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The TV theme song. Just saying those words makes me smile. Or sigh. Or get a little pissed off. Or all three at once. Because once upon a time, the TV theme song mattered. It wasn’t just background noise. It wasn’t something you skipped past so you could shave ten seconds off your binge-watch session. It was an event. It was a statement. It was mood, tone, personality, storytelling, and sometimes the entire damn plot of the show, delivered in under a minute. And now? It’s pre

If you know me at all, you know that I love game shows, and I have loved them since I was a little kid. I remember rushing home from school so that I could watch "Match Game '73"  (or '74, or '75, or '76, etc.) just so I could see the awesome Brett Somers yell at the hilarious Charles Nelson Reilly while the pompous Richard Dawson tried to steal focus, and the creepy Gene Rayburn tried to grope the female contestants. It was magic. Of course, not every game show was as magnif