# Frank/Moon Unit Zappa's "Valley Girl" lyrics question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156 "2005-05-03T00:47:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/1 "2005-05-03T00:47:03Z")
In that, uh, classic, 80’s hit, “Valley Girl”, I understand most of the “Valspeak” used throughout the song. However, there’s one term I don’t get. Here’s the line: “He’s like Mr. BU-FU (Valley Girl) We’re talking Lord God King BU-FU (Valley Girl)” What the heck does “BU-FU” mean? I have an idea, but when I Google the phrase, all I get is references to the song. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/2 "2005-05-03T00:48:23Z")
As me and mine used it (I’m a year or so younger than Moon) that would be ‘Butt Fucker’. A derogatory descriptor for someone dorky and undesirable. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/3 "2005-05-03T00:52:49Z")
That was my guess, but the rest of that verse: “He like sits there and like plays with all his rings And he like flirts with all the guys in the class It’s like totally disgusting” leads me to believe he’s gay and not a dork (although I’m sure there are gay dorks). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/4 "2005-05-03T00:56:13Z")
Just reporting the way we used it (wrong coast from the Valley, though I did spend some time in Redondo Beach). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/5 "2005-05-03T01:00:32Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > Just reporting the way we used it (wrong coast from the Valley, though I did spend some time in Redondo Beach). Fair enough. I had never heard the term outside the song. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/6 "2005-05-03T05:48:21Z")
Was that before the FUBU brand (for us, by us) or after? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/7 "2005-05-03T06:21:16Z")
Long before. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/8 "2005-05-03T11:13:42Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Was that before the FUBU brand (for us, by us) or after? “Valley Girl” came out in 1982. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/9 "2005-05-03T12:44:02Z")
As a denizen of California during my early teens, I confirm that boo-foo means what **Jonathan Chance** says it means. However, the term definitely signifies a homosexual man, rather than a mere dorky undesirable. Boo-foo can also be used as a verb. _That guy is such a boo-foo / I heard she got totally boo-foo’d in the jacuzzi after we left._ ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-moon-unit-zappas-valley-girl-lyrics-question/302156/10 "2005-05-04T16:27:06Z")
> [@RTA](#): > > As a denizen of California during my early teens, I confirm that boo-foo means what **Jonathan Chance** says it means. > > However, the term definitely signifies a homosexual man, rather than a mere dorky undesirable. Boo-foo can also be used as a verb. > > _That guy is such a boo-foo / I heard she got totally boo-foo’d in the jacuzzi after we left._ I loved that song. It pretty clearly meant butt pirate, or rump ranger, or fag, or whatever you want to call those Bu-Fus. But I don’t take any offense with it. Moon Unit was making fun of Valley Girls and their attitudes, not the Bu-Fu’s themselves.