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* CatchPhrase: "Harry, you're all right."
** See MustHaveCaffeine for another.
** See MustHaveCaffeine for another.
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** "Harry, you're all right."
**See MustHaveCaffeine for another."Damn good coffee."
** "Harry, you're all right."
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* AnythingThatMoves: Laura Palmer. [[spoiler: Considering her part-time job...]]
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* AnythingThatMoves: AnythingThatMoves:
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** Laura Palmer. [[spoiler: Considering her part-time job...]]
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* WellDoneSonGuy: A female example involving Norma and her mother in the second season.
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* AntiHero: Bobby, Shelly, MIKE, Jacobi (kind of) and Laura Palmer.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the finale, [[spoiler: and the next few days after the end of the story, what happened to Cooper, Annie, Ben, Hayward, Audrey, Josie (her soul anyway), Bob, Pete and Leo?]]
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* TheDragon: Hank, first to Mr. Horne and later to Jean Renault.
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** Also, Leo to Windom Earle.
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An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''Film/BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Film/Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''Series/NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' and ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'', but even ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' was influenced by the show. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
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An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''Film/BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Film/Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''Series/NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', and ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'', but even ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' was influenced by the show. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
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The series starts off with the discovery of a murdered teenage girl, Laura Palmer. This event in turn leads to the eccentric Special Agent Dale Cooper visiting the town as part of his hunt for a serial killer. Although the murder investigation wraps up partway through season two, a new foe from Cooper's past keeps the plot moving until the notorious "How's Annie?" CliffHanger ending of season two (and in fact the series). The 1992 movie ''Film/FireWalkWithMe'' mostly wraps things up. The show features a rather large and colourful cast with about as many subplots as there are characters, and the story contains quite a few examples of RedHerringTwist and PowersThatBe.
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The series starts off with the discovery of a murdered teenage girl, Laura Palmer. This event in turn leads to the eccentric Special Agent Dale Cooper visiting the town as part of his hunt for a serial killer. Although the murder investigation wraps up partway through season two, a new foe from Cooper's past keeps the plot moving until the notorious "How's Annie?" CliffHanger ending of season two (and in fact the series). The 1992 movie ''Film/FireWalkWithMe'' ''[[Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe Fire Walk with Me]]'' mostly wraps things up. The show features a rather large and colourful cast with about as many subplots as there are characters, and the story contains quite a few examples of RedHerringTwist and PowersThatBe.
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The series starts off with the discovery of a murdered teenage girl, Laura Palmer. This event in turn leads to the eccentric Special Agent Dale Cooper visiting the town as part of his hunt for a serial killer. Although the murder investigation wraps up partway through season two, a new foe from Cooper's past keeps the plot moving until the notorious "How's Annie?" CliffHanger ending of season two (and in fact the series). The 1992 movie ''FireWalkWithMe'' ''Film/FireWalkWithMe'' mostly wraps things up. The show features a rather large and colourful cast with about as many subplots as there are characters, and the story contains quite a few examples of RedHerringTwist and PowersThatBe.
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An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''BlueVelvet'' ''Film/BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Eraserhead}}'') ''{{Film/Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''NorthernExposure'', ''Series/NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''DeadlyPremonition'' ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' and ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'', but even ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' was influenced by the show. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
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An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''DeadlyPremonition'' and ''PuzzleAgent'', ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'', but even ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' was influenced by the show. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
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** The entire investigative team. They deduce from the first episode that Laura's death was part of sting of killings including Theresa Banks and was to have included Ronette Pulaski and yet they make absolutely no efforts to connect the three girls and aside from a brief talk with Ronette's parents, they completely ignore anything to do with her. No attempts are made to talk with her friends or any other relatives, this in comparison to the efforts they go to investigating Laura Palmer's life. Essentially they just decide that Laura was the primary target of the attack since she was the one that died.
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** The entire investigative team. They deduce from the first episode that Laura's death was part of sting a string of killings including Theresa Banks and was to have included Ronette Pulaski and yet they make absolutely no efforts to connect the three girls girls, and aside from a brief talk with Ronette's parents, they completely ignore anything to do with her. No attempts are made to talk with her friends or any other relatives, this in comparison to the efforts they go to investigating Laura Palmer's life. Essentially they just decide that Laura was the primary target of the attack since she was the one that died.
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* DisguisedInDrag: It's fairly obvious (and not at all odd, considering the show) that the stout Japanese businessman with the impressive moustache is really a woman but it's not obvious that she's [[spoiler:Catherine Martell]].
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** The entire investigative team. They deduce from the first episode that Laura's death was part of sting of killings including Theresa Banks and was to have included Ronette Pulaski and yet they make absolutely no efforts to connect the three girls and aside from a brief talk with Ronette's parents, they completely ignore anything to do with her. No attempts are made to talk with her friends or any other relatives, this in comparison to the efforts they go to investigating Laura Palmer's life. Essentially they just decide that Laura was the primary target of the attack since she was the one that died.
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** Those familiar with David Lynch might find the grandson on the show creepy (or alternately, hilarious) because he looks and acts ''identical'' to him, right down to the voice inflections and mannerisms. Which makes sense, as he's played by Lynch's son Austin.
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Twin P Eaks has a few characters who are pretty hammy, but not enough to qualify for this trope, especially when you consider how big of a cast there is.
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* BiTheWay: In the companion book ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer,'' Laura mentions having slept with both Josie Packard and her pimp/madame Blackie O'Reilly.
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* BiTheWay: In the companion book ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer,'' Laura mentions having slept with both Josie Packard and her pimp/madame Blackie O'Reilly.O'Reilly, Ronnette Polaski, and a lot of other females.
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* LoveDodecahedron: And how. It's easier to name the characters who aren't a part of it. To put it simply, nearly everyone in town has at least two lovers, which leads to a lot of sharing.
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* WidgetSeriesWidgetSeries: It's a detective show created by DavidLynch. What did you expect?
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* GenreBusting: It's a [[Deconstruction deconstructive]] [[MindScrew surrealist]] [[ParanormalInvestigation paranormal]] PsychologicalHorror PoliceProcedural CrimeTimeSoap [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[TeenDrama teen angst]].
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* GenreBusting: It's a [[Deconstruction [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructive]] [[MindScrew surrealist]] [[ParanormalInvestigation paranormal]] PsychologicalHorror PoliceProcedural CrimeTimeSoap [[{{Dramedy}} with comedy, drama,]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[TeenDrama teen angst]].
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* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Leland]] and finally [[spoiler:Cooper]]. In all likelihood, [[DavidBowie Agent Jeffries]] as well.
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* DemonicPossession: {{Deconstruction}}: A woman backstabbing her mentally ill lover? [[spoiler:She's trying to obtain her best friend's diary to present it to police.]] Instead of being a pure [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white, with bad people doing bad things with bad intention and good people doing good things with good intention]], [[MoralityKitchenSink bad people do good things for bad reasons, good people do bad things for good reasons, bad people do bad things for good reasons, and the full spectrum of morality exists]]. There are truly good characters, flawed characters with good intentions, redeemable characters with bad intentions, [[spoiler:[[BreadEggsMilkSquick and evil demonic beings]]]]. Not to mention that the MagicRealism prevalent in many soap operas is turned on its head: [[spoiler:the supernatural elements generally include [[NightmareFuel incredibly horrifying]] [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abominations]] and other [[MindScrew surrealist elements]].]] There's a reason for the page quote for Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion…
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]]: [[spoiler:Leland]] and finally [[spoiler:Cooper]]. In all likelihood, [[DavidBowie Agent Jeffries]] as well.
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]]: [[spoiler:Leland]] and finally [[spoiler:Cooper]]. In all likelihood, [[DavidBowie Agent Jeffries]] as well.
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* GambitPileup: The show definitely trends towards this, at points. At times, it feels like half of the town is out to kill the other half, who are out to expose them for various wrongdoings.
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** [[spoiler:[[NightmareFuel "How's]] [[MindScrew Annie?"]]]]
* GambitPileup: The show definitely trends towards this, at points. At times, it feels like half of the town is out to kill the other half, who are out to expose them for variouswrongdoings. wrongdoings.
* GenreBusting: It's a [[Deconstruction deconstructive]] [[MindScrew surrealist]] [[ParanormalInvestigation paranormal]] PsychologicalHorror PoliceProcedural CrimeTimeSoap [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[TeenDrama teen angst]].
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* LargeHam: Twin Peaks has at least a few of these, most notably BOB, Windom Earle, Nadine, Leo Johnson, and Gordon Cole.
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* GambitPileup: The show definitely trends towards this, at points. At times, it feels like half of the town is out to kill the other half, who are out to expose them for various wrongdoings.
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**This was not the intended finale, and the movie was meant to offer a true closure. But that footage was deleted and has never been released to the public.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When Cooper first meets the Twin Peaks police, he tells Harry rather standoffishly that "Once the Bureau gets involved, we run the show." Then later Cooper defends Harry against Albert, and later still when Harry [[spoiler:tells Cooper he wants to prosecute Ben Horne for Laura's murder]], Cooper says "All right, this is your operation."
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An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''DeadlyPremonition'' and ''PuzzleAgent'', but even ''VideoGame/LegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' was influenced by the show. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
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An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''DeadlyPremonition'' and ''PuzzleAgent''.''PuzzleAgent'', but even ''VideoGame/LegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' was influenced by the show. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
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-->''Through the darkness of future past, \\
the magician longs to see. \\
One chants out between two worlds...\\
[[ArcWords fire, walk with me.]]''
An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''DeadlyPremonition'' and ''PuzzleAgent''. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
The series starts off with the discovery of a murdered teenage girl, Laura Palmer. This event in turn leads to the eccentric Special Agent Dale Cooper visiting the town as part of his hunt for a serial killer. Although the murder investigation wraps up partway through season two, a new foe from Cooper's past keeps the plot moving until the notorious "How's Annie?" CliffHanger ending of season two (and in fact the series). The 1992 movie ''FireWalkWithMe'' mostly wraps things up. The show features a rather large and colourful cast with about as many subplots as there are characters, and the story contains quite a few examples of RedHerringTwist and PowersThatBe.
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!!This show is an example of:
* MixAndMatch:
** CosmicHorrorStory
** CrimeTimeSoap
** DetectiveDrama
** {{Dramedy}}
** ParanormalInvestigation
** SoapOpera (A deconstruction)
** SurrealHorror
!!This show provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: "All things considered, [[spoiler:being shot]] is not as bad as I always thought it might be. [[{{Dune}} Long as you can keep the fear from your mind.]] I guess you could say that about most anything in life."
* AgentMulder: Co-trope namer, and ''original'' TropeNamer AgentCooper.
* AgentScully: Albert.
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler:Maddy]]'s final scene.
* AnAxeToGrind: Leo Johnson and Bobby [[spoiler:at the end of the first season]] and [[spoiler:halfway through the second]].
* AnotherDimension: Two of them -- the White Lodge and the Black Lodge. You ''don't'' want to go to the second one.
* AnythingThatMoves: Laura Palmer. [[spoiler: Considering her part-time job...]]
** Also, BOB, apparently.
* ArchEnemy: Windom Earle.
* ArcWords: "Fire walk with me."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "Ladies and gentlemen, Laura Palmer is dead. [[spoiler:Jacques Renault]] is dead. Ronette Pulaski and [[spoiler:Leo Johnson]] are both in comas. [[spoiler:Waldo the bird]] is dead."
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Hinted to happen to Laura at the end of TheMovie.
* AscendedExtra: Ascended Actor, anyway. Sheryl Lee was originally cast to play Laura's corpse and limited flashbacks, but Lynch liked her so much he created the character of Maddy for her, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot feeding into BOB's modus operandi as revealed by the movie.]]
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Invoked by Albert when trying to explain the existence of BOB.
* TheAtoner: MIKE claims to be this, but it's really difficult to say.
* {{Badass}}: Quite a few, but especially Cooper, Truman, and ESPECIALLY Deputy Hawk.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Windom Earle's quest to [[spoiler: find the Black Lodge]] goes poorly for her.
* BiTheWay: In the companion book ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer,'' Laura mentions having slept with both Josie Packard and her pimp/madame Blackie O'Reilly.
* BigBad: BOB.
* BigBadWannabe: Windom Earle.
* BlackComedy: Windom Earle is a FUNNY guy, even if he is a complete psychopath. It also helps that most of the humor is at Leo's expense.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Black Lodge, who are strict about their own world's rules but clearly have just a ''slightly'' different set of values than everyone else.
* BolivianArmyEnding
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Some of Agent Cooper's investigation methods are ''unique'' to say the least. Surprisingly this is tolerated and even factored into serious case work by the officers of the Twin Peak's sheriff's department, who have probably never seen an FBI agent before and don't know any better.
* CampbellCountry: Twin Peaks itself and its surroundings, of course.
* CaptainsLog: Agent Cooper's tape recorder messages for Diane.
* CatchPhrase: "Harry, you're all right."
** See MustHaveCaffeine for another.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: From the subtitles at the end of ''FireWalkWithMe'':
--> '''Philip Gerard / The Man From Another Place:''' "Bob, I want all my... Garmonbozia (pain and suffering)."
* TheChessmaster: Windom Earle is a rather literal example of this trope. He [[spoiler:determines his victims through]] a game of chess played against Cooper, and even at one point ''dresses a victim as a giant chess piece'' before [[spoiler:shooting him with a crossbow]]. By contrast, Pete Martell, who is even better at chess, but lacks the ambition or the capacity for cruelty to really be this trope.
* CliffHanger
* CliffhangerCopout: Episode Three in the first season ends with Agent Cooper having a dream from which he learns [[MysteryArc who killed Laura Palmer]]. Cooper immediately wakes up from the dream to call up Sheriff Truman to tell him that he knows who the murderer is but teases that the answer could "wait 'till morning." Come the next episode, taking place that following morning, Cooper recaps all the events from the dream that ended with Laura Palmer whispering the name of her killer in his ear. Then, once he's asked who the killer is, Cooper nonchalantly responds "I don't remember."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Agent Cooper, who talks to a tape recorder while hanging upside-down by his boots in his room. His superior, Gordon Cole, was obviously an influence....
--> '''Cole''': [[AC:Coop, you remind me today of a small Mexican chihuahua.]]
** On the Twin Peaks side, Margaret (the Log Lady), the source for at least one of the page quotes and the following:
--> "Wait for the tea! The fish aren't running!"
** Nadine, though played for a kind of awkward tragedy.
** To a lesser extent, Audrey, especially in the earlier episodes.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Twin Peaks ''itself''.
** The FBI, judging by the cross section of agents we see listed on the Characters page.
* ColorMotif: Red usually turns up suggesting danger and sexuality, most obviously in the curtains of One Eyed Jacks and the Black Lodge. You can't trust blue either, which seems to be associated with BOB - he wears denim, is often cloaked in blue light, and in the movie, a possessed [[spoiler: Leland]] laments the appearance of MIKE, BOB's nemesis, "out of the blue".
* CompanionCube: Margaret's log, which arguably [[spoiler:allows her to communicate with her dead husband, who now inhabits the Black Lodge and is probably Jurgen Prochnow]].
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: The Log Lady.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: Windom Earle. When he's not killing people and stuffing their corpses, he enjoys a good chess game. Averted with Pete Martell, who is the best chess player around and is a perfectly sane and kindly old fella.
* CreatorCameo: Cooper's superior, Special Agent Gordon Cole, is played -- very loudly -- by DavidLynch.
* CriminalMindGames
* CringeComedy
* CrypticConversation: Cooper's encounters with the GrotesqueGallery.
--> '''TMFAP:''' She's my cousin. But doesn't she look almost exactly like Laura Palmer?
--> '''Cooper:''' But she is Laura Palmer. Are you Laura Palmer?
--> '''Not-Laura:''' I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back.
--> '''TMFAP:''' She's filled with secrets.
* CreepyChild: Mrs. Chalfont's grandson is creepy in the TV series.
** Even more so in [[FireWalkWithMe the movie.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Played straight with the Log Lady and several other characters. Averted by Cooper in that everyone takes his far-out theories seriously anyway (except for Albert, the only person who actually ''does'' have good reason to believe him).
* DarkIsNotEvil: The inhabitants of the Black Lodge could not by any stretch of the imagination be called good (they ''eat pain and suffering'', after all) but some of them do help Cooper with his investigation on numerous occasions.
* DeadlyPrank: Windom Earle does this sort of thing a lot.
* DeadpanSnarker: Albert.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Leland]] and finally [[spoiler:Cooper]]. In all likelihood, [[DavidBowie Agent Jeffries]] as well.
** And to a smallish degree, [[spoiler: Laura]]. Or at least [[RapeAsDrama something's in there.]]
** By contrast, Gerard, who is inhabited by a much more benevolent spirit. Maybe.
* DemotedToExtra: Johnny Horne, Audrey's brother, appears in a few early episodes before disappearing until a late season 2 cameo.
* DepravedBisexual: Josie Packard and Blackie O'Reilly are confirmed as this in ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'', and there is heavy hinting for Blackie in the show as well.
* DescendedCreator: BOB, played by a crewmember who accidentally ended up in a pivotal shot. They could have reshot it easily but David Lynch loved the visual of this guy hiding in the shot.
** David Lynch himself as Agent Gordon Cole.
* DistressedDamsel: Many, but above all ''Laura''.
* TheDitz: Lucy and Andy.
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Nadine, after returning from the hospital (after [[spoiler:attempting suicide]]).
* DonutMessWithACop: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/copslovedonuts.jpg "A policeman's dream!"]]
* DoomedByCanon: [[PosthumousCharacter Laura Palmer]] is the main character of [[TheMovie the prequel film]].
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: Maybe. BOB's fellow Lodge creatures don't always seem to care that he's been raping and murdering young women left and right. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Just that he won't front them any of the suffering he takes from his victims]]. On the other hand, MIKE claims to have "seen the face of God" and become TheAtoner, but then, he could be lying. MIKE's motivation is one of the greatest mysteries of the show.
* DownerEnding: As there is no third season to provide closure, we're left to assume that [[spoiler:half the cast is dead and Cooper's soul is trapped in the Black Lodge while BOB makes use of his possessed body]].
* DragonLady: Josie.
* DrJerk: Albert.
* DreamingTheTruth
* DreamSequence: Cooper's is a famous example.
* DrivingQuestion: The Laura Palmer case.
* DrugsAreBad: A heavily implied (but not quite {{anvilicious}}) aesop. While drugs are indeed a major part of Laura's downfall, her drug use doesn't exactly lead to her problems so much as result from them.
* DyingAsYourself:[[spoiler: Leland Palmer]]
* DysfunctionJunction: Laura was the prom queen and overall darling of the town. [[spoiler:She was also heavily into cocaine and BDSM prostitution.]]
* EccentricTownsfolk
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:Leland, and later (one can assume) Cooper]].
* EnergyBeings: It's implied that BOB and other Black Lodge inhabitants can travel through electric wires when they're not possessing people.
* [[EventheRatsWontTouchIt Even the Rats Won't Touch It]]: The food at the local hospital looks (and smells) [[{{Squick}} downright disgusting.]]
* EvilTastesGood: Averted heavily. If you didn't already find creamed corn disturbing, you will now.
* EvilTwin: [[spoiler: Of Agent Cooper, and possibly the Man From Another Place and Laura]], within the Black Lodge.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Leland Palmer's hair turns white in the first episode of the second season, at which point he ceases to be paralyzed by grief.
--> "God, I feel like singing! Come on, everybody, and just get happy!"
* EyepatchOfPower: Nadine. Good old casually-600-pound-pressing Nadine.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Averted due to ExecutiveMeddling.
* TheFairFolk: The residents of the Black Lodge. Okay, so they're not really "fairies", but they still fit the bill.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Catherine Martell]] and [[spoiler:her brother, Andrew Packard]].
* FatBastard: Jacque Renault
* FatalFamilyPhoto: A security guard at the Twin Peaks bank discovers that his wife has just given birth to a boy [[spoiler: seconds before a massive explosion kills everyone.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being possessed by BOB. Being raped by BOB. Being trapped in the Black Lodge for twenty-five years that could either go back in time, forward in time, or completely nonlinearly, and [[NarniaTime may not even equate to human world time.]]
* FemmeFatale / FilleFatale: Audrey Horne is on the border, since she's 18.
* FiveManBand: The police department.
** TheHero: Cooper
** TheLancer: Truman
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Andy and Hawk
** TheSmartGuy: Albert
** TheChick: Lucy
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "She's my cousin. But doesn't she look exactly like Laura Palmer?" referring to Maddy. Also, in a way, Laura could be considered The Man From Another Place's cousin, since [[spoiler: BOB is possessing her father, BOB is the 'familiar' of MIKE, and The Man split off from MIKE like Athena from Zeus.]]
* GainaxEnding: The ending for the "International Version" of the pilot episode. It ended up being heavily edited and recontextualized for Cooper's dream at the end of the second episode.
* GodzillaThreshold: When BOB finds another victim, everyone begs Cooper to use any of his kooky methods that they previously disparaged in order to catch the killer.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The FBI in the ''Twin Peaks'' universe often deals heavily in supernatural cases. These more often than not tend to be just a little more dangerous than the usual kind of work.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Dale Cooper is a strong believer in conspiracy theories. Given his own experience...
* GrotesqueGallery: Lodge inhabitants include The Man From Another Place (a dwarf, who is actually [[spoiler: a severed arm in human form]]), The Giant (a ... giant, obviously), [[spoiler: a one-armed man]], and a singer played by Jimmy Scott (who suffered from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallmann%27s_syndrome Kallmann Syndrome]]).
* HannibalLecture: Jean Renault gives Cooper one.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Ben Horne becomes a nice guy toward the end of season 2 (see WeWantOurJerkBack).]]
** [[spoiler: Leo Johnson is a irredeemable, abusive control freak toward Shelly in Season 1, but suffers much of the same abuse at the hands of Windom Earle in Season 2. His HeelFaceTurn begins when he is reluctant in assisting Windom Earle kill an innocent victim, then sets fellow captive, Major Garland Briggs free and asks him to keep Shelly safe. Bear in mind Leo previously tried to immolate Shelly at the end of Season 1.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold:
** Audrey Horne. At first sight she seems to be a spoiled troublemaker who aspires to be a femme fatale (often successfully), but with time it is revealed that she's actually an lonely innocent with good intentions.
--> '''Director Todd Holland on Audrey's character:''' "She's one of my favorite characters because you thought she was such a big slut and she's probably the most moralistic person in Twin Peaks and that's all tremendous fun. The ones like her father feign morality and are incredibly treacherous, but they carry on a good business front."
** Albert Rosenfield is an obvious JerkAss, but eventually reveals a great love for the teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr and mellows out.
* HiddenVillain
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: Laura]]. And [[spoiler: Audrey]] invokes this when she tries to get into the business for investigative purposes, but doesn't stay long enough to do any actual hooking.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Laura Palmer's peers. And she herself, but with a bit of extra baggage.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: MIKE does this.
* HumanoidAbomination: Whatever else the inhabitants of the Black Lodge are, they are all surely this -- even the seemingly more benevolent ones, such as the Giant.
* IdiotBall: Happens sometimes towards the end of the series with both Harry and Cooper. The greatest offender, however, is Major Briggs, [[spoiler: who after establishing that a murderous psychopath is hiding out in the forest is to take a casual relaxing walk in the forest on the way home. Harry and Cooper thinks it's a great idea.]]
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: In Episode 4, Andy drops his gun and it goes off by accident. In the next episode, Bobby gives a braggadocio-filled impression of how he'd handle being caught having an affair while waving a gun around with his finger on the trigger.
* InterimVillain: In Season 2, Wyndom Earle served as this, until Bob, the original BigBad, returned.
* InvisibleBackupBand: James' song he sings while playing guitar in the episode "Coma" has bass and percussion come out of nowhere halfway through.
* IsThisThingOn: Played painfully straight with the town's mayor in the pilot and later on in the second season.
* {{Japandering}}: [[http://www.kylemaclachlan.com/viewer.php?id=5 This Georgia is damn fine coffee!]]
* JerkJock: Bobby Briggs and Mike Nelson, although they both mature a lot by the end of the series. Also see NamesTheSame.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Albert defines this. After an amazing speech in which Albert's heart of gold becomes apparent, he and Sheriff Truman -- formerly bitter enemies -- [[spoiler:become close friends and even hug one another]] in a later episode.
** Bobby Briggs, initially a whiny JerkJock, becomes a not-too-bad guy by the end of the show.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot
* JurisdictionFriction: Averted right off the bat in the pilot episode when Agent Cooper specifically asks Sheriff Truman if he is going to have any trouble with this. Played straight with the very crooked Deer Meadow jurisdiction in ''FireWalkWithMe'', though.
* JustFriends: Audrey and Cooper, to the ire of both [[WordOfGod David Lynch]] and the FanPreferredCouple crowd.
--> Audrey: But don't you like me?
--> Cooper: I like you very much. You're beautiful, intelligent, desirable. Everything a man wants in his life. But what you need right now, more than anything, is a friend. Someone who will listen.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Windom Earle]] and presumably [[spoiler:Leo Johnson]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Jacques Renault]], [[spoiler:Maddie Ferguson]], and [[spoiler:Leland Palmer]].
* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:Catherine Martell]], disguised as [[spoiler:a mysterious Japanese businessman after FakingTheDead]].
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The first episode has Audrey doing this, much to her father's dismay.
** She does it again with the jukebox at the diner in the second episode.
--> "God, I love this music. Isn't it too dreamy?"
** This happens on a radio (which is immediately changed) in season 2 episode 2. Actually, this happens a lot on ''Twin Peaks''.
** In another season two episode, some melancholy flute music plays over an establishing shot of the abandoned house Windom Earle is occupying, which turns out to be... Windom Earle himself playing the flute. It sounds kind of silly, but it's in fact a pretty eerie moment since [[spoiler: he's doing it while waiting for Leo Johnson to come to so he can torture him.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Laura Palmer's Theme" and later (in the second season) "Audrey's Prayer" are repeatedly used as love themes. Some characters (Hank Jennings or Windom Earle, for example) have their own themes as well.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The little trailer park trailer that isn't there today. And the Convenience store that apparently [[spoiler: the Lodge creatures once lived above.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Windom. Freaking. Earle.
* MagicRealism
* MalevolentMaskedMan: The Chalfont/Tremond child.
* TheManBehindTheMan
* MasterOfDisguise: Windom Earle, master of the [[WigDressAccent Wig Moustache Accent]].
* MedicateTheMedium: A variant where the medication actually inhibits the talent.
* MindRape: ''Literally.''
* MindScrew: Anything involving the Black Lodge.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot
* MirrorMonster: BOB, perhaps the most iconic example of this in television history.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome
* MixAndMatch
* MoodWhiplash: The series changes from serious crime drama to lighthearted comedy extremely frequently, especially at the beginning of the second season.
* MurderersAreRapists
* MustHaveCaffeine: "(That's some) Damn good coffee." is Agent Cooper's CatchPhrase.
--> "Agent Cooper ''loves'' coffee."
* MsFanservice: Audrey.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Both Laura and Leland experience these moments... though in the second case, it's for a pretty good reason. Ben as well, albeit in a much more Narm-filled fashion.
* [[NamesTheSame Name's The Same]]: The name of Bobby's partner in crime is [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]]. In-universe, Bobby and Mike have the same names as BOB and his former accomplice, Mike.
** Not to mention the obvious examples of Sheriff Harry S. Truman and Ben & Jerry Horne.
** In episode 7 of season 1, Cooper and Big Ed adopt the aliases of [[TheFlintstones Barney and Fred]].
* NarniaTime: Time in the Black Lodge is a somewhat more MindScrew worthy take on the idea.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Catherine Martell]].
* NoDeadBodyPoops: The aversion is mentioned, but not depicted.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Maddy's demise.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: [[AC: Regional bureau chief Gordon Cole, as played by David Lynch. And he's calling you from]] ''[[AC:Orrrrrrrrrrrrrr-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-gonnnnnnnnnn!]]''
* NotHimself
* OccultDetective: The natural result of Agent Cooper becoming aware of the town's less-than-normal qualities. Of course, he started out using such investigative techniques as throwing rocks at a bottle while listening to the list of suspects to determine which leads to follow, which he learned from the Dalai Lama in a dream. Keep in mind, given what we find out in TheMovie, Cooper had already foreseen Laura's death and Gordon Cole likely informed him beforehand that he was working on a [[TrustPassword Blue Rose]] case. Which means the rules are, to put it mildly, just a little different.
* OddFriendship: Well, most of the town's residents and the agents dispatched there are odd, to say the least, but the trope is best exemplified by [[spoiler:Albert and Truman]] later in season 2.
* OldCopYoungCop: Windom Earle and Dale Cooper ''might'' have been this before Earle went insane.
* OutWithABang: Mayor Doug Wilford, in the "wedding night" variant.
* OwlBeDamned: They are the eyes of BOB. Maybe. In any case, they are not what they seem.
* PlaceBeyondTime: The Black Lodge, where [[spoiler:Cooper winds up stuck for at least 25 years while still communicating with himself and others through their dreams at various points in time -- including before Laura Palmer's murder, which brought him to Twin Peaks in the first place]].
* PowersThatBe
* PowerWalk: The first shot of Season 2, Episode 9.
* PrecociousCrush: The reason why Cooper can't return Audrey's feelings.
-->"Audrey, you're a high school girl. I'm an agent of the FBI."
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Leland's]] backstory is that he was sexually assaulted by Bob Robertson, possibly as a means of demonic possession (or thus creating said demonic force). And that's not even bringing up how it affected [[spoiler: Laura.]]
** The "Cooper's Diary" book suggests that Cooper was also sexually abused by BOB (he came into his room) as a child.
* RapeAsDrama
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Leo Johnson. He survives being shot twice, two axe battles with Bobby Briggs (one of them being right after awakening from a coma from said gunshot), survives being out in the woods with no water, gets electrocuted by Windom Earle on a number of occasions, then finally it is implied Leo finally met his fate by a venomous spider.]]
* RecursiveAcronym: Beware Of BOB.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Laura Palmer's death.
** Also [[spoiler:Leland Palmer's death]].
* RedemptionInTheRain: [[spoiler:Leland Palmer's death]]. Sort of.
* RedHerringTwist
* TheReveal
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Cooper and Hawk.
* SceneryPorn: ''Twin Peaks'' has some truly beautiful cinematography. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDuGN6K3VQ The opening]] also gives you a good first look at some of the breathtaking nature scenery you're going to see in the show.
* SerialKiller: BOB.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Laura angsts over having this attitude in ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer''.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: With only two seasons and 30 episodes, it popularized the QuirkyTown genre in American television, having descendants such ''PicketFences'' and ''NorthernExposure'' that ran much longer than ''Twin Peaks'' itself. Also, the amount of surrealism, eccentric humor, and horror in it were highly exceptional for a mainstream American drama series of its era, but such elements became much more common in television in its wake in the 1990s and 2000s.
* ShoutOut: Many, most notably to the GeneTierney film ''[[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0037008/ Laura]]'' during the first season.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Invitation to Love''.
** Complete with StylisticSuck and PlotParallel
* SmugSnake: Ben and Jerry in the first season.
* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: Played for laughs:
--> Gwen: God, how you must hate us white people after all we've done to you.
--> Hawk: Some of my best friends are white people.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: BOB -- all caps.
** Not to be confused with [[http://www.subgenius.com "BOB!"]].
* StylisticSuck: From what little we see of it, ''Invitation to Love'', the soap opera ''everyone'' in Twin Peaks apparently watches, is fairly ridiculous. Considering the fact that it mirrors some events of the show, it may be a case of SelfDeprecatingHumor.
* SurrealHorror
* SwitchingToGEICO: In the surreal Black Lodge:
--> "I've got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style."
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: BOB.
* ToHellAndBack: Cooper in the series finale. The Black Lodge may not be Hell itself, but neither is it pleasant.
** [[spoiler: But did he really come back??? ]]
* TomTheDarkLord: Killer BOB.
* {{Transvestite}}: A young and studly David Duchovny as DEA Agent [[strike:Dennis]] Denise Bryson.
** Not to be mistaken for {{transsexual}}, though:
--->"Now, could we talk about something more important? Exactly how old is that girl?"
--->"Denise, I would assume you're no longer interested in girls."
--->"Coop, I may be wearing a dress, but I still put my panties on one leg at a time, if you know what I mean."
--->"Not really."
* TownWithADarkSecret: The corrupt businessman who pretty much runs Twin Peaks is secretly funding a brothel and casino beyond the border. The town darling is a prostitute and drug addict in her spare time. Did we mention that the town also contains hidden access to the home of some [[SurrealHorror really weird]] [[TheFairFolk creatures]] that [[CrypticConversation speak almost only in riddles]]?
* TurnInYourBadge: Season 2, episode 10.
* TheWatson: Sheriff Harry S. Truman. In the first episode after the pilot he even mentions feeling "a bit like Dr. Watson."
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Several characters react to [[spoiler:Ben Horne]]'s trauma-induced HeelFaceTurn in this fashion.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Albert suggests this explanation for the events of the series that he would otherwise be unlikely to believe, thus playing heavily to the perspectives of the audience and [[TakeThat perhaps acting as a parody of some of Lynch's fans and critics]] in an ironically symbolic manner. It's all sort of subverted in the last episode, though...
* WidgetSeries
* WigDressAccent: Windom Earle uses several of these to get around Twin Peaks.
* WildMassGuessing: Due to the extremely ambiguous nature of WordOfGod (we're talking about DavidLynch here after all), much of what is accepted as canon online (especially on this page) is based on some of the more probable and believable examples of WildMassGuessing as to what's going on in the series. Even that isn't exactly saying much...
* WholesomeCrossdresser: FBI Agent [[strike:Dennis]] Denise Bryson.
* WildWilderness: The setting has a creepy lodge in the middle of the woods that may or may not be there and no one seems to notice it.
* WorldOfHam
* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: In the last episode, Ben Horne, displaying the pile of religious scriptures he means to study, follow "the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita" by picking up another single volume which he identifies as "the Talmud." TheTalmud would, at a minimum, take up a trunk.
* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:Josie Packard]] falls victim to a type two-B. [[MindScrew Or maybe her soul is just trapped inside the knob of a dresser drawer.]]
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Most of the younger characters in Twin Peaks are downright ''stupid.''
!!This show's production and television run provided examples of:
* DawsonCasting: Most of the teen characters in the series are played by actors in their twenties.
* ExecutiveMeddling: ABC pressured Lynch into wrapping up the Laura Palmer mystery, which he wanted to continue throughout the series.
* KudzuPlot
* ProductionPosse: Kyle [=MacLachlan=] first worked with Lynch in ''{{Dune}}''. Also, Jack Nance, who played the protagonist in ''{{Eraserhead}}'', plays the character who discovered Laura Palmer's corpse.
* TheOtherDarrin: Donna Hayward in TheMovie.
* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The movie ''Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me''. Subverted in that it was [[spoiler: actually a prequel]]. Well, [[TemporalParadox sort of...]]
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''Twin Peaks'' was renewed for the second season, but the network moved it to one of the lowest-rated timeslots on television, Saturday nights at ten.
* ThrowItIn: The villain BOB was created/cast when set director Frank Silva's reflection accidentally appeared in a mirror when filming the last shot of the pilot where Laura's mother has a frightening nightmare. Earlier, Silva had trapped himself in Laura's bedroom, endearing him to Lynch, which caused him to shoot footage showing him looking up from the foot of Laura's bed. His serendipitous appearance in the pilot just cemented his place. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_BOB#Character_history According to Wikipedia.]]
** Two other things from the pilot: When Cooper first examines Laura's body, a fluorescent light keeps flickering -- the light they were using really was malfunctioning, but David Lynch liked the eerie disorienting effect this had, so it got written in as a transformer malfunction. And in the same scene, an extra misheard Cooper's line "Would you leave us?" as "what's your name?" and, thinking Kyle [=MacLachlan=] was breaking character, said his real name. The awkward moment that ensued got left in as a momentary aversion of RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic.
* WellDoneSonGuy: A female example involving Norma and her mother in the second season.
* WhamEpisode: The final one, and several others along the way, including [[spoiler:Maddy's]] death at the hands of of Laura's killer. Basically, whenever The Giant shows up you know it's going to be one of these.
** And of course, the first season finale. [[spoiler: Audrey is captured at "One Eyed Jacks", Nadine tries to commit suicide, Leland murders the newly captured Jacques Renault in the hospital, Leo tries to kill Bobby but is shot by Hank, the mill burns down with Catherine and Shelly inside as Pete rushes to the rescue and Cooper is shot in his hotel room by an unknown assailant.]]
** Mark Frost has talked about how he really wasn't sure the show would get a second season, so he packed every conceivable cliffhanger he could into the first season finale (to the point that it almost became a parody) in the hopes that ''someone'' would say, "Okay, I ''have'' to know what happens next."
* WrapItUp
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants
----
-->''Through the darkness of future past, \\
the magician longs to see. \\
One chants out between two worlds...\\
[[ArcWords fire, walk with me.]]''
An early-nineties television series created by DavidLynch (responsible for such films as ''BlueVelvet'' and ''{{Eraserhead}}'') and Mark Frost (co-writer of the Film/FantasticFour film). It paved the way for shows like ''NorthernExposure'', which stole its Northwest locale and some limited quirkiness. The series also heavily influenced a surprising number of video games, most obviously ''DeadlyPremonition'' and ''PuzzleAgent''. It had a little bit of everything (see SoapOpera and MixAndMatch). Ostensibly a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap / DetectiveDrama, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element that turned it partly into an OccultDetective story that smacked of slightly off-kilter MagicRealism.
The series starts off with the discovery of a murdered teenage girl, Laura Palmer. This event in turn leads to the eccentric Special Agent Dale Cooper visiting the town as part of his hunt for a serial killer. Although the murder investigation wraps up partway through season two, a new foe from Cooper's past keeps the plot moving until the notorious "How's Annie?" CliffHanger ending of season two (and in fact the series). The 1992 movie ''FireWalkWithMe'' mostly wraps things up. The show features a rather large and colourful cast with about as many subplots as there are characters, and the story contains quite a few examples of RedHerringTwist and PowersThatBe.
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!!This show is an example of:
* MixAndMatch:
** CosmicHorrorStory
** CrimeTimeSoap
** DetectiveDrama
** {{Dramedy}}
** ParanormalInvestigation
** SoapOpera (A deconstruction)
** SurrealHorror
!!This show provides examples of:
* ActorAllusion: "All things considered, [[spoiler:being shot]] is not as bad as I always thought it might be. [[{{Dune}} Long as you can keep the fear from your mind.]] I guess you could say that about most anything in life."
* AgentMulder: Co-trope namer, and ''original'' TropeNamer AgentCooper.
* AgentScully: Albert.
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler:Maddy]]'s final scene.
* AnAxeToGrind: Leo Johnson and Bobby [[spoiler:at the end of the first season]] and [[spoiler:halfway through the second]].
* AnotherDimension: Two of them -- the White Lodge and the Black Lodge. You ''don't'' want to go to the second one.
* AnythingThatMoves: Laura Palmer. [[spoiler: Considering her part-time job...]]
** Also, BOB, apparently.
* ArchEnemy: Windom Earle.
* ArcWords: "Fire walk with me."
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "Ladies and gentlemen, Laura Palmer is dead. [[spoiler:Jacques Renault]] is dead. Ronette Pulaski and [[spoiler:Leo Johnson]] are both in comas. [[spoiler:Waldo the bird]] is dead."
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Hinted to happen to Laura at the end of TheMovie.
* AscendedExtra: Ascended Actor, anyway. Sheryl Lee was originally cast to play Laura's corpse and limited flashbacks, but Lynch liked her so much he created the character of Maddy for her, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot feeding into BOB's modus operandi as revealed by the movie.]]
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: Invoked by Albert when trying to explain the existence of BOB.
* TheAtoner: MIKE claims to be this, but it's really difficult to say.
* {{Badass}}: Quite a few, but especially Cooper, Truman, and ESPECIALLY Deputy Hawk.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Windom Earle's quest to [[spoiler: find the Black Lodge]] goes poorly for her.
* BiTheWay: In the companion book ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer,'' Laura mentions having slept with both Josie Packard and her pimp/madame Blackie O'Reilly.
* BigBad: BOB.
* BigBadWannabe: Windom Earle.
* BlackComedy: Windom Earle is a FUNNY guy, even if he is a complete psychopath. It also helps that most of the humor is at Leo's expense.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Black Lodge, who are strict about their own world's rules but clearly have just a ''slightly'' different set of values than everyone else.
* BolivianArmyEnding
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Some of Agent Cooper's investigation methods are ''unique'' to say the least. Surprisingly this is tolerated and even factored into serious case work by the officers of the Twin Peak's sheriff's department, who have probably never seen an FBI agent before and don't know any better.
* CampbellCountry: Twin Peaks itself and its surroundings, of course.
* CaptainsLog: Agent Cooper's tape recorder messages for Diane.
* CatchPhrase: "Harry, you're all right."
** See MustHaveCaffeine for another.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: From the subtitles at the end of ''FireWalkWithMe'':
--> '''Philip Gerard / The Man From Another Place:''' "Bob, I want all my... Garmonbozia (pain and suffering)."
* TheChessmaster: Windom Earle is a rather literal example of this trope. He [[spoiler:determines his victims through]] a game of chess played against Cooper, and even at one point ''dresses a victim as a giant chess piece'' before [[spoiler:shooting him with a crossbow]]. By contrast, Pete Martell, who is even better at chess, but lacks the ambition or the capacity for cruelty to really be this trope.
* CliffHanger
* CliffhangerCopout: Episode Three in the first season ends with Agent Cooper having a dream from which he learns [[MysteryArc who killed Laura Palmer]]. Cooper immediately wakes up from the dream to call up Sheriff Truman to tell him that he knows who the murderer is but teases that the answer could "wait 'till morning." Come the next episode, taking place that following morning, Cooper recaps all the events from the dream that ended with Laura Palmer whispering the name of her killer in his ear. Then, once he's asked who the killer is, Cooper nonchalantly responds "I don't remember."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Agent Cooper, who talks to a tape recorder while hanging upside-down by his boots in his room. His superior, Gordon Cole, was obviously an influence....
--> '''Cole''': [[AC:Coop, you remind me today of a small Mexican chihuahua.]]
** On the Twin Peaks side, Margaret (the Log Lady), the source for at least one of the page quotes and the following:
--> "Wait for the tea! The fish aren't running!"
** Nadine, though played for a kind of awkward tragedy.
** To a lesser extent, Audrey, especially in the earlier episodes.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Twin Peaks ''itself''.
** The FBI, judging by the cross section of agents we see listed on the Characters page.
* ColorMotif: Red usually turns up suggesting danger and sexuality, most obviously in the curtains of One Eyed Jacks and the Black Lodge. You can't trust blue either, which seems to be associated with BOB - he wears denim, is often cloaked in blue light, and in the movie, a possessed [[spoiler: Leland]] laments the appearance of MIKE, BOB's nemesis, "out of the blue".
* CompanionCube: Margaret's log, which arguably [[spoiler:allows her to communicate with her dead husband, who now inhabits the Black Lodge and is probably Jurgen Prochnow]].
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: The Log Lady.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: Windom Earle. When he's not killing people and stuffing their corpses, he enjoys a good chess game. Averted with Pete Martell, who is the best chess player around and is a perfectly sane and kindly old fella.
* CreatorCameo: Cooper's superior, Special Agent Gordon Cole, is played -- very loudly -- by DavidLynch.
* CriminalMindGames
* CringeComedy
* CrypticConversation: Cooper's encounters with the GrotesqueGallery.
--> '''TMFAP:''' She's my cousin. But doesn't she look almost exactly like Laura Palmer?
--> '''Cooper:''' But she is Laura Palmer. Are you Laura Palmer?
--> '''Not-Laura:''' I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back.
--> '''TMFAP:''' She's filled with secrets.
* CreepyChild: Mrs. Chalfont's grandson is creepy in the TV series.
** Even more so in [[FireWalkWithMe the movie.]]
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Played straight with the Log Lady and several other characters. Averted by Cooper in that everyone takes his far-out theories seriously anyway (except for Albert, the only person who actually ''does'' have good reason to believe him).
* DarkIsNotEvil: The inhabitants of the Black Lodge could not by any stretch of the imagination be called good (they ''eat pain and suffering'', after all) but some of them do help Cooper with his investigation on numerous occasions.
* DeadlyPrank: Windom Earle does this sort of thing a lot.
* DeadpanSnarker: Albert.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Leland]] and finally [[spoiler:Cooper]]. In all likelihood, [[DavidBowie Agent Jeffries]] as well.
** And to a smallish degree, [[spoiler: Laura]]. Or at least [[RapeAsDrama something's in there.]]
** By contrast, Gerard, who is inhabited by a much more benevolent spirit. Maybe.
* DemotedToExtra: Johnny Horne, Audrey's brother, appears in a few early episodes before disappearing until a late season 2 cameo.
* DepravedBisexual: Josie Packard and Blackie O'Reilly are confirmed as this in ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer'', and there is heavy hinting for Blackie in the show as well.
* DescendedCreator: BOB, played by a crewmember who accidentally ended up in a pivotal shot. They could have reshot it easily but David Lynch loved the visual of this guy hiding in the shot.
** David Lynch himself as Agent Gordon Cole.
* DistressedDamsel: Many, but above all ''Laura''.
* TheDitz: Lucy and Andy.
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Nadine, after returning from the hospital (after [[spoiler:attempting suicide]]).
* DonutMessWithACop: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/copslovedonuts.jpg "A policeman's dream!"]]
* DoomedByCanon: [[PosthumousCharacter Laura Palmer]] is the main character of [[TheMovie the prequel film]].
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: Maybe. BOB's fellow Lodge creatures don't always seem to care that he's been raping and murdering young women left and right. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Just that he won't front them any of the suffering he takes from his victims]]. On the other hand, MIKE claims to have "seen the face of God" and become TheAtoner, but then, he could be lying. MIKE's motivation is one of the greatest mysteries of the show.
* DownerEnding: As there is no third season to provide closure, we're left to assume that [[spoiler:half the cast is dead and Cooper's soul is trapped in the Black Lodge while BOB makes use of his possessed body]].
* DragonLady: Josie.
* DrJerk: Albert.
* DreamingTheTruth
* DreamSequence: Cooper's is a famous example.
* DrivingQuestion: The Laura Palmer case.
* DrugsAreBad: A heavily implied (but not quite {{anvilicious}}) aesop. While drugs are indeed a major part of Laura's downfall, her drug use doesn't exactly lead to her problems so much as result from them.
* DyingAsYourself:[[spoiler: Leland Palmer]]
* DysfunctionJunction: Laura was the prom queen and overall darling of the town. [[spoiler:She was also heavily into cocaine and BDSM prostitution.]]
* EccentricTownsfolk
* EnemyWithin: [[spoiler:Leland, and later (one can assume) Cooper]].
* EnergyBeings: It's implied that BOB and other Black Lodge inhabitants can travel through electric wires when they're not possessing people.
* [[EventheRatsWontTouchIt Even the Rats Won't Touch It]]: The food at the local hospital looks (and smells) [[{{Squick}} downright disgusting.]]
* EvilTastesGood: Averted heavily. If you didn't already find creamed corn disturbing, you will now.
* EvilTwin: [[spoiler: Of Agent Cooper, and possibly the Man From Another Place and Laura]], within the Black Lodge.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Leland Palmer's hair turns white in the first episode of the second season, at which point he ceases to be paralyzed by grief.
--> "God, I feel like singing! Come on, everybody, and just get happy!"
* EyepatchOfPower: Nadine. Good old casually-600-pound-pressing Nadine.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Averted due to ExecutiveMeddling.
* TheFairFolk: The residents of the Black Lodge. Okay, so they're not really "fairies", but they still fit the bill.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Catherine Martell]] and [[spoiler:her brother, Andrew Packard]].
* FatBastard: Jacque Renault
* FatalFamilyPhoto: A security guard at the Twin Peaks bank discovers that his wife has just given birth to a boy [[spoiler: seconds before a massive explosion kills everyone.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being possessed by BOB. Being raped by BOB. Being trapped in the Black Lodge for twenty-five years that could either go back in time, forward in time, or completely nonlinearly, and [[NarniaTime may not even equate to human world time.]]
* FemmeFatale / FilleFatale: Audrey Horne is on the border, since she's 18.
* FiveManBand: The police department.
** TheHero: Cooper
** TheLancer: Truman
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Andy and Hawk
** TheSmartGuy: Albert
** TheChick: Lucy
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "She's my cousin. But doesn't she look exactly like Laura Palmer?" referring to Maddy. Also, in a way, Laura could be considered The Man From Another Place's cousin, since [[spoiler: BOB is possessing her father, BOB is the 'familiar' of MIKE, and The Man split off from MIKE like Athena from Zeus.]]
* GainaxEnding: The ending for the "International Version" of the pilot episode. It ended up being heavily edited and recontextualized for Cooper's dream at the end of the second episode.
* GodzillaThreshold: When BOB finds another victim, everyone begs Cooper to use any of his kooky methods that they previously disparaged in order to catch the killer.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The FBI in the ''Twin Peaks'' universe often deals heavily in supernatural cases. These more often than not tend to be just a little more dangerous than the usual kind of work.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Dale Cooper is a strong believer in conspiracy theories. Given his own experience...
* GrotesqueGallery: Lodge inhabitants include The Man From Another Place (a dwarf, who is actually [[spoiler: a severed arm in human form]]), The Giant (a ... giant, obviously), [[spoiler: a one-armed man]], and a singer played by Jimmy Scott (who suffered from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallmann%27s_syndrome Kallmann Syndrome]]).
* HannibalLecture: Jean Renault gives Cooper one.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Ben Horne becomes a nice guy toward the end of season 2 (see WeWantOurJerkBack).]]
** [[spoiler: Leo Johnson is a irredeemable, abusive control freak toward Shelly in Season 1, but suffers much of the same abuse at the hands of Windom Earle in Season 2. His HeelFaceTurn begins when he is reluctant in assisting Windom Earle kill an innocent victim, then sets fellow captive, Major Garland Briggs free and asks him to keep Shelly safe. Bear in mind Leo previously tried to immolate Shelly at the end of Season 1.]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold:
** Audrey Horne. At first sight she seems to be a spoiled troublemaker who aspires to be a femme fatale (often successfully), but with time it is revealed that she's actually an lonely innocent with good intentions.
--> '''Director Todd Holland on Audrey's character:''' "She's one of my favorite characters because you thought she was such a big slut and she's probably the most moralistic person in Twin Peaks and that's all tremendous fun. The ones like her father feign morality and are incredibly treacherous, but they carry on a good business front."
** Albert Rosenfield is an obvious JerkAss, but eventually reveals a great love for the teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr and mellows out.
* HiddenVillain
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler: Laura]]. And [[spoiler: Audrey]] invokes this when she tries to get into the business for investigative purposes, but doesn't stay long enough to do any actual hooking.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Laura Palmer's peers. And she herself, but with a bit of extra baggage.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: MIKE does this.
* HumanoidAbomination: Whatever else the inhabitants of the Black Lodge are, they are all surely this -- even the seemingly more benevolent ones, such as the Giant.
* IdiotBall: Happens sometimes towards the end of the series with both Harry and Cooper. The greatest offender, however, is Major Briggs, [[spoiler: who after establishing that a murderous psychopath is hiding out in the forest is to take a casual relaxing walk in the forest on the way home. Harry and Cooper thinks it's a great idea.]]
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: In Episode 4, Andy drops his gun and it goes off by accident. In the next episode, Bobby gives a braggadocio-filled impression of how he'd handle being caught having an affair while waving a gun around with his finger on the trigger.
* InterimVillain: In Season 2, Wyndom Earle served as this, until Bob, the original BigBad, returned.
* InvisibleBackupBand: James' song he sings while playing guitar in the episode "Coma" has bass and percussion come out of nowhere halfway through.
* IsThisThingOn: Played painfully straight with the town's mayor in the pilot and later on in the second season.
* {{Japandering}}: [[http://www.kylemaclachlan.com/viewer.php?id=5 This Georgia is damn fine coffee!]]
* JerkJock: Bobby Briggs and Mike Nelson, although they both mature a lot by the end of the series. Also see NamesTheSame.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Albert defines this. After an amazing speech in which Albert's heart of gold becomes apparent, he and Sheriff Truman -- formerly bitter enemies -- [[spoiler:become close friends and even hug one another]] in a later episode.
** Bobby Briggs, initially a whiny JerkJock, becomes a not-too-bad guy by the end of the show.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot
* JurisdictionFriction: Averted right off the bat in the pilot episode when Agent Cooper specifically asks Sheriff Truman if he is going to have any trouble with this. Played straight with the very crooked Deer Meadow jurisdiction in ''FireWalkWithMe'', though.
* JustFriends: Audrey and Cooper, to the ire of both [[WordOfGod David Lynch]] and the FanPreferredCouple crowd.
--> Audrey: But don't you like me?
--> Cooper: I like you very much. You're beautiful, intelligent, desirable. Everything a man wants in his life. But what you need right now, more than anything, is a friend. Someone who will listen.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Windom Earle]] and presumably [[spoiler:Leo Johnson]].
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Jacques Renault]], [[spoiler:Maddie Ferguson]], and [[spoiler:Leland Palmer]].
* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler:Catherine Martell]], disguised as [[spoiler:a mysterious Japanese businessman after FakingTheDead]].
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The first episode has Audrey doing this, much to her father's dismay.
** She does it again with the jukebox at the diner in the second episode.
--> "God, I love this music. Isn't it too dreamy?"
** This happens on a radio (which is immediately changed) in season 2 episode 2. Actually, this happens a lot on ''Twin Peaks''.
** In another season two episode, some melancholy flute music plays over an establishing shot of the abandoned house Windom Earle is occupying, which turns out to be... Windom Earle himself playing the flute. It sounds kind of silly, but it's in fact a pretty eerie moment since [[spoiler: he's doing it while waiting for Leo Johnson to come to so he can torture him.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Laura Palmer's Theme" and later (in the second season) "Audrey's Prayer" are repeatedly used as love themes. Some characters (Hank Jennings or Windom Earle, for example) have their own themes as well.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The little trailer park trailer that isn't there today. And the Convenience store that apparently [[spoiler: the Lodge creatures once lived above.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Windom. Freaking. Earle.
* MagicRealism
* MalevolentMaskedMan: The Chalfont/Tremond child.
* TheManBehindTheMan
* MasterOfDisguise: Windom Earle, master of the [[WigDressAccent Wig Moustache Accent]].
* MedicateTheMedium: A variant where the medication actually inhibits the talent.
* MindRape: ''Literally.''
* MindScrew: Anything involving the Black Lodge.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot
* MirrorMonster: BOB, perhaps the most iconic example of this in television history.
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome
* MixAndMatch
* MoodWhiplash: The series changes from serious crime drama to lighthearted comedy extremely frequently, especially at the beginning of the second season.
* MurderersAreRapists
* MustHaveCaffeine: "(That's some) Damn good coffee." is Agent Cooper's CatchPhrase.
--> "Agent Cooper ''loves'' coffee."
* MsFanservice: Audrey.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Both Laura and Leland experience these moments... though in the second case, it's for a pretty good reason. Ben as well, albeit in a much more Narm-filled fashion.
* [[NamesTheSame Name's The Same]]: The name of Bobby's partner in crime is [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson]]. In-universe, Bobby and Mike have the same names as BOB and his former accomplice, Mike.
** Not to mention the obvious examples of Sheriff Harry S. Truman and Ben & Jerry Horne.
** In episode 7 of season 1, Cooper and Big Ed adopt the aliases of [[TheFlintstones Barney and Fred]].
* NarniaTime: Time in the Black Lodge is a somewhat more MindScrew worthy take on the idea.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Catherine Martell]].
* NoDeadBodyPoops: The aversion is mentioned, but not depicted.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Maddy's demise.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: [[AC: Regional bureau chief Gordon Cole, as played by David Lynch. And he's calling you from]] ''[[AC:Orrrrrrrrrrrrrr-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-gonnnnnnnnnn!]]''
* NotHimself
* OccultDetective: The natural result of Agent Cooper becoming aware of the town's less-than-normal qualities. Of course, he started out using such investigative techniques as throwing rocks at a bottle while listening to the list of suspects to determine which leads to follow, which he learned from the Dalai Lama in a dream. Keep in mind, given what we find out in TheMovie, Cooper had already foreseen Laura's death and Gordon Cole likely informed him beforehand that he was working on a [[TrustPassword Blue Rose]] case. Which means the rules are, to put it mildly, just a little different.
* OddFriendship: Well, most of the town's residents and the agents dispatched there are odd, to say the least, but the trope is best exemplified by [[spoiler:Albert and Truman]] later in season 2.
* OldCopYoungCop: Windom Earle and Dale Cooper ''might'' have been this before Earle went insane.
* OutWithABang: Mayor Doug Wilford, in the "wedding night" variant.
* OwlBeDamned: They are the eyes of BOB. Maybe. In any case, they are not what they seem.
* PlaceBeyondTime: The Black Lodge, where [[spoiler:Cooper winds up stuck for at least 25 years while still communicating with himself and others through their dreams at various points in time -- including before Laura Palmer's murder, which brought him to Twin Peaks in the first place]].
* PowersThatBe
* PowerWalk: The first shot of Season 2, Episode 9.
* PrecociousCrush: The reason why Cooper can't return Audrey's feelings.
-->"Audrey, you're a high school girl. I'm an agent of the FBI."
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Leland's]] backstory is that he was sexually assaulted by Bob Robertson, possibly as a means of demonic possession (or thus creating said demonic force). And that's not even bringing up how it affected [[spoiler: Laura.]]
** The "Cooper's Diary" book suggests that Cooper was also sexually abused by BOB (he came into his room) as a child.
* RapeAsDrama
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: Leo Johnson. He survives being shot twice, two axe battles with Bobby Briggs (one of them being right after awakening from a coma from said gunshot), survives being out in the woods with no water, gets electrocuted by Windom Earle on a number of occasions, then finally it is implied Leo finally met his fate by a venomous spider.]]
* RecursiveAcronym: Beware Of BOB.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Laura Palmer's death.
** Also [[spoiler:Leland Palmer's death]].
* RedemptionInTheRain: [[spoiler:Leland Palmer's death]]. Sort of.
* RedHerringTwist
* TheReveal
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Cooper and Hawk.
* SceneryPorn: ''Twin Peaks'' has some truly beautiful cinematography. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDuGN6K3VQ The opening]] also gives you a good first look at some of the breathtaking nature scenery you're going to see in the show.
* SerialKiller: BOB.
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Laura angsts over having this attitude in ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer''.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: With only two seasons and 30 episodes, it popularized the QuirkyTown genre in American television, having descendants such ''PicketFences'' and ''NorthernExposure'' that ran much longer than ''Twin Peaks'' itself. Also, the amount of surrealism, eccentric humor, and horror in it were highly exceptional for a mainstream American drama series of its era, but such elements became much more common in television in its wake in the 1990s and 2000s.
* ShoutOut: Many, most notably to the GeneTierney film ''[[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0037008/ Laura]]'' during the first season.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Invitation to Love''.
** Complete with StylisticSuck and PlotParallel
* SmugSnake: Ben and Jerry in the first season.
* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: Played for laughs:
--> Gwen: God, how you must hate us white people after all we've done to you.
--> Hawk: Some of my best friends are white people.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: BOB -- all caps.
** Not to be confused with [[http://www.subgenius.com "BOB!"]].
* StylisticSuck: From what little we see of it, ''Invitation to Love'', the soap opera ''everyone'' in Twin Peaks apparently watches, is fairly ridiculous. Considering the fact that it mirrors some events of the show, it may be a case of SelfDeprecatingHumor.
* SurrealHorror
* SwitchingToGEICO: In the surreal Black Lodge:
--> "I've got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style."
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: BOB.
* ToHellAndBack: Cooper in the series finale. The Black Lodge may not be Hell itself, but neither is it pleasant.
** [[spoiler: But did he really come back??? ]]
* TomTheDarkLord: Killer BOB.
* {{Transvestite}}: A young and studly David Duchovny as DEA Agent [[strike:Dennis]] Denise Bryson.
** Not to be mistaken for {{transsexual}}, though:
--->"Now, could we talk about something more important? Exactly how old is that girl?"
--->"Denise, I would assume you're no longer interested in girls."
--->"Coop, I may be wearing a dress, but I still put my panties on one leg at a time, if you know what I mean."
--->"Not really."
* TownWithADarkSecret: The corrupt businessman who pretty much runs Twin Peaks is secretly funding a brothel and casino beyond the border. The town darling is a prostitute and drug addict in her spare time. Did we mention that the town also contains hidden access to the home of some [[SurrealHorror really weird]] [[TheFairFolk creatures]] that [[CrypticConversation speak almost only in riddles]]?
* TurnInYourBadge: Season 2, episode 10.
* TheWatson: Sheriff Harry S. Truman. In the first episode after the pilot he even mentions feeling "a bit like Dr. Watson."
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Several characters react to [[spoiler:Ben Horne]]'s trauma-induced HeelFaceTurn in this fashion.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Albert suggests this explanation for the events of the series that he would otherwise be unlikely to believe, thus playing heavily to the perspectives of the audience and [[TakeThat perhaps acting as a parody of some of Lynch's fans and critics]] in an ironically symbolic manner. It's all sort of subverted in the last episode, though...
* WidgetSeries
* WigDressAccent: Windom Earle uses several of these to get around Twin Peaks.
* WildMassGuessing: Due to the extremely ambiguous nature of WordOfGod (we're talking about DavidLynch here after all), much of what is accepted as canon online (especially on this page) is based on some of the more probable and believable examples of WildMassGuessing as to what's going on in the series. Even that isn't exactly saying much...
* WholesomeCrossdresser: FBI Agent [[strike:Dennis]] Denise Bryson.
* WildWilderness: The setting has a creepy lodge in the middle of the woods that may or may not be there and no one seems to notice it.
* WorldOfHam
* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: In the last episode, Ben Horne, displaying the pile of religious scriptures he means to study, follow "the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita" by picking up another single volume which he identifies as "the Talmud." TheTalmud would, at a minimum, take up a trunk.
* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:Josie Packard]] falls victim to a type two-B. [[MindScrew Or maybe her soul is just trapped inside the knob of a dresser drawer.]]
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: Most of the younger characters in Twin Peaks are downright ''stupid.''
!!This show's production and television run provided examples of:
* DawsonCasting: Most of the teen characters in the series are played by actors in their twenties.
* ExecutiveMeddling: ABC pressured Lynch into wrapping up the Laura Palmer mystery, which he wanted to continue throughout the series.
* KudzuPlot
* ProductionPosse: Kyle [=MacLachlan=] first worked with Lynch in ''{{Dune}}''. Also, Jack Nance, who played the protagonist in ''{{Eraserhead}}'', plays the character who discovered Laura Palmer's corpse.
* TheOtherDarrin: Donna Hayward in TheMovie.
* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The movie ''Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me''. Subverted in that it was [[spoiler: actually a prequel]]. Well, [[TemporalParadox sort of...]]
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''Twin Peaks'' was renewed for the second season, but the network moved it to one of the lowest-rated timeslots on television, Saturday nights at ten.
* ThrowItIn: The villain BOB was created/cast when set director Frank Silva's reflection accidentally appeared in a mirror when filming the last shot of the pilot where Laura's mother has a frightening nightmare. Earlier, Silva had trapped himself in Laura's bedroom, endearing him to Lynch, which caused him to shoot footage showing him looking up from the foot of Laura's bed. His serendipitous appearance in the pilot just cemented his place. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_BOB#Character_history According to Wikipedia.]]
** Two other things from the pilot: When Cooper first examines Laura's body, a fluorescent light keeps flickering -- the light they were using really was malfunctioning, but David Lynch liked the eerie disorienting effect this had, so it got written in as a transformer malfunction. And in the same scene, an extra misheard Cooper's line "Would you leave us?" as "what's your name?" and, thinking Kyle [=MacLachlan=] was breaking character, said his real name. The awkward moment that ensued got left in as a momentary aversion of RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic.
* WellDoneSonGuy: A female example involving Norma and her mother in the second season.
* WhamEpisode: The final one, and several others along the way, including [[spoiler:Maddy's]] death at the hands of of Laura's killer. Basically, whenever The Giant shows up you know it's going to be one of these.
** And of course, the first season finale. [[spoiler: Audrey is captured at "One Eyed Jacks", Nadine tries to commit suicide, Leland murders the newly captured Jacques Renault in the hospital, Leo tries to kill Bobby but is shot by Hank, the mill burns down with Catherine and Shelly inside as Pete rushes to the rescue and Cooper is shot in his hotel room by an unknown assailant.]]
** Mark Frost has talked about how he really wasn't sure the show would get a second season, so he packed every conceivable cliffhanger he could into the first season finale (to the point that it almost became a parody) in the hopes that ''someone'' would say, "Okay, I ''have'' to know what happens next."
* WrapItUp
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants
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