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)