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The Wilhelm Scream is one of several similar screams record by musician Sheb Wooley, known for the song "The Purple People Eater". It was first used in 1951 for Distant Drums, a Western in which a group of cowboys are wading through the Everglades and one of them is killed by an alligator, but received its name from the film Feather River when calvary private Wilhelm his struck by an arrow. Since then, it has been used in over 150 films.[1]

The Wilhelm Scream in heard in the following episodes of American Dad!:

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