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Frank Zappa in popular culture

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As an icon of counterculture and underground rock the American rock musician and composer Frank Zappa has been featured and referenced in various different media.

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Artworks

Frank Zappa statue by Vaclav Cesak in Bad Doberan
  • In 1995 a cast of Zappa was installed in the center of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Zappa was immortalized by Konstantinas Bogdanas, the Lithuanian sculptor who had previously cast portraits of Vladimir Lenin.[1][2]
  • In 2002, a bronze bust was installed in a square in Bad Doberan, a small town in the north of Germany, where, since 1990, there has been an annual international festival celebrating the music of Frank Zappa, the "Zappanale".
  • In 2008 a cast of Zappa was installed in Baltimore created by Konstantinas Bogdanas, the Lithuanian sculptor.[3]
  • The Tokyo Tower Wax Museum, which closed down in 2013, featured a permanent exhibition about rock music and had a wax statue of Zappa.[4][5][6][7]
  • Actor Billy Bob Thornton made illustrated portraits of Zappa.[8]

Comics and cartoons

Food and drink

There are now hops named after Frank Zappa: Zappa Hops Guide: Yes, They’re Named After That Zappa

Film

Literature

Magazines

Music

Music videos

Television

  • Zappa made an appearance on The Steve Allen Show in 1963. This appearance featured Frank demonstrating the wide scope of percussion by playing the spokes of a spinning bicycle wheel with drum sticks.[78][79]
  • Zappa appeared on an episode of the Monkees' TV series entitled "The Monkees Blow Their Minds" (air date: 3/11/68). Here, he was shown "playing" a car by beating it into submission. This is done in a Monkees-style montage to the Zappa song "Mother People" after being interviewed by Monkee Michael Nesmith. Zappa agreed to appear on the show provided he could "be" Nesmith; Nesmith, in turn, liked the idea, so long as he could "be" Zappa. The two wore cheap, exaggerated disguises and the interview was performed as if Mike was Frank and Frank was Mike, in a manner analogous to Ringo Starr's appearance as "Larry the Dwarf, dressed up like Frank Zappa" in 200 Motels.[41][42]
  • His composition The Big Squeeze, which can be found on The Lost Episodes, was specifically written for a Luden's Cough Drops TV commercial.[80]
  • Zappa's music was used set to bizarre imagery in the experimental and highly controversial Dutch TV show Hoepla in 1967.[81]
  • Zappa was subject of a documentary by Dutch documentary maker Roelof Kiers, simply named Frank Zappa. After being broadcast on 11 February 1971[82] it led to controversy among viewers and questions asked in the Tweede Kamer.
  • He appeared on What's My Line? on 23 September 1971, during the show's syndicated run, as a mystery guest.[83]
  • Zappa appeared on "The Mike Douglas Show", 28 October 1976. He is interviewed and performs one instrumental selection on guitar. His segment last approximately 17 minutes. Also present are J.J. Walker and Kenny Rogers.
  • Zappa was the host and musical guest of a Season Four episode of Saturday Night Live in October 1978. His odd sense of humor and constant mugging to the camera once led Lorne Michaels to ban this episode.[citation needed] This, however, proved to be temporary as the Zappa episode has been rerun a few times on NBC. In the same show he portrayed Connie Conehead's date. He was also part of another skit, entitled "Night of Freak Mountain", in which Zappa met with a couple of hippies who offered various drugs to him, which he declined, stating "I don't do drugs." The hippies regarded his statement in awe and surprise. As part of the musical performance of "I'm the Slime" (on an earlier episode hosted by Candice Bergen), the transparent screen of a fake television monitor fills up with a slimy green goo.[84][85]
  • Zappa appeared in a 1979 episode of the game show Make Me Laugh.[86]
  • In 1981 Zappa made a music video, You Are What You Is, which featured U.S. President Ronald Reagan on the electric chair.[87] In the 1994 Beavis and Butt-Head episode Canoe Beavis and Butt-head come across this music video while channel surfing and instantly switch the channel because it sucks so much. In an interview Mike Judge claimed that many Zappa fans were mad at him, but he did it as a tribute to Zappa who claimed in an interview that he liked the show.[88]
  • He played Attilla the Hunchback in Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, in the episode titled "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers" (1984).[89][90]
  • Zappa makes an appearance on talk show School Beat on Independent station KHJ-TV in Los Angeles in 1986.[91]
  • He played drug dealer Mario Fuente in episode 19 of season 2, "Payback" of the TV show Miami Vice first broadcast 14 March 1986.[92]
  • Zappa made a 1992 TV commercial for General Electric in which he tells viewers to not buy the company's products.[93]
  • Zappa was the voice of the Pope in the 1992 Ren and Stimpy episode "Powdered Toast Man".[94][95][96]
  • Zappa is one of several celebrity composers interviewed in The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1992), a documentary about John Cage.[97]
  • In the cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 the show's creators frequently referenced Zappa, because they were huge fans.[98] Zappa too loved the show and tried to collaborate with the staff to adapt one of his musical scripts, Hunchentoot, into a film. Zappa's death prevented it from ever being produced. In the week of his passing an episode was dedicated to him.[99]
  • Music from Zappa's background catalogue was featured prominently in the first season of the satirical animated TV series Duckman (1994). He died before the pilot episode aired, but it was dedicated to him. Zappa's son, Dweezil Zappa performed the voice of Ajax in the series.[100][101]
  • In the Daria episode That Was Then, This Is Dumb characters are listening to Weasels Ripped My Flesh.[102]
  • Zappa's face can be seen on a magazine cover in The Simpsons episode A Midsummer's Nice Dream.[103]
  • In the episode Dream Date With Lumpy Space Princess of Adventure Time Johnny picks out a copy of Zappa's record Apostrophe (').[104]Moon Unit Zappa, Zappa's daughter tweeted about it on her Twitter page.[105]
  • The Roseanne Show Season 6 Episode 14 "Busted" aired in January 1994 right after Frank's death. Ahmet Zappa plays the roommate of Becky's estranged husband Mark. In the apartment they share are three Frank Zappa posters on the walls. "Man From Utopia" "Them Or Us" "No D Glasses". There appears to be a bust of Frank on the dresser. After the credits roll a full screen "F. Z. R. I. P." appears.

Video games

Astronomy

Biology

In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of New Guinea Zappa after Zappa, stating that he liked "his music... his politics and principles" and that "the name itself is a good one for scientific nomenclature."[108]

Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a phialellid jellyfish Phialella zappai[109] in order to get the chance to meet the musician. A Zappa concert in Genoa focused largely on the jellyfish and on Dr. Boero. A small portion of this concert was released on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore: Vol. 6 as "Lonesome Cowboy Nando".[110] Zappa stated, "There is nothing I'd like better than to have a jellyfish named after me."[111]

Other species named after Zappa include a fossil snail named Amaurotoma zappa and the Cameroonese spider Pachygnatha zappa, so named because a marking on the female's ventral surface resembles the Zappa mustache.[112] A gene of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infection is named zapA (others are named zapB through zapE).[113]

Geography

Frank-Zappa-Straße in Berlin
  • Between 1997 and 1999 animator Gabor Csupo owned a restaurant in L.A., named after Lumpy Gravy.[114][115][116]
  • In late July, 2007, the city of Berlin, at the urging of the MUSIKFABRIK ORWOhaus (musicians community), renamed Street 13 in the Marzahn district (part of the former East Berlin) the "Frank-Zappa-Straße."[117]
  • The street of Partinico, Sicily, where Zappa's father lived at number 13, Via Zammatà, has been renamed to Via Frank Zappa.[118]

Festivities

Politics

  • In 1989–1990 Zappa became Cultural Ambassador of Czechoslovakia, where he met president Vaclav Havel, who was a big fan of his music.[121]

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