The Lost Art of TV Theme Songs

previously on nathan zed: not much.
all music/themes used below:

Cowboy bebop
Silent hill by Kendrick Lamar
Phil of the future
Stranger things theme
Kim possible theme song
What’s new Scooby Doo
Father Time - Kendrick Lamar
House of cards theme
New girl theme song
Heat - brockhampton
90s Spiderman carton theme
The spectacular Spiderman
Ultimate Spiderman
The office theme
Arthur
Goosebumps
Friends
Out of time - The Weeknd
Fairly odd parents
Avatar The last Airbender
Falling back - drake
Danny phantom
Fresh prince of bel air
Wizards of waverly place
Good luck Charlie
iCarly
Hannah Montana
Suite life of Zack and Cody
Jessie
Drake and josh
That’s So Raven
Living single theme song
The Proud Family
Barry
Invincible
Curb your enthusiasm
LOST
Breaking bad
Game of Thrones
Bojack horseman
Pokemon gotta catch em all
Wandavision
Arcane
Tokyo Ghoul
Naruto
Attack on titan
Teen titans

[SeanA]

Phineas and Ferb had an absolute banger of a theme song. I love listening to the extended version they released in their album

[nateseger]

can’t wait to come back to this CLASSIC video in 15 years

[olafowl]

All I know is that Malcom in the Middle opening went inconceivably hard

[anvithequarsonist]

Not having lyrics doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. The Gravity Falls and Amphibia theme songs are perfect examples of instrumentals that get stuck in my head way too much

[leapfrog]

Big Time Rush's theme is already great, but it's also really cool that the creation of that song is such an integral part of the pilot's plot. It makes the song feel more special, especially since they don't play the normal theme song during that first episode and you get to hear it for the first time when they perform it for the record company.

I also really like how Ned's Declassified's theme blends the pop punk band and main character explains their story intro so seamlessly.

[Swifly_Norman]

Adventure Time had a simple, happy theme that is so iconic and some episodes had a differing versions of it.

[onelesshelper]

Cowboy Bebop had such an iconic theme that you just can't help but jam to it everytime

[creeperinvasion]

Gravity falls is an all timer in my book. It’s perfectly established the show as a mix of comedy and mystery, the music slaps, and the short clips they show of Dipper, Mabel and Stan perfectly establish their characters just by their facial expressions. It’s really impressive

[lh]

Always Sunny has downright weaponised it's intro into a joke of it's own. Gets me every time hearing the whimsical music while some horrific sentence like "Charlie has cancer" or "Mac and Charlie die" appears on screen.

[johanna]

As far as recent animated shows, Gravity Falls' intro was pretty amazing. I literally sing along with it every time even though it's just instrumental haha

[SchaffrillasProductions]

Best TV intro I've seen recently is Peacemaker, it's energetic and hilarious and the best part of an already good show

[nightninja]

HIMYM theme is so nostalgic. Makes me feel like I'm hanging out with old friends I've known for 15 years

[dc_rapper]

The Succession Theme Song perfectly captures the theme of the show. Same thing with Severance on Apple TV. Both shows have a slower tempo version of the theme songs in some scenes and it works perfectly within the context of the scene.

[thelegoguy]

The Better Call Saul theme is also great, it changes slightly over the seasons and the song is just a bop

[weekapaugphil]

This is why the theme song to Community remains one of the best themes out there. Parks and Rec, 30 Rock, and The Office all had memorable instrumental themes, but Community had one from an actual band. Everytime I hear it, I get some nostalgia and it's genuinely a great song. They shorten it in some episodes, but they never got to a point where they kept shortening it. It was always there.

Malcolm in the Middle is also great too

[andyn]

With Bojack I realized how good outro songs can be. It usually cuts at either a hilarious joke or some kind of terrible revelation that makes you need to click on the next episode. Like most everything else about the show it’s perfect

[markdesmit]

The theme songs for Gravity Falls and Netflix's Dark are both really good aswell. Gravity Falls is just a banger with some fun hidden backwards messages in the ending of the theme. Plus the theme song completely changes during the Weirdmagedon episodes which is fun aswell.

Dark is also a really good theme song which starts off kinda slow but becomes really powerfull. It also just fits with the show perfectly. Plus the visuals are kinda random at the beginning of a season but start having more meaning at the end of each season.

Definitely check both of these out!

[MikeC]

My favorite thing about the Teen Titans theme was that they had an English version and a Japanese version, and which one they used told you the tone of the episode. The Japanese theme was for more fun/silly episodes while the English one was for the more serious/dramatic ones.

[firstlast]

*BARRY* has one of the hardest theme songs I’ve ever heard for a TV show and it’s only 3 seconds long.

[megadoodoo]

Succession theme is a total banger, the way it combines classical piano and hip hop type beat is so good... and really fit the tone of the show