30 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestSylvia Hudson, a class A bitch & Betty's sister, appears on the show and insults Mr. Peanuts the network's children show star. Betty gets the crew and the viewing public to bring Mr. Peanut's spirits up.
The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Only two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.
Acting
Miguel Ferrer's sneering network exec is pure acidic joy.
Production
Uncanny 1950s studio sets that feel slightly rotting.
Writing
Lynch-Frost dialogue so stilted it loops back to genius.
Creators
David Lynch, Mark Frost
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
ABC scheduled it against Cheers and Murder, She Wrote, then acted shocked when no one watched. The fourth episode was scripted but never filmed.
This was Frost and Lynch's immediate follow-up to Twin Peaks' cancellation—their revenge on network television was making something networks literally could not process.
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