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Alright, we’ve done it three times before, and every time it was a Gas. I’m talking about the greatest television themes countdown. We’ve done the 60s, the 70s, and the 80s. So you know, we gotta dial up the 90s. And this is my favorite yet… You know all these themes by heart. We’ve got the Friends Theme I'll Be There For You that was recorded over a weekend & was only 40 seconds long so a DJ looped it a few times, making it a full song, and it hit #1 on 3 charts and made them 1-hit wonder Mega millionaires. Then there’s Seinfeld's anti-theme song that was made up of a bunch of weird mouth sounds and slap bass, and the songwriter had to play a unique version for every single episode. The show was such a hit that he had to do 200 different versions of the same song. Then there was the classic Law and Order theme that came from the footsteps of 500 monks on a hardwood floor, and the rockstar Danny Elfman who’s made tens of millions for singing three notes of The Simpsons Theme, and the eerie X-Files theme that came from a frustrated composer slamming his elbow on the keyboard. These are some of the stories you'll hear next on the Professor of Rock.

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For today’s Top 10 TV themes countdown, it’s time to hit the 90s. The '90s were the last great decade of TV theme songs before streaming and skip buttons changed the game. And back then, a theme song told you everything you needed to know about a show before it even got started. Man, what a different time that was. Alright, get ready to go into nostalgia overdrive. The countdown begins now.

Starting off the countdown, I’ve got a TV theme to show that only lasted one season. It was the best show on TV at the time, like its theme song, it was STELLAR AT #10, I’ve got Joan Jett’s Bad Reputation, the theme to the cult classic Freaks and Geeks. Like I said, the show was tragically short-lived, running from 1999 to 2000… just barely making it into the decade. This coming-of-age drama was about two siblings navigating high school in early 1980s Michigan—Lindsay with the burnout crowd and Sam with the nerds. Created by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow, the series authentically captured the awkward, painful, and funny truths of adolescence. Though it only lasted one season, Freaks and Geeks earned cult status and launched the careers of stars like James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel.

And it’s only right that a show about high school outcasts in the early ’80s would open with a song that flips authority the bird. For Freaks and Geeks, Paul Feig and Judd Apatow cycled through potential theme songs—including Ted Nugent’s Great White Buffalo—before landing on “Bad Reputation.” Apatow admitted he had never heard the song until their music supervisor pitched it. But once he did, he was all in, saying, “It cemented the tone of the show.” No doubt. The song’s snarling chorus—“I don’t give a damn ’bout my bad reputation!”—was a perfect rallying cry for a series that lived and died by its outsider cred. But getting the song was no small feat. Joan Jett wasn’t just licensing it to anyone.

So producers had to go directly through her team and negotiate its usage, with Apatow reportedly sweating it until they sealed the deal.