Wow, too many awesome episodes to choose from. Easier to mention most memorable. One that sticks with me is one where Mulder’s body had been taken over by the bad guy, and the way he tries to act like he’s FBI is hilarious.
The episode where they are in the state of Washington rainforest and get wrapped into a cocoon. To this day I get a little freaked when driving through any heavily wooded area.
The one with the sewer monster that killing people with unkempt suburban houses. Mulder put a pink flamingo on the lawn and said, “Bring it on.” And he asked Scully to make him a sandwich. So good.
Life is like a box of chocolate. You think you will get a delicious nuggat or caramel, but everything is is some disgusting sweet phoney flavor. And in the end, you have nothing but a useless box full of empty wrappers.
I still think of the episode where CSM lights a cigarette in Skinner’s office, and Skinner points at the little sign that reads ‘Thank you for not smoking’. CSM says ‘yes, I saw it. And as I am smoking I don’t imagine you’ll thank me for it’
But a single episode, but a subset of them. I always really enjoyed the episodes that dealt with the non-alien, weird events or strange humans. The alien stuff was fine, but I found that it kind of took over the show and it lost some of the fun, scariness when it did.
Home is my favorite but Darkness Falls is a close second.
Favorite line was by Skinner to CSM when he had one of the Navajo wind talker in his office.
CSM sees the Navajo and asked what’s this. Skinner responds with “this is where you pucker up and kiss my ass”.
The only one I remember is the one where roaches/bugs came flooding out of a guys mouth. I almost threw up so that is why I remember it. Definitely not a favorite.
The two parter Duane Barry with Steve Railsback. Such an amazing actor who played Charles Manson back in the day and was also in The Stunt Man with Peter O’ Toole.
I think he got an Emmy nomination for that guest role.
Wonder why he ended up mostly on TV and in B movies? He was such a good actor back in the day.
I didn’t really watch the show regularly. But I think they had an episode about aliens spying on us. The devices they used for spying looked like insects. I was pretty young and I thought it was such a clever way to gather information.
“Cerulean blue” is something my wife and I say at intersections to mess with each other. The episode with the inbreeds and how they roll mom from under the bed creeps me out. The circus performer one as well.
S03E04 **Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose**
Peter Boyle is so good in that episode.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde\_Bruckman%27s\_Final\_Repose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Bruckman%27s_Final_Repose)
Definitely a Darin Morgan episode. Maybe Clyde Bruckmans Final Repose, Jose Chung's From Outer Space, Small Potatoes or the area 51 Michael McKean double-parter I can't remember the name of.
So I watched X Files from the very first episode but my brother’s very first episode was Home (purely by chance). He loved it and couldn’t believe he hadn’t been watching. I told him the show was great but they’re not all as good as that episode. He watched for a few weeks after but fell off. I guess it’s hard when you start on top.
I like season 4-6 eps the most. Bad Blood, Small Potatoes, Triangle, Detour, How the Ghosts Stole Christmas, Unusual Suspects, Arcadia.
The 1st 3 season has great world building, intro of the mythology/different characters, & MOTW. Old school creepiness filming. It felt like s4 started to feel like more experimental filming & the technology got better. Black & White, Reality Cop Show, continuous one take ep, video game. There was also something about having Vancouver as set location over LA. It gave it more creepiness with some humor.
They were cheesy, but Hollywood AD and Triangle keep me coming back for more cheap laughs. BEST episodes has got to be the Anasazi/Blessing Way/Paper Clip arc. Way ahead of its time.
War of the Coprophages. The one with the cockroaches invading the town. Such a fun episode. Seeing Scully try to calm people down in the convenience store always makes me laugh.
(If I’m thinking about the right one?) I remember coming home and my roommate had been watching that. She really thought it was Cops so when the monster/alien came out, she *really* freaked out. I happened to come in right after that and almost peed myself laughing because she was soooo upset!
I didn’t remember watching that when it first came out, I watched it a couple of years ago. My favorite part was the sketch artist drawing Freddy Krueger
Anyone else with the X-Files thoughts of:
“I hope the smoking man’s in this one,”
“DD peaked in the movie Evolution.”
“What could Gillian Anderson have become if she would have left?”
D. P. O. - The one about the kid who could call the lightning. I don't know why that one sticks with me so much but if definitely does.
My least favorite, "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", was the one where the government guy asks the smoking man who should win the Super Bowl that year and he replies, "I don't want to see the Bills winning a Super Bowl. As long as I'm alive that doesn't happen”. I will never forgive him for that.
One. Before. I. DIE!!
There were so many excellent ones. I was a big, big fan. Small Potatoes, Post Modern Prometheus, Triangle, the Gethsemane/Redux/Redux II arc which has two of the most dramatic scenes I've ever seen in anything, The Unnatural, Jose Chung, Clyde Bruckman, Memento Mori and a lot of the more emotional ones. Everyone remembers Home as the most disturbing one, but I thought Sanguinarium was worse.
Hmm, hard to pick only one...so I won't!
Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Kill Switch
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Improbable
Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
I don’t know about favorite, but most memorable was the one with the guy who eats tumors. I was eating sweet and sour pork while watching it. Very little grosses me out but a bin full of tumors or whatever it was stopped my fork about halfway to my mouth and I couldn’t finish my dinner.
Home. I didn't really watch it but my then-boyfriend, now husband was a big fan, and we both still talk about watching this episode together and being completely icked out by it.
I dunno about favorite episode but we quote this one all the time.
Fox Mulder: Did you see which way it headed?
Annabelle: I told the officers that is slithered off that way, but they think I’m on crack.
Fox Mulder: Are you?
Annabelle: Yeah!
It’s a toss-up between S4Ep13 (‘Never Again’) with the hallucinogenic tattoo voiced by Jody Foster (Mulder’s on holiday at Graceland, so it’s mainly Scully) and S4Ep19 (‘Synchrony’) the one with the chrono-assassin who freezes people to death.
Close runners-up: S4Ep15 (‘Kaddish’) and S1Ep20 (‘Darkness Falls’) I guess I gravitate more towards the ‘monster of the week’ episodes.
I lived in Vancouver during the show’s heyday and it was always fun spotting places around town or even people I recognized who got work as extras. A friend of mine once scored a ‘Samuel Heals’ t-shirt from S1Ep18 (‘Miracle Man’) at Value Village. Also, I was working one night in the neighbourhood where it turned out they were filming the episode ‘Zero Sum’ (S4Ep21) and spoke briefly with one of the Teamsters - which was unusual, because the show kept a tight lid on what the plot of each episode was, so how he knew I couldn’t say. But it turned out that what he told me matched the location, so what do I know?
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