So I am on the phone with Alex and he and I start talking about classic TV shows and at one point I am singing the theme song to Growing Pains. I realized then, that television really isn’t the same anymore. WHERE ARE THE THEME SONGS?!?!?!
I mean, some of my fondest memories growing up was singing along to Good Times, Facts of Life or One Day at a Time. I can remember my first solo in grade school. I had to sing the first verse of The Greatest American Hero. You know it - “Look at what’s happened to me, I can’t believe it myself. Suddenly I’m upon top of the world. It should have been somebody else…”
I used to imagine myself showing up in the credits. I was always a guest star on The Love Boat or Fantasy Island. I saw myself running down the hill with Laura, Mary and Carrie on Little House on the Prairie. I was another member of the Keaton family and my picture too was in a frame for Family Ties.
So what happened?! Has the television industry become so consumerist that we can’t have a 30 second theme song now? Are we so focused on airtime and getting in that Tampax commercial? We are robbing future generations of this delight. I say, bring back those writers. Classics like Wonder Woman, Golden Girls, Three’s Company… ah I could go on. Still I can always find a website or two that allows me to reminisce
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