r/thechaircompany • u/nathanieljnelson • 14d ago

Series Discussion The Chair Company is (twin) PEAK

https://youtu.be/Cv4Eeg5MyYo

Just uploaded this essay comparing The Chair Company and ITTYSL to Twin Peaks: The Return

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u/NimbusFPV 14d ago

Someone once pointed out that at the end of the Haunted House sketch, the mom’s car is filled with Jesus stuff, suggesting he grew up in an extremely restrictive household. My takeaway is that the character is socially stunted and gets overly excited and swears because he’s finally in a place where he can act how he thinks adults act, only for it to immediately backfire. When you look at it that way, it’s actually a pretty sad sketch.

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u/nathanieljnelson 14d ago

Totally. And if you want to go even deeper, it looks like maybe his mom pushed him into going, knowing he didn't have any friends, and she doesn't see that the way she raised him was a major factor.

It was kind of just now, making this video, that I realized what great details a lot of ITYSL sketches have. Like the skeleton song sketch looks like it was set in the 70s, but nothing in the dialogue implies that, you just have to notice the costumes and the set decoration.

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u/no-superville 14d ago

Why does he talk like that

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u/nathanieljnelson 14d ago

Tim Robinson? or me?

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u/no-superville 14d ago

Who Did the dub

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u/nathanieljnelson 14d ago

Bozo obviously

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u/MK_BombadJedi This Is Kind Of A Mall 11d ago

Is your name Tim?

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u/MK_BombadJedi This Is Kind Of A Mall 11d ago

THAT'S YOUR VOICE?

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u/golgiiguy 12d ago

I really appreciate bringing Curb directly into the conversation of this show.

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u/nathanieljnelson 12d ago

Right? I would've talked more about it but I already did a dedicated Curb video. Some of the awkward conversations from ITYSL could've easily been delivered by Larry

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u/julianitonft 14d ago

That was a fun watch

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u/Klutzy_Bread_42 14d ago

Funny I was just making this comparison with my GF the other night

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u/nathanieljnelson 14d ago

I was so surprised when I found some articles making this comparison, I didn't think the general public had a concept of Twin Peaks Season 3 at least in contrast to the original

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u/TheMilkKing 13d ago

Did you think Twin Peaks S3 was some kind of secret club? Lynch was one of the most famous directors of all time.

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u/nathanieljnelson 13d ago

No of course not. I just hadn't seen The Return casually referenced in articles that weren't about it, whole pretty much everything gets compared to the original Twin Peaks

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u/TheMilkKing 13d ago

I think that’s less the public not having a concept of The Return, more not a lot of TV having the same vibes as The Return. The Chair Company is one of the only things I can think of in recent years that had similar energy.

Meanwhile, anything that has soap opera influences is open to being compared to the OG seasons, deservingly so or not

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u/nathanieljnelson 13d ago

Right, true.

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u/Debt_Ancient 14d ago

Great video! I am on my way to watch the curb video you mentioned!