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** The album itself is loosely based on the same opera.
** The opening piano and flute in "Across the Sea" apparently are quoting from [[The Beach Boys]]' "You Still Believe in Me".
** "El Scorcho"'s title comes from a packet of Del Taco hot sauce named "Del Scorcho", it quotes from [[Public Enemy]]'s "Don't Believe the Hype" ("I'm the epitome of public enemy"), the lines about "listening to [[Madame Butterfly|Cio-Cio San]]" and "watching [[ECW|Grunge leg-drop New Jack]] through a press table" were borrowed from an essay by one of Cuomo's classmates, and the line "I asked you to go to the [[Green Day]] concert" is a reference to how [https://web.archive.org/web/20141010204234/http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=A_Mad_and_Furious_Master a lot of the female fans Cuomo met on tour were Green Day fans].
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: According to [[Word of God]], "El Scorcho" was inspired by Cuomo's inability to say hello to a Harvard student he had a crush on, which is outright spelled out before the last chorus with "But that's just a stupid dream that I won't realize/Cos I can't even look in your eyes without shaking, and I ain't faking".
* [[Studio Chatter]]: The beginning of "Across the Sea" consists of a door opening, Pat Wilson laughing and several random notes on piano and flute. The beginning of "Falling For You" features one of the band members' amps randomly picking up a Korean radio signal, specifically an advertisment saying "What company makes this product?".
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