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Dogs appear regularly in Zappa's work:
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[[Evelyn]]<br>
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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!"''
[[Evelyn A Modified Dog|Evelyn, A Modified Dog]]<br>
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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]].
[[Killer Collie]]<br>
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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.
[[Fido]], [[Phydeaux III]] (the bus)<br>
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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"''
[[Frunobulax]]<br>
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* ''[[Strictly Genteel (The Track)]]'':'' "Reach out your hand to the girl in the dog book."''
[[Just Another Band From L.A.]]<br>
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* A dog with sunglasses named [[Patricia]] can be seen on the covers of [[Francesco Zappa]], [[Them Or Us]] and of [[The Perfect Stranger]].
[[Cheepnis]]<br>
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* ''[[Evelyn A Modified Dog|Evelyn, A Modified Dog]]''
[[The Poodle Lecture]]<br>
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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]]
[[Dirty Love]]<br>
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* Dogs can be heard barking during the intro of ''[[Andy]]''
[[Stink-Foot]]<br>
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* ''[[Nanook Rubs It]]'': while Nanook is rubbing a chorus sings ''"Here Fido, here Fido...."''
[[Hunchentoot]]<br>
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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..."''
[[The Purse]]<br>
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* ''[[Dog Breath]]'', even though the term is also American slang for a person with very bad breath
[[Say Cheese...]]<br>
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* ''[[Zomby Woof]]'': ''"woof"'' is a sound associated with dogs
A dog with sunglasses can be seen on the covers of [[Francesco Zappa]],[[Them Or Us]] and of [[The Perfect Stranger]].
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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"''
Frank Zappa and the Mothers have dog noses and faces on the covers of [[Cruising With Ruben & The Jets]] and [[Ahead Of Their Time]].
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==Specific articles about dogs==
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* [[Fido]]
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* [[Phydeaux III]]
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* [[Evelyn]]
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* [[Fruney]], who inspired [[Frunobulax]]
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* [[Dogess]]
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* [[Shillelagh]]
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* [[Killer Collie]]
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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,..."''
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
* [[Arf!]]
 
* [[Arf!]]
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* [[Collars]]
  
 
[[Category:Targets]]
 
[[Category:Targets]]
 
[[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]
 
[[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]
 
[[Category:Animals]]
 
[[Category:Animals]]

Revision as of 12:59, 2 November 2020

Dogs appear regularly in Zappa's work:

Specific articles about dogs

Specific references to poodles

See also