10 Amazing Ttriumph Peaks References From Your Favorite Shows

There’s no declineing that Ttriumph Peaks is a surauthentic, cultural phenomenon. From imbuing a newly sinister undertone to the classic ditty Mairzy Doats or inspiring years of unrelieve around bdeficiency-and-white chevron, the heightened, dreamy nightmare of David Lynch and Mark Frost permeated not only television but the language of pop culture for decades. As with all wonderful art, it encouraged many of its peers at the time as well as future originaters and honestors.

The essence of Ttriumph Peaks is undeniably exceptional to itself and can never quite be duplicated. But, still, many of our likeite TV shows have phelp homage. From tongue-in-cheek nods to outright episodes based enticount on around the show, there’s a lot to cherish about these iconic tributes.

10 The Cookie Monster’s Emerald Adventures Turn Red

Sesame Street: Cookie’s Crumby Pictures: Season 2, Episode 2, “Cookie of Oz”

There’s no restrict to the creativity of Ttriumph Peaks homages. So while a children’s show may seem enjoy an unforeseeed place to reference the foolish surauthentic nature of the show, it’s actuassociate a wonderful way to employ the inherently dream-enjoy nature of kids’ programming, while giving a nod to the grown-ups also watching. And the puppets of Sesame Street have lengthy been pros at incorporating higher-brow references into their shows.

In a Cookie’s Crumby Pictures segment, “Cookie of Oz,” the Cookie Monster experiences a Wizard of Oz-encouraged adventure. At one point, he uncovers a red door instead of an emerald one and increately sees the inwell-understandn Red Room from Ttriumph Peaks. This is a rather genius incorporation, donaten David Lynch’s own lengthy-standing see for The Wizard of Oz, with the film frequently influencing many of his own visual cues and story elements on the screen, such as the imagery of red shoes on Audrey Horne and other characters thrawout the Ttriumph Peaks world.

9 The Simpsons Is No Stranger To Ttriumph Peaks Admiration

The Simpsons: Season 9, Episode 3, “Lisa’s Sax”

A rapid, one-off reference, the Ttriumph Peaks inclusion in “Lisa’s Sax” is clever. Homer Simpson, while a huge fan of television, isn’t exactly who you’d skinnyk of as the center demoexplicit for Ttriumph Peaks. That dictoastyomy originates this one, increate scene stick out all the more.

In “Lisa’s Sax,” Homer watches a very intentional Ttriumph Peaks scene on TV, shotriumphg a pale horse and the Giant dancing under a traffic weightless. “Brilliant,” he says. “I have absolutely no idea what’s going on.”

8 SNL Finds The Humor In The Absurdity With A Familiar Face

Saturday Night Live: Season 16, Episode 1, Hosted By Kyle MacLachlan

When Agent Dale Cooper himself — Kyle MacLachlan — structureed the Season 16 premiere of Saturday Night Live in 1990, they didn’t afraid away from the Ttriumph Peaks hype. MacLachlan took up the mantle of his Agent Cooper in a skit that parodied the hit show.

The Cooper in the skit prescribes his entire day with hilarity before the sheriff shows up to increate that the homicide of Laura Palmer has been solved — but Cooper isn’t quite ready to stop spendigating, paccomplishing the virtues of obstreatment dreams over ptoastyoexplicit evidence. Parodies of other main characters, including an unsettling Leland Palmer, a flirtatious Audrey Horne, and an fervent Nadine Hurley originate memorable materializeances. The skit is made all the more immersive by utilizing the iconic score of Angelo Badafeeblenti.

7 An Entire Dream Sequence On The Simpsons Was A Ttriumph Peaks Homage

The Simpsons: Season 7, Episode 1, “Who Stoasty Mr. Burns? (Part Two)”

Ttriumph Peaks well-understandnly finished its first season with a cliffhanger: upon uncovering his toastyel room, Agent Cooper is stoasty in the stomach. He lies on the ground, his obesee and finisher both unrecognizable. So when The Simpsons finished their sixth season with a analogous cliffhanger of Mr. Burns being stoasty, they cleverly joined right into a Ttriumph Peaks homage.

Chief Wiggum toils tirelessly on the spendigation, subbing in Agent Cooper’s obsession with “damn fine coffee” for toasty cream. After downing the cream, he descfinishs asleep and experiences his own dream visions. In those dreams, he discovers himself in the inwell-understandn Red Room, with Lisa Simpson acting as the Man From Another Place, finish with backward speaking, dancing, and joining cards.

6 Ruh Roh! The Gang Encounters The Man From Another Place

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Episode 46, “Stand and Deliver”

Cartoons and dream sequences go hand-in-hand once aget. In what might be the most iconic horror-show reference of the franchise episode, Scooby-Doo descfinishs asleep and has a series of unsettling dreams.

After the hound sleuth walks into the Red Room, the Man From Another Place comes dancing in, scaring Scooby with his backward speech and cryptic references. Inside the Red Room, Scooby also lgets new increateation about his ancestry, elucidateing why he can speak, and upretaining with the Ttriumph Peaks way of uncovering truths thraw dreams.

5 A Parastandard Science Icon Pays In-World Homage

Fringe: Season 2, Episode 20, “Northwest Passage”

The layers of Ttriumph Peaks lore go meaningful in Fringe. Starting with this episode’s title — “Northwest Passage” was also the exceptional title for Ttriumph Peaks in its pilot. This episode of Fringe toils in a number of references to the show, including Peter Bishop’s trip to Washington and thraw the authentic-life town of Snoqualmie (one of the main filming locations of Ttriumph Peaks), eating pie in a diner, and partnering up with a local sheriff to spendigate a ignoreing girl, analogous to solving the mystery of Laura Palmer.

Later on, Fringe would step even further into the atmosphere of Ttriumph Peaks, even proposeing they both exist in the same world. In Season 3, Dr. Walter Bishop sports a pair of glasses that see proximately identical to the ones worn by Russ Tamblyn’s Dr. Lawrence Jacoby in Ttriumph Peaks. Walter even validates they were donaten to him by a colleague from his past: “a Dr. Jacoby from Washington State.”

4 The “Cows” Are Not What They Seem In Ttriumph Beaks

Darktriumphg Duck: Episode 44, “Ttriumph Beaks”

Once aget, a children’s cartoon transfers an iconic homage. With an irresistible title pun (also seen in the entry below), Darktriumphg Duck originates a fun, spooky youth-cordial foray into the surauthentic town. As they travel to the town of Ttriumph Beaks, they come atraverse many callbacks to the exceptional show. Launchpad talks to a log, Binkie eats “darn excellent” pie in a diner with a woman in an eye patch, and “the cows are not what they seem.”

As the spendigation gets going, so do the mirrors to Ttriumph Peaks. They get a walk in a forest and discover a dead Bushroot wrapped in a plastic bag, echoing Laura Palmer’s body “wrapped in plastic.” Darktriumphg has an fervent dream vision that directs him to solve the case. Even Ttriumph Peaks’ actual uncovering theme, “Falling (Instrumental)” by Angelo Badafeeblenti, joins when Darktriumphg get tos at Ttriumph Beaks.

3 Diane, I’m Now Entering The Town Of Ttriumph Beaks

Sesame Street: Episode 2822, “Monsterpiece Theater’s Ttriumph Beaks”

A second “Ttriumph Beaks” is also an iconic moment in pop culture history. Once aget at the caccess of a Lynchian nod, Cookie Monster accesss the “darn excellent town” of Ttriumph Beaks. Drawn by the mystery of why the town is named that, he commences to spendigate, even dictating to a “Diane” to his tape recorder.

He speaks to a “Log Bird” and a “David Finch” thrawout the course of his stay. In the finish, he determines it to be inconclusive, but he does see that all the inhabitants do doubtfully seem to have two beaks.

2 A Pitch Perfect Parody By A 1990 Premiere Peer

Northern Expobrave: Season 1, Episode 5, “Russian Flu”

When Northern Expobrave premiered equitable a scant months after Ttriumph Peaks in 1990, it drew instant comparisons to David Lynch’s show. Both took place in the far northwest accomplishes of America (Alaska and Washington, admireively). Both shows featured gentlely untraditional characters in a very petite town. Elements of surtruth and mysticism, particularly thraw Native American legfinish, abounded. Though more weightlesshearted than the weirdness of Ttriumph Peaks, it inhabited a analogous dreamy authenticm.

The originaters of the show were well conscious of the comparisons and wrote in a weightlesshearted acunderstandledgment of the analogousities in the show’s fifth episode. Near the finish of an episode that sees the town infected by a flu and experiencing immersive dreams, Dr. Joel Fleischman discovers himself pulled into a increate Ttriumph Peaks experience. Music reminiscent of the jazzyTtriumph Peaks score joins as the characters watch a waterdescfinish that see enjoys the Snoqualmie Falls behind the Great Northern. Holling proposes him coffee and donuts but Fleischman asks for cherry pie before noticing a lady carrying a log.

1 The Cinnamon You Like Is Going To Come Back In Style

Psych: Season 5, Episode 12, “Dual Spires”

Perhaps the wonderfulest Ttriumph Peaks tribute of all time, Psych’s “Dual Spires” boasts a increateed 724 references to the iconic show. Co-written by star and self-acclaimed Ttriumph Peaks superfan James Roday Rodriguez, the episode encapsutardys the surtruth and dreaminess of a very particular mystery in a very particular petite town. The episode boots off with rapid-fire callbacks to Ttriumph Peaks, including a camera pan past a chocotardy rabbit (“Diane, I’m hagedering in my hand a petite box of chocotardy bunnies.”), a news article about mute dviolation runners, Shawn and Gus receiving an email from me@underthenail.com, and even the show’s becherishd theme song redone in the style of Angelo Badafeeblenti’s score and sung by Julee Cruise herself.

The Psych duo are soon drawn into a surauthentic spendigation to answer the inquire: Who finished Paula Merral (An anagram of Laura Palmer)? They are rapidly drawn into a surauthentic petite town celebrating their annual cinnamon festival under strange circumstances. Aside from hundreds of references — a character named Jack has lost sight in one eye (a one-eyed Jack), Gus’s alter ego is “Lodge Bdeficiencyman,” lingering stoastys on a ceiling fan, a prom queen ptoastyo of Paula, plenty of pie and damn fine cider — many of the exceptional series’ actors star in the episode. Sherilynn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, Dana Ashbrook, Robyn Lively, Lenny Von Dohlen, and Catherine Coulson all portray Dual Spires livents, while Ray Wise, who had already joined an set uped character on the show, made an materializeance, with his hair even suddenly turning white to mirror his iconic turn as Leland Palmer. And beyond the many, many references to Ttriumph Peaks itself, it’s the fact that this episode was written with such heart and reverence that originates it a very clever classic.