Annoying Edited Opening Theme Songs

[Jenya]

When a sitcom appears on syndication or cable TV, their opening theme song is often cut down to 15-30 seconds from the original broadcast length.

Good Times, The Golden Girls and Family Ties shows are like that. Does anybody else hate this? What other syndicated sitcoms are there, where the opening theme is chopped in half?

[James"Thunder"Early]

Originally posted by Jenya
When a sitcom appears on syndication or cable TV, their opening theme song is often cut down to 15-30 seconds from the original broadcast length.

Good Times, The Golden Girls and Family Ties shows are like that. Does anybody else hate this? What other syndicated sitcoms are there, where the opening theme is chopped in half?

I hate it too, I prefer the full opening with no cuts. when it's cut you don't get the same thing as when it was first aired.

[musicradio77]

"Full House" had the most annoying edited opening theme song for seasons 1-7 in syndication. "The Golden Girls", "Family Ties" and "Sex and the City" (TBS version) has it. I go with the full openings, I think.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by Full House
"Sex and the City" (TBS version) has it.

yes. TBS butchers the opening credits, it doesn't even have the opening shot of Sarah Jessica looking away from the camera, and doesn't start until "HBO Presents", and it seems rushed too.

[stella]

With "Cheers", sometimes the opening theme song would begin with the chorus section: "Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name...."

[spunkygirl]

Boy Meets World!!!!!!!!!! Disney doesn't even use the Seasons 1-3 openings, they use the Season 4 opener for Seasons 1-3 which makes no sense, cause the Seasons 2 and 3 opener are shorter than the Season 4 opener

N@N does that with Who's the Boss? They use a syndicated version every so often, they don't use it alot though

[musicradio77]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
yes. TBS butchers the opening credits, it doesn't even have the opening shot of Sarah Jessica looking away from the camera, and doesn't start until "HBO Presents", and it seems rushed too.

I have the "Sex and the City" DVD's with the long HBO opening before TBS butchered it.

[barwars]

Originally posted by Angela Micelli
Boy Meets World!!!!!!!!!! Disney doesn't even use the Seasons 1-3 openings, they use the Season 4 opener for Seasons 1-3 which makes no sense, cause the Seasons 2 and 3 opener are shorter than the Season 4 opener

N@N does that with Who's the Boss? They use a syndicated version every so often, they don't use it alot though

Gotta love the DVDs.
(although the BMW 1st Season theme gets on my nerves, dont know why)

[spunkygirl]

Originally posted by barwars
Gotta love the DVDs.
(although the BMW 1st Season theme gets on my nerves, dont know why)

yep sure do

I love the first season opener

It's weird with Disney using the 4th season opener, cause it shows the second Morgan for a season that has the first Morgan

[barwars]

Originally posted by Angela Micelli
yep sure do

I love the first season opener

It's weird with Disney using the 4th season opener, cause it shows the second Morgan for a season that has the first Morgan

I prefered the early Morgan.
BMW is one of my favorite series, but the themesongs weren't all that good IMO.
The Season 5-7 wasn't too bad, but the others, blah.

[EmoJoe]

Originally posted by barwars
I prefered the early Morgan.
BMW is one of my favorite series, but the themesongs weren't all that good IMO.
The Season 5-7 wasn't too bad, but the others, blah.

I liked all of them.
Besides the 2nd and 3rd season one.

[spunkygirl]

Originally posted by barwars
I prefered the early Morgan.
BMW is one of my favorite series, but the themesongs weren't all that good IMO.
The Season 5-7 wasn't too bad, but the others, blah.

I like second Morgan better, she IMO fit the role better.

I like all the openers, but Seasons 5-7 are my fav

[robyrob]

personally, i'd rather they cut the credits/opening than cut scenes, but the one that irks me the most is when Bosom Buddies started using the closing song for the opening instead of Billy Joel's "My Life"

[AtlantaBravesFan29]

Originally posted by robyrob
personally, i'd rather they cut the credits/opening than cut scenes, but the one that irks me the most is when Bosom Buddies started using the closing song for the opening instead of Billy Joel's "My Life"

When USA carried Bosom Buddies they had a different song as the opening song,the song went something like this, "When You Try To Shake The Blues" and it was sung by a female singer. I used to watch Bosom Buddies in reruns years before on a local station and they did use Billy Joel's song, "My Life" as the opening song. I also remember the closing theme being an instrumental of "My Life" as well.

[musicradio77]

Originally posted by BravesFan2004
When USA carried Bosom Buddies they had a different song as the opening song,the song went something like this, "When You Try To Shake The Blues" and it was sung by a female singer. I used to watch Bosom Buddies in reruns years before on a local station and they did use Billy Joel's song, "My Life" as the opening song. I also remember the closing theme being an instrumental of "My Life" as well.

I have that song "My Life" from the Billy Joel CD. I also heard that song on the radio too. That was the theme to "Bosom Buddies".