While watching the video titled "Twin Peaks: The Return Theory - Cooper Never Left the Lodge" by Brooke Burgess (click here for video), which has an excellent theory, I came across a comment by user maxx T, sharing a link to a screen shot of the newspaper seen in episode 18 (here). In the episode, the paper can be seen in the hands of a woman at around 27:13.
I did a search and found where the screen shot came from, an Axe brand commercial (here).
I remember seeing the newspaper mentioned in a forum/thread that I've now lost track of (maybe here or somewhere else).
Some of the paper headlines:
"Utilities Putting Effort into Alternative Energy" (electricity)
"South American Drug Ring Exposed" (Buenos Aires?)
"10 Suspects Charged in State-Wide Insurance Scam" (Lucky 7)
"Vicious Dogs Curb Postal Service" (reference to old school small town humor)
"Czech Office Building Collapses" (accountants?)
"Crawford Lagging in Test Polls as Fort Campaign Team Goes on Offensive" (??)
"New Cancer Hope Found in Mexican Frog" (frog bug)
"Missing Teen Found Unharmed" (...)
Interesting because it looks like it's exactly the same as the paper the old lady is reading in Judy's diner in Odessa except hers is the Odessa Daily News. Can anyone read the date?
Oh. I see. So you're saying this was used in a totally unrelated ad. Which means they just used a service that supplies newspapers for TV, Movies, etc. and so has no significance in Twin Peaks. Thanks.
So it wasn't a dream, it was an AXE inspired shower-thought daydream. Coop's water bill is going to be insane!
Oh. I see. So you're saying this was used in a totally unrelated ad. Which means they just used a service that supplies newspapers for TV, Movies, etc. and so has no significance in Twin Peaks. Thanks.
I'm mostly interested in the headlines, which seem to be supporting the narrative of The Return. Too many coincidences? My brain creating causality where there might just be correlation?
The fact that the paper showed up in an ad (filmed around the time The Return was filming as far as I can tell), helped us read the headlines (thanks, Axe - never thought I would said that). The potential sharing of a newspaper prop is curious, but, perhaps, in a different way than the mention of a Mexican frog, insurance scam, and missing team found unharmed in that particular paper...
It is interesting that the headlines do seem to relate in a very tangential way. The problem is you can't really 90% in the episode so unless Lynch specifically asks it be used in the Axe ad, very unlikely, it doesn't matter. Lynch could have asked for those stories when he ordered the prop newspaper with his newspaper name and the prop company just reused it when the Axe ad people asked for their own prop. Given that Lynch didn't actually show them, even briefly, in the episode makes me think it's not important. But there could be shots that did use it that got cut.
It is interesting that the headlines do seem to relate in a very tangential way. The problem is you can't really 90% in the episode so unless Lynch specifically asks it be used in the Axe ad, very unlikely, it doesn't matter. Lynch could have asked for those stories when he ordered the prop newspaper with his newspaper name and the prop company just reused it when the Axe ad people asked for their own prop. Given that Lynch didn't actually show them, even briefly, in the episode makes me think it's not important. But there could be shots that did use it that got cut.
Agreed. Could it be since that particular prop wasn't visible in the final cut that they could easily reuse it? Prop masters for shows tend to want to have "their own stuff" in my experience, but the ad folks might not care where things came from? Either way, it would seem that Lynch or someone on the show could have specified the nature of the headlines.
It is interesting that the headlines do seem to relate in a very tangential way. The problem is you can't really 90% in the episode so unless Lynch specifically asks it be used in the Axe ad, very unlikely, it doesn't matter. Lynch could have asked for those stories when he ordered the prop newspaper with his newspaper name and the prop company just reused it when the Axe ad people asked for their own prop. Given that Lynch didn't actually show them, even briefly, in the episode makes me think it's not important. But there could be shots that did use it that got cut.
Agreed. Could it be since that particular prop wasn't visible in the final cut that they could easily reuse it? Prop masters for shows tend to want to have "their own stuff" in my experience, but the ad folks might not care where things came from? Either way, it would seem that Lynch or someone on the show could have specified the nature of the headlines.
This is not physically the same paper. The names of the newspapers are different. Chronicle VS Odessa Daily News. It's just the same prop company made both newspapers I would think.
What year is it? Wish I could see the date.
It is interesting that the headlines do seem to relate in a very tangential way. The problem is you can't really 90% in the episode so unless Lynch specifically asks it be used in the Axe ad, very unlikely, it doesn't matter. Lynch could have asked for those stories when he ordered the prop newspaper with his newspaper name and the prop company just reused it when the Axe ad people asked for their own prop. Given that Lynch didn't actually show them, even briefly, in the episode makes me think it's not important. But there could be shots that did use it that got cut.
Agreed. Could it be since that particular prop wasn't visible in the final cut that they could easily reuse it? Prop masters for shows tend to want to have "their own stuff" in my experience, but the ad folks might not care where things came from? Either way, it would seem that Lynch or someone on the show could have specified the nature of the headlines.
This is not physically the same paper. The names of the newspapers are different. Chronicle VS Odessa Daily News. It's just the same prop company made both newspapers I would think.
It seems that only the newspaper name changed (and there was an insertion of "Odessa" in one of the articles), based on a thread by matthew_rose7.
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