Subject: Re: NEXP (UK), wierd Twin Peaks piss take ?
From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Date: 1992-04-21, 09:59
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Apr21.090328.310@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
> >
> >Just caught I think the 5th episode of Northern Exposure in the UK,
> >NEXP (UK). The one when Joel's fiance Elaine comes to visit Sicely at the time
> >of the 'flu epidemic. 
> >
> >Was there any purpose behind the Twin Peaks sketch or was it just a
> >piss take for all the people who compare NEXP to Peaks ???
> >

It was, as you say, a piss-take.  Twin Peaks was very much alive and
sicking when that episode of NEXP went out.  If I remember right it
was broadcast in the summer between seasons of TP.


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