On the ABC Family marathon of Full House which aired a few days ago, the only episode on the marathon that was the ABC version with the original intro was "Easy Rider" from Season 5.

I have many of the episodes taped originally from ABC. I happened to have Easy Rider, and I looked, and it was the shorter ABC intro. However, on the ABC Family ABC version (or whatever that means!), it was the longer version.

Does anyone know why this is?
Thanks! Also, does anyone know exactly how they choose to air their shows and why some episodes have ABC intros?

Adam

WHY DO THEY DO IT? BECAUSE THEY SUCK!!!

they feel the need to constantly shove more commercial time in now for ALL Shows... so if youve been noticing.. what show actually has a tv theme anymore? Let alone over like 20 seconds...

and when ABC family picks it up, the syndication themes.. they can probably do whatever they want to it. cut a certain episode and then add more parts to it etc..
when they started playing cheerso n nick at nite, all they did was play the long theme then outta no where they cut to syndicated versions..


i LOVE networks.
oh yea if u s till wanna watch the themes and pretend they are on tv... i did put em online lol

http://home.comcast.net/~r.javornicky/FullHouse2.WMV

http://home.comcast.net/~r.javornicky/FullHouse.wmv

http://home.comcast.net/~r.javornicky/FullHouse3.WMV

we are also very lucky we even see that theme. until abc fam just picked it up, i didnt see the theme since the original airing.. they cut it on every station it aired

You better be glad you have seen it when you did. ABC Family is the only network I know to show all versions of a theme song in syndication.

I noticed that about the "Easy Rider" episode but forgot to post it here. I wonder when they'll re-air that episode so I can record the full intro. :D

BTW, was it originally season 5 where ABC had the long intro or just select episodes from season 5? :confused:

Originally posted by swedeace
I noticed that about the "Easy Rider" episode but forgot to post it here. I wonder when they'll re-air that episode so I can record the full intro. :D

BTW, was it originally season 5 where ABC had the long intro or just select episodes from season 5? :confused:

If they keep going in order... sometime in the next month and a half or so, they will get back around to it.

Do you mean the theme that goes "chiap adee bow dow!" Or something like that?

Theyre talking about the themes i posted the videos to early in the post.. the ones with the versus

clouds as mean as uve ever seen aint a bird who knows ur tune..
the a little voice inside u whispers..

yadayada yada


almost EVERy episode from ABC back then had the real theme, i think only 3 didnt when they originally aired

I saw the episode "Easy Rider" on Nick at Nite and they didn't have the full opening, just the syndicated short opening. The full opening was from ABC Family about a couple of weeks ago. The episode had a TV-PG rating but not TV-G.

Originally posted by easternexpedition
On the ABC Family marathon of Full House which aired a few days ago, the only episode on the marathon that was the ABC version with the original intro was "Easy Rider" from Season 5.

I have many of the episodes taped originally from ABC. I happened to have Easy Rider, and I looked, and it was the shorter ABC intro. However, on the ABC Family ABC version (or whatever that means!), it was the longer version.

Does anyone know why this is?
Thanks! Also, does anyone know exactly how they choose to air their shows and why some episodes have ABC intros?

Adam

I wish I knew how they chose the intros :( I'd also love to get my hands on original ABC tapes so that I could document how the intros appeared on the original shows. There seemed to be a ton of variation in the introductions.

There seems to be four basic bodies for the introductions:

1) The full song clocking in at 1:28 minutes
2) The one that has the 10 second instrumental at the beggining, then does the opening lines "Whatever happened too predictability; The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV", then it jumpts to the chorus and conintues the same way as (3), clocking in at 59 seconds
3) The one that starts at the chorus, "Ah-ahhhh; Everywhere you look, Everywhere you look", clocking in at 40 seconds.
4) The short syndicated version with the unique verse "You miss your old familiar friends, but, waiting just around the bend", clocking in at 42 seconds

As I understand, seasons 5-7 used number (3) occasionally, season 8 used (3) exclusively, (2) was used in the earlier seasons I think.

Starting from season 2, I believe, an electric guitar overdub was added to the main track appearing in and out of various places throughout the introduction.

Also worth nothing is that each of the introductions ended in a unique way. Some had an abrupt two beat ending, while others had the "chipadowap" or whatever ending.

From listening to the two intros posted here on SitcomsOnline, the season one and five intro are also in a different pitch, though that may just be a recording anomaly. I can check that out. If they were recorded in different pitch, it could only be season one because the electric guitar track didn't appear on it, and the version with the electric guitar could have been re-recorded.

Though I can never be sure because I don't have any ABC tapes, though I'd love to document this, don't know why :D

Phew, that was a lot of information! I can't believe I actually attempted to research all of this!

The Full House introduction was only once officially issued on CD (in high quality). That was for the following album:

"Television's Greatest Hits, Vol.7: Cable Ready"

However, this does not contain the full version for some very strange unkown reason! It contains the (2) intro, clocking in at 59 seconds!

Hm, here's another strange thing. The original poster said that the Easy Rider episode had the short intro, but TV Tome claims that Easy Rider had a unique introduction:

On this episode, the opening credits, scenes, and music changed. Each character is shown growing up with short clips of previous pictures along with recent ones that are shown on all of the following episodes. This change in the opening credits is only on this episode. Later episodes show just the grown up/current clips.

Though it looks like it to me that this is reffering to the syndicated ABC Family episodes, not the original ABC run. I might send in a correction for that.

Originally posted by tgc225
4) The short syndicated version with the unique verse "You miss your old familiar friends, but, waiting just around the bend", clocking in at 42 seconds

That's probably in both the Nick at Nite and ABC Family airings. WPIX, TBS and WGN usually did the same syndicated openings too. That was probably for seasons 1-5.

I am in the process of extracting the sound from the .mpg files, and I will create an .mp3 file of the extended theme song for everyone. ;)