8. Peep Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBgmC_USeoM If no one's told you how brilliant Peep Show is yet, you're most likely mixing with the wrong crowd. It's a piece of television genius that deftly satirises the everyman, the glitches in our confidence and the loyalty we place in the more utterly useless of our friends, all with a frown and a very English sigh. It's very witty, and very intelligent. The theme tune however is not. 'Flagpole Sitta' by American group Harvey Danga is a blunt slice of pop-punk with uninspired lyrics that read, "I'm not sick but I'm not well / and I'm so hot, 'cause I'm in hell". It's not exactly Peep Show material; it doesn't revel in the grey area of men's emotions and social status, it's just over-the-top, angry nonsense that embeds its nasty power chords in your head, and plays over and over again as you watch the show. It's not even an appropriate theme for a Super Hans spin-off; even he's more interesting a character than that lump of a song suggests. Britpoppers Blur would probably be more appropriate for the show, with their mocking of English culture and musical subtlety. Unfortunately, Harvey Danga is exactly the kind of band that Blur were kicking against. Still, it's probably fitting that the Peep Show theme is a piece of music that Mark Corrigan would absolutely deplore.