Trivia / We're Only in It for the Money

• Executive Meddling: Zappa planned to release the album around the 1967 Christmas holiday, but was held up due to the album cover. Paul McCartney was said to not have any problems with Zappa parodying the Sgt. Pepper cover, but Capitol wasn't too thrilled and only allowed the use if the cover was reversed, with the inner artwork being placed on the outside and vice versa.
  
  To make matters worse for Zappa, MGM censored some parts of the album, the most absurd of those being the suits thinking that the "apron and her pad" line in "Let's Make The Water Turn Black" involved sexual activities instead of a regular waitress apron and order pad. Zappa restored the censored bits in the 1987 remix and most of them make an appearance on the 1993 remaster (first released in 1995), now considered the definitive (and most readily usable) version.
• Feelies: Tying in with its concept as a parody of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the album originally included a cutout sheet with Zappa's facial hair, a pigtail, a mock dollar bill, a hall monitor badge, a human nipple, and a standee of Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
• Missing Episode: The original version of the album. The master tape is essentially irreparable due to the amount of degradation that the tape suffered between 1968 and 1995. Several portions of the dialogue and editing were applied directly to the master tape, which means that it is not possible to undo some of the editing work done to censor the album at all. This is why the 1995 Rykodisc CD, based on the censored stereo vinyl version (as opposed to the heavily censored version), is now considered the default version of the album, with all reissues since then reusing the 1630 digital master for it.
• Throw It In!: The word discorporate is explained at the start of the song "Absolutely Free".
  • The track "Telephone Conversation" is a piece of a telephone conversation (Exactly What It Says on the Tin) that Zappa recorded between Pamela Zarubica (the original Suzy Creamcheese from the album Freak Out!) and a friend of her, Vicki , who claimed that Pamela's father was looking for her and had called in help from the FBI. Apparently the FBI was threatening to arrest Vicki for withholding information. Zarubica called her back to discuss matters and Zappa recorded the conversation including a 45 second snippet that made it on the album.
  • Some photographs on the album cover were taken from Zappa's high school yearbook.
• What Could Have Been: Originally the album was going to be called "Our Man In Nirvana". Zappa changed the title and the concept when he heard about the Beatles "Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" hype.