If we're going into TV territory here, Hoyt Curtin's "Jonny Quest" wipes the walls with "The Venture Bros." theme.

In the same vein, David Shire and the original "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3".

Soderbergh's "Solaris": Great score, save for the way obvious Ligeti steal near the end of the film (I assume they had a "2001" CD lying around in the editor's temp music stash and decided to go with it.)

I will always have a soft spot for Wendy Carlos' "Tron" score. Probably has something to do with being the right age at the right time to have it blatted out at me every time I stuck a quarter in the video game.

Not as accessible, but I loved the dissonance of Rota's "Satyricon". There was a period in the late '60s where everyone seemed to go nuts with odd tunings and cacophonous percussion a-plenty. (See Jerry Goldsmith's "Planet of the Apes" score, which shoulda been a contender here.)

For the Superman theme, Williams said that it pays homage in part to the theme from the Fleischer Superman cartoons. So he's not coy about his sourcing, and has an understanding that most composers throughout recent Western history have done similar things.

Maurice Jarre. Lawrence of Arabia.

If there's one literary work crying out for a hilarious movie adaptation starring Jack Black, it's…
…I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

Daughter, Willow. And her youngest son, Ebersisk.

So then why is it wrong for me to hunt helicopters with my rifle?

Dig Dug?

My eight-year-old stepdaughter totally lost it at the end of "Jurassic Bark". To this day we still can't hum "I Will Wait For You" without raising her ire.

scaffnet, in all seriousness: maybe consider going in 10 minutes late.

I've had way too much human surgery to be considered plastic.

She'll always have "Elmo's World".

No, you're the first. And it's kind of confusing it's taken this long to get to the fact that Phil Collins built his entire recording career on the foundation of his divorce.

Added to that was his unreasonable request of wanting a six-foot-trench dug around the entire base and filled with gasoline.

I believe it was all entirely new save for the Alexander Courage theme callback in the end credits…

1999.

Thank the you.