Mandy Patinkin on the distinctive theme to “I’ll Be There For You starring Jennifer Aniston”
The tear-stained file labeled “Good Stuff To Come Out Of This Whole 2020 Nonsense” is an unsurprisingly slim one. (It’s not a literal file, we’re all working from home, this is a mental file and yes, even mental files can become tear-stained.) There’s the kid who is hopefully making loads of money off of being bored in the house, there’s the song of the summer, there’s all the Murder, She Wrote stuff we bought on Etsy, you get the idea. Tucked inside that non-physical file is the ongoing pop culture quiz Mandy Patinkin’s son has been proctoring for his parents (that’d be actor/writer Kathryn Grody and her husband, Mandy Patinkin). Really, all things Patinkin/Grody belong in that file, but the quiz is a particular gem and this, dear reader, could be its zenith. Behold, the Friends theme.