Jack Nance

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q386349: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Dune, which Dune with John Hodgman credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Eraserhead (1977); Dune (1984); Twin Peaks (1990).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 2 lines

  1. programming (programming) · through Dune (1984), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read). Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic.
    “Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (tentpole hope) · through Dune (1984), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read). Dune was meant to be the new Star Wars franchise, Lynch writing the sequel, coloring books on shelves.
    “I thought it was going to be the Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 2:18:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dune (1984), which they acted in: Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read). The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars.
    “And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme) · through Dune (1984), which they acted in: Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read). Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs.
    “the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Alien (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read). The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
    “I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

David Lowery: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Dune (1984), which they acted in: Dune ⇒ David Lowery (the maker said so: David Lowery's episode later in the series). A later series guest, David Lowery, called Dune a very big film for him as a child.
    “we have an episode coming later in the series with David Lowry, who talked about Dune being a very big film for him”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:33:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Devo: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ Devo (the host's read). Devo covered the Eraserhead song and played it live for a while.
    “Devo covered that song?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:39 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

H.R. Giger: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ H.R. Giger (the maker said so: Giger says it was one of his big eye-opening moments). Giger called Eraserhead one of his big eye-opening moments, and Lynch later accused him of stealing his ideas.
    “H.R. Gigger, loves this movie, says it's one of his, like, you know, big eye-opening moments in his life”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:28 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Modest Mouse: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ Modest Mouse (the host's read). Modest Mouse is named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “Modest mouse. Modest mouse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:45 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Meteors: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ The Meteors (the host's read). The Meteors are named among the bands who covered the Eraserhead song.
    “The meteors would do it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:47 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Pixies: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ The Pixies (the host's read). The Pixies covered the Eraserhead song, on one of the John Peel records.
    “Yeah, the pixies, it's on one of the John Peel records, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:02:53 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

The Thing (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Eraserhead (1977), which they acted in: Eraserhead ⇒ The Thing (the host's read). Alien, Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work belong to a 70s-80s peak of gooey rubber and robotics that Eraserhead may have first synthesized.
    “We don't exactly know, but I feel like things like alien and the carpenter film, certainly the thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (2017): 1 line

  1. theme (plot payoff) · through Twin Peaks (1990), which they acted in: Twin Peaks ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read). 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)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Jack Nance → Twin Peaks. Nance is amazing in Twin Peaks and says the 'wrapped in plastic' line from the pilot.
    “He's the one who says wrapped in plastic.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:41:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Jack Nance → Eraserhead. Eraserhead's lead Jack Nance appears in the Harkonnen scenes eating a hard-boiled egg.
    “for the 1st time ever, I noticed Jack Nance, Eraser hit himself as in the background, eating a hard-boiled egg for some reason.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:18:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jack Nance: Eraserhead's Jack Nance appears in the Harkonnen scenes eating a hard-boiled egg, a part invented to give him work.
    “made up the character for Jack Mans to give him to give him work.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:18:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jack Nance: Lynch hired Nance after Nance admired the wooden rack Lynch built on his Volkswagen.
    “And Lynch said, thank you, Jack, I did that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:52:18 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)