Surfin' Bird - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The song is featured in the "birthday party" sequence of the 1972 cult film Pink Flamingos, where it accompanies the performance of a nude contortionist.
  • This song was also used in Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket.
  • This song could be heard in the Battlefield Vietnam, as well as the similar Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
  • This song is prominently featured in the Family Guy episode I Dream of Jesus (Season 7 Episode 2) as Peter Griffin's favorite song, and has since become a running gag throughout the series.
  • The song is also featured in the movie "Fred Claus" starring Vince Vaughn.
  • It is also mentioned during a driving scene in Deadly Premonition.
  • "Surfin' Bird" was used for the dance game Just Dance published by Ubisoft.
  • The chorus of "Surfin' Bird" is used by Bluebird to promote Bluebird chips. In this version, the chorus becomes "Bluebird's the word" and featured penguins carrying packets of chips under their flippers.
  • The invented "bang-bang-bangity-bang" song in the episode "Of Course" from the TV show "How I Met Your Mother" is sung to the tune of Surfin' Bird.
  • The song is played in the first episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, "The Bird! The Bird!"
  • In the movie The Big Year, the character played by Jack Black has the song as the ringtone for his mobile phone. The ringtone is heard several times throughout the movie when someone calls him.
  • This song can be heard as the intro to Johnboy and Billy show's "Wordy Word."
  • Tom Servo (voiced by Kevin Murphy, and for the song Kevin & Toolmaster Jeff) sings "Don't you know that the bird is the word!" in The Tom Servo Men's Academy Chorus, in the fourth sketch of "The Starfighters" episode 12 of Season 6 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a parody of anb NPR show.
  • "Surfin' Bird" was the theme song to the short-lived CBS Kidshow series Birdz.
  • The song also appears in the movie Ghost Graduation where some characters wreak havoc around the school.

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