Suicide Is Painless

I

mean, the title of the song is Suicide is Painless.

It was famously covered by the Manic Street preachers in what turned out to be very sad circumstances.

I've actually written in my notes that it was written by Robert Altman's son, Sam.

I mean, I just...

this is the moment where painless the dentist has decided that he has to die after a failure to launch moment with a nurse and so they and it is Again, for a budget film that Fox thought was going straight to the drive-ins, that nobody cared about, and you have this little vignette where all the surgeons are laid out exactly like in Da Vinci's Last Supper.

And again, somebody singing the Suicide is Painless song over the top.

Yeah.

No.

Suicide is painless.

Okay.

See, no wonder why nobody likes

Everybody listening

to that thing is just like, gosh, dang it.

The original version had words in it for suicide is painless, and they just figured that was a little bit harsh.

And that show actually lasted longer than the Korean War.

That was MASH there.

I've just been told that the theme tune, which people of a certain age might remember that was in the song, Suicide is Painless, was banned apparently.

Yeah.

Because of its reference to suicide.

So like obviously in the TV show, the one that you hear is just the instrumental version.

Yeah.

But the original song, Suicide is Painless, was created for the Robert Altman directed, Altman rather, directed movie that starred, I think, Donald Sutherland.

And oh, actually, Eli.