What the corpus says about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (2017)

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What was said about it (26)

  1. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:45:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Anchorman (Wake Up Ron Burgundy alt cut) · lineage · Lynch's deleted-scene habit is riffed as making his own Wake Up Ron Burgundy. · "Lynch loves wake up Ron Burgundy."
  2. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:21:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · lineage · 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?"
  3. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:41:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Velvet · lineage · 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."
  4. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:50:51 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ⇒ On the Air (the host's read) · lineage · 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."
  5. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Eraserhead · theme · 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."
  6. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:02:28 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Celebrity Deathmatch · theme · 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."
  7. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Captain Planet and the Planeteers · theme · 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."
  8. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · theme · 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."
  9. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:20:40 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · theme · 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."
  10. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:42:11 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Lost Highway · craft · The opening night drive with Mr. C and Ray evokes Lost Highway's driving through total black. · "Sort of lost highway vibes, right?"
  11. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:22:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · 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."
  12. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Dune · craft · The purple sea gets a joke identification as Dune, with the worm floating by. · "The worm floats by. That's the planet Dune."
  13. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:13:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Beetle · people · 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."
  14. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:07:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Two and a Half Men (Charlie Harper death episode) · weirdest on network TV · 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."
  15. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:07:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Twin Peaks season 2 finale ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · weirdest-ever · 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"
  16. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:23:49 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Quibi Spielberg night-only show (never made) · viewing conditions · 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."
  17. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:48:50 · Connor Ratliff (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · rhythm bridge · 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."
  18. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · recurring figure · 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."
  19. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:07:27 · Connor Ratliff (0.40)] Twin Peaks ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · setup · 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."
  20. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:17:53 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Oppenheimer · same subject, different approach · 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."
  21. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Mad Max: Fury Road · black-and-white CGI · 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."
  22. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:33 · unknown (0.30)] The Mist ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · black-and-white CGI · 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."
  23. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:51 · unknown (0.30)] Godzilla Minus One ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · counterexample · 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."
  24. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:59:01 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Wonka · bit · 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."
  25. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:15:58 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40)] BUF ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · craft · 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."
  26. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:14:12 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher Nolan ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · practical vs digital · 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?"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me · said 2 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Twin Peaks · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:15:24 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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."
  2. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:56:24 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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?"
  3. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:12:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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."
  4. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:27:07 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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."
  5. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:43:39 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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."
  6. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:53:13 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

  1. [The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:38:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Lemon ↔ Twin Peaks · theme · Sean sees a commonality of tone between Lemon and Twin Peaks; the guests take it as a compliment. · "There is a little bit of a commonality between Lemon and Twin Peaks."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:49:02 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Beetle ↔ The Tick · theme · Blue Beetle is kind of ticky. · "It's kind of ticky."
  4. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:15:39 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Angelo Badalamenti ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · 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"
  5. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Beetle ↔ The Crow · theme · Blue Beetle is a bit like the Crow, possessed by spirits. · "he's also a little bit like the crow."
  7. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:17:13 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] On the Air ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · 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."
  8. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
  9. [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:19:19 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond) ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · 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."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:15:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Lynch still relates emotions through images the way Eraserhead does, which the speaker saw again in Twin Peaks: The Return. · "He's still doing this stuff."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks. · "the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [speaker] Connor Ratliff · latest sketch, Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · A devoted Twin Peaks fan with trading cards, a signed Bobby Briggs rookie card and a season-2 episode already behind the Patreon paywall. He loves Lynch's plainness, Badalamenti's jazz, the Return overall, and tinkering with fan re-cuts. He cannot stand a long commute and is a sucker for a gimmick edit. · stances: Part 8 is the high point of the Return: if it ended there, still glad they came back; Lynch's silences and Badalamenti's absence make the Return different from Twin Peaks; adding the music feels more like Twin Peaks; Part 8 needed the least score of any episode; Fan re-cuts are a perversity but still interesting
  2. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
  3. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
  2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (2017) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (2017) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:45:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Anchorman (Wake Up Ron Burgundy alt cut) · lineage · Lynch's deleted-scene habit is riffed as making his own Wake Up Ron Burgundy. · "Lynch loves wake up Ron Burgundy."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:21:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · lineage · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:41:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Velvet · lineage · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:50:51 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ⇒ On the Air (the host's read) · lineage · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Eraserhead · theme · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:02:28 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Celebrity Deathmatch · theme · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Captain Planet and the Planeteers · theme · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · theme · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:20:40 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · theme · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:42:11 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Lost Highway · craft · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:22:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Dune · craft · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:13:42 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Beetle · people · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:07:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Two and a Half Men (Charlie Harper death episode) · weirdest on network TV · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:07:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Twin Peaks season 2 finale ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · weirdest-ever · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:23:49 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Quibi Spielberg night-only show (never made) · viewing conditions · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:48:50 · Connor Ratliff (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · rhythm bridge · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · recurring figure · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:07:27 · Connor Ratliff (0.40)] Twin Peaks ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · setup · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:17:53 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Oppenheimer · same subject, different approach · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Mad Max: Fury Road · black-and-white CGI · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:33 · unknown (0.30)] The Mist ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · black-and-white CGI · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:51 · unknown (0.30)] Godzilla Minus One ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · counterexample · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:59:01 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Wonka · bit · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:15:58 · host (Griffin Newman or David Sims) (0.40)] BUF ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · craft · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:14:12 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher Nolan ↔ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · practical vs digital · 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?"
[pairs] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Twin Peaks · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:15:24 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:56:24 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:12:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:27:07 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:43:39 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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 · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:53:13 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 · fun · 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."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:38:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Lemon ↔ Twin Peaks · theme · Sean sees a commonality of tone between Lemon and Twin Peaks; the guests take it as a compliment. · "There is a little bit of a commonality between Lemon and Twin Peaks."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:49:02 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Beetle ↔ The Tick · theme · Blue Beetle is kind of ticky. · "It's kind of ticky."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:15:39 · Connor Ratliff (0.80)] Angelo Badalamenti ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · 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 · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:49:04 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Beetle ↔ The Crow · theme · Blue Beetle is a bit like the Crow, possessed by spirits. · "he's also a little bit like the crow."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:17:13 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] On the Air ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · 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 · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 2:19:19 · Connor Ratliff (0.70)] Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3, parts 1-7 and beyond) ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · 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 — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:15:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · Lynch still relates emotions through images the way Eraserhead does, which the speaker saw again in Twin Peaks: The Return. · "He's still doing this stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:23:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Eraserhead ↔ Twin Peaks · craft · The apartment's repeated floor patterns and curtain staging resemble the red room in Twin Peaks. · "the styling of this building is very similar to a lot of the red room stuff in Twin Peaks"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."
[speaker] Connor Ratliff · latest sketch, Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · A devoted Twin Peaks fan with trading cards, a signed Bobby Briggs rookie card and a season-2 episode already behind the Patreon paywall. He loves Lynch's plainness, Badalamenti's jazz, the Return overall, and tinkering with fan re-cuts. He cannot stand a long commute and is a sucker for a gimmick edit. · stances: Part 8 is the high point of the Return: if it ended there, still glad they came back; Lynch's silences and Badalamenti's absence make the Return different from Twin Peaks; adding the music feels more like Twin Peaks; Part 8 needed the least score of any episode; Fan re-cuts are a perversity but still interesting
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (2017) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.