History Series / TwinPeaks

* BadassBaritone: Big Ed, whose voice is significantly deeper than anybody else in the cast.

* BlackComedy: Windom Earle is a FUNNY guy, even if he is a complete psychopath. It also helps that most of the humor is [[KickTheSonOfABitch at Leo's expense.]] The sequel season plays around with even more BlackComedy elements, such as a DeathBySex at the hands of something that looks like TheGreys and a clumsy, mentally addled tenant stumbling on a grim but almost comically exaggerated murder scene in her neighbor's apartment.

* DeathBySex: Three of BOB's victims include Teresa Banks, Laura Palmer, and Ronette Pulaski (the latter of whom survives), all of whom were sex workers.

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Laura angsts over having this attitude in ''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer''.

* CoitusEnsues: In episode 1 with Tracey and Sam. {{Justified}} as Tracey has been trying to drop some mammoth clues she doesn't want to wait around for him to make a move. [[spoiler: Too bad it doesn't end well.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ray's gang used to appoint the best arm wrestler as their leader. Evil Cooper takes them over after [[spoiler: literally crushing Renzo]] in an arm wrestling match.

The eight-episode first season of ''Twin Peaks'' was a surprise ratings success - to the point of denting the competing goliath that was ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' - and it was renewed for ''twenty-two'' more episodes. This ended up causing numerous problems, mainly because [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants the showrunners had never really expected or intended]] for the show to run ''that'' long; they were also forced by ABC to conclusively answer certain key mysteries ''in the middle of the season'', undercutting the narrative of the show. To justify [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything Cooper remaining in Twin Peaks]], an old foe from his past arrives in town to menace him in cryptic ways, and this storyline eventually dovetails with the Laura Palmer murder. The 1992 movie ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'' functions as [[TemporalParadox both a prequel]] ''and'' [[TemporalParadox a sequel]], though infamously does not resolve any of the plot lines left hanging in the series.

As the series was a huge ratings draw for a time, it naturally influenced and inspired several others across all media. Aside from being the first live-action TV series to have feature film-quality production, it also paved the way for shows like ''Series/TheSopranos'' (which stole its dream sequences), ''{{Series/Carnivale}}'' (whose own showrunners/creators drew heavily on the mystical Manichaean themes and crypto-Masonic imagery that were Mark Frost's signatures in ''Twin Peaks'') and ''Series/TheXFiles'' (which also featured FBI agents investigating paranormal cases). It also has a notable influence on the animated series ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' in terms of setting and focus on both mysteries and supernatural elements. As far as video games influenced by ''Twin Peaks'' go, they range from the obvious like ''VideoGame/MizzurnaFalls'', ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', and ''VideoGame/ThimbleweedPark'' to the less so like ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'', ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'', ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2'', ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', and even ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening''.

The existing series finally saw a Blu-ray boxset release in mid-2014, which contains an exclusive 90 minute compilation of {{Deleted Scene}}s from ''Fire Walk with Me'' edited together (by Lynch himself) into a quasi-film called 'The Missing Pieces'. ''Fire Walk with Me'' (and ''The Missing Pieces'') would also be released separately by Creator/TheCriterionCollection.

After years of rumors of a return, a sequel series titled ''Twin Peaks: The Return'' premiered on Showtime in 2017. As referenced in a cryptic line from the first season, we return to Twin Peaks 25 years later. Lynch and Frost returned as showrunners along with a large section of the original cast. The resulting season majorly ups the surrealism factor of the story and provides a final resolution (such as it is) to the series. Following ''The Return'', both Lynch and Frost have expressed interest in possibly making a fourth season at some point, but Lynch also stated that will be at least a while before he gets around to that decision, although he has hinted the SequelGap won't be as drastic this time around.

** Agent Tammy Preston's SexyWalk is put on display in a few situations.

* MasterOfYourDomain: Agent Cooper, of a sort.
** His [[SignatureScene throwing-rocks-at-a-bottle-to-determine-leads]] method is described as an exercise of mind-and-body cohesion. He's already determined what the answer is subconsciously, throwing the rock just lets his body dig it out of his mind, and because [[ImprobableAimingSkills he's got the best aim in the FBI]], he'll hit the rock once his body becomes attuned to what his mind already knows.

* MonochromeCasting: Every recurring character is white except Josie Packard and Deputy Hawk. In the entire course of the series, very few non-white people even have lines, usually only appearing as extras at the Great Northern, as well as a couple of black school teachers at the local high school: with the only other exceptions being an Asian gangster and an unnamed AmbiguouslyBrown employee of Ben Horne. The predominantly WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant demographics aren't ''entirely'' inaccurate to the locale, but Twin Peaks is still a noticeably white place.

* DeathBySex: In Episode 1, while making out [[spoiler:Sam Colby and Tracey]] are murdered by something from the Black Lodge that looks like one of TheGreys.

* JerkJock: Bobby Briggs and Mike Nelson, although they both mature a lot by the end of the series. Also see NamesTheSame.

* NamesTheSame: The name of Bobby's partner in crime is [[Series/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 (who even hangs a stag's head over his desk with a placard reading "The Buck Stops Here") and Ben & Jerry Horne.
** In episode 7 of season 1, Cooper and Big Ed adopt the aliases of [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Barney and Fred]].
** Dale Bartholomew Cooper himself is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper D.B. Cooper,]] a plane hijacker who disappeared without a trace - the mysteries behind whether he survived his escape or not, what happened to him/his remains after he landed, and the location of the money he stole, are all currently unsolved.

* TheseGlovesAreMadeForKillin: [[spoiler: Leland Palmer he puts on a pair of latex gloves after drugging Sarah. He then attacks and murders Madeleine Ferguson.]]

* TheseGlovesAreMadeForKillin: [[spoiler: Leland Palmer as he puts on a pair of latex gloves after drugging Sarah. He then attacks and murders Madeleine Ferguson.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Leo Johnson and Bobby [[spoiler:at the end of the first season]] and [[spoiler:halfway through the second]].

* PowerDynamicsKink: The relationship between Benjamin Horne and Catherine Martell has a shade of this, involving him [[IKissYourFoot kissing her feet]] and her [[DeadpanSnarker replying to his compliments with sarcastic quips]]. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven when he's accused of murder and arrested, and she visits him in the jail. She takes off her shoe, and he kisses her foot, pleading her to confirm his alibi.]]

* WorldOfMysteries: While the first two seasons were weird but more-or-less comprehensible ParanormalInvestigation series, this one took the weirdness UpToEleven. Let's see: we have obscure mafia plots involving Cooper's evil doppelganger, a sinister EldritchAbomination called Judy represented by a black symbol of a circle with two "horns", a number of otherworldly locations and characters including the Convenience Store, The Dutchman's, and an alternate world where Laura Palmer is still alive and works as a waitress in a cafe called "Judy's"... There is a possibility of a fourth season, so some of that may be resolved, but knowing Lynch, it is more likely to get even worse.

* FantasyAmericana: One of the defining examples, with a sleepy Washington town being the epicenter of a cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the surrounding forest being TheLostWoods, host to a menagerie of terrifying spirits who would give the worst of TheFairFolk a run for their money. ''The Return'' expands the scope to include the rest of the United States, most prominently Las Vegas and South Dakota.

** [[TheLostWoods Ghostwood National Forest]]
** [[EldritchLocation The Black Lodge]]
** [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Glastonbury Grove]]
** Dead Dog Farm

* TheLostWoods: The [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Ghostwood]] National Forest that surrounds Twin Peaks. Home to a portal to an EldritchLocation, numerous drug dealers, the occasional rogue FBI agent, and the {{Ominous Owl}}s. [[WhatAnIdiot Some people want to build a country club there.]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: Cooper tries to take Carrie / Laura back to her home, but its not hers.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:"She's dead... Wrapped in plastic."]]

* ChekhovsGun: Andy's shooting lessons.