The Big Bubble

The Big Bubble
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1985
Recorded1985
GenreRock, avant-garde
Length37:41
LabelRalph, Wave
ProducerThe Cryptic Corporation
The Residents chronology
George & James
(1984)
The Big Bubble
(1985)
The Eyeball Show
(1986)

The Big Bubble is an album by the American art rock group the Residents, released in 1985. The album is presented as the debut record of fictional garage rock band "the Big Bubble", composed of four "Cross" band members – "Cross" being the resulting mixture between the Mole Trilogy's two contrasting factions, the Moles and the Chubs.

The album was subtitled Part Four of the Mole Trilogy – it was decided to extend the trilogy into a hexalogy, in which odd-numbered parts would detail the plot while even-numbered parts would elaborate on the cultural aspect of the two warring factions in the story. However, The Big Bubble was the last finished work related to the project before it was cancelled due to sheer disinterest and focus on other projects.