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* [[Watchmen]] used Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row' as the theme over the credits - except that [[My Chemical Romance]] covered the rather folksy lyrics as a punk song, which worked surprisingly well.
* For its opening theme tune, ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb]]'' uses a lush arrangement of the old standard ''Try a Little Tenderness'' over B-52 aerial refueling footage, turning it into machine porn.
** Closing the film with stock footage of nuclear explosions overlaid with
* The [[Transformers Film Series|Transformers Films]] seem to have this strange obsession with Linkin Park's music and this trope was played straight with the first film and 'What I've Done'. This was subverted with the second film with 'New Divide' being recorded specifically for the film. The third film is keeping the tradition proud by having the song 'Iridescent' as its theme, but slightly re-recorded.
* [[Little Manhattan]] used ''Only The Strongest Survive'' by [[Elvis Presley]] as its opening credits song.
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* ''Beauty and the Geek'' used [[Pet Shop Boys]]' "Opportunities ([[Refrain From Assuming|Let's Make Lots Of Money]])".
** The Australian version uses Wes Carr's cover of "Is She Really Going Out with Him?"
* ''[[Betty White
* The [[Beverly Hillbillies]] used "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by legendary Bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs.{{verify}}<!-- Not that this is the song, but that it wasn't written for the show. -->
* ''[[Benny Hill|The Benny Hill Show]]'' used a version of Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax" as its closing theme.
* [[The Big Bang Theory]] uses "The History of Everything" by [[Barenaked Ladies]].{{verify}}<!-- Not that this is the song, but that it wasn't written for the show. -->
* ''[[Big Love]]'' uses the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows."
** In season 4, it was replaced with "Home" by The Engineers.
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* ''Charmed'' used Love Spit Love's version of The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?", which was first used in the movie ''The Craft'', which was thematically similar to the first few seasons.
* ''[[China Beach]]'' opens to the Diana Ross and the Supremes song, "Reflections".
* ''[[Chuck]]'' opens to an instrumental cut of "Short Skirt Long Jacket" by
* ''[[Cold Case]]'' uses E.S. Posthumus' ''Nara''.
* The US and UK versions of ''[[Coupling]]'' each used different covers of "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps". The UK original uses a version by Mari Wilson. The US remake uses a sped-up version by [[CAKE (band)|CAKE]].
* ''[[Community]]'' uses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGbjR1Y9Qo "At Least It Was Here" by The 88.]
*The Filipino cooking show ''Cooking with Sandy Daza'' on TV5—then known as ABC 5—used [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CVc98tKtSk "Invitations"] by the English jazz-funk band Shakatak as its theme.
* ''Cosmos'', the [[Carl Sagan]] documentary series, used ''Heaven and Hell [side 1, third movement]'' by Vangelis as its theme tune. Several other Vangelis pieces were used in the soundtrack, including "Pulstar" and "Alpha".
* ''Cover Up'', a short-lived CBS action-drama, used Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero" as its theme.
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* ''[[Densha Otoko]]'': (a Japanese live-action drama) used The [[Electric Light Orchestra]]'s ''Twilight'' as its theme song.'
** This was of course a [[Shout-Out]] to the legendary "Daicon IV" con opening animation from 1984, which also used the song.
** The first episode used "Mr. Roboto" by [[Styx]].
* ''[[Dirty Jobs]]'' uses "We Care A Lot" by Faith No More; some older episodes use a [[Suspiciously Similar Song|replacement written by the show's composer]] due to rights issues, though.
* ''[[Doctor Doctor]]'' used "Good Lovin'" by the Rascals.
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** Originally it did, but they later changed it to a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version.
** A late 80s Final Jeopardy! Answer "Current sitcom whose theme is sung by Frank Sinatra" stumped all three contestants.
* ''[[Made in Canada]]'' used "Blow At High Dough" by [[The Tragically Hip]].
* ''[[MasterChef]] Australia'' uses the [[Katy Perry]] song "Hot 'N' Cold".
* ''[[Misfits]]'' uses "Echoes" by ''The Rapture''.
* ''[[Mock the Week]]'' uses a short clip of ''News Of The World'' by [[The Jam]].
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** [[The Price Is Right]]: From 1956 to 1961, they used "Sixth Finger Tune," which was taken from a stage show called "Six Fingers For A Five-Fingered Glove."
** [[Password]]: Its 1961-1963 theme was called "Holiday Jaunt" and was used as early as 1958.
** ''[[Seven Keys]]'': "Everything's Coming Up Roses."
** [[Match Game]]: From 1962 to 1967, it was "A Swingin' Safari" by Bert Kaempfert. The pilot used the Billy Vaughn arrangement.
** ''Eye Guess'': For the first two years the theme was Al Hirt's "Sugar Lips."
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* ''Pro Wrestling This Week'', a syndicated wrestling program in the late 1980's with Gordon Solie and Joe Pedicino, used the intro to the [[Eddie Murphy]] hit "Party All the Time" (Which was also the theme for Knoxville, TN's Continental Championship Wrestling).
** Heck, lots of local Pro Wrestling shows used well-known songs as their themes. WWE used to use [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Thriller", the Pointer Sisters' "Jump", and later Animotion's "Obsession" as themes. And Memphis' CWA Promotion used a techno version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra."
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] has used several "real" hard-rock and heavy-metal songs as theme tunes for their various programs, including Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" and Papa Roach's "To Be Loved". When they don't use a real song, they often use a [[Thematic Theme Tune]] recorded by a popular artist (such as Smackdown's theme, "Rise Up" recorded by Drowning Pool, and Raw's former theme, "Across the Nation" by Union Underground)
** This was pretty much the case for most wrestler's entrance themes, until the music industry started cracking down on "unauthorized use" of copyrighted music and demanding royalties. After that, in all but a few exceptions (Ex. [[Hulk Hogan]] shelled out of his own pocket for the rights to "Voodoo Child"), organizations either switched to a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of songs ([[
*** The biggest exception would be [[ECW]], who continued to use real songs as entrance themes as part of their image as an "outlaw organization". Even their TNN/SpikeTV theme counted (White Zombie's "More Human Than Human").
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* ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' uses a version of "Tishomingo Blues" with rewritten lyrics. [[Popcultural Osmosis|Nobody really seems to remember the original.]]
** The original 1970s-80s run of the show opened with Garrison Keillor singing Hank Snow's "Hello Love", a #1 country hit in 1974.
* The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC Radio]] international affairs program ''Dispatches''
* [[Rush Limbaugh]]
* [[A Christmas Story|Jean Shepherd]] opened and closed each episode of his long-running local New York radio show with "Bahn Frei" by Austrian composer Eduard Strauss.
* The theme song for
* ''[[The Doctor Demento Show]]'' used the 1947 jazz song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyz3g3vRb-8 "Pico & Sepulveda" by Felix Figueroa and His Orchestra] as its theme.
* ''[[As It Happens]]'' has, over the years, used and uses different versions of Moe Kuffman's "Curried Soul" as its theme.
* The Filipino Christian radio station DWXI—owned by Mike Velarde as part of his El Shaddai charismatic movement—uses the theme song from ''[[Somewhere in Time]]'' as its background music for the opening prayers on most if not all of their programmes.
== Video Games ==
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** The US version of ''[[Gran Turismo]] 4'' uses a choral version of Moon Over The Castle, followed by Van Halen's "Panama". It also has a techno remix of [[Mo TC]].
** GT 3 used "Are You Gonna Go My Way" and "Again" by Lenny Kravitz for its opening and ending themes, respectively.
* ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'' uses "Horst Wessel Lied", the Nazi national anthem, as its theme tune. This in part led to the game being banned in Germany for its use of [[No Swastikas|Nazi iconography]].
* ''Sled Storm'', at least the [[PS 1]] version, used Rob Zombie's "Dragula" (Hot Rod Herman remix).
* The first version of the arcade game ''[[Pengo]]'' features the late 60's-early 70's electronic instrumental "Popcorn" which was famously (though not originally) recorded by a group called "Hot Butter" in 1972. A later version used an original composed tune.
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* ''Xenon 2'' for the [[Atari ST]] and [[Amiga]] has "Bomb the Bass" by Megablast as its title theme.
* ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'' uses Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" as Shuu's character theme.
* The title screen music of ''[[Rockman 6: Unique Harassment]]'' is a chiptune remix of Nona Reeves's "Love Together" from the ''[[Parappa the Rapper]] anime''
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