@@CallieMasters5000 Tough times , old men too . 1921 flu epidemic - males die more than females (except due to childbirth - and some of that used to be bacterial infection from non scrubbed doctors/ midwives attending !)
@@CallieMasters5000 only one death, and it doesn't need to be unexplained. The only person on this family tree who needs to be dead is the widow's first husband, the redhead's biological father, the main character's step-mother's father. All just one person. There is a divorce - the main character's mother and father are no longer married. Which is to say the main character's son-in-law's ex-wife.
And that it is theoretically not impossible. The pretty widow could have had the redhead at 18, and 18 years later, the redhead is 18 and the pretty widow is 36 and still of childbearing age. Don't get me wrong, it is very unlikely. But possible which I think makes it even funnier.
Something similar happened to one of my cousins (his wife's father married our other cousin, and of course the aunts of both cousins have a rocky relationship.) The power dynamics in that side of the family have been a huge problem ever since.
@only_fair23 not even "plenty of incest" this is all down to literally just the dad getting with the step daughter. Everything after that is a result of just one relationship
@@Admiral45-10 *His. The Pretty Widow had a son with her second spouse, meaning that her spouse must be a male. Ergo, she is his grandma-in-law, and he is her grandson-in-law. :p
@@davigurgel2040 if you're German try to think how you'd call two people from Hamburg and then look at the plural you gave to Habsburg. I find it genuinely irritating
@@davigurgel2040 didn't think someone would go through that trouble for such a joke, but now I'm happy I didn't just reply in German (still don't trust translators with it) Anyways It's "Habsburger" as it's a name meaning "from (the house Habsburg)" and such "I'm from" names only end in "n" if they have a singular ending in "e" (der Sachse, Die Sachsen. Der Franzose, Die Franzosen.) otherwise for places both forms end in "er" and for families only the plural does. Obviously exceptions apply as with any rule in language, fuck Bavaria in particular but that's the gist
Due to the fact that he is his own grandfather and grandson, which both have himself as a grandfather and grandson, this means that his family tree is an infinitely looping tree where no matter how far you go backwards or forwards, he is included
@@Jawsomest so basically his father is also his grandfather’s father, making him his great grandfather, and his great grandfather father’s wife (who is also his step-mother and step-daughter) is now his step-great grandmother, and his step-great grandmother’s mother is his wife (who is also his grandmother), thus making her his great great grandmother, and his great great grandmother’s step husband is himself (who is also his grandfather) thus making himself his own great great grandfather. You can see by now that this process can repeat infinitely in both directions. It is also worth noting that this makes his widow’s former husband also his grandfather and grandson as well.
isnt on of these a step-in-law which is really odd ? Census returns on 2nd marriages are really badly transcribed as to whom is the parent to which living in same place sibling/s as its normally asked "relationship to head of house"
@@highpath4776 I couldn't tell you, because my country doesn't do a questionaire census. We have a working civil registry system where all marriages, births, adoptions, etc. are recorded, so you don't need to ask your citizens every few years - "Hey, you still with that second daughter from the Halderson household?" :D Also... how would you define "head of house"? I live with my girlfriend and we don't have any kids. Am I the head because I'm the man?!? Or is she because she lived here first?!? But we are both on the rent agreement now, so...
Wait, I thought that would be the case if the relations were only tracked through marriage, but tracking the relationships through blood related children changes things, doesn't it? I think he's just his own step-grandfather with the addition of his father having a child with his wife and him having a child with his father's wife's mother.
Only thing he didn't mention is that his grandchild is also his brother. Also, this family tree can be extended into infinity by only repeating the same people over and over and I don't know how I feel about that
*his step-grandchild because "My mother" and "My father" were parents of "Me". Also Son on the Run's mother was Redhead Daughter. Also, this caused only by the father wedding Redhead Daughter of Pretty Widow, which is "Me" 's stepdaughter.
@@Lodestone8 he is the step dad of his step mom so he'd be his own grandpa only by adoption twice over since 'ME' would have had to be of a legal age to marry 'Pretty Widow' in the first place there would be little to no reason other than just being silly to let himself be adopted by his step daughter Since you aren't *related* to adoptive children he's his step step grandpa
I listened to my uncle playing and singing this song for years, maybe hundreds but at least dozens of times, and I could never follow the logical sequence. Whenever he started playing it I'd vow to make sense of it this time, and at the end I'd be as confused as ever. I finally resigned myself to never unraveling the mysteries that being my own grandpa would entail. Until now. Imagine my joy upon seeing this video in my feed! I subscribe to Useful Charts, watch most of them, but have never until now found one to actually be as useful as this in clearing up a matter of personal concern. Thanks, Useful Charts guy!
I'm glad you were set up to have your answer finally delivered to you. Like it was specifically fated to come your way, & it's just a nifty stumbled-upon bonus for the rest of us. & I'm happy with that. A wholesome conclusion. 😄
I’m in the same boat. We had a joke book growing up and this was in it, but I could never follow it. Just came across this in my feed, and now I finally understand.
This makes sense as your father could marry your daughter when she’s 18. So your father can be 60 and your daughter 18. This can happen without time travel making yourself step grandfather
@@ibrahimihsan2090 very true. My mom knows two brothers, one of whom became the other's uncle by marriage. There were two sisters born so far apart that the older sister had a daughter around the same age as the younger sister. One brother married the daughter, the other married the younger sister.
I got the same issue, only I was trying to do a more comprehensive Greek god family tree. Eventually had to program my own thing to be able to display it, as I wasn't willing to update it by hand every time I added a new nymph and the marriages involved. And Zeus 😥😬🤯 with his many many many children and multiple looping descendent graph.
Those Family Tree websites are unuseful for anything out of ordinary. I was testing if I could do the family trees from the novel Ascendance of a bookworm so started with the oddes one. In that country the law don't consider incest if they aren't related by the biologic mother's side. Also a man can have up to 3 wife's at same time. So of course we have half siblings marring xD But I couldn't find a family tree software that could handle that.
@@Reblwitoutacause The Grandfather Paradox is where you go back in time, fall in love with a pretty lady, do the deed with her, then go forward in time and find a photo of your grandma as a young lady and realized that you had sex with your own grandma. And that she got pregnant. So now you're your own grandfather, and your genes are recursive.
I spent the past 14 years in Toronto and never once did the algorithm recommend this to me. I get back home in rural South Carolina after all these years, I open up the RUclips app and this is the first thing in my recommended videos. 😒
Fun fact about this, the two babies are eachothers half Uncle which means they share 25% avg. DNA. Which is the same as a full uncle/half siblings etc.
No, because bouncing baby boy shares 50% of his DNA with the narrator. Narrator is half brother to son on the run which is 25% DNA shared. 50% × 25% = 12.5%. The same thing is true when you go through the widow's side.
I used to think my family was weird My dad was 25 years older than my mother. A year before she was born my dad had a child with a woman, a girl. Years later my mom met my dad online while learning English. Practicing her English on a game online made her meet my father who spoke only English. He lived in America my mom lived in Quebec. Few years after that, they get married and have me Before this, the girl from earlier, my dad’s first daughter, is a year older than my mom and has her own children From the moment I’m born. I’m an uncle with nephews older than me and I’ve got a half sister older than my mom My mom married a man with grandchildren, making her a grandmother before she was even a mother … and then I saw this song
Me over here with 2 cousins who are related to me on both sides of the family bc my dad and his cousin married sisters, and then i have another cousin who is the child of my step-grandpa's brother and my grandmother's sister Oh yeah on top of that, i have a cousin who's nephew is older than her as well, and an aunt who's just 9 months older than me meanwhile my dad is almost 40
This song is sadly incomplete, as it fails to note that MC's grandson is also his brother, making that child his own mother's uncle. Also, this feels like some kind of guide. I can just imagine it: New Speedrun World Record to become own grandpa (no incest)(no time travel)
@@LetsPKlays Maybe you could start by making 2 families - Main Character & his Mother & Father, and Pretty Widow & her Husband & Daughter, but make Mother and Husband as elders, and then, as the Sim God, make them exercise/woohoo until they die of "natural" causes.
@@kingding-a-ling9794 Indeed have got children in one family where the mother spent 16 years out of 32 giving birth (another great grandma had 22 children - 11 by first husband 11 by second not all survived to adulthood), so the eldest childrens children were older than her youngest
@@highpath4776 lol I'm glad to see there is a club for us... yeah I have 3 older siblings. My Dad is 3/9 at 62 and she is 9/9 at 40. My Grandma was very fond of being pregnant with at the same time as my mom. My mom not so much lmao. My oldest sibling is 46. Rural life I guess 🤷🏽♀️
I had trouble figuring it out too until I realized you can ignore the babies. They make the song funnier but they don't contribute to him being his own grandpa.
@@eclipserepeater2466 If it were Olympian then one third of the chart would be Zeus and another third would be various animals(all of which are also Zeus)
It's more like a family vine, if you keep drawing it, it will grow and grow because of the recurse nature of him being his own grandpa (and thus being his own great grandpa, because he is his grandpa's grandpa)
My mom married a cousin of my uncle’s wife, so basically everyone in my extended family gets two labels. This was entirely coincidence, as my mom didn’t know my dad until they happened to be in a college class together. Thankfully I’m not as bad off as this dude tho.
@@mta4562 On my dad’s side he had two uncles that married sisters and then later after the man in one couple died and the wife in the second couple died the widow married the widower.
OMG. I have been searching for this guy for years!!! He performed at my school when I was in elementary school like 15 years ago and I’ve never forgotten him. Glad to see he’s doing well!
I've heard of this song all my life through my parents. But never actually heard the song. My parents would always try to sing it, but could never remember the progression of the lyrics, and so could never prove that it actually did work out. Thank you for proving them right. This was certainly a "Useful Chart."
I remember first hearing this song in the 1996 Tom Arnold movie "The Stupids." I was about 10 when we watched it, and since then every once in a great while I will think of this song and hum it for a few days. I wasn't aware it was a song from long before 1996. Glad to see this chart exists so I can explain it better to my friends!
This was al over the radio when I was 9. Along with "The Thing", "Smoke smoke smoke that Cigarette","Goodnight Irene" and many more. Songs you could sing along with.
Lmao..years ago I tried to chart this song when Ray Steven's did it. It didn't last to long due to laughter. I'm glad you did what I tried to do Great job and years later, I still laughed thru the whole thing 🤣
Ray Stevens - I'm My Own Grandpa (1947) Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life For now my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother Of the widow's grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild 'Cause now I have become the strangest 'case you ever saw As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa It sounds funny, I know but it really is so I'm my own grandpa
This is the perfect type of April Fools content: funny, lighthearted, and clearly in celebration of the day, but still actually useful and not the sort of boldfaced lying from otherwise trusted sources that most AF content is.
This should be the official video for this song. It should be the first hit that comes up when people google the title. It should have at least a million plays.
This actually looks like my own family tree. My Grandparents were second cousins, and my Grandmother's sister married my grandfather's brother. Two sisters married to two brothers. I am cousin to my sisters, my brother, my mother, my grandparents, my uncle. My first cousins are my third cousins once removed. It gets complicated.
I have to say, I love hearing the steve goodman version and ive come to a funnier conclusion to this song than this song would suggest. Hes not only his own grand father, hes also his own great great grand father. Because the moment he married his wife, and his wife's daughter married his father. He already became his grandfather, because his wife is his grand mother by being the mother of his step mother (his daughter.) Which means he doesnt even need the two other kids to become his own grand father, because the moment his father married his step daughter he became his grand father. The kids are irrelevant. Now the reason he is his own great grand father is the reason he is also his grand fatherly in that because hes technically his own fathers step father, who is his father, and his wife is his step mother. The father/redheaded daughter are technically the widow and guys great grand parents. And so he is ironically his own Great great grand parents. Because essentially a strange loop has been created where by the simple fact he can become his own grand father by being married to his grand mother allows him to be his great great grand parents because if he is his own grand father, his father is also able to become his own grand father. In short and less confusing terms: They created a never ending loop. Though its simpler to not think that far into it.
The former Rolling Stone bass player Bill Wyman married a woman named Mandy Smith. Bill Wyman's son would subsequently marry Mandy Smith's mother which meant Bill Wyman was the father of his father in law and could plausibly be described as his own ( step) grandfather.
I have just re-read "All You Zombies" by Robert A. Heinlein. This song features in the story and then I saw your video this afternoon. Wonderful coincidence. Thanks very much!
This was a hilarious and unexpected April Fool's Day video. Thank you for doing your best to try to explain this song. I have heard it before, but could never follow it. I smiled and laughed all the way through the video. Thanks for making my day.
This reminds me of a weird sci-fi story called "All You Zombies." I strongly recommend it because it basically is like this chart with everything filled in with "ME." I think it references this song, actually.
I fear, if we looked hard enough in the little town I live in, we would find a real life example of this song. What can you say about a town that one grandpa has four grand sons in the same grade, all with grand pa's full name. Oh, they weren't close to the same age. I've suggested to some of the school board members that maybe we should give the kids a 23 and Me test kit when they graduate out of seventh grade.
My son travelled for a dance rave 240 miles, and came back with a photo of a girl he had hooked up with. My wife said, oh, thats my cousins ' grand-daughter (whom he hadnt met) Her cousin had moved away 100 miles from the town they were brought up in, and her daughter had moved again 150 miles south. My son said - mum , is there anyone you are NOT related to ?
This almost happened to Bill Wyman from the Rolling Stones. In 1989, hen he (52), he married Mandy Smith (18). They later divorced. Then, in 1993, Wyman's son, Stephen (30), married Smith's mother, Patsy (46). Had Bill remained married, he would have become his own grandpa.
Doesn’t that make him his own grandson, and transitively also his great great grandfather and great great grandson, making his dad his great grandfather and great grandson? Or am I just thinking too hard about it I never know
"Hello my great great grandson, as i am so old can you help me with this?" "Son, you are not my great great grandpa" *pulls out the family infinite fractal* "Oh god"
Whoever originally wrote this song, German Band Knasterbart sings the translated version and called it "my family tree is a circle" ("mein Stammbaum ist ein Kreis")😂
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You have to admit that the family really did come together after the tragic loss of Dead Husband.
What did they expect of someone with that name, smh
The tombstone just says "Dead"
Wow. By the end of the song, I forgot that had started on that solemn note lol
What ever did happen to My Mother anyway?
Yeah, why was his father able to fall for the red headed stepdaughter? Mom was already gone?
It's one thing to listen to this song, it's another to see it all on a chart.
It's fun to try and sing it too.
I know. I've heard that song so many times but now I have a full visual. Thanks Matt!!! 🤣🤣🤣
The only thing more astounding would be to hear it, see the chart, and then come to the realization that you are your own grandpa.
I had to support this channel after seeing this, ended up buying a chart
Hahaha
Something I never realized until looking at this family tree, your redheaded daughter would give birth to your step siblings.
Not so much step siblings as real half siblings.
Step-daughter you mean, his step-mum is his step-daughter, and his wife is his step-mother's mum
@@GirlOfTheTardis 39 minutes ago? I can only imagine you came from that one instagram post
grandchildren = step siblings
The real effort in this song was somehow avoiding any true incest in the family tree, and not even needing time travel.
Forget incest. Murder appears to be the family business. Lots of unexplained deaths
@@CallieMasters5000 Tough times , old men too . 1921 flu epidemic - males die more than females (except due to childbirth - and some of that used to be bacterial infection from non scrubbed doctors/ midwives attending !)
@@CallieMasters5000 only one death, and it doesn't need to be unexplained.
The only person on this family tree who needs to be dead is the widow's first husband, the redhead's biological father, the main character's step-mother's father. All just one person.
There is a divorce - the main character's mother and father are no longer married. Which is to say the main character's son-in-law's ex-wife.
And that it is theoretically not impossible.
The pretty widow could have had the redhead at 18, and 18 years later, the redhead is 18 and the pretty widow is 36 and still of childbearing age.
Don't get me wrong, it is very unlikely. But possible which I think makes it even funnier.
@@crazyrobots6565 Or the narrator and the widow are in a May-December romance where the widow is old and the narrator is young.
When your family tree starts truning into infinite fractals of your immediate family, you may have a problem.
genetically, there is still no incest though
Fractals are a big problem. Heheheheh
dad completed the cycle by marrying his step grandaughter.
When your family tree stops being a tree and instead becomes a family graph
Something similar happened to one of my cousins (his wife's father married our other cousin, and of course the aunts of both cousins have a rocky relationship.) The power dynamics in that side of the family have been a huge problem ever since.
The fact that this was somehow accomplished without a single bit of apparent close incest is actually mind-boggling.
No blood incest, plenty of incest otherwise.
@only_fair23 not even "plenty of incest" this is all down to literally just the dad getting with the step daughter. Everything after that is a result of just one relationship
@@only_fair23 There is literally no such thing as "non-blood incest" unless you have brain damage
Skill based family making
Age gap tho…
My grandpa always said: "Appreciate the little joys in life"
And I was god damn right.
Pretty widow: ,,And that's my husband"
Pretty widow's friend: ,,Eww you so old you could be her grandma!"
Pretty widow: ,,I already am"
Tell your grandson!
Your grandfather seems a smart man. But what about his grandson?
@@Admiral45-10 *His. The Pretty Widow had a son with her second spouse, meaning that her spouse must be a male. Ergo, she is his grandma-in-law, and he is her grandson-in-law. :p
@@BazukinBelyugovich Technically... he has 2 grandsons. Himself, and his half-brother.
Funfact: this song was translated into German under the name "mein Stammbaum ist ein Kreis" (my family tree is a circle)
Roflmao I now need to find this in German because this is going to be hilarious
it's been translated into German hundreds of years ago, it's called "Die Habsburger"
@@davigurgel2040 if you're German try to think how you'd call two people from Hamburg and then look at the plural you gave to Habsburg. I find it genuinely irritating
@@theultimatefreak666 I'm not German, sorry. I just googled "german plural of 'Burg'" and the result was "die Burgen"
@@davigurgel2040 didn't think someone would go through that trouble for such a joke, but now I'm happy I didn't just reply in German (still don't trust translators with it)
Anyways It's "Habsburger" as it's a name meaning "from (the house Habsburg)" and such "I'm from" names only end in "n" if they have a singular ending in "e" (der Sachse, Die Sachsen. Der Franzose, Die Franzosen.) otherwise for places both forms end in "er" and for families only the plural does.
Obviously exceptions apply as with any rule in language, fuck Bavaria in particular but that's the gist
The first setup already makes you your own grandpa. You become your fathers step dad, meaning you become your own step-grandfather instantly
Yeah! I just figured the same thing 😂😂 the rest is just adding to the comedy, i guess.
step-grandfather in law doesn't have a nice ring to it though
@@Gamblegork😂
Yeah he just more set up? It’s comedy. There’s only 2 steps, marrying the widow and father marrying redheaded daughter, the songs just a joke of this!
@@hassanalabbas5767That’s the point. It’s supposed to be funny.
Due to the fact that he is his own grandfather and grandson, which both have himself as a grandfather and grandson, this means that his family tree is an infinitely looping tree where no matter how far you go backwards or forwards, he is included
A step by step guide on how to gain immortality
Fractal family tree.
His family tree is a wreath
How is he infinitely included backwards? explain plz ty.
@@Jawsomest so basically his father is also his grandfather’s father, making him his great grandfather, and his great grandfather father’s wife (who is also his step-mother and step-daughter) is now his step-great grandmother, and his step-great grandmother’s mother is his wife (who is also his grandmother), thus making her his great great grandmother, and his great great grandmother’s step husband is himself (who is also his grandfather) thus making himself his own great great grandfather. You can see by now that this process can repeat infinitely in both directions. It is also worth noting that this makes his widow’s former husband also his grandfather and grandson as well.
This is why, when talking genetics, the words "step" and "-in-law" mean something, even if they don't in your daily life.
isnt on of these a step-in-law which is really odd ? Census returns on 2nd marriages are really badly transcribed as to whom is the parent to which living in same place sibling/s as its normally asked "relationship to head of house"
@@highpath4776 I couldn't tell you, because my country doesn't do a questionaire census. We have a working civil registry system where all marriages, births, adoptions, etc. are recorded, so you don't need to ask your citizens every few years - "Hey, you still with that second daughter from the Halderson household?" :D
Also... how would you define "head of house"? I live with my girlfriend and we don't have any kids. Am I the head because I'm the man?!? Or is she because she lived here first?!? But we are both on the rent agreement now, so...
@@QemeH Yep , modern census I think is one per person at an address.
@@QemeH you would be if you didn’t have to ask that question
@@samarnadra Ah, I see. So every household esentially gets to choose who is their "head" by the very act of having them fill out the form, yes?
"I'm my own step-grandfather-in-law" just doesn't have the same ring, does it.
Wait, I thought that would be the case if the relations were only tracked through marriage, but tracking the relationships through blood related children changes things, doesn't it?
I think he's just his own step-grandfather with the addition of his father having a child with his wife and him having a child with his father's wife's mother.
Only thing he didn't mention is that his grandchild is also his brother.
Also, this family tree can be extended into infinity by only repeating the same people over and over and I don't know how I feel about that
*his step-grandchild because "My mother" and "My father" were parents of "Me". Also Son on the Run's mother was Redhead Daughter.
Also, this caused only by the father wedding Redhead Daughter of Pretty Widow, which is "Me" 's stepdaughter.
It is so complex, that I gave up trying to understand this paradox.
I think he might be his cousin or step cousin?
@@Lodestone8
he is the step dad of his step mom
so he'd be his own grandpa only by adoption twice over
since 'ME' would have had to be of a legal age to marry 'Pretty Widow' in the first place there would be little to no reason other than just being silly to let himself be adopted by his step daughter
Since you aren't *related* to adoptive children he's his step step grandpa
Infinite recursion lmao
I listened to my uncle playing and singing this song for years, maybe hundreds but at least dozens of times, and I could never follow the logical sequence. Whenever he started playing it I'd vow to make sense of it this time, and at the end I'd be as confused as ever. I finally resigned myself to never unraveling the mysteries that being my own grandpa would entail.
Until now. Imagine my joy upon seeing this video in my feed! I subscribe to Useful Charts, watch most of them, but have never until now found one to actually be as useful as this in clearing up a matter of personal concern. Thanks, Useful Charts guy!
I love this so much!! 🤣💖💯
I'm glad you were set up to have your answer finally delivered to you. Like it was specifically fated to come your way, & it's just a nifty stumbled-upon bonus for the rest of us. & I'm happy with that. A wholesome conclusion. 😄
I’m in the same boat. We had a joke book growing up and this was in it, but I could never follow it. Just came across this in my feed, and now I finally understand.
This makes sense as your father could marry your daughter when she’s 18. So your father can be 60 and your daughter 18. This can happen without time travel making yourself step grandfather
You said your uncle played it but then you said your grandpa which was it?
You don't need ancestors from hundreds of years ago when you could be your own ancestor.
To be honest, as far as in-laws are concerned, that may be the case with several people all around the world.
@@ibrahimihsan2090 very true. My mom knows two brothers, one of whom became the other's uncle by marriage. There were two sisters born so far apart that the older sister had a daughter around the same age as the younger sister. One brother married the daughter, the other married the younger sister.
This is the most chaotic tree you’ve ever done…and you’ve done the Hapsburgs 🤣
Ironic how a diverse empire was ruled by an incestuous monarchy
jajajajja
Habsburgs? Bah! Ptolomies is a more apt comparison
@@serleon2001 Xaxaxaxa.
isn't the Hapsburgs just a straight line?
I remember trying to put this into one of those Family Tree websites. The thing crashed.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm gonna try that
Edit: Didn't work. (Maybe because the program I use has a workaround such things)
Hope you feel proud of yourself for breaking a site. Lol
I got the same issue, only I was trying to do a more comprehensive Greek god family tree. Eventually had to program my own thing to be able to display it, as I wasn't willing to update it by hand every time I added a new nymph and the marriages involved. And Zeus 😥😬🤯 with his many many many children and multiple looping descendent graph.
Those Family Tree websites are unuseful for anything out of ordinary.
I was testing if I could do the family trees from the novel Ascendance of a bookworm so started with the oddes one.
In that country the law don't consider incest if they aren't related by the biologic mother's side. Also a man can have up to 3 wife's at same time.
So of course we have half siblings marring xD
But I couldn't find a family tree software that could handle that.
Dead husband in heaven be like "goddamn these people are weird, and it's all my fault because I died."
I laughed harder at this than I needed to
It's not all his fault. The singer's dad was presumably single before marrying the red-headed step-daughter
I think it would've been funnier to have him reciting the lyrics in his typical monotone voice-over, but this is a good one regardless
@@CrazyArtistLady Yes, the most famous cover being done by the late Steve Goodman.
@@CrazyArtistLady I think Micah knows
@@CrazyArtistLady Yep, we know
Only if everyone were familiar with the song.
@@CrazyArtistLady woosh
Well, that's one way to address the grandfather paradox without involving timetravel.
damn right
“Thanks, dad, for falling in love with my adult step-daughter.”
Yuck. I prefer time travel.
@@Reblwitoutacause You prefer to be the one doing the gross thing?
@Happy Garden Of Life this is where I admit to having NO IDEA what the grandfather paradox is, and that I may have set myself up terribly D:
@@Reblwitoutacause The Grandfather Paradox is where you go back in time, fall in love with a pretty lady, do the deed with her, then go forward in time and find a photo of your grandma as a young lady and realized that you had sex with your own grandma. And that she got pregnant. So now you're your own grandfather, and your genes are recursive.
I spent the past 14 years in Toronto and never once did the algorithm recommend this to me.
I get back home in rural South Carolina after all these years, I open up the RUclips app and this is the first thing in my recommended videos.
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Fun fact about this, the two babies are eachothers half Uncle which means they share 25% avg. DNA. Which is the same as a full uncle/half siblings etc.
half blooded Uncle/nephew share 12.5% avg. DNA, as opposed to full blooded which would be 25%.
That is incorrect and therefore not fact.
@@Happydancer9 Yes, and as eachother half uncle it's double, hence 25% DNA Share.
Now if one had been a daughter ... lol.
No, because bouncing baby boy shares 50% of his DNA with the narrator. Narrator is half brother to son on the run which is 25% DNA shared. 50% × 25% = 12.5%. The same thing is true when you go through the widow's side.
I used to think my family was weird
My dad was 25 years older than my mother. A year before she was born my dad had a child with a woman, a girl.
Years later my mom met my dad online while learning English. Practicing her English on a game online made her meet my father who spoke only English. He lived in America my mom lived in Quebec.
Few years after that, they get married and have me
Before this, the girl from earlier, my dad’s first daughter, is a year older than my mom and has her own children
From the moment I’m born. I’m an uncle with nephews older than me and I’ve got a half sister older than my mom
My mom married a man with grandchildren, making her a grandmother before she was even a mother
… and then I saw this song
You’re not alone. I had a friend from elementary to high school who had a nephew older than him. It was a real life “Father of the Bride 2” situation.
You're not alone, I have an aunt who is 2 years younger than me.
Well, my uncle is 10 years younger than me..
Me over here with 2 cousins who are related to me on both sides of the family bc my dad and his cousin married sisters, and then i have another cousin who is the child of my step-grandpa's brother and my grandmother's sister
Oh yeah on top of that, i have a cousin who's nephew is older than her as well, and an aunt who's just 9 months older than me meanwhile my dad is almost 40
Sweet Home Alabama
It's one hell of a coincidence that the song was made in the same year Futurama's Roswell episode is set
I grew up with that song, but I could never see how he got to the point of being his own Grandpa. With the chart I get it now. Thank you.
It didn't occur to me until after watching that this was a April Fools Joke. Generally speaking I found this a useful visual of the song :)
I think it is more a celebration of today rather than a joke. It's terrific!
It was an April fools joke?
it takes me 3 days to realise...
Not really an April fools joke, it's an old Ray Stevens song, just with an accompanying graph.
@@seandobbins2231 it deviates from Useful's normal content on April First/Second, so it's probably an April Fools Joke.
I remember a different, longer song of this.
I'm pretty sure listening to this song throughout childhood is the only reason I can understand the family trees in Game of Thrones
This song is sadly incomplete, as it fails to note that MC's grandson is also his brother, making that child his own mother's uncle.
Also, this feels like some kind of guide. I can just imagine it:
New Speedrun World Record to become own grandpa (no incest)(no time travel)
No time travel 😂
Which begs the question: Would it be possible to make this family in The Sims 4 without using cheats? (Whiny Brit, I'm talking to you.)
@@Cowgirlcadet yea just make it so their lives are longer ago you can be able to marry certain people, and don’t divorce anybody
Maybe add (no murder) to get a pretty widow in the beginning
@@LetsPKlays Maybe you could start by making 2 families - Main Character & his Mother & Father, and Pretty Widow & her Husband & Daughter, but make Mother and Husband as elders, and then, as the Sim God, make them exercise/woohoo until they die of "natural" causes.
I can imagine those kids 10 years after this song.
- I'm in charge I'm your uncle!
- No, I'm your uncle!
And they are both right 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I call my aunt Tia and she's four months younger than me.. we are besties She lives in my back house lol
@@kingding-a-ling9794 Indeed have got children in one family where the mother spent 16 years out of 32 giving birth (another great grandma had 22 children - 11 by first husband 11 by second not all survived to adulthood), so the eldest childrens children were older than her youngest
@@highpath4776 lol I'm glad to see there is a club for us... yeah I have 3 older siblings. My Dad is 3/9 at 62 and she is 9/9 at 40. My Grandma was very fond of being pregnant with at the same time as my mom. My mom not so much lmao. My oldest sibling is 46.
Rural life I guess 🤷🏽♀️
@@kingding-a-ling9794 Keeps the Farm in safe hand!
Imagine him calling his wife a ,,grandma". I wonder if, in this case, she would give him cookies or a slap 😅
Thank you for this clarification, cant tell you how many sleepless nights I’ve had thinking about this.
I had trouble figuring it out too until I realized you can ignore the babies. They make the song funnier but they don't contribute to him being his own grandpa.
I know this is probably supposed to be an April Fools Day thing, but it's actually really... Useful. 😆
o_0
Alabama moment
The worst part about this is that this could actually happen in real life. Then you’ll have to think your whole life over in the most literal sense.
Definitely very useful on how not to reproduce 😂
This is not Alabama, this is something more divine.
My dad falling in love with my step daughter
Divine in the olympian sense, at least.
@@eclipserepeater2466 If it were Olympian then one third of the chart would be Zeus and another third would be various animals(all of which are also Zeus)
@@godqueensadie HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!😂🤣😂
*Arkansas
Seriously, dude. Alabama isn't known for incest.
@@godqueensadie Save for Io, she’d be in there somewhere.
I praise you for this visual 👏👏👏 I had so much trouble following along the first time I was gonna write my own. And yet here you are 🙇♀️🙇♀️
-I'm having a family gathering, I'll invite the whole family!
- Great! Should I get more chairs?
-Nope, six will be enough.
-im sorry to hear that sir.
-Why? My son-uncle, girlfriend-grandma and my dad-grandson will all be there
-Actually make it 7. Dead needs a spot.
- But Mr. Husband is deceased.
- So?
I feel bad for the child who has to draw his family tree.
"-Teacher, what should I do?
- Oh, well, your family tree is a tree leana. From ground to ground, like an arch."
It's more like a family vine, if you keep drawing it, it will grow and grow because of the recurse nature of him being his own grandpa (and thus being his own great grandpa, because he is his grandpa's grandpa)
its more like a scribble
He could focus more on the artwork with less family members and be part of a beautiful swirling vine with pretty leaves
The sheer disgust in his voice when he says step-mother is so perfect
I suspected this song made sense but I couldn't hold it in my head. Brilliant!
It helps tremendously if you grew up in the SEC region.
My mom married a cousin of my uncle’s wife, so basically everyone in my extended family gets two labels. This was entirely coincidence, as my mom didn’t know my dad until they happened to be in a college class together. Thankfully I’m not as bad off as this dude tho.
U got lucky!
dude, I'm my own cousin in both my mother's and father's lines.
my sisters married brothers, all the kids are double cousins.
@@mta4562
On my dad’s side he had two uncles that married sisters and then later after the man in one couple died and the wife in the second couple died the widow married the widower.
I have a grandfather that married the sister of his brother's wife
Fry: If she's my grandmother, who's my grandfather!?
Farnsworth: Isn't it obvious!?? YOU ARE!!!
At age 28 I married on older woman who had a teenage daughter who went to high school with my baby sister. Aunt/Niece in the same class!
that happened to my grandmother except it was her true aunt
My mother knew someone who was older than his (true) uncle
OMG. I have been searching for this guy for years!!! He performed at my school when I was in elementary school like 15 years ago and I’ve never forgotten him. Glad to see he’s doing well!
I'm happy to see this. I listened to this and couldn't get my head around how he could be his own grandpa but I get it now lol.
Always happy to see a hapsburg family chart
No, none of them are related! No incest whatsoever, that's why it's so funny!
Yet the Hapsburgs managed to still have more incest
They're not related by blood, so no.
@@acedostres yup. Technically he's his own step grandpa but, that isn't quite as catchy
This isn't quite what the Habsburgs did.
I've heard of this song all my life through my parents. But never actually heard the song. My parents would always try to sing it, but could never remember the progression of the lyrics, and so could never prove that it actually did work out. Thank you for proving them right. This was certainly a "Useful Chart."
And I thought my family tree was complicated! 😂
I remember first hearing this song in the 1996 Tom Arnold movie "The Stupids." I was about 10 when we watched it, and since then every once in a great while I will think of this song and hum it for a few days. I wasn't aware it was a song from long before 1996. Glad to see this chart exists so I can explain it better to my friends!
This is an old classic, but it's pure genius in its execution.
This was al over the radio when I was 9. Along with "The Thing", "Smoke smoke smoke that Cigarette","Goodnight Irene" and many more. Songs you could sing along with.
Lmao..years ago I tried to chart this song when Ray Steven's did it. It didn't last to long due to laughter. I'm glad you did what I tried to do
Great job and years later, I still laughed thru the whole thing 🤣
I haven't heard this in years! And the chart just sets it off brilliantly! Thank you for this, it's wonderful 😄
I have such a hard time wrapping my head around this stuff but I still understand enough to find it hilarious.
I've always liked this song and now you have made it almost clear to me!
This is awesome, and of course extremely appropriate for the day! I was in tears watching the chart build throughout the song. Well done!
Ray Stevens - I'm My Own Grandpa (1947)
Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed
This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife
And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother
Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
'Cause now I have become the strangest 'case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny, I know but it really is so
I'm my own grandpa
Fun fact, this actually happened to Fry from futurama, where he became his own paternal grandpa.
He did the nasty in the pasty
But with time travel and incest!
@@LemonDove thw nastiness was indeed in the pastiness
@@LemonDove And that past nastification is why he was immune to the Brains.
yeah but that was blood related so that's more direct
This is the perfect type of April Fools content: funny, lighthearted, and clearly in celebration of the day, but still actually useful and not the sort of boldfaced lying from otherwise trusted sources that most AF content is.
Okaaaay.
As a stranger to Country Music, this is exactly what I expected.
This should be the official video for this song. It should be the first hit that comes up when people google the title. It should have at least a million plays.
Well, it’s getting close three weeks after release!
I've always wondered how this song worked, so I actually really appreciate this video
This actually looks like my own family tree. My Grandparents were second cousins, and my Grandmother's sister married my grandfather's brother. Two sisters married to two brothers. I am cousin to my sisters, my brother, my mother, my grandparents, my uncle. My first cousins are my third cousins once removed. It gets complicated.
its also funny that this could be continued endlessly making him his own great great grandpa as well
This song has floated around in the back of my head for a very long time and I'm so glad to discover it in my recommendations.
Fry from Futurama can relate, he became his won grandfather
Actually with the two marriages alone, he’d be his own grandpa.
Ah, the circle of life.
When in the shower does he ever say to himself: "What are you doing, step-grandpa?" 🤣
I have to say, I love hearing the steve goodman version and ive come to a funnier conclusion to this song than this song would suggest. Hes not only his own grand father, hes also his own great great grand father. Because the moment he married his wife, and his wife's daughter married his father. He already became his grandfather, because his wife is his grand mother by being the mother of his step mother (his daughter.) Which means he doesnt even need the two other kids to become his own grand father, because the moment his father married his step daughter he became his grand father. The kids are irrelevant.
Now the reason he is his own great grand father is the reason he is also his grand fatherly in that because hes technically his own fathers step father, who is his father, and his wife is his step mother. The father/redheaded daughter are technically the widow and guys great grand parents. And so he is ironically his own Great great grand parents. Because essentially a strange loop has been created where by the simple fact he can become his own grand father by being married to his grand mother allows him to be his great great grand parents because if he is his own grand father, his father is also able to become his own grand father.
In short and less confusing terms: They created a never ending loop. Though its simpler to not think that far into it.
Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol!
My grandfather passed on last year, he showed me this song several years ago. Thanks for the memories :)
It may not be incestuous but his dad is still freaky for that lol
Love You!!!! This song was my childhood with every other Ray Stevens song
Brilliant! My dad used to sing this to us when we were young...so many years ago. Thanks for this.
you mean your son in law?
@@jacobeii lol...of course....him also :)
The former Rolling Stone bass player Bill Wyman married a woman named Mandy Smith.
Bill Wyman's son would subsequently marry Mandy Smith's mother which meant Bill Wyman was the father of his father in law and could plausibly be described as his own ( step) grandfather.
I actually remember loving & finding this song funny growing up-especially when my dad sang it
One of my all time favorite songs. The chart makes it so much clearer....sort of. Great stuff
It's Steve Goodman right?
Goddamn it Frye, you weren't supposed to change history.
This chart makes the song so much easier to almost understand
So, if the Habsburgs are a family shrub, and the Ptolemies are a family bowl of spaghetti, what does that make this family?
A fractal
A Möbius Strip. Or a Klein Bottle.
A petri dish of DNA refuse.
Probably the governor of West Virginia lol
Gordian knot
Phillip J Fry probably heard this song and went, "AYOO!"
I have just re-read "All You Zombies" by Robert A. Heinlein. This song features in the story and then I saw your video this afternoon. Wonderful coincidence. Thanks very much!
great story, and my introduction to this song. i have the main chacrter's family tree here. *
Was not expecting this in the slightest lol
This is basically Philip J. Fry's family tree.
Somehow, they avoided incest and time travel while still being able to reach the situation they're in
This song is referenced in Robert A. Heinlein's "All You Zombies", made into the movie "Predestination". I love this Useful Charting of the song!
I'm a mother
I'm the father
Me: My wife is my grandpa.
OMG my class had to “analyse” this song in grade 7! 🤣🤣 i still know half the song!
What's really amazing is that someone actually first figured this out in order to write the song. Great Video!
My grandpa used to sing this all the time his banjo 😂 I miss him!!
This was a hilarious and unexpected April Fool's Day video. Thank you for doing your best to try to explain this song. I have heard it before, but could never follow it. I smiled and laughed all the way through the video. Thanks for making my day.
FINNALY A CHART TO THIS WONDERFUL SONG I ALWAYS LOVED!!!!
This reminds me of a weird sci-fi story called "All You Zombies." I strongly recommend it because it basically is like this chart with everything filled in with "ME." I think it references this song, actually.
It baffles me how there’s surprisingly no incest in this at all
I fear, if we looked hard enough in the little town I live in, we would find a real life example of this song. What can you say about a town that one grandpa has four grand sons in the same grade, all with grand pa's full name. Oh, they weren't close to the same age.
I've suggested to some of the school board members that maybe we should give the kids a 23 and Me test kit when they graduate out of seventh grade.
My son travelled for a dance rave 240 miles, and came back with a photo of a girl he had hooked up with. My wife said, oh, thats my cousins ' grand-daughter (whom he hadnt met) Her cousin had moved away 100 miles from the town they were brought up in, and her daughter had moved again 150 miles south. My son said - mum , is there anyone you are NOT related to ?
@@highpath4776 That really can throw a damper on a possible date.
@@cdjhyoung He did go to her wedding
Really simplifies the grandfather paradox.
This almost happened to Bill Wyman from the Rolling Stones. In 1989, hen he (52), he married Mandy Smith (18). They later divorced. Then, in 1993, Wyman's son, Stephen (30), married Smith's mother, Patsy (46). Had Bill remained married, he would have become his own grandpa.
Doesn’t that make him his own grandson, and transitively also his great great grandfather and great great grandson, making his dad his great grandfather and great grandson? Or am I just thinking too hard about it I never know
Yes
😵💫
"Hello my great great grandson, as i am so old can you help me with this?"
"Son, you are not my great great grandpa"
*pulls out the family infinite fractal*
"Oh god"
Whoever originally wrote this song, German Band Knasterbart sings the translated version and called it "my family tree is a circle" ("mein Stammbaum ist ein Kreis")😂
Or "Mein Opa, das bin ich"
IF this keeps up...you could be your own ancient ancestor with minimal inbreeding. :P
Time Travel with these easy steps (No incest required)
I literally did this on paper as a kid with the version that Goofy sang. I remember it going kind of diagonally and everything!
Thank you for this! A single hearing in fourth grade, 40 years ago was not enough to make sense of it all
Bravo! Bwahaha. Glad you put this in chart form. I've never been able to figure the song out.