With it being confirmed that The Office will have more episodes (woot x mucho) this season, I was thinking…
The Office is one of the most Un-Singable theme songs (reminded while I did dishes tonight), which is weird for a sitcom. I believe that that fact helps maintain its mockumentary status (which, Devin, I purchased World War Z for the library)(I couldn’t wait to read it).

I provide to you the Top 7 Singable Sitcom Theme Songs

7. The Simpsons – MASH just got kicked off – Yes, it’s singable, but please don’t sing the lyrics. The “doo doo doo”s do just fine.
6. Full House – We all know about “the milkman, the paperboy, and evening TV”. But what DID happen to predictability? (The big question is can you make it past “Everywhere you look…” and not mumble a lyric?)
5. The Garry Shandling Show – Probably the easiest to remember, it has the added benefit of the Toy Story guy (except when the Turtles covered it) telling us exactly what he’s doing. “This is the part where I start to whistle. [whistling]”
4. Saved by the Bell – This show raised me. At today’s faculty meeting the teachers were wondering why I was talking past them to my own audience. It was awkward, so I called Time Out to freeze the teachers and avoid any other rude comments. I wanted to be Zach, but judging from the tag cloud you can see my Dustin Diamond-ness.
3. Cheers - This almost got second, but as the general TV audience is shifting in demographic, this slightly nostalgic song got bumped down a notch. Is it just me, or is the song kinda depressing, too? (I get stressed about mortgages and the declining state of health care in the US.) If you listen to the second verse that is not featured in the credits you will be utterly disturbed by the narrator’s poor turn of events.
2. Friends – In the same style as the ‘your life really does stink’ genre made popular by Cheers, this song reminds you that even if “your job’s a joke, you’re broke” and “your love life’s DOA”, drinking some coffee with a bunch of self-absorbed twenty-somethings will get you out of second gear. Even if it hasn’t been your day, your month…
1. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air – I used to play a TV theme CD in the classroom while students wrote. This song was the most recognized, and most sung-alonged, even though the show was done before they were born. (Scary to think of, huh?) White suburbanites are instantly from West Philadelphia, “born and raised”. Just like when we read The Outsiders, they don’t get that they’re more Carlton and less Will.

I can’t imagine The Office being sung: “And here is Jim, he is smarmy/and poor Dwight, misunderstood – ’cause it’s the Office/la la we all want to stay late at/ The Office”

Song that I sing but no one else probably does: Seinfeld.
Ones that didn’t fit the sitcom genre: Star Trek, Twilight Zone, and the “dah du dah dah (dunh duh dunh)” A-Team.

Ones that my brother wishes were on the list: “There’s a time for love and a time for hate (I guess it really says “there’s a path we take and a path not take”…just like my “make you feel like corn flakes” Gettin’ Jiggy lyrics)/ the choice is up to you, my friend” and “what’ll we do, baby, with our love? Sha la la la la”

The Haiku
Have our non-vocal
theme songs signaled the crux of
our cynicism?

In other news:
The Jordan 23s are crazy.

The 6′8″ high school girls basketball star is awesome.

And Uno may make my dog, Indiana, popular. We shall see.