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Synopsis: "Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Director(s): Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa

Actors: Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar

Production: MGM Home Entertainment


IMDB:: 5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:: 67%

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: R
Year:: 1971
: 98 min
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Tinsel cock!
Tinsel cock!
Oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh
Which do you choose?
The girl . . .
In a statement to the press . . .
Duh-D-Duhhh!
Explains . . .
Broth reminds me of nuns
(Nuns)
I see them smashing
(Kids)
With rulers
Disciplining munchkin cretins
(Munchkin cretins)
Tortured munchkins
(Munchkin cretins)
Tortured munchkins
Irish Catholic victims
Little green scratchy sweaters
(Sweaters)
Little green scratchy ones
(Courduroy pants)
Brown courduroy ponce
(Doo-ahh)
Courduroy ponce
And green scratchy munchkin
Irish Catholic victims
(Munch-kins Munch-a-kins)
Munchkins get me hot
Munchkins get me, get me hot
Hot!
Gets her real hot
Why don't you strap on this here bunch
Of cardboard boxes, daddy-o?
Joy of my desiring
You'll certainly look suave and get me hot
Hot, hot, get me hot and
Horny
(Ow!)
If there's one thing I really get off on
(YOINNNNG!)
It's a nun suit painted on some old boxes
Some old melodies
4/4
An aura
An areola
Pink gums
Stumpy gray teeth
Dental floss
Gets me hot
Wanna watch a dental hygiene movie?
Han-Min-Noon-Toon Han-Toon-Ran
No, Jeff!
Rantoon, Rantoon, Rantoon, Frammin, Hantoon,
Rantoon, Hantoon, Frammin
No no no!
Man! This stuff is great! It's just as if Donovan himself had appeared on my very own TV with words of peace, love,
and eternal cosmic wisdom . . . ! Leading me. Guiding me. On paths of everlasting pseudo-karmic negligence, in the very
midst of my drug-induced nocturnal emission.
For I am your good conscience, Jeff. I know all. I see all. I am a cosmic love pulse matrix, becoming a technicolor interpositive!
Huh? Where'd you buy that incense? It's hip.
It's the same and mysterious exotic oriental
fragrance as what the Beatles get off on.
I thought I recognized it . . . Sniff, sniff . . . Mmm, what
is that, MUSK? Sniff, sniff, sniff . . . mmmh!
Jeff, I know what's good for you.
Right. You're heavy.
Yes, Jeff, I am your guiding light. Listen to me.
Don't rip off the towels, Jeff!
Piss off, you little nitwit!
Hey man, what's the deal?
Don't listen to him, Jeff, he's no good. He'll
make you do BAD THINGS!
You mean, he'll make me sin?
Yes, Jeff. SIN!
Wow!
Jeff, I'd like to have a word with you . . . about
your soul.
No, don't listen, Jeff.
Why are you wasting your life, night after
night playing this comedy music?
You're right, I'm too heavy to be in this group.
Comedy music . . .
Jeff, YOUR SOUL!
Oh, ah Oh, you're wasting your life
To be . . .
Ah Oh, ah Ah, ah
Too heavy, Jeff
In this group, all I ever get to do is play Zappa's
comedy music. HE EATS!
Jeff!
I get so tense!
Of course you do, my boy.
The stuff he makes me do is always off the wall!
That's why it would be best to leave his stern employ.
And quit the group!
You'll make it big!
That's right.
Of course!
And then I won't be SMALL!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha!
Ti-diddly-diddly-dee
Ha, ha, ha . . .
He-he-he-he-heh!
Cough, cough. Ahmet Ertegun used this towel as a bathmat six weeks ago at a rancid motel in Orlando, Florida, with the
highest MILDEW rating of any commercial lodging facility within the territorial limits of the United States, naturally
excluding tropical possessions . . . It's still damp. What an aroma! This is the best I ever got off! What can I say
about this elixir?
This is the real you, Jeff. Rip off a few more ashtrays. Get rid of some of that inner tension. Quit the comedy group!
Get your own group together. Heavy! Like GRAND FUNK! Or BLACK SABBATH . . .
No, Jeff . . .
Or COVEN!
Peace . . . Love . . .
Bollocks!
What can I say about this elixir?
What?
WOWWWWWW!
What can I?
WOWWWWWW!
What?
What can I say about this?
WOWWWWWW!
Dwee-doo dee-ooo-poo
Pa-dan!
Does this kind of life look interesting to you? Night after night, dinners with Herb Cohen. Thrill-packed, fun-filled
evenings on the French Riviera at the MIDEM convention. A fake tie, the whole bit. Watch Mutt eat, and Leon feed the
geese. One thousand green business cards, with your name and the wrong address. Plus six royalty statements,
inspected and customized by Rantoon
Tan, Hantoon Frammin, and DEE . . .
Followed by twelve potential suicides as the
members of your group, past and present,
find out they can't collect unemployment. A dog,
a car, an epidemic of body lice,
with your own record company, your name on the
door, electric buzzer to the inner office,
and Ona's tits, and a three month supply of German bookings with tickets on Air Rangoon.
Does this kind of life look interesting to you? As a fake
rock and roll guitar player in a comedy group?
Hunna hunna hunna
200 Motels
200 Motels
Ran toon han toon
Han-toon-hannnnnn!
200 Motels
I'm stealing the room!
I'm stealing the room!
I'm going to die. I know I'm going to die, I can tell because my pulse is so weak. The pills . . . I took so many downers
that I know this is the end for me.
You poor thing. You want us to fix your hair for you
so you look good when they find you?
Oh . . . would you?
Sure, whaddyawant? A ponytail? A flat-top with fenders?
I'm gonna die, Janet, I'm gonna O.D.! So,
make me look good.
Listen, the best I can do for you is fix your hair, so why don't you get up and wash that melted eye makeup off your face.
Is it smeared? I've been crying so much . . . it's so damn sad when you know you'll never see all your friends anymore.
Every week it's the same old thing. You're gonna die. You're gonna die. Somebody went out on you. Somebody
doesn't love you anymore. How long you been a groupie? You should get used to romances which are so obviously
cheap. Listen, just in case you crash out, and the imaginary rock and roll newspaper from San Francisco wants to get
any pictures of you, you'll look like you
washed your face. Really.
It's better this way with a clean face.
People think groupies are such dirty girls.
Heh . . . I wouldn't mind sort of f***ing all
three of them!
Look, over there!
What?
He's doing it, he's watching us from the fake
bandstand with the binoculars!
Who, the English dude?
Oh, rivet-boy!
The rivet boy? Where?
Over there, wipe that stuff out of your eyes.
It looks like he's beating off.
Beating off? I knew he was a pervert.
Eww, how exciting. Hey, are you still
trying to O.D.?
Yes, this definitely is the end for me!
I feel so faint! So weak!
Good evening honey, that was the most imaginary
collapse I've seen since last week.
Janet, do you think she's going to die?
Are you kidding? Did you see her hit
the floor?
God, well it was so obviously cheap. Lift up
your head, honey.
I'm going to die. This time it's real.
Listen, Lucy, we gotta get ready for our big dance
number, we're going to the fake nightclub tonight.
Everything's getting dim.
Why don't you tell her a story while you put
your makeup on? Good evening.
Oh. Listen, toots. I'm going to make up a nice
little fairy tale for you.
The pills, the Mandrax, I took so many of them.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.As a self-taught composer and performer, Zappa's diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, along with 1950s rhythm and blues and doo-wop music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands, later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was rock, jazz or classical. Zappa's output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed "Project/Object", with numerous musical phrases, ideas, and characters reappearing across his albums. His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views of established social and political processes, structures and movements, often humorously so. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship. Unlike many other rock musicians of his generation, he personally disapproved of drugs and seldom used them, but supported their decriminalization and regulation. During Zappa's lifetime, he was a highly productive and prolific artist, earning widespread acclaim from critics and fellow musicians. He had some commercial success, particularly in Europe, and worked as an independent artist for most of his career. He remains a major influence on musicians and composers. His honors include his 1995 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the 1997 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, he was ranked number 36 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at number 71 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and in 2011 at number 22 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". more…

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