# TV shows you utterly misjudged from their initial ads

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 20, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-utterly-misjudged-from-their-initial-ads/322540 "2005-09-20T15:14:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-utterly-misjudged-from-their-initial-ads/322540/21 "2005-09-21T17:32:16Z")

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Twin Peaks.

We saw the ads and thought, “Cool! A tv series by the same guy that did _Dune!_”

while it turns out we should have thought, “Yack! A tv series by the same guy that did _Blue Velvet!_”

:dubious:

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