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The Iron Chef Opening Theme Was Composed by Hans Zimmer?

Today I learned that the opening theme song for the original Iron Chef TV program was adapted from a song composed by Hans Zimmer, who has done scores for films like Interstellar, Dune, Blade Runner: 2049, Inception, and Dunkirk. Perhaps even weirder, the name of the theme song is “Show Me Your Firetruck”. (The song is from Zimmer’s score for the movie Backdraft.)

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Stefan Edited

WHAT??!!

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Jack H

This has to be one of the greatest show openings of all time.

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Danielle NH

Go big or go home.

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Tom Boegel

Several of the Iron Chef songs came from the soundtrack to the movie Backdraft.

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John R Burnett

"Fukui-san!"

Always loved that he is choking on or cracking up at his wild choice to take an apple bite of raw bell pepper.

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