Surfer Dude
The Surfer Dude trope as used in popular culture. This guy is, like, Totally Radical! He's a lot like The Stoner, except, like, mostly without the.
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They all tend to like, live in, because California is, like, most excellent and all that. If not California dude, expect to be, like, or any cool place with a cool beach, with all the sun and the sand dude, and totally surfable waves with a lot'o rip. Plus, there are way many hot babes there, dude!! You comparin' that to, my man? And remember,. If memory serves, what appears to be a band shows up in 's. Ozzie Isaac in 's is pretty much a surfer dude, despite being a scientific genius responsible for the wormhole network that binds the human Commonwealth together, and owning slightly less than half the company that keeps the wormholes up and running.
in 's Blink subverts this to some degree in that Dekker explicitly calls him a 'surfer dude.' Seth has an, is only briefly if at all, and. Dick M is a Victorian one of these in H.D. Stacpoole's The Garden of God, sequel to.: Totally Kyle, dudes!. Colorful character in. Lucky London from. His was even 'Surf's up!'
. Michael Westen from pretends to be one of these for a bit in an episode in season one. He notably rolls his eyes when he stops with the 'Duuuuuuuude!' .
Dick Casablancas from. And what a name for a Surfer Dude, dude. Spinelli from starts off as this. His surfer slang turns to over the course of the few years he's been on through transformation into. Zoe from 2008, while being a and, speaks like a surfer (awesome is her favorite word) so it is no surprise when she turns out to be an actual surfer chick, which allows her to get some field experience in 'Knight of the Iguana'. Wilder from is more of a skateboarder, but his speech is, like, totally Surfer Dude.
One episode of has Elaine dating a guy named Tony. He is not a surfer, but he has a surfer-like attitude, and he likes dangerous activities. George but Jerry is not impressed. Deconstructed in. The Mucca Mad Boys are a violent gang and the entire town hates them. Bucket and Skinner of. Bayside High School in seems to be largely populated by surfer dudes and dudettes.
The show was set in the Pacific Palisades area of, so this is probably for any high school or college located in that particular area of Los Angeles county in. Bayside High School and the surrounding areas like the movie theater or the mall are just chock full of this subculture, as Surfer Dudes wander around the halls of Bayside so that they can comment that whatever Zack and his friends are up to is 'radical!' And 'awwwesome.' Naturally, the episodes that take place at the Malibu Sands beach resort have the gang interacting with a veritable army of surfer dudes and dudettes (much to Stacy Carosi's initial chagrin). A young played one in the episode 'The Hunt'. Emerald Cove, the teen soap that was a on the 1990s revival of, featured a character nicknamed 'Wipeout', who was an avid surfer and is actually, but didn't like people to know that side of him. Oddly flipped around in - while Tori was the pro surfer of the team, it was motorbike fanatic Dustin who most resembled this stereotype.
Parodied on whenever Larry interviews a 'Radical Muslim'. Invariably on the beach or the slopes. He's a totally radical Muslim who thinks it's like, totally bogus the way his religion is being misused and mischaracterized.
'Surfer' Ray Odyssey, whose ring attire looked like a wet suit, minus the mask and flippers. He had stints in the, and others. He was a jobber in the WWF though he did manage to beat. He was part of the Surf & Turf with Jimmy Deo and the Beach Bullies with Inferno Kid. used to have a surfer dude look before settling on a -inspired look that he would become best known for., before he became known for drinking beer, originally had that name in reference to the fact he was a surfer dude.
sometimes talked like this in. In he began to act much differently, although sometimes he still that the Surfer Dude is part of his personality. The perpetually depressed regards his time as surfer dude Scotty Flamingo with shame and will degenerate into madness if the Scotty, Flamingo or anything surfer related at him. Chuck Palumbo's first gimmick was that of a surfer called 'The Dude'. Genki Horiguchi was at first known for having a long haired surfer gimmick, however, fans began chanting at him in Toryumon when his hair started receding. So he became the, one of the most popular wrestlers in.
Micah Taylor, who was dubbed 'Sandy Beach' in because of this trait and his dirty blond hair. His finishing move is, not surprisingly, Wipe Out. Tracy Taylor's not so much a surfer dude but a lover of all good things Hawaii, which just happens to include surfing.
From came Tadd Bradley, Hawaiian Paddler who was a from Hawaii. Puerto Rican Gangster Grizzled Youth by contrast has laughed at his time as a surfer dude and has poked fun at the 'Dreadlocked Demolition Man' Tyler Reks for his own period as a jobber surfer dude in WWECW.
In, tag team Up In Smoke became surfer dudes. Randy McKenzie carries a surfboard to the ring and his wrestling gear even resembles swim trunks. The Magnificent Championship Wrestling Heavyweight title holder Johnny Wave, a throwback surfer dude. Even his photos. After dissolved, entirely changed his ring gear and attitude, entering his face 'Kona Crush' era, wherein he emphasized his Hawaiian background and would frequently throw 'shaka brah's.
In there's Chuck Mambo, in and out of the ring. Beach balls are even thrown around the crowd while he makes his entrance. Funky Kong from the games, especially in the cartoon, where they gave him a Rasta voice that was somehow even sillier. Ivan Rodriguez in was an air surfer, dude. Subverted when it turned out he actually did have the drugs, also, dude.: Prinnies,!. Snap Lockitt from.
Bonaire in, though that was probably an. Ling Tong, in Dynasty Warriors 6. Especially hilarious because this game is set in ancient China. Sun Ce was this in Dynasty Warriors 4.
He even calls Sun Jian 'pops', not 'father'. By the 5th installment, he drops it. Maeda Keiji has a surfer accent in 2, though he didn't use the associated slang.
In the crossover and future titles, he dropped the accent. gets a similar treatment in the series. Super Macho Man has fully transformed into once of these in the Wii edition of. He had elements of Surfer Dude beforehand. Nintendo was probably going this route when they created him, but he ended up looking like a psychopathic killer in the arcade Super Punch-Out and a mafia-esque thug in the NES version. They did get the look right in the SNES Super Punch-Out, though.
The surfer otter from on Coastal Remains, who gave you the 'Fill the Pool' mini quest. He was such an obvious parody that his talk after you beat the quest is nothing but him saying the word a dozen times. In the American version of, Xigbar has this accent, though he's not just ANY old dude. Erik Stream from. Matt Engarde from totally talks like this, dude. Like, even when he's arrested, y'know?
At least until he decides to. Ximon in. Inverted in. Morty, a Ghost Gym Leader, has a look very similar to a stereotypical surfer dude in GSC. His design was changed to fit his type in HGSS, though. And then there's. With comes a new Gym Leader, Marlon.
Joining them in is Raichu's Alolan form, not to mention the Male Swimmer and Hiker Trainer-Classes (the Hiker in particular has always been an, older-looking man in previous generations). The Gunner in, who is even actually Hawaiian. His taunts include touting Maui as the best and using his dual mini gun as a board!
'Become one with Kai, brah.' . Deanu, one of the from.
Moose in Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan. And this dude talks in Surfer Slang, bro. has an Okinawan student Tsunami Jousuke, introduced as a regular Surfer Dude who also happens to be in a football club. His initial special ability in a football match is to create a huge wave out of nowhere and surf along it. Yun-seong dresses like one in. runs on nostalgic and applies 'bro' anywhere it possibly can (Bro-op, Bro-dozer, Ro-Bro) along with Billy and Jimmy using words like 'tubular' or 'un-gnarly'. has the character Josh Beachcomber, who is the protagonist of the game Purity of the Surf.
Wonder Blue from. The North American version of uses some of the lingo for the names of the Special World stages. Artie from has some of these traits, including referring to everyone as 'man' or 'dude' regardless of gender.
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Surfer Zombie from 2: It's About Time. He took up surfing because he thought it would make him look cool.
But then he was a natural, and he did become cool. In fact, the entire Big Wave Beach world is built around this. Zomboss even writes in surfer speech. Ponder Stibbons speaks that way in. Possibly because he's made to resemble a computer scientist from California. has Ken Suther, owner of the shop 'Big Wave'.
In the third game he gets a Wizard named Hang Ten who matches the motif. The Hacker from. Note that is supposed to be. has Costora,. act like this, although they spend more time playing video games, facing, getting stoned, or any combination of the above than surfing. Their creator and his Bro only act like this ironically. is a covering, and Weselton's voiceless guards are portrayed as this in the comic.
They wouldn't even mind the if they had brought their snowboards. has, who both talk this way despite having absolutely nothing to do with surfing or the beach. Inverted in a way with Joseph Trundle, a basketball player in the. He is an English nobleman—, to be exact. (Yes, he is often called Lord Trundle, a to the series). He has the appropriate mannerisms and accent of the peerage—but is an avid surfer, and plans to use a ocean-side manor in as a surfing resort when he retires from sports, advertising the waves as some of the most dangerous in the world. The one who taught him to surf, Desmond Macon, fits this trope to a T.
From, there's William Palakiko. He is also Broseidon, God of the Brocean. This fits him because surfers would love to manipulate the ocean tides to get few 'gnarly' waves. Positivo from Lazyworkcreations is a surfer dude character who as his name implies is positive. Gordo Leiter from the cartoon. Beachcomber from. The, particularly Michaelangelo.
from David Wise is that he originally wanted the turtles to speak in inner city slang, but it was the pre-hip hop era and so it all sailed over the heads of the studio execs. So he ended up using surfer speak instead. Still, he likes to note that the first line of dialogue from any of the turtles in the original animated series is to call a random 'home boy.'
. Unlike a lot of the examples on this page, Michelangelo would occasionally be seen surfing, sometimes in the sewers and sometimes being lucky enough to catch some actual waves in an actual ocean. (And if surfing wasn't an option, skateboarding would do in a pinch.). In the movies they alternate between this and in a weird attempt to appeal to both the comic-reading adult and cartoon-watching kid audiences. More specifically, Raphael stood for the and Michelangelo for the majority of the surfer lingo.
Scooter from. Larry the Lobster as well. This was one of the tropes parodied by Poochie on. But dude, it's, like, played totally straight with Snake, man. Radley on.
Manic from. Franklin Fizzlybear from the cartoon.
Motor Ed from. Peyton from. Shaka Baka from the episode 'Gadget Goes Hawaiian'. Silver Surfer in.
Mark Chang on. Jude from, as well as Geoff, his. In, Geoff teams up with Brody, as the 'Surfer' duo. Many teens from, especially the Teen Ninjas. Also The Little Traitor Dudes For Children's Defense. featured the Headless Skateboarder.
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And yes, he took drugs. The same episode features an actual surfer who turns out to be an undercover FBI agent.
Dean Wilson, the character in, although his main focus within the film is swimming. In one episode of, Jack loses his memory and starts.
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