History Trivia / TwinPeaks

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: While [=BOB=] is pure evil and scares the crap out of fans, the late Frank Silva was actually a very nice, funny, pleasant man in real life.

** Michael Ontkean (Sheriff Harry S. Truman) is actually Canadian.

* FakeNationality: The Renault brothers are French-Canadians played by two American actors.

* CastTheExpert: The woman who plays Alice Tremond, aka [[spoiler: the owner of the house that [[MindScrew used to be Laura Palmer's]] ]] in the final episode, is in fact the real-life owner of the house who had no previous acting experience and was offered the role by David Lynch.

** The "screaming Asian girl" played by Charylyne Yi at the end of Part 15 of the 2017 series is named Ruby. This isn't [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the first "Ruby" Yi has played]].

* 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. And that's not to mention its impact on gaming, most notably as a source of inspiration for the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series.

** Narrowly avoided by Catherine Coulson, Miguel Ferrer and Warren Frost, who all died before the third season show premiered. Harry Dean Stanton also died shortly after the final episode aired.

* ShrugOfGod: True to form, both David Lynch and Mark Frost have refused to answer questions about some of ''The Return'''s most offbeat MindScrew sequences.... at least at any length

** Kyle [=MacLachlan=] first worked with Lynch in ''{{Film/Dune}}'' and again in ''BlueVelvet''.

* IKnewIt: Laura Dern's character's identity wasn't revealed in the lead up to the premiere of the third season, and interviews consistently stressed that she was playing someone important. Very few fans were surprised when it turned out she's playing [[spoiler:Diane.]]

** In ''The Return'' [[spoiler: Kyle [=MacLachlan=] portrays Cooper, his evil Black Lodge doppelganger ''and'' Dougie Jones.]]

* DawsonCasting: Most of the teen characters in the series are played by actors in their twenties. For example, Laura Palmer, who was seventeen, was played by Sheryl Lee, who was around twenty-three at the time. This is actually a result of ExecutiveMeddling though, as many of the teenaged characters were originally intended to be college-aged young adults.

** ''The Return'' inverts this as Wally Brando is 24 but played by Michael Cera (29) while Becky is 24 at the oldest but played by Amanda Seyfriend (31).

** Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer) also portrayed her cousin Maddy.

** This was narrowly averted for series 3 with Catherine Coulson, who was set to reprise the role of the Log Lady on the revival series and died shortly after filming started. She was able to film just enough for the premiere episodes.
** They also just managed to avert this with Miguel Ferrer and Warren Frost, with each of them passing away just a few months after filming finished.
** Pete couldn't appear due to Jack Nance's death in a bar fight a few years after the show ended.

** Also averted by Harry Dean Stanton, who died at the age of 91 a few weeks after the third season finished

* CaliforniaDoubling: Only the pilot episode was genuinely filmed on location in Washington State, with the two production seasons being made in Los Angeles.
** Averted in The Return with several episodes filmed entirely in Washington State.

*** And with neither actress apparently returning for the 2017 revival according to the recently released cast list, we may even have a rare case of the ''Other'' Other Darrin.
** Some of the supernatural entities got this, which, given their nature, is justified:
*** Pierre Tremond was recast, since Austin got to be too old.
*** Frank Silva had passed away decades ago and was unable to reprise his role as [=BOB=], with the series instead using trimmed footage from ''Fire Walk With Me''.
*** The Man from Another Place was a particularly controversial case; Michael J. Anderson (who had always wanted the show to be more like a traditional 3-act TV mystery) was let go for creative differences, after which he made some very heinous accusations towards Lynch and burned his bridges entirely. Rather than be [[McLeaned killed off]], though, the MFAP / Arm made [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/twinpeaks/images/b/b9/TheArmTree.png a radical change in appearance]], now portrayed entirely by puppets and CGI.

** This was narrowly averted with Catherine Coulson, who was set to reprise the role of the Log Lady on the revival series and died shortly after filming started. She was able to film just enough for the premiere episodes.

** Music/DavidBowie's death meant that he was unable to do any scenes as Philip Jeffries [[spoiler:though Jeffries himself still shows up, just in the form of a MechanicalAbomination and voiced by another actor]].

** Music/DavidBowie's death meant that he was unable to do any scenes as Philip Jeffries [[spoiler:though he still shows up, just in the form of a MechanicalAbomination and voiced by another actor]].