1978

=== February ===
* 1st: The Residents release "Duck Stab!" a 7 inch EP containing 7 songs recorded in October 1977. It proves to be insanely popular, with all copies of the first pressing selling out within the month, something that had never happened to the group before.
=== April ===
* 23rd: The Residents' Satisfaction single is re-released on yellow vinyl. This re-release was The Residents' most popular release to date.Never Known Questions (Ian Shirley)
=== May ===
* 19th: Kraftwerk release their seventh studio album, Die Mensch-Maschine. It contains the song 'Das Model' which Snakefinger would go on to cover one year later.
*Snakefinger visits The Residents' studio in order to record a professional demo tape for Warner Brothers Records. The Residents let him use the space, on the condition that they write and record a song together. These sessions birth Snakefinger's 'The Spot / Smelly Tongues' single. Once Snakefinger's demo is rejected from WB, the single is released by Ralph Records.
=== August ===
* In order to capitalize off the success of "Duck Stab!", The Residents record "Buster & Glen", a 19 minute suite of tracks in a similar vein to Duck Stab, eventually incldued as the B-Side to the Duck Stab LP.
=== September ===
* 6th: The Crypitc Corporation announce that The Residents had gone missing. The group were feeling betrayed by Cryptic's fast-paced marketing style and stole the incomplete Eskimo master-tapes scheduled for release in October and fled to England, where they stayed with drummer Chris Cutler.
*15th: The Residents send a welcome letter to Talking Heads ahead of their two night residency at The Boarding House.https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/789104102202277919/886039702929539102/unknown.png
=== October ===
* 12th: Ralph Records, needing a substitute for the missing "Eskimo" album, release Not Available.
*14th: Bill Reinhardt visits The Residents' headquarters for what may have been the last time. They watch Saturday Night Live and see Devo performing a twisted version of 'Satisfaction'.
=== November ===
* 11th: Jay Clem & John Kennedy fly to the U.K to retrieve the Eskimo tapes from The Residents. Whilst here they talk with representatives at Virgin Records about releasing Ralph material. This eventually leads to Virgin releasing 'Nibbles' and 'Chewing Hides The Sound' in the UK one year later.
* 30th: "Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen" is released, an album which contains both the Duck Stab EP, and the unreleased Buster & Glen suite.
* The Residents record 'Santa Dog 78'
=== December ===
* 19th: The Residents release "Santa Dog '78" the first of many re-recordings of Santa Dog.
== Releases ==
* Duck Stab!
* The Spot
* Not Available
* Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen
* Santa Dog '78
=== Re-releases ===
* Satisfaction
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