most unusual/unexpected place you've seen a beach boys referance

[The Madcap]

for me it was last year on the PSAT. one of the paragraphs for the reading or writing section was about SMiLE.

[bossaroo]

i didn't expect to hear Donald Fagen from Steely Dan singing "Help Me Rhonda" on his latest tour

[Runaways]

for me it was last year on the PSAT. one of the paragraphs for the reading or writing section was about SMiLE.

that is awesome.

[summerinparadise.flac]

Mr. Show!

[punkinhead]

I remember Oswald and Lewis (on the Drew Carey Show) had a metal detector and the noise it made sounded like a thermin, as Lewis moved it up and down, it made the notes of Good Vibrations.



The subtle poster of the Summer in Paradise cover on Uncle Jessie's door in his room (Full House)   

[Ron]

There's a great, great song by Kathy Mattea called "455 Rocket".  It's about her buying this old car with a 455 engine in it, and how fast it was.  Great song.

Anyways, halfway through the song, she wrecks the car.  The lyrics in that part are spoken, and go

"I'm telling you, I ain't ashamed; I cried when that wrecker came.
As we skid, I thought I heard the angels sing.  (Sounded like the Beach Boys)"

[Don_Zabu]

for me it was last year on the PSAT. one of the paragraphs for the reading or writing section was about SMiLE.

That is too awesome for words. Did it say who the author was? Was it Dominic Priore?

[Eric Aniversario]

for me it was last year on the PSAT. one of the paragraphs for the reading or writing section was about SMiLE.

Wow, I hated high school, but I'd go back for a day to take that test.

[Mike's Beard]

Funny this thread should come up as I've been looking for an opportunity to mention this. On a recent episode of The Cleveland show, Cleveland is berating Rollo's dad for being a bad father. To my amazement Rollo's dad counters with (paraphrase) "that's nuthing. The Beach Boys Brian Wilson's dad made him take a duke in a box under their Christmas tree". I wish I could remember the true exchange because it was very funny (something about a "Little Deuce Poop")

I thought the story was Murry made him curl one out on newspaper like a dog but I enjoyed the reference all the same.

* Edit. I've also just remembered there is a Simpson esp from a few years back that has a spoof BB's doing a spoof version of Kokomo. Again I forget the exact dialogue, but it seemed to be berating that the current Beach Boys are not really "The Beach Boys". An argument that refuses to go away on this board.

[rasmus skotte]

Salman Rushdie's Beach Boys/Brian bit in his novel ' the Ground Beneath Her Feet' (which I quote in total in my recent SMiLE-essay). I didm't see that one coming...

[The Heartical Don]

In the book mentioned, the BBs are lauded for their apollinic approach of pop music (say: the stylized feminine approach of BW):

From Wiki:

Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947) is an American author, teacher, and social critic. She has described herself as a dissident feminist.[2] Since 1984, Paglia has been a Professor at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, published in 1990, became a bestseller.

[The Madcap]

for me it was last year on the PSAT. one of the paragraphs for the reading or writing section was about SMiLE.

Wow, I hated high school, but I'd go back for a day to take that test.

I hate it too, which is the reason why Be True To Your School isn't exactly one of my favorite Beach Boys songs. When some loud bragger tries to put e down and say his school is great, I tell him I don't give a f***

speaking of that song, they took the basic melody of it for a song on Spongebob. I guess that counts as another unexpected reference.

I'm also wondering what my fellow high schoolers thought when reading the paragraph. I'm guessing it was either "The Beach Boys? Those gay surfer guys?" or "I bet Kokomo was going to be on that album".  To answer your question, yes, I know someone who actually likes Kokomo. I know this from an exchange of dialouge I heard in 1oth grade. it went something like this
student: What's that song that goes "Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take you" called?
teacher: kokomo
This was before I was Beach Boys fan, but if it happened now, I would have gotten pissed and forced them to listen to Pet Sounds, Sunflower, and various SMiLE outtakes. 

[summerinparadise.flac]

I like Kokomo

[Vega-Table Man]

I was watching an episode of Seinfeld recently and there was a coffee-shop scene where George said something typically ludicrous ... and Jerry just came out with, "Oh, help me Rhonda!!"

Got a laugh from me  

[Runaways]

i'm ok with kokomo, more cause of the childhood memories. when i was 6 (1993) i used to listen to kokomo and trying to find each of the voices that i could hear in the 1960's songs.  should be noted that i thought the guy singing "bermuda, bahama" was brian.  then i used to try and figure out which ones in the picture was the dead one (dennis).  then i got sad cause it was the cool looking one. 

[Pretty Funky]

1997 on a aircraft before seat-back screens. Look up from reading and on the main screen is Mike Love. Turns out it was the Stars and Stripes doco. I hadn't heard or read anything about the project at that point so was caught unaware.

[the captain]

The grocery store down the street--which is not one of the big-box type grocers, but neither is it a tiny corner store--was playing the Surf's Up version of Surf's Up when I walked in once. I've also heard Little Honda in there (and a ton of other cool and often hard-to-pigeonhole stuff from across styles and eras). I assume they just pump the staff's iPods or something because some of it is way too cool to be some satellite or subscription service!

[Myk Luhv]

When your indie grocery store starts playing "Dang Dang" on repeat as the staff stomp along rhythmically while scanning groceries, then I will be impressed!

[A Million Units In Jan!]

Ok, there was/is this show that was on Nickelodeon that my kids watch called 'Drake and Josh'. It was about these two stepbrothers and their wild, zany adventures. Anyway the Drake kid in real life-his name is Drake Bell- writes songs and has made an album or 2, and on youtube there is a version of him singing 'Vegetables'. Now I can't stand this guys' music, and the show is ridiculous-however, this kid is probably 25 years old at the most, and for him to be singing 'Vegetables' in concert must mean that he has some sort of musical taste.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I remember hearing South America from Imaginations at a grocery store.

[bossaroo]

i hear 'Your Imagination' and 'South American' every so often in grocery store/elevator type settings.


I was at a water park in N. Carolina recently with an Australian theme (Boomerang Bay), pumping mainly the same 5 or 6 Beach Boys tunes on repeat all day long... some were covers, some not. Also a Jan & Dean song or two.



and who ever thought Snoop Dogg would reference the boys?

[Jay]

A family friend and I were discussing poetry. She knows that I'm a "struggling poet", and she was pushing me to get my stuff published. Anyway, through the course of the conversation, we talked about many different types of poetry, and different poets. We also talked about "the muse", and my various struggles to form a poem from my brain, on to paper. One of us(probably me...I can't quite remember) mentioned Robinson Jeffers. My friend mentioned that The Beaks Of Eagles was included in a Beach Boys song. I then told her that, that was the way that I actually discovered the poem. We then ended up talking about The Beach Boys, and music in general. So, a deep conversation about the trials and tribulations of writing poetry somehow morphed into The Beach Boys. 

[The Heartical Don]

A family friend and I were discussing poetry. She knows that I'm a "struggling poet", and she was pushing me to get my stuff published. Anyway, through the course of the conversation, we talked about many different types of poetry, and different poets. We also talked about "the muse", and my various struggles to form a poem from my brain, on to paper. One of us(probably me...I can't quite remember) mentioned Robinson Jeffers. My friend mentioned that The Beaks Of Eagles was included in a Beach Boys song. I then told her that, that was the way that I actually discovered the poem. We then ended up talking about The Beach Boys, and music in general. So, a deep conversation about the trials and tribulations of writing poetry somehow morphed into The Beach Boys. 

You're not aware that all roads eventually lead to the Beach Boys then?

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Somebody recently did My Solution for American Idol.....then I woke up.