--- description: Trailers for Serial Mom feature the song Bad to the Bone -- a musical workhorse (by George Thorogood and the Destroyers) whose use in movies and TV is rivaled only by James Brown's I Got You (I Feel... title: Name That Musical Cliche image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Name That Musical Cliche by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 25, 1994 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 25, 1994 4:00 AM CUT Trailers for Serial Mom feature the song Bad to the Bone — a musical workhorse (by George Thorogood and the Destroyers) whose use in movies and TV is rivaled only by James Brown’s I Got You (I Feel Good). So who’s raking in bigger royalties? Bad to the Bone MOVIES: Christine Flesh and Bone Problem Child Problem Child 2 Slayground Talk Radio Terminator 2 Vice Versa MOVIE TRAILERS: The Sandlot Serial Mom TV SHOWS (partial list) Coach Married … with Children (3 shows) Melrose Place Miami Vice Tequila and Bonetti Who’s the Boss? VIDEO GAMES Super Nintendo “Rock ‘n Roll Racing” Total: 39 I Got You (I Feel Good) MOVIES: Good Morning, Vietnam K-9 Mr. Baseball Mr. Destiny Mr. Jones The Mommy Market Moving Violations No Man’s Land White Men Can’t Jump Who’s Harry Crumb? MOVIE TRAILERS: Frankie and Johnny TV COMMERCIALS (partial list): AlliedSignal Automotive Constitution Healthcare Senokot Laxative Swanson Le Menu Lightstyle Total: 32 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6725178/name-that-musical-cliche/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6725178/name-that-musical-cliche/"},"headline":"Name That Musical Cliche","datePublished":"1994-04-25T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T08:26:35.512Z","description":"Trailers for Serial Mom feature the song Bad to the Bone -- a musical workhorse (by George Thorogood and the Destroyers) whose use in movies and TV is rivaled only by James Brown's I Got You (I Feel...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6725178/name-that-musical-cliche/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6725178/name-that-musical-cliche/","name":"Name That Musical Cliche"}}]}] ```