I was just bashed for naming this one of my favorite shows ever...

[xmas74]

Who didn't watch this show when it was on?

[MrCoffee]

1. Damn good tv show. And damn good cherry pie.

[xmas74]

4. I had a group of really geeky friends in high school.

(I had other friends but that's besides the point.)

Whenever TP was on we'd get together at a different house each week, watch the show, drink strong hot coffee and eat cherry pie while taking notes.

Yes, I said that right. We took notes.

[MrCoffee]

6. ummm... I... well... ahem... notes, you say?

[xmas74]

8. The whole "Who killed Laura Palmer" bit.

These were the friends I could geek out with. My other friends were gear heads and such and didn't get into geek behavior.

Note taking must have worked for one friend. He's a detective now. He decided to become one after playing along with the show.

[graywarrior]

2. I'll slap whoever bashed you.

Bastard.

[xmas74]

5. That would be my younger brother.

I think he's still jealous that we didn't take him to the TP parties that we had every week at various houses.

He's almost 30 and still hasn't gotten over it.

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. He's an idiot.

:thumbsdown:

[xmas74]

16. I like to think so too.

Who can deny the greatness of this show?

[graywarrior]

26. He's a mutant.

[xmas74]

27. Considering his favorite movies at the time

were Midnight Madness and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series I'd agree.

He likes to say things to get a rise out of me. That's ok-I'm about to diss Star Wars next time I see him, just to make his head spin.

[graywarrior]

28. It takes brains to "get" Twin Peaks.

Obviously, his IQ is a little lower than the rest of us. Hey, selling soda on the beach is an honorable job. He'll be ok.

[xmas74]

32. He'd have to motivate himself to get a job first.

We can't bash him too much. He's a proud liberal, served his country and isn't afraid to get into arguments w/ the local chickenhawks. He enjoys making them look like fools.

[graywarrior]

35. Well then, my hat is off to the guy.

Just hope he doesn't get a job reviewing tv or movies.

[xmas74]

37. He actually does get paid a tiny amount

to do movie reviews. Most of his reviews are dead on but...I think the Twin Peaks bit is more to get my goat than anything else.

When you're laughing midway through the bash something's up. I suspect he really likes TP but doesn't want to admit that it's one more thing we have in common.

It's fine. I'm still tearing Star Wars a good one next time I see him. Maybe I'll even smack him w/ one of his lightsabers.

[graywarrior]

45. Now I'm starting to like the guy. Does he have a brother?

[xmas74]

48. Just the two of us.

But I have two really cool cousins. They're just young but will clean up nicely.

[graywarrior]

51. That was a joke, the brother question.

Anyhow, slap the back of his head for me and have a great day!

[xmas74]

55. I knew it was.

But it gave me a chance to give a shout out to two of my cousins. They've been lurking around here for a time now and maybe this will get them to start posting. You take it when the moment arises.

And don't worry-I'll smack him down good this afternoon!

[graywarrior]

56. Hi xmas74 cousins!!! Come join us!!!!

:hi:

[Nickster]

3. Heck, I have the whole series on VHS still. I thought I heard somewhere

that it was coming out on DVD soon. My favorite Twin Peaks line ever....."New Shoes pffftt....New Shoes pffftttt...."

[xmas74]

7. I've heard that rumor too.

I heard that they are supposed to have some outtakes if they ever release it.

I'll put your name on my friends list and pm you if I ever hear a date of release.

[Nickster]

11. Awesome, thanks! n/t

[xmas74]

17. You're quite welcome!

[fishwax]

94. I know the first season has been out

but the second season has already been pushed back for the last couple of years ... hopefully one of these days! :)

[swimboy]

10. I've got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style.

Yeah, I got together with a group of friends each week. I loved the Log Lady and the Audrey dance.

[xmas74]

19. Another fellow geek!

:pals:

[Seabiscuit]

21. As will 8-Tracks!

[LynneSin]

12. I watched the first year and then I lost interest

:shrug:

[xmas74]

22. Season Two wasn't as good

but was still better then almost anything else on tv at the time.

[buddhamama]

13. twin peaks was an excellent show.

one of the few shows ever put on tv that i cared to watch.

[xmas74]

23. I had two shows that I watched religiously in the late 80's-

early 90's (besides Star Trek:TNG but that doesn't count).

Twin Peaks and Homefront. Both didn't last very long. TP has staying power to this day.

[ceile]

74. Homefront!

I loved that show!
Kyle Chandler is going to be that new high school football drama on CBS(?). He's such a cuite!

[xmas74]

81. I loved Homefront.

And I saw that about Kyle Chandler. I've had a crush on him ever since Homefront.

[Kajsa]

14. It was a great show.

Very strange, very different,
but very interesting.

:thumbsup:

[xmas74]

24. That's why I loved it so much.

It was the best thing on television at the time and the influence is obvious in later shows like X Files.

[RebelOne]

15. Never watched it. Never had the desire to.

[xmas74]

25. It was a truly unique show.

It would hold up to this day.

[Seabiscuit]

18. "Pas moi", dit le cochon

[xmas74]

29. I remember talking to you late at night!

How are you?

[Seabiscuit]

30. Good, how are you?

I remember you went to Paris a while back.

[xmas74]

33. Years ago.

Progmom and I discussed Paris once late at night. I think I posted some very old pics from there.

Wish I could go back. I think that was the thread where I discussed wanting to take my daughter someday and Bi Baby joined in since she was going.

[Seabiscuit]

95. I vaguely recall the discussion.

I do remember you posting your pics of Paris.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but I lived in Paris for 5 years and eventually honeymooned there.

[xmas74]

102. I bet you had a wonderful five years!

Sounds fantastic.

[Seabiscuit]

107. I didn't want to return.

But I'm glad I did.

Since then I have always anticipated returning to Paris, as I have periodically (though only for visits).

[tigereye]

20. we and our 20-something buddies watched it religiously

that and X-files were the only TV we "deigned" (ha ha) to watch.

We were so thrilled that Lynch had wormed his way onto regular TV! Watching it was like watching subversion, on some level.

[xmas74]

31. You were in the "too cool for tv" group too?

I was either watching something quirky and discussing it w/ the members of Strategy and Tactics in high school or I was out w/ my other group of friends, getting high and listening to crappy 80's metal.

That was my high school experience.

[tigereye]

47. In high school and college I had no time for tv

and then I lived in a group house after college and when I was in grad school, where tv was banished to people's rooms. So when we moved out of there, we watched certain shows with impunity!

[xmas74]

54. I was involved in too many activities to sit around and watch

television.

[XemaSab]

34. She's dead... wrapped in plastic...

Anyone who steps to Twin Peaks is stepping to me.

Also PM me when the DVD is available, please. :D

[xmas74]

38. Not a problem.

sounds like I'll be sending out mass private messages.

One of the best shows ever on television.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

36. Need me to kick some ass?

[xmas74]

39. He'd enjoy it.

He's a Star Wars freak so he'd love to spar w/ someone that does martial arts. He'll ask you if you can use a bow and if you'd like to paint your face red first but he'd invite you to fight.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. ROFL!

I am very good with a bo actually. I tend to break them though during bo-bo kumite (pre-arranged bo fight...black belts do it with full speed & strength, so our mistakes hurt). I'm not painting my face red for him though.

[xmas74]

46. That would disappoint him.

He's been wanting to recreate the Darth Maul routine for years now. He whines because no one wants to play with him.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

52. His Darth Maul routine would be really short anyway.

I'd just hit his knuckles, causing him to drop the bo, then sweep his leg and put him on his butt.

[xmas74]

57. No.

You'd be Darth Maul.

He wouldn't care if you won, he's just into the fight itself. After five or six beers he'll get me to play. I'm always evil and I usually win.

He doesn't care if it's correct or not. He justs want a playmate.

[Radical Activist]

40. i never watched it but

I do love Heather Graham.

[xmas74]

41. There you are!

Is the intern position still available?

[Radical Activist]

42. many positions

are available. ;) hah

[xmas74]

44. I like the movie The Secretary.

Any positions that I can use from that movie?

[Radical Activist]

49. you're hired

put on a short skirt and report to work immediately!

[xmas74]

50. Hooray for me!

Only one problem-I don't wear pantyhose. That's one less diss for you.

[Orangepeel]

53. I loved it in the beginning. By the movie, I thought it was tedious.

There's a line between avant-garde and weird for the sole purpose of being weird, and somewhere along the way Twin Peaks crossed it. But, in the beginning, it was great!

[xmas74]

58. Season 2 wasn't as good.

It had crossed the line by then but was still better than 90% of the crap that they were showing at the time.

[Orangepeel]

59. true

"weird for the purpose of being weird" is still better than "crap for the purpose of being crap."

:D

[xmas74]

60. Bingo! nt

[ghostsofgiants]

98. The movie was a surrealist horror masterpiece in my opinion.

Highly underrated in my books.

[xmas74]

103. I tend to agree with you

since we have the same taste in movies.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

61. Well, I didn't watch it when it was on

But that's mainly cause I was like 10 or 11.

I now own all the episodes on DVD.

That show certainly had some flaws, but it was frequently brilliant and very cutting-edge at the time.

[xmas74]

62. I was in high school when it aired.

It was the best thing on tv at the time.

[dback]

63. They should've wrapped it after solving Laura's murder

Dragging the series on beyond that--and the "prequel" movie--was just punishing. Would've made a dynamite miniseries.

[xmas74]

65. I've thought that before.

It would have been a fantastic miniseries.

[Beelzebud]

64. In all fairness. Morons usually don't "get" David Lynch. :)

And actually, sometimes very smart people don't "get" Lynch, either. :D

[xmas74]

66. I think my brother is just giving me shit.

He's a huge Lynch fan so I was surprised when he let this one loose this morning.

He's been sending me text messages all morning about how crappy the show was. I suspect he's covering his mouth to keep the coffee from flying out with all the laughing he's doing.

[Beelzebud]

67. Ah I see. I've played that game before myself.

My brother gave me shit about seeing Brokeback Mountain.

So one day he calls me and asks if I've seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and my reply was something like: "Hell no I'm not watching that, who wants to sit through the original Brokeback Mountain?".

I said it just because I knew it would annoy the shit out of him. And it did. :D

[xmas74]

68. Sounds similar to the comments I make about Star Wars.

My brother's a nut and loves everything about SW. So one day I wrote a bit of fanfic about Han and Luke and posted it on the message board he's always on under his name.

It was easy to do. I was babysitting his kids at his house and he was logged on so I felt the need to help myself. He's still pissed over that little event.

[MrCoffee]

69. You made comments about Star Wars? WTF?

[xmas74]

70. I love SW.

I only did it because he was pissing me off w/ his comments about Doctor Who. Speaking ill of The Doctor is blasphemous, to say the least.

[CanuckAmok]

109. I don't "get" David Lynch, either.

And I don't think I'm a moron, at least cinematically.

I guess I "get" him if I accept what I suspect; that he's really just a visual abstract-artist usinf cinema as his medium.

If I try to follow the narrative of his "story-telling", I 100% do not get him most of the time.

Not to say he can't tell a story. He is certainly capable. Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and the Straight Story are pretty easy to comprehend. In fact, "Straight Story" is a really well-made movie, in all aspects of the genre.

I actually wrote him after seeing "Mulholland Drive", and told him that f he explained it to me to the point that I'd understand it, I would battle any one person of his choice to the death for his amusement.

No reply, to date.

[Haole Girl]

71. I loved it, but I still have nightmares...

..about one episode. Must have been something subliminal! :scared:

[xmas74]

72. Which one? nt

[Haole Girl]

75. Something about a dream, checkered room, and a ...

...what is the politically correct therm?....little person. Just describing it, gives me the ebbe jeebies!

[xmas74]

76. I loved it!

The backward talking and all.

[Haole Girl]

79. I think my little brain must still be trying to decipher it!

I have a rather unusual habit of tucking things in the back of my mind, so to speak, to figure out later.

[xmas74]

80. Who knows?

The entire show was unforgettable.

[ceile]

73. Loved it! n/t

[xmas74]

77. Same here.

[jobycom]

78. I never watched it when it was on.

I was a working student, and very busy. Heard it was good, though.

[xmas74]

82. It was a great show.

[Tikki]

83. I can do ya one better than that.....

Tikki

[xmas74]

86. why does that sound familiar?

Is that about the ranch or something like that?

[FILAM23]

84. I can honestly say

I never saw a full episode.

[Love Bug]

85. I have a Twin Peaks t-shirt packed away in storage

[Zavulon]

87. Never saw it, but I take crap too - I say my favorite is "Firefly" and

I get crap because only eleven episodes aired.

[cemaphonic]

88. Yeah, it was a good show

It fell off the rails a bit between the murder resolution and the Wyndham Earle stuff (partly because Lynch had very little involvement in the show at that point), but it was awesome overall. I was very disappointed at the time that they cancelled and wrapped the show up just when it was starting to get interesting again.

North Bend, WA (where the pilot and most of the outside establishing shots were filmed) still gets lots of Japanese tourists thanks to the show's enduring popularity.

[Broken_Hero]

89. It was an okay show

I wouldn't bash anyone for watching this....:) :hi:

[sendero]

90. I watched it and really like it at first..

... (being a total David Lynch fan) but as it wore on I felt like they were just veering off into nowhere. I expected the "plot" to resolve and the resolution to make some kind of sense, either factually or metaphorically - but if it did, it went right over my head. To me, the plot had trapped itself into a labyrinth and then the writers just printed up a "get out of jail free" card and that kind of annoyed me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

91. I LOVE Twin Peaks!

I never missed an episode; taped 'em all; still have the tapes. It might be my all-time favorite TV series. Brilliant and strange as hell.

[WCGreen]

92. I really liked the first season.....

But then. at least to me, it got weird for weirds sake...

[havocmom]

93. ME

Boring and contrived

[koneko]

96. What an amazing show!

I have the full video set and the first season on DVD.

[ghostsofgiants]

97. Bashed for being a Twin Peaks fan?

By whom? I'll kick 'em in the shins for you. One of my all-time favourites as well.

[xmas74]

104. Little brother.

I think he was pulling my leg more than anything but bashed nonetheless.

[auntAgonist]

99. I used to LOVE Twin Peaks n/t

[AutumnMist]

100. My Husbands Favorite Show of ALL Time

We used to sit and watch Twin Peaks for hours on VHS. It fried my brain to be honest. Lynch is a very twisted dude. I will never look at cherry pie in the same way again. Mulholland Drive (right movie?) really freaked me out after watching it. To each his own though. If you like it? Who cares...its your time. Why get attacked over it?

[hfojvt]

101. I not only did not watch the show

I have never heard of it.
Was it on during the 1990s? Because from 1990 until 1998 I did not own a TV.

[bigwillq]

105. It was a cult phenomenon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks

Check it out.

[xmas74]

106. Late 80's through early 90's I believe.

Just an odd show. It was David Lynch so that should be enough of an explanation.

[CanuckAmok]

108. Shocking admission: I still haven't seen it.

I've seen the first episode, and a few parts of the later eps, but I've yet to see the whole thing.

And I have a huge lust-on for Sherilyn Fenn, so what's taking me so long?!