# An obscure South Park music question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178 "2004-08-24T00:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178/1 "2004-08-24T00:11:38Z")
In the Afghanistan episode, when Bin Laden is blown up, a tune plays on his teeth…it sounded to me like th Blackadder theme, but was it, or was it something else, or was it me being too imaginative 😃 ? ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178/2 "2004-08-24T02:09:06Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > In the Afghanistan episode, when Bin Laden is blown up, a tune plays on his teeth…it sounded to me like th Blackadder theme, but was it, or was it something else, or was it me being too imaginative 😃 ? I’m struggling to remember this, but it was either “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandee” or the US national anthem. I might be recalling something I’ve seen in an old Warner Brothers cartoon, though. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178/3 "2004-08-24T04:47:26Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > In the Afghanistan episode, when Bin Laden is blown up, a tune plays on his teeth…it sounded to me like th Blackadder theme, but was it, or was it something else, or was it me being too imaginative 😃 ? It’s the first few notes of “America the Beatiful” ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178/4 "2004-08-24T06:25:32Z")
> [@Guy Incognito](#): > > I might be recalling something I’ve seen in an old Warner Brothers cartoon, though. Most likely Bugs Bunny in _Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips_ or _Hare meets Herr_, both WW2 WB propaganda. I believe there was also a line in the episode that was modified from a line in _Gremlins from the Kremlin_, another cartoon from the same period. I can’t say what music was used in the South Park episode, though. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178/5 "2004-08-24T12:27:06Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > It’s the first few notes of “America the Beatiful” Which is very similar (if not identical) to the Blackadder theme. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178/6 "2004-08-24T15:51:20Z")
Considering what that whole segment was supposed to be parodying, I’m surprised the tune wasn’t “Those Endearing Young Charms”. (With the player missing the high C, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-obscure-south-park-music-question/261178/7 "2004-08-24T16:34:20Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > It’s the first few notes of “America the Beatiful” THAT’S IT!!! I knew that it was something along that vein…