Family Guy - The incessant use of "Fortunate Son"

Season 16, episode 16: "Family Guy" Through the Years

[@MrRupert]

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[@daxbradley4346]

"War is old men talking and young men hearing Fortunate Son" -Winston Churchill

[@MrTruckerf]

Why are people always f....g up what Winston and I said? It baffles the s....t out of me. -Abraham Lincoln

[@orthodoxcrusader5413]

WTF are you guys talking about -Woodrow Wilson

[@daxbradley4346]

@@orthodoxcrusader5413 lmao Well played

[@cheesus7672]

To say it with the words of Oscar Wilde: "It's like this and like that and like this and uh"

[@museves]

Dud dudu dudud dudu dudu dududu ~ -Robert B. Weide

[@khlavkalash8693]

fortunate son ... i can't believe they made a war for that song.

[@chasm671]

Think how Hitler must feel. He started a World War for maximum Wagner vibes, and now everybody only thinks of Americans in helicopters when they hear Ride of the Valkyries.

[@elang7961]

Stolen comment from the official music video fortune son

[@mencar1879]

@@chasm671 2

[@ZeebleBub616]

Can't help it...just like the Vikings just had to invade England after listening to the song 'Immigrant' by Led Zeppelin

[@JCBCheese]

Yeah

[@acehighjohn1759]

He who can endure 'Fortunate Son' longest shall be victorious - Sun Tzu

[@ThePuff18]

“All ware fare is based” -Sun Tzu -Martincitopants

[@faleilham8334]

- Victory isn't just about a winning a Wars, but also take people's hearts - Sun Tzu *(Note : This quiote are taken after he get to reincarnated into modern world of Japan, his fate are changed he served as Idol Managers)

[@Red_neck01]

"sun tzu said that and I think he knows a little more about fighting than you do Pal because he Invented it an than he used his fight money to buy 2 of every single ccr song and than requested the crap out of them" tf2 soldier

[@impacking]

LMMFAO!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@glifwsatti]

It ain't me

[@liamwilson7549]

That sound engineer must have laughed to death making those fluctuations 🤣

[@tappajaav]

Another day at job, another audio edit.

[@AxxLAfriku]

IT is weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my content. Sometimes IT is annoying. But right now, IT would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear liam

[@DrHundTF2]

Let me guess. Bots

[@liamwilson7549]

@@DrHundTF2 probably lol, I’m never this popular 🤣😂😅😭💀

[@Sawer]

As a soundguy, granted its another day at the job. But it is fun to get to do weird shit like that xD

[@Edu_Gonz]

Post Traumatic Song Disorder

[@dreadedworld8864]

IT AINT ME IT AINT ME

[@hade2332]

Lmao

[@caveiroso095]

@@dreadedworld8864 oh no... THE GUN FIRES, THE JUNGLE, MY FELLOWS JESUS CHRIST

[@lukenash9719]

Underrated comment

[@AlqhemyA]

PTSD lol

[@charelpeffer52]

I once listened to fortunate son with my dad and he just said:”back in iraq we used to do helicopter patrols listening to that song”

[@TheGhostTrooper1]

Every single patrol with just Fortunate Son playing?

[@TheGhostTrooper1]

@Hernando Malinche Just in general? If so, I can get behind that :)

[@Yukkuri_Yakumo]

Lmao

[@gavinnaismith1510]

your father has the high ground

[@Jorendo]

@anon ymous What a Jarhead!

[@roydouglas3756]

I actually served in Vietnam from 1968-1970 and my grandson introduced me to this scene at a family gathering, so I am here to say how hilarious and shockingly accurate this gag was, at least during my years in service. Me and most other troops in the platoon I was in made jokes about how the song was practically tattooed into our heads due to how many times we've heard it, either if we were at our base camp or traveling, we always heard Fortunate Son playing off on the AFVN station, although occasionally we would hear music from The Animals or Jimi Hendrix thrown in the mix, it was mainly a bunch of CCR everywhere you went. I view Fortunate Son as a bittersweet gift that I was forced to endure then, on one hand, I've had some good memories cracking jokes with other people whenever we could stop worrying about everything, but on the other hand, it reminds me about how Vietnam was a gift that kept on giving in all the worst ways.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

That's interesting, considering this song was released in October, 1969.

[@alexmartinez5859]

@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 Most tours lasted for a year or more. Depended on your luck, I think, but if you got sent to Vietnam around 1968, you might have been present to hear this being played, along with other hits from the catalogue, usually coming from folk, rock, and Motown artists.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

@@alexmartinez5859 Yeah, I remember.

[@flacidhouse350]

@@alexmartinez5859 No. A "tour" is one year or less. People that were in Vietnam for years did multiple tours. Also, luck has nothing to do with it. Only one tour was required of any soldier. Those that did second and third tours volunteered for them.

[@roydouglas3756]

@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 I served from 1968-1970, I only went on 2 tours during Vietnam and this comment is referencing the last 2 I took before being discharged just so you know.

[@didamnesia3575]

The fact the music gets louder/softer as he moves in and out is hilarious and smart

[@Yman83464z]

He must have been thrusting quite slowly... Even just this morning - I humped much faster! Especially when she languidly whispered in my ear: "Good boy! You can cum now..." [I wish!]

[@AvatarOfGames]

Poor soul.... At least in my unit we had Paint it Black.

[@austin2842]

I was gonna say. Or even Rooster.

[@reidkemp]

Austin I don’t think that one came out till the 90s, but still definitely in that category.

[@ferdinandbardamu.]

Or Riders on the Storm

[@furioussherman7265]

Any unit have All Along the Watchtower?

[@arturosilva3869]

Thats the underrated song

[@theflooddude1753]

Trees: *start speaking Vietnamese* Sky: *start singing Fortunate Son*

[@GarlicPudding]

And then you realize you're not in a movie...

[@F1god04]

I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees, and for some reason they speak Vietnamese.

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

SAMs: Speaks USSR anthem

[@nickrockz97]

@@dragonstormdipro1013 or the migs

[@guyintheback9709]

Agent orange and that good old napalm

[@C_005]

Quagmire's junk: "It aiₙ'ₜ ₘₑ, ᵢₜ ₐᵢₙ't me. ᵢ ₐᵢₙ'ₜ no seₙₐₜₒᵣ'ₛ son, it aiₙ'ₜ me, it aiₙ'ₜ ₘₑ ᵢ ain'ₜ ₙₒ բortuₙarₑ ₒne."

[@hoodiemike2816]

@@Z_K772 it’s obvious to me that it was written with his penis

[@Killer-wi1mr]

You ever saw a dick starting to sing Fortunate Son? This is some real weird shit to think about, but funny

[@Die_Staatbond_van_Suid-Afrika]

How are you not banned?!

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Ahh, Fortunate Son: The Wilhelm Scream of Vietnam movies.

[@LCMhistory]

nice LOL

[@LCMhistory]

@Petersquid It's a symbol... became an anti-war movement anthem, an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War and solidarity with the soldiers fighting it. The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement.

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

@@LawrenceReitan It's common knowledge

[@LCMhistory]

@@LawrenceReitan Wilhelm scream?

[@KrolKaz]

It just captures the vibe of the 60s and early 70s so perfectly

[@felipeortiz8832]

When your in the Vietcong and the sky starts singing fortune son

[@Anakin-Skywalker.]

Felipew sampaio you know america is coming hoorah 🇺🇸🤠💪🏻😤

[@rosaespinoza3188]

Vietcong:Ah shit ,here we go again

[@doodskie999]

Ah its gonna rain napalm and agent orange

[@scribe11000]

Much good it did them

[@jefferydunam2157]

When the air is turning orange

[@crankymcgee]

I like how all Quagmire has to do is mention “that ‘There’s something happening here’ song” and everybody already knows

[@paynoattentionplease]

I had to look it up cuz I didn't know what it was and the second it started playing I was like "ohhhhhhhh, yep, he's got a point". For those wondering it's Buffalo Springfield's For what it's worth - "it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound, everyone look what's going down" is the chorus.

[@sleepdeep305]

For what it's worth, that's really all he needs to say.

[@thomashogan7272]

The thousand yard stare. "Quagmire, I know you enjoy staring 3,000 feet into dead space..." Brilliantly subtle.

[@paddyret7968]

Another really subtle joke (maybe unintentional) was when he mentioned "the 'there's something happening here song'" because the title of the song (For what it's worth) isn't mentioned in the lyrics

[@IIIRobIII]

except that it isnt subtle at all, it`s right on the nose. you wouldnt notice subtle if it kicked ya in the nuts

[@LinkofHyrule1996]

They play that song in almost every Vietnam setting in movies, games and shows. It might as well become the official Vietnam war anthem. Edit: I get the joke full on, I'm just a little annoyed because they used that song so much.

[@SeyhawksNow]

which is ironic considering the song itself was a song against the war. CCR says in the song how the war was started by people who were fortunate enough not to be called up during the war

[@calibrazxr750]

@@SeyhawksNow actually, and I may have misunderstood them here, but it was about the children of influential people, (senators, generals, the rich and famous ect), who got out of serving in Vietnam thanks to their parents influence. The song is about how the person telling the story in the song was not fortunate enough to have influential parents and therefore had to go to war in the 'Nam. Hence the oft repeated line of "I ain't no fortunate one".

[@johnnyringo5777]

It's not actually in that many Vietnam war movies and especially not the classic ones like apocalypse now, full metal jacket, platoon or hamburger hill

[@LinkofHyrule1996]

@@johnnyringo5777 Apocalypse Now had that song in it.

[@johnnyringo5777]

@@LinkofHyrule1996 what scene?

[@al_rusty420]

Don’t forget the pilots who only heard danger zone

[@devenstreeter]

I feel bad for them

[@SStupendous]

From 2 decades after Nam?

[@micperez819]

Danger Zone was the 80's

[@nowizza]

@@micperez819 Kenny Loggins' song?

[@johnp2110]

Cheap Trick's "Mighty Wings" was also very savage/brutal.

[@breakhouse]

the fact that this KZbin video is real but also a gag in an American Dad episode blows my mind

[@JorfdansFilms1]

It's so good to me how this show manages it's tone. It is irreverent and crass and incredibly violent with some real pathos built in. The show isn't afraid to explore different sides of characters than you've seen, it's not afraid to do things that would piss off fans, and it's also not afraid to have genuine emotion.

[@SumNormy]

"The only song I heard in Nam was Fortunate Son" Sympathy For the Devil: "Please allow me to introduce myself..."

[@notanonymous3976]

ayyyyyyyyy thats a good one

[@smithwesson1896]

Ayyyyy that's a good one

[@levihamm6640]

Woo woo

[@professorperry4790]

@@levihamm6640 *ahem* WOO WOO

[@Termin8or_115]

Thank you

[@StuUngar]

Don’t forget “Paint It Black” by Rolling Stones. Personally, I like to walk around burning cities singing Mickey Mouse.

[@jessehernandez8419]

True that

[@zachlang4880]

Don't forget All Along the Watch Tower

[@emotionalsupportostrich2480]

A man of culture I see.

[@rockefeller511]

Full metal jacket 😆

[@OB.x]

M I CKEY M O USA!

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

Any time my friends and I are playing some video game and anything involving shooting from a helicopter happens, we always reference this song because of all the Vietnam-centric action movies we grew up on. It's insane how helicopters and that song have been permanently linked together in pop culture memory.

[@theshinythunderclappokemon5830]

0:36 This scene is my favorite because if I was there and I heard the song muffling and unmuffling because of what was going on in there, I’d be on the floor laughing hard. 🤣

[@kballs94]

Um okay..?

[@PsychoGaming805]

0:32 Why are people barely talking about the sound going in and out lmaooo

[@rthfalconer1306]

That is seth macfarlane genius right there

[@sherpa4204]

Only real connoisseur

[@jorgeglez7088]

not trying to be snarky, but the joke is pretty clear, I think that's why honestly

[@sherpa4204]

@@jorgeglez7088probably, but also a lot of people just pay zero attention about what they see during their entire life

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

It's one of those things, you know... :-P

[@shoresean1237]

Quagmire: Then, they sent me to Skull Island - horrible monsters, but at least the songs were different...

[@erensthefer5127]

it would have been hilarious to see him getting on that girl and seeing him on the island 😂😆😆😆😂😂🤣

[@uhohLungJuice]

Yup. At least they used Black Sabbath there!

[@erensthefer5127]

I've wondered if they played Tarzan theme song would've been hydronic

[@joshjames1879]

Go on-- big picture project . net-- and read “The Present” for the truth about life and death, which can change the world from page one. Nothing is more important than reading it.

[@erensthefer5127]

Okay???!!!!

[@Jackw00pw00p2]

"The first casualty of war is the eardrums." -Joseph Stalin

[@peterfirside295]

-Joseph Swanson more like

[@jebidiahnewkedkracker1025]

The sound of Howitzers shooting off rounds can do a number on eardrums. I can only imagine what it must be like for someone when the round actually LANDS, assuming they are in an immediate survival radius.

[@samschreiber1640]

Who's here from American dad episode 7

[@noahdaboa7259]

Lol me

[@AkshayGowda007]

Fortunate son should be the national anthem of Vietnam

[@bjornzek]

it basically is.

[@chrisalvarez4575]

@Hoàng Nguyên The Vietnam anthem is terrible tho...

[@chrisalvarez4575]

The music itself. Doesn’t get me hooked or feel anything

[@thesocialistrepublicofbols6540]

Only the south Vietnamese

[@tinycockjock1967]

@Hoàng Nguyên An anthem being a call for war? Ain't it better to try and fix the current issues your country got instead of calling the citizens to war?

[@ovni2295]

I think my favorite part of this is when Peter says "I know you like staring like three thousand feet out into dead space". Three thousand feet is one thousand yards, and the stare is more commonly called the Thousand Yard Stare. That's actually pretty clever.

[@BigDaddy-yp4mi]

Very clever and more clever that you caught it

[@Biden_is_demented]

Giggitty!

[@vikingghost117]

Checkmate Peter.

[@samrobacker346]

It Is. Also a sign of "shell shock" that became PTSD nowadays. A lotta talk of drunken, she'll shocked father's back then

[@pohorex6834]

@@samrobacker346 the thousand yard stare is literally shell shock, straight up

[@michaelfreeman9144]

I can remember listening to fortunate son on 8 track riding in my brothers 62 safari wagon. My parents were worried about my brother getting drafted. Then my dad signed for me to enlist at 17. Ironic song to me. Never seen battle as a Vietnam era vet. I am thankful for that. I'm thankful that the majority of people see the Vietnam soldiers as heroes now and not the embarrassment they were accused.

[@JayRidders]

This title was used in the American Dad! episode "Beyond the Alcove." Whoever wrote that in with a reverse abbreviation of Mr. Rupert's name clearly loves these clips.

[@RatelHBadger]

Needs more Along the Watchtower

[@stolasburrito74656]

I love that song! -There must be some way out of here...

[@azetoz.3369]

said the joker to the theif.

[@subhisweilem5577]

There’s too much confusion I can’t get no relief...

[@stolasburrito74656]

Business men, they drink my wine... Plowmen dig my earth.....

[@subhisweilem5577]

None were level on the mind Nobody up at his word Hey, hey.... *Awesome guitar solo*

[@DudemeisterNL]

Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth (the "something is happening here" song)

[@SvenTviking]

Country Joe and the Fish. “I-feel-like-I’m-fixiin’-to-die-rag.”

[@chambeet]

Well, yeah.

[@billywhite8006]

Ur a fucking boss mate

[@Mindraker1]

Make this sticky. *bump*

[@matteofernandes7102]

SvenTviking exactly what I was gonna do good to know I’m not the only one who could point it out

[@CLaw-tb5gg]

There was also constant "Gimme Shelter" and "All Along The Watchtower", for some reason.

[@jackboyle9345]

The way the music goes louder and quieter like its going in and out when he's at the club made me laugh so hard.

[@briandoyle6792]

I just showed this clip to my Dad who is a Vietnam Vet 67'-68' he laughed, "Fortunate Son" came out in 69'. He said the song that was constantly being requested and played on the Armed Force's Radio and by the soldiers in the field, while he was "in country" was "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". So, Quagmire's experience with "Fortunate Son" is not too far fetched.

[@alanhelgeson690]

If you listen very carefully to the words of fortunate son it is a slam against Albert Gore. Albert Gore's Father was a Senator from Tennessee and a millionaire, while the other American who were drafted had to spend 12 months in combat Al Gore Jr. Only spent 6 month in a rear eschilon job as a reporter for Stars And Stripes magazine with his own bodyguard. The song fortunate Son should be subtitled the ballad of A$$hole Gore.

[@johnnyhb89]

@@alanhelgeson690 Except it wasn't . The writer of the song, explicitely said it was inspired by David Eisenhower, and Nixon mainly as while he didn't have a son, with all of his pro war rhetoric, you knew in you deepest of hearts it wouldn't matter if he did. David Eisenhower enlisted and spent 3 years on a boat, Al gore enlisted as you pointed out, and Bush ended up serving stateside, left service to help on a campaign for several months in alabama, and apparently all the pay records for those specific months were apparently found to have been destroyed while he was president. All rich folk and senator sons get the royal treatment. It could be about any representative or rich fellow's boy in washington and be equally true. Heck look at the 2020 election, we had a choice between Lt. Bonespurs and Sergeant Asthma as a teen. Both noted athletes before deferrals and medical exemptions.

[@johnallen9439]

I can relate. Here where I live we have a classic rock station I've listened to for years at work. And they would insistently play Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. It's horrible to play any song over and over again. And having to hear "Another Brick in the Wall" for the 50th time will make you suicidal.

[@johnnyhb89]

@@johnallen9439 You say that, but I bet it comes back around. Our local station overplayed nirvana and Mettalica in the 90s because that was the most popular rock bands. In the 2000s they played nirvana and Mettalica as filler between the hits. In 2010s they were played as throwbacks. Now 2020s, they play the same bands , but now they are classics.

[@terryshrk]

@@alanhelgeson690 You win the internet TOTAL BULLSHIT award for the year with that asinine, indignant, whore-ish, ridiculous damn lie of a written comment. Creedence Clearwater Revival gave two fat fucks about one specific rich kid,.All Gore,..who was one of hundreds of children of well connected elites serving in active duty jobs which might've been slightly less risky as oppose to frontline combat. G W. Bush comes to mind,.his Vietnam service amounts to flying an reserve F-4 to defend Texas while NEVER LEAVING Texas air space LoL! If you actually take the time to,.youj know,..read what the person who WROTE THE DAMN songs has to say,..Youll see its about class issues and elitism.

[@barrywonderdog]

Hah, you guys had it easy. In my submarine, all we could hear was the distant sound of Russians singing their national anthem with a Scottish accent.

[@dinamosflams]

In before Stalingrad 1942 all there was is Erika everywhere

[@weege001]

I understood that reference.gif

[@kevinbbadd]

No you heard das boot playing over and over

[@piotrd.4850]

@@kevinbbadd no, that was on the destroyers and asw frigates!

[@FatGuyInaTruck]

Better than Pavarotti coming out their asses....

[@603xxg]

It’s even funnier because it’s very clearly an anti-war / anti-military song. Yet they still use it so often.

[@officialjrmontoyatv]

They do it because it was played during the time of the war, and also the fact that war is terrible.

[@deezynar]

You remember the songs that were being played at key points in your life. If you got dumped by a girl, the saddest song playing on the radio then got burned into your memory and is associated with that experience. I went on a hike with my brother, and to this day I still hear Chuck Mangione "Feels So Good" when I think about it. Music gets hooked onto memories. I don't listen to the radio today, so I no longer have musical connections to experiences. I don't know if it's better, or worse, this way.

[@KingMar70]

00:33 in and out sound 😂😂

[@savage4749]

I'm rollin

[@RGMerkel]

I laughed so hard I snorted lol

[@dawghousetv]

@NTF SQUAD 67 Pretty sure these guys ripped this off lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6ucfKNqnt6We7M

[@dawghousetv]

@Daniel Jordan Just showing a related video that others might like!

[@dawghousetv]

@Daniel Jordan No I am saying we ripped them off LOL

[@thedudethatneveruploads2617]

0:35 the song getting quieter and louder here I think isn't appreciated enough.

[@cainster]

One of the less subtle NSFW references they have snuck past the censors.

[@ninja_tony]

One of the most genius penis jokes I've ever heard lol

[@mirrortoremind]

That’s actually what slayed me! 💀🤣😂

[@Yeetypete]

I was searching for this

[@richardm8807]

oh yes it is.

[@lotso655]

This video is canon in the most recent American Dad episode

[@mohamoudkodah4758]

lol I was about to type that.

[@ivanraphaelarosa2369]

Not only is the video canon, but the channel is.

[@robdixson196]

Vietnam was a war that literally had a soundtrack. There were psyops helicopters equipped with high powered speakers, and yes sometimes those helicopters flew over battles cranking music. I heard no mention of Fortunate Son, but in Dispatches it was mentioned that they were cranking Monster by Steppenwolf over one major battle.

[@spiritualeco-syndicalisthe207]

Creedence Clearwater Revival: makes a pacifist song against the war Everybody else: "Hey let's use this song in every war movie about Nam"

[@dawghousetv]

Pretty sure these guys ripped this off lol

[@morganrobinson8042]

It's a song about being disenfranchised in the last, incredibly unpopular, war we had with a draft. While it may have long since been washed out due to CCR comprehensively kicking ass, the earlier usages were all about being screwed because you were poor and not wanting to be there. It holds up, if you know the song more than the opening riff.

[@liadon31]

@@morganrobinson8042 Which is why it was so ironic that Trump kept playing it at his rallies. He's the fortunate son, literally the "millionaire's son" who dodged the draft 5 times thanks to attending college and a "bone spurs" diagnosis that happened to come up after he was about to graduate (which apparently was a common affliction among the children of the wealthy that miraculously cured itself once the war was over). Though, picking a song that lords it over the "losers and suckers" who were too poor to pay their way out of Vietnam makes perfect sense for him.

[@morganrobinson8042]

@@liadon31 Conservatives have a bad habit of taking ironic quasi-patriotic songs and reading them as patriotic, and appropriating them for their own use without internalizing the criticism. They are remarkably tone deaf and media illiterate, with no interest in understanding these artist's perspective.

[@mitri5389]

@@morganrobinson8042 yeah and democrats hate America and try to destroy it... lets hire people based on gender and race, let us reduce the amout of jobs in our country by offshoring while importing illegal Hispanics who wil never learn English or assimilate and will run back to thier country after they made a hundred thousand dollars...

[@ItsAce671]

I remember I was started playing Fortunate Son with my grandpa in the next room (he’s a Vietnam veteran) and I heard him yell “GOD DAMIT TURN OFF THAT SONG BEFORE I START GETTING FLASHBACKS!”

[@ismaelnehme379]

LMFAO are you dead serious?

[@cageybee7221]

@The Monster Under Your Bed r/NothingHappens

[@randomdude6719]

Either your grandpas the funniest guy I’ve never met, or he’s got some bad ptsd

[@johnwymer1215]

Acer is full of shit just like 99.9% of all KZbin commenters.

[@nicholasreiss7077]

John Wymer ain’t got no reason to assume he’s lying but alright

[@wildj9912]

Those wide lapels are giving me 1970s flashbacks. Next thing they'll be a mirror ball hanging from the ceiling and everyone saying "what's happening." Oh the horror.

[@scottgoodman8993]

Have a nice day.

[@slaviclettuce7937]

“It’s not the people who vote that counts, it’s the people who play Fortunate Son” -Joseph Stalin

[@Soundwave3591]

"Sergeant! You find any VC weapon caches?" "No sir, but we found more of those speakers that play "Fortunate Son" every time a helicopter flies over!"

[@kadennelms8419]

Jungle speakers are a big problem to this day

[@P9u9r6p2l4e]

This made me laugh pretty hard, thank you XD

[@autofox1744]

*When the trees start speaking Creedance Clearwater Revival*

[@lolyankovic6952]

AutoFox1 *Green river Intensifies*

[@tl5108]

@@lolyankovic6952 bare foot girls dancing in the moonlight

[@turdmanjones59]

@@tl5108 I can hear the bullfrog callin' me, oh

[@TokyoJoe703]

I was looking for this comment

[@gustavo10912]

Paint it black: "I AM official Vietnam anthem" Fortunate son: "Hold My machine gun"

[@beowulf1417]

Unironically, one of the reasons I loved the game Vietcong is because that opened with "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges instead of Fortunate Son. That and being one of the few games to employ things like disorientation from grenades. Good times.

[@edgarveras5229]

Isn’t there a scene in the movie jarhead... where Jake Gyllenhaal’s character is like “This is Vietnam music! WTF can we get our own music?”

[@oscardiaz-ym7gx]

The song was break on through from the doors

[@bigtimepimpin666]

Funnt toi Remember the actor and i only Remember the Marine Swafford. Yes, "can't we have our own music?" Unfortunately Depeche Mode wouldn't work for Desert Storm.

[@Ronin.97]

funny how true it is though.

[@Calmdowndude]

That's what i thought About their similarities 😂

[@bigtimepimpin666]

@Stuart Merry I stand corrected. "things in your chest, you need to confess..." You've opened up mine eyes. I can see myself driving in armor raising hell whole singing... "I'm taking a ride with my best friend..."

[@theduke7539]

Vietnam remains to this day, the only war to have a sound track. Edit: Yes, other wars had songs. 4 or 5 songs that are iconic and easily recognizable even by non history fans barely qualifies as a side, let alone a whole Album. Vietnam had so many songs that you can watch Apocalypse Now, FMJ, and Good Morning Vietnam, and you'll be hit with about 3 songs that are in each of them, but you'll be hit with over 2 dozen tracks from a litany of genres that even non history fans will still recognize as being associated with the Vietnam Conflict. Edit 2: okay so this is apparently hard to get. Songs written after the conflict don't count. No one road into Bagdad listening to seven nation army. They road in listening to Teenage Dirtbag and Born in the USA. No one invaded France listening to We gotta sink the Bismarck. If they had a radio to listen to, they were listening to Til We Meet Again. Songs written or parodies by soldiers in the field are cool and all, but ultimately don't become widely known, even in the military until long after the conflict has passed. Blood upon the risers being a big example. It was written by members of the 101st and 82nd airborne. But not even everyone in those two divisions had heard the song before the war was over, let alone the rest of the military, and certainly not the pop culture charts at home. That's what I mean. Vietnam movies have bad ass sound tracks because they play only what the soldiers in Vietnam were actually listening to during the war. Okay. My mistake, seven nation army did intact release Feb of 03, so it is possible people did listen to it going into Bagdad, still don't find it likely, but it's not impossible. But they certainly weren't listening to Rockstar. C2005. And all yall who say you hate NB do so because social media told you to.

[@danielleking262]

🤘🔥

[@EllissDee4you4me]

Really? I always associate Iraq/Afghanistan with avenged sevenfold for some reason. Probably because I dated a girl who’s dad was a marine who was deployed there and that’s all he ever listened to.

[@MikhaelAhava]

Maybe not, before they used to play drums and bagpipes during battle. There were even some in WWII by the Scots.

[@bradywalton1380]

@@EllissDee4you4me they make a lot of songs about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan

[@gagabyte7778]

@Josepi Groyper It's actually "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which is waaaaay more epic

[@xabbitz6148]

By the way this exact video is shown in American dad season 17 episode 7 at minute 5:08 with the channel name and views plus the date this video was published (at the time)

[@dstorm7752]

The kids who produce "Family Guy" are too pampered to understand this, but for a young man of draft age, there was nothing funny about the Vietnam War

[@martijnstuart95]

You, a casual: *fortunate son* Me, an intellectual: *Ride of the Valkyries*

[@andrealombardi9434]

I can hear the Hueys Rolling in

[@onlysaneman9341]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning...

[@hollywoodghostbusters9869]

Big Duke 6, Big Duke 6....

[@AIIEYESONME]

Charlie don't surf!

[@seanbrown2294]

"The Horror.... Of Horror."

[@basedbattledroid3507]

This is so accurate when it comes to every single film about 'Nam.

[@PrinceFloof]

They even used paranoid by Black Sabbath

[@giorgiolarriva4814]

As Far as I can remember only Forrest Gump which is not really a movie about the Vietnam war , uses that song during the Vietnam war part of the movie . The only movie that feature the Vietnam war and that song . I just think we all think about fortune son and Vietnam is the early days of KZbin when u look up the song and you just get a bunch of videos playing Vietnam war footage with that song playing . That how I remember it growing up . That and S.O.G mission from Black ops

[@heginschristianstrong7707]

probably bc the song is about the draft during vietnam.

[@Orcawhale1]

It's mostly down to the fact that CCR signed away all of their legal rights, meaning they are free to use in movies.

[@gbonkers666]

every single movie...

[@crockodile85]

As a kid growing up in Asia during the Vietnam War the song I closely associate with the conflict is Blowing in the Wind. Not the Bob Dylan version but a more of Muzak version that would have been song on a family friendly variety show.

[@user-vx2vl9cr5m]

0:41 the way it cuts in and out in the room tells you something. I won’t say, but I think you understand.

[@randomstuff8149]

Fortunate Son: Exists Every game or movie featuring Vietnam: And I took that

[@johnwymer1215]

Wasn't in We Were Soldiers. Therefore you're a dumbass as well as a liar.

[@Providence..]

@@johnwymer1215 *sigh* I love the internet sometimes.

[@Nash-]

@@Providence.. stop talking, no one can refute the all mighty no pvp full name account with no uploads and sub count hidden

[@ItsShane79]

Not every vietnam movie has Fortunate Son. Actually the very best of those movies avoided that song alltogether. (Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now)

[@starkers1997]

Call Of Duty: Black Ops (2010)

[@-kronic-4276]

Everybody gangsta till the skies start talking fortunate son

[@dawghousetv]

Check out our sketch where we imitated this!

[@Scovey]

I peed my pants when the trees started speaking Vietnamese and playing fortunate son

[@chrisperrien7055]

While it was meant as an anti-draft Vietnam War era song , it drug on throughout the Cold War and then into BS-GWOT. Hollywood parody's it constantly to make it a joke of it, but the song does not change . Rich man's war, poor man's fight

[@SilverScarletSpider]

There is no such thing as too much Fortunate Son. 🇺🇸🇬🇧👍 Vietnam was a lot of fun

[@CPorter]

There's never enough Heatwave

[@a.c.2499]

Yes there is

[@lmao.3661]

A. C. No.

[@PrinceFloof]

@@lmao.3661 Yes

[@lmao.3661]

Your opinion is invalid because of your pfp

[@maxsquirt2806]

If anyone’s wondering, that “There’s something happening here” song is For What it’s Worth by Buffalo Springfield

[@JGSuttonJr]

I always thought that song only played when they were on patrol, especially while walking through a swamp (bonus points for smoking a joint).

[@foxfire180]

Thank you, random citizen

[@dang2443]

no shit sherlock

[@martykiely127]

Someone else noticed

[@Bruce15485]

That ain't exactly clear !

[@ryneagheilim9782]

The panning of volume in "It aint me" part lol 😆😂🤣😅

[@May-ve6sr]

This gives me flashbacks to my time in Grenade hearing this song. Luckly the war was over before the song finished.

[@micperez819]

I totally relate to this. I was deployed to Iraq and I constantly had to hear Bodies by Drowning Pool. It still haunts me today

[@Papa-tn3vn]

I'm sure there were more than a few "Die Motherfucker Die" by Dope playing in some earbuds. There HAD to be, even though it was a few years old by Iraq

[@dang2443]

happy to say I have no fucking idea who that is, nor do i care enough to find out

[@johndobson2674]

Glad I'm not alone in hating that song purely because of hearing basically nonstop while deployed.

[@mountainguyed67]

I was in Iraq, and never heard of that song. I was playing The Doors.

[@stevewhitteker3212]

I'm a nineties junkie. I love that song...

[@huntclanhunt9697]

I'm actually impressed they gave Quagmire an OD-107 Utilities coat with straight pockets instead of the usual Vietnam Jungle Fatigues. That's... Weirdly accurate.

[@patrickazzarella6729]

Yea for a show that showed a bullet flying through the air with the cartridge still in it this is very accurate

[@stevenbobbybills]

@@patrickazzarella6729 if anything, the models for everything in this scene were far better than usual. The M16s and machine guns, for example. Usually they're far more wonky and generic in Family Guy.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

@@patrickazzarella6729 Don't forget the infamous mag loaded revolver... Or was that Simpsons?

[@Maowka]

@@huntclanhunt9697 Simpsons and Family Guy.

[@communitycreatorio]

I swear he was a sailor so it makes sense he was taking a SWCC brown water navy boat but why was he in a chopper?

[@mrizkic]

Just curious does quagmire tip did get out or not. I never been able doing it with tip getting out

[@HlghTierGod]

"You can run" "You can hide" *"You can't unhear it"*

[@kiufkhgdiyrsiytgf2785]

The penis joke has to be the best family guy joke I've ever heard

[@k3nnyisaw3som3]

Which one? They've told like 8,000 of them through the years

[@ninja_tony]

@@k3nnyisaw3som3 Are you serious, or trolling? The one in this video.

[@fork2309]

@@k3nnyisaw3som3 oh no, some random ass unrelated dick joke that is not in this video

[@acferency75]

I live that the sound goes in and out of audibility.

[@kiufkhgdiyrsiytgf2785]

@@acferency75 thats what did it for me too lol

[@L_87]

Forest Gump: "There's only one thing I can say about the war in Vietnam" *plays fortunate son*

[@coryboy345]

And thats all i have to say about dat....

[@erikurizita6702]

I listened to Fortunate Son once with my old man. Next thing you know we were sharing memories of that time we came across Charlie’s in the trees and massacred that village during Vietnam…. *I was born in 1984.*

[@cptairwolf]

I though the Vietnam war was just the music video for Fortunate Son

[@Muzzle1300]

Vietcong: how do we know when to jump out? Don’t worry you’ll hear a song when they’re nearby.

[@jacobbishopp9562]

*When the trees on Endor start speaking Ewok*

[@Eeep_Z1]

Aint cute when they eat u

[@steveguild871]

I think Ewokian is their language.

[@auramaster2068]

*When the death star trench speaks rebel x winh*

[@GMS-ChaabarYakalATL]

Endor is an actual location irl, it’s mentioned in the Bible

[@JackClockerinos]

*When you're a Mudtrooper on Mimban and the trenches start speaking Mimbanese*

[@pavanpatel4150]

This came up on my recommendations since I've been listening to Fortunate Son since my band have added it to our setlist...along with the "There's something happening here song" (For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield)

[@KanawhaCountyWX]

0:35 I like how the songs even in mono during this one part.

[@HalfHazardous]

hold up.. a Family Guy video on KZbin that actually gets straight to the point? WHAT IS THIS?!

[@Capcoor]

Sign of the apocalypse, maybe? Is that not exactly SOP for them?

[@paladinboyd1228]

Capcoor, This aged well.

[@kjamison5951]

But… all Family Guy videos get straight to the point. Are you saying that they don’t where you are? In what kind of twisted alternate reality do you live?

[@TheStapleGunKid]

Vietnam Anthems: "Fortunate Son", "For what it's worth", "Paint it Black", "Going up the Country"

[@lewisbrown2578]

sympathy for the devil?

[@bryansammis998]

@@lewisbrown2578 let’s not forget THAT song!!!

[@MK-vw6vm]

Don't forget Bad Moon Rising

[@christophercacho8125]

White Rabbit and Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane

[@sarcasticman6739]

Don't forget paranoid by black sabbath

[@User-ed5tg]

Just know that someone at family guy had to decide what quagmires rhythm would be

[@thevoiceofcake]

This song with the helicopters is one of the few tropes that I still absolutely love every time.

[@elmalifico3708]

It’s either “Fortunate Son” or “Along the Watchtower(?)” by Jimi Hendrix

[@bobafett5297]

Its "For What its Worth" by Buffalo Springfield.

[@c.galindo9639]

How about all of the above

[@kamuelalee]

Or "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones.

[@chainsawmike01]

Cant forget "We gotta get outta this place" by The Animals.

[@marywealth6475]

I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll before I got to the Hendrix tune.

[@croweman6515]

Kick-ass song... But that is very true! Lol

[@dawghousetv]

This is a kickass cover!

[@samuraininjarockstar6309]

Quagmire got a point there are are other songs that could’ve been used like “Nowhere to Run” by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Or “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane Or “Going up the Country” by Canned Heat

[@Charlesb88]

For anyone wondering, the “Something’s Happening Here” song is by Buffalo Springfield, For What It’s Worth.😉

[@grimfirehead603]

You didn't hear the songs I heard... I can't wait to yell that at my kids.

[@GMS-ChaabarYakalATL]

GRIM FIREHEAD good thing you won’t have kids

[@Fortunateis4luck]

GRIM FIREHEAD S’all in the timing.

[@grimfirehead603]

@@GMS-ChaabarYakalATL well that is false. I have three.

[@anthonysmithcooking8873]

@@grimfirehead603 good for you how are they

[@grimfirehead603]

@@anthonysmithcooking8873 One is s gay furry One is a depressed teenager And the middle one hasn't talked to me in years... So to answer your question, they are all perfect! I love them all

[@AcamInc]

the best part of nam was indeed the soundtrack

[@Randaches]

the only good part of 'nam

[@SurfinBird313]

Paranoid, Surfin' Bird, Fortunate Son, and Paint it Black. The four horsemen of Jungle Warfare music.

[@rickyspanish3668]

And the award for best song for a war scene goes to.

[@ethanfairweather8736]

I hear “Sympathy for the Devil” when I think of a swift boat.

[@KolchaksGhost]

The Flying Dutchman psst, hey Charlie Charlie...

[@niconachozstudio1952]

I can't remember the numbers

[@Sleygar]

JFK: We are in grave danger from the communists. Our freedom... our very way of life is at risk.

[@niconachozstudio1952]

@Logan Hernandez is that a Apocalypse Now reference

[@torchman99]

@Logan Hernandez nah I just replayed the campaign on veteran in preparation for cold war, it was woods who cried.

[@WikingZ]

Bubbas Shrimping Boat is the only way to be free!

[@erkierkierki]

dey's a... shrimp kabobs,

[@Badbhoys]

I want to break free ! I want to break freeeeeeeeee

[@edwardmeade]

Yeah, we had great music back then. Every time I hear "Knock Three Times on the Ceiling" I get flashbacks of Qui Nhon.

[@takahashi111]

"You don't know man, you weren't there!" - Jeremy Clarkson

[@shanecunningham305]

“Name one Vietnam movie without fortunate son” Full Metal Jacket

[@notanonymous3976]

it did have Paint it Black though. funniest Vietnam movie ive seen

[@GremlinHunter]

Apocalypse Now, The Veteran, Casualties of War.

[@GremlinHunter]

Pretty Sure Deer Hunter also

[@righthere27]

Tropic Thunder

[@TheHorns1996]

Platoon

[@SC-fl8eq]

Who doesn't love CCR though let's be honest

[@stevewhitteker3212]

The British?

[@josephbailey-jones2401]

@@stevewhitteker3212 i’m british and i do

[@stevewhitteker3212]

@@josephbailey-jones2401 Did a bit of sailing with 4 Brits, (I'm Canadian) back in the day. Upon hearing that one of the cassettes I bought for the month was CCR there was a collective groan. Hardly got to play it at all lol...

[@tashurst1]

@@josephbailey-jones2401 Me too and my dad, who got me into CCR. Awesome band

[@josephbailey-jones2401]

@@tashurst1 same here! first heard fortunate son and my dad got me more into them

[@unknownlizbeth]

dude this video was in an american dad episode, but the channel name was RM

[@Curri95]

Dude I came from the same video

[@ihaveakirbyobessesion2617]

RupertMr

[@anarchistangler]

The rhythmic muffling of the song in the brothel. Such attention to detail.