"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I'd agree about Jonathan attacking Hank, we don't care about either of them!

 On the subject of great endings, though, I just watched episode 27, which ends with a  tracking shot down the school corridor, the Great Northern, and then Bob's hand reaching out from the woods, and the red curtains reflected in water with the Badalamenti's jazzy music emanating from it. Brilliant.

I'd agree with B on the Coop and Major scene in the woods ending. Maybe we didn't need to be shown all of that, it could have just been referred to.

It isn't exactly an ending but playing the Ben and Jerry cine-film under the closing credits doesn't seem right. It makes Twin Peaks seem a less interesting drama and comes across as being corny, reducing the show to a kind of family drama with cheesy recollections of the 50s. We didn't need that because the show was already in a kind of indeterminate time zone.

I know the Laura Palmer pic that closed the show became far less relevant but they could have ended it with any another simple image as Lynch did in the How's Annie episode, couldn't they?

Although it's well done and a good episode, the Hank and Jonathan cliffhanger was by far the weakest yet.

But the worst for me - and by a pretty wide margin - is Windom Earle finding Owl Cave (which is also from a good episode).

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

don't get me wrong, i think the suspense in the harold scene is great... it's just the face-raking action that needed to have been rethought.  there is no purpose for it, it isnt executed well, and it looks stupid in the following episode where he's running around with these gaping face wounds and screaming "NO!" 

And let's not forget, "Do you know what the ultimate secret is?  Laura did.  The secret of who killed you."  Oh yikes kids, really? 

I don't have any trouble with that line. It's a nice little cliffhanger - it makes you wonder how much Harold actually knows.

Btw, what do you mean by "no purpose"? Tell that to all the kids out there with self-inflicted wounds.  ;)
Seriously, I think it works because you're not sure if Harold's homicidal, suicidal or both.

"What credit card do you want to put that on?"
"Caash, prease."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I really dig Harold's ketchup-dispenser gardening tool... Well, ok, I don't...

I vote for Hank vs. Jonathan too...

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Ben Horne's home movies are actually one of my personal favorite endings. On one level, it gives us a glimpse, albeit a very small one, into the town's past. The Great Northern is one of the defining locations in Twin Peaks, and here was a look at how it began. On another level, it allowed us to delve into Ben Horne's character complexities, of which I've always said there are many. I never saw him as a two-dimensional Mr. Burns character, and there are several episodes where we get inklings that there really is more lurking beneath the surface than we're let on to believe.

For me, the home movies reel lent the episode a feel of nostalgia and lost hope that is very Lynchian.

 Yes!! Spot on.

This, and the scene with Louise Dombrowski(?) really makes the town to seem more "real" to me.