Big Bang Theory Theme

If I ran a game store I would play the song Big Bang Theory Theme by Barenaked Ladies.

The Big Bang Theory TV show is divisive among geeks. The ideas that it doesn't properly portray geek culture, that it laughs at geeks instead of with geeks, and that the show is unfunny are popular among our crowd. There are some who dislike the theme song because of its association to the show. If you dislike the theme song for this reason then shame on you. It's a quality song. Had it been released on an album without association to the show there would be zero balking. Instead, the song would play and geeks would be rocking to science-based music. It's an upbeat alt rock song describing the events of the Big Bang with a brief history of the world. I would very certainly play this song in my game store and direct whiners to the door.

The lore behind the song is that the show's executive producers were at a Barenaked Ladies concert in Los Angeles. The frontman, Ed Robertson, did an improvised freestyle rap about the Big Bang. The EPs liked the song. They asked Barenaked Ladies to pen the theme, but the band had been jilted before so they would only do it after learning no other bands had been asked. I call "baloney." The idea that the EPs were creating a show titled The Big Bang Theory and a band member randomly breaks into verse about the Big Bang is too much for me to believe. I'm thinking Mr. Ed Robertson got a call from his agent discussing who was in the crowd and why and he made the choice based upon that knowledge. But what do I know?

The Big Bang Theory TV show debuted on September 24, 2007 and a full-length version of the song was released as a single on October 9, 2007. The song was included on Barenaked Ladies' 2011 greatest hits album, Hits from Yesterday & The Day Before. There are sources claiming the song is/was titled History of Everything, but I was unable to find anything verifying that title.

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Big Bang Theory Theme lyrics

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started

Wait!

The earth began to cool
The autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall
We built the pyramids
Math, science, history
Unraveling the mystery
That all started with the Big Bang
Bang!

Since the dawn of man is really not that long
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song
A fraction of a second and the elements were made
The bipeds stood up straight
The dinosaurs all met their fate
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died
They froze their asses off

The oceans and Pangaea
See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same Big Bang

It all started with the big Bang!

It's expanding ever outward, but one day
It will cause the stars to go the other way
Collapsing ever inward
We won't be here
It won't be heard
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger Bang

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating how we're here
They're catching deer
We're catching viruses

Religion or astronomy
Descartes or Deuteronomy
It all started with the Big Bang
Music and mythology
Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang
It all started with the big
Bang!