True story: one of our proudest moments ever from high school was buzzing in with the most correct answers during a school-wide "Name that TV theme song" contest. Even now, years later, we're still basking in the glow of that victory (that sophomore couldn't even get South Park!) so you can imagine how thrilled we were with Best Week Ever's compilation of outstanding youtube theme song covers.
Here's a couple of our favorites including Baywatch, MacGyver, The Simpsons and a folk-rock version of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...
Baywatch...
It's not so much the song itself that we love, but more that inexplicable creepiness of this shirtless guy with the impossibly serious expression.
MacGyver...
This is awesome! How does he do that? It's like the first time we ever saw someone on Sesame Street playing the spoons on his leg.
The Simpsons...
The crush we have on this guy right now is not small.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...
Okay, we know that Best Week Ever panned this chick, but we have to say, we're kind of into it. It's like on American Idol when someone does something crazy that doesn't really sound that good but you still have to applaud the fact that they didn't just do a karaoke version. We're not saying we'd buy her CD or anything, but it made us laugh on a Friday afternoon. Not unlike Will Smith in that way.
For BWE's full selection click here.
Previously:
TV Soundtrack: Band From TV Performs on The Tonight Show
TV Soundtrack: Oprah Debuts "America's Song" By will.i.am
TV Soundtrack: Erin McCarley
Name that TV theme song...memories
Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.
Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.
Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.
Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.
Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.
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