[HD] Twin Peaks - Jimmy Scott sings "Sycamore Trees" in the red room

[@abdullaalsaleh]

No matter what situation he was in throughout the series, Dale Cooper always had something to say. The moment he enters the Black Lodge, though, he just stands there, paralyzed with fear. Amazing.

[@Kcpvvy15]

The silence allows us the audience to feel process and feel that fear too. The dream like world of the Black Lodge was something we waited years, over 30 eps, to experience and us + cooper experience it at the same time. And my god it’s so haunting

[@MrNobody425]

In Coop’s defense, Jimmy Scott’s performance was terrifyingly good.

[@tehjhu]

I thin the Black Lodge is my favorite depiction of hell in media, not fire and demons and people screaming but just so bizarre and incomprehensible and menacing. Like, its so disorienting you can never get a grip on anything to even attempt to be brave enough to try to deal with it.

[@j.prt.979]

I mean, there are definitely people screaming but yes to the rest

[@DarkAngelEU]

The Black Lodge isn't hell, but something more like Limbo, which is the space between the Earthly realm and Hell.

[@Kcpvvy15]

It’s more purgatory than it is hell lol

[@themessenger2948]

​@@DarkAngelEUIt's more like Purgatory. Hawk even describes it as such.

[@jimzcoi]

Waiting room.

[@cochiserivera]

That moment you realize you have lost the battle and you are never going to escape the red room.

[@quentindelaf7109]

for the love of a woman

[@r4gg3dt1g3r]

@@quentindelaf7109 For Love, and in Pain. Because The World.

[@ste118]

That's so sad. Cooper didn't deserve that

[@gabagool736]

I actually view this scene as perfectly setting the stage for the climax of the og run. It happens early on in Cooper’s journey into the red room and conveys that some stuff is about to go down

[@kakroom3407]

@@gabagool736 The tone it sets is very final and melancholy. Cooper is in hostile territory and is probably not getting out alive

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

This was more than just a TV Show. That final Season 2 episode was a work of art. And you really feel like being in Dale Cooper's shoes when you see everything unfolding in front of your eyes and ears.

[@vincentwhitehead]

and then you get screamed at by the doppelganger of the girl who’s murder you’re trying to solve and chased by your own doppelganger and BOB

[@jesusa_ikher]

A man of ration could not take the irrational

[@radixreuel7631]

Little Jimmy Scott what a hauntingly beautiful, sadly underrated, artist. Could there be any other exquisite longing and soul in another humans voice? What a missed, loved & unmatchable Legend ✨

[@barrington6151]

Easy to forget, with all its quirkiness and comedy, Twin Peaks has always been a tragedy built around the abuse and murder of a schoolgirl. So both times it ends, it ends with tragedy

[@elongatedmusket7430]

To wait week to week and see what the Black Lodge manifests, then, Dale enters and this is the way it's introduced. The biggest OH S**T moment ever for me. Style. Eeriness. Nothing like it ever.

[@janellejarvis1557]

this is one of the most iconic scenes from twin peaks. many things are up for debate in the world of twin peaks but this isn't. it is one of my absolute favorite scenes.

[@bobstacks8405]

Coop's funeral song.. Such a haunting masterpiece of an episode.

[@OlPalJoe]

one of the best depictions of the surrealist feeling of a dream, done on a shoestring budget

[@inconcert]

This wasn't a shoestring budget, that tiny table lamp costs $500 champ. That's short for champion.

[@stupididiot6993]

This shit was not cheap I’m sure

[@OlPalJoe]

@@stupididiot6993...it's a room with curtains

[@DVD013009]

They spent all their money making that floor

[@S1aughtahyou]

It's not a dream either. Somebody tell this kid to watch twin peaks

[@Czar98]

His face. Cooper’s expression speaks for him in this scene. White as a sheet, written on his features an expression of horror mixed with a tinge of confusion. His widened eyes bursting at the moorings of his eyelids. He was unprepared for this. This is pure shock. This is pure terror. Never will he speak a word for 25 years… Gone to the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper. What year is it???

[@kc1john]

ABC execs: Do whatever the hell you want with the finale because we don’t care anymore. Lynch: Okay, I will.

[@alicebertovsky2490]

The moment he starts singing gives me goosebumps. It's the scariest moment in the series, in my opinion. Lynch is a genius of surrealism!

[@austinitsua]

One of those moments where I have no idea what's happening, but it still makes me feel good.

[@aseelanza]

And scared to shit too

[@miguelturk3562]

Dale Cooper has just stepped into Hell and is doomed

[@Kcpvvy15]

@@miguelturk3562it’s limbo not hell

[@STOPSYPHER]

Nothing about this scene should feel good

[@MuchKoku]

"Cooper's been kicking ass since Episode 1. He's got this." *_! E L I H W N A E M_* "...uh, oh."

[@NebLleb]

[cue cliffhanger ending that was partially resolved in the movie and wouldn't be fully resolved until the third season in 2017]

[@AugustusRex-nk8ze]

One of the most beautiful nightmares ever filmed.

[@TheWizardYeof]

Absolutely incredible

[@Jackp2003]

What do you like most about it?

[@BCS1105]

@@Jackp2003 That’s a hard question. If this scene doesn’t affect you in some way, in any way, there’s something wrong with you and yet, those of us who are affected by it, we struggle to put it into words. It’s something truly both wonderful and strange.

[@Jackp2003]

@@BCS1105 Yes, exactly, and I wasn’t saying I didn’t like it btw! I love it just as much as everyone else. Yeah, I can’t put it into words either, it’s all about the “feeling”.

[@skitstroppo]

@@Jackp2003 There's something terminal about it. It's the final. It's the back to the old evil, being trapped and sort of ensnared by it. The sax that comes on as the Man from another Place comes out of the curtains dancing is really haunting. The long dragged out season 2 that shifts the focus from Bob to Windom Earle really helps with this, because here Lynch really takes over again and they're back to the Lodge in a very grand and eerie style.

[@skitstroppo]

there's also something really creepy about Jimmy Scott in this, as Coop enters it sounds like an old woman singing, but when we can see the singer it's a man we've never seen before and that is sort of detached from the setting. He also doesn't sound in reverse like everyone else in the black lodge. this with the violently flickering lights really gives you the sense of something being really wrong

[@MichelNJoia]

Best show ever. Watched the whole show 3 times so far.

[@peacecookie34]

There’s always music in the air…

[@Jo_HGS]

I've watched this show very recently, I finished this season + the movie Fire Walk With Me last night, I was up to 4 am watching it, that's how great it was for me. For all intents and purposes I do think this show is pure art, everything can be intepreted, there's hidden meanings here and there, I really love that. I admit though, the first season I felt lost up until the last few episodes and I thought it was all just an overrated 90s show but then it all picked up on the second season and my God... what a trip. I'm planning on watching the 3rd season but quite honestly I'm happy I didn't watch this as a kid, I'd be traumatized. All in all, Cooper is definitely a role model for me - I simply loved this character in all aspects and I never expected to have such a great opinion on an actor I only knew from his role in How I Met Your Mother as "The Captain", brilliant role nonetheless but I feel Dale Cooper is definitely the role of his lifetime. Can't really find the words to express how much I ended up loving this show.

[@ben14326]

Definitely check out Blue Velvet if you get a chance. It's a David Lynch film that also stars Kyle MacLachlan.

[@johnsmith7140]

How did you like the return ? And what year is this?

[@movieman4710]

^

[@alienanxiety]

I can’t imagine what this must have been like the night it aired 32 years ago on primetime ABC network television. Talk about water cooler TV!

[@celebrethil]

I remember very little about what happened in the episode but I remember watching it. My parents and I were visiting a family friend and staying the night. I remember not really understanding everything -- I hadn't watched the last half of the season and hadn't understood much of the first, since I was fairly young -- but I thought I was keeping it together fairly well. Then someone came up behind me and startled me, and I nearly jumped out of my skin. The adults were all stuck between being sympathetic and laughing their asses off: I was white as a sheet, trembling, and otherwise totally unmoving. Good times.

[@Kcpvvy15]

This is truly the highest peak television has ever reached for me. The episode in general, but this particular scene moves me in a way I can’t describe. One of the most artistic and powerful scenes I’ve ever seen, perfectly encapsulates cooper’s fear and bewilderment. It gives a pay off to something we waited 30+ episodes to see and experience and wow did David lynch nail it

[@tenzinsmith]

Prob my favorite scene in TV history

[@masterzombie161]

Part that gets me is the shadow by the couch. Definitely one of the most sinister moments in film history.

[@lucasreis7897]

The mfap slowly turning his head to look at cooper is down terrifying

[@dollcefina]

mfap??

[@dollcefina]

Oh, the Man From Another Place. Sorry, not used to that acronym, esp in lowercase, lol! 😹

[@danielguy3581]

Reminds one of a certain winged animal.

[@rustypatriot4335]

mfap

[@gstein20000]

When you realize you’ve left the dream of twin peaks and entered the nightmare that is the red room

[@grosezero8834]

Jimmy Scott singing "and I'll see you" and the lights flickering and everything getting darker is maybe my favorite scene of the whole show you just know evil won at that point

[@Helen-Kereru]

This is my favorite scene in Twin Peaks, perhaps even in any TV show. I wonder if Jimmy Scott was a fan of the show?

[@johnsmith7140]

​@seofon I foolishly didn't get around to checking oTwin Peaks until a year before the Return, but I did see this dude open up for and sing a few tunes with Bob Weir in '92. It was great.

[@penguinproductions8829]

I love this scene so much. It would’ve been great to see more of Maddy, Leland and Laura’s doppelgängers (although, if Judy is The Doppelgänger then technically we did get to see more of her) in The Return, it’s no surprise Coop retreated into a child-like, catatonic state after 25 years of falling through reality and running from the doppelgängers of people he couldn’t save, not to mention JUDY

[@adofilth]

Lynch is a genius.

[@ihatenwo]

Damn Lynch got ALWAYs that ONE surreal-trippyass scene with great music (or no music) like Lost highway creepy man scene / Mulholand Drive cowboy / Blue Velvet 'in dreams' scene, or / Wild at Heart , night driving scene

[@TovKafur]

Don't forget the last encounter with Phantom Man in the Inner Empire. ...nothing is scarier

[@ihatenwo]

@@TovKafur Oh i haven't seen Inland Empire. Is it good

[@TovKafur]

@@ihatenwo I disliked it tbh, literally falling asleep mid movie when watching online with some friends. As much as i love Lynch, it's just too much weirdness and confusion for sake of themselves, altho a few moments were certainly memorable (like creepy rabbits comedy show).

[@CITGProductions]

Inland Empire is my favorite David Lynch film. As the other person said, it is weird and confusing. But I think it is his film that best replicates a sequence of nightmares, it has the most fragmented psyche portrayed in any of his works, and the structure is insane and actually clever. Laura Dern’s performance is also excellent and I couldn’t imagine anyone doing it better. I recommend watching it in the dark with good TV and sound.

[@ihatenwo]

@@CITGProductions sknaht thgirla

[@TheObserver37]

The shadow that the marble statue gives off, almost looks as though it’s a dark figure creeping towards dale. In the lodge you were faced with your true self and your spirit is tested. I don’t know too many men who can pass that test.😂

[@noahsherwood2445]

0:57 reminds me of the way Nina Simone carried some of her notes, hauntingly beautiful.

[@the.anticlimacus]

Her performance of Strange Fruit , alludes to lynching victims being strung from poplar trees and has a lot of similarities to this track in terms of cadence and tone. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ-ZdX6retGYi8k

[@sonofjesus2109]

My chills have chills and I don’t even know the context 😂

[@goliath8922]

Mesmerizing

[@loganperry5167]

Engrossing in a way most TV and not much film can reach.Thanks

[@L.BCinematography]

The fact this only purgatory in the tp universe makes the idea of a hell even scarier here

[@piloutchekeu52]

Prelude of thirty best minutes of tv history

[@Jokervision744]

Like my dreams, sometimes ghostly, but surprisingly reinvigorating.

[@fizma33]

what a fcking masterpiece Twin Peaks is

[@scarcent]

i finally finished it today and this part was so fucking insane i could not look away. what finally convinced me to watch it was when i literally dreamed about the black lodge. i remember the red curtains and the black and white floor so vividly. unfortunately my dream changed to something that made me feel really paranoid and i managed to make myself wake up and when i did i had a horrible headache. ill never forget that day and now that i’ve watched it i hope to dream of it again

[@mspeter97]

It's nice of the people of the Black Lodge to hire a singer for Cooper's arrival. Now, if only he were singing about Douglas fir trees instead...

[@CookieThug]

this feels like you’ve finally made it to the big event!

[@davidmccray5751]

0:28 1 min. Me at the Christmas familiy' dinner after i returned from the bar with my friends.

[@coreya603]

The pacing slows to a crawl, because it’s already game over. Cooper lost the moment he stepped through the curtain, he just doesn’t know it yet.

[@zypalitra8080]

Always loved it so much. In every other situation Coop's had a plan or at least an idea of how to get out of a sticky situation. Not here, though - he's completely FUCKED.

[@johnsmith7140]

​@@zypalitra8080Yeah, at the end of the return, too.

[@cardinalcopia2762]

Goosebumps

[@Zaddy1000]

That saxophone sounds so resolute, like it’s evil celebrating victory

[@davidmccray5751]

The teacher: "This is your new special classmate, be kind to him." Him: 0:26 Me: 0:35

[@UkraineJames2000]

The season 2 finale must have been insane in 1991. I wish I was alive back then just to experience it.

[@charger9105]

Mesmerizing.

[@dalestaley5637]

The Red Room is terrifying.

[@LordMarlle]

Chills

[@suncore598]

Dale is officially on the other side of the Looking Glass.

[@tygahplays]

When u and the bois finally get together

[@CookieThug]

good song, the welcoming to the red room

[@hermanios2152]

Does anyone know where this is from? I own the blu ray box set and it doesn’t even look this good.

[@noahletwinski6955]

Paramount +. The original series and The Return got the 4K treatment along with an good amount of David Lynch movies including FWWM on streaming services.

[@californialove964]

The Nine Inch Nails!

[@zerogivesbeats]

He's not him, but I had the same feeling watching the 3rd season

[@Sand-Walker13]

​@@zerogivesbeats I can see what you mean

[@BrettRebman]

y’all should listen to Bohren and der club of gore if you like the music in this scene!

[@oopsieipoopsied8041]

I constantly have this moment stuck in my head from when I was younger. The finale of Twin Peaks burned it so deep into my head "this is the greatest show ever" I met my fiance introducing her to it

[@Paulo_Iran]

:,)

[@Pauliran25]

🥸

[@NicoAnimation]

I'll see you on TV.

[@wakeforldmusic]

🖤

[@JManthegamerdude]

If i were Truman i woulda went in with him no matter what

[@BIacklce]

liminal space prototype

[@Djimee_Andrax]

Of course. I’m surprised that nobody ever mentions the Black Lodge as one of the first representations of modern liminal space

[@BIacklce]

@@Djimee_Andrax bc The Shining beat it by 10+ years

[@Djimee_Andrax]

@@BIacklce i don’t agree, these are not the same types of mazes. If we could associate the Overlook hostel with liminal spaces, we could associate the Black Lodge with the Backrooms…

[@BIacklce]

@Titanboo23 yes. It all yields the same kind of discomfort

[@Phantas-ma]

The only discomfort in regards to the Shining is watching it @@BIacklce

[@DarkAngelEU]

I love the references to Nina Simone and Walt Whitman in the song. Very ominous.

[@MrKrisrey]

I really understand the soul eater reference now.

[@Google777com]

Дейл Купер в шоке. Отлично играет.

[@Anyfantis0]

what a marvel

[@Bob.Roberts]

Agent Cooper knows that every room he enters, no matter how disjointed, bizarre, or even ordinary it may seem, has some kind of significance. The one seems to confuse him to the point that he is rigidly silent and staring.

[@a-project-96]

...

[@eirikwegga]

Dale Cooper has finally gone one step too far

[@OldManRiv3r]

I am fully convinced Twin Peaks really is just spaghetti being thrown at a wall, and Lynch pretends to be all enigmatic, but it really is just what he assumes artsy metaphor is supposed to be. Fight me.

[@celphiro9372]

That’s a miserable way to engage with art like this.

[@dafunkycanuck]

I think the art is knowing which spaghetti to throw, how to throw it, etc.

[@plasticweapon]

nah, i'm not gonna fight you. you're not worth it.

[@daveshif2514]

no, he smoked a bunch of weed and studied a shit ton of esoteric philosophy, and made a bunch of art films and got a partner who is an acclaimed mystery writer, and THEN threw spaghetti at the wall and then rearranged said spaghetti into a near perfect character development driven plot narrative soap opera the likes of which tv had NEVER seen before, and became the most successful tv show of the time... but sure, it means nothing. lynch himself would probably agree, but not for the reasons that you THINK he would agree. the fact is, it isnt above or below you, it IS you, it is in you. that is the point of these kinds of stories, to point to something in the subconscious mind, whether you like it... or not.

[@plasticweapon]

@@daveshif2514 weed has nothing to do with anything.

[@lusilverrr]

god fuck this show

[@plasticweapon]

and you.

[@lusilverrr]

@@plasticweaponyou as well