Charlie Don't Surf is a famous line from the film Apocalypse Now, spoken by Colonel Kilgore as justification for taking a beach at the Mekong Delta so the American soldiers could go surfing. "Charlie" is slang for Viet Cong, the enemy. It can also refer to:
- "Charlie Don't Surf" (Veronica Mars), the 4th episode of season 3 of Veronica Mars
- Charlie Don't Surf (band), Irish band.
- "Charlie Don't Surf", the 7th episode of season 5 of Numb3rs
- "Charlie Don't Surf", the 13th episode of season 1 of The Commish
- "Charlie Don't Surf", a song by the Clash from their album Sandinista!
- "Charlie Don't Surf", a song by Funeral For a Friend from their album Memory and Humanity
- "Charlie Don't Surf", a level in the video game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- "Charlie Don't Surf", a sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan consisting of a child mannequin who sits at a school desk with the hands nailed down to it by two pencils.
- "Charlie Don't Surf", a restaurant in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
- A fictional London restaurant in William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition
Famous quotes containing the words charlie and/or surf:
“After the first couple of months, she and Charlie didn’t see much of each other except at breakfast. It was a marriage just like any other marriage.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“There was so much of the Indian accent resounding through his English, so much of the “bow-arrow tang” as my neighbor calls it.... It was a wild and refreshing sound, like that of the wind among the pines, or the booming of the surf on the shore.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)