Rubber
Along with Chrome and Plastic, Rubber is another substance that often turns up in Frank Zappa's works.
- Artificial Rhonda: "Don't look, OB'DEWLLA! It's too horrible! I b'lieve de muthafucker 'bout to ask dat rubber girl to dance!"
- Clowns On Velvet: "an dis ugly rubber waitress look to him like a dream come true"
- Crew Slut: "Yeh, they like rubber too...shrink-tubing with a hair dryer..."
- Debra Kadabra: "And make me watch the rubber tongue/When it comes out/From the puffed & flabulent Mexican rubber-goods mask"
- The Demise Of The Imported Rubber Goods Mask
- Divan Ends Here: Sheets of rubber are mentioned in the song.
- Drop Dead: "Did that little rubber MAMMY 'do something' on you?"
- God Bless America: "Here's one with your fathers moustache, the old cookie jar, rubbers, sneakers, galoshes, belt buckles, and book covers with the name of your high school neatly imprinted in crimson and gold on the front cover with a picture of the goal post and last year's queen."
- He's So Gay: "He's into rubber every night"
- Latex Solar Beef
- Little Rubber Girl
- Man With The Woman Head: "Four slender bones with rings and nails endured the weight of a hard fast black rubber cigarette holder."
- The Massive Improve'lence: "'n also what yo' rubberized madonna be somewhat remindin' me of!"
- Ms. Pinky: " I got a girl with a little rubber head"
- No Not Now: "Wooo, looka-dat! A big ol' truck, 'n a box uh NODOZ, 'n ovuh deah, a greazy ol' dinuh where yo rubber bitch kin reassume part-time employment in her former professium: slingin' hash in de directium o' de blue-collar community!"
- Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead: " T-shirt racks, rubber snacks"
- Rubber Shirt
- Rubber Slices
- Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top: "Rolled out a tiny wooden platform with dark, hard, dark rubber wheels."
- Dick Barber is credited with "rubber chicken strangulation" on Mozart Ballet (Piano Sonata in B Flat).
- Frank Zappa played The Chips' "Rubber Biscuit" during a "Fraudulent DJ" appearance on KPPC, Pasadena.
- There is a rubber hand on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money.