'Donahue' with the cast of 'Twin Peaks' 1990-05-21 (Part 5 of 5)

A few days before the finale of the first season of 'Twin Peaks,' Phil Donahue interviewed cast members Peggy Lipton, Piper Laurie, Dana Ashbrook, Madchen Amick, Eric DaRe, Sheryl Lee and series co-creator Mark Frost.

[@drlindafalafel560]

the audience questions are unusually intelligent and interesting for a daytime talk show

[@vonnegutpunchforyouratlass9612]

Especially the last question, while the credits are rolling...

[@reneeforrester]

i was thinking the same thing!

[@RockMeBundy]

Yeah especially the lady asking about incest.

[@gaywizard2000]

People used to be smarter.

[@BookClubDisaster]

Before everyone was dumbed down by the Internet and Springer.

[@daflotsam]

01:06 Nailed it.

[@beflygelt]

I didn't even get that but it makes perfect sense that this was some real sneaky foreshadowing on Lynch's part. Props to that woman

[@funguy8801]

And yet the producer deflected it with humor, resulting in the audience laughing at the suggestion. She probably felt embarrassed after that, even though she was spot on.

[@RockMeBundy]

What a stupid question.

[@mungomidge1090]

Mark Frost definitely squirms a bit there trying not to give anything away.

[@lalarimekaki5173]

wow she got it

[@RadioFirestage558]

PMSL at Mark Frost's response to the casket question!

[@Dreamskater100]

PMSL?

[@littleplutomen]

​@@Dreamskater100piss myself laughing (i assume)

[@Dreamskater100]

Must be. So many acronyms now, it's ridiculous.@@littleplutomen

[@cecelia8885]

This is great. Can you imagine getting on set in audience and finding out it's the Twin Peaks cast? Right before the last Season 1 episode -which aired May 2,I believe,of 1990. I was in Donahue audience once. It was a show about people having affairs. You really don't know the topic until moments before it starts.

[@Sue71]

"That's a stunt log" - LOL!

[@oscarwilde9724]

"Ted bundy stacked heads along the highway" [audience laughs in unison]

[@nathanjs55]

Live-audience television shows don’t need a director like David Lynch to create a surreal feeling...

[@brennycrager208]

Eric's hair. Just Eric's hair.

[@oscarwilde9724]

06:32 should have been in the show

[@funguy8801]

That's agent Dale Cooper's aged doppleganger travelling back in time from the black lodge ... just to f*ck with us.

[@waIIflower]

The donuts were a nice touch at the end there.

[@gennarolombardi1067]

I agree

[@XI_Daisy_XI]

Suzanne 😋👍 ✨🍩✨🍩✨🍩✨

[@maychen]

I was just in North Bend this morning. I think of that as more "Twin Peaks" than Snoqualmie. I ate at the Double R for breakfast (now Twede's.)

[@MrAphex117]

Best fucking show ever put on television period.

[@Manbagdeluxe]

Wow 10 months ago haha, I'd forgotten about this. I burst out laughing then and I've burst out laughing now. Something else made me laugh this time though. Just the way Donahue says "I'm sure you're all getting mail?" And then it cuts to the sinister, smirking man. He's definitely either sent them a letter bomb or some sexually disturbing photos of himself taken in the abattoir he works at.

[@Manbagdeluxe]

6:32 = Laura Palmer's real killer.

[@aromadiaries]

HAHAHAHAHA good one

[@keimo2007]

funny program, too bad that ray wise couldn't be part of this!

[@gabbyh3979]

lol @ them cutting out after the last question.

[@DarkSlayer977]

What small town that doesn't have a dark secret anyway.

[@amirightPeter]

That town expose was sus af.

[@daeasterbunnies83]

Wonder if I can still order the transcript...

[@BookClubDisaster]

Running it on Saturdays killed it. Why would they take a successful show and move it like that? Lynch went on Letterman and pleaded with ABC to move it back to a weeknight.

[@MagicBasement]

They play Led Zeppelin's "In the Light" at 1:49

[@Vingul]

Damn, didn't notice. But thought it sounded familiar.

[@TheUsualSuspekt]

Thanks for uploading this. I had this in B/w from a torrent site but it just seemed unwatchable. Color makes all the difference :)

[@JesusCristo2002]

I would be so pissed if I was Mark Frost or any of the cast members present. Between Donahue, the line of questioning and the questions themselves - it's unbelievable. The majority of them lack insight or substance and many are shallow comments on the show.

[@erikandrus4387]

What are some questions you would have liked them to ask?

[@prematurelybald]

Guy at 4:58 looks like Jerry

[@sweiland75]

Where's Joan Chen?

[@ThePhotographyHobbyist]

Hey wait! Is that Lis Wiehl from Fox News at 4:14 ??? Sure looks like her (she used to have curly hair during the Gary Condit news way back when...)

[@greatleapforwards]

serial killer at 6:33 ...

[@beflygelt]

was about to post this... lmao

[@tnowak]

Next on Donahue... Donald Trump, LOL

[@socketscdr]

FREE GLAZED DONUTS!?!?!?!

[@NewWaveFan1]

They opened a restaurant called "Twin Peaks" in my city... But it's featuring girls in lumberjack outfits with "Peaks" being boobs ahahahaha.

[@ferrarim5p75]

Send $3 for transcript to the show? Ha ha... It's now free on the Internet!

[@toadytown]

snow-qhal-a-mee Oh jeez...

[@gaywizard2000]

Right!

[@lalarimekaki5173]

did he just say 'prom twink'

[@gaywizard2000]

YES!

[@sartanko]

Hah, just what I thought.

[@dikeabinch385]

Mark Frost doesn't give away much

[@gaywizard2000]

It's not snow-qual-a-me it's snow-qual-me, Donahue and so many Americans just don't try or are willfully ignorant!

[@pessimystica]

yah, some of the audience member questions were just... silly. I often wonder what the actors are thinking, even though they just sit there politely smiling & nodding.

[@DouglasRickard]

Mark Frost looks like he walked straight off the set of "Newhart".

[@lalarimekaki5173]

i love this comment.

[@fellowcitizen]

3:32 Welcome to Twin Peaks: "We're so mellow it's pathetic" :)

[@fellowcitizen]

"That's actually a stunt-log."

[@YourLoyalDeserter]

They can just use Led Zeppelin randomly on TV like that?

[@PhantomCooper]

Just Lol'd extra hard.

[@GoatyGoatGirl]

Anyone else think that, overall, the idea of the show was better than the actual show.

[@augustopaolucci6444]

no.

[@mystic_disciple]

No

[@teob.3047]

No

[@nobody_gtk]

2nd season? yes. otherwise no