Definitively proving that nice things exist and that, deep down, the universe does indeed want us to be truly happy, we bring to you today news that your new favourite TV show theme song exists in glorious extended form, and you may now listen to it ad nauseam.
As US streaming megalith Netflix and its armada of content prepares to make landfall on continental Australia later this month, they’ve quietly been going about bolstering their original content stocks.
One such nugget of magnificence dropped over the weekend, with the bulk release of the entire first season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a positively goddamned charming little sitcom about a freed member of a doomsday cult (played by Ellie Kemper, who I will blindly follow to the mouth of hell and back) trying to navigate 15 years of pop culture whilst carving out an impromptu new life in New York. A half minute gaze upon the show’s dialogue reveals there to be no surprise that it comes from the pens of Tina Fey – who created the show alongside 30 Rock showrunner Robert Carlock.
But aside from being a seriously charming and wildly funny show which you should all be watching because it will make your face hurt from smiling – and who doesn’t want that? What are you, some sort of monster? – the show’s theme song is blindingly catchy, and is now available in its full, auto-tuned splendour.
Taken from the news bulletin that launches the pilot episode and songified into a fully fledged theme tune by The Gregory Brothers – the YouTube pitch shifting geniuses behind Auto-Tune The News, the Double Rainbow song, Hide Yo Kids/Hide Yo Wife and just about every other worm-burning internet tune you’ve found yourself idly humming over the past five years.
Prepare to annoy everyone you know and hold dear by singing this chorus over and over again.
And for reasons that fall specifically in the “Why the fuck not?” category, The Gregory Brothers put up a cover of the song that once again shows off their infuriating levels of talent.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is available in full – all thirteen episodes – to smash into your faces if you’re clever enough to already have Netflix sorted out. Otherwise, local audiences will “legitimately” be able to get involved when Netflix launches in Australia on March 24th.
