OPEN POST: What's Your Favorite TV Show Theme Song?

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Hola, Peck-Pecks. Remember TV show theme songs? What the hell happened to them? There was a time - for a LONG time, I might add - that it was inconceivable for a television show to have absolutely no theme song - much less, no intro - whatsoever. Sadly, these days it's a lost art form, and one I'm not ashamed to say I miss because some of them were some real bangers, like my all-time favorite, The Jeffersons theme song, Movin' On Up. Co-written and performed by Ja'Net DuBois of Good Times fame back in 1975, this shit is STILL straight up fire!





Tell me babes, what's your favorite TV show theme song?


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