# Your favourite X-Files moments… **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552 "2003-06-13T13:19:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/21 "2003-06-13T18:50:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bittersweet \* > \*\*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. \*\* Here it is…[Arcadia.](http://www.thexfiles.com/episodes/season6/6x13.html) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/22 "2003-06-13T19:01:51Z")
This is my THIRD attempt at posting this: _Clyde Bruckman_ “Banana cream!” The autoerotic asphyxiation bit. And the look on that agent’s face when Clyde says his smoking habit won’t kill him. He’s stabbed in the eye and murdered moments later. _Jose Chung_ Mulder and the pie. Alex Trebek and Jesse Ventura. _Memoirs of a Cigarette-Smoking Man_ For a truly immortal TV moment: the most ruthless man in the world, point man for the insidious conspiracy to obfuscate The Truth, is a frustrated novelist. “Life is like a box of chocolates, a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift no one ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you’re stuck with this mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there’s nothing else to eat during the game. Sure, once in a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee, but it’s gone too soon and the taste is fleeting. In the end you’re left with nothing but broken bits of hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but useless brown paper wrappers.” ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/23 "2003-06-13T19:46:39Z")
Pretty much anything involving the Lone Gunmen. Well, except for their deaths, but seeing as season 9 didn’t happen as far as I’m concerned, that’s not really a problem. _Quagmire_: since somebody already took the conversation on the rock, I’ll go for Queequeg being eaten. I felt sorry for Scully, but I loved her calling for the dog “Queequeg! Queequeg! Quee…Queequeg?” _Triangle_: Mulder kissing the 1939 version of Scully “in case they never meet again” only to have her deck him. Also the whole conversation when Mulder’s in hospital at the end. _Jose Chung’s From Outer Space_: Mulder screaming like a girl. And everything else in that episode. _Bad Blood_: Mulder and Scully’s different versions of what the sherriff looked like. _Humbug_: Scully pretending to eat the bug. That’s all I can think of for now. ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/24 "2003-06-13T20:12:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gangster Octopus \* > **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.** The episode is _Conduit_, from the first season. The boy’s sister was kidnapped by “something,” and the boy was the titular conduit, receiving messages through TV static. The 1s and 0s were decoded to classified transmissions from some satellite. IIRC, the boy went on to become posessed by the spirit of his stillborn twin brother in _The Calusari_. (same actor, different character 🙂 ) _Jose Chung’s “From Outer Space”:_ “There’s your bleepin’ alien!” And I actually like the myth-arc “conspiracy” episodes. At least, the earlier ones before they really started revealing things and continuity began breaking down. Then there’s the Super Soldiers… :rolleyes: Oh wait… Lucy Lawless naked. mmmm… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/25 "2003-06-13T21:01:57Z")
I thought they did a terrific job with the two-parter in which Mulder finally learns what really happened to his sister. The explanation was creative and the moment he meets her again was appropriately weighty given the years he had searched. And the bittersweet twist at the end, where the psychic who helped him refuses to confront the fate of his own lost child, was nice. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/26 "2003-06-13T21:19:48Z")
Another vote for **Jose Chung’s From Outer Space** … man, what a great episode. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/27 "2003-06-13T21:37:46Z")
My laugh-out-loud favorite moment has to be from **Jose Chung’s From Outer Space** , when Mulder stumbles across the body of the “dead alien” and gives this high-pitched girly scream. I also liked the episode in which Scully and Mulder are trapped underground by the giant people-eating fungus and every time they think they’ve managed to escape, the green goo starts to drip around them and they realize they are still underground. Great creepy episode. I know there are about a million more “favorite moments” for me, but I can’t think of any more at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/28 "2003-06-13T21:41:46Z")
I always loved the episode, I can’t remember the name, where Scully and Mulder get stuck on a rock in a lake. IIRC, Mulder was hurt or maybe just tired, and Scully reaches up to put his head on her lap and he said, “Scully, I don’t wanna wrestle.” Then she sang “Joy to the World” to him. Priceless! ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/29 "2003-06-13T21:47:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JulKatBo \* > \*\*Pretty much anything involving the Lone Gunmen. Well, except for their deaths, but seeing as season 9 didn’t happen as far as I’m concerned, that’s not really a problem. > \*\* I LOVED the Lone Gunmen! And you’re right, season 9 and JTS didn’t happen. But the best: Unusual Suspects, where Byers challenges X about the Kennedy assasinastion and he looks at them and says “I heard it was a lone gunman”. And that’s where it all starts for them. Wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/30 "2003-06-13T22:25:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bibliophile \* > \*\*I always loved the episode, I can’t remember the name, where Scully and Mulder get stuck on a rock in a lake. IIRC, Mulder was hurt or maybe just tired, and Scully reaches up to put his head on her lap and he said, “Scully, I don’t wanna wrestle.” Then she sang “Joy to the World” to him. Priceless! \*\* I think this is _Quagmire_. I’m afraid to admit this, but I never caught _Jose Chung’s From Outer Space_. “Her name is _Bambi_?!!!” ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/31 "2003-06-13T23:30:21Z")
Also from Jose Chungs: “Rock-eee. Be thou not afraid. No harm will come to theeee…” “But what about the creature that abducted you?” “What, you mean Lord Kinboat?” “Have you found any metallic implants in your skin? Have you looked everywhere?” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/32 "2003-06-14T11:10:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bibliophile \* > \*\*I always loved the episode, I can’t remember the name, where Scully and Mulder get stuck on a rock in a lake. IIRC, Mulder was hurt or maybe just tired, and Scully reaches up to put his head on her lap and he said, “Scully, I don’t wanna wrestle.” Then she sang “Joy to the World” to him. Priceless! \*\* You’ve got two scenes mixed up here. Scully and Mulder are on a rock in a lake in _Quagmire_, but the rest of this, including Scully singing “Joy to the World,” is from a later episode called _Detour_, where they were lost in the woods. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/33 "2003-06-14T16:12:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Mapp \* > \*\*You’ve got two scenes mixed up here. > > Scully and Mulder are on a rock in a lake in _Quagmire_, but the rest of this, including Scully singing “Joy to the World,” is from a later episode called _Detour_, where they were lost in the woods. \*\* :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Skijumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Skijumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skijumper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/34 "2003-06-14T16:42:39Z")
Another vote for **Jose Chung** - Alex Trebek! Other moments - The one with Duane Barry screaming ‘THEM!’ at the sky when Mulder demands to know who’s taken Scully. The one that takes place on a submarine and the bad Nazi characters are Spender and the Cigarette Smoking Man. The one with the vampires and the hot, but dim sheriff - Luke Wilson, IIRC. The one with guest stars Tea Leoni and Garry Shandling playing screen adaptations of Scully and Mulder. A goofy episode but I love the bit where Tea’s character asks Scully how she manages to run in high heels. Tea then gets on her cell phone with her agent, oblivious to Scully’s demo - the sight of Gillian Anderson running up and down the sound stage made my sides ache. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/35 "2003-06-14T17:38:27Z")
Best line: “This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass!” Best conclusion: The episode (not mentioning names because I don’t know how to use the spoiler code) where they pull off the mask and the bad guy turns out to be the Sheriff. How Scooby Doo can you get? ---
**Author:** ![Alexei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Alexei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alexei)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/36 "2003-06-14T23:10:48Z")
I loved the bit in Bad Blood where Mulder throws the sesame seeds on the floor and the vampire (who is obsessive compulsive and must pick them up) says, “Now, why’d you have to go and do that?” ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/37 "2003-06-15T01:08:10Z")
I enjoyed any time when Scully went off describing some theory that Mulder might enjoy or subscribe to and Mulder would respond by saying, “I’m getting extremely turned on” or “Scully, will you marry me?” The end of _The Pine Bluff Variant_, where whatshisname shoots the gimp instead of Mulder and helps him get away. _Paper Hearts_, when Mulder tells Roche that he was admitting to abducting his sister from that house… the _wrong_ house. In _Kitsunegari_, when they find the guy killed by the paint. There are Japanese characters painted all over the walls and furniture. Mulder spreads his arms and says, “I’m guessing _this_ is a clue.” I forget which ep it was, but when Scully was in the hospital receiving treatment for me, he saw the priest come in, and, deciding he should leave, he told Scully to say a few Hail Mulders for him. Didn’t Gillian Anderson actually swallow the cricket? ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/38 "2003-06-15T02:04:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gangster Octopus \* > \*\*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. \*\* It was a boy and the picture was of his kidnapped sister. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/39 "2003-06-15T02:36:37Z")
My favorite X-Files moment was when it went off the air. 😃 Irresponsible TV. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/40 "2003-06-15T03:56:51Z")
I liked the ep written by William Gibson. Mulder and Scully have captured a renegade programmer who happens to be hot and female and bring her to the Lone Gunmen’s lair in cuffs. The Lone Gunment recognize her and are just AGOG at her, as she’s legendary in their circles, and also hot and female. She goes up to one of the computers and starts poking around on the keyboard. “Are you going to take these off or am I going to have to do this in handcuffs?” The Lone Gunmen stare at her with eyes the size of saucers. Mulder looks at them and grins and says, “You’re lucky we’re not putting it to a vote.” We go to a reaction shot of Scully. Her expression is priceless. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552.md?page=3)