List of unfinished projects

For a group as perennially ambitious as The Residents, it is not surprising that over the course of their career, many **abandoned or unfinished projects** have been developed alongside their enormous catalog of completed works.

These unfinished works have sometimes generated significant interest among fans, given that elements of these failed projects have often found their way onto publicly released products. On previous versions of the Historical section of The Residents' official website, former webmaster Big Brother referred to these failed projects collectively as the **"Graveyard"**, and the related releases which arose from them as "zombies".

This page lists projects by The Residents which were abandoned or left unfinished (for now), and the "zombies" which resulted.

## Unfinished projects by The Residents

### Residents, Uninc. debut album (ca. 1972)

Residents, Uninc. made at least one attempt at an "intended debut album" prior to recording *Meet The Residents* in 1973; an "early draft" of one version of the planned debut which is known to remain in The Cryptic Corporation archive is said to contain elements from a never-released rehearsal session for the group's appearance at a friend's party in Redwood, California in February 1972.

Another album-length tape consisting of a radically experimental jam session, titled *1-10 (With a Touch of 11)*, was compiled in August, seemingly in preparation for an intended release, however it would remain unreleased in its entirety until April 2022, when it was included on the pREServed compilation *Warning: Uninc.*.

The group would ultimately create their debut, *Meet The Residents*, from material that emerged from a series of jam sessions with friends held on Tuesday afternoons between February and October 1973.

#### Related projects

* Party of '72
* *1-10 (With a Touch of 11)*
* *Meet The Residents*
* *Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972*

### *Vileness Fats* (1972-1976)

   *Vileness Fats* is an incomplete film project which was conceived and shot by The Residents between 1972 and 1976. Perhaps the most notorious of their unfinished works, *Vileness Fats* was two-thirds complete when the group abandoned it for multiple reasons in 1976.

The footage has since been re-edited into shorter video releases, including *Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?* in 1984, and a seventeen minute "concentrate" on the *Icky Flix* DVD in 2001, and outtakes feature in the documentary *Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents* and its promotional materials, but much of the material shot for the film remains unseen. Further footage will feature in the group's upcoming feature film *Triple Trouble*, framed by new footage shot by the group in 2016 and 2020.

#### Related projects

* "X Is For Xtra (A Conclusion)"
* *Not Available*
* *Mole Show/Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?*
* *Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?*
* *Icky Flix* (DVD)
* *Icky Flix* (album)
* *RZ VF*
* *Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents*
* *Triple Trouble*

### Number 1 ballet (1973)

During the sessions that would become their 1974 debut album *Meet The Residents*, Residents, Uninc. began conceiving a ballet, "Number 1", based around a composition of the same name, to be performed by a short-lived off-shoot project, the Number One band.

The ballet never came to fruition, however a short instrumental version of the piece was released as "Numb Erone", the second track on *Meet The Residents*. A "live" studio version apparently performed by the Number One band was released in 2013 on the compilation *The Delta Nudes' Greatest Hiss*.

#### Related projects

* *Meet The Residents*
* *The Delta Nudes' Greatest Hiss*

### Six Things To A Cycle ballet (1976)

    In the mid 1970s The Residents became acquainted with French dancer Maurice Bejart, who had used their music as part of a dance piece he had performed on a barge moving down the canals of Venice.

The Residents began to plan a collaboration with Bejart, composing a ballet titled "Six Things To A Cycle" which told the story of "a primitive humanoid" who is "consumed by his self-created environment only to be replaced by a new creature, still primitive, still faulty, but destined to rule the world just as poorly".

The ballet was never produced, however a truncated version was featured on The Residents' 1977 album *Fingerprince*, as a seventeen minute suite which occupies the entirety of the album's second side. Excerpts had also been performed live by the group at their Oh Mummy! show in June 1976.

#### Related projects

* Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! live performance
* *Fingerprince*

### Live at the Ugly Grey Theater (1977)

The Ugly Grey Theater was to be a science fiction and fantasy themed movie theater, operating out of a theater on Howard Street in San Francisco which had been purchased by The Cryptic Corporation in early 1977. The theater was intended to open in the summer of 1977, and would have featured architectural and interior design by Ant Farm and The Residents.

Despite producing a promotional campaign (including leaflets with details of the proposal, balloons, and business cards), and with intentions to open a restaurant in the space within its first year of operation, the "predominately industrial" neighborhood the theater was intended for instead "revolted", having become convinced that The Cryptic Corporation were planning to use the space as a gay pornography theater, and petitioned the municipal government in opposition to the proposal, leading Cryptic to quietly drop the idea.

The Residents were also said to be planning a live performance specifically for the venue, which would have been only their second official live performance as The Residents, following their June 1976 show for Rather Ripped Records' fifth birthday in Berkeley. Little is known publicly of what the intended show at the theater would have entailed, other than that it would have occurred in late 1977 after the opening of the theater in the summer, and that the show was being developed specifically for the theater. Whatever the group's plans were for the show, they appear to have been quietly abandoned alongside the theater itself.

### Kosmische musik "space opera" (ca. 1978)

In the mid-to-late 1970s The Residents developed an interest in the "kosmische musik" (later more popularly referred to as krautrock) being produced by German artists such as Kraftwerk. During sessions for what would become the 1978 album *Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen*, the group began work on a "space opera" inspired by the style, however the project was shortly abandoned.

Despite the project's abandonment, the *Duck Stab!* album retained a knowing nod to Kraftwerk, in the form of the song "Krafty Cheese". Two "kosmische" pieces retrieved from the *Duck Stab!* master tapes were released in May 2023 as a limited edition white label 7" single, "Duck Kosmische". A further experiment in this style (though recorded after the original sessions) titled "99 Space Music" was released on the compilation *Third Noise Principle (Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984)* in 2019.

#### Related projects

* *Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen*
* "Duck Kosmische"
* "99 Space Music"

### *Duck Stab!* film (1978-1979)

    Around 1978, when The Residents were preparing to release their *Duck Stab!* EP, The Cryptic Corporation asked photographer and filmmaker Graeme Whifler to produce a number of short films based on the songs from the EP. Whifler began shooting footage with Bridgit Terris, a disabled man known to Whifler, who is said to have lived his life under the impression he was the French actress Brigitte Bardot.

Whifler expanded his concept for the *Duck Stab!* short films into a proposal for a full-length feature film, working with The Residents for at least a short time with this in mind; however The Cryptic Corporation were not particularly interested in the idea, feeling that it would cost a lot of money, and that they had no way of marketing a feature film.

The project was abandoned with only a small amount of footage being shot, when The Cryptic Corporation decided they were not overly interested in the idea due to the likely expense of such a project, and the film's intended star Terris left San Francisco partway through filming to live with his mother.

A small amount of footage shot for the film featuring Terris was used to create the music video "Hello Skinny" in 1980. Decades later, unused *Duck Stab!* footage was found in the Cryptic archives by Don Hardy when creating the 2015 documentary film *Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents*; some of this unseen footage was edited together by Hardy to create a music video for the song "Melon Collie Lassie" (from the 1979 EP *Babyfingers*).

#### Related projects

* "Hello Skinny" music video
* "Melon Collie Lassie" music video

### *Eskimo* Live (1979-1980, 1992)

The Residents had intended to turn their acclaimed 1979 "musical documentary" album *Eskimo* into their first live tour, but abandoned this idea, first in favor of a mooted "10th Anniversary Show" (only briefly rehearsed by the group, it would have featured a suite of tracks from *Eskimo*), and then The Mole Show, which ultimately became their debut live tour, running from April 1982 to October 1983.

In 1992 The Residents began developing a live opera adaptation of the album, even commissioning artist Ron Davis to design and create stage sets, however the idea was abandoned before production of the show began in full.

To this day *Eskimo* has never been performed live by The Residents; the group did however realize their long-held desire to adapt the album to a visual format with the 2002 release of the 5.1 surround sound remix on DVD, accompanied by a slideshow of still images depicting the album's stories (supposedly derived from photographs taken by the group's late mentor N. Senada on his Arctic expedition in the mid-1970s), alongside explanatory text from the original album liner notes.

#### Related projects

* The 10th Anniversary Show
* Eskimo Opera Proposal
* *Eskimo* DVD

### The 10th Anniversary Show (1982)

For their 10th Anniversary in 1982, The Residents began conceiving what would have been their first live tour; a retrospective performance featuring selected tracks from their catalog of albums.

This touring concept got as far as rehearsals, before the group abandoned the concept in favor of what would become The Mole Show, a far more elaborate and narrative-driven performance which the group toured across America and Europe between 1982 and 1983. They would ultimately enact a retrospective concept for their second tour, The 13th Anniversary Show, between 1985 and 1987.

Live-in-the-studio rehearsals of material intended for this abandoned tour were released on the cassette *Assorted Secrets* in 1984, with further recordings from these sessions being released on its CD reissue in 2000. Additional outtakes from these rehearsals have been issued on a number of the group's pREServed expanded and remastered album releases.

#### Related projects

* The Mole Show
* *Assorted Secrets*
* The 13th Anniversary Show

### *Mark of the Mole* video game (1983)

    In 1983, Residents fan and video game developer Greg Easter approached The Cryptic Corporation with an idea to adapt their concept album *Mark of the Mole* into a music-based video game for the Atari 2600.

The *Mark of the Mole* game, which was designed to teach the player "perfect pitch", was abandoned before it could be completed or released. An early prototype (and now the only known copy of the game) was kept in the Cryptic archive for many years, before being sold to a private collector.

Some gameplay footage and screenshots from the unfinished game have circulated online, but the full prototype has not yet surfaced publicly.

### The Mole Trilogy - Parts 3, 5 and 6 (1983-1992?)

In 1981, The Residents began a trilogy of concept albums with the release of *Mark of the Mole*. The trilogy then became a tetralogy with odd-numbered albums telling the story and even-numbered albums presenting the music of the fictional cultures depicted within, and in 1982 the second volume, *The Tunes of Two Cities* was released, followed by the fourth, *The Big Bubble*, in 1985.

Though a handful of pieces of music thought to be from the sessions of the unreleased Part Three have surfaced (on the 2019 pREServed box set *Mole Box* and the RSD EP Mole Suite), it has never been confirmed how much work was completed on the remaining three installments before The Residents abandoned the trilogy.

#### Related projects

* Part Three of The Mole Trilogy
* Mole Suite
* *Mole Box*

### *Man* (1983-1986)

The Residents began working on a project tentatively titled *Man* in 1983, with a concept focused around men, and the male perspective. The sessions were brought to a halt in 1985, when the group began production on *The Big Bubble*, the fourth installment of their ongoing (and soon to be abandoned) Mole Trilogy, but resulted in the release of "This Is A Man's Man's Man's World" in 1984.

The group returned to this project in 1986, but their enthusiasm for the concept had lost most (if not all) of its momentum by this point. Two tracks recorded during these later sessions, "Siren Song (of the Shrunken Head)" and "Ugly Beauty", were later featured on *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses*. Its remains can be found today scattered through "For Elsie*", "*Safety Is A Cootie Wootie*"* and other non-album recordings.

#### Related projects

* The White Single
* *For Elsie*
* *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses*
* "That'll Be the Day (Baby Baby)"

### Santa Dog '84 (1984)

In 1984, The Residents began to work on a new version of their 1972 song "Fire" (or "Santa Dog"), to release as a new single, similar to their 1978 re-recording of the song, "Santa Dog '78".

At this time, the group intended to revisit "Santa Dog" every six years to demonstrate their development, however they abandoned "Santa Dog '84" when they felt they had not changed enough since the last rendition to warrant a new version. The next attempt to record "Santa Dog" would be in 1988 with "Santa Dog 88*"* single, which included the unfinished, instrumental demo version from 1984.

The 1984 version is also featured on the 2019 Klanggalerie reissue of the compilation album *Refused*, and was privately released in an extremely limited edition on a number of lathe-cut 7" singles by noted Residents collector Jannis Tsakalis.

#### Related projects

* "Santa Dog 88"
* *Refused*

### The American Composer Series Volumes 3-10 (1984-1986)

Around the time they first decided to abandon The Mole Trilogy, The Residents began work on another ambitious, long-term conceptual series of releases - The American Composer Series, in which they would reinterpret the work of twenty American composers over ten albums.

The first two volumes, *George & James* (pairing George Gershwin and James Brown) and *Stars & Hank Forever* (featuring John Philip Sousa and Hank Williams Sr.) were released in 1984 and 1986 respectively, but no further volumes were released.

Other albums in the series were known to have been developed and even at least partially recorded, including the projected third album in the series, *The Trouble With Harrys* (featuring Harry Partch and Harry Nilsson), and an album pairing the compositions of Bob Dylan and Barry White tentatively titled *Bob & The Blob*. Part of a track from the latter can be heard mixed with another outtake from the series ("Space Is The Place" by Sun Ra) in the track "Daydream In Space", released on the UWEB compilation *Daydream B-Liver*.

### *Mark of the Mole* novel (1985)

A sample from an unpublished novel based on The Residents' album *Mark of the Mole* was featured in the 1993 book *Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide To The Residents*, credited to T.D. Wade, an old college friend of the group.

The novel is said to have been completed by Wade in 1985 but to date has never been released, aside from the short excerpt featured in the *Highly Opinionated Guide*.

#### Related projects

* *Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide To The Residents*

### *Science Fiction's Greatest Hits* (1985)

In 1985, The Residents developed a concept for a series of music video releases, entitled *Science Fiction's Greatest Hits*. Each video was to be a two to four minute piece edited from classic 1950s and 1960s science fiction films.

These clips would be computer enhanced and coloured, with a new song recorded specifically for each one. As a demonstration of the concept, the band created *Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers* using scenes from Fred F. Sears's 1956 film of the same name.

Unfortunately negotiations for any further installments in the series fell through due in large part to the expense in securing the rights to the films.

### The Big Bubble Christmas single (1985)

    Following the release of The Residents' fourth entry in The Mole Trilogy, *The Big Bubble*, in 1985, the group considered releasing a "Christmas single" featuring tracks recorded during the sessions for that album, as that album's fictional band The Big Bubble.

The outtake "Jingle Bell" was earmarked for this purpose, however the single was not produced; "Jingle Bell" would remain unreleased until the compilation *Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses* in 1997.

### *Monkey On My Back* (1989)

In 1989, Uncle Willie reported to UWEB fan club subscribers on an album The Residents were secretly recording entitled *Monkey On My Back*. The Residents felt that the release of this information spoiled the conditions under which they wanted to record the album, and they abandoned it entirely as a result.

The album as described in the Uncle Willie article was similar to what was ultimately released in 1990 as *Our Finest Flowers*.

### *The Teds* (1993)

*The Teds* is a project developed by The Residents in the early 1990s, originally as a film and performance piece. The project was said by Hardy Fox to revolve around "two guys that together made one person". The film was to have been co-directed by the group with David Lynch. In 1993, The Residents released a limited edition EP entitled *Prelude To "The Teds"*, featuring four songs intended as an introduction to this project, however *The Teds* would remain shelved for almost another thirty years.

In 2020 Italian independent comics magazine Capek approached The Cryptic Corporation,asking for a contribution from The Residents. The group submitted a revised treatment for *The Teds*, and Capek hired artist Sergio Ponchione to illustrate it.

#### Related projects

* *Prelude To "The Teds"*
* *The Teds*

### *Freak Show* animated series (1995)

Shortly after the premiere of Freak Show Live in 1995, The Residents pitched an animated series based on the *Freak Show* album to MTV, who were known at the time for their boundary-pushing adult animation series (Liquid Television, Beavis & Butthead, The Grunt Brothers, The Head, The Maxx, Æon Flux). The Residents had previously worked with MTV on the second season of Liquid Television, on the 'Adventures of Tom and Nardo' segment.

These plans came to nothing, however, after the group realised that they would have to sell the rights to the characters and backed out of the project.

### *Tales From The Crypt* CD-ROM soundtrack (1996)

    In August 1996, The Residents agreed to compose and perform the musical score for a CD-ROM video game based on the horror anthology TV series *Tales From The Crypt*, which was being developed by iNSCAPE. The game (designed by Jim Ludtke) was scheduled for release in Fall 1997.

It is not known how much work The Residents completed for this project; they were "kicked off" the project after only two months as the developers decided to use in-house composers for the soundtrack, in an attempt to avoid exceeding the project's budget. The game itself was ultimately never released as iNSCAPE was bought out by Graphix Zone, who filed for bankruptcy soon thereafter.

### *Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide to The Residents* CD-ROM (1997)

In 1997, when asked about the whereabouts of Uncle Willie after the closure of the fan club UWEB, Homer Flynn of The Cryptic Corporation casually mentioned that Willie was trying to get a CD-ROM made of his book.

### *Bad Day On The Midway* TV series (1997-1998)

Around 1997, The Residents began developing a television series based on their 1996 CD-ROM game *Bad Day On The Midway* with "a couple of producers and a writer" from the recently concluded *Tales From The Crypt* series, however this creative team was removed from the project within the year.

Instead, The Residents announced in early 1998 that they had signed a deal with David Lynch's The Picture Factory and Ron Howard's Imagine production companies, to produce a two-hour TV pilot based on the game *Bad Day On The Midway*.

If produced, the pilot was expected to air Fall 1999; however, negotiations with Touchstone Pictures were suspended in September 1998 when Lynch was contracted to do a new film. Both Touchstone and The Cryptic Corporation felt that Lynch was the only man for the job, and thus decided to shelve the project until further notice.

### *I Murdered Mommy!* CD-ROM (1998)

    *I Murdered Mommy!* was going to be The Residents' follow up to their acclaimed 1996 CD-ROM game *Bad Day On The Midway*, but was abandoned part-way through development.

The Residents had completed preliminary design work as well as some soundtrack music, which was released in a limited edition as *I Murdered Mommy!* in 2004.

### *Icky Flix* sequel (2001?)

Following the release of The Residents' 2000 video compilation DVD *Icky Flix*, the group briefly worked on a proposed "sequel" DVD, for which they completed at least one clip, an S&M-themed video for the song "Teddy", before abandoning the project.

The "Teddy" video was "pushed off into a corner" until it was rediscovered in summer 2003, and included on the group's DVD single "Golden Goat" (aka "Pickle"), which was available through mail order and at stops on their Demons Dance Alone live tour.

### *The Civil War Album* (2001)

Around 2001, The Residents began work on a new album of songs derived from old Civil War-era tunes, which was referred to internally as "*The Civil War Album*". However, the "rather un-sexy" idea received a lackluster response from the group's European distributors, as the war meant little outside the United States.

Instead, the group began work on a new concept album focusing on the relationship between people and animals, titled *Animal Lover*, which was released on Mute Records in 2005. The Residents' lead composer Charles Bobuck returned to the *Civil War Album* sketches in 2015, producing the solo "contraption" *Missing Soldiers - The Favorite Songs of Clara Barton*.

#### Related projects

* *Animal Lover*
* *Missing Soldiers - The Favorite Songs of Clara Barton*

### *Freak Show* DVD (2003 - 2004)

    From early 2003 to March of 2004, The Residents and Jim Ludtke worked on a DVD adaptation of the group's 1990 album *Freak Show*, in a similar vein to their *Eskimo* DVD released in 2002. The *Freak Show* DVD was to be fully animated in CGI, taking advantage of Ludtke's talent for computer animation. It was announced through The Residents' official website in October of 2003 with a Spring 2004 release date.

The project was abandoned following the tragic and sudden death of Jim Ludtke in March 2004. The Residents instead began work on *Commercial DVD*, which features a tribute to Ludtke in the form of the "Loss of Innocence" music video. Later on, unused audio and visuals from the project was used for the *Timmy* web series.

A few finished excerpts from the film were released on the 2006 *Freak Show DVD, The Theory of Obscurity DVD*, and on *Free! Weird!*

#### Related projects

* *Commercial DVD*
* *Freak Show DVD*

### *Loveland* (2004)

*Loveland* is an unproduced feature film screenplay written by The Residents in 2004. Set in the Delta region of Mississippi in 1982, the screenplay opens with a researcher from the Smithsonian Institution, who falls into a 200 foot hole and becomes trapped while investigating a mysterious structure.

The story then focuses on the riddles and grim family secrets connected to the "kudzu-covered" structure. A "shadowy albino character" who appears throughout the screenplay seems to "foretell" The Residents' later discovery of the albino blues singer Alvin "Dyin' Dog" Snow.

Despite never having been produced, The Residents are still said to be fond of the concept and apparently still hope to "do something with it one of these days". In April 2023, it was announced that The Residents are again trying to produce the film and are currently seeking financial backing. A full-page treatment is said to be available to interested parties.

### Residents with Orchestra (2008)

In December 2007 The Cryptic Corporation announced that The Residents were considering a live performance project where they would be backed by an orchestra, in association with an unspecified European music festival.

These plans were ultimately shelved only six days after being announced, due to schedule conflicts and the prohibitive expense of hiring an orchestra for the show.

#### Related projects

* So Long Sam
* 50th Anniversary secret show

### *Bunny Boy* sequel (2009)

A number of tracks recorded in 2009 for an abandoned sequel to *The Bunny Boy* were later released on the *Ozan, Arkansas,* and *Ozark* albums.

#### Related projects

* *Ozan*
* *Arkansas*
* *Ozark*

### *King of the Future* (2010)

*King of the Future* is the title of an unproduced feature film project by The Residents, conceived in 2010 following the tragic death of long-time Cryptic friend Doug Michels of the art collective Ant Farm.

The film focuses on Michels' real death (while he was climbing to a whale-watching post on a cliff top in Eden Bay, near Sydney, Australia on June 12th 2003) and depicts a fictional relationship between Michels and a television weatherman in flashback, and from the weatherman's perspective.

### *Duck Stab! Reimagined* (2012)

Around the time of the 35th anniversary of the release of *Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen*in 2012, The Residents began composing sketches for a "reimagining" of the classic album, but abandoned this idea before developing it any further.

These sketches were released on the *D\*ck S\*ab* 35th anniversary compilation through RSD in 2012 and some later featured on the pREServed reissue of the original album.

#### Related projects

* *D\*ck S\*ab*
* *Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen* pREServed edition

### *Meet The Residents* 40th anniversary re-recording (2013)

Similarly to the unfinished *Duck Stab! Reimagined* project, it seems that The Residents began work on a new version of their debut album in the lead-up to its 40th anniversary in 2013.

Excerpts from this project were first released on the Bobuck EP, *Clank Clank Clank*, with more appearing on the 2018 pREServed edition of *Meet The Residents*.

#### Related projects

* *Clank Clank Clank* by Charles Bobuck
* *Meet The Residents* pREServed edition

## See also

* *Vileness Fats*
* Part Three of The Mole Trilogy
* The American Composer Series
* pREServed

## External links and references

* Graveyard at The Residents Historical (archived from 2012 via archive.org)

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Warning: Uninc. - Live and Experimental Recordings 1971-1972* liner notes, 2022
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ralph Records Catalogue No. 1, February 1977
3. ↑ Hardy Fox, Hacienda Bridge #17, June 1st 2017
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Duck Kosmische" at MVDB2B.com
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 ""The idea of even bringing Bridgit in, ultimately that came from a film idea that The Residents were working on... with Graeme at that time, and the project was eventually abandoned. And so ultimately he took some of the footage from that abandoned project and then shot new stuff with Bridgit and made Hello Skinny out of it. But I think there are photos of Skinny - Bridgit sitting at... they used to have these TV desks at bus stations, and you could sit down in a chair and it would have a TV in front of  you, and you could put change in it, and you could watch TV for fifteen minutes... while you were waiting for the bus. And so there are photos like that in there... And the thing was, Bridgit was waiting for the bus to go home to live with his mother. He had been living in San Francisco, I think he ultimately just kind of considered his life was a failure, he couldn't make it, he couldn't fit in, and so he was going home to live with his mother. And so Graeme went to the bus station with him and shot all these pictures before he got on the bus and disappeared." - Homer Flynn on Cacophony Podcast - Obscure Music for Obscure People, Episode 1 - "Homer Flynn on The Residents and Duck Stab!", January 13th 2022
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Cryptic Corporation wanted Graeme Whifler to shoot several videos based on *Duck Stab!* songs. And so he started working on it, and then ultimately Graeme kind of expanded that idea into becoming a feature film. And then ultimately, that wasn't really what Cryptic was interested in. You know, it was going to cost a lot of money, and we really felt like what would work for us in terms of the market at that time was really music video... that was the coming thing. We just felt like we had no way to market a feature length film, it just seemed like a project that wasn't going to work for us. So ultimately, once again, a certain amount of stuff did get shot for it, and then ultimately that became Hello Skinny... but there was more stuff shot. And the film, the *Theory of Obscurity* documentary film, Don Hardy was the filmmaker. I worked very closely with Don. I like Don, he's an interesting guy. And Don gathered up all this film and video material that The Residents had shot, and Don found that. He's the one that went in and edited some of that existing footage into the Melon Collie Lassie music video." - Homer Flynn on Cacophony Podcast - Obscure Music for Obscure People, Episode 1 - "Homer Flynn on The Residents and Duck Stab!", January 13th 2022
7. ↑ Jim Knipfel and Brian Poole et al., *Faceless Forever - A Residents Encyclopaedia*, 2022, pg. 64
8. ↑ *Mole Box: The Complete Mole Trilogy pREServed* liner notes, 2019
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The Teds - In Comic Form", The Residents' News Machine, July 24th 2020 (archived via archive.org)
10. ↑ *Freak Show* pREServed edition liner notes, 2021
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Tzoq, "Residential Announcements", RZWeb, August 28th 1996 (via archive.org)
12. ↑ Jim Ludtke at ClickMedia
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Spooky Gal, "Footage leaked of shelved Tales From The Crypt video game", Spooky Gal's Corner, November 5th 2018
14. ↑ Tzoq, "Tales From The Crypt CD-Rom Soundtrack (cancelled)" at RZWeb (via archive.org)
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Steven Cerio, "Interview with The Residents - Seconds #43 (1997)", StevenCerio.com
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Tzoq, "Bad Day on the Midway TV Series", RzWeb (via archive.org)
17. ↑ Tzoq, "Residential Announcements", RZWeb, March 26th 1998 (via archive.org)
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Big Brother, "'PICKLE' to be available on tour", The Residents' Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, August 26th 2003
19. ↑ Big Brother, "Sneak Peek - Spring 2004", The Residents' Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, October 12th 2003 (archived via archive.org)
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Jim Knipfel and Brian Poole, et al., *Faceless Forever - A Residents Encyclopaedia*, 2022, pg. 154
21. ↑ Post by Victor Cantu, The Residents unofficial Facebook group, April 29th 2023
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Jim Knipfel and Brian Poole, et al., *Faceless Forever - A Residents Encyclopaedia*, 2022, pg. 146
23. ↑ Ken Johnson, "Doug Michels, Radical Artist and Architect, Dies at 59", The New York Times, June 21st 2003