History Trivia / TwinPeaks

* 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."

** Kyle [=MacLachlan=], [[Film/{{Eraserhead}} Henry Spencer]] and [[{{Dune}} Paul Atreides]] respectively.
** [[{{Dune}} Paul Atreides]]? [[{{BlueVelvet}} Jeffrey Beaumont]]!

* ProductionPosse: Kyle [=MacLachlan=] first worked with Lynch in ''{{Dune}}'' and again in ''BlueVelvet''. Also, Jack Nance, who played the protagonist in ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}'' (along with minor roles in both ''Dune'' and ''Blue Velvet'') plays Pete Martell, who discovers Laura Palmer's corpse.

** 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.]]

** Donna Hayward in TheMovie.

* 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. It also helped to popularize the trend for TV series with cinema-quality visuals, now practically the industry standard in scripted television.

** ([[{{Showgirls}} Zack Carey]].

* TheOtherDarrin: Donna Hayward in TheMovie.

* 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.]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Neither Lynch nor Frost ever intended to reveal the identity of Laura's killer (even though they knew from the beginning that it was [[spoiler:Leland]]).

* DescendedCreator: BOB, played by a crew member 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.

* HeyItsThatGuy: So many. For example, season 2 has none other than [[Series/TheModSquad Linc Hayes]] as Roger Hardy. And looking back on the show, there's Don S. Davis and a cross-dressing David Duchovny before they played [[Franchise/StargateVerse General Hammond]] and [[Series/TheXFiles Agent Mulder]], respectively. There's also David Warner as a villain in season 2. The movie features Music/DavidBowie in a brief appearance as a time-traveling FBI agent who apparently stumbled into the Black Lodge during the course of an investigation and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went insane]].
** And, from Lynch's ProductionPosse, there's Jack Nance and, of course, Kyle [=MacLachlan=], [[Film/{{Eraserhead}} Henry Spencer]] and [[{{Dune}} Paul Atreides]] respectively.

*** ([[{{Showgirls}} Zack Carey]].)
** Not to mention [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Mary Katherine Gallagher the Social Worker]], [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Joxer the Heavy Metal Youth]], [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame The Mayor's Brother]] [[Creator/TonyJay Frollo]] and [[Film/KillBill Earl McGraw AND Esteban Vihaio]]!

* {{Japandering}}: [[http://io9.com/5534679/david-lynchs-twin-peaks-georgia-coffee-ads A disappeared persons case, a Japanese tourist,]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Georgia coffee]].

* PostScriptSeason: Because of the mentioned ExecutiveMeddling, everything post-season one more or less became this. It felt incredibly awkward to have Dale Cooper still hanging around in Twin Peaks, even though he didn't have a reason to stay after the killer had been found. Windom Earle was more of a stand-in for Laura Palmer's killer than a real villain.

** KieferSutherland in the movie, one of the most popular actors of the time playing one of the smaller roles.

** And, from Lynch's ProductionPosse, there's Jack Nance and, of course, Kyle [=MacLachlan=], [[{{Eraserhead}} Henry Spencer]] and [[{{Dune}} Paul Atreides]] respectively.

** Not to mention [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Mary Katherine Gallagher the Social Worker]], [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Joxer the Heavy Metal Youth]], [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame The Mayor's Brother]] [[TonyJay Frollo]] and [[Film/KillBill Earl McGraw AND Esteban Vihaio]]!

* HeyItsThatVoice: The Japanese dub had a number of well-known seiyuu to voice the characters, including AkioOhtsuka as Leo, BanjoGinga as Truman, and '''NorioWakamoto''' as [[PlayingAgainstType Big Ed]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: So many. For example, season 2 has none other than [[Series/TheModSquad Linc Hayes]] as Roger Hardy. And looking back on the show, there's Don S. Davis and a cross-dressing David Duchovny before they played [[Franchise/{{Stargate}} General Hammond]] and [[Series/TheXFiles Agent Mulder]], respectively. There's also David Warner as a villain in season 2. The movie features Music/DavidBowie in a brief appearance as a time-traveling FBI agent who apparently stumbled into the Black Lodge during the course of an investigation and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went insane]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: So many. For example, season 2 has none other than [[TheModSquad Linc Hayes]] as Roger Hardy. And looking back on the show, there's Don S. Davis and a cross-dressing David Duchovny before they played [[{{Stargate}} General Hammond]] and [[TheXFiles Agent Mulder]], respectively. There's also David Warner as a villain in season 2. The movie features DavidBowie in a brief appearance as a time-traveling FBI agent who apparently stumbled into the Black Lodge during the course of an investigation and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went insane]].

** Not to mention [[SaturdayNightLive Mary Katherine Gallagher the Social Worker]], [[XenaWarriorPrincess Joxer the Heavy Metal Youth]], [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame The Mayor's Brother Frollo]] and [[{{Kill Bill}} Earl McGraw AND Esteban Vihaio]]!
** KieferSutherland in the movie, one of the most popular actors of the time playing one of the smaller roles.