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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]] | * [[Stink-Foot]]: a dog, Fido, is called to fetch some slippers and goes into an argument about the essence of [[Conceptual Continuity]] | ||
* Dogs can be heard barking during the intro of [[Andy]] | * Dogs can be heard barking during the intro of [[Andy]] | ||
+ | * [[Cheepnis]]: ''"'Cause she just might box yer dog/She just might box yer doggie/ An' leave you a dried-up dog biscuit"'' | ||
* [[Dog Breath]], even though the term is also American slang for a person with very bad breath | * [[Dog Breath]], even though the term is also American slang for a person with very bad breath | ||
* [[Zomby Woof]]: ''"woof"'' is a sound associated with dogs | * [[Zomby Woof]]: ''"woof"'' is a sound associated with dogs |
Revision as of 11:39, 26 May 2011
Dogs appear regularly in Zappa's work:
- 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.
- A dog with sunglasses can be seen on the covers of Francesco Zappa,Them Or Us and of The Perfect Stranger.
- Evelyn, A Modified Dog
- Stink-Foot: a dog, Fido, is called to fetch some slippers and goes into an argument about the essence of Conceptual Continuity
- Dogs can be heard barking during the intro of Andy
- Cheepnis: "'Cause she just might box yer dog/She just might box yer doggie/ An' leave you a dried-up dog biscuit"
- Dog Breath, even though the term is also American slang for a person with very bad breath
- Zomby Woof: "woof" is a sound associated with dogs
- Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me: "He had an Irish setter"
Specific articles about dogs
- Fido
- Phydeaux III
- Frunobulax, named after Zappa's own dog Fruney.
- Evelyn
- Dogess
- Killer Collie
Specific references to poodles
- The Poodle Lecture
- Dirty Love and Stink-Foot: "The poodle bites, the poodle chews it."
- Hunchentoot and Cheepnis: "The monster which the peasants in this area call Frunobulax and apparently a very large poodle."
- Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America: "as the denizens of New Perfect America dine on rats, poodles,..."