<Li> "Surfin Bird" was covered by Phil Streva in 1989 . Release on the EP Catahoula in 2010 . </Li> <Li> Poultry - themed punk band The Radioactive Chicken Heads released a cover as a single in June 2017 and later as a music video in August, the same day the band performed the song on the ABC revival of The Gong Show . </Li> <P> A man lip - synchs his anus to the tune of this song in one scene of John Waters's 1972 exploitation comedy . </P> <P> In the second half of 1987 Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket, when a journalist news team records and interviews the platoon sent to Phu Bai, "Surfin' Bird" can be heard playing on both the soundtrack and in the background on a radio . </P>

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