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- Creator Recovery: Roger Waters had recently remarried, and this is reflected in "Pigs on the Wing" being the closest thing he ever wrote to being a love song. Gilmour and Waters had also become fathers, and both men's desire to be with their families after the day's recording is one reason that the sessions went smoothly by Pink Floyd standards.
- Creator-Driven Successor: The original version of "Sheep", titled "Raving and Drooling (I Fell On His Neck With a Scream)", could be considered one to "One of These Days", with its similar bassline and tone. Ian Peel of The Guardian dubbed the final version of the song an example of this trope to "One of These Days" as well, noting in particular the shared Doctor Who-esque bassline.
- Referenced by...:
- The inflatable pig from the album cover is floating above Battersea Power Station — converted into humanity's last museum — for the film Children of Men.
- The Simpsons:
- In the episode "Homerpalooza", a giant inflatable pig flies off in the air due to Homer's stupidity. A technician then says: "Aw, man. There goes Peter Frampton's big finale. He's gonna be pissed off." Frampton then appears and says: "You're damn right I'm going to be pissed off: I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale!"
- Part of the advertising campaign for The Simpsons Movie involved flying a balloon in the image of Spider-Pig over the power station.
- In the South Park episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", Cartman quotes the line "Ha ha, charade you are!" from "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" when mocking Tenorman.
- "Dogs" by Sun Kil Moon is named after the song on this album and, in fact, has Animals play a large part in the song.
- Refitted for Sequel: "Dogs" and "Sheep" were originally written during the sessions for Wish You Were Here (1975) (as "You've Got to Be Crazy" and "Raving and Drooling", respectively), but were shelved due to a combination of the album's shift in theme towards exploring Artist Disillusionment making the songs seem out of place and because the band felt they were somewhat sloppy in their composition. The tracks were eventually unearthed and reworked for this album.
- The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Roger Waters and James Guthrie prepared new stereo and surround mixes of the album in 2018, but these went unreleased until 2022, owed to a dispute between Waters and David Gilmour over the former's decision to include a liner note essay by music journalist Mark Blake. Waters ultimately acquiesced and removed the essay, instead posting it on his website
. - Tourist Bump: The album cover turned the Battersea Power Station into an unlikely landmark. The album's usage of the now-decommissioned power station made it so popular that it wasn't torn down and instead sold off to be made into an apartment complex/entertainment area/bar/office spaces/restaurants/shops/whatever they really want all while still keeping the building's iconic facades.
- Troubled Production: The photoshoot for the album cover became an unexpected disaster, when on the first day, there were problems inflating the balloon, and returning for a second day, the police sniper hired to shoot the balloon down in case of emergency didn't show up. When the expected emergency did happen and the balloon was blown away by the wind, The balloon then entered the airspace of Heathrow airport, grounding all flights for hours. Ultimately, they didn't even get the proper photo they wanted, and the album cover was spliced together from different takes.
- What Could Have Been:
- David Gilmour's original solo on "Dogs" was supposedly even better than what made it onto the album, but we'll never know because Roger Waters accidentally erased it.
- Hipgnosis offered three different concepts for the album cover; of these three, the only one described in detail is a Primal Scene. Ultimately, Roger Waters submitted the final concept, a pig flying over Battersea Power Station, which Hipgnosis then put into action.
