Do you like Puntabulous Debates? Do you want to have your own pointless debates with your friends (imaginary or otherwise)? Have you been wanting to do one of my Guest Debates but can’t think of a good topic? Well then do I have the book for you! It’s called Barguments by Doug Hanks.
Bargument: A debate with no right or wrong answer that must be uncomplicated enough to discuss after three beers.
This book is full of great barguments (and potential Puntabulous Guest Debates!) including:
1. Name the best television theme song of all time.
2. Who would win in a war: Texas or California?
3. Who would win in a fight: A lion or a bear?
Check out the book’s official site HERE (books have websites now?) and Doug Hank’s blog HERE. It comes out on March 4, so preorder it now, and then you’ll forget about it by the time it comes so it’ll be a nice little surprise when it does!
While you’re at it, get Overheard in the Office: Conversations from Water Coolers, Conference Rooms, and Cubicles because the blog is awesome and you can’t afford an iPhone yet, so this is your best way of making the website portable and pocket-sized. Plus it’s hysterical.
What a great idea Craig! I have been trying to come up with ideas to dazzle you with for a debate and this book looks just like the inspiration I need to get my creative juices flowing…
#1 is not worth a Bargument as the answer is obviously “The Facts of Life”.
Whatchu talkin’ bout, Willis?!
Clearly Differ’nt Strokes (my apostrophe may be misplaced there…)
Um, Cheers, obviously.
Wait. I just emerged from my psychadelic haze. Obviously the answer is The Jeffersons. My apologies.
You are all wrong. It is quite obviously “The Brady Bunch” theme. No other theme song can have people all singing along to it when they see that wonderful square. Or it could be Gilligan’s Island, which was also great. And no I’m not an old person I know all of this from Nick-at-Nite.
Well, if we’re switching around choices….then “One Day at a Time” is probably the answer….though “Cheers” is certainly far up on the list.
Other short-list candidates:
The Jetsons (“his boy Elroy…”)
Spider-Man (“nobody knows who you are…”)
Alice (“There’s a new girl in town…”)
Smallville (“Somebody save me…”)
My apologies for the last one
Of course, Gilligan’s Isle.
I had a gay(Natch) hair designer once who also acted locally in musical theatre and one Christmas he and two other local actors sang “We Three Kings” to the Gilligans Isle tune, was truly a thing of hilarity.
And Craig, I LOVE the debates! I so wanta blargue with you, I may have to start a blog for that express purpose. My family and I have barguments all the time at dinner. Over the stupidest and silliest things. I am sooooo getting that book. Hell I could prolly write the sequel.
umm, the best theme song is by far the theme from good times.
Temporary lay offs.
Good Times.
Easy credit rip offs.
Good Times.
Scratchin’ and surviving.
Good Times.
Hangin in a chow line
Good Times.
Ain’t we lucky we got ‘em
Good Times.
Clearly, none of you remember the theme to Josie and The Pussycats. A minuted and five seconds of perfection. The runner up is either Starblazers or Three’s Company.
Am I the only gay guy here. It seems clearly the answer to #1 is The Golden Girls.
Thank you Topncal!
I support the homo addiction to the Golden Girls. If only we all weren’t a little mix of Sophia and Blanche this whole world would be better. I unfortunately have to go with “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. Just think.. “who can turn the world on with her smile?” I think Texas would win although I would be cheering for California: “You’re gonna make it after all!”
As a Texan resident, I will gladly argue against any Californians why we kick butt
I would have put The Golden Girls as #1, but since Thank You for Being a Friend had been around for 7 years already, I can’t count it as a true theme song. I was looking more at songs created expressly for the show.
Oooh — new leader! Just the good ol’ boys… for the Dukes of Hazard.
Come on people, how can you all forget Welcome Back Kotter!
“We tease him a lot because we got him on the spot..”
Dukes song beats the Kotter song. C’mon.
Was the Cheers theme song just a regular song before it became the theme for Cheers? Or was it made specifically for Cheers?
According to Wikipedia, it was written for the show.