Opal (CC)
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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. Burt (played by Jimmy Carl Black) is a redneck that makes "bold advances" on her. Quotes from that scene in the 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. 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".
