Square Pegs Opening Credits

[kieran196]

This was shown here in the UK.

[corinne54]

This was such a fun, cool show!



[littlemissparty101]

In my school, we are doing this thing called The 80s musical and me and my friend are doing his episode! (but in our own words) Heres a sneak peek of what we are doing

Hey

Hey do you know what high schools about?

Its about clicks!

CLICKS?!

Ya you know, you know like ya clicks

Well i think this year we should be...

Both: POPULAR!

Well thats not going to be easy....

not even with the funkiest records in town

[nuwavevidspud]

Jaime Gertz. What a hottie

[chismosa91]

People!

[Samadhiatman500]

Wonder what ever happened to that gal Sarah Jessica Parker?

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

the "Tony Dow" commercial was on here, I swear. Also anybody guess the theme here is "CHOPSTICKS"?

[egbduf]

kind of the worst theme ive ever heard....sorry

[crookedspokeadjacent]

whoa dude that was really really really 80s

[nyxxxx]

That's not the original theme song. There was a song by The Waitresses called "Square Pegs" originally. This is the theme they came up with because the record company wouldn't give the the rights to the song for the song when the show went into syndication.

[thegirl44]

@nyxxxx

Pretty sure this is the opening credits and that The Waitresses song played over the closing credits but I will admit that I am old and, mostly, bat shit crazy from senility at this point so I could be wrong.

[pnyc1969]

@thegirl44 I'll bet anything you're 41 just like me and every other Square Pegs fan. And you're perfectly correct about the theme songs. Voice over and instrumental to open and the Waitresses at the end. It was for a brief moment the perfect show.

[thegirl44]

@pnyc1969

Actually, I'm six years younger but I'm a Canadian and the show didn't air here until 5 years after it aired in the States.

Here in Canada....we tend to be a little slow, eh :).

[shmuli9]

@thegirl44 Didn't you have cable television?

[thegirl44]

@shmuli9

Not when this aired, no. In the early 80's we we're living in a community that was 4 hours short of the tree line so we only got what our huge antennea pulled in off of the air waves. We had cable when we moved back to California in 1988, which would have been about when I saw this show in reruns.

[mayagrace11]

@pnyc1969 you dont have to be 41 to be a fan my mother is 34 and shes one

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

@nyxxxx

when I saw in syndication, the prints were dark and sound was a little below...

[moxie96]

@nyxxxx I was wondering where the song had went! I was bummed to hear it gone when it shortly returned to syndication but quickly removed.

[beverlyskates]

Brought "Valley-speak" to the forefront of the American lexicon. The show was canceled after only one year.

[pepsibookcat]

I lived and breathed this show in 6th grade!

[daysleeper236]

I wonder if this show ever played in Canada? I don't remember it at all.

[KenGS333]

@daysleeper236 Yes, it did.

[36yrexangst]

Jeez, i forgot Sarah Jessica Horseface was in this show

[phillygrl69]

What memories! Exactly how high school was!

[JohnMoseley]

This show was too beautiful to be allowed to live.

[nerdflanders8710]

@JohnMoseley too terrible to be allowed to live.no charge for the correction there.

[pelam1234]

I remember this show, I was a little too young to understand wtf was going on but my older sis seemed to be into it.

[evillex1]

Totally tubular. Totally.

[emmeenchanted]

fer sure!!

I remember this show,along with Facts Of Life.

[shoftim]

Like!, stop makin fun of my, like favorite show! Unless your like, popular of course!

[emmeenchanted]

Hey,it's ok.I grew withthis show as well.

Like,totally tubular!!"

[hahahefication]

nothing wrong with POPULAR, if you have nothing against blandness haha...the only good thing to come out of it was the character Mary Cherry

[shoftim]

The Waitresses, who did the theme song, are from Kent, Ohio Too. Not far from where that "Heathers" movie was based in OH.

[philly452009]

I got too meet and greet the stars of this show, my younger sibs served as extras when DEVO was guest stars

[philly452009]

If you notice the little mop bucket and mop in the hallway of this video, I kid you not, belonged too my dad they wanted to put it in the opening theme scene

[DEEntertainment]

Yeah Jami Gertz and Sarah Jessica both have very good careers. I always hasd a crush on that Jamie oh and Amy linker too, turns out she is two years older than me, lol...what hottie

Always liked this show because it focused on thing that were really going on in the lives of kids in that time. Cool stuff.

[comedyfan23]

I love this show! Why did it only last 1 season?

[RJRanke]

Maybe because the ratings were less than acceptable.Still,I did hear rumors that a few of the cast were on drugs,which might have led to the early cancellation.

I am grateful that Sarah Jessica Parker,Tracy Nelson,Merrit Buttrick and Jami Gertz got other roles and furthered their careers.

[liamsweeney0]

It was one of those show that was on, then off, then on again. But I think the writers strike, at that time, killed it.

[Kinemacolour]

That was totally '80s. Totally.

[wmbrown6]

A few observations: a) I see that the opening is almost reminiscent, in its hand-tinted, stop-motion production, of the fourth and fifth seasons of "Saturday Night Live" (one of whose writers was "SP" creator-producer Anne Beatts), and b) Sarah Jessica Parker seemed the only one to go on to bigger, better and more lasting things (though Tracy Nelson later was in "Father Dowling Mysteries" and Jami Gertz didn't necessarily do all that shabbily either).