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** "Wonderful Wino" was a song dating from the early 1970's when Zappa was touring with Mark and Howie from Music/TheTurtles and was originally released on former Zappa band member Jeff Simmons' 1970 LP "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".
** "Wonderful Wino" was a song dating from the early 1970's when Zappa was touring with Mark and Howie from Music/TheTurtles and was originally released on former Zappa band member Jeff Simmons' 1970 LP "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".
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** The "stones weeping greenish drops" line in "The Torture Never Stops" is a shout-out to Music/BelaBartok's opera ''[[Literature/{{Bluebeard}} Bluebeard's Castle]]'', in which the walls of the castle cry green tears.
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** The "stones weeping greenish drops" line in "The Torture Never Stops" is a shout-out to Music/BelaBartok's opera ''[[Literature/{{Bluebeard}} Bluebeard's Castle]]'', ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'', in which the walls of the castle cry green tears.
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* WineIsClassy: Averted in "Wonderful Wino", the wine drinker describes himself as having bugs in his zoot suit and stenching like a dog, as well as drinking under a table.
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* LongTitle: "The Torture Never Stops", "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".
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* ADateWithRosiePalms and DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in "Disco Boy" sees his friend leave with the girl he longed for. Zappa comforts him with the words:
--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow.''
--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow.''
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in "Disco Boy" sees his friend leave with the girl he longed for. Zappa comforts him with the words:
--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow.''
--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow.''
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** "The Torture Never Stops" started as an attack on Captain Beefheart called "Why Doesn't Someone Get Him A Pepsi?", mocking Beefheart for sitting in his mom's house listening to R&B and demanding a Pepsi from his mother. The only bit left from the original version is the lines about the evil prince.
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''Zoot Allures'' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins," "The Torture Never Stops," "Wonderful Wino," "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures," which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
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''Zoot Allures'' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's Released during the height of a fierce legal battle with former manager Herb Cohen, it's notable for being Zappa's only official release on Creator/WarnerBrosRecords. The lawsuit with Cohen placed a temporary freeze on Zappa's contract with [=DiscReet=] Records, and to get around this, his recording contract was briefly shifted directly to Warner themselves, who were [=DiscReet's=] main distributors. The end result is probably one of the most mutually cooperative efforts between Zappa and Warner since ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}''.
The album was initially envisioned as a double-LP, only to be cut down to a single record by Zappa himself as production went on; some of these axed songs, featured on a test pressing of the double-LP draft, would eventually make their way onto ''Music/SleepDirt'' and ''Music/{{Lather}}'', while the final single-record album would add in "Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" and the TitleTrack. ''Zoot Allures'' is best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins," "The Torture Never Stops," "Wonderful Wino," "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures," which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
The album was initially envisioned as a double-LP, only to be cut down to a single record by Zappa himself as production went on; some of these axed songs, featured on a test pressing of the double-LP draft, would eventually make their way onto ''Music/SleepDirt'' and ''Music/{{Lather}}'', while the final single-record album would add in "Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station" and the TitleTrack. ''Zoot Allures'' is best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins," "The Torture Never Stops," "Wonderful Wino," "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures," which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
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`* AntiLoveSong: "Find Her Finer" implies that women don't like smart men, so you might as well act dumb.
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'''oot Allures'' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins," "The Torture Never Stops," "Wonderful Wino," "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures," which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
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* AlwaysNight: The dungeon in "The Torture Never Stops" has no natural light and is assumedly pitch dark.
--> ''A tiny light in a window hole, a hundred yards away''
--> ''Is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day''.
* AntiLoveSong: "Find Her Finer" implies that women don't like smart men, so you might as well act dumb.
--> ''A tiny light in a window hole, a hundred yards away''
--> ''Is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day''.
* AntiLoveSong: "Find Her Finer" implies that women don't like smart men, so you might as well act dumb.
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--> ''A tiny light in a window hole, a hundred yards away''
--> ''Is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day''.
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'''Zoot Allures''' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins," "The Torture Never Stops," "Wonderful Wino," "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures," which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
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* TheMummy: "Find Her Finer"
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* TheMummy: {{Mummy}}: "Find Her Finer"
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'''Zoot Allures''' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins", "The Torture Never Stops", "Wonderful Wino", "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures", which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
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'''Zoot Allures''' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins", Napkins," "The Torture Never Stops", Stops," "Wonderful Wino", Wino," "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures", Allures," which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
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# "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" (2:30)
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-->''There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb that makes the throat contract.''
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-->''There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb squeeze bulb that makes the throat contract.''
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** "Wonderful Wino" was a song dating from the early 1970s when Zappa was touring with Mark and Howie from Music/TheTurtles and was originally released on former Zappa band member Jeff Simmons' 1970 LP "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".
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** "Wonderful Wino" was a song dating from the early 1970s 1970's when Zappa was touring with Mark and Howie from Music/TheTurtles and was originally released on former Zappa band member Jeff Simmons' 1970 LP "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".
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** The title "Wonderful Wino" is from a Creator/GeorgeCarlin bit.
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** "The Torture Never Stops" was a popular staple of Zappa's live shows and can be heard live on ''Music/ZappaInNewYork'' (1978) and ''Music/TheBestBandYouNeverHeardInYourLife'' (1988).
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** "The Torture Never Stops" was a popular staple of Zappa's live shows and can be heard live on ''Music/ZappaInNewYork'' (1978) and ''Music/TheBestBandYouNeverHeardInYourLife'' (1988).(1991). On the latter album "Find Her Finer" and the title track of "Zoot Allures" are also performed.
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** "The Torture Never Stops" was a popular staple of Zappa's live shows and can be heard live on ''Music/ZappaInNewYork'' (1978) and ''Music/TheBestBandYouNeverHeardInYourLife'' (1988).
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** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as "Mrs. Pinky's larger sister".
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** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" ''Music/ThingFish'' (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as "Mrs. Pinky's larger sister".
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** The line "you never go doody/ that's what you think" in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on ''Music/SheikYerbouti'', where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
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** The line "you never go doody/ that's what you think" in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on ''Music/SheikYerbouti'', where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" ''Music/ThingFish'' (1985).
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--> ''A tiny light in a window hole/ a hundred yards away/ is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day''.
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--> ''A tiny light in a window hole/ hole, a hundred yards away/ is away''
--> ''Is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day''.
--> ''Is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day''.
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* BawdySong: "Mrs. Pinky", "Find Her Finer" and "Friendly Little Finger" (though the latter is instrumental).
* BigBad: The evil prince ("He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done he done it first") in "The Torture Never Stops".
* BigBad: The evil prince ("He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done he done it first") in "The Torture Never Stops".
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--> ''But believe me later on you'll find''
--> ''As you impress her with your mind''
--> ''That you would just be left behind''
--> ''For a wiser fool''
* BawdySong: "Mrs.Pinky", Pinky" (about a sex doll), "Find Her Finer" (about fingering women for sexual gratification) and "Friendly Little Finger" (though the latter is instrumental).
* BigBad: The evil prince("He's in "The Torture Never Stops"
--> ''He's the best, of course, of all theworst. Some worst.''
--> ''Some wrong been done he done itfirst") in "The Torture Never Stops". first''
--> ''As you impress her with your mind''
--> ''That you would just be left behind''
--> ''For a wiser fool''
* BawdySong: "Mrs.
* BigBad: The evil prince
--> ''He's the best, of course, of all the
--> ''Some wrong been done he done it
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** "Black Napkins" would later be reworked as "Pink Napkins" on "Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar" (1981).
** People being locked up in "The Torture Never Stops" brings back images of "Concentration Moon" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny" from ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''. Joe too is locked up on side 2 of ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" in Music/{{Apostrophe}} and would be referenced again during "Dong Work For Yuda" on ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** People being locked up in "The Torture Never Stops" brings back images of "Concentration Moon" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny" from ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''. Joe too is locked up on side 2 of ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" in Music/{{Apostrophe}} and would be referenced again during "Dong Work For Yuda" on ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
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** "Black Napkins" would later be reworked as "Pink Napkins" on "Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar" ''Music/ShutUpNPlayYerGuitar" (1981).
** People being locked up in "The Torture Never Stops" brings back images of "Concentration Moon" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny" from ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''. Joe too is locked upon side 2 of halfway ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" inMusic/{{Apostrophe}} ''Music/{{Apostrophe}} (1974)'' and would be referenced again during "Dong Work For Yuda" on ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** People being locked up in "The Torture Never Stops" brings back images of "Concentration Moon" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny" from ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''. Joe too is locked up
** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" in
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** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" (1980) the line "give me a five dollar bill and an overcoat too" from "Wonderful Wino" is repeated.
** The line "you never go doody/ that's what you think" in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on Music/SheikYerbouti, where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
** The line "you never go doody/ that's what you think" in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on Music/SheikYerbouti, where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
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** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" ''Music/YouAreWhatYouIs'' (1980) the line "give me a five dollar bill and an overcoat too" from "Wonderful Wino" is repeated.
** The line "you never go doody/ that's what you think" in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" onMusic/SheikYerbouti, ''Music/SheikYerbouti'', where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
** The line "you never go doody/ that's what you think" in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on
--> ''Knives 'n spikes 'n guns 'n the likes of every tool of pain''
--> ''An' a sinister midget with a bucket an' a mop where the blood goes down the drain''
--> ''An' a sinister midget with a bucket an' a mop where the blood goes down the drain''
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* CreepyDoll: "Ms. Pinky".
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* CreepyDoll: "Ms. Pinky".Pinky", a sex doll that Zappa once saw in a Finnish porn magazine and absolutely horrified him because it has a baby sized head.
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--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow.''
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--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that hands that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow.''
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* EpicRocking: "The Torture Never Stops".
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--> ''Fifty ugly soldiers, man, holdin' spears by the iron door''
--> ''Knives 'n spikes 'n guns 'n the likes of every tool of pain ''
* EpicRocking: "The Torture NeverStops". Stops" is over 9:46 minutes long.
--> ''Knives 'n spikes 'n guns 'n the likes of every tool of pain ''
* EpicRocking: "The Torture Never
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--> ''You oughta now know of all your education/you're gonna wind up working in a gas station''
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--> ''You oughta now know of all your education/you're education: you're gonna wind up working in a gas station''
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* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place.''[[note]]This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from "Yo' Mama" from "Sheik Yerbouti" [[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
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* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place.''[[note]]This ''[[note]] This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from "Yo' Mama" from "Sheik Yerbouti" [[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
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** When Zappa played "Black Napkins" in Ljubliana, Yugoslavia, on November 22, 1975 he introduced it with the following words: ''"This is an instrumental song, it's a tender, slow, moving ballad sort of song that cares with it the implied message that the complete woman must also have an asshole..."''
** The wino in "Wonderful Wino" loses ''"control of his body functions on a roller-headed lady's front lawn"''.
** The wino in "Wonderful Wino" loses ''"control of his body functions on a roller-headed lady's front lawn"''.
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** When Zappa played "Black Napkins" in Ljubliana, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia [[note]] Nowadays Slovenia [[/note]], on November 22, 1975 he introduced it with the following words: ''"This words:
--> ''This is an instrumental song, it's a tender, slow, moving ballad sort of song that cares with it the implied message that the complete woman must also have an asshole..."''
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** The wino in "Wonderful Wino" loses''"control "control of his body functions on a roller-headed lady's front lawn"''.lawn".
--> ''This is an instrumental song, it's a tender, slow, moving ballad sort of song that cares with it the implied message that the complete woman must also have an asshole...
** The wino in "Wonderful Wino" loses
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'''Personnel'''
* Music/FrankZappa: vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboards.
* Davey Moire: vocals
* Andre Lewis: vocals, organ
* Roy Estrada: vocals, bass
* Ruben Ladron de Guevara: vocals
* Napoleon Murphy Brock: vocals, sax
* Terry Bozzio: vocals, drums
* Lu Ann Neill: harp
* Sparkie Parker: vocals
* Dave Parlato: bass
* Ruth Underwood: synthesizer, marimba
* Music/CaptainBeefheart: harmonica
* Music/FrankZappa: vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboards.
* Davey Moire: vocals
* Andre Lewis: vocals, organ
* Roy Estrada: vocals, bass
* Ruben Ladron de Guevara: vocals
* Napoleon Murphy Brock: vocals, sax
* Terry Bozzio: vocals, drums
* Lu Ann Neill: harp
* Sparkie Parker: vocals
* Dave Parlato: bass
* Ruth Underwood: synthesizer, marimba
* Music/CaptainBeefheart: harmonica
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''W'''ind Up '''W'''orkin' In A Gas Station", "'''F'''ind Her '''F'''iner", "'''F'''riendly Little '''F'''inger", "'''W'''onderful '''W'''ino".
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--> ''"A tiny light in a window hole/ a hundred yards away/ is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day"''.
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--> ''"A ''A tiny light in a window hole/ a hundred yards away/ is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day"''.day''.
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* BrokenRecord: "All men be cursed!" in "The Torture Never Stops".
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* BrokenRecord: "All men be cursed!" in "The Torture Never Stops". Stops".
--> ''All men be cursed!''
--> ''All men be cursed!''
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* TheMummy: "Wrap like a mummy 'til you finally unwind her" in "Find Her Finer".
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* TheMummy: "Wrap "Find Her Finer"
--> ''Wrap like a mummy 'til you finally unwind her"in "Find Her Finer".
--> ''Wrap like a mummy 'til you finally unwind her"
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* PhonyDegree: "You oughta now know of all your education/you're gonna wind up working in a gas station" in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".
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* PhonyDegree: "You "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".
--> ''You oughta now know of all your education/you're gonna wind up working in a gasstation" in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".station''
--> ''You oughta now know of all your education/you're gonna wind up working in a gas
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** "Give me a five dollar bill and a Florscheim shoe" in "Wonderful Wino".
** The line "Gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken Delight"" in "Disco Boy"
** The line "Gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken Delight"" in "Disco Boy"
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** "Give "Wonderful Wino"
--> ''Give me a five dollar bill and a Florscheimshoe" in "Wonderful Wino".
shoe"
**The line "Gonna "Disco Boy"
--> ''Gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "ChickenDelight"" in "Disco Boy" Delight''
--> ''Give me a five dollar bill and a Florscheim
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--> ''Gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken
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* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''"just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place."[[note]]This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from "Yo' Mama" from "Sheik Yerbouti" [[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
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* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''"just ''just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place."[[note]]This ''[[note]]This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from "Yo' Mama" from "Sheik Yerbouti" [[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
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* SpellingSong:SpellingSong: "Mrs. Pinky"
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* TakeThatAudience: From "Wind Up Working In A Gas Station".
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* TakeThatAudience: From TakeThatAudience:
** "Wind Up Working In A Gas Station".
** "Wind Up Working In A Gas Station".
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--> And during "Find Her Finer": ''Now maybe you might think this is crude''
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* UnusualEuphemism: "You can poot it/ you plook it" in "Mrs. Pinky" and "find her finer" in "Find Her Finer".
* WolfWhistle: "If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..." in "Find Her Finer".
* WolfWhistle: "If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..." in "Find Her Finer".
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* UnusualEuphemism: "You UnusualEuphemism:
** "Find Her Finer"
--> ''Find her Finer''
** "Mrs. Pinky"
--> ''You can poot it/ you plookit" in "Mrs. Pinky" and "find her finer" in it''
* WolfWhistle: "Find HerFiner".
* WolfWhistle: "IfFiner"
--> ''If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..." in "Find Her Finer".''
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** "Find Her Finer"
--> ''Find her Finer''
** "Mrs. Pinky"
--> ''You can poot it/ you plook
* WolfWhistle: "Find Her
* WolfWhistle: "If
--> ''If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)...
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** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" in Music/{{Apostrophe}} and would be referenced again during ''Dong Work For Yuda'' on ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as ''Mrs. Pinky's larger sister''.
** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" (1980) the line ''"give me a five dollar bill and an overcoat too"'' from "Wonderful Wino" is repeated.
** The line ''"you never go doody/ that's what you think"'' in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on Music/SheikYerbouti, where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as ''Mrs. Pinky's larger sister''.
** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" (1980) the line ''"give me a five dollar bill and an overcoat too"'' from "Wonderful Wino" is repeated.
** The line ''"you never go doody/ that's what you think"'' in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on Music/SheikYerbouti, where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
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** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" in Music/{{Apostrophe}} and would be referenced again during ''Dong "Dong Work For Yuda'' Yuda" on ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as''Mrs. "Mrs. Pinky's larger sister''.sister".
** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" (1980) the line''"give "give me a five dollar bill and an overcoat too"'' too" from "Wonderful Wino" is repeated.
** The line''"you "you never go doody/ that's what you think"'' think" in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on Music/SheikYerbouti, where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as
** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" (1980) the line
** The line
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!! Tracklist
# "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" (2:30)
# "Black Napkins" (4:15)
# "The Torture Never Stops" (9:46)
# "Ms. Pinky" (3:40)
# "Find Her Finer" (4:07)
# "Friendly Little Finger" (4:17)
# "Wonderful Wino" (3:38)
# "Zoot Allures" (4:13)
# "Disco Boy" (5:10)
!! Tracklist
# "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" (2:30)
# "Black Napkins" (4:15)
# "The Torture Never Stops" (9:46)
# "Ms. Pinky" (3:40)
# "Find Her Finer" (4:07)
# "Friendly Little Finger" (4:17)
# "Wonderful Wino" (3:38)
# "Zoot Allures" (4:13)
# "Disco Boy" (5:10)
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* CreepyDoll: ''Ms. Pinky''.
* ADateWithRosiePalms and DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in ''Disco Boy'' sees his friend leave with the girl he longed for. Zappa comforts him with the words: ''"Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow."''
* ADateWithRosiePalms and DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in ''Disco Boy'' sees his friend leave with the girl he longed for. Zappa comforts him with the words: ''"Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow."''
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* CreepyDoll: ''Ms. Pinky''.
"Ms. Pinky".
* ADateWithRosiePalms and DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in''Disco Boy'' "Disco Boy" sees his friend leave with the girl he longed for. Zappa comforts him with the words: ''"Thank words:
--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow."''''
* ADateWithRosiePalms and DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in
--> ''Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow.
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--> ''"A sinister little midget with a bucket and a mop/ where the blood goes down the drain"''
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--> ''"A ''A sinister little midget with a bucket and a mop/ where the blood goes down the drain"''drain''
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* EvilPrince: Character in ''The Torture Never Stops''.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Several tracks.
* GratuitousFrench: ''Zoot Allures'' is actually a bilingual pun, on the French expression ''Zut alors''! - which, if you're curious, is the closest expression the French have for [[GoshDangItToHeck "Gosh darn it!"]].
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Several tracks.
* GratuitousFrench: ''Zoot Allures'' is actually a bilingual pun, on the French expression ''Zut alors''! - which, if you're curious, is the closest expression the French have for [[GoshDangItToHeck "Gosh darn it!"]].
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* EvilPrince: Character in ''The "The Torture Never Stops''.Stops".
* FadingIntoTheNextSong:Several tracks.The final scream from "The Torture Never Stops" rolls the listener in "Ms. Pinky".
* GratuitousFrench:''Zoot Allures'' "Zoot Allures" is actually a bilingual pun, on the French expression ''Zut alors''! "zut alors" - which, if you're curious, is the closest expression the French have for [[GoshDangItToHeck "Gosh darn it!"]].
* FadingIntoTheNextSong:
* GratuitousFrench:
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* TheMummy: ''"Wrap like a mummy 'til you finally unwind her"'' in "Find Her Finer".
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Mrs. Pinky" , a rollicking rock track about a sex doll.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Mrs. Pinky" , a rollicking rock track about a sex doll.
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* TheMummy: ''"Wrap "Wrap like a mummy 'til you finally unwind her"'' her" in "Find Her Finer".
* MundaneMadeAwesome:"Mrs."Ms. Pinky" , a rollicking rock track about a sex doll.
* MundaneMadeAwesome:
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--> ''"Leave ''Leave his hair alone/ but you can kiss his comb."'' ''
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** "Black Napkins" was inspired by a real bad dinner that Zappa was experienced: ''"Black Napkins" is a song I've had for year or more but it was finally named last Thanksgiving when we were having this [[ForeignQueasine horrible Thanksgiving dinner in Milwaukee]]. [[MessOnAPlate Sliced turkey roll with the fucking preservatives just gleaming off it, and this beat-up cranberry material]]. The final stroke to this ridiculous dinner was the black napkins, sitting next to the dishes. That really said the most about the dinner."''
** "Ms. Pinky" was written when a Finnish fan lend Zappa his favorite porno magazine, ''Kille''. In it Zappa saw a picture of a truly awful looking sex toy. In his own words: ''"There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb that makes the throat contract."''
** "Ms. Pinky" was written when a Finnish fan lend Zappa his favorite porno magazine, ''Kille''. In it Zappa saw a picture of a truly awful looking sex toy. In his own words: ''"There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb that makes the throat contract."''
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** "Black Napkins" was inspired by a real bad dinner that dinner, as Zappa was experienced: explained:
--> ''"Black Napkins" is a song I've had for year or more but it was finally named last Thanksgiving when we were having this [[ForeignQueasine horrible Thanksgiving dinner in Milwaukee]]. [[MessOnAPlate Sliced turkey roll with the fucking preservatives just gleaming off it, and this beat-up cranberry material]]. The final stroke to this ridiculous dinner was the black napkins, sitting next to the dishes. That really said the most about the dinner."''
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** "Ms. Pinky" was written when a Finnish fan lend Zappa his favorite porno magazine, ''Kille''. In it Zappa saw a picture of a truly awful looking sex toy. In his ownwords: ''"There words:
-->''There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb that makes the throat contract."'' ''
--> ''"Black Napkins" is a song I've had for year or more but it was finally named last Thanksgiving when we were having this [[ForeignQueasine horrible Thanksgiving dinner in Milwaukee]]. [[MessOnAPlate Sliced turkey roll with the fucking preservatives just gleaming off it, and this beat-up cranberry material]]. The final stroke to this ridiculous dinner was the black napkins, sitting next to the dishes. That really said the most about the dinner.
** "Ms. Pinky" was written when a Finnish fan lend Zappa his favorite porno magazine, ''Kille''. In it Zappa saw a picture of a truly awful looking sex toy. In his own
-->''There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb that makes the throat contract.
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* TortureChamberEpisode and TortureCellar: ''"The Torture Never Stops"'' evokes medieval dungeon imagery.
* TorturePorn: The female screams in ''"The Torture Never Stops"'' often sound like orgasmic moaning.
* TortureTechnician: ''"The Torture Never Stops"''
--> ''"His carving style is well rehearsed."''
* UnusualEuphemism: ''"You can poot it/ you plook it"'' in ''"Mrs. Pinky"'' and ''"find her finer"'' in ''"Find Her Finer"''.
* TheWoobie: The wino in ''"Wonderful Wino"'' is so pathetic you feel sympathy towards him.
* WolfWhistle: ''"If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..."'' in "Find Her Finer".
* TorturePorn: The female screams in ''"The Torture Never Stops"'' often sound like orgasmic moaning.
* TortureTechnician: ''"The Torture Never Stops"''
--> ''"His carving style is well rehearsed."''
* UnusualEuphemism: ''"You can poot it/ you plook it"'' in ''"Mrs. Pinky"'' and ''"find her finer"'' in ''"Find Her Finer"''.
* TheWoobie: The wino in ''"Wonderful Wino"'' is so pathetic you feel sympathy towards him.
* WolfWhistle: ''"If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..."'' in "Find Her Finer".
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* TortureChamberEpisode and TortureCellar: ''"The "The Torture Never Stops"'' Stops" evokes medieval dungeon imagery.
* TorturePorn: The female screams in''"The "The Torture Never Stops"'' Stops" often sound like orgasmic moaning.
* TortureTechnician:''"The "The Torture Never Stops"''
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-->''"His ''His carving style is well rehearsed."''
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* UnusualEuphemism:''"You "You can poot it/ you plook it"'' it" in ''"Mrs. Pinky"'' "Mrs. Pinky" and ''"find "find her finer"'' finer" in ''"Find "Find Her Finer"''.Finer".
* TheWoobie: The wino in ''"Wonderful Wino"'' is so pathetic you feel sympathy towards him.
* WolfWhistle: ''"If "If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..."'' " in "Find Her Finer".
* TorturePorn: The female screams in
* TortureTechnician:
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** Zappa sings with a German accent near the end of "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". He used German language often in his work. The song also attack the American school system, a theme he touched before in his songs, most notably on ''Music/FreakOut'' and ''Music/AbsolutelyFree''.
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** Zappa sings with a German accent near the end of "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". He used German language often in his work. The song also attack attacks the American school system, a theme he touched before in his songs, most notably on ''Music/FreakOut'' and ''Music/AbsolutelyFree''.
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* GratuitousFrench: 'Zoot Allures'' is actually a bilingual pun, on the French expression ''Zut alors''! - which, if you're curious, is the closest expression the French have for [[GoshDangItToHeck "Gosh darn it!"]].
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* GratuitousFrench: 'Zoot ''Zoot Allures'' is actually a bilingual pun, on the French expression ''Zut alors''! - which, if you're curious, is the closest expression the French have for [[GoshDangItToHeck "Gosh darn it!"]].
** "Disco Boy" came about after Zappa visited a Danish discothéque called The Disc Club.
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* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''"just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place."[[note]]This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from ''"Yo' Mama"'' from ''Music/SheikYerbouti''[[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
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* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''"just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place."[[note]]This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from ''"Yo' Mama"'' "Yo' Mama" from ''Music/SheikYerbouti''[[/note]] "Sheik Yerbouti" [[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
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[[caption-width-right:350: '''Good''' allures...]]
'''Zoot Allures''' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins", "The Torture Never Stops", "Wonderful Wino", "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures", which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
!! The Tropin' Never Stops...
* TheAlcoholic: The wino in "Wonderful Wino".
* AlwaysNight: The dungeon in "The Torture Never Stops" has no natural light and is assumedly pitch dark.
--> ''"A tiny light in a window hole/ a hundred yards away/ is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day"''.
* AntiLoveSong: "Find Her Finer" implies that women don't like smart men, so you might as well act dumb.
* BawdySong: "Mrs. Pinky", "Find Her Finer" and "Friendly Little Finger" (though the latter is instrumental).
* BigBad: The evil prince ("He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done he done it first") in "The Torture Never Stops".
* BookEnds: "Find Her Finer", about finding a woman's clitoris is followed by the instrumental track "Friendly Little Finger".
* BrokenRecord: "All men be cursed!" in "The Torture Never Stops".
* CallBack and ContinuityNod:
** Zappa sings with a German accent near the end of "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". He used German language often in his work. The song also attack the American school system, a theme he touched before in his songs, most notably on ''Music/FreakOut'' and ''Music/AbsolutelyFree''.
** "Black Napkins" would later be reworked as "Pink Napkins" on "Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar" (1981).
** People being locked up in "The Torture Never Stops" brings back images of "Concentration Moon" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny" from ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''. Joe too is locked up on side 2 of ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" in Music/{{Apostrophe}} and would be referenced again during ''Dong Work For Yuda'' on ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as ''Mrs. Pinky's larger sister''.
** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" (1980) the line ''"give me a five dollar bill and an overcoat too"'' from "Wonderful Wino" is repeated.
** The line ''"you never go doody/ that's what you think"'' in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on Music/SheikYerbouti, where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
** "Disco Boy" and "Dancin' Fool" from ''Music/SheikYerbouti (1979)'' are both attacks on the then current disco trend.
* ColdBloodedTorture: "The Torture Never Stops".
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A giant fire puffer in "The Torture Never Stops". Every "tool of pain" is there too.
* CreepyDoll: ''Ms. Pinky''.
* ADateWithRosiePalms and DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in ''Disco Boy'' sees his friend leave with the girl he longed for. Zappa comforts him with the words: ''"Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow."''
* DepravedDwarf: One appears in "The Torture Never Stops".
--> ''"A sinister little midget with a bucket and a mop/ where the blood goes down the drain"''
* TheDungAges: "The Torture Never Stops" evokes all the clichés about medieval dungeons.
* EpicRocking: "The Torture Never Stops".
* EvilLaugh: Heard at the start of "Find Her Finer".
* EvilPrince: Character in ''The Torture Never Stops''.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Several tracks.
* GratuitousFrench: 'Zoot Allures'' is actually a bilingual pun, on the French expression ''Zut alors''! - which, if you're curious, is the closest expression the French have for [[GoshDangItToHeck "Gosh darn it!"]].
* GratuitousGerman: "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" has Zappa fall in near the end, sing in a mock German accent.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: The screams of the tortured women in "The Torture Never Stops" hold the middle between screams of pain and orgasmic pleasure. Zappa advises the listeners during "Find Her Finer" to focus more on giving girls orgasms by finding their "finer" than trying to impress them with knowledge.
* {{Instrumental}}: "Black Napkins", "Friendly Little Finger" and the title track.
* IronicNurseryRhyme: The lines "show your thumb: are you dumb?" in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" reference a children's nursery rhyme.
* LargeHam: Zappa seems to parody Creator/VincentPrice's voice while evoking his medieval torture imagery during "The Torture Never Stops".
* LockedInTheDungeon: The protagonists in "The Torture Never Stops".
* LongTitle: "The Torture Never Stops", "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Most of "The Torture Never Stops" is made up of two women screaming in agony and/or orgasmic ecstasy.
* TheMummy: ''"Wrap like a mummy 'til you finally unwind her"'' in "Find Her Finer".
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Mrs. Pinky" , a rollicking rock track about a sex doll.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: The disco boy in "Disco Boy" keeps returning to the toilets to comb his hair into model.
--> ''"Leave his hair alone/ but you can kiss his comb."''
* NonAppearingTitle: The title doesn't appear in the lyrics. Though the wino in "Wonderful Wino" is wearing a zoot suit.
* OneManSong: "Disco Boy".
* OneWomanSong: "Ms. Pinky", even though she is a doll.
* PhonyDegree: "You oughta now know of all your education/you're gonna wind up working in a gas station" in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".
* ProductPlacement:
** The sex doll in "Mrs. Pinky" really existed and Zappa even names the price: $69.95.
** "Give me a five dollar bill and a Florscheim shoe" in "Wonderful Wino".
** The line "Gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken Delight"" in "Disco Boy"
* PunBasedTitle: "Zoot Allures" is a pun on the French expression "zut alors" ("gosh darn it"). The track "Find Her Finer" is a DoubleEntendre on the finer of a photographic camera and a clitoris.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** "Black Napkins" was inspired by a real bad dinner that Zappa was experienced: ''"Black Napkins" is a song I've had for year or more but it was finally named last Thanksgiving when we were having this [[ForeignQueasine horrible Thanksgiving dinner in Milwaukee]]. [[MessOnAPlate Sliced turkey roll with the fucking preservatives just gleaming off it, and this beat-up cranberry material]]. The final stroke to this ridiculous dinner was the black napkins, sitting next to the dishes. That really said the most about the dinner."''
** "Ms. Pinky" was written when a Finnish fan lend Zappa his favorite porno magazine, ''Kille''. In it Zappa saw a picture of a truly awful looking sex toy. In his own words: ''"There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb that makes the throat contract."''
* RepurposedPopSong:
** "Wonderful Wino" was a song dating from the early 1970s when Zappa was touring with Mark and Howie from Music/TheTurtles and was originally released on former Zappa band member Jeff Simmons' 1970 LP "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".
** "Disco Boy" came about after Zappa visited a Danish discothéque called The Disc Club.
* SexBot: "Mrs. Pinky".
* ShoutOut:
** The "stones weeping greenish drops" line in "The Torture Never Stops" is a shout-out to Music/BelaBartok's opera ''[[Literature/{{Bluebeard}} Bluebeard's Castle]]'', in which the walls of the castle cry green tears.
** "Friendly Little Finger" ends with a quote from the Christian song "Bringing In The Sheaves", which [[FadingIntoTheNextSong leads to "Wino Man"]].
** "Disco Boy" references the advertising slogan for "Chicken Delight".
* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''"just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place."[[note]]This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from ''"Yo' Mama"'' from ''Music/SheikYerbouti''[[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
* SpecialGuest:
** Lady Bianca (Bianca Odin) sings the high vocals of "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". She only toured with Zappa's band for about a year and this track was her only official contribution to a regular Zappa studio album.
** Gail, Zappa's wife and a friend of hers are heard moaning during "The Torture Never Stops". In an interview with "The Daily Mirror" from February 14, 1977 Zappa said: ''"The sound effects to 'The Torture Never Stops' were an evening's work. We did most of it in the bedroom of my house. There were two chicks there – one was my wife – plus myself. I think they enjoyed it very much. We got four hours on tape and then cut it down to just under ten minutes. My friend opens up with a the first grunt and it carries on from there. Er, I don't think it's worth telling you precisely what went on ... you wouldn't be allowed to publish it."''
** Music/CaptainBeefheart performing mouth harmonica during "Mrs. Pinky" and "Find Her Finer".
* SpellingSong:
--> ''And her name is P-I-N-K-Y''
--> ''P-I-N, I cry''
--> ''K-Y, don't be shy''
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The squealing women in "The Torture Never Stops" are apparently Zappa's wife Gail and a friend of hers.
* TakeThatAudience: From "Wind Up Working In A Gas Station".
--> ''This here song might offend you some''
--> ''If it does it's because you're dumb''.
--> And during "Find Her Finer": ''Now maybe you might think this is crude''
--> ''And maybe you might think I am rude''
--> ''And maybe this approach I have spewed''
--> ''Is not the one for you''
* TakeThat:
** "Mrs. Pinky" pokes fun at sex toys and the kind of people who enjoy using them.
** "Wonderful Wino" depicts wine lovers as pathetic losers.
** "Disco Boy" is aimed at {{Disco}}.
* TortureForFunAndInformation: This seems to be Zappa's motivation in writing the song and that of the Evil Prince and his torturers.
* ToiletHumour: See BawdySong.
** When Zappa played "Black Napkins" in Ljubliana, Yugoslavia, on November 22, 1975 he introduced it with the following words: ''"This is an instrumental song, it's a tender, slow, moving ballad sort of song that cares with it the implied message that the complete woman must also have an asshole..."''
** The wino in "Wonderful Wino" loses ''"control of his body functions on a roller-headed lady's front lawn"''.
** The disco boy thinks "he never go doody", but Zappa adds: "That's what you think."
* TortureChamberEpisode and TortureCellar: ''"The Torture Never Stops"'' evokes medieval dungeon imagery.
* TorturePorn: The female screams in ''"The Torture Never Stops"'' often sound like orgasmic moaning.
* TortureTechnician: ''"The Torture Never Stops"''
--> ''"His carving style is well rehearsed."''
* UnusualEuphemism: ''"You can poot it/ you plook it"'' in ''"Mrs. Pinky"'' and ''"find her finer"'' in ''"Find Her Finer"''.
* TheWoobie: The wino in ''"Wonderful Wino"'' is so pathetic you feel sympathy towards him.
* WolfWhistle: ''"If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..."'' in "Find Her Finer".
[[caption-width-right:350: '''Good''' allures...]]
'''Zoot Allures''' is a 1976 album by Music/FrankZappa. It's best known for his audience favorites "Black Napkins", "The Torture Never Stops", "Wonderful Wino", "Disco Boy" and "Zoot Allures", which became staples of his concerts for years to come.
!! The Tropin' Never Stops...
* TheAlcoholic: The wino in "Wonderful Wino".
* AlwaysNight: The dungeon in "The Torture Never Stops" has no natural light and is assumedly pitch dark.
--> ''"A tiny light in a window hole/ a hundred yards away/ is all they ever get to know about the regular life in the day"''.
* AntiLoveSong: "Find Her Finer" implies that women don't like smart men, so you might as well act dumb.
* BawdySong: "Mrs. Pinky", "Find Her Finer" and "Friendly Little Finger" (though the latter is instrumental).
* BigBad: The evil prince ("He's the best, of course, of all the worst. Some wrong been done he done it first") in "The Torture Never Stops".
* BookEnds: "Find Her Finer", about finding a woman's clitoris is followed by the instrumental track "Friendly Little Finger".
* BrokenRecord: "All men be cursed!" in "The Torture Never Stops".
* CallBack and ContinuityNod:
** Zappa sings with a German accent near the end of "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". He used German language often in his work. The song also attack the American school system, a theme he touched before in his songs, most notably on ''Music/FreakOut'' and ''Music/AbsolutelyFree''.
** "Black Napkins" would later be reworked as "Pink Napkins" on "Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar" (1981).
** People being locked up in "The Torture Never Stops" brings back images of "Concentration Moon" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny" from ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''. Joe too is locked up on side 2 of ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** The iron sausage mentioned in "The Torture Never Stops" is a throwback to the sausage (penis) in "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" in Music/{{Apostrophe}} and would be referenced again during ''Dong Work For Yuda'' on ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979).
** "Mrs. Pinky" is about a sex doll, a theme that Zappa would revisit later on ''Music/JoesGarage (1979)'' during the tracks "Stick It Out" and "Sy Borg", and on "Thing-Fish" (1985), during "Artificial Rhonda" . In the trailer for ''Film/BabySnakes'' (1979) an inflatable sex doll is described as ''Mrs. Pinky's larger sister''.
** Near the end of "You Are What You Is" from "You Are What You Is" (1980) the line ''"give me a five dollar bill and an overcoat too"'' from "Wonderful Wino" is repeated.
** The line ''"you never go doody/ that's what you think"'' in "Disco Boy" shares a similar theme with "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" on Music/SheikYerbouti, where Zappa sings: ''"Don't fool yerself girl, it's goin' right up yer poop chute."'' It's brought up again during "Crab-Grass Baby" on "Thing-Fish" (1985).
** "Disco Boy" and "Dancin' Fool" from ''Music/SheikYerbouti (1979)'' are both attacks on the then current disco trend.
* ColdBloodedTorture: "The Torture Never Stops".
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A giant fire puffer in "The Torture Never Stops". Every "tool of pain" is there too.
* CreepyDoll: ''Ms. Pinky''.
* ADateWithRosiePalms and DidNotGetTheGirl: The disco boy in ''Disco Boy'' sees his friend leave with the girl he longed for. Zappa comforts him with the words: ''"Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerking that will blot out your disco sorrow."''
* DepravedDwarf: One appears in "The Torture Never Stops".
--> ''"A sinister little midget with a bucket and a mop/ where the blood goes down the drain"''
* TheDungAges: "The Torture Never Stops" evokes all the clichés about medieval dungeons.
* EpicRocking: "The Torture Never Stops".
* EvilLaugh: Heard at the start of "Find Her Finer".
* EvilPrince: Character in ''The Torture Never Stops''.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Several tracks.
* GratuitousFrench: 'Zoot Allures'' is actually a bilingual pun, on the French expression ''Zut alors''! - which, if you're curious, is the closest expression the French have for [[GoshDangItToHeck "Gosh darn it!"]].
* GratuitousGerman: "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" has Zappa fall in near the end, sing in a mock German accent.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: The screams of the tortured women in "The Torture Never Stops" hold the middle between screams of pain and orgasmic pleasure. Zappa advises the listeners during "Find Her Finer" to focus more on giving girls orgasms by finding their "finer" than trying to impress them with knowledge.
* {{Instrumental}}: "Black Napkins", "Friendly Little Finger" and the title track.
* IronicNurseryRhyme: The lines "show your thumb: are you dumb?" in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" reference a children's nursery rhyme.
* LargeHam: Zappa seems to parody Creator/VincentPrice's voice while evoking his medieval torture imagery during "The Torture Never Stops".
* LockedInTheDungeon: The protagonists in "The Torture Never Stops".
* LongTitle: "The Torture Never Stops", "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Most of "The Torture Never Stops" is made up of two women screaming in agony and/or orgasmic ecstasy.
* TheMummy: ''"Wrap like a mummy 'til you finally unwind her"'' in "Find Her Finer".
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Mrs. Pinky" , a rollicking rock track about a sex doll.
* NobodyTouchesTheHair: The disco boy in "Disco Boy" keeps returning to the toilets to comb his hair into model.
--> ''"Leave his hair alone/ but you can kiss his comb."''
* NonAppearingTitle: The title doesn't appear in the lyrics. Though the wino in "Wonderful Wino" is wearing a zoot suit.
* OneManSong: "Disco Boy".
* OneWomanSong: "Ms. Pinky", even though she is a doll.
* PhonyDegree: "You oughta now know of all your education/you're gonna wind up working in a gas station" in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station".
* ProductPlacement:
** The sex doll in "Mrs. Pinky" really existed and Zappa even names the price: $69.95.
** "Give me a five dollar bill and a Florscheim shoe" in "Wonderful Wino".
** The line "Gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken Delight"" in "Disco Boy"
* PunBasedTitle: "Zoot Allures" is a pun on the French expression "zut alors" ("gosh darn it"). The track "Find Her Finer" is a DoubleEntendre on the finer of a photographic camera and a clitoris.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** "Black Napkins" was inspired by a real bad dinner that Zappa was experienced: ''"Black Napkins" is a song I've had for year or more but it was finally named last Thanksgiving when we were having this [[ForeignQueasine horrible Thanksgiving dinner in Milwaukee]]. [[MessOnAPlate Sliced turkey roll with the fucking preservatives just gleaming off it, and this beat-up cranberry material]]. The final stroke to this ridiculous dinner was the black napkins, sitting next to the dishes. That really said the most about the dinner."''
** "Ms. Pinky" was written when a Finnish fan lend Zappa his favorite porno magazine, ''Kille''. In it Zappa saw a picture of a truly awful looking sex toy. In his own words: ''"There was an ad for Pinky. It was head with its mouth wide open and its eyes shut and a short haircut. And I thought : Hmmmmm, anyone who's gonna buy a plastic head to give himself a gum job [[CloudCuckooLander is right out there]]. By the time we got to Amsterdam I sent Smothers out to buy one, to use on stage. Sure enough, for $69.95 he came back with Ms. Pinky. [[CreepyDoll It was even worse than I had imagined]]. Not only is it a head, but it's the size of a child's head. The throat is sponge rubber and it's got the vibrator in it with battery pack and a two-speed motor. Sticking out of its neck is a nozzle with a squeezebulb that makes the throat contract."''
* RepurposedPopSong:
** "Wonderful Wino" was a song dating from the early 1970s when Zappa was touring with Mark and Howie from Music/TheTurtles and was originally released on former Zappa band member Jeff Simmons' 1970 LP "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up".
** "Disco Boy" came about after Zappa visited a Danish discothéque called The Disc Club.
* SexBot: "Mrs. Pinky".
* ShoutOut:
** The "stones weeping greenish drops" line in "The Torture Never Stops" is a shout-out to Music/BelaBartok's opera ''[[Literature/{{Bluebeard}} Bluebeard's Castle]]'', in which the walls of the castle cry green tears.
** "Friendly Little Finger" ends with a quote from the Christian song "Bringing In The Sheaves", which [[FadingIntoTheNextSong leads to "Wino Man"]].
** "Disco Boy" references the advertising slogan for "Chicken Delight".
* ShroudedInMyth: Manny the Camper in "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". All Zappa ever said about him was that he was ''"just anybody named Manny who had an RV (...) It's probably bullet-proof. One more thing is maybe he'll return to Managua. You could go unnoticed in such a place."[[note]]This last sentence is a reference to the lyrics from ''"Yo' Mama"'' from ''Music/SheikYerbouti''[[/note]] (Quoted from "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1", 1993 interview by Den Simms and Eric Buxton.)
* SpecialGuest:
** Lady Bianca (Bianca Odin) sings the high vocals of "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station". She only toured with Zappa's band for about a year and this track was her only official contribution to a regular Zappa studio album.
** Gail, Zappa's wife and a friend of hers are heard moaning during "The Torture Never Stops". In an interview with "The Daily Mirror" from February 14, 1977 Zappa said: ''"The sound effects to 'The Torture Never Stops' were an evening's work. We did most of it in the bedroom of my house. There were two chicks there – one was my wife – plus myself. I think they enjoyed it very much. We got four hours on tape and then cut it down to just under ten minutes. My friend opens up with a the first grunt and it carries on from there. Er, I don't think it's worth telling you precisely what went on ... you wouldn't be allowed to publish it."''
** Music/CaptainBeefheart performing mouth harmonica during "Mrs. Pinky" and "Find Her Finer".
* SpellingSong:
--> ''And her name is P-I-N-K-Y''
--> ''P-I-N, I cry''
--> ''K-Y, don't be shy''
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The squealing women in "The Torture Never Stops" are apparently Zappa's wife Gail and a friend of hers.
* TakeThatAudience: From "Wind Up Working In A Gas Station".
--> ''This here song might offend you some''
--> ''If it does it's because you're dumb''.
--> And during "Find Her Finer": ''Now maybe you might think this is crude''
--> ''And maybe you might think I am rude''
--> ''And maybe this approach I have spewed''
--> ''Is not the one for you''
* TakeThat:
** "Mrs. Pinky" pokes fun at sex toys and the kind of people who enjoy using them.
** "Wonderful Wino" depicts wine lovers as pathetic losers.
** "Disco Boy" is aimed at {{Disco}}.
* TortureForFunAndInformation: This seems to be Zappa's motivation in writing the song and that of the Evil Prince and his torturers.
* ToiletHumour: See BawdySong.
** When Zappa played "Black Napkins" in Ljubliana, Yugoslavia, on November 22, 1975 he introduced it with the following words: ''"This is an instrumental song, it's a tender, slow, moving ballad sort of song that cares with it the implied message that the complete woman must also have an asshole..."''
** The wino in "Wonderful Wino" loses ''"control of his body functions on a roller-headed lady's front lawn"''.
** The disco boy thinks "he never go doody", but Zappa adds: "That's what you think."
* TortureChamberEpisode and TortureCellar: ''"The Torture Never Stops"'' evokes medieval dungeon imagery.
* TorturePorn: The female screams in ''"The Torture Never Stops"'' often sound like orgasmic moaning.
* TortureTechnician: ''"The Torture Never Stops"''
--> ''"His carving style is well rehearsed."''
* UnusualEuphemism: ''"You can poot it/ you plook it"'' in ''"Mrs. Pinky"'' and ''"find her finer"'' in ''"Find Her Finer"''.
* TheWoobie: The wino in ''"Wonderful Wino"'' is so pathetic you feel sympathy towards him.
* WolfWhistle: ''"If you should see a girl on the street (wolf whistle)..."'' in "Find Her Finer".