You Are What You Is (The Music Video)

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In 1981 Zappa made a music video for "You Are What You Is". It would be the only music video he ever made in his career.

The video is shot in a greenish color, sometimes black and white and sometimes in regular color.

In the video Zappa and Ike Willis are surrounded by various characters, including a nun, a nurse, a stewardess, an African tribe, a man with lettuce on his head, a Ku Klux Klan member, an American football player, a Playboy Bunny, a construction worker, a policeman, a bunch of cannibals, and a look-a-like of then President Ronald Reagan seated on an electric chair.

Beavis and Butt-head watched this music video in the episode "Canoe" (1994) and changed the channel in irritation. According to creator Mike Judge he did this as a tribute to Zappa.