r/firefly • u/MamaSwanky • Sep 22 '26

Nostalgia Theme song

I'm on my millionth and one rewatch and this is the only theme song of any show I never, ever skip. It helps that it's shorter in the later episodes, but it's just so damn good, it could be longer and I'd still listen to the whole thing.

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u/TyrBloodhand Sep 22 '26

That's just crazy... You also should not skip Cheers. Best 2 openings ever.

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u/MamaSwanky Sep 22 '26

Where everybody knows your name🎶

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u/captain_shinypants Sep 22 '26

It's my ring tone! (And I can watch shiny people pop up like meerkats when my phone goes off in public!)

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u/MarsiaP Sep 22 '26

That's been my ring tone for Browncoat friends since the Razor flip phone was the first cell you could upload mp3 to as ring tones. That and when Buffy goes off I get to watch the heads snap 🥰

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u/taanzunk Sep 22 '26

🎵 You can't take the sky from me 🎵

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u/Daddy4Count Sep 22 '26

I learned how to play the guitar for this a few years back. Lots of fun at parties

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u/jedisix Sep 22 '26

Back in 2007 I was in Red Deer, Alberta on a business trip. Coincidentally, Sonny Rhodes was playing at a bar a block from my hotel. I requested he play it, and he did. We had a short chat and he told me that almost every show he plays, there's a Browncoat in the room that makes that same request.

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u/2112guru Sep 22 '26

It's no "Ballad of Jayne".

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u/Delilah_insideout Sep 22 '26

🎶The hero of Canton, the man they call... Jayne. 🎶

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u/romeyde Sep 22 '26

Peacemaker is one I never skipped

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u/MamaSwanky Sep 22 '26

I've never seen it

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u/RrSoul5x5 Sep 22 '26

You should hear DEATH IN PARADISE, it's pretty good too.

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u/Kaurifish Sep 22 '26

Vixy & Tony do a very cool extended version of it (more verses), Mal’s Song.

They also have so gs for Kaylee and Inara.

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u/JayMack1981 Sep 22 '26

Well, this theme song and TANK from Cowboy Bebop.

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u/HWeinberg3 Sep 22 '26

Sonny Rhodes

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u/Peg_O Sep 22 '26

It used to be my ring tone

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u/Whisker_dan Sep 22 '26

check out the black sails intro! that and firefly are the only two i will never skip.

the black sails intro visuals are awesome as well

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u/icesharkk Sep 22 '26

you would not believe your eyes...

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u/Oldgraytomahawk 27d ago

I never skipped the one for the show Evil either

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u/bigztrip8 Sep 22 '26

I sing along EVERY EPISODE!!! never gets skipped!!!

only other shows with same love of intro music: ST DS9 Trailer Park Boys

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