The Best 20-Second TV Theme Songs To Wash Your Hands To
Hey- let’s be careful out there! Showing my age with that TV catch phrase (Hill Street Blues, anyone?) but the best way to fight germs right now is washing your hands. And washing your hands for 20 seconds is nothing new. TV junkies: need some inspiration to get through that 20-seconds of handwashing? Try singing your favorite TV theme song. Here are the best 20-second TV theme songs to wash your hands to. Feel free to hum along! And if you need a Disney handwashing song, we’ve got that too.
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The Best 20-Second TV Theme Songs To Wash Your Hands To
We tell our little kids to wash their hands for 20-seconds while singing happy birthday, or saying their ABCs.
While that might work for them, what about for us?
The grown adults who have nailed those ABCs and maybe want to forget about that big milestone birthday coming up.
If you’re a big ol’ TV junkie, that one’s easy.
Try singing some of these 20-second TV theme songs for hand washing while your fighting off germs this spring.
Wash Your Hands To The Big Bang Theory Theme Song
While the show ended it’s run this year (and I’m still a bit sad about it!) we do have tons of reruns for this one.
And there is nothing as iconic as the Big Bang Theory theme song.
Wash your hands for 20-seconds singing along with the Barenaked Ladies.
Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries
That all started with the big bang! Hey!

Since the dawn of man is really not that long
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song
A fraction of a second and the elements were made
The bipeds stood up straight, the dinosaurs all met their fate
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and Pangea, see ya wouldn’t wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!
It all started with the big bang!
It’s expanding ever outward but one day
It will cause the stars to go the other way
Collapsing ever inward, we won’t be here, it won’t be hurt
Our best and brightest figure that it’ll make an even bigger bang!
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating how we’re here, they’re catching deer (we’re catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy (Descartes or Deuteronomy)
It all started with the big bang!
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big bang!
Use the Cheers TV Theme Song To Wash Your Hands For 20-Seconds
NORM!
WASH YOUR HANDS!
Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you got
Taking a break from all your worries
It sure would help a lot
Wouldn’t you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came
You want to be where you can see
The troubles are all the same
You want to be where everybody knows your name
You want to go where people know
The people are all the same
You want to go where everybody knows your name
Wash Your Hands To The Greatest American Hero Theme Song
I know, I know… going way back here.
But as a kid, this song was THE BEST.
And it’s still going to show up on just about every list of the best TV theme songs out there.
Believe It Or Not- We’re Walking On Air as we wash our hands to this oldie.
Look at what’s happened to me
I can’t believe it myself
Suddenly I’m up on top of the world
It should have been somebody else
Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it’s just me

Just like the light of a new day
It hit me from out of the blue
Breaking me out of the spell I was in
Making all of my wishes come true
Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it’s just me
This is too good to be true
Look at me falling for you
Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it’s just me
Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it’s just me
Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air
I never thought I could feel so free
Flyin’ away on a wing and a prayer
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it’s just me
Patty Holliday is a parent movie reviewer, writer, and podcaster living in the Washington, DC area. Her goal is to bridge the gap between casual fandom and picky critic with parent movie and television reviews. As a lifelong fangirl and pop culture connoisseur, she’s been creating online since 2009. You can find her work at No-Guilt Disney.com, No-Guilt Fangirl.com, No-Guilt Life, and as host of the top-rated No-Guilt Disney Podcast.