Blank Check with Griffin & David: Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David” and the episode “Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims. Guests: Connor Ratliff.

Subject films: Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (2017).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and a lot of cross-talk, so many attributions are low-confidence guesses; ads (Audible, Video Game Town, Mubi, Regal, Ad Council) were skipped. The Return and Part 8 plot summary is delivered conversationally, so film-by-film provenance is approximate.

Films that came up

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No Country for Old Men · Eraserhead · Red One · Heavenly Creatures · The Informant! · If · Ghostbusters: Afterlife · Days of Thunder · Inland Empire · Anchorman (Wake Up Ron Burgundy alt cut) · Wanderlust · Blue Beetle · Dune · The Avengers (Iron Man / Thanos) · Wonka · Meet the Fockers / Little Fockers · Hidden Figures · Good Witch · Saludos Amigos · Jurassic Park

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Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond)

compared (16)

Twin Peaks (original ABC series) · Twin Peaks season 2 finale · Two and a Half Men (Charlie Harper death episode) · Lost Highway · Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces · Blue Velvet · Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me · Oppenheimer · 2001: A Space Odyssey · Captain Planet and the Planeteers · Mad Max: Fury Road · The Mist · Godzilla Minus One · On the Air · Arrested Development (Netflix seasons) · Star Wars

anecdote (5)

Quibi Spielberg night-only show (never made) · Celebrity Deathmatch · The Elephant Man · Link Clone · Sully

Claims (39)

  1. unmapped (weirdest on network TV): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Two and a Half Men (Charlie Harper death episode). A joke contender for weirdest TV episode, noted as odd for what is happening outside the episode, and Charlie is shoved in front of a train.
    “The episode of 2.5 men where Charlie Sheen dies is up there.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:07:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (weirdest-ever): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Twin Peaks season 2 finale. Part 8 is Lynch topping his own season 2 finale as the weirdest thing ever on prime time, building something weird in relation to the template of weirdness he already set.
    “he's like, no, I need to make the thing that is weird and relation to the template of weirdness I have already set, much like the season 2 finale”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:07:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (imagery echo): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Eraserhead. Orb imagery in Part 8 is traced to Lynch's earlier orb imagery such as Eraserhead.
    “Sure, there's like eraser heads. Right, things like that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (viewing conditions): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Quibi Spielberg night-only show (never made). Part 8 feels like the one episode that could only be accessed after sundown, like the Spielberg Quibi show that could only be watched at night.
    “It almost feels like if any episode could only be accessed after the sun goes down, it would be this episode.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:23:49 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (mood): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Lost Highway. The opening night drive with Mr. C and Ray evokes Lost Highway's driving through total black.
    “Sort of lost highway vibes, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:42:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (deleted scenes): Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me → Blue Velvet. Lynch's films carry big deleted-scene piles, Blue Velvet with Jeffrey's school girlfriend and Fire Walk with Me with a feature film's worth.
    “if you look at most of Dave Lynch's movies, there are a lot of pretty significant deleted scenes that don't make their way, and Firewalk with me being the most, the biggest example”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:45:10 · Connor Ratliff (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (alt-cut riff): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Anchorman (Wake Up Ron Burgundy alt cut). Lynch's deleted-scene habit is riffed as making his own Wake Up Ron Burgundy.
    “Lynch loves wake up Ron Burgundy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:45:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (cut-footage feel): Twin Peaks → Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces. The Return is so full of long unused-feeling scenes that it feels like watching a missing pieces, with no deleted scenes since everything shot was used.
    “It feels like you're watching a missing pieces, you know?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:48:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (rhythm bridge): Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The Missing Pieces prepare you for the Return's storytelling rhythm, less worried about moving the story forward and more about putting everything in.
    “this is why I think the missing pieces is such a perfect bridge between firewalk with to the return.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:48:50 · Connor Ratliff (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. people (cast continuity): Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me → David Bowie. Philip Jeffries, Bowie's character from Fire Walk with Me, is now a giant teapot directing an agency against Mr. C, since Bowie died in 2016.
    “Philip Jeffries, the David Bowie character, who is now a giant teapot, is like directing an agency against Mr. C.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:57:44 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. theme (joke comparison): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Celebrity Deathmatch. As a ten-year-old the speaker treated every Celebrity Deathmatch episode as if it were Part 8, rewriting the rules of TV.
    “I treated every episode of celebrity death match as if it were part 8 of Twin Peaks the Return, where I was like, the rules have been rewritten.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:02:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. people (people): Trent Reznor → Atticus Ross. Atticus Ross is Reznor's permanent Nine Inch Nails partner and scores with him.
    “and he does his scores with him, obviously, and he's a lovely British man.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:02:55 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (recurring figure): Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The woodsmen appear goofily as flannel guys in Fire Walk with Me and the Missing Pieces and seriously in the Return.
    “we're such a big part of Twin Peaks the return, but of course they're in Firewalk with me in this sort of kind of goofier way where they're like guys in flannel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (setup): Twin Peaks → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. In season one the supernatural is first hinted by talk that something is in the woods, which the woodsmen embody.
    “I would say like the 1st indication when you have season one of Twin Peaks, the 1st sort of indications of the supernatural things that will immediately start happening in season 2 is them talking about, there's like something in the woods.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:07:27 · Connor Ratliff (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. people (casting): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Blue Beetle. The boy in the Los Alamos date scene is played by the actor who plays Blue Beetle.
    “and that actor is the kid who plays Blue Beetle.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:13:42 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (practical vs digital): Christopher Nolan → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. A joke riff wondering whether Lynch's bomb shot is practical like Nolan's claimed in-camera Trinity test, with the speaker admitting the particle shots could be either.
    “I don't know, like, Christopher Nolan made such a big deal of like, I'm doing this all in camera, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:14:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. craft (craft): BUF → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The VFX house BUF did the episode's computer-generated atomic sequence, with a page documenting the work.
    “I'm looking right now at the visual effects house, BUF has a big page on all the work they did on this episode.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:15:58 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (perfectionist hands-on): David Lynch → The Elephant Man. Lynch, frustrated by wrong materials on the Return, mirrors his wish to do John Hurt's makeup himself on Elephant Man until Paramount said no.
    “he wanted to do all the makeup for Elephant Man himself.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:16:52 · Connor Ratliff (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (same subject, different approach): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Oppenheimer. Both stage the Trinity test; Lynch's all-CG digital particle sequence conveys the terror of matter being pulled apart better than Nolan's practical fireball, which works for buildup rather than the explosion.
    “I feel like this granular digital thing that lynch is getting at somehow evokes more of the like matter is being like pulled apart.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:17:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. lineage (location callback): Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The convenience store was only seen inside, upstairs, in Fire Walk with Me; Part 8 shows its exterior and it is where nasty business happens.
    “Wait, so we've been to the convenience store and in the past?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:21:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. craft (structural echo): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The abstract atomic-origin sequence is likened to 2001 for television, and the speakers note 2001 also comes after two hours of conventional narrative.
    “you're like, oh, we're watching something that is 2001, a Space Odyssey for television.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:22:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. craft (visual joke): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Dune. The purple sea gets a joke identification as Dune, with the worm floating by.
    “The worm floats by. That's the planet Dune.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  23. theme (joke comparison): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The Giant dreaming a golden cloud that becomes Laura Palmer to go fight Bob is likened to Captain Planet.
    “it is like it's some real Captain Planet shit.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (role growth): Sheryl Lee → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. Laura Palmer began as a wrapped-in-plastic day-player prom photo and became so central that Part 8 treats her as the counterweight to Bob.
    “But for like the the twin peaks the return to be like, yes, Laura Palmer is the fucking Iron Man to Bob Thanos.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:32:18 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. theme (plot payoff): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Twin Peaks. Part 8 finally ties up Jean Renault's season 2 claim that Cooper's arrival ruined Twin Peaks by showing the evil predates him.
    “So like episode eight, finally, it's like we've tied up the genre now plotline from season two.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (callback): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Blue Velvet. The teen walking-and-talking scenes in the last 15 minutes recall Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern strolling in Blue Velvet, with Dern looking like she is from another decade.
    “I always feel like the scenes where they're walking and talking remind me of the scenes of of com McLachlan, Lord Dern walking in blue velvet, that sort of innocent conversation.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:41:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. unmapped (black-and-white CGI): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Mad Max: Fury Road. Fury Road in black and white, heavy on CGI and wordless, feels like a silent film, the same illusion as Part 8's black-and-white digital effects.
    “The one I find entrancing is Fury Road for that reason.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:45:14 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (black-and-white CGI): The Mist → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The Mist's black-and-white cut makes perfectly professional CGI bugs read as vintage, like Part 8's black-and-white digital effects.
    “It's also like the mist is kind of like that where you have these CGI bugs that look like perfectly professional CGI special effects, but in black and white.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:45:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (counterexample): Godzilla Minus One → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The black-and-white version of Godzilla Minus One does not get the same trick because the audience already knows black-and-white Godzilla was a guy in rubber.
    “I do think the Godzilla, like -one minus color thing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:45:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  30. lineage (callback): On the Air → Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8. The woodsman wanting to be on the radio and finding the people find him boring is read as a callback to the Lynch-Frost sitcom On the Air.
    “I'm like, oh, this is a callback to on the air, the Lynch Frost sitcom.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:50:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. unmapped (bit): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Wonka. A running gag predicts Wonka 2 will have Willy Wonka meet the Fockers.
    “My prediction is we'll find out his middle name as Nelly.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:59:01 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (revival logic): Twin Peaks → Arrested Development. A revival can be worth it for one great piece, as Wally Brando justifies the Return the way a few moments justify the Netflix Arrested Development.
    “It's a little bit how I feel about some of the, um, Netflix arrested development era”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:13:39 · Connor Ratliff (0.70 sure it was them)
  33. craft (craft): Angelo Badalamenti → Twin Peaks. Connor says Badalamenti's jazzy music made even the weakest season 2 scenes feel like Twin Peaks and watchable.
    “he made even the lowest points of season 2 feel like Twin Peaks and feel watchable because his music was always there”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:15:39 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)
  34. contrast (contrast): Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond) → Twin Peaks. The Return uses far less Badalamenti music than the first two seasons and the two movies.
    “There's so little of the Battle of Menti music in this show compared to the 1st 2 seasons and the movies.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:16:16 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)
  35. craft (craft): On the Air → Twin Peaks. The Twin Peaks Archive of Badalamenti cues even includes music written for On the Air, tying Lynch and Frost's sitcom to the Twin Peaks score material.
    “it's the Twinby's archive is so full that it even includes music that was written for on the air.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:17:13 · Connor Ratliff (0.70 sure it was them)
  36. craft (craft): Connor Ratliff → Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond). Connor is re-scoring the Return with Badalamenti Archive cues, a perversity of what Lynch chose, as he and the hosts put it.
    “I have started scoring Twin Peaks Return. using these, uh, these tracks.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:17:34 · Connor Ratliff (0.90 sure it was them)
  37. craft (craft): Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond) → Twin Peaks. Laura's theme returning in the Return after being held back lands as a hammer blow, tying it to the original series' music.
    “Laura's theme hits for the 1st time is such a kind of hammer blow because they've been holding that music back for most of the series.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:19:19 · Connor Ratliff (0.70 sure it was them)
  38. theme (scoring analogy): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Adding Badalamenti cues to the Return's silences is compared to adding John Williams to a quiet-space-battle Star Wars.
    “It would be like if they made Star Wars movies without John Williams music all of a sudden and it was just sort of like quiet space battles.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:20:40 · Connor Ratliff (0.70 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (re-cut): Connor Ratliff → Sully. Connor re-cut Sully into a 41-minute crash-only version, an act of director-intent perversity like his Badalamenti-scored Twin Peaks cut.
    “I cut out all the parts that weren't the crash.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:21:32 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items (18)

  1. fun, about Dana Ashbrook: At a UCB monologue show before Part 8 aired, Connor got his Bobby Briggs rookie trading card signed and Ashbrook, who is not in Part 8, said he heard the 8th episode was pretty crazy.
    “yeah, yeah, I hear the 8th episode is pretty crazy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:09:10 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: Viewing conditions: Connor first saw it around 2 a.m. on an iPad mini with wired headphones in a Four Points Chelsea hotel during the Del Close Marathon; the hosts insist it must be watched at night.
    “I'm watching it in like probably after 2 in the morning.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:15:24 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Connor Ratliff: A month before the Return, Connor dreamed doctors opened Cooper's stomach and Bob-headed orbs flew out into space, which Part 8 then did.
    “And out of his stomach, fly these orbs that have Frank Silva's head.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:17:00 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Quibi: Quibi announced a Spielberg scary show that could only be watched after sundown, but Spielberg never did any work developing it.
    “And at no point did Spielberg do any work developing what that was.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:24:45 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Two and a Half Men: The Charlie Harper death episode drew about 25 million viewers, versus 250,000 for Part 8; Melanie Lynskey's stalker character implies she shoved him in front of a train.
    “Yeah, for comparison, this episode was watched by 250,000 people.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:33:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Tom Cruise: Trivia: Tom Cruise was the youngest People Sexiest Man Alive, at 27 in 1990, and has not been named since.
    “Tom Cruise won people's sexiest man alive in 1990 when he was 27 years old.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:38:28 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: Lynch uses a digital double exposure, one of the first building blocks of film language, to make the woodsmen emerge, and the long glitching sequence at the store exploits the feel of a malfunctioning disc.
    “I am watching this on a disk. And my brain cannot stop going like, is the player malfunctioning?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 0:56:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Nine Inch Nails: Part 8 stops for a full Nine Inch Nails Roadhouse set with an MC introducing them like an SNL musical guest, digital static projected live from the tech booth.
    “Trent's got his sunglasses on and he's wailing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:00:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Celebrity Deathmatch: Trent Reznor's puppet was given literal nine inch nails and fought Puff Daddy, as rap versus rock; the closing bit recaps the MTV Missing Girl episode ending with the women beating Cruise and Willis.
    “And I believe they gave him literal 9 inch nails.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:01:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: Part 8 is the weirdest explainer episode: a bomb unleashes evil, the Giant and Senorita Dido create Laura Palmer, and a frog-moth enters young Sarah Palmer, who is only credited as young girl.
    “she's just called Young Girl.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:12:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: The Giant (credited as ??? ) and Dido sit in a castle on the purple sea, a place first glimpsed in part 3; the speakers say Lynch and Frost themselves did not know what the Giant was.
    “Even even David Lynch and Mark Frost were like, we don't know what the fuck this is.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:27:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Robert Broski: The woodsman asking for a light is played by an actor nearly all of whose credits are Abraham Lincoln, including the 2014 short Link Clone about an evil Lincoln clone.
    “almost every single credit in his IMDb is Abraham Lincoln.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:38:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: The 15-minute final black-and-white sequence is a self-contained horror story, with blood poured on a receptionist after only a hand pushing her head down.
    “it's one of the best 15 minutes of his whole career.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:43:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: Mark Frost wrote a roughly 15-page script and knew the half-page atomic bomb would become 15 minutes; they wanted something that would stand apart and blow your mind. Half the episode has no dialogue.
    “we wanted something that would stand apart and blow your mind.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:53:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Twin Peaks: The rating game: Hallmark's Good Witch beat Part 8 on the night, along with HGTV's Beach Hunters and Mexico Life, and any Cardinals-Pirates broadcast.
    “More than Twin Peaks, the return episode eight, which is supposedly the apex of TV storytelling or whatever.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:06:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: The Return was always watched by about a quarter million live viewers; Showtime was happy as it drove signups. Part 8's night had more viewers for Good Witch (2.3 million).
    “They were like, this is embarrassing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:11:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Angelo Badalamenti: Connor is re-scoring his own cut of the Return with cues from the Twin Peaks Archive, which includes music for On the Air and Badalamenti coughing; Part 8 needed the least music.
    “I have started scoring Twin Peaks Return. using these, uh, these tracks.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:17:26 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Sully: Connor's 41-minute crash-only cut of Sully ends with Eckhart looking at Sully, a hard cut to black, then Tom Petty's Learning to Fly.
    “And then we hear Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers learning to fly.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 2:22:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.80 sure it was them)

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