Top 7- Musical Moments in TV

After my list on the top musical moments in film, I realized that there are a lot of wonderful and heartbreaking musical moments on the small screen as well. So, I present to you my list of the top 7 musical moments in TV. And, as a warning, spoilers are ahead.

7. Futurama- I will wait for you

Let's start off with a tear jerker. Futurama is one of the best animated shows ever made due to it's ability to have you laughing your head off and crying your eyes out in the same episode. And this one... Oh boy. In this episode, Fry finds the fossil of his old dog and attempts to bring him back to life. The episode also features a series of flashbacks showing Fry's relationship with Seymour the dog back in the past. But it's the ending montage that truly hits home and crushes your soul. After Fry is frozen, Seymour waits for him outside Panucci's Pizza. And waits. And waits. Through winter and summer, rain and shine, he waits. until eventually he lies down and passes away. Good luck keeping in those tears.

6. Dexter- tonight's the night

I have a love/hate relationship with Dexter, in that I love most of it and hate Season 8. This theme fits into the former. It's one of the earliest scenes in the show and it's a haunting monolgue with a track that is often repeated during scenes with similar themes. It fit's perfectly because, as Dexter states in his soliloquy, it's going to happen again and again. We know it has to. It's a theme that is so interesting, fits with the ideas that are apparent through the whole show and is just a great song. I love Dexter (or this bit anyway) and you should really watch it. Please. 

5. House of Cards- Theme tune

I knew that, as much as I wanted to do otherwise, I could only put one theme tune on here. While it was heartbreaking to leave out Doctor Who and Sherlock, there can be only one. House of Cards is the one. It's a theme that echos everything about the show. It has big, noticeable players who control it, the instruments trying to push through into the main bit, smaller players that all add to something and twists and turns that change the whole fabric of the theme. Am I reading into it too much? Almost certainly. Is it an awesome theme that is brilliant, episode after episode? Yes. A hundred times yes.

4.Arrested Development- It ain't easy being white

Arrested Development will be forever known as a show that was cancelled way too soon and it saddens me. Because it had killer episode after killer episode, ultra quotable line after ultra quotable line, huge mistake after huge mistake. There were a ton of moments that could have made the list, from the use of The Sound of Silence to the ukulele theme tune, it was a difficult choice. But in the end, it had to be my man, Franklin and his duet with Gob, It ain't easy being white. It's a song that spoke to twos of people and sold at least one copy. Truly heart warming. Side note, you should watch this show. It's incredibly watchable, absurd and laugh out loud hilarious every episode.

3. Community- Somewhere out there

Was it surprising that Community would appear? Not even slightly. There is a ton of great moments in this show but this one gets the mention for the raw emotion it brings out. It perfectly ties together all the episode's plot lines, brings the characters closer and brings a tear to my eye. While on paper, a scene composed of two guys luring out a mouse, an crazy asian guy winning back his wife and someone successfully pitching a brownie website sounds bad, it's actually superb. I can't say enough how much I love community and this was the moment that made me want to never let this show go. On an unrelated note, Season five of community is available on DVD from all good retailers.

2. Breaking Bad- Baby blue

Mild spoiler alert. I'm going to try not to spoil Breaking Bad but this is the song at the very end of the show. It's a song that (like everything else in the show) was chosen with deep intent and reasoning by Vince Gilligan, Master of TV. It sums up everything about the show and about who Walter White becomes on his way to becoming Heisenberg but also that he has not really changed at all since we met him. Even a year on, the final scene is just perfect and this song played a huge part in that. Mr Gilligan, I tip my hat to you.

1. Orphan Black- Love is all around us

For this one, I really have to go into detail about the scene in question which would mean ruining a bit of this brilliant show. So, before you read this, please go away and watch Orphan Black. There are only two series at the moment and they're great so you have no excuse. Go on, off you pop. I'll wait. Right, have you watched it yet? You haven't? Fine, on your head be it. In this scene Helena enacts revenge on the freaky proletheans who have been doing strange, science type experiments on her and have given her baby to someone else. This has driven her to the edge. Consider that she is already totally bat shit crazy and that's why this scene is so... I don't know. She straps the main prolethean to a chair and, as Love is all around plays, she injects a cow fetus into him. The contrast between the disturbing act being commited on screen with this song that's quite sweet and heart warming, makes a scene that is uncomfortable brilliance. In short, must watch stuff.