Which theme song do you like best? The first season, the second, or the third?

The second one, definately!!!!

I like them all for their own reasons... I like season 1 becuase charlotte rae sings in it and becuase you BARELY get to hear it... only 13 times! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif hehe... i like season 2 becuase it's the classic way that EVERYONE knows... but i like season 3 too, becuase it is more upbeat and it gets stuck in my head so easily.. i could just get up and like dance to it kinda and be the lady who's singing it! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif But i love all the theme songs and i cannot just pick one! I love them all the same! http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

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jo: mrs. g gone on ahead I KNOW i can fix the problem
MRs. G: jo only twice in my life have i spoke in an arbitrary manner, once when my ex husband morgaged our home to pay the bookee, and now, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH MY FRYING PAN!!!

Jo: Woaw Nat!! (grabs blairs palm tree from nat) Nice Girls Don't Throw Trees!!!

blair: now jo i know we usually dont agree but that was a scuzy thing for your mother to do!
tootie: wahts so scuzy about it!?!? dont you read the national enquirer, some of the best people are Shacking up!!
mrs. g: TOOTIE!!! im surrounded by x-rated kids!!!
~FOL85NatandMrsGRock~
*Sarah Lynn*

I'm a fan of the third one. It's just so easy to get stuck in your head, so upbeat, and it's the version I have on my TV theme songs CD that I put on my 80's mix tape years ago before I realized it was like the best show EVER. So I'm also more familiar with it. In like the other ones too though.

the classic theme song... the second one.

Nothin can beat the song used in seasons 2-6.

I absolutely hated the bad 80s rock remake used in the final seasons.

I'm indifferent to the original.

I have to agree with the Obsolete Man, the classic theme song(that simply just sounds better)is the one from season 2-6. The first season theme song sorta makes me laugh.
But I absolutely cringe everytime I hear the theme from seasons 7-9. Ugh, I hate it!(sorry if that offends anyone...)

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"It was just like Saturday Night Fever, except it was a Friday."

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I will have to say that the second theme has definitely aged the best. I really didn't like Charlotte Rae's voice in the first season theme song. The last one was catchy at the time but now just comes off as a bit cheesy like some of the 1980's style clothes and hairstyles that I hated back in Season #7.

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Tootie: Muffy? Her name is Muffy? What kind of person is named Muffy?

Jo: Beats me, Tootie.

I've heard the third more so thats my #1 fav. But the second is good too.

I've heard the third more so thats my #1 fav. But the second is good too.

I really can't decide. I like season 1 beacause it actually sounds like an actual school song. The Second one is a little more dramatic IMO and I like the thrid one because it sounds like space age music with a rock beat and it is truly contemporary.

No offense, but I have the first season song. It is one of the worst theme's i've heard. Version 2 is okay, and they did use it the most, and all, but the third version is the best. It just sticks in your head so easily. I heard it once, and I never forgot it. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

my mistake in first sentence. I meant to say I hate the first season song. (and most of those first season episodes. It just dosen't seem right without Jo.)
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The first theme song was basically extensively corny and cheesy sounding with a lack of proper production values. It was more or less something that you can find pretty goofy but a bit upbeat at about the exact same time.

The second theme song was perhaps the most decent out of the three. Like the others, still contains some ability to stand the test of time. It sounded really simple and it was being bouncy but this time, it's straight-forward to the point and easy to catch onto. At the same time, it seemingly does the job with sounding too forced from the standpoint of finding it catcy (so in a way, it benefits from being laid-back).

The third theme is the most upbeat sounding and stylistic of the group. Yet you can tell that the this version of the theme is basically serves a basic purpose (i.e. being reworked to help feel contemporary and
"hip" strictly for the 1980s) with little else behind it in the end (in other words, it sounds pretty dated). The theme and production valus also sounds a really artificial from the start. There's the overblown whistle and synthesizer sounds surrounding just about everywhere.

seasons 2-6 theme was the best.

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Stanley Roper: I'm sorry Jack

Jack Tripper: Oh, thats ok, what did you do?

Roper: Me? Nothing, I just thought I saw something that wasnt normal, because it was normal, but, now I can see it aint normal, so, everything's back to normal again.

Jack: oh, well, I'm glad for you.

I am probebly the only person who has to say One is his favorite...it is corny but catchy at the same time..

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If "The Facts Of Life" were all about you, why weren't u ever on the show?

You're not alone. 1st season is good!

Second. Third's too 80s', 1st too corny, and 2nd is juuuuuuuust right. http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

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jo: there's face cream, high heels, and perfume. it's like livin' in a drugstore and i can't get to the check out line!
tootie: this is gonna be a great semester... would I lie?
molly: oh, a blister, blair. you'll live.
jo: so my mom stops the romance by sending me here.
tootie: thats one cold mama!

1st bad, 2nd ok, 3rd, gooooooood. Of course, I'm stuck in a nolstalgia trip of the late 80's so...



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Still Mr. R. Thrasher

Hey everyone! i'm new here, but ive been watchin the FOL since it aired on N@N in sept.

i like the 2nd theme song the best, with the 3rd second, and the 1st third(get that?? lol)

i was listening to a season 7 show, and a season 9 show the other day, and i noticed something...there are TWO different theme songs w/ the upbeat rock tempo!! The way i could tell was right after the first verse:
(...you take them both and there you have, the facts of life! the facts of life!)
in seasons 6/7, the guitar seems louder, but in season 8/9, the guitar seems softer, more in the background

you know what i mean? or am i crazy? lol

tell me what u think
Doug

I liked the third theme song the best. The second one was good too. I couldn't stand the one from season one. It was so annoying and corny, just like the first season. (no offense to anyone who liked the first season, but the show just seemed boring without Jo)

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~Kristen

Jo Rules!

May Fav. FOL theam song is the pilot and the ending theam song of season 1

Originally posted by rocknroll7777
I am probebly the only person who has to say One is his favorite


Not anymore!! #1 is my fav. too!

1ST Season theme song is AWESOME!

May Fav. FOL theam song is the pilot

The Diffrent Strokes theme song?

The FOL theme from the very first episode is different(slightly longer) than the rest of the first season episodes. My favorite opening credits from the first season episodes (there were three different) was the one for episodes 5-13. Scenes of the cast outdoors made the school look real-anyone know the name of the school(if it was a real school) utilized in the third version of the opening credits?

you gotta love the first one.....Mrs Garrett gets all crazy at the end! :) the 2nd one's good too...but it doesn't have the same silly charm......

Originally posted by andy hobbs
The FOL theme from the very first episode is different(slightly longer) than the rest of the first season episodes. My favorite opening credits from the first season episodes (there were three different) was the one for episodes 5-13. Scenes of the cast outdoors made the school look real-anyone know the name of the school(if it was a real school) utilized in the third version of the opening credits?

Lisa Whelchel mentioned in one of her journal entries that the exterior shots of Eastland were shot in Pomona, CA.

Somebody later e-mailed me and said the backdrop looked like their dormitory at their college (Pomona College) in Claremont, CA.