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:
“We [actors] are indeed a strange lot! There are times we doubt that we have any emotions we can honestly call our own. I have approached every dynamic scene change in my life the same way. When I married Charlie MacArthur, I sat down and wondered how I could play the best wife that ever was.... My love for him was the truest thing in my life; but it was still important that I love him with proper effect, that I act loving him with great style, that I achieve the ultimate in wifedom.”
—Helen Hayes (1900–1993)
“Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)