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| # | Preview | Candidate | Win rate | Match win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  | Friends1994. The Rembrandts wrote it as a jingle and got a number one out of it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Simpsons1989. Danny Elfman says he wrote it in the car on the way home | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Game of Thrones2011. A cello and a map that rebuilt itself every week | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Stranger Things2016. Two synth players from Texas out-Carpentered Carpenter | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Office2005. A piano riff over shots of a parking lot in Scranton | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Cheers1982. Gary Portnoy sings the case for the bar down the street | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air1990. The only theme song a generation can still recite in full | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Seinfeld1989. A slap bass improvised fresh for every single episode | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Star Trek: The Next Generation1987. Jerry Goldsmith's fanfare over the final frontier | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The X-Files1993. A whistle through delay pedals became the sound of paranoia | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Twin Peaks1990. Badalamenti wrote it while Lynch talked about dark woods | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Breaking Bad2008. Seventy-six seconds of desert guitar and no vocals | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Sopranos1999. A3 wrote a gospel blues about waking up with a gun | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Golden Girls1985. Andrew Gold's thank-you note, sung over cheesecake | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | M*A*S*H1972. The lyric was written by a fourteen-year-old, then cut from TV | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Doctor Who1963. Delia Derbyshire built it by splicing tape, before synthesizers | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Peaky Blinders2013. Nick Cave's 1994 murder ballad, borrowed for a Birmingham gang | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | True Detective2014. The Handsome Family's dusty duet over Louisiana refineries | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Scrubs1999. Lazlo Bane admitting nobody has this figured out | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Married... with Children1987. Sinatra's 1955 love song, weaponized as sitcom irony | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Buffy the Vampire Slayer1997. Nerf Herder's surf punk organ, then the guitars | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Curb Your Enthusiasm2000. Library music Larry David heard in a bank ad and never replaced | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Law & Order1990. Two notes people call the dun-dun, plus a gavel | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | SpongeBob SquarePants1999. A pirate leads the roll call. Everyone answers | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Futurama1999. Christopher Tyng flipped a 1967 electronic track into the future | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bob's Burgers2011. Guitar, ukulele, and a family opening a restaurant again | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Rick and Morty2013. Thirty-six seconds of synth over interdimensional property damage | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | DuckTales1987. Woo-oo. The most quotable line in cartoon history | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles1987. Heroes in a half shell, explained via roll call | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Batman: The Animated Series1992. Elfman's Batman score, wordless, on a network for kids | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Miami Vice1984. Jan Hammer's synth got to number one on the pop chart | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Mission: Impossible1966. Lalo Schifrin wrote it in 5/4 because nobody asked him not to | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Hawaii Five-O1968. Surf rock with a full brass section chasing it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The A-Team1983. Mike Post's brass over a plan coming together | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Knight Rider1982. Sequenced synth for a car that talks back | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Muppet Show1976. A theatre full of felt introducing itself, badly on purpose | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Animaniacs1993. A patter song that rhymes pantz with Finland | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Mandalorian2019. Ludwig Göransson scores a bounty hunter with a bass recorder | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Succession2018. Nicholas Britell's broken piano over a rich family's home videos | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Sherlock2010. Strings that move like someone thinking too fast | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Narcos2015. Rodrigo Amarante sings a bolero from the cartel's point of view | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Wire2002. A different cover of Tom Waits every season, by design | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Gilmore Girls2000. Carole King re-recorded her own 1971 promise for the show | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Big Bang Theory2007. Barenaked Ladies compress cosmology into a hundred seconds | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Family Guy1999. A vaudeville number complaining about vaudeville numbers | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | South Park1997. Primus playing under four kids who mumble the last line | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Dexter2006. Breakfast, shaving, and orange juice scored like a crime scene | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Westworld2016. Ramin Djawadi's player piano, which is also the plot | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Downton Abbey2010. John Lunn's piano climbing the stairs of a house with staff | — win | — match wins |