Since we’re doing “Watch this show please” theme songs, I’d like to draw your attention to Community, the best of the currently-endangered sitcoms, as well as the most-endangered of the excellent sitcoms. I don’t know what it would take to sell you on this series. It’s so funny, and so smart and inventive. You’d love it. Really.

The theme song is “At Least It Was Here” by The 88. First they wrote the theme song, then they wrote a full version that you could buy in iTunes and on the Community soundtrack. While they were working on it, Dan Harmon suggested these lyrics, via his Tumblr:

Gimmie some love / Grow me a tree / Make every heart / Sing it with me / Drinkin’ some Cokes / Tellin’ some jokes / Shopping is fun / When it’s done / With friendly folks / America invented being free / Sony products are high quality

Here’s the actual version:

It’s a really fun song, you guys. It’s about, if I may, being unable to explain why you want and need to spend time with someone; you just know it. The last lines of the song, a reordering of repeated phrases throughout:

I can’t count the reasons I should stay
One by one they all just fade away
Oh I love you more than words can say

And, if I may again, there is a strong, impenetrable love between the characters to be found on Community. Nowhere is that clearer than between Abed & Troy, everyone’s OTP:

Like, how many clips should I show you? You know? On this year’s Halloween episode, the credits got a slight re-do, which Dan Harmon paid for out-of-pocket. Just give this show your eyeballs so the studio pays for stuff like that: