"Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" is a song by American

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band

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. It was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, ''

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'' (2005), on August 1, 2005. The song was written by band members

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and

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. The title "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" spells out f-u-c-k in the

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. The song's lyrics consist of various sexual euphemisms.

Music video

The

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for "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo" was directed by

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. It shows

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, a friend of the band, driving down a

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highway in the "Banana Car" (which was seen on the

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episode in which the band appeared). While he is driving, he sees some girls performing sexually suggestive activities in wet bikinis, poking fun at

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's controversial " Satisfaction" video, while the band performs in a tunnel. The girls are wearing hard hats with the Pennsylvania National Guard insignia. When Margera drives the banana-mobile up to the tunnel (whose entrance is topped by a wild grapevine growing in the shape of trimmed female

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), he proceeds to gaze, enthralled at it, then drives through it. The tunnel used in the video is the abandoned

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on a 12-mile stretch of abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike east of Breezewood. The video ends with Margera giving a banana to a man in a Speedo who consumes it in a manner that mimics

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. The video also features Mark the Bagger at the very beginning saying " Fish don't fry in the kitchen".

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References

2005 singles 2005 songs Bloodhound Gang songs Geffen Records singles Music videos directed by Marc Klasfeld Republic Records singles Songs written by Jimmy Pop {{2000s-rock-single-stub