Re: (Mis?)appropriations of the Ninth
Elizabeth Crownfield (e.crownfield.1@alumni.nyu.edu)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:25:37 -0400
At 11:48 PM 4/7/99 -0400, Theresa Muir wrote:
>
>On the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" (Yes I watch it! Gotta problem
>with that?) a particularly orgiastic iteration of "Ode to Joy" is used for
>the program theme. The running joke of the program is Raymond's invasive
>family. The theme is heard while he and his wife frantically try to
>conceal their presence from an advancing invasion of his mother, father,
>and brother.
"Suddenly Susan" with Brooke Shields used it as a theme song too in their
first year (in an electric guitar version).
Elizabeth Crownfield
New York University
e.crownfield.1@alumni.nyu.edu