I've heard so much variety in how people respond to the scene where James, Maddie, and Donna sing together. Some feel it is unbearably cheesy and ear-splliting. Others think it is a wonderful, tender, teenage moment.

I used to hate it, and almost got embarrased just watching it. But it's grown on me. Yes, James sounds like an androdynous weird emo singer in it, but you know what? It's a part of teenage life, a scene like this. Maybe that's why it embarrasses us, because it's so real and sincere and honest. Music is such an integral part of the show, too.

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My opinion is pretty much like yours, I used to hate with passion the whole scene and song... But now, though I still have serious problems with the song, I really like the scene, which summarizes briefly (Coop: "...and to the point") what is going on between those three... I like seeing James switching glances as he switches girls in his heart, I like the lust in Maddy's eyes and I like how Donna is the only one there really in love... And of course I love how the scene ends with BOB, as someone put it perfectly in one of the Create-A-Caption marvels, using his ungodly shoes to walk over the Haywards' furniture, definitive proof that he is, yes, evil.....

IMO the most hilarious use of "Just You and I" comes later, when James is oh-so-depressed-and-devastated in the porch of the Marsh residence...

well, if the reason we hate this is somehow because we associate it with our younger days, does that mean that Evelyn Marsh and Little nicky some how connect with some collective unconscious that we have been avoiding?

Ehhh.....yes?

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Beware of BOB

When I call out no one can hear me,when I whisper he thinks the message is for him only..my little voice inside my throat,I always think there must be something that I've done or something I can do...But no one no one comes to help,he says,a little girl like you...

Hey, I don't hate it and think it's "cheesy and ear-splliting" but I don't think it's "a wonderful, tender, teenage moment" either. I like it because it's funny, it's funny because it's over cheesy and ridiclious (the same as what Exy just said), and yeah, maybe you are right, some people can't see it as funny because they have similiar memories and they have to take it seriously. And this again brings me to my old subject, so once again... ahem... James' characters is ironic! He is supposed to be tough, badass Hell's Angel motorcyclist, but we find out that he's actually really soft and wimp.

I like the song and the scene, but for the song's lyrics and James' voice.  (There are also some Julee Cruise songs I think have asinine lyrics.  "Mysteries of Love" from BV, for example, which I also fast forward through.) 

p.s. I think its Julee doing the background vocals in that scene.  Is it? 

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That's the one redemption of the "Just You and I' scene. Maddy's harrowing vision of BOB which is so amazingly done and bone-chilling. A different bone-chilling caused by the trio's rendition of their little ditty. And I appreciate the mention of Sherilyn's scene from Wild at Heart, which is my personal favorite, because of it's "bi-tonal" feel, showing how wonderfully Lynch treads the fine lne between dark humor and heartwrenching drama.

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

I dreamt two nights ago that I was playing and singing this song...In the morning, I played and sang it out....I love it when TP enters my dreams....

I definately agree with this scene being a tranformative moment for maddy and opening the door to bob.

............. ps- ive been on a 12 day TP binge

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I don't mind the song---I like the 50's feel (except for James' voice--sounds like he took one too many kicks to the testicles. YOW!).  The tense scene with Maddy and James is nice...all he is seeing is Laura, I think. I am wondering if it was Donna's fear of losing James that drew Bob into the room...? But that Maddy is the one that sees him because she is "damned"? Not sure---just a thought.

That's very interesting stuff, One Suave Folk!

For my part, I remember loving this scene when I first saw it. I was around 13, and it seemed unbelievably cool to my adolescent eyes. Watching the scene as an adult, I suppose the song is a little de trop, but as everybody else says - it's more than worth it for the Bob "furniture-crawl", which I think is the scariest Bob moment in all of the TV episoides, and is only topped by his appearance behind the drawers in Laura's room in FWWM!

Killing time. It won´t die.

very intersting, one suave folk!

but how do you mean his voice was modulated? like, it was modified in the production process? or that he had to modulate it in order to make it within the key?

anyhow, the sound of his voice is the only problematic thing IMO. the scene itself is well done, and the cheesiness of eg. the song's lyrics is fully justified.

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B. Beware
O. Of
B. BOB 

What I see there is a girl that is deeply in love with a guy who is still obsessed with a dead girl, Laura, and has feelings for Maddy just because of that. "We were the ones falling in love", she says earlier, but though yes, I think that's true it is relative in the case of James, who was and still is trapped by Laura...

In the case of Maddy I see just desire, not love, in that scene...