Sueleen appears at a local club's open mike night in a provocative outfit, and despite her lack of singing ability, club manager Trout ( Merle Kilgore ) recommends her to Triplette for the fundraiser based on her appearance.

* Merle Kilgore as Trout, the owner of a club that has an open-mic talent night that gives Sueleen Gay what she believes is her big break as a singer.

The locale appears in many of Vonnegut's works, such as in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater as the hometown of Kilgore Trout.

Vonnegut includes the recurring character Kilgore Trout in many of his novels.

Perhaps the most unusual example of this was the fictitious author Kilgore Trout, who appears in the works of Kurt Vonnegut.

In the world of those stories, Kilgore Trout has written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell.

In 1975 real-world author Philip José Farmer wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he published under the name Kilgore Trout.

Renowned author Kurt Vonnegut created a fictional character, the writer Kilgore Trout, who was said to have been a resident of Cohoes.

; Kilgore Trout: A failed science fiction writer who makes money by managing newspaper delivery boys and has received only one fan letter ( from Eliot Rosewater ; see below ).

Kilgore Trout is also a main character in Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions.

; Montana Wildhack: A model who stars in a film shown in a pornographic bookstore when Billy stops by to check out the Kilgore Trout novels sitting in the window.

; Eliot Rosewater: A friend whom Billy meets in the veteran's hospital and who introduces him to the science fiction novels of Kilgore Trout ( see above ).

The two feel that the Kilgore Trout novels they read help them to deal with the trauma of World War II.

Kilgore Trout, whom Billy Pilgrim meets operating a newspaper delivery business, can be seen as Vonnegut's alter ego, though the two differ in some respects.

Kilgore Trout serves again as the main character, who the author declares as having died in 2001, at Xanadu retreat in Rhode Island.

Kilgore Trout is the only one not affected by the apathy, and thus helps revive others by telling them, " You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.

Though the author is never specified, the media in which it is published suggests that it may be Kilgore Trout.

While in the afterlife Vonnegut interviews a range of people including Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, Isaac Asimov, and the ever-present Kilgore Trout ( a fictional character created by Vonnegut in his earlier works ).

Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut.

The name was a transparent reference to the older writer ( substituting " Kilgore " for " Theodore " and " Trout " for " Sturgeon "), but since the characterization was less than flattering ( both Sturgeon and Trout were financially unsuccessful and seemingly slipping into obscurity ), Vonnegut did not publicly state the connection, nor did Sturgeon encourage the comparison.

I was delighted that it said in the middle of it that he was the inspiration for the Kurt Vonnegut character of Kilgore Trout.

In early novels, Kilgore Trout lives in Ilium, New York, a fictional town based on Troy, New York ( Vonnegut lived and worked in nearby Schenectady for some time ).

However, he does have at least three fans: Eliot Rosewater and Billy Pilgrim — both Vonnegut characters — have a near-complete collection of Trout's work or have read most of his work ; in Galápagos, Leon Trotsky Trout goes on leave in Thailand and meets an unnamed Swedish doctor who is a fan of Kilgore Trout.

* Merle Kilgore — Country / Rock musician

* Kilgore Spur — A location west of Lordville.

Kilgore said revival among the students began during the summer when Athletic Director David Thiel offered a strength and conditioning program for students every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings — on the condition that they attend a Thursday Bible study.

There, Kilgore follows Billy, thinking the latter has seen through a " time window " ( when he inexplicably becomes saddened by the barbershop quartet, later revealed as due to them reminding him of the four German guards trying and failing to vocalise the news of Dresden's destruction ).

* In the Supernatural season four episode The Monster At The End of This Book, Chuck Shurley tells Sam and Dean that his new book is " Kilgore Trout " Vonnegut, as opposed to Slaughterhouse-Five or Cat's Cradle Vonnegut.

Trout's appearance in Galápagos is somewhat problematic for Vonnegut's continuity because the novel explicitly states that Kilgore dies before 1986, when the events of the novel take place.

At least one actual published work is attributed to a Kilgore Trout: the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, written by Philip José Farmer but published under the name " Kilgore Trout.

Trout is referred to in Salman Rushdie's magical realism novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet -- " Books by famous American writers ... science fiction by Kilgore Trout ,..."

In the novel Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, the folksinging fan Jenny Trout ( a character based on real-life folksinger Leslie Fish ) is said to be the daughter of Kilgore Trout.

* Teddybear Kilgore ( also written as " Kilgour " elsewhere in the text ), the fictional President of the Bishop Strachan School for Girls in the John Irving novel A Prayer for Owen Meany

Venus on the Half-Shell is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer, writing pseudonymously as " Kilgore Trout ," a fictional recurring character in many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.

Kilgore appears at the door to the tunnel, urging his son to enter and proceed to the Afterlife.

Galápagos is narrated by Leon Trotsky Trout ( 1946 – 1986 ), the son and only child of Kilgore Trout.

This particular ghost is the immortal spirit of Leon Trotsky Trout, son of Vonnegut's recurring character Kilgore Trout.

* Leon Trout, Dead narrator and son of Kilgore Trout

Born February 19, 1950 in Kilgore, Texas, the son of Seymour and Francene Van Os, David Van Os excelled in school.

Leon ran away at the age of 16, ashamed of his father, and never had any contact with him thereafter, until his death, when Kilgore appeared at the door of the " blue tunnel " that leads to the Afterlife.

When Leon refuses for the fourth time, Kilgore pledges that he, and the blue tunnel, will not return for one million years, which leaves Leon to observe the slow process of evolution that transforms the humans into aquatic mammals.