<v Speaker 1>to Tulsa in nineteen ninety six I got to see
<v Speaker 1>live at Edgefest ninety six. I still have a T
<v Speaker 1>shirt that has the Refreshments on the back of the
<v Speaker 1>T shirt. Okay, they're a fun group. I would tell
<v Speaker 1>people they put on the best show. They got up
<v Speaker 1>there and they had a fantastic time. And the song
<v Speaker 1>that they use for the show is called Yahoo, Who's
<v Speaker 1>in Triangles? Yeah? Who's in Triangles? You don't know it yet,
<v Speaker 1>do you know? Okay? Nothing. The soundtrack for this show,
<v Speaker 1>for this TV series came out in nineteen ninety eight,
<v Speaker 1>had two singles off of it. One of them was
<v Speaker 1>move It On Over by Travis Tritt and George Thorogood
<v Speaker 1>and the other one was get in Line by Bare
<v Speaker 1>Naked Ladies has a ton I mean, all kinds of
<v Speaker 1>artists that you wouldn't expect to be together on one album.
<v Speaker 1>But what I'm about to say, I think we'll give
<v Speaker 1>it away. Okay. The show was created by the same
<v Speaker 1>guy who gave us office space and Beavis and butt Head.
<v Speaker 2>Is this Daria, Damn Bobby. It's King of the Hill.
<v Speaker 1>So I've expanded my knowledge on the information about the
<v Speaker 1>song itself. But again, you have this great introduction, partly
<v Speaker 1>because because of what's going on on the screen in
<v Speaker 1>front of you, which is the guy standing around drinking
<v Speaker 1>beer in fast motion where they're back and forth and
<v Speaker 1>back and forth, and it's yeah, it's absolutely hysterical. And
<v Speaker 1>then of course you have the cow bell come in
<v Speaker 1>and it's so perfect.
<v Speaker 2>It's telefun, it's telefun viavs. And butthead was such a
<v Speaker 2>huge force in my life in the nineties. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>considered the Beas butt Heead theme song for this.
<v Speaker 1>Oh well, all right, that's a good one. Okay, moving
<v Speaker 1>on to my number three three.
<v Speaker 2>This song was composed by a guy named Bruce Miller, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>and his directions were, do not be specific about any
<v Speaker 2>subject that the show is.
<v Speaker 1>About, So you've got to be very vague, okay.
<v Speaker 2>Now, then, so he takes some lyrics, puts them together.
<v Speaker 2>You know the words of the song. I know the
<v Speaker 2>words of this song. But if you stop and think
<v Speaker 2>what the heck do these words mean? It might be
<v Speaker 2>a little confusing.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So these are two food items that symbolize something that
<v Speaker 2>is mixed up.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, John Blank, all right, let me throw the eta.
<v Speaker 2>The food items are tossed salads and scrambled eggs.
<v Speaker 1>Hey baby, I'm here the blues A call in toss
<v Speaker 1>salads and scrambled eggs white style. And I know this
<v Speaker 1>and these lyrics only come out in the closing credits.
<v Speaker 1>But this was the song that I was like, I
<v Speaker 1>can't I don't want to cut this from my list
<v Speaker 1>that I'm confident. Yeah, Jason is going to cover it.
<v Speaker 1>This is the theme song from Scrambled Eggs All Over
<v Speaker 1>My Faith. Toss salads and scrambled eggs. It doesn't make
<v Speaker 1>any sense.
<v Speaker 2>Scrambled eggs all over my face.
<v Speaker 1>Kelsey Grammar singing the lyrics on the outro. It's a
<v Speaker 1>great song both at the beginning and the end, but
<v Speaker 1>definitely the end is the more memorable.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think it's fun that Kelsey Grammer is the
<v Speaker 2>actual actor singer.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, makes it fun.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, I think somebody should start a Fraser podcast.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's a terrible idea. We are on to
<v Speaker 1>my number three. Okay. Now, the composer on this one
<v Speaker 1>is a guy who had a brief touch on composing
<v Speaker 1>music for movies in nineteen eighty with this extremely weird
<v Speaker 1>movie called Forbidden Zone. Okay, and we've talked about him before,
<v Speaker 1>but his big break didn't come until five years later,
<v Speaker 1>whenever he teamed up with a director that we've covered
<v Speaker 1>and an actor that just passed away for Peewee's Big Adventure.
<v Speaker 2>Allow me to get my number five favor out.
<v Speaker 1>I wanted to give you those tidbits before we jump
<v Speaker 1>back the.
<v Speaker 2>Actor who just passed away, of course, Paul Rubbins. This
<v Speaker 2>is Danny Elfman and the Zoom Suites.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So, as you mentioned when you talked about your number five,
<v Speaker 1>this by Danny Elfman, who was a weird rocker in
<v Speaker 1>a group with his brother back in the seventies. Right,
<v Speaker 1>showed a group that appeared on the Gong Show of
<v Speaker 1>all things, and I think probably got gonged. They were bizarre.
<v Speaker 1>They were bizarre. But then he becomes a film composer,
<v Speaker 1>does Peewee's Big Adventure, Then, of course does Batman eighty nine.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, throw Beetlejuice in there, and you've got the
<v Speaker 1>makings of one of the greatest film composers of all time.
<v Speaker 1>So listen to this.
<v Speaker 2>I did a episode with Jeff Johnson. It's a Patrion
<v Speaker 2>episode on the movie Wisdom, which starred a Milio Estevez
<v Speaker 2>and Demi Moore.
<v Speaker 1>It's kind of a little known movie from nineteen eighty six.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Danny Elfman composed the music for that movie. When
<v Speaker 2>I dove into Danny Elfman for that episode, his big
<v Speaker 2>break comes when Tim Burton selects him to do Pee's
<v Speaker 2>Big Adventure, right, and it's so stylistic it really sets
<v Speaker 2>the tone for the goofiness and the weirdness of that movie.
<v Speaker 2>He almost didn't accept the job because he's like, why me,
<v Speaker 2>I'm in this goofy, weird off the wall bando Boingo
<v Speaker 2>By the way, why would you think that I could
<v Speaker 2>compose a score for a movie? And Tim Burton, to
<v Speaker 2>his credit, saw his genius and said, well, you just
<v Speaker 2>have such a style.
<v Speaker 1>I think you can do it. If you go back
<v Speaker 1>and listen to some of the old Oingo Boingo music,
<v Speaker 1>there are some that's they are specifically styling it to
<v Speaker 1>sound like a circus. And if you think circus when
<v Speaker 1>you listen to Danny Elfman's early works, you're like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>let's see what Tim Burton will see. Yes. So, the
<v Speaker 1>theme for The Simpsons one of the most recognizable themes
<v Speaker 1>in television history. It won the National Music Award for
<v Speaker 1>Favorite TV Theme in two thousand and two. It's been
<v Speaker 1>nominated at least three times for Emmy's and Danny says
<v Speaker 1>that of all of the music that he has done,
<v Speaker 1>this is the most popular of his career. Yeah, this
<v Speaker 1>was my number five.
<v Speaker 2>You know this song has been covered by Green Day, Weezer,
<v Speaker 2>and Hans Zimmer, of all people.
<v Speaker 1>Well, okay, that's interesting. How about that. I'd like to
<v Speaker 1>hear Hans Zimmer's version. That's fantastic. I've been going for
<v Speaker 1>a long time, man. Yeah. It took me from high
<v Speaker 1>school and is still going, still going. It's incredible.
<v Speaker 2>So we are to my number two.
<v Speaker 4>Two.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, d this is where I'm going to ask you
<v Speaker 2>to bend the rules for me a little bit. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>So this song was not composed specifically for this show. However,
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to lay myself on the mercy of the
<v Speaker 2>court here because it was so regional and so specific
<v Speaker 2>to one city, it was completely unknown to me. This
<v Speaker 2>song was written by Ian Hunter. It's from his album
<v Speaker 2>You're Never Alone with the Schizophrenic. This song became really
<v Speaker 2>associated with one particular city, much like Heart of Rock
<v Speaker 2>and Roll from Huey Lewis right, this city took a
<v Speaker 2>lot of jabs and was put down a lot, and
<v Speaker 2>he's like, you know what, this city's cool, man. The
<v Speaker 2>city's really got a lot of character. In fact, Cleveland rocks.
<v Speaker 1>I knew song, but I don't. I can't remember the show. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>so before I tell you the show.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this song was played every Friday at five pm
<v Speaker 2>from a particular radio station WMMS in Cleveland, and it
<v Speaker 2>became so ingrained in Cleveland culture that Ian Hunter got
<v Speaker 2>a key to the city in nineteen seventy nine. Okay, okay,
<v Speaker 2>the song goes to the Drew Carey show.
<v Speaker 3>Oh the senergy come on me.
<v Speaker 1>From Okay, you know what. I watched the show. I
<v Speaker 1>watched it frequently. Yeah, yes, James. And now that we
<v Speaker 1>play the theme, I'm like, yes, okay, I know that theme.
<v Speaker 1>But again, it is so far back, it's so far gone.
<v Speaker 1>It's not one that's being syndicated. I mean he's doing
<v Speaker 1>the prices right for Gonnassist. Your price is ride and
<v Speaker 1>whose line is it? Anyway? Right? Right? Well done, Thank
<v Speaker 1>you for bringing back an old hit. I love it.
<v Speaker 1>So we're two year number two d okay. My Number
<v Speaker 1>two ran from nineteen ninety three to two thousand and two,
<v Speaker 1>nine seasons, and then a tenth season came out in
<v Speaker 1>twenty sixteen and eleventh season came out in twenty eighteen.
<v Speaker 1>It spawned two feature films and features the whistling of
<v Speaker 1>the composer's wife.
<v Speaker 2>Allow me to pull out my honorable mention, this is
<v Speaker 2>the X Files.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, so this came up on your honorable mentions from
<v Speaker 1>our last episode. As you noted, the song's title is
<v Speaker 1>actually Materia primorris at least that's what they put it
<v Speaker 1>on the album, but everybody knows it as the X
<v Speaker 1>Files theme. Yes, this hit number one in fro Ants
<v Speaker 1>on the SNEP Singles chart, and as you mentioned last episode,
<v Speaker 1>they were trying to get it. Chris Carter, the creator
<v Speaker 1>of the show, who also created Millennium, which Mark Snow
<v Speaker 1>the composer composed the music for Millennium as well. He's
<v Speaker 1>done a ton of stuff, but those are the two
<v Speaker 1>shows that people really know him for. But Chris Carter
<v Speaker 1>was like, you haven't got it quite right yet, and
<v Speaker 1>in frustration, he just puts his whole arm onto his
<v Speaker 1>keyboard and it creates that echoe effect. It's probably an
<v Speaker 1>arpeggio program in the keyboard that they hadn't didn't even
<v Speaker 1>know it was there. It happens and lightning.
<v Speaker 2>Strikes mysteriously jumps out of the keyboard.
<v Speaker 1>I believed you knew what the answer was. It's a
<v Speaker 1>great one.
<v Speaker 2>I love it, and you know who loves that show,
<v Speaker 2>who is like a mega superfan of The X Files.
<v Speaker 1>Our friend deaf Dave, probably several of our friends who
<v Speaker 1>just maybe haven't gone quite as deep down the rabbit
<v Speaker 1>hole as deaf Dave has. But yes, we've talked about
<v Speaker 1>the fact that Alex Trebek was on that show in
<v Speaker 1>one of our other episodes, and as soon as we
<v Speaker 1>bring up X Files, our friends go, oh, yes, this, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you should know this. I watched the show. I watched
<v Speaker 1>it a bunch, but I did not. I didn't become
<v Speaker 1>a Trekky of the show, but it has that same
<v Speaker 1>type of following as Star Trek and Star Wars. People
<v Speaker 1>go nuts for it, and I thought the movie was fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so we're to our honorable mentions. So my first
<v Speaker 2>honorable mention. This show started in nineteen ninety seven, is
<v Speaker 2>currently running today. The theme song is performed by Primus yep.
<v Speaker 1>This is also one of my honorable mentions, And as
<v Speaker 1>I was going to tease it up for you, I
<v Speaker 1>was going to say the song played in the first
<v Speaker 1>four seasons as folk rock instrumentation with bass, guitar, trumpets,
<v Speaker 1>and rhythmic drums. It's in the minor key, and it
<v Speaker 1>features a try tone diminished fifth, and I would have
<v Speaker 1>gone on and on like this, and then I would
<v Speaker 1>have said, but you probably know it because a guy
<v Speaker 1>with a muffled face says.
<v Speaker 2>A bit big girl Hoodie baganas, Oh, yes, this is
<v Speaker 2>the south Park theme.
<v Speaker 3>I'm going down South, I'm going hand myself time.
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't have known any of that crap, except I
<v Speaker 2>would have known the muffled voice of Kenny.
<v Speaker 1>I'm South. I'm going to see if I can't whine.
<v Speaker 1>Fantastic show. Fantastic opening theme by the band who also
<v Speaker 1>brought us Why known as Big Brown Beaver Perfect. They
<v Speaker 1>actually sped the music up this. Originally the song was
<v Speaker 1>a slower song, but it was so long that Comedy Central,
<v Speaker 1>by the way Fox and them had it out, like
<v Speaker 1>they couldn't reach a deal. You know why, mister Hanky
<v Speaker 1>the singing pooh. Fox was like, we are not going
<v Speaker 1>to have singing shit on our show, and they said,
<v Speaker 1>well then we're gonna go somewhere else. They're crazy history
<v Speaker 1>We've got to cover at some point. I think that
<v Speaker 1>south Park, Bigger, Longer, and uncut maybe the best musical
<v Speaker 1>law of all time. One quick thing.
<v Speaker 2>I want to mention on Trey Parker and Mattstone. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the creators of South Park. They met in film school
<v Speaker 2>I believe at the University of Colorado, found out that
<v Speaker 2>they both really like Monty Python. They won some awards
<v Speaker 2>because they had stupid little cutouts and that they did
<v Speaker 2>stop motion with and it blossomed into this mega nuclear bomb.
<v Speaker 1>It went viral. The Meaning of Christmas featuring a wrestling
<v Speaker 1>fighting match between Jesus and Santa Claus. The interesting thing
<v Speaker 1>to me here.
<v Speaker 2>Recently they have purchased Casabanita in Denver.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, if you're unfamiliar, it's gigantic. I mean it's got
<v Speaker 1>to be tens of thousands of square feet. It's humongous,
<v Speaker 1>and it's just a restaurant.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 2>And while you're eating your tacos, you watch. You know,
<v Speaker 2>they have like a three story waterfall and Gorilla's running around.
<v Speaker 1>Jason.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it's a must stop when you're in Denver.
<v Speaker 1>All right. My second honorable mention, Yes.
<v Speaker 2>All right, I'm gonna lose some crewdit on this one.
<v Speaker 2>I think this theme song is from a TV show
<v Speaker 2>that has the actress. It was in this TV show.
<v Speaker 2>She was also in Batman Begins, and she's also for
<v Speaker 2>a time was married to one of the biggest movie stars.
<v Speaker 1>Of all time. So this is Dawson's Creek. Yes, this
<v Speaker 1>is Dawson's Creek. You got it. I had to do
<v Speaker 1>the math like I'm working backwards here. Okay, all right, okay,
<v Speaker 1>got it.
<v Speaker 2>Katie Holmes was of course married to Tom Cruise. Now then,
<v Speaker 2>the theme song for Dawson's Creek was written and performed
<v Speaker 2>by Paula Cole. She wrote this song about her grandfather
<v Speaker 2>at the end of his life.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. He was talking to her about all.
<v Speaker 2>The mistakes that he made he didn't want her to make,
<v Speaker 2>and she embraced that ideology and said, you know what,
<v Speaker 2>I want to live.
<v Speaker 1>I want to live like nobody else. I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to wait. Love it, Love it man.
<v Speaker 2>This song reached number ten on the Hot One and
<v Speaker 2>it is a I don't know. It's kind of a
<v Speaker 2>great little makeout song for the late nineteen nineties. Long
<v Speaker 2>We're creeping towards our number one.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm very concerned that it's the same song. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>I have no doubt, Okay, I have literally no doubt. Okay.
<v Speaker 1>The fact that it hasn't come up means that it
<v Speaker 1>must be it must be okay, right, so you get
<v Speaker 1>to do a slide in here. Since you took one
<v Speaker 1>of my honorable mentions, that means I get to put
<v Speaker 1>another one back. Sure so, great, good job, glad we
<v Speaker 1>both had south Park, But now south Park's out of
<v Speaker 1>my honorable mentions. Sure sure so. First on my honorable
<v Speaker 1>mentions is a song that you guessed earlier. It is
<v Speaker 1>very similar. It is involves the characters Warner Brothers and
<v Speaker 1>their little brother Dot. And this song followed the show
<v Speaker 1>Tiny Tunes and has the again very similar style of
<v Speaker 1>music created for the show and has the line we
<v Speaker 1>have bologney in our sacks. This is an MANIAX you
<v Speaker 1>got it? Yes, it's time thought and here comes the
<v Speaker 1>title of the show. It's the Sureley you Can't Be
<v Speaker 1>Serious podcast. Yeah, this is a fantastic song. It's very catchy.
<v Speaker 1>I will sing it. And this show also had a
<v Speaker 1>wonderful song that was the President's of the United States.
<v Speaker 1>Love it.
<v Speaker 2>It's great.
<v Speaker 1>Man.
<v Speaker 2>I had a friend in college, so imagine we're all
<v Speaker 2>watching you know, the Real World and the Jerry Springer show,
<v Speaker 2>you know that type of thing in college, and he's
<v Speaker 2>watching Animax like a like a fool.
<v Speaker 1>He loved Animax. It's hysterical, it is. It is just
<v Speaker 1>like the Looney Tunes where they've got the adult humor
<v Speaker 1>in with the little kid cartoons. It is a well
<v Speaker 1>known show. And by the way, that one all So
<v Speaker 1>got rereleased recently, did it? Yeah, they re upped the
<v Speaker 1>show I guess if you will and for the twenty
<v Speaker 1>first century.
<v Speaker 3>Great.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Now my other honorable mention again has the guy
<v Speaker 1>that played the harmonica in my number five from last
<v Speaker 1>episode the Roseanne Show. He also played the harmonica on
<v Speaker 1>this song. It was composed by the same guy who
<v Speaker 1>is the son of the attorney that I worked for
<v Speaker 1>when I first started practicing laws. Crazy. It is by
<v Speaker 1>Dan Follyer and this music I can't put my finger
<v Speaker 1>on what it is. They have a combination of a
<v Speaker 1>jazzy guitar DJ jazzy Jeff beat and like a flute
<v Speaker 1>from Jethro Tull. You want to hear it? Yeah, there
<v Speaker 1>are no lyrics, but there is voice and it comes
<v Speaker 1>from the bit by the main character in the show.
<v Speaker 2>There's no lyrics, but there's a voice.
<v Speaker 1>You know what I mean? Okay, you ready? You got
<v Speaker 1>it the lyrics.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you're absolutely right, this is Home Improvement.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Great, So obviously that's Tim Allen. Yes, who does the
<v Speaker 2>voice of Buzz Lightyear.
<v Speaker 1>Who Infinity and be All that's awesome. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I've run into a lot of people who don't understand
<v Speaker 2>that the name of the show is actually Home Improvement.
<v Speaker 1>They call it tool Time. Right, you know that was
<v Speaker 1>his show on the show, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, funny show, great show, love that show. Okay, we
<v Speaker 2>ready for our shared number one.
<v Speaker 1>Here we go. There's no question about what this can
<v Speaker 1>be one. Here's what we're gonna do. Audience. I'm not
<v Speaker 1>gonna I'm not gonna tease up Jason. Okay, he's not
<v Speaker 1>gonna tease up me. If you haven't guessed at this
<v Speaker 1>point what this show is, well I weep for you,
<v Speaker 1>but we'll go ahead and go. All right. So this
<v Speaker 1>this song was composed by a duo, a couple of
<v Speaker 1>guys named Any Wild Yes and Phil Solom. They actually
<v Speaker 1>were together in a power pop quartet back in the
<v Speaker 1>early eighties nineteen eighty one called Great Buildings. They had
<v Speaker 1>one album that came out and then the band dissolved.
<v Speaker 1>They got back together in nineteen ninety eight and named
<v Speaker 1>themselves after a famous Renaissance artist Okay, yep. They released
<v Speaker 1>a self titled album, which they recorded mostly in Danny
<v Speaker 1>Wilde's home studio, but it had a successful song on
<v Speaker 1>it called just the Way It Is Baby, which reached
<v Speaker 1>number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred. The album
<v Speaker 1>reached number eighty eight. Their second album did not do
<v Speaker 1>as well, but they had a song called Rolling down
<v Speaker 1>the Hill. I don't know if this was a comment
<v Speaker 1>on a Kate Bush song or not, but that song
<v Speaker 1>was used in Dumb and Dumber. WHOA It for You here?
<v Speaker 2>I reckon that song because I've seen Dumb a number
<v Speaker 2>sixteen thousand times.
<v Speaker 1>So at that point, they've signed with Warner Brothers and
<v Speaker 1>this new show is developing, and the new show originally
<v Speaker 1>wanted the song Shiny Happy People, but Arim.
<v Speaker 2>Said, Okay, first of all, Ariam is stupid because this
<v Speaker 2>song went and became the show of the nineties and
<v Speaker 2>into the two thousands.
<v Speaker 1>It's huge.
<v Speaker 2>It was a starmaking machine for all of these people.
<v Speaker 2>But that song is wrong for this show.
<v Speaker 1>Shiny Happy People, Yes, yeah, No, I mean you can't.
<v Speaker 1>You can't associate any other song with the show. No,
<v Speaker 1>absolutely not no.
<v Speaker 4>So.
<v Speaker 1>This song was composed by Michael Skloff, who was the
<v Speaker 1>husband of one of the show's creators, Marta Kaufman. You
<v Speaker 1>haven't got it yet, You're getting close. I guarantee it right.
<v Speaker 1>The lyrics were written by Marta Kaufman, one of the
<v Speaker 1>show creators, David Crane, another one of the show creators,
<v Speaker 1>and Ali Willis, who helped the group Earthwind and Fire
<v Speaker 1>write the song September Wow, Okay, do you still not
<v Speaker 1>know what it is? Do you still not know, ladies
<v Speaker 1>and gentlemen if you don't know, the name of the
<v Speaker 1>group is the Rembrands, And the reason that they recorded
<v Speaker 1>this song is because they were the only band on
<v Speaker 1>Warner Brothers Records who was available to record it. This song, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>you introduced.
<v Speaker 2>This song is called I'll Be There for You by the.
<v Speaker 4>Woman Want That was going to be this way, Johnson,
<v Speaker 4>keep not bastyr way.
<v Speaker 1>It's like yours stuck in second.
<v Speaker 4>It hasn't been your day, youth? Have you been going?
<v Speaker 4>Everybody there, there.
<v Speaker 1>Had to be no question about what the numbers one
<v Speaker 1>song was going to be. We've gone through all of
<v Speaker 1>the years of the nineties. This had to be it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>most iconic show, most iconic song.
<v Speaker 2>With that question, yes, have you seen the music video
<v Speaker 2>in twenty years?
<v Speaker 1>No, I mean I've seen the intro to the show,
<v Speaker 1>like right weekly for my entire life, exactly, right. So
<v Speaker 1>the show's great. It's funny.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 2>I resisted this show for the first couple of seasons
<v Speaker 2>because it was kind of the hip new show and
<v Speaker 2>kind of you know, our age people, and I was like,
<v Speaker 2>I don't.
<v Speaker 1>Know, these people are kind of too beautiful for me.
<v Speaker 2>But the writing I couldn't resist any longer. It's just
<v Speaker 2>so good. It's such a great show. They developed the
<v Speaker 2>characters anyway. I just fell in love with it later.
<v Speaker 1>For you, again, this is the difference in our time, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>So for you, when this show comes out, you're in
<v Speaker 1>this group, right, You're in the young New professionals. This
<v Speaker 1>show came out the year I graduated from high school.
<v Speaker 1>And I will tell you this and you can cut
<v Speaker 1>it if you'd like to. What prompted me to start
<v Speaker 1>watching this show was one of my friends goes, oh, hey, dude,
<v Speaker 1>let's watch this show with the nipple girl in it.
<v Speaker 1>Because Jennifer Aniston was always cold. God bless her. It was, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>whatever you need to do to hook me in. Once
<v Speaker 1>I was there, I was like, this show is freaking fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, Jennifer Aniston in the late nineties was the it girl.
<v Speaker 2>So here's a couple of things I got for you
<v Speaker 2>on this song. Okay, so you mentioned Michael Scloff. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>he's one of the guys who wrote this song.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, wrote the music.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, he wanted this song to sound like Paperback Writer
<v Speaker 2>by the Beatles.
<v Speaker 1>I can actually see that, you think, No, Yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>think that's yeah, that's solid.
<v Speaker 4>Right.
<v Speaker 2>When the rim Brands recorded the song, they had a
<v Speaker 2>one minute version of it, and it became so huge
<v Speaker 2>they had to go back in the studio.
<v Speaker 1>And extend the song.
<v Speaker 2>So they wrote a couple extra verses and create that
<v Speaker 2>three minute version of the song.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Back to the video. Video is super fun.
<v Speaker 2>You got the rim Brands and they're playing like live
<v Speaker 2>and here comes the cast of Friends and they're stealing
<v Speaker 2>their sunglasses and they're kind of taking over their instruments.
<v Speaker 2>The rim Brands are trying to play the song and
<v Speaker 2>Courtney Cox takes over the drops.
<v Speaker 1>Her second video after the one with Bruce Springsteen in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty. That's right, that's right.
<v Speaker 2>This song is still streamed over ninety six thousand times
<v Speaker 2>a week. Wow, it's incredible.
<v Speaker 1>It's ear candy, it's catchy, it's hooky, it's everything you
<v Speaker 1>want for a pop song. This is the nineties in
<v Speaker 1>a three minute song. All right, ladies and gentlemen, tell
<v Speaker 1>us what you think. Did we get it right? Did
<v Speaker 1>we get it wrong? We both picked the same song
<v Speaker 1>for the number one spot, So what beats that? I
<v Speaker 1>think I mentioned Seinfeld whenever we were talking about it,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know that that music really hits the
<v Speaker 1>way that this does. It was probably the second of
<v Speaker 1>the shows of the nineties for me, but it just
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't have the music like all these other shows.
<v Speaker 1>Totally agree. It's not show, it's song. Tell us where
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<v Speaker 2>Okay, next week, we've been kicking this one down the road.
<v Speaker 2>We're finally gonna get together with the guys from the
<v Speaker 2>Film by podcast and we're going to talk about what
<v Speaker 2>the heck happened with the Last Action Hero and Alien three.
<v Speaker 1>I think there's a reason we've been kicking these down
<v Speaker 1>the road. Yeah, well we're gonna talk about that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and we're gonna have fun doing it.
<v Speaker 2>So come back even if you hate these movies, we're
<v Speaker 2>gonna have a great time, trust me.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks guys, We will see you next week.