Kelly Clarkson Belts Golden Girls, Mary Tyler Moore, Cheers Themes

Clarkson kicked off the second season of her talk show with the theme songs to some classic sitcoms.

Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP of Editorial and Special Projects at equalpride. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

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September 21 2020 3:38 PM EST

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Fresh off her Daytime Emmy win, Kelly Clarkson kicked off the second season of her wildly successful talk show on Monday. In her "Kellyoke" segment, where she crushes covers of songs from every genre, she took on a medley of classic TV theme songs.

The segment begins with Clarkson in bed and flipping through channels as every station seems to bombard her with more bad news from the past year. A dream sequence takes her to the set of Cheers, where she sings that theme song before she steps into the world of The Golden Girls with "Thank You for Being a Friend." Next, she sings the Full House theme, and Bob Saget, who starred in the series, appears.

When Saget asks why she's so down, she explains that she's blue because she misses her friends. That's when he guides her to the set of her show and sings the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme "Love Is All Around" to her. Eventually, she kicks it into high gear and belts the classic sitcom song to kick off her show.