History Main / ExpositoryThemeTune

Some shows might use the Expository Theme Tune as an excuse to [[OneWePreparedEarlier dump you into the action right away]], since you already know the premise. Conversely, if the Expository Theme Tune would spoil the premise of the premiere, you might not see it on the first episode.

He checks real e-mails from the 'Net\\
He's got two brothers, and The Cheat, his pet! (The Cheat, his pet!)\\

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* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' has one, a pastiche of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'''s theme song, heard only in "Ssenmodnar 4".
-->''Oh, my God''\\
''Here we go again''\\
''Come on, watch this video 'till the very end''\\
''With Mario the Retard and [=SMG4=] the Idiot''\\
''Come on everybody it's Mario Bloopers!''
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* ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman'': ''"I'm Baman!" "I'm Piderman!" "I come over da house!" "WE'RE BEST FWIENDS!"''
** Actually, the theme song wasn't present in the first two episodes, and the third episode actually involves them creating the theme song.
* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' has David singing the opening theme, which also doubles as their Camp anthem in-universe.
--> "Oh! There's a place I know that's tucked away! A place where you and I can stay! Where we can go to laugh and play, and have adventures everyday! I know it sounds hard ''to believe!'' But guys and gals it's true- Camp Campbell is the place for me and you!
* ''WebAnimation/WackyGameJokez4Kidz'' "Mickey was a small time crook on the streets of NYC, he was stolen from the streets by an evil corporation called VGV, he is forced to write direct and star in a video game comedy show broadcasted in the net.."
* ''[[WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob Cat Face]]'': Cat Face, [[CaptainObvious he's got a big cat's face]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment he's got the body of a cat, and the face of a cat]], and he flies through the air, 'cause [[RunningGag he's got a cat face]], Cat Face!
* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'''s closing theme: "Back in the 90s, I was in a very famous TV show...".

** Strong Bad also demonstrates what it would be like if he had one of these in the [=SBEmail=] "theme song".

* ''Animation/SweetSea'''s opening theme describes Sweet Sea, her kingdom, and the magic necklace she must protect.

** Strong Bad also demonstrates what it would be like if he had one of these in the [=SBEmail=] "theme song" (Which also provides the page quote).

* [[WebAnimation/WackyGameJokez4Kidz WGJ4K]] "Mickey was a small time crook on the streets of NYC, he was stolen from the streets by an evil corporation called VGV, he is forced to write direct and star in a video game comedy show broadcasted in the net.."

A common Subtrope is the BraggingThemeTune and ThemeTuneRollCall.

Compare with the AnimeThemeSong and the ThemeTuneRap. Can overlap with JobSong if one or more characters' jobs are important to the plot.

* ExpositoryThemeTune/{{Film}}

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(He's gonna catch em all cause he's Danny Phantom)'' ♫]]

Gonna catch em all cause he's Danny Phantom'' ♫]]

-->-- '''Strong Bad''', ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE155ThemeSong "theme song"]]

* ''Animation/SweetSea''''s opening theme describes Sweet Sea, her kingdom, and the magic necklace she must protect.

On "The Strong Bad Email Show"!''\\

-->-- '''Strong Bad''', ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StrongBadEmailE155ThemeSong "theme song"]] [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail155.html #155]]

->''"Theme songs are just an excuse for show-makers to make less show. I'm sure viewership would triple if I had one of those crappy cartoon theme songs that bludgeons you over the head with the blunt end of the show's premise."''
-->-- '''Strong Bad''', [[WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail sbemail]] [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail155.html #155]]

* ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'': ''"Lee likes playing video games/And when you really think about it, that's not really so strange/But you would wonder if it's why the man was put on this Earth/it's time to reevaluate how much a picture is worth/You can be informed and entertained/No need to explain, watch the review of a game/Lee is Still Gaming!/And I'm pretty sure that is something that won't ever change/Lee is Still Gaming/and it won't just as long as he lives/as long as there are games."''

* ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'': ''"Lee likes playing video games/And when you really think about it, that's not really so strange/But you would wonder if it's why the man was put on this Earth/it's time to reevaluate how much a picture is worth/You can be informed and entertained/No need to explain, watch the review of a game/Lee is Still Gaming''!/And I'm pretty sure that is something that won't ever change/Lee is Still Gaming/and it won't just as long as he lives/as long as there are games."''

* ''"Lee likes playing video games/And when you really think about it, that's not really so strange/But you would wonder if it's why the man was put on this Earth/it's time to reevaluate how much a picture is worth/You can be informed and entertained/No need to explain, watch the review of a game/Lee is [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Still Gaming]]!/And I'm pretty sure that is something that won't ever change/Lee is Still Gaming/and it won't just as long as he lives/as long as there are games."''

->''"Theme songs are just an excuse for show-makers to make less show. [[SarcasmMode I'm sure viewership would triple]] if I had one of those crappy cartoon theme songs that bludgeons you over the head with the blunt end of the show's premise."''

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%%* Despite appearing in a non-audio medium, the Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}}s gained their own theme tune, complete with sheet music, in a 1942 comic. A modern recording of "The Song of the Blackhawks" can be heard [[http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2005/2005_Individual/2005_05/000789.php here]].
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* The children's horror series ''Literature/{{Vampirates}}'' has a theme tune of sorts. It's on the back of the book, and characters sing it in story. It describes the title creatures.

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%%* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' has one, a pastiche of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'''s theme song, heard only in "Ssenmodnar 4".
%%-->''Oh, my God''\\
%%''Here we go again''\\
%%''Come on, watch this video 'till the very end''\\
%%''With Mario the Retard and [=SMG4=] the Idiot''\\
%%''Come on everybody it's Mario Bloopers!''
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%%* "Hey, Hey, we're Music/TheMonkees / and people say we monkey around / but we're too busy singing / to put anybody down..." ([[Series/TheMonkees also fits into the category above]])

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%%* ''[[Pinball/TimeMachineDataEast Time Machine]]'' from Creator/DataEast plays one during the end-of-game karaoke mode.
%%-->"Time Machine, where you go back in time..."
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%%[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
%%* "Whose that jumping out the sky? [[Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr R-E-Y Mysterio]], here we go! When the mask's out the girls they pass out, the boys just blackout, better tap out!"
%%* "Wrestling/{{Chris|Hero}} is awesome! He's as hot as it gets, the type to drop you quick, with a mafia kick!"
%%* "I've got long sideburns. I've got my hair slicked back. I'm comin' to your town in a pink Cadillac. I'm just a Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan (He's just a Honky Tonk Man)! I'm just a Honky Tonk Man (He's just a Honky Tonk Man)! I'm just a Honky Tonk Man! I'm cool, I'm cocky, I'm bad!"
%%* "[[Wrestling/DustyRhodes Ame...rican! DREAM!]] ''(cowbell)'' He's just a common man, workin' hard with his hands!..."
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%%* ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons''. The opening titles have spoken narration. The original closing theme was instrumental, but a group was later recruited to record a vocal version:
%%-->''Captain Scarlet / He's the one who knows the Mysteron game / and things they plan''

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%%* ''Theatre/TheSoldiersTale'' begins each act with "The Soldier's March", which commences the rhyming narration before the curtain rises over a steady drumbeat. The reprise at the start of the second act has slightly different lyrics and a brief pause for extra narration.
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%%* ''WebAnimation/HanazukiFullOfTreasures'': "''Out there, deep in space, grows a new Moonflower...''"
%%* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
%%** In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "best thing", there's the theme song from ''Limozeen: but they're in space!''.
%%--->''Remember those guys from that band Limozeen? / Well, they turned their tour bus into a space machine!''
%%** Strong Bad also demonstrates what it would be like if he had one of these in the [=SBEmail=] "theme song" (Which also provides the page quote).
%%---> ''Strong Bad is a wrestle-man/ He's the email-checkin'-est guy in the land...''
%%** ''Music/StrongBadSingsAndOtherTypeHits'' features the theme song from [[ShowWithinAShow Dangeresque 2: This Time It's Not Dangeresque 1]]
%%--->''He works alone / Except when he works with Renaldo / Which is all the time / Dangeresque!''
%%* ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman'': ''"I'm Baman!" "I'm Piderman!" "I come over da house!" "WE'RE BEST FWIENDS!"''
%%** Actually, the theme song wasn't present in the first two episodes, and the third episode actually involves them creating the theme song.
%%* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' has David singing the opening theme, which also doubles as their Camp anthem in-universe.
%%--> "Oh! There's a place I know that's tucked away! A place where you and I can stay! Where we can go to laugh and play, and have adventures everyday! I know it sounds hard ''to believe!'' But guys and gals it's true- Camp Campbell is the place for me and you!
%%* [[WebAnimation/WackyGameJokez4Kidz WGJ4K]] "Mickey was a small time crook on the streets of NYC, he was stolen from the streets by an evil corporation called VGV, he is forced to write direct and star in a video game comedy show broadcasted in the net.."
%%* ''[[WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob Cat Face]]'': Cat Face, [[CaptainObvious he's got a big cat's face]], [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment he's got the body of a cat, and the face of a cat]], and he flies through the air, 'cause [[RunningGag he's got a cat face]], Cat Face!

%%* ''"Lee likes playing video games/And when you really think about it, that's not really so strange/But you would wonder if it's why the man was put on this Earth/it's time to reevaluate how much a picture is worth/You can be informed and entertained/No need to explain, watch the review of a game/Lee is [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Still Gaming]]!/And I'm pretty sure that is something that won't ever change/Lee is Still Gaming/and it won't just as long as he lives/as long as there are games."''
%%* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd: "''He's gonna take you back to the past/To play the shitty games that suck ass...''"
%%* The [[http://www.thestream.tv/watch.php?v=1898 Doc Mock's Movie Mausoleum]] theme starts out this way, before switching over to heavy metal screaming of the title halfway through; "''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Doc! Mock's! Movie Mausoleum!]]''"

%%* WebVideo/MarzGurl counted down [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/ir/marzgurl/reviews/8784-top10redu 10 of them]] from various studios.
%%* WebVideo/NecroCritic: ''"We watch crap movies, we play crap games/There's too much out there, causing us pain/The actors are rancid, the plot is stale/Necro is here to put an end to the fail."''
%%* WebVideo/TheLegendOfNeil's theme song explains exactly how Neil ended up inside the game, then has a very hurried follow-up summarising events up to the beginning of the episode.
%%* "HE BOUGHT TOO MANY GAMES!/Now we gotta play them all.../SO ALL ABOARD THE ''WebVideo/{{STEAM TRAIN}}!''" ("Choo-choo!")
%%* Several segments of the ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour'' feature these. Specifically the intro songs for "Sparks Nevada Marshall on Mars", "The Adventures of Captain Laserbeam", "Amelia Earhart Fearless Flyer", and "Down on Moonshine Holler."
%%* ''Podcast/WhoBackWhen'' has a theme song describing the fact that they review all of ''Series/DoctorWho'' there is. The song lyrics vary based on whether a given episode is reviewing Classic ''Who'', New ''Who'', or ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho''.
%%* ''WebVideo/SharkJumping'', as an {{homage}} to the cheesy older TV shows that they riff on.
%%-->"There comes a time when life gets you down, when UsefulNotes/{{ratings}} are low. You've got to do what it takes, got to [[RatingsStunt up the stakes]], 'til there's [[JumpingTheShark nowhere left to go]]! Shark Jumping! Making some friends on the way together! Shark Jumping! Tomorrow's a brand new day! You might [[TonightSomeoneDies lose some friends along the way]], but if you hold your chin up, it'll all be okay! Shark Jumping! That's what friends are, that's what friends are, making our dreams come true!"

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%%* And then there is the theme tune to ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' (you know the words).

%%* ''"Lee likes playing videogames/And when you really think about it, that's not really so strange/But you would wonder if it's why the man was put on this Earth/it's time to reevaluate how much a picture is worth/You can be informed and entertained/No need to explain, watch the review of a game/Lee is [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Still Gaming]]!/And I'm pretty sure that is something that won't ever change/Lee is Still Gaming/and it won't just as long as he lives/as long as there are games."''

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