Subject: Re: The Great Went (poss. spoil./explanation) From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria) Date: 1992-09-14, 14:33 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Reply-to: ingria@BBN.COM In article kwest@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Kenneth C West) writes: Okay, a line in FWWM that has everybody mystified, including me, is Jacques in the Pink Room saying "I am the Great Went" and "I am as blank as a fart". I've been re-watching the series in my spare time, and have an interesting find: Second season, third or fourth episode, when Norma announces that the mysterious food critic is coming to Twin peaks. No one knows who this critic is or even what they look like. The name of the critic? M.T. Wents. So, when Jacques says "I am the Great Went", I think that maybe his fart reference meant empty, as in M.T. No. Remember, Jacques puts his hand to his head in the shape of a gun and then ``fires'', but still stays alive; hence, the ``blank'' part. But how is a fart blank? So this means.....what? That Jacques moonlighted as a food critic? But we find out who the critic is: Norma's mother, so if there's any reference from the Great Went to M.T. Wentz, it's a meta-joke by Lynch, et al., not one by Jacques. -30- Bob
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