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The Best TV Theme Songs To Know if You Somehow Get Transported Back in Time
I’m not proud to admit this, but the percentage of my life I’ve devoted to thinking about going back in time is truly staggering. I don’t anticipate it ever happening, mind you, and honestly my fingers are crossed that it never does, as being a time traveler of color, going back any significant period of time means things really start getting exponentially worse in a hurry (I once told a White friend that I often wondered what I could do, if I went back in time, that would impress everyone I saw. He responded “If you went back in time?” and there was really nothing more that needed to be said).
As you might imagine, this exercise is far more enjoyable if it’s not legal to own you for a significant percentage of your country’s existence, so I ignore the obvious drawbacks, tweak the difficulty settings so I’m considered 5/5ths of a human, and proceed to waste countless hours picturing my trip back in time.
Say, through some miracle of science not at all important to the rest of this story, I end up in the year 1780. Since I bring an almost impressive amount of nothing to the table (I don’t hunt, I don’t fish, and I’ve never been on a farm — I’m practically a newborn baby with a vocabulary and a goatee, the difference being an actual newborn baby with a vocabulary and a goatee would make a…
