Covering: Surfin' Bird

I'd like to apologize in advance for this post, because it's pretty much a given that after reading and listening to the links you'll have it stuck in your head for the rest of the day, minimum.

Among the hits of the 1960s, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird has got to be among the weirdest. It reached #4 on Billboard's Hot 100, despite the fact that its lyrics are easy enough for a Republican monkey to learn. Covering it, it'd be hard to add to the weirdness--or so you'd think.

First off, Peter Griffin gives it the Family Guy treatment.

Nice--although my favorite FG musical bit is still the Patriots Shpoopie performance.

Now, Gus and Fin rockin' the ukes:

I'm more smitten with their awesome mic than anything.

And Pee Wee Herman:

Is that Sammy Hagar on guitar? Doubt it.

Finally, a spectacle from a Japanese band called Chad Cried:

I was more than a minute into this clip when I realized this clip wasn't mislabeled--they actually ARE singing Surfin Bird. In their own unique way. Ow.