Favorite sitcom intros and/or theme songs?

[OCGuy81]

After the 80s, sitcom theme songs seemed to be a dying thing.

What're some of your favorite intros?

[snowc]

After the 80s, sitcom theme songs seemed to be a dying thing.

What're some of your favorite intros?

*Plays theme song*
THE SIMPSONS!!!
Its an animated sitcom, right?

[OCGuy81]

After the 80s, sitcom theme songs seemed to be a dying thing.

What're some of your favorite intros?

*Plays theme song*
THE SIMPSONS!!!
Its an animated sitcom, right?

Great one!! My wife is a choir director and recently had her students do all the classic TGIF lineup.

Her students ROCKED the Step by Step themr

[abefroman329]

Theme songs: if "Night Court" isn't at the top of your list, you're wrong.

Intros: Holy hell, does "BoJack Horseman" ever nail the depiction of depression.

[Rothman]

Simpsons
Night Court
Charles in Charge
Happy Days
All in the Family
Welcome Back Kotter
Perfect Strangers

[snowc]

Simpsons
Night Court
Charles in Charge
Happy Days
All in the Family
Welcome Back Kotter
Perfect Strangers

And don't forget, Garfield and Friends! (Even though its not a sitcom, its still a comedy  )

[skluth]

Barney Miller
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Robot Chicken
Bonanza
Rockford Files
Game of Thrones
and my favorite - Mission Impossible

[jmacswimmer]

Family Guy, largely because of the few isolated occasions where something happens during the intro.

[wanderer2575]

I agree with Night Court.  Same with Barney Miller.

The Greatest American Hero had a great theme song sung by Joey Scarbury and lots of clips of the characters.  That's one of my favorite show openings. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ0U1Ri2uuM

Subtopic:  Favorite TV show themes sung by the actors.  My favorites are:

• Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert, Green Acres
• Jean Stapleton and Carroll O'Connor, All in the Family

[plain]

Welcome Back Kotter
Sanford And Son
Night Court
Married With Children
The Simpsons

[Mr_Northside]

Theme songs: if "Night Court" isn't at the top of your list, you're wrong.

This pretty much would have been my post, if it wasn't already posted.

[Mapmikey]

Others not yet mentioned...

What's Happening
Corner Gas (Canada)
That 70s Show
Designing Women (late in their run - had Ray Charles actually singing it)
Good Times
The Jeffersons
Murphy Brown - each episode was different but was usually a Motown song
Alice
Different Strokes
Facts of Life
Prince of Bel Air
Laverne and Shirley

[Stephane Dumas]

Still not mentioned
Get Smart
Thunderbirds
I dream of Jeannie
Bewitched
The Saint
The Avengers
Maude
Mary Taylor Moore Show
Family Matters
Cheers
Taxi
WKRP in Cincinnati
Kids in the Hall
You Can't do that on Television, a kids show I know but a well remembered theme song like the first 20 years of Sesame Street.

[kphoger]

The Andy Griffith Show

[Big John]

Partridge Family (Year 1)

[GaryV]

Not a sit-com, but I dare anyone to try to hum the "tune" of the theme of CBC's "Nature of Things".

My brothers and I played "name that tune" when we were in bed before falling asleep. If we got stumped for an idea for the next challenge, we picked the theme from "Ironsides".

[jp the roadgeek]

Drew Carey Show
Maude
Seinfeld
The Office
Mr. Belvidiere
Soap
Three's Company (debuted 45 years ago today)

[Rothman]

Drew Carey Show

Moon Over Parma or Cleveland Rocks?

Have to say that the evolution of The Drew Carey Show is evidence of Drew Carey's tenacity.  It took a long time for the show to find its groove and I don't know how he and the production team fended off calls for cancellation early on.

[SectorZ]

Drew Carey Show

Moon Over Parma or Cleveland Rocks?

Have to say that the evolution of The Drew Carey Show is evidence of Drew Carey's tenacity.  It took a long time for the show to find its groove and I don't know how he and the production team fended off calls for cancellation early on.

Don't forget Five O'Clock World as well.

[abefroman329]

Drew Carey Show

Moon Over Parma or Cleveland Rocks?

And, between those two, Five O'Clock World.

[1995hoo]

Not a sitcom per se (it was certainly an exercise in absurd TV, at least!), but the theme music from the A-Team would be high on my list of greatest TV theme music.

The original Battlestar Galactica as well.

I've always figured the main reason TV theme songs/theme music died out was that they took away time that could be used for paid commercials.

[Rothman]

Drew Carey Show

Moon Over Parma or Cleveland Rocks?

Have to say that the evolution of The Drew Carey Show is evidence of Drew Carey's tenacity.  It took a long time for the show to find its groove and I don't know how he and the production team fended off calls for cancellation early on.

Don't forget Five O'Clock World as well.

Crap.  How could I?  Probably my favorite out of the bunch.

[kphoger]

Married With Children

I figured that one didn't count, considering they just took an existing song and used it.

[Henry]

Married With Children

I figured that one didn't count, considering they just took an existing song and used it.

Same thing with Mike & Molly, because for the first three seasons it used the ending part of Keb Mo's I See Love as originally recorded, and then for the remainder of its run it switched over to a remixed version of the same song which was made specifically for the show.

Seasons 1-3:

Seasons 4-6:

Full song (original intro starts at around 3:36):

[Route66Fan]

And don't forget, Garfield and Friends! (Even though its not a sitcom, its still a comedy  )

Garfield & Friends actually had 3 theme songs that they used during their 7 season run. The first theme (Used in Seasons 1 & 2.) was called "Friends Are There", second theme was (Used from Seasons 3-6.) was the more well known "We're Ready to Party", which was used in reruns & the third (Only used in the final season.) was a rap theme, that was poorly received & was omitted from international versions. Below is a compilation of the different themes: