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In addition to starring in/ influencing international hair trends via her upcoming sitcom New Girl, Zooey Deschanel has written and recorded the show's theme music, as something of an homage to her character's tendency to burst into song. No details about what the song might sound like, but I'm assuming it will make all of us wish we were making out astride a penny farthing.

Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV…and the following Theme Song Composers? (I'm only choosing people who are still alive, because, well, the “Where Are They Now?” wouldn’t be much fun if the person’s dead.) Here's a rundown of the people who wrote and recorded the songs that kicked off everything from Full House to Seinfeld to Clarissa Explains It All.