15 Painfully Unforgettable Cartoon Theme Songs
If we sang the word "Trans-for-mers" in that all-to-familiar ascending triad, you know you'd be all "more than meets the eye!" (We'd also accept "robots in disguise," but that's a big interval at melody's end, there.) Point is, these car-tunes don't leave the brain, like, ever. So the joke-funny guys at Cracked put together a list of the most aggravatingly memorable theme songs, and it goes like so...
15. Tiny Toon Adventures
14. Gummy Bears
13. He-Man and the Masters Of The Universe
12. Transformers
11. Thunder Cats
10. Mighty MaxHead over for YouTube audio samples and get 'em all stuck in your head for days.
09. Pro Stars
08. Sonic The Hedgehog
07. Power Rangers
06. Talespin
05. G.I. Joe
04. Duck Tales
03. Animaniacs
02. Batman: The Animated Series
01. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Blue streak speeds by SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!
Too fast for the naked eye SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!
SONIC he can really move!
SONIC he's got an ATTITUDE!
SONIC he's the fastest thing ALI-I-I-VE!
Yea I remember that one.
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No Captain Planet? This list has lost all credibility.
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Captain Planet
He's a Hero
Gonna take pollution down to zero!?
ALL YOUR POWERS COMBINED I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!
Yes this list looses all cred with no CP.
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god, i sure wish i could forget the gummie bears theme song.
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uh, spider-man? how is that not up there?
i'm happy tmnt is number one, though.
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I'm with you Lex. Captain Planet is a huge omission. And what is annoying about the Batman theme?
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No Carebears? Fuck them.
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i watched almost all of those cartoons!
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hey! ten years later, every teenager still knows the words to pokemon. not cool.
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Gordon send us into outer space
there aint nobody like you in the Melmacian race.
Teach us, send us,
C'mon make us rich.
You're the only one that can scratch our itch.
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What the $%&# is Pro Stars?
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They definitely forgot Sailor Moon...or am I just a 90's kid?
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I don't find the Batman theme as nearly as painful as any of the other songs on this list that I recognize.
My vote for Most Glaring Omission would have to go to The Smurfs.
"La, la, la la-la-la, la la-la-la la!"
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"Race cars, lasers, air-o-planes, it's a duck blur. Might solve a mystery, or re-write history. Duck Tales wooo ooooh!"
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Heathcliff, Heathcliff, no one should
Terr- I - Fy the neighborhood!
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ch-ch-ch-chip and dale, rescue rangers!
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What, no "Do the Mario"?
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No Jem? She's truly outrageous.
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CATCH THE PIGEON!
CATCH THE PIGEON!
CATCH THE PIGEON!
CATCH THE PIGEON!
CATCH THE PIGEON NOW!
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Gummy beeeaaaaars! Bouncing here and there and everywhere!!
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uhhh what about marsupalami? singin OOH bahh OOOHHH bahh
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We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little loony and in this cartoony we're invading your TV...oh hell, it's gonna be in my head all night now.
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no fragle rock --- bum bum bum ba bum ba bum?
yeah the disney afternoon soundtrack is burned to my lobes.
and of the course the simpsons!!
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i'm with the folks calling shenanigans on the lack of Captain Planet
damn global warming...
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oh yeah, fraggle rock too
that one had great alternate lyrics
"down at fraggle rock
grab a fraggle by his cock
swing him 'round your head
now the fraggle's dead"
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@Pizza, I was gonna say, how could you forget the Simpsons.
That theme song is everywhere.
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Yeah what the fuck is prostars? is that like a trick cartoon they put in there to fuck with us? care bears countdown or rainbow brite or JEM, or He-man. "FABULOUS SECRET POWERS WERE REVEALED TO ME THE DAY I HELD UP MY MAGIC SWORD!" ~snicker
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no one for pro-stars? the one with michael jordan, wayne gretzky and bo jackson as environmentally-minded secret agents? i mean, i don't remember the theme song, but damn... i love the 90s.
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Alvin, Simon, Theodore!
do do do do do do
do do do do do do
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I love when people remember the Gummy Bears. I have a Tummy Gummy toy in my toybox at work (yes, I have a toybox at work, gotta love college radio), and basically all my coworkers who are younger than me (I'm 24 - they range from 19 on up) have no idea who he is. But the few how are older knew exactly who he was right away.
Good times.
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Muppet bay-bees
They make their dreams come true
Muppet bay-bees
They like to drink and screw
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I remember when the first TMNT ninja turtles movie came out. I was so proud of myself for knowing every word of the theme song that I started singing it really loud in the theater when the movie started. But they of course didn't play the theme from the cartoon at the start of the movie, so I just looked like a complete dork.
I just thought I'd share. Oh, and add my vote for Captain Planet. ... that poor kid's special power was 'Heart'... what a loser.
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What about Darkwing Duck? That was so 80s cartoon urban it hurt.
Let's. Get. Dangerous.
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Scooby Doo. I can't believe you forgot that.
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Fuck yeah!!! TMNT at #1 is spot-on!
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Darkwing Duck was early 90s. Same with TaleSpin (which had a much better theme song.)
Meanwhile: ProStars, but no Hammerman?
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i know it's not cool or a very good comic strip, but the cartoon theme rocked:
heathcliff heathcliff
no-one should
terrorize the neighborhood
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What, no She-Ra? No Jem? Smurfs is an even more glaring omission.
Holy fuck, after a minute on YouTube, my head is now full of Rescue Rangers, Tiny Toons, and Gummy Bears. I think Captain Planet, while generally an insane premise for a show, really didn't have the greatest intro (except for "Heart!").
Personally, I think it's missing the song from King Arthur and the Knights of Justice.
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Duck Tales wins period.
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Duck Tales for sure.
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I cannot believe no one has brought this up:
Flintstones... Meet the Flintstones,
They're a modern stoneage family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history.
Let's ride with the family down the street.
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet.
When you're with the Flintstones,
have a yabba dabba doo time,
a dabba doo time,
we'll have a gay old time
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I agree that Heathcliff and Captain Planet should be on this list, both for different reasons.
Saturday Morning Cartoon's Greatest Hits?
I own that album and take songs from it to this day.
Nothing livens up a mix like "Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy."
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everyone seems to be overlooking the obvious, the most annoying inescapable cartoon themesong of the 21st century...
who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
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Very nice to see Denver The Last Dinosaur getting some much needed respect and not making this list. Nice.
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what about INSPECTOR GADGET??? There were four words and yet, it still staged a coup on your brain.
*do-do-do-do-do* inspector gadget *do-do-do-do-do* woo-oooh!
this list saddens me.
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I had the Duck Tales theme song stuck in my head for 15 years. I finally got it out about 9 months ago and I think you just put it back in.
I hate you.
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30 minutes of cartoon intros:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QmcKGcKW76M&mode=related&search=
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thunder, Thunder, THUNDER CATS!!!!!!!
That should be #1 - 5.
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If you think that Duck Tales is annoying in English, check it out in Japanese.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VXpMqEp3kc
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man, i used to c-walk to the gummy bears theme. that brings back some seriously gangster memories.
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is there anything more badass than the old x-men theme? no words, but I still hum the tune in my head to this day.
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maybe its because i have little brothers, but that pokemon theme song is STILL in my head.
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The Italian Lupin theme is better than anything on this list.
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I have the Tailspin theme on my ipod.
Its my favourite theme tune.
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Inspector Gadget, vote 2. Can anyone NOT hear that "doop-do-do-do-doop" part in their head at the very utterance of those words?
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Hong Kong Phooey should be on there
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where in the world is carmen sandiego???
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hey anyone ever heard of ninja robots??? i LOVED the theme of tat one?? nyone who shares my opinion
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who sang the theme song from duck dodgers? was it tom jones?
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Samurai Pizza Cats, There so bad they got more fur then any turtles ever had.
Ride on the School bus!!
Tales of the Crypt Keeper! (no lyrics)
Come sing with me Tooonight (with me tonight)
He'd get away with it too, if not for.. THE RACCOONS
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does anyone remember trollies come from acorns on fraggle rock?
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Yes, Linda, it was Tom Jones... sorry... SIR Tom Jones and The Flaming Lips who did the Duck Dodgers Theme!
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Come one... not one comment about Ulysses 31?? 80's cartoon with that F'in annoying theme tune and the fact that they were flying around space and couldn't find Earth... and when they eventually did I was SOOOO greatful! lol but turned out to be a fake.. or something like that... anyway thats not officially in my head
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