Earth

References to Earth in Frank Zappa's work

• Mr. Clean (The Track): "I'm the king of all the lovers / I'm the greatest in the world"
• How Could I Be Such A Fool: "Every happiness in the world belonged to me."
• Brown Shoes Don't Make It: Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn’t care… (...) a world of secret hungers
• Absolutely Free (The Track): "To enter the world of a strange purple Jello"
• Let's Make The Water Turn Black: "We see them after school in a world of their own (...) This would be a little bit of vocal teenage heaven, right here on Earth."
• The Idiot Bastard Son: "And enter the world of liars and cheaters and people like you..."
• Oh No: "All your love will it save the world from what we can't understand (...) and in your dreams you can see yourself as a prophet saving the world."
• Bwana Dik: "Girls from all over the world love to write my name on the toilet walls"
• What's The Name Of Your Group? (Complete Sequence, Part I): "Why don't you tell me how you're feeling about the world today?"
• Scene 17: "When Do We Get Paid?": "You are wise because you've traveled the world."
• Happy Together: "Imagine how the world could be, so very fine"
• Penis Dimension: “Things are bad enough, without the size of your organ adding even more misery to the TROUBLES OF THE WORLD!"
• In Zappa's script, Hunchentoot, Drakma the Queen wants to conquer Earth with help from a spider named Hunchentoot.
  • She refers to this plan in the song Spider Of Destiny: "If you eat the earthlings now (...) eat the earth people, eat them and chew them and brutally stomp on the rest of what's left and then report to me for the conquest of earth and the moon and the stars and the space in between, all the comets and stuff will be hours."
  • Time Is Money: "But I have been monitoring your Earthly broadcasts for many years" (...) and the whole 'equivalent earth' shall be mine!"

• Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead: "The entire stock is shipping (...) to our markets of the world."
• Muffin Man': "Nothing so exalted on the face of God's grey earth."
• Punky's Whips: "In today's rapidly changing world..."
• Titties 'n Beer: "They heard the titties plop-ploppin' / all around the world"
• Tryin' To Grow A Chin: "One more time for the world!"
• What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World
• The Central Scrutinizer: "Desperate nerds in high offices all over the world have been known to enact the most disgusting pieces of legislation in order to win votes (or, in places where they don't get to vote, to control unwanted forms of mass behavior)."
• Crew Slut: "Be a crew slut... see the world..."
• I'm So Cute/"Entertainment All the Way": So what's happening on the other side?" - "Uh, something more primordial than this Earth."
• Dumb All Over: "They call it the Earth, which is a dumb kinda name / but they named it right 'cause we behave the same..."
• Goblin Girl: "Hob-noblin wit de goblin / de goblin girl from da mystery world."
• Conehead: "The people of Earth who might get back"
• Harder Than Your Husband: "Well, the world don't need to know how I adored you."
• The Radio Is Broken: "The porthole where you see the earth for the first time (...) A love-starved race begging to reproduce with earthmen (...) We'll never get back to the Earth no more"
• Planet Of My Dreams: "The planet of my dreams / the Earth, my earth / is bulging at the seams"
• Drop Dead: "You're a useless all-American "Man-Worm", the most disgusting creature on the face of the earth."
• A Few Moments With Brother A. West: "Ah, I'm very pleased to be here on behalf of the Administration-- the most powerful government in the world."
• Uncle Meat Film Excerpt: "Just think, I mean, the way the world's going today . . . with all the problems in it . . . I think I can actually change the world, because it's the young people that really need to be changed, and, and you can really do that through music and everything ..."
• Dickie's Such An Asshole: "Can't wait 'til the rest of the people all over the the world /Find out that their confinement loaf /Is just the same ol' way"
• This Ain't CNN: "You think that English is the only... each language in the world."
• "The World Will Be A Far Happier Place"
• The "Real World" Thematic Extrapolations: "the theme of our show tonight has been "Real World", that we make an earnest effort to deal with these problems in a forthright manner, y'know what I mean?"
• "Choose Your Foot": "Tell me, Mr. Zappa, what is your message to the world?"

Quotes

"Some scientists say that a major building block of the universe is hydrogen, because it's the most plentiful element. But my theory is that the universe is made out of stupidity, because it is more plentiful than hydrogen. Since it's more plentiful, why shouldn't we talk about it?" - Frank Zappa, BBC Television Tribute, 1993.