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{{quote| ''Thinking, thinking, thinking hard. Think I've got it-- wait! Oh no, that's wrong...''}}
 
"Think!" is the title of the [[Think Music]] played on the game show ''[[Jeopardy (TV)|Jeopardy!]]'' while contestants write their questions in its final round, "Final Jeopardy!", and was at one point universally recognizable. For readers who've never heard it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGhvoekY44 here's one version].
 
[[Merv Griffin]], the creator of ''Jeopardy!'' (and sister show ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]''), composed the well-known "Think" music. He [[Self Plagiarism|self-plagiarized]] it from "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ14PFZNoF0 A Time for Tony]", which he wrote as a lullaby for his son; the original "A Time for Tony" later became a prize cue on ''Wheel'' in the 1980s.
 
Using the Jeopardy Thinking Music, or a [[Musical Pastiche]] of it, is common when stupid characters are stumped by a simple question. Briefly replaced by the ''[[Who Wants to Be Aa Millionaire?]]'' [[Sting|stings]].
 
The version of "Think!" in Final Jeopardy! is played at 136 beats per minute and is 17 measures long, including the "bum-bum" at the end. This makes it exactly 30 seconds long. This is one reason it's used on ''Jeopardy!'': it's good for timing the round while sounding slightly more relaxing than a bare ticking clock.
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* ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'': Mork insisted on humming or singing it on several occasions while waiting for answers to questions.
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show|Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode "Out West" uses [[The Jimmy Hart Version]] of the tune twice.
* The very last episode of ''[[ALF (TV)|ALF]]'' used this.
* Sports example: The tune is frequently played over the stadium loudspeakers during [[Useful Notes/American Football|NFL instant replay reviews]].
* ''[[3rd Rock Fromfrom the Sun]]''. At one point it even had several cast members mentally singing a little ditty along to the music. "Thinking, thinking, thinking hard..."
* In an episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'', Steve Urkel ''hums this aloud'', in a very annoying fashion, while waiting for Carl to make up his mind about something.
* In ''[[The Santa Clause]]'', the theme plays while Scott Calvin's co-workers wait for him to finish eating.
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Wish instead I'd gone... on... ''[[Wheel of Fortune|Wheel]]''! }}
* In the first ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' movie (the live-action ones by Disney), when Gadget is being taught how to use his new abilities, one scenario is that he's supposed to stop a jewelry-store robbery by giving the robbers [[Incredibly Lame Pun|the slip]]. While he's thinking, a lightbulb rises from his hat and the first eight notes of "Think!" plays. When he gets an idea, the bulb lights up, and his next line: "Go, go, gadget oil slick." (buzzer sound) [[It Makes Sense in Context|Toothpaste comes out.]]
* Used in [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[North]]'', when the Critic was searching for the apparent "joke" when the Texan family lamented their "big loss". It was used again in the ''[[Rover Dangerfield]]'' review.
* Honestly, is there one among us who hasn't been subjected to someone "singing" this just to be obnoxious?
* The Chinese ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' [[Captain Ersatz|clone]] ''Duludubi Star'' somehow [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJxuyxqWg-w#t=4m13s managed to plagiarise it] for usage on a '''non-thinking''' context.
* The music that plays during ''[[Space Quest]] IV'''s copy protection sequence is a remix of the Space Quest theme designed to sound like this song.
* This shows up in a live rendition of [[Ray Stevens]]' "It's Me Again, Margaret". As the character in the song starts to dial the phone, he [[Overly Long Gag|spends way too long]] doing so, and the first two bars of "Think!" play.
* Played on ''[[Howard Stern|The Howard Stern Show]]'' when someone has been asked a tough question or is taking a long time to respond.
* Edited in, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously]], to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScM2-mOMNuc this portion] of the ''[[Mega Man (Animationanimation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon.
* ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]'' used a sort of variant of the theme: when Tulio asks Miguel to think carefully about what Chel meant to both of them, a little bell can be heard as if symbolizing Miguel's thought process. When he comes to his conclusion ("Chel is... off-limits?"), a ding goes off like a game-show timer.
* Appears in several episodes of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
* The shorts featuring the mascot of [[German TV Stations|German children's station Kika]], ''Bernd, the Bread'', often feature "Think!" whenever Bernd is trying get something accross to his [[Too Dumb to Live]] "friends" or the producers, or whenever he is [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarking]] about them not getting something which should be obvious.
* When [[The Daily Show|Jon Stewart]] interviewed Betsy McCaughey regarding her opposition to President Obama's health care proposals, she trotted out a huge binder containing half of the proposed bill. Jon challenged her to show him the passage that she cited to prove her (made-up) points against the bill, and as she thumbed through the pages of the binder, he started humming the ''Jeopardy!'' theme. Later, when she searched for another passage, he started singing "[[The Benny Hill Show (TV)|Yakety Sax]]."
* Used at least once in ''[[AmericasAmerica's Funniest Home Videos]]'', where it was dubbed into a home video of a man at the altar taking his sweet time thinking over the "Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?" question.
* Used to underscore ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]''' naïveté/stupidity at one point in [[The Movie]].
* Misteroo's Flash Animation ''[[Arfenhouse]]'' uses the Think Music briefly.