Post #94017 by tikibars on Tue, Jun 1, 2004 11:04 PM

Waaaayyyyy back in 1998, I wrote on the Tiki Bar Review Pages:

"In 1990, there was exactly one person perpetuating and popularizing the Tiki. It wasn't me, and it wasn't even Otto and the gang over at The Tiki News just yet. It was genious film director, painter, sculptor, photographer,(etc.), David Lynch.

For early episodes of Twin Peaks, Lynch and his Peaks partner Mark Frost concocted Dr. Lawrence Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn), a wacky psychiatrist with a passion for Tiki Bars. Jacoby was fond of flashing the "hang loose" hand sign, and had a huge mural of a Hawaiian seascape on his office wall.
Careful viewers will spot a half dozen Tiki masks and other Tiki objects in his office.

During a first season episode in which James Hurley ( James Marshall) and Donna Hayward (Laura Flynn Boyle) search Jacoby's office, they find such treasures as a machine made to simulate the sound of waves, and a box full of paper cocktail umbrellas. Each umbrella is labeled with the date and location of a signifigant event in Jacoby's life that occurred as each umbrella-garnished drink being was consumed.

The eccentric and even nerdy Jacoby continually longed for his Hawaiian girlfriend, who finally made a cameo during Jacoby's last appearance in the series. The dorky doctor and his gorgeous Hula Babe girlfriend happily jetted off to Hawaii, and out of the series. "

...so, how much does it suck that (because of ownership rights issues) the pilot episode isn't on this DVD boxed set, and also that Artisian has no plans to release the 22 episodes of season 2?

At least you can freeze-frame Jacoby's office with perfect digital clarity now!