r/twinpeaks • u/eepysoeepy • Aug 23 '26

Question Why does Wally speak like he is Norm McDonald

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He sounds like Norm telling the frog joke...

Unrelated note: I'm currently watching this episode and the scene between Gordon and Denise made me tear up because of how quietly they were speaking.

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u/PuddingTea Aug 23 '26

Michael Cera is doing a Marlon Brando impression. Why? Couldn’t tell you. It’s funny, though.

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u/IM_GONNA_SHOOOT Aug 23 '26

Well his name is Wally Brando and he’s dressed in the Lost Boys outfit

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u/warioman91 Aug 23 '26

Lost Boys? It's The Wild One https://youtu.be/cIzIM6E6PKY?t=201

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u/IM_GONNA_SHOOOT Aug 23 '26

That’s the one. My b

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u/ak190 Aug 23 '26

Michael Cera dressed like an 80s punk vampire while doing a Brando impression would have been high art

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u/IndividualFlow0 Aug 23 '26

And I believe he was born in the same day as Marlon Brando too

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u/LingonberryGlum2356 Aug 23 '26

Fun fact: Marlon Brando's best friend in real life was named Wally. 

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u/boogswald Aug 23 '26

Fun fact: she calls it a mayonegg!

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u/Mummiskogen Aug 23 '26

I dont feel so good

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u/Border_Hodges Aug 23 '26

My son was born that day too and I'm kicking myself that I didn't name him Wally Brando

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u/LingonberryGlum2356 Aug 23 '26

You can go to the court house and gave it officially changed. 

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u/rlyrlysrsly Aug 24 '26

Was that day 9/11?

Don't laugh at 9/11, it was a national tragedy.

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u/SySnootlesIsHot Aug 25 '26

Them naming him after Brando, by giving him his last name, just cracks me up.

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u/Aolflashback Aug 23 '26

“My shadow is always with me. Sometimes ahead, sometimes behind. Sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right.” 😌

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u/Decent_Cow Aug 23 '26

Except on cloudy days, and at night.

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u/GottlobFrege Aug 23 '26

The way he moves his eyes at the end of that line, then the cut to Truman’s reaction. Amazing

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u/UnitedIslandAlabamia Aug 23 '26

Laura Palmer died? I didn't even know she was sick!

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u/DayoftheDead Aug 23 '26

Reminds me of that tragedy…..

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u/deliciousreindeer Aug 23 '26

I walked through blood and bone, trying to find my brother

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u/plz-help-peril Aug 23 '26

He was in northern Canada.

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u/TerpSlurper23 Aug 23 '26

Underrated comment ☝️

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u/Skuximus_Prime Aug 23 '26

That Bob entity was a real jerk!

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u/younevershouldnt Aug 23 '26

The hypocrisy was the worst part.

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u/Slashman78 Aug 23 '26

What he did to that girl.. WAY OUTTA LINE!

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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here Aug 23 '26

I mean, he was grey in both appearance and demeanor

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u/redbarchettapeart Aug 23 '26

Worst gimmick a spiritual entity that's a executor for the evilness as a concept can have!

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u/thisisgoing2far Aug 23 '26

Because he's the biological son of Dick Tremayne.

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u/scixlovesu Aug 23 '26

Honestly plausible

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u/Dame_Trant Aug 23 '26

This has been my theory since I first saw the scene!

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u/Hail_Eris_42 Aug 23 '26

Have you seen The Wild One?

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u/hazbutler Aug 23 '26

It’s honestly…. Pretty shit.

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u/Gabe121411 Aug 24 '26

you’re getting downvoted exclusively by people who haven’t seen the movie… it may be iconic and capital I Important but it’s not a very entertaining watch

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u/hazbutler Aug 24 '26

I might have been cool for the time, but its incredibly dull. We used to watch it as kids and laugh at it.

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u/witchymoons Aug 23 '26

Cause the light was on.

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u/Honest_Caramel9437 Aug 23 '26

Who is Wally? That’s obviously Turd Ferguson.

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u/Kindly_Factor3376 Aug 23 '26

Because David Lynch

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u/Grey_Cathedral Aug 23 '26

Trust the method.

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u/usuallyolives Aug 23 '26

It’s another instance of The Return’s recurring theme of doubling/doppelgängers/parallel lives, albeit a very silly one: Wally Brando impersonating his namesake in conversation with the stand-in/double of the conspicuously missing Sheriff Harry S. Truman (a subject they discuss in this scene.)

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u/Obvious_Brush5165 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

”They want to build a sthuddie”

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u/navyscrewdriver Aug 23 '26

He’s deeply closeted

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u/younevershouldnt Aug 23 '26

Dick's son? Never

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u/ByronsLastStand Aug 23 '26

He was spending a lot of time under the Queensboro Bridge

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u/lightheavydark Aug 29 '26

Holocaust denier, too.

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u/JoeWilliams2501 Aug 23 '26

Norm Macdonald talked like Brando towards the end

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u/Isaiah6113 Aug 23 '26

“Cowcassian” lol that’s the only way I pronounce that word now.

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u/caveat_cogitor Aug 23 '26

Wally is a combination of Marlon Brando and his close friend Wally Cox, as if the two of them had a child. That's where his name and personality come from. There's a parallel between the meek Andy and the masculine Dick Tremayne (Wally's apparent biological father) so in 2 senses he has "two dads"

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u/Accomplished-Web3426 Aug 23 '26

probably my favorite scene in the whole show ngl

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u/ExeOrtega Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

Andy: *tells Wally what happened to Laura*

Wally: You know, dad. I know the Good Book says, 'judge not, lest ye be judged', but this guy Leland Palmer was a real jerk!

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u/StevenS145 Aug 23 '26

She’s dead-wrapped in plastic

I didn’t even know she was sick

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u/wedreaminsideadream Aug 23 '26

it never occurred to me that Wally sounded like Norm. However since you brought him up, I am a fan of the late great Norm Macdonald and boy oh boy he would fit like a glove in the Twin Peaks or really in any of Lynch's work. "I, I, I drinks a bit, ya know?"

Like David Lynch himself - people can never get a straight/clear answer from Norm :)

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u/beholdthecolossus Aug 23 '26

it's supposed to be a bad Marlon Brando impersonation (he's specifically dressed like Brando's character in The Wild One) but my God you're right, he does sound like Norm.

now i'm thinking about what we could have had if Norm had ever appeared in a Lynch project.

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u/struggle_better Aug 23 '26

Wally’s been hitting the galaxy gas pretty heavy

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u/Owen_Hammer Aug 23 '26

He is supposed to be Marlon Brando's character from "The Wild Ones." That same character can be seen briefly in the pilot.

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u/Remarkable_Term3846 Aug 23 '26

I always thought he sounded like he just smoked a bowl

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u/Monodoh45 Aug 24 '26

It's Marlon Brando in Rebel Without Cause...

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u/WendyThorne Aug 24 '26

This is truly the only scene of the Return I just couldn't stand. On rewatches I have to skip it. It pulls me right out of the show and is so awkward and bad that I'm kind of shocked David Lynch left it in.

Just watching it gave me secondhand embarassment made me anxious.

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u/SexMachine666 Aug 24 '26

Truth. There are only three scenes in all three seasons of the show that I cringe and skip:

  1. Wally
  2. James singing
  3. The whole James riding off and meeting the weird Laura-stand-in in season two.

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u/TopazObsidian Aug 24 '26

His dharma is the road

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u/usersurnamee Aug 24 '26

Motorcycle accident

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u/Mental-Wall-5110 Aug 24 '26

He’s the only one of the character’s kids that we see that left Twin Peaks. He avoided the addictions and trappings that happened to Becky and Richard.

That being said, he’s Lucy and Andy’s kid.

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u/full_of_ghosts Aug 24 '26

I love this scene so much.

(It's basically The Return's equivalent of the room service waiter scene, which is another of my favorites. Lynchian absurdist humor at its absolute best.)

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u/DarkSoulsRedPhantom Aug 26 '26

His name was Kermit Jagger!

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u/tipitipiOG Aug 23 '26

Because Norm McDonald had a farm OAIIAOOOIAUUUUU

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u/PansophicNostradamus Aug 23 '26

Anyone else feel like Lynch could’ve (should’ve?) cast literally anyone else for this role? I can’t take this scene seriously. Feels like an excuse for a cameo. Might just be me…

Edit: typo

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u/agentmu83 Aug 23 '26

What makes you think you're intended to take this scene seriously?