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At 1h32m39s into the new Mya Communications DVD release of Dario Argento's 1970 giallo "4 Flies on Gray Velvet," the lp jacket of WOIIFTM can be seen on the living room floor of the film's protagonist.

Maybe that could be a question if someone makes a Trivial Pursuit, Zappa Edition.

That's awesome!

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Here's another: There's a song on the new album Cummunion by The Soundtrack of Our Lives called Mensa's Marauders. In it there's a lyric that reads, "Hey Mr. Forehead working for the brain police/But did you ever say a word?"

I heard somewhere (hint..hint) That the Simpson's theme song is a Zappa rip off! Now that's Useless...

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What would Zappa say?....... http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/thepoodlebites

In the movie Scanners, right after the school bus crash scene, when the police inspect the mess in the record store, there are several Sheik Yerbouti LP sleeves on the walls.

In the movie "High Fidelity", you can see a bunch of Zappa albums on the wall (I remember Joe's Garage, Sheik Yerbouti, and Apostrophe (')).

Also, in "School of Rock", there's a part where Jack Black is writing a bunch of bands on a chalkboard (I think writing the genre, then putting down bands - such as "Metal" then "Black Sabbath" linked to it). There's a section on the chalkboard with a "?", and connected to it says "Zappa" and "Beefheart".

in the episode of Rosanne with Ahmet, in Ahmet's character's room there are several Zappa posters including, Them or Us and Man from Utopia, and a Zappa bust in the back ground.

P.S. Ahmets name in that episode was Royal, so people could call him Roy or Al. (i thought it was funny)

[quote="FaithfulZappa"]In the movie "High Fidelity", you can see a bunch of Zappa albums on the wall (I remember Joe's Garage, Sheik Yerbouti, and Apostrophe ('))]

I seem to remember he mentions the Mothers or Zappa when someone comes in the shop.....

I actually haven't seen the whole movie... I just see it on T.V. occasionally, and it's always at that same spot. It's weird.

I can't remember the exact quote but John Kusack mentions something about FZ fans who only want the original vinyl editions of certain albums.

I never noticed that before. I'll have to watch it again. It's sitting on my shelf a few feet away.

Recently I saw a piece of a Simpson episode the had the family viewing a sign that said Fathers of Invention, but was amended to Fathers and Mothers of Invention. I fail to remember the context, only the punch line.

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Girl ... Too_Little

... and I remembered why guess, when you can get the whole reference!

On "The Nightmare on Elm Street 2" the best friend character to the main character whom is being taken over by Freddy Crugar, their is a "Them or Us" poster on his bedroom wall.

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From my Couch-In-The-Sky,
As my planet goes by,
I behold all your misery below there!
I have seen all your lying,
And crying, and dying,
And, believe me,
YOUR planet is NOWHERE!

In Mork and Mindy, in Mindy's Dad's music shop there is a copy of 'Moving Waves' by Focus on the wall. I presume it's on Sire records as its a US show. This may have been an early product placement, as Seymour Stein boss of Sire is a very clever man.

Not Zappa, but I could not resist.

No Zappa trivia is useless, its all CC!..or even OCD, having just watched Adrian Monk.


(Its one of my favourite LP's)

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A Blanket in my Muesli. A Blanket in my what??

He's a CEO for Chrissakes!

I think that Dweezil had a small acting role in the movie "The Running Man"

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BANNED and FAT

I think you're right. (actually, I know he's in the movie, but I don't want to out-positive you)

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You're probably wondering why I'm here
(not that it makes a heck of a lot of a difference to ya)

what about ahmet in that really bad david arquette wrestling movie?

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

In one episode of the show "Entourage" the character "Erick Murphy" wears a Zappa t-shirt.

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In the film ORDINARY PEOPLE, a couple kids ride up to main character's house on bikes, and they are laughing about the lyrics to FLAKES.

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Yes, near the end he bursts into a room with some other rebels carrying a rifle and recites the line "Don't touch that dial". That about floored me when I saw it!

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ahmet also had a very small part in "pump up the volume", starring christian slater.

speaking of mork and mindy, mindy is telling mork she's having dinner with someone special. robin williams obviously goes off script and asks,"idi amin?" pam dawber's expression of suprize is hilarious--but when he asks," is it frank zappa?", she looks even more astonished. too funny.

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One two, buckle my shoe!

And the leader of that rebel group Dweezil was part of ? Mick Fleetwood

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Seriously? WTF?!

The name of the gas station where Matt Helm stops in The Silencers is Joe's Garage.

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Bill