Bilinda, Miki Berenyi from Lush, and Mary Timony from Helium did the same for me.

OG manic pixie dreamgirl

Nowadays the mom would be wearing athleisure wear and the dad would be wearing an oversized sports jersey and saggy shorts with J's.

They lost a staring contest with Buckethead and had to remove the masks.

Went to art school around this time. I can't tell you how many of my fellow student's thesis pieces were a rip off of Holzer or Barbara Kruger.

They still dress like this in Jersey.

This whole time, damnit...

That's clearly a Weasley.

And yet, as a lifelong smoker who died from lung cancer. he apparently was just as much of a consumerist sheep as the people he critiqued in his songs.

We're Only in it for the Money is that sweet spot between avant garde and rock/pop, and a good sumnation of Zappa/Mothers up to that point. Other albums from this Mothers era can be challenging to sit all the way through. I'd then jump to the "Roxy" era Mothers (one of the last and most talented lineups). Look for Roxy and Elsewhere and One Size Fits All. I'm still trying to get into The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawalka - some interesting points, but too noodly to me. Latter Zappa is fine, but I just can't with the cringey oversexualization in his lyrics.