Connor Ratliff

1 sketch, 13 claims, and 6 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

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

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

Humor: Self-deprecating, deadpan and precise, committing fully to a ridiculous premise like the crash-only Sully cut.

In their words

  • “I have started scoring Twin Peaks Return. using these, uh, these tracks.” (2:17:26)
  • “I got it on my phone.” (2:21:32)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Their claims

Showing 1–13 of 13 claims.

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)

Their fun items

Showing 1–6 of 6 fun items.

  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 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)