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  1. industry (Oscar oddity): The Last Temptation of Christ → Blue Velvet. Like Blue Velvet, it got just a director nomination and no picture nomination; list also includes Mulholland Drive and Short Cuts.
    “Well, Blue velvet was the same thing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:03:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career summation): Fargo → Blue Velvet. Fargo is the ultimate Coen film the way Blue Velvet is the best encapsulation of Lynch, not necessarily the favorite.
    “this does feel like the ultimate Cohen's film in the same way we were saying in our blue velvet episode, like, that's not my favorite Lynch movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:31:34 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. career (career): David Lynch → Blue Velvet. Lynch pitched Blue Velvet to Roth in the same meeting.
    “That is when he pitches Roth on Blue Velvet.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:05:38 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Brad Dourif → Blue Velvet. Brad Dourif's Dune role pairs with his Blue Velvet appearance.
    “Brad Turf also has the big eyebrows, and he's also in blue velvet later.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:51:27 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Dune → Blue Velvet. Lynch's next movie after Dune was with Dino De Laurentiis.
    “This makes it all the crazier that the next movie David Lynch makes is with Dino DeLorentis.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:10:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. programming (programming): Dune → Blue Velvet. Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus.
    “Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Frederick Elmes → Blue Velvet. Elmes replaced the first cinematographer on Eraserhead and later shot Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and worked with Ang Lee.
    “shot blue velvety, shot wild at heart, works with Ang Li.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:54:25 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): Eraserhead → Blue Velvet. Both films come from Lynch's formative sense of darkness under the surface of suburbia and the unspoken, city life, women and fatherhood.
    “Eraserhead is clearly dealing with the same things, the idea of people living in a city, but also the relationships, like, with women, adult sexuality, being a father”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:24:47 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (quoted line): Blue Velvet → The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The fuck-you-you-fucking-fuck shirt is believed to originate from Dennis Hopper's line in Blue Velvet.
    “Hopper says that in blue velvet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)