Kokomo (song) - Appearances/References in Other Media

Appearances/References in Other Media

• The Muppets performed this song for the 1993 album Muppet Beach Party, with Kermit the Frog singing the lyrics. The lyrics "under a tropical island sky" replaced the lyrics "gave me a tropical contact high", in keeping with the family-friendly nature of the Muppets. On the version recorded for the album, the alto sax solo has been replaced by a bottleneck electric guitar solo played by either Nick Brown or George Doering. For the music video of the song, however, there is a tenor sax solo that plays over the bottleneck solo, and is played by Dan Higgins.
• In a Two Guys and a Girl episode, "Two Guys and a Girl and a Vacation", the three main characters sing the song throughout the episode in celebration of their upcoming holiday.
• On an episode of Scrubs, Turk suggests Elliot and Keith honeymoon in Kokomo, but Elliot shoots down his fantasy, telling him blankly "For the last time, there is no such place as 'Kokomo'!" to which Turk angrily responds, "Then *where* did The Beach Boys shoot the video, huh?!"
• In an episode of How I Met Your Mother, "Three Days of Snow", Ted and Barney are keeping a bar open after last call to wait for their dates and are lip-syncing to the song.
• The Season 15 episode of The Simpsons "Today I Am a Clown" features a parody of both the band and the song, with Jewish themes, during the bar mitzvah of Krusty.
• In the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when Judge Doom asks Eddie where Roger is, Eddie suggests, "I hear Kokomo's very nice this time of the year."
• In the Family Guy episode "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou", Stewie sings the chorus of the song while inside a tanning bed.
• The Beach Boys guest star in Season 2 Episode 6 of Full House. They perform Kokomo in their house and in the live concert, in which the Full House cast helped sing Barbara Ann.