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Jimmy Fallon And Will Smith Sing History Of TV Show Theme Songs
Do you know all of these theme songs?
Ana Suarez
06.08.18

Can you believe The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered almost 28 years ago on September 10, 1990?

It feels like just yesterday that Will Smith shot into superstardom. But the man has been in the business for just about three decades now! Will is actually older than Uncle Phil was when the show first started.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air had one of the most catchy theme songs in sitcom history. Will obviously still knows all of the words (and so does his son Jaden), even after all this time.

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During a visit to The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon decided to task Will with the challenge of creating a History of TV Show Theme Songs with him (much like Jimmy and Justin Timberlake’s History of Rap segments).

Together, the actor and host put together a remix of the best sitcom themes from over the years.

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In case you don’t know all of these songs or you can’t remember the name of the show they were from, this is the full list:

  • Golden Girls
  • The Jeffersons
  • Diff’rent Strokes
  • Good Times
  • The Andy Griffith Show
  • I Dream of Jeannie
  • Full House
  • The Greatest American Hero
  • Martin
  • Three’s Company
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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It should come as no surprise that they’d end the segment with Will’s own song! It is also the song that they sing for the longest during the entire segment.

The segment was originally filmed on the March 22, 2018, episode of The Tonight Show, but the social page for The Tonight Show reshared the video on Facebook this week and it got a ton of hits.

The video has 8.7 million views on Facebook and almost 6 million views on YouTube. On Facebook, the post got 31,000 likes and 7,800 shares.

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One Facebook commenter actually went and Googled some of the lyrics after watching this:

The part of “Good Times” that no one sings correctly is, “Hanging in and jiving…” Like Jimmy, I’ve just kind of screamed it out all my life – so I googled it. Now, ya know…

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One Facebook user is praying that Will and Jimmy plan to do more videos:

I’m going to go ahead and assume they’re planning to make a series of this, similar to the history of rap. They left out so many great ones, I can’t wait to see more!!

Another user felt nostalgic for this old TV programming after watching the video:

Awesome! We need to bring those shows back on prime time. Listen to the lyrics, we all could use that reset.

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Which TV show theme song that they covered is your absolute favorite? Which ones did they miss? Hopefully, they do make a part two of this and get to include all of the other songs.

You can watch the entire History of TV Theme Songs video below starring Will Smith and host Jimmy Fallon.

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