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* ''[[The Uncle Frankie Show]]'': ''"And then, of course, we have I Was A Teen-age Martian. A small town boy reigns in terror over local residents who don't understand him. He falls in love with a plastic girl full of dynamite and computers that the high school metal shop teacher builds as a decoy. They get married and take off to Mars in his flying saucer and it blows up."'' | * ''[[The Uncle Frankie Show]]'': ''"And then, of course, we have I Was A Teen-age Martian. A small town boy reigns in terror over local residents who don't understand him. He falls in love with a plastic girl full of dynamite and computers that the high school metal shop teacher builds as a decoy. They get married and take off to Mars in his flying saucer and it blows up."'' | ||
* ''[[Manx Needs Women]]'': The title is a pun on the film ''[[Mars Needs Women]]''. | * ''[[Manx Needs Women]]'': The title is a pun on the film ''[[Mars Needs Women]]''. | ||
| − | * ''[["The Finest Night Of The Year]] | + | * ''[["The Finest Night Of The Year"]]'': ''"Okay. These are Martian flowers? Wonderful! Well, we'll put these over here, here's a guy who would look good with 'em. Let me introduce you to everybody."'' |
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Latest revision as of 08:06, 31 July 2026
References to the planet Mars in Zappa's work
- The Uncle Frankie Show: "And then, of course, we have I Was A Teen-age Martian. A small town boy reigns in terror over local residents who don't understand him. He falls in love with a plastic girl full of dynamite and computers that the high school metal shop teacher builds as a decoy. They get married and take off to Mars in his flying saucer and it blows up."
- Manx Needs Women: The title is a pun on the film Mars Needs Women.
- "The Finest Night Of The Year": "Okay. These are Martian flowers? Wonderful! Well, we'll put these over here, here's a guy who would look good with 'em. Let me introduce you to everybody."
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Jan Donkers: "Your friend Captain Beefheart says he comes from Mars, where do you come from?"
Frank Zappa: "Well, I don't want you to hold it against me, but I come from the United States".
- Frank Zappa, Introducing...The Mothers, 1970.
