Editing Slappy (section)

==Album information==
"Paper Lanterns" was a popular Green Day song and a live staple for many years and was brought back for the 2010 leg of the [[21st Century Breakdown World Tour]]. "Why Do You Want Him?" was the first song Armstrong wrote,<ref name="1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours liner notes">Green Day Bits, ''1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours'' liner notes. Retrieved 2011-07-30</ref><ref name="MTV News Raw">[[MTV]] News Raw interview October 16, 1995. Retrieved 2011-07-30</ref> back when he was fourteen.<ref name="1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours liner notes"/><ref name="MTV News Raw"/> He expressed in a 2010 interview that contrary to the common belief, the song is not about his stepfather.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4X3IQCM4xM&feature=feedu  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/J4X3IQCM4xM| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Green Day - Billie Joe and Mike Mayer Interview |publisher=YouTube |date=2011-07-06 |access-date=2012-03-09}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The title "409 in Your Coffeemaker" is taken from a prank Armstrong pulled on his teacher. The prank was that he put some Clorox cleaner in his teacher’s coffeemaker, and it was known as Formula 409, hence the name of the song. It was later re-recorded during the ''[[Dookie (album)|Dookie]]'' (1994) sessions, and was released as a B-Side on the "[[Basket Case (song)|Basket Case]]" CD single in the [[United Kingdom]]. "Knowledge" was originally performed by [[Operation Ivy (band)|Operation Ivy]] for their 1989 album [[Energy (Operation Ivy album)|Energy]]. Green Day still performs the song live, often inviting fans onstage to play the band members' instruments for them during the performance of the song.

All four tracks from ''Slappy'' were included on the compilation album ''[[1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours]]'' in 1991. ''Slappy'' remained in print until August 2005, when Green Day removed its catalog from Lookout! Records.

Since March 24, 2009, ''Slappy'' (along with ''[[1,000 Hours]]'') has been back in print as a bonus to the vinyl reissue of the ''[[39/Smooth]]'' (1990) album. However, a possible error may have been made as ''Slappy''{{'s}} artwork is now tinted pink instead of dark red.