One of the ways television offers comfort is in familiarity. Sitcom characters tend to behave in predictable ways, from Kramer on Seinfeld plotting bizarre schemes to Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy ...

Play a TV theme song game with They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton! Photo courtesy Steve McFarland/NPR There was a time when TV sitcom theme songs told you everything you needed to know about ...

There are so many of those shows. The ones where you can be in the kitchen cooking dinner and hear a few notes of the theme song a know immediately what is on. Or where the song is so iconic and ...