'Twin Peaks' first revealed a girl, 'dead, wrapped in plastic' three decades ago today, but that is far from the only essential moment from the cult David Lynch series.
, perhaps the strangest show to ever become a cultural phenomenon. Though its 30 original episodes, movie prequelseries always managed to feature moments you would never see in another show. Where else, for example, would you get cryptic exposition delivered by a little person talking backward, or a character getting trapped in a doorknob?
So pour a"black as midnight on a moonless night" coffee, grab yourself a plate of some"damn good" cherry pie and enjoy 30 moments from the show's three-decade history.The episode titles for Twin Peaks are a source of confusion for many fans. As Episode 1 is known as"Pilot," Episode 2 is titled"Episode 1" and so on. For clarity, we have named episodes according to their order in the series, so"Pilot" is Season 1, Episode 1 and so on.
The line"she's dead, wrapped in plastic," said by Pete Martell was so integral to establishing the tone of the film that"Wrapped In Plastic" became the name of the most popularThe pilot also introduced us to Dale Cooper , the pure-hearted FBI agent central to the series. We meet him recording a message to Diane, in a monolog that introduces his defining catchphrase. Talking into the tape about his lunch, he says,"a slice of cherry pie and a cup of coffee...
That does not take away anything, however, from the moment where we learn that a BOB-possessed Leland Palmer murdered Laura at the exact moment he also murders her cousin Maddie .Though even the biggest Twin Peaks fans generally consider everything from the reveal of who killed Laura to the last two episodes of Season 2 bad, the show had one more truly great moment that saw Leland killed by BOB while in police custody.
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