While I understand the reasoning for having the show have such a strong musical connection to the movie, they do miss out on an opportunity to do something that harkens back to the film but has its own personal flavor to it.
LYRICS OF THE THUNDERCATS INTRO MOVIE
While I enjoy the song, it is the similarity with little differentiating it from the movie version that makes it suffer and fall to this position.
It is this fact that hurts this song’s position on the list. It is a cut down version of the Ray Parker Jr.
LYRICS OF THE THUNDERCATS INTRO SERIES
The series is based on the massively popular movie starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson essentially it continues the ghostbusting escapades of this quartet and their “pet” the always hungry green ghost Slimer.Īs mentioned earlier this is probably the most recognizable intro song on this list. THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS (1986-91)Įven among the other popular and recognizable titles on the list this is probably the most recognizable both visually and musically. And it is the combination of these lyrics and music that helps this intro find its way into the top 15. The lyrics are as catchy as the music and I find them to also be some of the best at accurately describing the characters and the show. While this in no way is the mark of a good song, what helps to put the song this high lies within the lyrics. The intro for this show is quite catchy and you will be humming or singing whichever part catches hold of you. Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats is the 2 nd Heathcliff series of the decade, this time being backed up by the Catillac Cats, a gang of alley cats based out of a junk yard. Heathcliff, although just a house cat, is probably the most feared animal in the town of Westfinster, with even the toughest dogs running away when they see him coming down the street. There was also Heathcliff, who was an even more streetwise house cat than Garfield. In the 80s Garfield was not the only orange cartoon feline on the American television airwaves. HEATHCLIFF AND THE CATILLAC CATS (1984-88)
Even though one may think that this is just one small thing but when compared with how good all the intros on this list are it proved too large to overcome and just managed to stay on the list. Not only does it make it very difficult for you to hear the music, but it completely fails to sound like it fits in with the music. While it does contain some of my favorite music found amongst the 80s shows, unfortunately it does suffer a fatal flaw and that is the Tyrano dialogue that is added. The Dinosaucers intro hits hard and fast from the start with a wonderful energy. The Dinosaucers are helped by the Secret Scouts a collection of four teenagers that were present at the Dinosaucers arrival on earth. The heroes on the show are the Dinosaucers, who are led by Allo, an evolved Allosaurus. One team, known as the Tyranos, was led by Genghis-Rex and they are the villains on the show. DINOSAUCERS (1987)ĭinosaucers was about two teams of intellectual dinosaurs from outer space. Such as not matching up in any way with the music or completely drowning out the music. For me these two things do not affect the rating unless it completely affects the theme in a negative way. Now some of the cartoons from the 80s tended to have a narrator giving exposition in the themes, telling viewers what the show was about, as well as inserting character dialogue in to the themes. When judging the themes I was looking purely at the music and lyrics, the visuals for the intros to the shows played no part in the ranking of the songs. With these rules it means that shows like and Scooby-Doo, despite having very strong theme songs, were not eligible, making this a purely 80s list. This, to me, is defined by shows whose original runs at some point were in the 80s and not just showing at some point in the 80s. When I decided to actually try to see which of these were the best I decided to focus my attention on those shows from this era that are truly 80s show. Saturday morning was filled with shows from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.Ī few years ago I wondered what show from this era had the best intro theme music. But despite this the 80s were also a time of wonderful cartoons that covered every single second of Saturday morning TV. But in the 80s, there were shows that were secondary, with a toy line planned out first and then the show would be devised to sell the toys. This was made ever so clear in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, when the character Gordon Gecko delivers the now immortal line “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” This era of greed even permeated the world of cartoons, where in the past if a show was successful usually a toy line or clothing tie-in would come out. The 1980s were a time of greed and self-importance, where appearance was everything.
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