S1, E3: Zen, Or The Skill to Catch a Killer

Back to the Double R: A Twin Peaks Rewatch

Next up on Back to the Double R, Season 1, Episode 3, "Zen, Or the Skill to Catch a Killer.” Directed by Lynch, the episode aired 4/19/90. As usual, we cover plot points from this episode and prior episodes. Jennifer focuses on an unusual family dinner at the Horne household. Colin looks at Cooper’s idiosyncratic deductive techniques. Jonathan considers Albert and Cooper as characters. Damon takes us through his favorite scene from his favorite episode: the Red Room. Twist: fun parodies of that iconic segment.

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S1, E3 NOTES:
Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks (2014, book by Brad Dukes)
Miguel Ferrer (Albert Rosenfield)
David Patrick Kelly (Jerry Horne)
The Warriors (1979, film, featuring David Patrick Kelly as a gang leader)
West Side Story (1961, film musical, starring Richard Beymer (Tony), Russ Tamblyn (Riff))
David Lynch Foundation (dedicated to the practice and promotion of Transcendental Meditation)
José Ferrer (actor, father of Miguel, first Puerto Rican actor to earn an Academy Award)
Pennsylvania 6-5000 (1940, song, swing/jazz standard)
Backmasking (audio recording technique to reverse sounds)
Beetlejuice (film, 1988)
Eraserhead (film, 1977, written and directed by David Lynch)
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-86, DC Comics series)
“Chapter Seventy-Five: Lynchian” (2020, Riverdale episode, S4, E18)
"Twin Beaks" (1991, Twin Peaks parody from Sesame Street)
“Who Shot Mr. Burns?” (1995, The Simpsons episode, featuring parody of Twin Peaks’ Red Room)
“Who Shot J.R.?” (1980, seminal pop culture moment/murder mystery from CBS television series Dallas (1987-1991))
Deadly Premonition (2010, video game from Access Games)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999-2019, comic book series from ABC/Wildstorm/DC Comics, Top Shelf and Knockabout Comics)