The owls are not what they seem.
The series was originally supposed to take place in North Dakota.
"Long before we moved into the Pacific Northwest, we were playing around with this idea of the plains and a place far away from the world. But what we really lacked was that sense of mystery in the forest and the darkness that moving a little further west had." —Mark Frost
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The show's creators didn't want to reveal the identity of Laura Palmer's killer.
"The murder of Laura Palmer was the center of the story, the thing around which all the show's other elements revolved — like a sun in a little solar system. It was not supposed to get solved. The idea was for it to recede a bit into the background, and the foreground would be that week's show. But the mystery of the death of Laura Palmer would stay alive." —David Lynch
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Before Twin Peaks, co-creators Mark Frost and David Lynch teamed up to write a Marilyn Monroe biopic, titled Goddess, which was never produced.
They even worked their failed venture into Agent Cooper's monologue in the series premiere: "There are two things that continue to trouble me, and I'm speaking now not only as an agent of the bureau but also as a human being. What really went on between Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys, and who really pulled the trigger on JFK."
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Actor Kyle MacLachlan axed the romantic storyline between Agent Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne.
"I’m not supposed to say it. But David knows I tell what happens, and what happened was that Lara [Flynn Boyle] was dating Kyle [MacLachlan], and she was mad that my character was getting more attention, so then Kyle started saying that his character shouldn’t be with my character because it doesn’t look good, ’cause I’m too young. Literally, because of that, they brought in Heather Graham — who’s younger than I am — for him and Billy Zane for me. I was not happy about it. It was stupid." —Sherilyn Fenn
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