Moments of crisis are ripe for nostalgia, so today we invite you to take an hour or so’s refuge in the comforting pop-rock TV cartoon themes of the 80s. Judging by our audience research you, friendly reader, were either a young child, troubled student, confused post-grad or mid-life crisis-riddled adult in the 80s, so you probably remember these mini-epics of tube tunage from many wonderful hours spent slung low on a couch surrounded by many half-empty bowls of Lucky Charms in the soft glow of your (parents’) TV. Come back to that dark, dank and sweet-smelling room, won’t you, as we revisit our favorites from Unreality’s 10 Best 80s Cartoon Theme Songs.

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers

Beginning with a moody falsetto before building to a spasmodic finish, this is surely one of the best minute-long songs ever recorded.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

No such list would be complete without the Turtles’ awesome rock theme. Despite the raging electric guitar, you can tell from the incredibly nerdy singer’s voice who the shows real audience was.

Ducktales

It was never our favorite, but its knowing caricature of the Disney company as a money-grubbing duck patriarch’s rampaging capitalist enterprise helped our rebellious minds develop.

Inspector Gadget

Listening to it now we have a hard time believing that this is the original song and not some feisty DJ’s remix, because that beat is seriously amazing.

Jem and the Holograms

Okay, we never actually watched this show because, during the sometimes confusingly androgynous 80s, it would have jeopardized our masculinity more than the Prince-inspired wardrobe we’d already acrued, thereby tipping a balance somewhere that we weren’t comfortable tipping. Looking back now, we wish we’d tipped.

Strangely Absent: Transformers

We don’t understand how this was omitted from Unreality’s listicles, but we’ll just pretend it didn’t happen.