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Dogs appear regularly in Zappa's work:
  
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* On the cover of ''[[Absolutely Free]]'' an advertisement for a dog collar can be seen, with the slogan ''"Buy a Fydo. Fits swell!"''
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* On the covers of ''[[Cruising With Ruben & The Jets]], [[Just Another Band From L.A.]]'' and ''[[Ahead Of Their Time]]'' Zappa and his band members are depicted with dog noses. Illustrator [[Cal Schenkel]] did this as a tribute to the dog characters in Carl Barks' comic strips about [[Donald Duck]].
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* A dog with sunglasses named Patricia can be seen on the covers of [[Francesco Zappa]], [[Them Or Us]] and of [[Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger]].
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* In ''[[The Story Of Ruben & The Jets]]'' it is revealed that Ruben has three dogs: Benny, Baby and Martha. The names Martha and Benny appeared earlier on the artwork of the cover of ''[[Absolutely Free]]'', along with Ruben's name.
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*''[[Andy]]'': Dogs can be heard barking during the intro.
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*''[[Babbette]]'' is about a dog, and includes [[Arf!]]
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*''[[Cheepnis]]'': ''"'Cause she just might box yer dog/She just might box yer doggie/ An' leave you a dried-up dog biscuit"'' (...) the people try to catch Frunobulax by calling ''"Here Fido, here Fido..."''
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*''[[Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?]]'': ''"A dog, a car, an epidemic of body lice with your own record company"''
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*''[[Dog Breath]]'', even though the term is also American slang for a person with very bad breath
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*''[[Evelyn A Modified Dog|Evelyn, A Modified Dog]]''
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*''[[Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me]]'': ''"He had an Irish setter"''
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*''[[Later That Night]]'': ''"You threw my best sharkskin suit out on the lawn, right on top of some dog waste"''
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*''[[My Head?]]'': ''"WOOF!"''
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*''[[Nanook Rubs It]]'': while Nanook is rubbing a chorus sings ''"Here Fido, here Fido...."''
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*''[[Stink-Foot]]'': a dog, Fido, is called to fetch some slippers and goes into an argument about the essence of [[Conceptual Continuity]]
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*''[[Strictly Genteel (The Track)]]'':'' "Reach out your hand to the girl in the dog book."''
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*''[[Take Me Out To The Ball Game]]'': ''"That goes for your little dog too!"''
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*''[[Zomby Woof]]'': ''"woof"'' is a sound associated with dogs
  
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==Specific articles about dogs==
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* [[Fido]]
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* [[Phydeaux III]]
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* [[Fruney]], who inspired [[Frunobulax]]
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* [[Dogess]]
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* [[Shillelagh]]
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* Patricia
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==Specific references to poodles==
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* [[The Poodle Lecture]]
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* [[Dirty Love]] and [[Stink-Foot]]: ''"The poodle bites, the poodle chews it."''
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* [[Hunchentoot]] and [[Cheepnis]]: ''"The monster which the peasants in this area call [[Frunobulax]] and apparently a very large poodle."''
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* [[Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America]]: ''"as the denizens of New Perfect America dine on rats, poodles,..."''
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==Meta==
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*The mascot for this wiki is a poodle wearing sunglasses.
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[[File:Hello.jpg|thumb|right]]
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==See also==
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* [[Arf!]]
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* [[Collars]]
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[[Category:Targets]]
 
[[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]
 
[[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]
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[[Category:Animals]]

Latest revision as of 08:51, 4 January 2022


Dogs appear regularly in Zappa's work:


Specific articles about dogs

Specific references to poodles

Meta

  • The mascot for this wiki is a poodle wearing sunglasses.
Hello.jpg

See also