In episode 8 or 9, Maddy has a vision when looking at the carpet, a strange brown pattern. She's talking to Sarah, and says she had a dream she was sitting in the same chair looking at the carpet. No doubt the pattern/vision has something to do with BOB. Can anyone shed any more light on this??

the consensus is, i believe, that she is seeing a premonition of her own blood on the carpet,
which comes true when Leland/BOB kills her to keep her from leaving

http://www.twinpeaks.org/faqeps.htm  (E.31)

Since both the Euro and the broadcast pilot will be in the box set, I guess it's anyone's guess.  If it is included, hopefully they'll make it look better (as intended.)

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when did Cooper mentioned that Maddy saw Bob twice in the past few days?

And sorry, that carpet/Bob face business is bad, bad, bad.   It's up there with the computerized owl and the monk imagery for low points.  (not to  mention Andy's thought bubble with little Nicky as the devil)

BTW, there are tons of badly done special effects in the show... There's a shot of a storm that looks that it was taken directly from an Ed Wood film and one of the most effective episode endings, ep.16, shows an owl awfully overimposed in the screen... The owls from Owl Cave come to mind too. The kind of unimportant stuff that Lucas always retouches in his flicks...

It was the early 90s, it was TV, they couldn't do better...

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)

I like the owl and the cloaked figure effects (hides face behind cushion)...

The scene where Bob appears in the carpet didn't look bad at the time, it's just that special effects have become so much more sophisticated since then. I wasn't even aware there was such a thing as a no-Bob version until season two was released on DVD.   

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That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)