The Tongue-in-cheek theme song for the very sad tongue-in-cheek comedy about the Korean war – directed at the Vietnam war – for both film and TV series. The film was released in 1970, at the height of the Vietnam war, and the TV series debuted in 1972, appealing to the growing anti-war crowd, lasted 11 years and was arguably one of the most successful series ever.

The lyrics were written by Mike Altman, the 14 year-old-son of the film director Robert Altman,
who wanted “The stupidest ever song” to accentuate the film’s message. Robert initially attempted to write the lyrics himself at first but felt his 45-year-old brain couldn’t write anything “stupid enough,” so he gave the task to his 14-year-old son, who reportedly wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes.