With music written by Johnny Mandel, which of these TV theme songs' lyrics were written by director Robert Altman's son when he was only 14?

Robert Altman was the director of the M*A*S*H movie for which the song was originally written. As described on Wikipedia: "Director Robert Altman had two stipulations about the song for Mandel: it had to be called 'Suicide Is Painless' and it had to be the 'stupidest song ever written'. Altman attempted to write the lyrics himself, but upon finding it too difficult for his 45-year-old brain to write 'stupid enough,' he gave the task to his 14-year-old-son Michael, who wrote the lyrics in five minutes."

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