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Sanford and son

by DougJ|  April 17, 20132:23 pm| 111 Comments

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You’ll never watch alone:

Former South Carolina governor and congressional candidate Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he entered his ex-wife’s home in early February — an apparent violation of the terms of their divorce settlement — but said he did so so his son wouldn’t have to watch the Super Bowl alone.

The 1st Congressional District Republican candidate, running in a close race against Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, responded with a lengthy statement to an Associated Press report Tuesday night that Jenny Sanford filed a court complaint accusing him of trespassing. The news is a serious setback to Sanford, coming less than three weeks before the May 7 special election and as he is trying to assuage voter concerns about his extramarital affair that derailed his political career four years ago.

I don’t know enough about the district to say if Colbert Busch has a chance now but…

National Republicans are pulling the plug on Mark Sanford’s suddenly besieged congressional campaign, POLITICO has learned — a potentially fatal blow to the former South Carolina governor’s dramatic comeback bid.

Also too: great tv theme song or greatest tv theme song?

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  1. 1.

    Alex S.

    April 17, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    Good. A couple of lucky seats like this one are needed to win the House.

  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 17, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    Also too: great tv theme song or greatest tv theme song?

    Hah. I just flipped through a rerun yesterday afternoon and started humming the theme song. Didn’t watch any of the show.

    Mark Sanford’s suddenly besieged congressional campaign

    I’m kinda surprised, I read his football with my boy excuse and thought that would get him out of it, as Ed Kilgore said. To me the dealbreaker should be the Willardly casual reference to “the beach house”.

  3. 3.

    Bobby Thomson

    April 17, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    Creepy

  4. 4.

    fledermaus

    April 17, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    naturally he is running on a “keep government out of your home” platform

  5. 5.

    Warren

    April 17, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    I dunno, Barney Miller is pretty damned awesome too.

  6. 6.

    YellowJournalism

    April 17, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    Note to self: Never mess with Sanford’s wife.

  7. 7.

    c u n d gulag

    April 17, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    In the words of that great American philospher, Bugs Bunny:
    What a dope!
    What a MAROON!!!

  8. 8.

    ranchandsyrup

    April 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    Great theme song. Not the greatest. Greatest American Hero is for me, believe it or not.

  9. 9.

    jibeaux

    April 17, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    I would love to believe that ECB could beat whoever the Republicans’ second choice to a lying lowlife job-deserter is, but who knows. It’s SC.

  10. 10.

    EconWatcher

    April 17, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    We’re going to get plenty more of this. Remember how weird he was in that press conference when he made his confession? It was like he was chatting with his frat brothers about the hottie he just met.

    This isn’t just a guy who stepped out on his wife. He’s a whackjob, and I don’t think he can hide it. The press now knows he’ll supply good copy.

    Also too, put me down for greatest theme song.

  11. 11.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 17, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    @ranchandsyrup: the George Costanza version

  12. 12.

    ranchandsyrup

    April 17, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: LOL the answering machine. awesome.

  13. 13.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    April 17, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    It can’t possibly be the greatest TV theme song since that belongs to Jonny Quest:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0kg_tzQvf4

  14. 14.

    ? Martin

    April 17, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    The TV show theme that always pops into my head is Marshall, Will, and Holly…

  15. 15.

    Mike in NC

    April 17, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    Sanford admitted Wednesday that he entered his ex-wife’s home in early February — an apparent violation of the terms of their divorce settlement — but said he did so so his son wouldn’t have to watch the Super Bowl alone.

    How lame is that excuse? But the 27%ers will give him a pass because IOKIYAR. No long-term harm to this scumbag’s campaign.

  16. 16.

    tinare

    April 17, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    @ranchandsyrup:

    Believe it or not that was exactly what I was going to say!

  17. 17.

    askew

    April 17, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    The greatest TV theme song is Psych and all of its different versions.

  18. 18.

    Big R

    April 17, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    You mean this theme?

  19. 19.

    japa21

    April 17, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    @Mike in NC: All he has to say is that he asked Jesus for forgiveness and knows he received it.

  20. 20.

    Niques

    April 17, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    My vote for best theme song is Monk . . . “It’s a Jungle Out There”

  21. 21.

    Kay

    April 17, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    I’m surprised, but then he isn’t a Tea Partier, so maybe they don’t have to stick with him.

    I hope this doesn’t mean they’ll cut off horrible Tea Party candidates early, before we get a chance to explore their ideas.

  22. 22.

    Mary G

    April 17, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    Guy has no boundaries and would at least provide good crazy talk to further damage the Republican brand.

  23. 23.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 17, 2013 at 2:43 pm

    SC peeps: how should I donate? There are multiple Act Blue pages.

  24. 24.

    Quicksand

    April 17, 2013 at 2:43 pm

    Prediction: Sanford wins anyway.

  25. 25.

    ellie

    April 17, 2013 at 2:43 pm

    The Sanford and Son theme song was my ringtone for a while.

  26. 26.

    ranchandsyrup

    April 17, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    @tinare: Great minds, etc. :) I never thought I could feel so free. Flying away on a wing and a prayer.

    Also, too, I like the different versions of the song from the Wire.

  27. 27.

    ericblair

    April 17, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    @EconWatcher:

    This isn’t just a guy who stepped out on his wife. He’s a whackjob, and I don’t think he can hide it. The press now knows he’ll supply good copy.

    Is he the for-sure no-backsies gooper candidate at this point, or can they still send the coach out to the mound?

    Because if he’s the no-backsies candidate, this is awesome. He can’t simply act normal for the duration because he doesn’t seem to understand what this “normal” thing is. How’d this looney (more specifically, a looney of this particular type) get to be governor, anyway?

  28. 28.

    rikyrah

    April 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    sometimes, you just gotta go..

    WHAT-THE-FUCK?

  29. 29.

    kc

    April 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Specifically, the second half of the Super Bowl.

    Let’s be fair, libbats. The second half of the Super Bowl is a sacred American ritual that no young man should have to watch alone. It was mighty brave of Sanford to defy a court order and his wife’s wrath to sneak into her house and be there for his son.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    The Banana Splits.

  31. 31.

    kc

    April 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    I like how he called her house “the beach house.”

    Like it was his.

  32. 32.

    Amir Khalid

    April 17, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    Wow. This Mark Sanford fellow is more full of shit than I thought, and I thought he was completely full of shit.

  33. 33.

    Ben Franklin

    April 17, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    The theme from ‘Courtship of Eddies’ Father’ comes to mind.

  34. 34.

    patroclus

    April 17, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    I vote for Gilligan’s Island. This Sanford guy seems seriously weird – it kind of reminds me of Jack Ryan (who wanted to have kinky sex with 7 of 9 in front of people at a sex club) while running for the Senate which ultimately resulted in Alan Keyes being inflicted on the innocent citizens of Illinois. But it also shows why divorces used to be career killers (and still are sometimes) and why no one should fuck with Jenny Sanford.

  35. 35.

    MattR

    April 17, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    Pretty typical Republican mindset. I know it was against the rules, but since I had a good reason so that makes it perfectly acceptable. Of course if it was one of “them”, no excuse in the world would be sufficient.

  36. 36.

    Cassidy

    April 17, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    The best theme song is Super Mario bros.

  37. 37.

    kc

    April 17, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I dunno, I think it takes a real special kind of sleaze to use your 14 year old son like that. Putting the kid out there in a way that says “I will not hesitate to drag my kids into this if you all don’t shut up about this.”

    Then again, this is South Carolina, and he is a Republican, and God has forgiven him, so who knows. Maybe he’ll even pick up some extra votes.

  38. 38.

    kc

    April 17, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    Jenny could’ve rightfully shot him. Castle doctrine and all that.

  39. 39.

    jeffreyw

    April 17, 2013 at 2:49 pm

    This is the theme you were looking for.

  40. 40.

    catclub

    April 17, 2013 at 2:49 pm

    @ranchandsyrup: I was thinking of the Wire also, but for TV theme songs: Gilligan’s Island.

  41. 41.

    Origuy

    April 17, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    This is why you run a candidate in every race. Even if you don’t have much chance, once in a while someone is going to die or shoot themselves in the foot.

  42. 42.

    EconWatcher

    April 17, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    @ericblair:

    How did he originally get elected, you ask? The answer is quite delicious: through heavy funding from his heiress wife, the long-suffering and humiliated Jenny.

    This will not end well for him. I think the final insult was when he recently (and publicly) asked if she’d be interested in running his campaign. Her response has not been made public. But can you imagine?

  43. 43.

    grape_crush

    April 17, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    Hell hath no fury/Mama bear protects the cubs

    Meanwhile, the Washington Post has learned that tensions within the family flared up as recently as April 2, at the celebration of Sanford’s runoff election victory when the former governor thrust two of his sons on-stage with the Argentine woman who was at the center of the spectacular sex scandal that broke up his marriage.

    For Sanford’s teenage son Bolton, that very public moment marked the first time he had ever been in the presence of Maria Belen Chapur.

    And, the Barney Miller theme.

  44. 44.

    kc

    April 17, 2013 at 2:53 pm

    @grape_crush:

    What a guy. I remember seeing the kid’s sad face from a couple of the pictures.

    I know it was just a couple of pictures, a moment in time, but still . . .

  45. 45.

    scav

    April 17, 2013 at 2:53 pm

    I mean, what GoD-fearing Electioneering Family-Values male would want to imply by example to his son that promises made to his mother/wife and oaths made to the law should be followed when inconvenient?

  46. 46.

    Gus

    April 17, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    Also too: great tv theme song or greatest tv theme song?

    Second greatest. Barney Miller is number one.

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    April 17, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    @ranchandsyrup: Ahh the halcyon days when TV themes could be top 40 hits.

    My personal fave was Angie. But YMMV as with all things.

  48. 48.

    Persia

    April 17, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    @MattR: My ex isn’t a Republican but I can totally hear him coming out with this one.

    I wouldn’t vote for him either.

  49. 49.

    cleek

    April 17, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    no, the best TV theme song ever is Gilligan’s Island. it has been proved.

  50. 50.

    Wayne t

    April 17, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    That dude struck me as a total sociopath when he held that car wreck of a press conference announcing he was in love. Completely lacking in self awareness or conscience in regards to damage done to his family.
    The guy lives by his own rules. Jenny’s so much better off without him.

    It’s always me, me, me …. Like any true sociopath.

  51. 51.

    the Conster

    April 17, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    Hill Street Blues.

  52. 52.

    patroclus

    April 17, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    OT: Although it’s been virtually ignored by the media saturation of the Boston Marathon bombing, they’ve apparently caught the murderers of the Texas prosecutors. And it was (allegedly) a disgruntled ex-Justice of the Peace in Kaufman County and his wife – he (allegedly) stole some computer stuff, was prosecuted by the first murdered prosecutor and was disliked by the second murdered prosecutor. As a consequence, he lost his job, his health insurance (and his wife is (allegedly) in need of mental health care). So, not the Aryan Brotherhood or white supremacists.

  53. 53.

    pseudonymous in nc

    April 17, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    During the Appalachian Trailwreck, a lot of the local reporting on Jenny Sanford cast her as the true politician in that marriage, who’d put aside personal ambition because it was better for her to cough up the dough and act like the dutiful spouse in order to climb the ladder in Lower Carolina.

    I think we’re getting a sense of that now.

  54. 54.

    Bob In Portland

    April 17, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    I always liked the theme from “The Rockford Files”.

  55. 55.

    EconWatcher

    April 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    @Wayne t:

    True. Watching the press conference, I remember thinking, dude, don’t you know your kids are going to see this? And your kids’ friends?

    Even if you hate your wife and are low enough to want to humiliate her on TV, what about your kids?

  56. 56.

    Roxy

    April 17, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    Deep Space Nine both versions

    The original Hawaii Five-0, Big Valley, High Chapparel and other ones I can’t remember right now

  57. 57.

    Mary G

    April 17, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    I have always loved the song from Cheers. “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.”

  58. 58.

    Michael G

    April 17, 2013 at 3:03 pm

    This guy comes up with the wackiest excuses. Perhaps he should have gone with “they rerouted the Appalachian trail through the house”.

  59. 59.

    Comrade Dread

    April 17, 2013 at 3:06 pm

    Okay, I will try to have a modicum of empathy. Divorce sucks, and isn’t easy on kids, who want to see the absent parent and spend time with them.

    That said, presumably, he has his ex-wife’s phone number. How hard is it to grab your cell phone, call her and say, Johnny really wants to hang out with me and watch the Super Bowl together?

    If she says no, well, then you’ll gently have to explain to your kid that because daddy was chasing tail down in South America, a court order forbids dad from visiting without mom’s permission.

  60. 60.

    ranchandsyrup

    April 17, 2013 at 3:06 pm

    @Yutsano: I think that could happen today with the recent change to include youtube hits (and other views) in the charts. But your point is well taken, Yutsano.

  61. 61.

    Amir Khalid

    April 17, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    My favourite TV themes include those from The Incredible Hulk, Cheers, The X-Files (of course), The Jeffersons, a and a British mini-series of the R.L. Stevenson novel Kidnapped. I also liked Suicide is Painless from MASH, but that’s from the movie so it doesn’t count.

  62. 62.

    gelfling545

    April 17, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    @Mike in NC: So he doesn’t have a home or tv of his own or does Ms. Fiancee not want the kids around?

  63. 63.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 17, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    @Origuy: And don’t we know it: http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_29b08a7a-a718-11e2-848b-0019bb2963f4.html

    drunk driving crash, but pretty much the same as explosive self-amputation

  64. 64.

    Seanly

    April 17, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    I was thinking Sanford & Son is the greatest theme song, but #54 just mentioned Rockford Files… tough, tough decisions.

    And re: Mark Sanford, maybe he can find a rusty pitchfork to hoist himself on to. For a guy that nobody in SC liked, he seemed to do okay in the elections.

    I would say that any national election hopes he still has are probably getting another flogging in Hell.

  65. 65.

    Petorado

    April 17, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    The theme to The Jeffersons (Movin on Up) is quite the classic. Can’t believe Taxi’s theme hasn’t been mentioned yet. And can anyone not smile when the theme from Cheers starts playing?

  66. 66.

    grape_crush

    April 17, 2013 at 3:13 pm

    Laverne and Shirley, Magnum PI…Night Court, A-Team…

    Not that it’s the best, but the theme from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air has to be mentioned.

  67. 67.

    grandpa john

    April 17, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    @ericblair: He got to be governor because Jenny ran his campaign and supplied the big bucks. Thats where he really stepped on his dick, she was the one with the money not him.

  68. 68.

    TooManyDans

    April 17, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    Simon and Simon

  69. 69.

    Trentrunner

    April 17, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    And now it turns out that the first time Sanford’s kids met his Argentine mistress? At that heavily televised victory party…where the kids looked painfully uncomfortable. What a spectacularly distended asshole!

  70. 70.

    EconWatcher

    April 17, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    @Trentrunner:

    Jenny has money, political savvy, and a thirst for vengeance burning like the heat of a thousand suns.

    I’m very sorry for the kids, so I don’t want to relish their misfortune to have such a worthless piece of $#&T for a father, but if weren’t for that…. This is going to be epic.

  71. 71.

    Calouste

    April 17, 2013 at 3:19 pm

    @grape_crush:

    So…, Sanford remarried (right?) and didn’t see it fit to introduce his new wife to the kids from his previous marriage until a very public occasion? Sociopath doesn’t even cover it.

  72. 72.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 17, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    @EconWatcher: Jenny has money, political savvy, and a thirst for vengeance burning like the heat of a thousand suns.

    Wish she were on our side, but from what I read she’s a hard core fundie, Sarah Palin with brains and old money.

  73. 73.

    kc

    April 17, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    @Comrade Dread:

    He does have her phone number. His official statement says he tried to call her to “discuss the situation that had arisen,” without saying what the “situation” was. Unless it was him trespassing in her house.

  74. 74.

    Amir Khalid

    April 17, 2013 at 3:23 pm

    @Calouste:
    No, they’re engaged but not married yet. In fact, I’m not entirely certain Sanford and his Argentinian sweetie will actually make it to a wedding date.

  75. 75.

    grape_crush

    April 17, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    @kc: He does have her phone number.

    867-5309?

    (sorry, had to do that)

  76. 76.

    ericblair

    April 17, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    Peter Gunn. Doctor Who, some versions more than others.

  77. 77.

    japa21

    April 17, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    Can’t believe nobody has mentioned the Adam’s Family. I always felt the Romney campaign should have adopted it

    “They’re creepy and they’re spooky…”

  78. 78.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 17, 2013 at 3:35 pm

    @japa21: True, Jenny is a piece of work all of herself.

  79. 79.

    Persia

    April 17, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I sure as hell wouldn’t marry a guy who was still breaking into his ex-wife’s house.

  80. 80.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    April 17, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    Great, but…Well, I’m not going out on a limb. Let’s just say it’s up there with a few other prime time themes: The Rockford Files, Barney Miller, Bonanza, Bewitched, That Girl and The Patty Duke Show.

    As for the Saturday morning themes, I’ll submit Hong Kong Fooey. Dreadful cartoon, great theme.

  81. 81.

    Another Halocene Human

    April 17, 2013 at 3:37 pm

    Nobody answered my query so I donated using Colbert Busch’s ActBlue page. Pretty good total so far.

  82. 82.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    April 17, 2013 at 3:42 pm

    FYFWP or not allowing an edit.

    The Mary Tyler Moore Show, also, too.

  83. 83.

    daniel thomas macinnes

    April 17, 2013 at 3:48 pm

    Everybody knows the greatest TV theme songs are Star Trek and ’70s Doctor Who. You may also throw in MST3K, Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

  84. 84.

    kerFuFFler

    April 17, 2013 at 3:56 pm

    I read that he had been skulking around using his cell as a flashlight; how does that square with the watching the Super Bowl story? Seems like he just made up a lie he figured would sound acceptable to his base, you know, being a family man by watching the big game with his son. What could be more wholesome and manly?

  85. 85.

    Mike E

    April 17, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    @Seanly: Lurved Rockford Files, but peeps here confuse an earworm with a really great TV themesong…tho, Quincy Jones FTW on Sanford & Son, esp that bass harmonica!

  86. 86.

    piratedan

    April 17, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    well there’s a lot of contenders out there for the title imho….

    Route 66: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNBSv70stsE
    The Avengers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPSWrGJjur8

    and I have to say I’m quite fond of all of the themes from the George of the Jungle cartoon series, with the most outstanding being Tom Slick (imho): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtbhoYTHcI

  87. 87.

    Comrade Dread

    April 17, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    @grape_crush: Damn you.

  88. 88.

    fuckwit

    April 17, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    Barney. Fucking. Miller.

    Sorry, no contest. Funky as shit.

    Yeah “football with son” sounds a hell of a lot like “hiking Appalachian trail”. Dude is a serial fucking liar. Every word comign out of his mouth is probably a lie.

  89. 89.

    Mnemosyne

    April 17, 2013 at 4:53 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Ahh the halcyon days when TV themes could be top 40 hits.

    Halcyon days like 1995?

  90. 90.

    GxB

    April 17, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    Whelp, you all seem to hit the classics in my mind

    Barney Miller
    Pink Panther
    Simon and Simon
    Hawaii 5-0

    I’ll respectfully add Ren and Stimpy if it isn’t already up there.

  91. 91.

    Groucho48

    April 17, 2013 at 6:03 pm

    Early westerns had the greatest theme songs. Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Cheyenne, Tombstone Territory. The list goes on.

  92. 92.

    Shortstop

    April 17, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    @Amir Khalid: How many years has it been? Miss Buenos Aires, who, it will be remembered, was involved with two other guys besides Sanford at the time of his “love of my midlife crisis-filled life”‘ speech, is just not that into him, it seems.

  93. 93.

    terben

    April 17, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    @ranchandsyrup: +1
    I’m walkin’ on air

  94. 94.

    aretino

    April 17, 2013 at 6:21 pm

    You’ll never watch alone

    Dude, this is not the FA Cup.

  95. 95.

    Amir Khalid

    April 17, 2013 at 6:22 pm

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
    Another great theme song: MTM Show spinoff Phyllis.

  96. 96.

    Hawes

    April 17, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    Man, the ’70s had some great theme songs, all the one’s mentioned: Sanford and Son, Rockford Files, Barney Miller.

    You could add M*A*S*H, Welcome Back Kotter and Chico and the Man.

    Of course, recently you have Game of Thrones and Justified.

  97. 97.

    SFAW

    April 17, 2013 at 6:52 pm

    Either I’m confused, or I’ve overlooked/misunderstood a key bit of information.

    Didn’t he attempt to explain his “visit” by saying Jenny was “out of town,” and so the math fatherhood demanded that he be there for his son during the Super Bowl? And yet, didn’t the complaint (or whatever) state that she saw him leaving (or walking away from) the house?

    I realize we’re living in days of miracle and wonder, but I wasn’t aware that she could instantaneously transport (or Apparate) from “out of town” to her front yard.

    So what am I missing or getting wrong?

  98. 98.

    JustRuss

    April 17, 2013 at 7:01 pm

    For everyone who picked Gilligan’s Island: Season 1 or, ahem, the rest? Fun fact: Although they sound almost identical, they were performed by different bands.

    Funner fact: I have a friend who’s husband’s best friend during his childhood was the son of the guy who wrote the song, along with a lot of other jingles and whatnot. She met him a few years ago,says he’s a kick.

  99. 99.

    lamh35

    April 17, 2013 at 7:03 pm

    late to thread, but not 2b trivial, but ugh, what a douche! Sanford Sons Met His Girlfriend at Victory Party: http://tinyurl.com/dyt7mrc

  100. 100.

    mai naem

    April 17, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    Can’t believe almost 100 posts and nobody mentions Miami Vice. I never watched the show but I loved the theme song. Also, I always liked LA Law, Bonanza, Big Valley, and Scooby Doo. Dallas was pretty memorable too.

  101. 101.

    mai naem

    April 17, 2013 at 7:23 pm

    I forgot thirtysomething. thirtysomething was appointment watching for me only for the theme song. Didn’t watch the series.

  102. 102.

    Barney

    April 17, 2013 at 7:37 pm

    Best Adapted Theme Song: The middle section of “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac, used for the BBC Grand Prix coverage.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9h34xYsRrI

    The best Doctor Who version has to be the original. It was 1963, and the BBC was doing electronic music that the record industry wouldn’t catch up with until the end of the decade. Or even until the 80s.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4ClJZME4

  103. 103.

    SFAW

    April 17, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    What, no love for the theme from “Batman”? What a bunch of musical snobs.

  104. 104.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    April 17, 2013 at 7:50 pm

    Futurama (only theme song with a thermian) and Lex (the Brunen Gi
    song).

  105. 105.

    rikyrah

    April 17, 2013 at 8:16 pm

    Spiderman..the cartoon…

    come on…you know it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk

  106. 106.

    hamletta

    April 17, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    When my parents split up for the last time, they had a really ugly custody battle, replete with my dad’s girlfriend and my mom having a full-on hair-pulling cat fight in front of my school. Lucky for me, my mom won, so I got to change schools.

    So I know that of what I speak: The mere fact that he got engaged to this woman without introducing her to his kids is horrible and wrong. That he shoehorned her in to a happy-family tableau on election night before they’d even met her is just…I have no words.

    The man’s a horrible father and a sociopath. I wouldn’t vote for him if his politics were to the left of Raul Grijalva.

  107. 107.

    Gravenstone

    April 17, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    Sanford and Son theme as done by Michael Lee Firkins.

  108. 108.

    dance around in your bones

    April 17, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    No love for the Square Pegs theme song by The Waitresses?

    Ok, it was 1982.

    eta: Better link – http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=145999&ac=now

  109. 109.

    Redshirt

    April 17, 2013 at 10:02 pm

    Probably dead thread, but what a great one. Man, the 70’s/80’s had some great TV music.

    I unironically love Sanford and Son, now. Back in the day it wasn’t for me. But now, 1. It’s hilarious. 2. What a different age of TV! It’s like a play they just happened to film.

    Love the clothes, the slang, the humor, all of it. Great show.

    Anyone remember “Chico and the Man”?

  110. 110.

    Death Panel Truck

    April 18, 2013 at 1:27 am

    The Wild, Wild West had a great theme, but Mannix tops them all. Composed by Lalo Schifrin, it’s the only private dick show with a fuckin’ waltz for a theme.

  111. 111.

    Aussiesmurf

    April 18, 2013 at 1:35 am

    I only just joined, but Sanford is just painful.

    Re theme songs :

    Catchiest :

    Batman
    Greatest American Hero
    Family Ties

    Best sum up the show :

    Sopranos
    Murder One
    Veronica Mars
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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