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