The Observer (character)

The Observer is a minor character in The Residents' Mole Trilogy, noted for his appearance in a segment of the same name from the mini-suite "Migration", on the first album in the series, Mark of the Mole, released in 1981.
In "Migration", the Observer (a mysterious and wizened desert-dwelling figure, witnesses the march of the Moles from their home in "the Pit" across the desert to the cities by the sea, populated by the leisure-loving and duplicitous Chubs, and predicts the tension between the two cultures that will arise following the Moles' arrival.
The character is visually depicted in The Residents' live stage version of the series, The Mole Show, which toured internationally between April 1982 and October 1983, however is not mentioned again in any of the further releases in the series (which concluded with a "fourth" album, The Big Bubble, in 1985). 
The Observer may have been intended to reappear in a later, never-finished entry in the series; an instrumental dating from the late 1980s or early 1990s titled "Tired Old Man" (apparently referring to the character) has sometimes been said to derive from the long-mooted third entry in the series.
==See also ==
*Innisfree
*Mark of the Mole
*The Mole Show (tour)
*"Migration"
**"The Observer"
*"Tired Old Man"
*Mole Suite
==External links and references==
*Mark of the Mole at The Residents Historical
*The Mole Show at The Residents Historical
*Mark of the Mole at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
Category:Characters
Category:The Mole Trilogy
Category:Mark of the Mole
Category:Part Three of The Mole Trilogy
Category:The Mole Show