For those who've seen 1985's "The Breakfast Club," try to imagine its final, iconic scene without Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)" playing in the background. John Bender walks across a football field, raises his fist into the air, the shot freeze-frames, and ... what? Everything is silent, and the credits roll? That final shot and that song go so hand-in-hand that it's impossible to imagine them without each other, the same as lots of other famous films and songs . With that said, lots of TV shows also elevated certain songs to legendary statuses.

Who, for instance, could think of "Dawson's Creek" without Paula Cole's controversially Grammy-winning "I Don't Want to Wait" playing in the background? What about Massive Attack's superb and moving (if sadly overplayed at this

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