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poorly-thought out BB/Randy speculation
By: FrenesiGates Date: August 30, 2018, 11:05 am
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I think that Bunny Boy is (to some extent) a story about 'the
human singer for The Residents'.. seen through funny mirrors,
sure, but this isn’t abstract art: It relates to 'the human
singer for The Residents' directly. The I am a Resident album
contains new Bunny Boy lyrics sung by 'the human singer for The
Residents'.. and it sounds so personal. In those lyrics, I think
'the human singer for The Residents' is speaking in first person
perspective.
In the end of the Bunny Boy saga.. it’s revealed that Roger IS
Harvey.
Hardy Fox once pointed out that the Randy character is an
outgrowth of Bunny. Have you noticed the similar mannerisms?
Randy hunts for Bigfoot and in the end it turns out that Randy
IS Bigfoot. Or at least he dresses in his costume.
And (i am less certain now) Tyrone would be an outgrowth of
Randy during the one Talking Light moment after Randy looks into
the mirror and his voice and mannerisms suddenly change. Tyrone
is an outgrowth of Harvey AKA “The Golden Guy” in that one Bunny
Boy song title.
Did you ever notice that the ONLY lyrics from Hardy Fox on Bunny
Boy are “everyone is crazy” then 'the human primary singer for
The Residents' says “in a one-man show”
Why would they want to cover the same conceptual ground twice in
a row?
Unrelated to current point: Bunny Boy-era is the point at which
we know Hardy began desiring to leave.
The Bunny Boy comic has a silly illustration of Mr. Skull
auditioning for the role of Hamlet. Like, “The Residents” would
have wanted “Mr. Skull” for the job.. but “Bunny himself” ends
up getting the job because I guess “Mr. Skull” is a lousy actor
This is all very meta and hard to portray in non-convoluted
explanations because the audience knows, of course, that Bunny
Boy is being portrayed by a Resident. According to the lore,
he’s not the actual historical Bunny Boy.
I’m hung up on that imagery of Mr. Skull trying out for Hamlet,
though.. and not getting the part. That’s powerful symbolic
imagery.
The Residents do not f*ck around when they invoke Shakespeare.
Not Available’s “Show or be shown” is a mutation of a
Shakespeare quote.
'the human singer for The Residents' obviously wrote the liner
notes in more recent editions of Not Available that state that
Not Available has a song that “paraphrases Shakespeare” (it'd be
Never Known Questions)
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Re: poorly-thought out BB/Randy speculation
By: Meisekimiu Date: August 30, 2018, 11:44 am
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In a way I always saw In My Room/Randyland as a way of The
Residents continuing to explore the ideas of the Bunny Boy show.
He even mentions this in In My Room Episode 6:
[quote=Randy]I loved playing Bunny... my friend in that show.
But poor Bunny, he just disappeared.
Nobody knows what happened to him.[/quote]
From a meta perspective, I think the Randy videos were just them
redoing certain Bunny Boy concepts but going in a different
direction. With higher production value (thanks Don!) and a more
casual tone. Well I mean it's still crazy, but it's presented as
real events happening to a member of The Residents instead of
The Residents playing out a story.
I still have a hard time understanding exactly what the whole
"Randy Chuck & Bob" thing was all about (and even moreso The
Bunny Boy since I haven't ever watched the full video series!).
I do think that giving "The Residents" identities might have
been a way to let Chuck leave all along, but the way TL
introduces all these other weird concepts never brought up in
the RCB Trilogy again muddies the waters over the true
intentions behind why Randy Chuck & Bob ever existed-- and
apparently according to Double Trouble, still continue to exist
to some degree?
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Re: poorly-thought out BB/Randy speculation
By: Snorp Date: October 30, 2018, 11:08 am
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"Shakespeare" was the pen-name of
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
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