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Post by Ark on Mar 5, 2021 19:46:37 GMT -5
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Post by wileyk209 on Mar 5, 2021 22:19:28 GMT -5
My least favorite is definitely the "Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue" theme. It's brashy and annoying, and the animation accompanying it is so bad (especially Shaggy and Scooby's jerky pose-to-pose silhouetted dances.) Heck, "Chacarron Macarron" makes a much better theme song for the show! I'm gonna get so much flack for this, but my second least favorite theme song is the "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" theme. I've often associated it as being the theme song to my difficult high school years, as I attended high school during the time that show was first-run! (2002-2006) And the similarities don't just stop there; the theme song is representative of the type of music popular with the high school crowd of the time, and the show wasn't very cartoonish and was instead more realistic and down-to-earth, combining that with the then-recent fashion, trends and technology constantly being mentioned made it even more like my high school. (All that was missing was the deafening loud fire alarm buzzer, but "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" already have a bunch of loud hyper-realistic sound effects anyways.) But even so, I still made this little music video where I compare that series to a similar era for the Looney Tunes, as both were produced by the very same company anyways!
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Post by Doo on Mar 6, 2021 12:00:52 GMT -5
Kinda weird they put in "Scary Scooby Funnies" as an intro, which was just a network repackaging of some of The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (I believe it was just the network stripping some of the lyrics from that theme song and repackaging it as a "new" theme song).
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Post by Doo on Mar 6, 2021 12:03:02 GMT -5
I seems like I read somewhere that Get a Clue was note-for-note based on another existing song, to make matters even worse. I tried to look this up and didn't find that, but found a site (falsely) claiming Will Smith sung an alternate version of the intro lol.
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Post by Ark on Mar 6, 2021 12:23:46 GMT -5
Wiley, that's funny! Nice video.
Doo, yeah it's been a while. I can't recall, but it sounds like an early '90s ska-punk song, which deliberately wasn't up to even its own standards at the time. It's an odd choice for a show that came out in 2006. Goldfinger's Superman song (which arguably popularized the genre) came out in 1996 and was re-released on the Tony Hawk: Pro-skater game in 1999. To make matters worse, the singer sounds out of tune, which was kinda part of the genre way back, but come on... by 2006 we had various forms of cheap autotune. The intro just feels lazy all around, from the animation to the singer's own personality.
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Post by Ark on Mar 6, 2021 12:26:31 GMT -5
Yeah, that article had a particular disdain for TNSDMysteries theme song, which is odd to me, because I think it's one of the more creative ones they did. I'm curious about his assertion that it was built on top of TNSDMovies theme song. The chord progressions and a few of the lyrics might match, but that's a bold assumption given that I've never paired the two in my mind before.
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Post by cometcrystal on Mar 20, 2021 18:30:09 GMT -5
I gotta jump on the bandwagon and vote Get a Clue as my least favorite. I didn't hate the show, but I had to skip the theme every time. The Nazi-esque salutes that Phibes does in the background are also very concerning.
Also, I don't know why that article is so harsh on the NSDMysteries theme. I liked that one!
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Post by wileyk209 on Mar 31, 2021 9:52:32 GMT -5
Also, I don't know why that article is so harsh on the NSDMysteries theme. I liked that one! Yeah, it's definitely my favorite Scrappy-era theme song! I'm a sucker for good 1980s music, and that is no exception.
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Post by elemage on Apr 5, 2021 21:22:06 GMT -5
Pardon my French, but I goshdarn freaking hate the Guess Who theme song. It's so lazy! They literally took the original song and just gave it new lyrics. Even though every show between The Scooby-Doo Show and The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo rips off the The New Scooby-Doo Movies theme song, at least each rip-off is different from EACH OTHER as well as distinct enough from the original to be its own thing. Not Guess Who. But then again, WB loves milking Scooby nostalgia for all its worth, instead of giving us new material. That's why Be Cool and Guess Who reuse so many previous monsters and designs and tired old tropes.
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Post by Doo on Apr 5, 2021 22:29:51 GMT -5
Pardon my French, but I goshdarn freaking hate the Guess Who theme song. It's so lazy! They literally took the original song and just gave it new lyrics. Even though every show between The Scooby-Doo Show and The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo rips off the The New Scooby-Doo Movies theme song, at least each rip-off is different from EACH OTHER as well as distinct enough from the original to be its own thing. Not Guess Who. But then again, WB loves milking Scooby nostalgia for all its worth, instead of giving us new material. That's why Be Cool and Guess Who reuse so many previous monsters and designs and tired old tropes. I totally agree. The Guess Who intro comes off as super lazy and like a really bad cover of the original theme song.
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Post by matt on Apr 5, 2021 23:35:16 GMT -5
Pardon my French, but I goshdarn freaking hate the Guess Who theme song. It's so lazy! They literally took the original song and just gave it new lyrics. Even though every show between The Scooby-Doo Show and The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo rips off the The New Scooby-Doo Movies theme song, at least each rip-off is different from EACH OTHER as well as distinct enough from the original to be its own thing. Not Guess Who. But then again, WB loves milking Scooby nostalgia for all its worth, instead of giving us new material. That's why Be Cool and Guess Who reuse so many previous monsters and designs and tired old tropes. Not gonna lie, I've started to agree that Guess Who is the absolute worst theme in recent weeks. It's not the worst one to listen to (that would still be Get a Clue by a country mile) but that's only because this is like 10 seconds. But I think I would just turn off the show completely if it was the length of the Where are You theme song with the awful lyric changes and the not great singing. That would just be like listening to nails on a chalkboard as well as just, a phrase that has become common on here in the last week, disrespectful to the source. At least Get a Clue tried and I can actually see why someone would enjoy it even if I think it is annoying as all get out. This theme is representative to all of the problems I have with the worst episodes of the Guess Who series, it's bland, cookie-cutter, and pathetically lazy. Guess Who is such a weird series because a lot of it is really good (I am REALLY excited about the ideas coming up in the last few episodes, execution is still a different question but at least they have great ideas), it mostly is enjoyable, but the bad is just enraging because it's not even creatively bad that actually tried to do SOMETHING, it's playing it so safe that it becomes mind numbing, similar to this theme song
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Post by matt on Apr 5, 2021 23:36:24 GMT -5
Get a Clue's theme was just obnoxious. Easily that one Yeah this didn't hold up well since I've started tuning in to the new Guess Who episodes
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Post by elemage on Apr 6, 2021 13:26:02 GMT -5
Pardon my French, but I goshdarn freaking hate the Guess Who theme song. It's so lazy! They literally took the original song and just gave it new lyrics. Even though every show between The Scooby-Doo Show and The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo rips off the The New Scooby-Doo Movies theme song, at least each rip-off is different from EACH OTHER as well as distinct enough from the original to be its own thing. Not Guess Who. But then again, WB loves milking Scooby nostalgia for all its worth, instead of giving us new material. That's why Be Cool and Guess Who reuse so many previous monsters and designs and tired old tropes. Not gonna lie, I've started to agree that Guess Who is the absolute worst theme in recent weeks. It's not the worst one to listen to (that would still be Get a Clue by a country mile) but that's only because this is like 10 seconds. But I think I would just turn off the show completely if it was the length of the Where are You theme song with the awful lyric changes and the not great singing. That would just be like listening to nails on a chalkboard as well as just, a phrase that has become common on here in the last week, disrespectful to the source. At least Get a Clue tried and I can actually see why someone would enjoy it even if I think it is annoying as all get out. This theme is representative to all of the problems I have with the worst episodes of the Guess Who series, it's bland, cookie-cutter, and pathetically lazy. Guess Who is such a weird series because a lot of it is really good (I am REALLY excited about the ideas coming up in the last few episodes, execution is still a different question but at least they have great ideas), it mostly is enjoyable, but the bad is just enraging because it's not even creatively bad that actually tried to do SOMETHING, it's playing it so safe that it becomes mind numbing, similar to this theme song The only part of Guess Who more annoying than the theme song is the eerie “let’s introduce the guest star WITH ALL OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS! In UNISON!” I absolutely hated the Halsey episode because they did it like 4 times in that one.
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Post by matt on Apr 6, 2021 21:04:25 GMT -5
Not gonna lie, I've started to agree that Guess Who is the absolute worst theme in recent weeks. It's not the worst one to listen to (that would still be Get a Clue by a country mile) but that's only because this is like 10 seconds. But I think I would just turn off the show completely if it was the length of the Where are You theme song with the awful lyric changes and the not great singing. That would just be like listening to nails on a chalkboard as well as just, a phrase that has become common on here in the last week, disrespectful to the source. At least Get a Clue tried and I can actually see why someone would enjoy it even if I think it is annoying as all get out. This theme is representative to all of the problems I have with the worst episodes of the Guess Who series, it's bland, cookie-cutter, and pathetically lazy. Guess Who is such a weird series because a lot of it is really good (I am REALLY excited about the ideas coming up in the last few episodes, execution is still a different question but at least they have great ideas), it mostly is enjoyable, but the bad is just enraging because it's not even creatively bad that actually tried to do SOMETHING, it's playing it so safe that it becomes mind numbing, similar to this theme song The only part of Guess Who more annoying than the theme song is the eerie “let’s introduce the guest star WITH ALL OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS! In UNISON!” I absolutely hated the Halsey episode because they did it like 4 times in that one. Yeah I think it's supposed to be funny, but I just find it feeling way less natural than otherwise. I think the New Scooby Doo Movies does a great job introducing it's guest stars, but this just feels so forced
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Post by dooscoobert0220 on Apr 28, 2021 3:49:43 GMT -5
My least favorite that I've heard is Mystery Incorporated, simply because I'm not a fan of instrumental themes in general. Though it does make me tap my foot a little.
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