@JenLRossman The behind the scenes here is Sherilyn Fenn hated her role in the original script and asked Lynch to remove it (some of it, like getting attacked by Richard, went to Audrey's mom) and then he wrote this for her instead.
@JenLRossman They wanted to ask David Lynch to play this part, but were worried about talking to him and getting told he didn't want them to do the episode. Lynch's daughter later mentioned he liked it, however.
@JenLRossman Originally the population was 5120 but ABC told them to add a digit to the sign for 51201, since they felt such a small town would be unrelatable. But a later official tie-in book would say it was indeed 5120 and there's a mistake on the sign.
@JenLRossman Writers did want us to ship them, Kyle MacLachlan vetoed it because of the age difference and because Lara Flynn Boyle (Donna, dating MacLachlan at the time, didn't get along with Sherilyn Fenn) wasn't happy about it.
@JenLRossman "I reject absolutely: revenge, aggression and retaliation." Good speech but didn't you try to have him fired last season? Seems pretty retaliatory. . .
@JenLRossman They used to measure a ship's speed by tossing a log of wood overboard and seeing how long it takes the ship to get past it. The book you recorded that data in was a "logbook", and eventually that was what books you recorded other stuff in were called
One Hundred Years of Solitude is only 400 pages long. That's a year of solitude every four pages. Three months of solitude per page. Every line is a day and a half of solitude. I defy you to find a book with a better paper to solitude ratio.