At the end of Humbug when the weird tattoo guy, who hasn’t said a word throughout the whole episode, suddenly pats his tum and says ‘Must have been something I ate’ and smiles goofily. So funny.
The end of Never Again when Scully and Mulder are arguing about her one-night-stand and how it’s nothing to do with her job. (Or is it?) ‘It’s my life,’ says Scully, pissed off. ‘But it’s my…’ and Mulder stops. The camera pans out to them sitting opposite each other, awkward, avoiding each others’ eye. Pure class.
And finally (for now) the very first meeting of M & S. A classic moment.
Sorry, but the wife and I are still so pissed at what they did to William that we junked all of our X-Files tapes and boxed up the memorabilia. All the books and photos signed by Duchovney and Anderson are now just sitting in a box somewhere, waiting for me to dump it.
Um, favorite moment? “Her hair was red… but a little too red.”
Just the other night I saw the episode where Mulder and Scully are trapped in the haunted house on Christmas Eve with Lily Tomlin and Ed Asner as the ghosts trying to get Mulder and Scully to kill each other. (What a truly spectacular sentence.) When Mulder pulls up the floorboards and they find the rotting skeletons of a man and woman underneath, Scully says, “Mulder, she’s wearing my outfit.” Mulder says, “How embarassing” with this great shiteating grin on his face. Hilarious.
Can’t remember the episode name, but it is the first season where this girl or boy is continually writing 1 and 0’s on hundreds of pieces of paper and no one can tell what it is all about. The Sculy climbs the stairs and looks downa and notices that they piece together to form a big picture of something or other.
Man could that be more vague, how emorable can that be? I will have to watch it when I get home.
I hear you, John T, but why not do what I do? Forget that seasons eight and nine ever happened. I’ve erased them from my mind. Scully’s pregnant, Mulder’s with the aliens – and it will be like that forever.
Another one: that scene in Christmas Carol when Scully realises that Emily’s her daughter. It’s an amazing bolt out of the blue and Scully looks completely astonished.
I also like a really early one, Beyond the Sea, about Scully’s dad dying. The funeral scene next to the ocean is really touching.
It’s in the episode where some guy has the ability to “morph” into other people. He’s changed into Mulder, has stolen his ID, and is standing in front of his full-length mirror, flashing his badge.
X-Files
Man, I loved it when it was on Friday night! It was a regular for me with this really nice girl that we would get together and watch it, al the while talking about it (except those scenes that absolutely required silence, those we talked about during commercials!).
Such an odd relationship we had. She was married, I was dating someone else. Sometimes, our SOs would join us, usually they just didn’t get what we saw in it. Call us obsessed. We were X Philes.
Then, FOX changed it to Sundays and nothing ever was the same again. :::sigh::: Her husband left her for my cousin (who later gave him the cold brush off), my gf and I broke up the month we were to get married, and several other weird and bad things happened. That’s why I hate the last few seasons.
But, it all works out in the end. The X Phile girl and I are together (as bf/gf, not SO yet) and we have plenty more things other than X Files to do.
I loved the one with Peter Boyle,as Clyde Bruckman, the insurance agent who sold policies to people on the basis of his psychic visions—he’d tell people how they were going to die and and then sold them a policy.
I liked the one about Eddie Blunt (sp)–the guy who could morph into anybody…He morphed into Mulder and romanced Scully. She ended up kissing him…When the real Mulder found out, he acted jealous and said, “Well, I’m no Eddie Blunt.”
Man do I miss that show…well, the episodes with Mulder, anyway.
I loved the Monster of the Week episodes, and detested the “mythology” episodes (except for Reflections of a Cigarette-Smoking Man", which was great). With that caveat, here goes:
“Humbug” - probably my favorite in the entire series. The little smile on Scully’s face after she eats the bug. The nonverbal exchange between Scully and Vincent Schiavelli (one of my favorite actors) when each discovers that the other is looking down their robes. “Welcome to my world”. Great episode.
“Small Potatoes” - Just about everyone’s favorite. Scully should have known it wasn’t Mulder when he came to her apartment, because he didn’t talk – he listened.
“Leonard Betts” - A lot of people did not like this episode. I loved it. “Snack Food!” “You have something I need” shudder
The one where Mulder and Scully were on their way to a “team building” seminar, and would take any excuse to get out of it (having attended more than one of those things, I can sympathize). In this case, getting lost in the woods with things that sort of faded into the background. The last shot of the episode – the red eyes under Scully’s bed – kept my lights on all night that night.
“Toombs”, “Arcadia”, “Clyde Bruckman”. All great.
I haven’t watched much lately, as all they have been putting on have been seasons seven and eight, which of course never happened.
Bad Blood where Mulder blurts out to Skinner “I was drugged!”
Jose Chung’s From Outer Space where the bald nerdy kid says “You don’t play Dungeons and Dragons for as many years as I have without learning a little something about courage.”
My favorite is “Never Again”, the only episode where I’ve seen Scully in a romantic scenario–that didn’t deal with the sexual tension between her and Mulder.
Also, one of my favorite episodes was where they played a married couple, Rob and Laura Petrie (“like the dish”), investigating strange disappearances in an upscale neighborhood.
