Subject: Re: TP reference in NEXP
From: t01@clark.edu (Heather Sanford)
Date: 1991-10-03, 14:23
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Oct2.192411.15588@milton.u.washington.edu> hagstrop@carleton.edu (Paul Hagstrom) writes:
> >In article <1991Oct2.031323.2662@en.ecn.purdue.edu> mbrockma@en.ecn.purdue.edu  
> >(Matt Brockman) writes:
>> >> In the last episode of Northern Exposure,
>> >> in the scene where Maurice(?) pulls up in
>> >> his car, a logging truck rolls by, looks just
>> >> like the one outside the Double R.
> >
> >I remember another episode a while back had some more blatant TP references in  
> >it, too.. I wish I had taped it because I can't completely recall all of the  
> >details, but it did involve a number of the NE characters standing around an  
> >observation deck (upon which was one of those little pay-telescopes), looking  
> >at a waterfall.  My first thought when the scene started was "that waterfall  
> >reminds me of the TP intro..."  Then, the conversation began turning to coffee  
> >and donuts, and the scene actually ended with one of them saying something  
> >along the lines of "Who's that over there?  And what's she carrying?  It's a  
> >LOG!".. End of scene.
> >
> >Anyway, 'danyone see that?

I saw it.  They also mentioned that peculiar snapping sound that occurs in
time with the beat of the TP theme.  That was the episode when Joel's fiancee-
no-more Elaine came for a visit and caught the epidemic flu running through
Cicely.
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