God Help Us, Twin Peaks Might Come Back After All

Late last week, there was a rumor going around the Internet that David Lynch had had a meeting with NBC executives to relaunch Twin Peaks. The rumor was that Lynch was planning to set the new series twenty-something years after the original series final episode (which aired on June 10, 1991), with Bob still trapped in Dale Cooper’s body, with as many actors and actresses from the original series that he possibly could… and despite the fact that I am about the biggest Twin Peaks fan you’ve ever met, up to and including being one of the only two people I know who paid to see Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me in the theater (the other being the poor girl who had never seen Twin Peaks that I dragged to the flick), I didn’t mention it here because the story was obviously bullshit. Because it looks like the original rumor came from a 4Chan posting, and therefore without attached pictures of Lynch and his proposal, it must be considered suspect since it does not involve cats.

And that was a good choice, since it turns out that original rumor was, in fact, bullshit. Twin Peaks Co-Producer Mark Frost debunked the whole story on Twitter:

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by. Sincerely yours, @mfrost11

— Mark Frost (@mfrost11) January 2, 2013

So that’s it. Game over. Nothing to see here. Right?

Well, kinda.

Christmas In February At Christmas: New Community Christmas Episode Clip Released

It is Christmas Eve, and if your family is anything like mine, you are currently in your family’s living room, wearing an “early gift” of a truly horrific sweater, being frogmarched in front of neighbors you don’t know while Johnny Mathis’s Insipid Christmas (or whatever the actual title is) plays on the cassette deck, and pretending to answer a work email on your smartphone when you’re really blogging for help.

It’s enough to make you wish for a Christmas with your friends, with simple gifts and lots and lots of inexpensive tequila. The kind of Christmas we used to see on Community, before it got punted to February, 2013. Well, fear not: NBC has released a clip of the “Christmas” episode of Community season 4 – probably due to air in April – showing good friends swapping simple gifts… either that, or it shows an irresponsible degenerate putting innocent kittens in terrible, terrible danger. You can see the goodness, which will distract you from the real-life questions of when you’ll settle down already, after the jump.