Surprise Explained

Surprise (or, rarely, surprize) may refer to:

• Surprise (emotion), a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event

Places

• Surprise, Arizona, a city in the United States
• Surprise, Indiana, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Surprise, Nebraska, a village in the United States
• Surprise, New York, a populated place in the United States
• Surprise Valley (disambiguation)

Arts and entertainment

• The Surprise (Watteau), a c. 1718 painting by Antoine Watteau

Film and television

Film

• Surprise (1991 film), a short by Pixar
• Surprise (2015 film), a Chinese film directed by Show Joy
• Surprise! (film), a 1995 short by Veit Helmer
• The Surprise (film), a Dutch film directed by Mike van Diem

TV

• "Surprise", an episode of Zoey 101
• "Surprise!", an episode of Dora the Explorer
• "Surprise!", an episode of Arthur
• Surprise (web series), a 2013–2015 Chinese web comedy series
• Surprise! (BoJack Horseman), a 2019 television episode
• "Surprise" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a television episode
• "Surprise!" (Dexter's Laboratory), a television episode
• "Surprise" (The 7D), a television episode
• "Surprise" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Music

• 5urprise, a South Korean band
• Surprise Records, a record label
• Surprise Symphony, nickname of Symphony No. 94 (Haydn)

Albums

• Surprise (Crystal Waters album), 1991
• Surprise (Lynsey de Paul album), 1973
• Surprise (Paul Simon album), 2006
• Surprise (S.E.S. album), 2001
• Surprise (Syd Straw album), 1989
• Surprise (Sylvia album), 1984
• Surprises (Herbie Mann album), 1976
• Surprise, by Better Than Ezra, 1990
• Surprise!, by Fifteen, 1996

Songs

• "Surprise" (song), a 2022 song by Chloe Bailey
• "Surprise!" (song), a 1996 song by Bonnie Pink
• "Surprise", by HALO, 2015
• "Surprise", by James from the album Millionaires, 1999
• "Surprise", by Jolin Tsai from the album Lucky Number, 2001
• "Surprise", by Sugababes from the album Change, 2007
• "Surprise", by Gnarls Barkley from the album The Odd Couple, 2008
• "Surprises", by Billy Joel from the album The Nylon Curtain, 1982
• "Surprise", by Jars of Clay from the album Good Monsters, 2006
• "Surprise!", by +/- from the album You Are Here, 2003

Boats

• Surprise 15, an American sailboat design
• Surprise 25, a French sailboat design

Ships

• HMS Surprise (includes HMS Surprize), the name of several British Royal Navy ships; also,
  • HMS Surprise (replica ship), a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • HMS Surprise (novel), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian
• USS Surprise, the name of several United States Navy ships
  • Surprise (1777 ship), the first American naval ship of the name
• , a British East India Company merchant ship
• , a schooner launched in the U.S. that captured more than 30 British vessels before wrecking in 1815
• Surprise (paddle steamer), built 1831, the first steam powered vessel built and run in Australia
• Surprise (clipper), an 1850 clipper ship in the San Francisco and tea trades
• Surprise, a Sydney schooner that took London Missionary Society missionaries to Torres Strait Islanders in 1871
• Surprise (schooner), built in 1917-18 and still providing daily cruises for tourists on Penobscot Bay
• Royal Escape (1660 ship), the ex-collier Surprise

Other uses

• Surprise (apple), a pink-fleshed apple
• Surprise Moriri (born 1980), South African footballer

See also

• Self-information, a concept in information theory
• Shock (disambiguation)
• ¡Sorpresa!, a TV network whose name means "Surprise!" in Spanish
• Surprise factor, a storytelling technique
• Surprise, Surprise (disambiguation)