Diff'rent Strokes Opening (Todd Bridges Vocal)

Back for the first time in a couple of years is this custom opening to Diff'rent Strokes, featuring a rock remix of the theme, with screeching vocals by none other than Todd Bridges. Recorded a while after DS left the air, it's clear that Bridges was never meant to have a music career.

Take note that the show's own star messes up one line; he sings "they've got nothing in their genes (or jeans?)" instead of "they've got nothing BUT their genes". What'choo talkin' bout, Willis?

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Entertainment

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• Diff'rent
• Strokes
• opening
• Todd
• Bridges
• rock
• remix
• vocal

[numbskullandy]

Is this some kind of sick joke? The man cannot sing. Period.

[Paperclown]

@VaultMasterDBT: Well I dunno what time era you're from, but as kids in the mid 80's we used this definition, was well used in the 90's.. and I still say it and I'm not a kid. So you must either be from the 50's thinking gay means being jolly, or a 10 year old who doesn't understand american dialect.

[FutureNewsAnchor]

The best version of the Diff'rent Strokes theme song is the Dave Chappelle cover in the barber shop.

[VaultMasterDBT]

I lived in the 80s, and I mean LIVED in the 80s (read: not under a rock) and nobody in my neck of the words used "gay" to mean "stupid". I truly didn't start to hear that until the last ten years. Perhaps it was a regional thing..I am not sure. I've seen a lot of Sanford & Son..and we should be truly lucky for Norman Lear bridging the gap between the strictly-fantasy-like 50/60s TV and today's version of relevance, albeit policed by the FCC at every moment.

[Paperclown]

@VaultMasterDBT: If you are trying to challenge me on the "new politically correct" term about homos. I have been rewatching alot of old 80's sitcoms and they are absolutely hilarious and discuss topics / say things that bible thumping censors wouldn't let fly these days.

I would highly recommend Sanford & Son. i used to watch that all the time as a kid, but it is hilarious watching it now as an adult.

[VaultMasterDBT]

Um, no it doesn't. Kids just made that up and it caught on. Just because youth uses it doesn't mean it's acceptable. Don't insinuate that I am living in the 50s...believe me, I am not. You challenged my first post on the subject, so I'm not going to be quiet. Now that you choose to be cocky, I'll be the same back to you..

[Paperclown]

@VaultMasterDBT: I don't care what you prefer. This isn't the 1950's anymore, and gay doesn't mean being jolly anymore, like in the Flintstones theme "we'll have a gay old time" .. This day in age, gay means dumb and stupid.

[VaultMasterDBT]

Not sure what you're getting at either.

Hint: I don't prefer "gay" to be used as "stupid" or "lame"..but then again, everyone has the right to freedom of speech. ;)

[Paperclown]

@VaultMasterDBT: this is gay, I hope Gary doesn't hear about this.

[anywayzz]

lol

[FPietros]

Whacchoo talkin' 'bout Willis?