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When this show was originally in development, the producers approached the band that sang "Happy Together" to compose the theme song. It didn't happen, and the producers created their own, which is now iconic.

That is correct. Also, the two threads are now merged and renamed with the new thread to avoid confusion. 

Definitely a case of the music being more familiar than the lyrics.

I HATED this song.

And haven't thought of it in decades. So thank you, from the bottom of my spleen, for reminding me.

Yeah, cheated and disqualified, gladly, because I wouldn't remember this title or artist to save my life.

Actually, having the hots for childbearing women while in their 80s is the trait that was passed on, I think.

That's about as close as you're gonna get without getting the actual correct answer, so I'm giving it to you.

John Tyler was born during George Washington's presidency.

Harrison Tyler is John Tyler's grandson. No, not great great great grandson. Just grandson, as in, John Tyler, born in the late 1700s, was his Daddy's Daddy.

[I don't know why I read WWI when George clearly wrote WWII. Getting my glasses checked].

The man's NAME is a hint.

Millions of schoolkids recite his name [first and last, not middle] unwittingly at least once a year. They don't know they're doing this because they're actually doing something else. 

Nope. Born in 1928. Pretty sure not a WWI vet. Probably too young for WWII.

Which makes his claim to fame even more hard to fathom.

yes

But Ford was elected congressman, if I recall correctly.

Unlike Herbert flipping Hoover

tf

I'll take it.

The Mission.

Goonies

Ok. Add "some poorextra stuntman tied to a cross and thrown over a waterfall"

So at this point most of us forgot this thread was here, so I started a new one having forgotten the old one.

Except it was my turn in the old one, too, so no harm no foul.

Next clue:

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Until X

Nemesis was worse than III, by far.

But II, IV and VI were the best of the original cast. III was the best of the odd numbered entries, including the next gen cast.

Nemesis [X] was better than I and V, but not as good as III

That would have been my guess

Think earlier...

"You know when I was in school we used to sing it something like this..."

indeed

No. A bit more mainstream

Steve Carlton and Gaylord "Why did my parents hate me" Perry

Based on the novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," which was neither a true story nor one that featured Rita Hayworth as a character.

4 minutes ago, GeorgeStGeorge said:

Children of the Corn?

George

No. That's a horror movie. Stephen King is known for horror. 

This movie has, best of my memory, no supernatural elements

Right author, wrong movie.