A fan video created by Dominick Nero, which imagines aSeinfeldrevival in the style ofTwin Peaks: The Return,has garnered a lot of attention on YouTube, evencatching the eye of Jason Alexander, most famous for his role as George Costanza onthe NBC sitcom. The video was posted Tuesday and went viral gaining over 30,000 views in its first day.
BothTwin PeaksandSeinfeldhave dedicated fans and both had untraditional reunions over two decades after they aired. The seventh season finale ofCurb Your Enthusiasminvolves the making of aSeinfeldrevival and reunites Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Wayne Knight, while Kyle MacLachlan and a large number of other cast members from the originalTwin Peaksseries appear in David Lynch and Mark Frost’sminiseriesTwin Peaks: The Return.
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There are a lot of subtle references in Dominick Nero’s passion project: Jason Alexander in a wig stands in for Bob, the set ofThe Merv Griffin Showserves as the iconic Red Room and anyone who has seen the memorable “Part 8” ofThe Returnwill have a flashback when “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima” plays over galactic black and white images.TheSeinfeldthemeis slowed down in one portion of the fan video as a clever nod to the unique way composer Angelo Badalamenti recycled and distorted his recording of theTwin Peakstheme to fit the mysterious moods of the show.
Twin Peaks: The Returnchallenged viewers by radically expanding the scope of the original series while also having a dramatically different tone from the network melodramatic feel that made the original a nostalgic classic.Twin Peaksused and subverted soap opera elements whileSeinfeld,often referred to as “a show about nothing,” utilized and subverted the sitcom genre in its own way.The NBC comedy,with its cheesy and catchy theme song, its existential comedy, and the nostalgia surrounding it, is well-suited for thisTwin Peaks: The Return-style revival.
It doesn’t seem likely, giventhe selective nature of David Lynch’s direction, that there would be any kind of crossover betweenTwin PeaksandSeinfeld. It is nice to see actors like Jason Alexander and Kyle MacLachlan engaging with fans who dream of these fandoms intersecting. MacLachlan, who plays Dale Cooper inTwin Peaks, retweeted a post by the fanTwin Peaks/Seinfeldcrossover meme account “@seinpeaks”, saying, “maybe this should exist.” It seems he also thinks there is something to this odd-couple TV show pairing.
Seinfeldwill be available on Netflix in 2021 andTwin Peaks: The Returnis available on Hulu.
