Yeah, it fairly begs to be parodied--like, a weird, dark
Family Guy-style cutaway in which Will is now in his thirties, sitting in a cheap, dingy rented room downtown. He slowly strokes the barrel of a sniper rifle in his hand. His imaginary boyhood friend DeWitt is there, and keeps telling him what a loser he is and all the ways he [
bleep]ed up his life. Will knows the talking frog is right, and as he stubs out a Marlboro, by God, he vows to
do something about it. He loads his weapon, picks up an old framed photo of his baby sister and looks it over. The gawd-dang frog says something mocking and obscene; he ignores it. He then wipes away a tear and levels the gun out the hotel room window. Of course, the show
is pretty obscure, so I fear not many would get or truly appreciate the joke.
OH MY GOSH! Why do I subject myself to these horrible theme songs? lol!
Because you've got a streak of masochist in you, it seems, just like me.
A good TV show with a lousy theme song can be forgiven, but when it's drek all around, you just have to grit your teeth. Case in point.
I reviewed this one for my blog a while back. I love Hammer, but, damn, this show was as bad and pointless as I remember.
Then there's shows which
had a cool theme song, like, starting out, but then in a later season it decided to scrap it and get a new one which really sucked donkey. Compare the cool, peppy season one open of
Student Bodies--
--with the bland, generic one of the later seasons:
What the [bleep] are you trying to be, Canadian
Friends? This version embodied the shift from a workplace comedy to a focus on insipid teen angst in its last season, which was a ratings killer.
Perhaps next I'll take a look at how
Garfield and Friends really pooped the litterbox by changing its theme song, which unfortunately they slapped on all the syndie episodes... and then how
another theme revamp,
plus shortening the season's episode order to cut costs, got the show put to sleep.
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