TV Theme Songs Created by Famous Musicians - The Big Bang Theory

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Barenaked Ladies - The Big Bang Theory





The Big Bang Theory will seemingly never run out of spin-off ideas, but one thing the original series will have over any others is its now-classic theme song.

It's a catchy riff on the beginning of everything, taking the audience through history, leading up to the momentous event of four nerds sharing an apartment together.



The song comes from Canadian rockers Barenaked Ladies, and it was fate that brought them to sitcom glory.

Creator Chuck Lorre was at a Barenaked Ladies concert when singer Ed Robertson began rapping about, of all things, the Big Bang theory. He was developing a show of the same name at the time, so he reached out to Robertson to come up with a theme song. He had been burned before trying to write for television, so he waited until the last second to write it.

In fact, Robertson wrote the theme song in the shower 20 minutes before he was set to show it to Lorre. Procrastination won out that day, as Lorre loved it, and sitcom history was made.

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