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Looney Toons: It says something terribly sad about me that I can remember all those lyrics right off the top of my head. I mean, come on. Who in his right mind knows the lyrics to "Bonanza!" by heart? <sigh>

Red Shoe: For what it's worth, I knew them too (though my memory was off on a few words). You may be a geek, but you're not alone.

Also...

Many years ago, TV Guide ran an interview with Mark Snow, the composer for The X Files. In the interview, he claimed that there were lyrics to the X-Files theme music too. Those lyrics:

The X-Files is a show (doo-doo de doo-doo de doo)
With music by Mark Snow (doo-doo de doo-doo de doo)

Dark Sasami: Do I remember them playing a lyrics-enabled version of "Suicide Is Painless" before "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"?

Also, I'm finding it hard not to giggle at substituting the Bewitched theme song for "I'm Under Your Spell" from BTVS...either direction, take your pick.

Idle Dandy: Didn't Buck Rogers have lyrics in the Pilot Movie that weren't used in the series ("Far beyond the world I know/Far beyond my time")?

Looney Toons: Indeed it did. In fact, I have an MP 3 of it. It's called "Suspension", sung by someone named Kipp Lennon. And you do have the first two lines right:

jjmcgaffey: Amusing extra note to the M*A*S*H theme lyrics - my sister was learning guitar (this would have been about 1983, I think) and the teacher wanted to use that song - but the school district wouldn't let her (teach students about suicide! Eek!). So she wrote and got permission to change the word in the chorus from 'suicide' to 'living here' - the scansion works pretty well. She left the verses alone, as far as I recall. It makes the song even more surreal...(and of course as soon as I found out about the lyric change, I looked up the real lyrics. I often sing it - neat song. Scary, though - the first two lines in the chorus are lies, so what about the third?)

Looney Toons: Whitewings, I think we may have two different versions of the Bonanza lyrics between us, or perhaps we're quoting two different parts of the song. And jjmcgaffey, in what way are the two first lines of the chorus to "Suicide is Painless" absolute lies? Suicide can be managed painlessly, and if death isn't a change I don't know what is.

• Holy crap! That wasn't Sinatra?

Didn't we just say that?

More recently, lyrics have been set to Airman's stage theme from the same game, though that song is titled "Airman ga Taosenai" (I Can't Beat Airman) and are actually about the singer's inability to defeat Airman, even after making a detour to get his weakness, etc.

because "Airman ga Taosenai" is not, in fact, set to the tune of Airman's theme. I could swear it was from a Mega Man game, but I can't recall which game or which level... here's the clip, if anyone can identify it.

It is, in fact, an original song by "Team Nekokan". It just seems like a Megamn song because the games use a Rock soundtrack (that's why in the original Japanese, they are called Rockman games).