If it makes you feel better about using it, the way I hear it the one with the bald bearded guy and the cute girl is from a skit and her expression is her trying not to crack up.
Jerry Goldsmith (and John Williams, and James Newton Howard) frequently use an old opera style of Themes for each specific character/setting/etc. The little theme isn’t whole songs, but little flourishes that makes it somewhat obvious which character the song is about. It’s fantastic when you pay attention and notice it. Listen to “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack by John Williams, or “The Village” soundtrack my James Newton Howard. Star Wars of course is very obvious in its use.
Makes Williams sound like a blunt instrument (pun ever so intended) comparatively. But then, at the mere mention of Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Superman, or Jurassic Park, we all know and hear it in our heads.
That’s the thing about John Williams. He may not be the best composer of film soundtracks or even the most original, but he has basically written the soundtrack of our lives.
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