Poll: What TV show used popular music the best? (1 Viewer)

[Chaka]

It's a subjective poll but my initial impulse says that it has to be Wonder Years.

Although Buffy gets an honorable mention because they worked Cibo Matto into an episode.

 

[Limp Ditka]

90210

One of my favorite tv music moments from this show didn't include any actual music.

When Brenda went to college back in Minnesota, she had a poster for this album on her dorm wall

 

[Dan Lambskin]

http://youtu.be/bflYjF90t7c

 

[pollardsvision]

If you voted for a show that did not drop a live cover of "Push It", complete with Salt-n-Pepa coats, during the birth of someone named Captain Awesome's beautiful baby girl, then you voted wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeeWDW_rNE

 

[badmojo1006]

If you voted for a show that did not drop a live cover of "Push It", complete with Salt-n-Pepa coats, during the birth of someone named Captain Awesome's beautiful baby girl, then you voted wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeeWDW_rNE

It was so close for me between Scrubs and Chuck I could put them 1 and 1A

 

[pollardsvision]

If you voted for a show that did not drop a live cover of "Push It", complete with Salt-n-Pepa coats, during the birth of someone named Captain Awesome's beautiful baby girl, then you voted wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeeWDW_rNE

It was so close for me between Scrubs and Chuck I could put them 1 and 1A

I don't think I've seen more than 5 episodes of Scrubs. I probably need to give it a proper watch.

 

[badmojo1006]

If you voted for a show that did not drop a live cover of "Push It", complete with Salt-n-Pepa coats, during the birth of someone named Captain Awesome's beautiful baby girl, then you voted wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeeWDW_rNE

It was so close for me between Scrubs and Chuck I could put them 1 and 1A

I don't think I've seen more than 5 episodes of Scrubs. I probably need to give it a proper watch.

First 3 seasons are majestic and then it starts a slow fade until the last two seasons where it dumps. But a perfect blend of Drama and Comedy

 

[cstu]

Other - The Wonder Years.

This is the correct answer, followed by WKRP. More credit goes to The Wonder Years since how hard is it to include music in a show about a radio station?

 

[rockaction]

Terriers on theme song alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVHOn-S82ms

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Miami Vice had the theme from Jan Hammer but then they had Phil Collins, Duran Duran, Glen Frey, Rolling Stones, Cyndi Lauper, Devo, Lionel Ritchie, Pointer Sisters, ZZ Top, Eric Clapton, Teddy Pendergrass, INXS, Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, U2, and that's just in Season 1...plus I left off a bunch.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Terriers on theme song alone.

One of my favorite songs evah.

 

[HughHoney]

The Wonder years followed by Beavis and Butthead.

 

[packersfan]

Miami Vice had the theme from Jan Hammer but then they had Phil Collins, Duran Duran, Glen Frey, Rolling Stones, Cyndi Lauper, Devo, Lionel Ritchie, Pointer Sisters, ZZ Top, Eric Clapton, Teddy Pendergrass, INXS, Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, U2, and that's just in Season 1...plus I left off a bunch.

Plus they had some great "obscure" songs the public didn't know about like Red Ryder's "Lunatic Fringe." Peter Gabriel's "Biko" was used brilliantly as well. That's another example.

To me, there's a difference between a show that uses a song well and a show which uses music as a primary driving force behind the stories its telling. I don't think any show did that like Miami Vice or anywhere near as well.

 

[Mario Kart]

Between LOST and Scrubs