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Fishbrain: New page: '''Opal''' is a re-occurring character in Zappa's work.
She makes her first appearance in "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" from ''200 Motels'', where she has a job as a '''waitress'''. ...

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New page: '''Opal''' is a re-occurring character in Zappa's work.<br> She makes her first appearance in "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" from ''200 Motels'', where she has a job as a '''waitress'''. ...

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'''Opal''' is a re-occurring character in Zappa's work.<br>

She makes her first appearance in "[[Lonesome Cowboy Burt]]" from ''[[200 Motels]]'', where she has a job as a '''waitress'''. Burt (played by [[Jimmy Carl Black]]) is a redneck that makes "'''bold advances'''" on her. Quotes from that scene in the [[200 Motels (The Film)|film]] appear again in the song "[[Teen-age Wind]]" from ''[[You Are What You Is]]''. One of those quotes is Burt's line "'''Opal, you hot little bitch!'''"

Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland (CC)|Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".

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−	'''Opal''' is a re-occurring character in Zappa's work. In an interesting side note, when Zappa was a teenager, a woman named Opal owned a ~~chilli~~ restaurant where he often went to listen to their jukebox.	+	'''Opal''' is a re-occurring character in Zappa's work. In an interesting side note, when Zappa was a teenager, a woman named Opal owned a chili restaurant where he often went to listen to their jukebox.

	''"This couple that owned the chili place, Opal and Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to them. So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to "Three Hours Past Midnight" by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, for most of my junior and senior years."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'', 1993.		''"This couple that owned the chili place, Opal and Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to them. So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to "Three Hours Past Midnight" by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, for most of my junior and senior years."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'', 1993.

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-'''Opal''' is a re-occurring character in Zappa's work.<br>
+'''Opal''' is a re-occurring character in Zappa's work. In an interesting side note, when Zappa was a teenager, a woman named Opal owned a chilli restaurant where he often went to listen to their jukebox.
-She makes her first appearance in "[[Lonesome Cowboy Burt]]" from ''[[200 Motels]]'', where she has a job as a '''waitress'''. Burt (played by [[Jimmy Carl Black]]) is a redneck that makes "'''bold advances'''" on her. Quotes from that scene in the [[200 Motels (The Film)|film]] appear again in the song "[[Teen-age Wind]]" from ''[[You Are What You Is]]''. One of those quotes is Burt's line "'''Opal, you hot little bitch!'''"
+''"This couple that owned the chili place, Opal and Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to them. So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to "Three Hours Past Midnight" by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, for most of my junior and senior years."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'', 1993.
 Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".

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 Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".
-Opal is the name of the devil in 200 Motels, so this idea relates to Titties and Beer, and to the Crossroads Legend. He is trying to get Burt to sign the contract in blood. He says '''"Opal you Hot little bitch, you can take this pin and hang it in your ass. You ain't the devil.."''' in "[[Teen-age Wind]]".
+Opal is the name of the devil in 200 Motels, so this idea relates to Titties and Beer, and to the [[Wikipedia:Crossroads (folklore)|Crossroads Legend]]. He is trying to get Burt to sign the contract in blood. He says '''"Opal you Hot little bitch, you can take this pin and hang it in your ass. You ain't the devil.."''' in "[[Teen-age Wind]]".
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 Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".
-Opal is the name of the devil in 200 Motels, so this idea relates to Titties and Beer, and to the Crossroads Legend. He is trying to get Burt to sign the contract in blood. He says '''"Opal you Hot little bitch, you can take this pin and hang it in your ass. You ain't the devil.."''' in "[[Teenage Wind]]".
+Opal is the name of the devil in 200 Motels, so this idea relates to Titties and Beer, and to the Crossroads Legend. He is trying to get Burt to sign the contract in blood. He says '''"Opal you Hot little bitch, you can take this pin and hang it in your ass. You ain't the devil.."''' in "[[Teen-age Wind]]".
 [[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]
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 She makes her first appearance in "[[Lonesome Cowboy Burt]]" from ''[[200 Motels]]'', where she has a job as a '''waitress'''. Burt (played by [[Jimmy Carl Black]]) is a redneck that makes "'''bold advances'''" on her. Quotes from that scene in the [[200 Motels (The Film)|film]] appear again in the song "[[Teen-age Wind]]" from ''[[You Are What You Is]]''. One of those quotes is Burt's line "'''Opal, you hot little bitch!'''"
-Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland (CC)|Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".
+Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".
 Opal is the name of the devil in 200 Motels, so this idea relates to Titties and Beer, and to the Crossroads Legend. He is trying to get Burt to sign the contract in blood. He says '''"Opal you Hot little bitch, you can take this pin and hang it in your ass. You ain't the devil.."''' in "[[Teenage Wind]]".

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	Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland (CC)\|Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".		Opal appears again in the 1984 musical ''[[Thing-Fish]]'', where she is the wife of [[Quentin Robert DeNameland (CC)\|Quentin Robert DeNameland]]. Both she and her husband are unfaithful to each other: he has an affair with '''Artificial Rhonda''' and she is "in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels 'n puttin' de hurts on some ignint '''bell-boy'''".
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		+	Opal is the name of the devil in 200 Motels, so this idea relates to Titties and Beer, and to the Crossroads Legend. He is trying to get Burt to sign the contract in blood. He says "Opal you Hot little bitch, you can take this pin and hang it in your ass. You ain't the devil.." in Teenage Wind.

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