Mutt

A product of blink-182's longtime connection to the southern Californian surf scene, “Mutt” was inspired by Benji Weatherly, a pro surfer Tom once lived with who had a lot of sex.

The song played during Benji’s part in the 1998 surf video The Show. Before its placement on Enema of the State, Blink would call it “The Surf Song” when they played it live.

The song also had a notable and fitting role in an iconic scene in the 1999 sex-comedy "American Pie". After the main character, Jim, sets his webcam up to spy on a female peer as she undresses, he runs as fast as he can to a friend’s house to watch the feed. Blink-182 actually makes a few cameos in the same scene.

In a program for one of Blink’s tours around the time of Enema’s release, Tom left a brief annotation for each track. For “Mutt”:

"‘Mutt’ is a song I wrote about my friend Benji Weatherly, a professional surfer who has sex all the time. His name’s Benji, but everyone nick named him Mutt, and it’s just a song about a guy and a girl who like to have sex and who don’t really care about much of anything else. I guess that doesn’t really matter, as long as they’re having fun. It’s not too deep. As long as it seems deep, that’s all that matters.'"