Image via Showtime site and Reddit user SnazzyPat
A few weeks ago, a Twin Peaks fan apparently did what any normal Twin Peaks fan would do when they found a $40 life-sized cutout of everyone's favorite rock-throwing FBI agent, Dale Cooper, for sale on the Showtime site: They bought it. But when the cutout arrived, the fan opened the box and reportedly found a cardboard cutout of Dougie Jones, instead.Reddit user SnazzyPat posted a photo of the Dougie cutout online earlier this week, pointing out that this is probably trolling on Showtime's part and not a shipping mistake, since there isn't a cutout of Mr. Jackpots for sale anywhere on the website."I can't tell if this is some kind of practical joke or clever marketing by Showtime, but getting my own Dougie standee is still a pleasant surprise," SnazzyPat wrote.Dougie, of course, is the echolalia-riddled body double that the real Coop wound up inside after he escaped his 25-year imprisonment at the Black Lodge purgatory. Dougie was likely created by Cooper's BOB-ish doppelganger as a safe-guard against Cooper fully re-entering the normal world and destroying him, and—uh, if you aren't up to date on Twin Peaks at this point, don't even bother.So it makes sense that Showtime would throw fans a Dougie when they're expecting Agent Cooper, since that's basically the experience everyone's had while watching Twin Peaks: The Return. We're over half of the way into the new season, and the closest we've come to seeing Coop in his prime is Dougie meekly muttering "damn good" while eating pie with Jim Belushi.Sure, the new season is brain-bleedingly complicated and periodically segues into extended, Stan Brakhage–style psychedelic interludes that involve glowing bowling balls with Laura Palmer's senior portrait inside, but worry not—Kyle MacLachlan, the Twin Peaks star and face of Dale, Dougie, and Evil Coop promises "everything will make sense." No promises that Showtime will send you the $40 Twin Peaks merchandise you ordered in the meantime, though.
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