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That was my reaction when I saw Jacoby's bit. "NOBODY guessed correctly, there's no way!"

I looked them up, they have a Wikipedia entry. They're a commonly used fake brand, dating back to the 60s. I think it's like that prop newspaper that's been circulated for decades, rented out by the same prop house over and over. I wouldn't be surprised if they were specifically a nod to the X-Files, though, given Mark Frost's tastes.

Is anyone else hoping that Diane isn't in this, and we never see her?

That reminds me. Where did that security guard get to, anyway?

Or taken seriously by the viewers. I find it very difficult to buy what Chrysta Bell is selling as an actress.

Wally Brando is cool. Wally Brando has always been cool.

Everything about her acting is very exaggerated. Look at the way she flings her face around when Albert and Gordon send her away. It's all very distracting, I can't say I've been enjoying her performance. When she did that walk, flinging her hips around, I said, "I don't buy her as an FBI agent for a second." But now that I know from the podcast that she's the "footnotes agent" from the Secret History book, my conspiracy theory about her infiltrating the FBI from some other faction is pretty much out the window. I'm going to chalk it up to Lynch giving his friend who can't act very well (IMO) a job.

I really appreciate that the chosen font on this is "Cooper"

Maybe she has younger relatives who installed the newer cordless but she ignores it and just keeps using the old familiar thing. Tale as old as time.

Does anyone have any theories about Agent Tammy? The acting is SO BAD, I can only guess that it's intentional. She's really hamming it up any time she's on screen, and it sticks out like a sore thumb in every scene she's in. If I went wild with conspiracy guesses, it makes me suspect that Tammy is not a legit FBI officer, but maybe is someone who has infiltrated the FBI from some other faction and is doing a bad job of blending in. We already know that Albert and Gordon don't entirely trust her.

Asking David Lynch his intentions, or even trying to lead him to it, is a fool's errand. I think he's the "all reactions are valid and interesting" type of artist.

Maybe Dougie has kids all over town.

I thought about that, too. The resemblance seemed quite close, even without the eyes. Of course, it isn't the same actress, who has confirmed that she was not involved in this new season. However, it could be a Josie (or representation of her) that hasn't aged since her death. When she appeared, I got really excited by the idea that we might be about to learn more of what happened to Josie.

Since there's electrical impulses that flow through it, my thoughts never even went to "tree". It's been a nervous system this whole time to me. (Have you ever been to the Body Worlds exhibit? It gave me flashbacks to that.) But now that it's brought up, yeah, I can see how it also looks like a tree.

It's basically the ultimate Electric Brain Meme courtesy of David Lynch.

Maybe it went on a 25-year hiatus.

It sounded very industrial slowed down, which made me joke, "Is this the introduction of Trent Reznor's character?"

What I was getting at is, to me, it feels like each episode is ending with a commercial. In the original series, it was like they had one house band (played by Julee Cruise et al) that performed there every night, playing original music that was written for the show. That gels better with me. Michael Cera is a national treasure and I hope to god he comes back. Hell, give me a Wally Brando spinoff, his wacky and dharmic adventures as he rides from town to town. I really wonder how much of that speech was improv'd. The multitude of cutaways to Truman make me suspect they just rolled camera and then edited around pauses and crackups. I really really hope that Cooper's coffee spit-take was the violent awaking of Normal Coop, the coffee bringing him to his senses.

While Michael Cera is taking a lot of people out of it, the musical outros are what have that effect on me. They feel like David Lynch appearing at the end of every episode and saying, "And BY THE WAY, here's a band I like, you should check them out after this." They feel like they could have all been filmed at Lynch's music festival that he put on last October, rather than acts that would be booked at the Bang Bang Bar in Twin Peaks.

Either Jacobi owns a roadside art gallery (every random mountain town seems to have one), or he's a monster hunter and this is all part of his preparation montage. He's got quite the setup for these shovels, although he wastes A LOT of paint.