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You know what I'm having fun with right now? I play a DVD episode on the computer while I call up one of the "wrong" music tracks and play it on Windows Media Player at the same time. I expect these were episodes that were started early on, but production delays resulted in them being aired late in the season. Joe: the Movie music (like "Fight or Flee," a Sandstorm introduction that we got long after Sandstorm's first animated appearance, and "Only Human"). This is similar to how some late Transformers third-season episodes don't use any of the G.I. I think the episodes were probably be produced out of order, with many of them being pieced together simultaneously, and these were probably the earliest ones finished, before the shared music library was available. Joe episodes from 1985 that don't use the shared music at all. Joe: the Movie was *intended* as a theatrical release, but things like Hasbro interfering with Duke's death scene, Zarana's nude scene (did you know there was an official animation model for naked Zarana?!), and the eventual shift to a home video release, might have delayed things considerably. Joe: the Movie first, though, especially considering there are a lot of themes heard exclusively in the movie that were never heard in Transformers. I feel very strongly that the new music was composed for G.I. Joe: the Movie wasn't released to home video until April 1987 (it was never in theaters), so if anything, it's "really" Transformers music that was used for G.I. Actually, the third season of Transformers started using the new music in October 1986 and G.I. Joe and appropriated for Transformers, but I don't really have any proof of this. I always tend to think that the music was written for G.I.
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Joe: the Movie, which uses older music from the television series but also a slew of newer themes that were also used in Transformers season three. Then of course there's the matter of G.I. Joe also borrows some music from Transformers season one.) There are at least three dozen shared themes very little of the music introduced in Transformers season two was unique to that series. So, it's clear to me now that Sunbow likely requested a shared library of music from the start, one which was always intended to be used for both shows. If the scheduling had been tweaked just slightly, it could easily have gone the other way around. It would be one thing if Transformers didn't start using the new themes until many weeks or months down the road. All of these episodes were being written, recorded, and animated concurrently. Joe music" by merit of beating Transformers by seven days.

Joe September 23rd for Transformers) so it's really only "G.I. Joe only began one week before Transformers did that year (September 16th for G.I. Joe in September 1985, but it would show up in Transformers that same month. Most of the new music made its debut on G.I. Joe melody if it had been allowed to continue for more than a few seconds.) The other is the military drum beat we hear during the rocket base speech in "Autobot Spike," which I think would have continued with a familiar G.I. One of them was the "wrong" commercial bumper theme in "The Insecticon Syndrome," which was likely included accidentally, or perhaps as a joke.

Joe-centric theme showing up in Transformers. (There do seem to be two instances of a very G.I. Joe music that did not specifically sound like it belonged on that show (i.e., nothing with the "Real American Hero" melody) and borrowed it for Transformers. For some reason I had always thought that somebody had taken all the G.I. Joe (episodes 1-5 aired in 1983 episodes 6-11 aired in 1984 the new music began with the 1985 episodes, but for some reason numerous online resources lump all three years together as "season one"). This was the second season of Transformers and the third year for G.I. I always had sort of a vague idea of which themes were reused, and approximately when it started, but now that I've been digging through both shows to build clean sound files for the virtual soundtrack, several interesting things have availed themselves to me.įor one, it wasn't until the beginning of the 1985 television season that the shared music came into play. The music in both shows was composed by the same guys, both shows were Marvel Productions, so it made sense for them to share resources.

Joe had a number of shared musical background themes. Okay, so we all know that Transformers and G.I.
