# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/41 "2003-06-15T03:58:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > > \>snip\< > Didn’t Gillian Anderson actually swallow the cricket? ## I read that on a fan page, too. Back when the ep first aired. Hey, **wearia**. Where ya been? ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/42 "2003-06-15T04:32:23Z")
I also read that she was supposed to palm the cricket, but swallowed it on a whim. Let me consult my “Nitpicker’s Guide for X-Philes”…Well, dang. I can’t find it. I’ll post back if I do find something. My favorite moment? The aforementioned “Eff…bee…eye!” Simply great. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/43 "2003-06-15T05:44:53Z")
> [@](#): > > passage from Jose Chung’s From Outer Space > > Evidence of extraterrestrial existence remains as elusive as ever. > > But the skies will continue to be searched by the likes of Blaine Faulkner, hoping to someday find not only proof of alien life, but also contentment on a new world. Until then, he must be content with his new job. > > Others search for answers from within. Roky relocated to El Cajon, California, preaching to the lost and desperate. > > Seeking the truth about aliens means a perfunctory nine-to-five job to some. For although Agent Diana Lesky is noble of spirit and pure in heart, she remains, nevertheless, a federal employee. > > As for her partner, Reynard Muldrake… that ticking timebomb of insanity… his quest into the unknown has so warped his psyche, one shudders to think how he receives any pleasures from life. > > Chrissy Giorgio has come to believe her alien visitation was a message to improve the condition of her own world, and she has devoted herself to this goal wholeheartedly. > > Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. > > For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all… alone. Love the end of this episode. The music is great as well. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/44 "2003-06-15T07:57:38Z")
“X-Files” was all about the moments. (And, apparently, not the episode titles, because I only remember the ones that Darin Morgan wrote…) In the first season one about the autistic savant janitor at a jet engine lab, there’s a scene in which a scientist has his head dipped in liquid nitrogen and then smashed on the floor. After the commercial, the scene has a tape outline of the body that just splits apart at the neck into tiny fragments. That was actually the one scene that got me hooked on the show, those little touches of dark humor. In “Jose Chung’s _From Outer Space_,” when the guy is being dragged away from the alien autopsy, he shouts “Roswell! Roswell!” “Night of the Corprophages” has at least two: When Dr. Bambi is telling Mulder how insects conduct electricity and he’s just lusting after her, his cell phone rings, he picks it up and says “Not now” and hangs it up. At the end of the scene, when he’s asking her to tell him more about insects and UFOs, the cockroach in her experiment sparks, unassisted. (I’ve also read that Scully’s reading _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ in that episode was a joke about a question David Duchovny missed on “Celebrity Jeopardy.”) In the episode where they’re stranded at an arctic research facility where mind-controlling worms are making the scientists kill each other, all the men have to undress to prove they’re not infected. Mulder says, “I’d just like to remind everyone that we are in the arctic.” In some episode that I’ve all but forgotten, Mulder and Scully have to meet a female sheriff in a small town. Mulder says, “I’ve always had a thing for women named ‘B.J.’” The first time they changed “THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE” in the opening credits to read “TRUST NO ONE,” I nearly jumped out of me seat. In fact, the whole opening credits sequence was brilliant – it was a very subtle parody of all cheesy paranormal documentary-type shows. At the end of the episode where subliminal messages are getting sent through ATM’s and other digital displays, Mulder looks at his cell phone, which reads “ALL DONE. BYE BYE.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/45 "2003-06-15T08:00:29Z")
Just saw _Tithonus_ on TV. Scully’s shock at Albert Fellig’s apathy (actually jealousy) toward human life and death was palpable. I loved the actor who played Fellig, actually - his movement was so slow and deliberate, you could believe he was that old. Also great, to me, was that in this episode, Scully isn’t with Mulder (you also get to see how he’s rubbed off on her) and she seems geniunely scared when Fellig explains himself - she realizes it has to be true - not to mention the horror on her face when she realizes he’s implying she’s about to die herself. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/46 "2003-06-15T13:21:05Z")
In _Bad Blood_, Scully’s performing a late-night autopsy on one of the victims and starts listing off the stomach contents. “victim had a pizza with pepperoni, onions and mushrooms… I’m hungry.” Clyde Bruckman (Bruckholm?) randomly comments: “You know, of all the ways to go, I’ve always thought autoerotic asphyxiation has to be the most embarrassing.” Mulder: “Why do you say that?” Clyde: “No reason.” Some other episode: Mulder enters his office and finds Scully watching a surveillance video. Mulder: “uhh… if there was already a tape in the machine, it wasn’t mine.” Scully: “I know. I put it in your desk with all the other videos that aren’t yours.” ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/47 "2003-06-15T16:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > **In the first season one about the autistic savant janitor at a jet engine lab, there’s a scene in which a scientist has his head dipped in liquid nitrogen and then smashed on the floor. After the commercial, the scene has a tape outline of the body that just splits apart at the neck into tiny fragments.** And then one guy steps on the ear and it crunches. Gross but funny. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/48 "2003-06-16T02:15:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AwSnappity \* > \*\*I also read that she was supposed to palm the cricket, but swallowed it on a whim. Let me consult my “Nitpicker’s Guide for X-Philes”…Well, dang. I can’t find it. I’ll post back if I do find something. \*\* Alright. I found my "Nitpicker’s Guide for X-Philes. For all who are interested, this is what Phil Farrand had to say about the cricket in _Humbug_: > [@](#): > > On a related note, there are odd moments in the life of a nitpicker. I remember well the first time I watched this episode and Scully accepted Dr. Blockhead’s offer of a live insect. Into her mouth it went, and Scully pretended to chew before walking away. Then the camera angle changed and Scully showed a confused Mulder that she actually palmed teh bug. My immediate response was, “She didn’t palm that bug.” Because of the way her hand was placed, she didn’t have any choice but to put the bug in her mouth, and I knew that without even rewinding the tape. (I just knew it!) I didn’t think any more of it until I watched a “bloopers” show that Fox ran months later. They showed the rough footage of this scene and explained that, yes, indeed, Gillian Anderson _did_ put the bug in her mouth. It’s a great piece, because after she walks off-camera, you can hear her _eject_ the thing from her mouth–after which the camera crew gives this rousing shout! ---
**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 16, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/49 "2003-06-16T04:41:02Z")
Thanks, **Aw**. One thing about _Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose_: When Scully asked him how she died, he responded with something along the lines of, “You don’t.” I always wondered why he said that, and if it was supposed to foreshadow some plot turn the writers never took up. And since it was mentioned, I wanted to keep track of all the taglines they had at the end of the opening credits, other than “The Truth Is Out There” and “Trust No One.” Happily, I discovered someone else did the work for me: [http://x-files.host.sk/misc.php](http://x-files.host.sk/misc.php) ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/50 "2003-06-16T05:39:45Z")
Paper Clip, 3rd season Skinner saying to Cancer Man, “…Welcome to the wonderful world of high technology” I love me some Skinner! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/51 "2003-06-16T13:57:42Z")
Well, **AudryK** , remember the episode about the photographer stalking Death? He saw Death coming for her, but he went in her place. And just prior to that he had said something like, “Once you cheat Death, he makes you pay by keeping you around.” Not those exact words, but the essense thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/52 "2003-06-16T16:53:43Z")
It’s cheesy and all, but I really like _Postmodern Prometheus_. Mutant boy obsessed with _Mask_, Cher songs, J. Peterman, Jerry Springer cameo, and Mulder and Scully dancing to Cher’s cover of Marc Cohn’s “Walking in Memphis” at the end. I liked the return of Jose Chung in Millennium’s _Jose Chung’s Doomsday Defense_. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/53 "2003-06-16T18:47:23Z")
“and if it was supposed to foreshadow some plot turn the writers never took up.” I can’t imagine such a thing _ever_ happening on the X-Files! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/54 "2003-06-16T20:10:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evil Captor \* > \*\*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. \*\* No, what she actually says is: “Are you going to take these off or am I going to have to do this with my tongue?” ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/55 "2003-06-16T22:43:45Z")
I loved the episode “One Breath” enormously. Of all the great Skinner moments, this ep had the greatest: he opens up about his own experience with the paranormal and then says, “Agent Mulder, every life, everyday is in danger. That’s just life.” God I loved Skinner. You guys have mentioned a lot of my favorites already, esp. Jose Chung, Clyde Bruckman, Musings, etc. There are a few that haven’t been mentioned yet. Brad Dourif’s entire performance in Beyond the Sea. He was so damn creepy. In Syzygy, when Scully snaps on a latex glove and says, “Sure. Fine. Whatever.” The end of Pusher, when Mulder goddamn near shoots Scully, but only his will and her wits save her. Mulder and Scully’s tearful embrace in the hallway at the end of Memento Mori. Triangle: Scully was so frenzied trying to find Mulder, she threatened Spender thus: “Don’t ask too many questions. I don’t care what you do or who you do or who you have to grease, I need that information and I need it now. Are we clear on that?” And then she answers the phone and pretends to be Fowley by deepening her voice. OK, that’s enough for now. I’m feeling all nostalgic. ---
**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 16, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/56 "2003-06-16T23:40:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Well, **AudreyK** , remember the episode about the photographer stalking Death? He saw Death coming for her, but he went in her place. And just prior to that he had said something like, “Once you cheat Death, he makes you pay by keeping you around.” Not those exact words, but the essense thereof. \*\* Oh geez, that’s right. The silly part is, that ep was on TV last night. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/57 "2003-06-17T03:03:40Z")
…but it’s not black hole season… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/58 "2003-06-17T03:14:46Z")
OK, gotta threadjack a little bit as I just remembered my most _irritating_ X-Files moment: Williams squeaking mobile. AAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!! WHO THE HELL PUTS A RUSTY, SQUEAKY MOBILE OVER THEIR NEWBORNS’ CRIB??? Oh, yeah: the worst set of non-abusive parents in television history. :rolleyes: OK, y’all can go on now. Glad I got that off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/59 "2003-06-17T03:58:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Judith Prietht \* > \*\*It’s cheesy and all, but I really like _Postmodern Prometheus_. Mutant boy obsessed with _Mask_, Cher songs, J. Peterman, Jerry Springer cameo, and Mulder and Scully dancing to Cher’s cover of Marc Cohn’s “Walking in Memphis” at the end. > \*\* Same here. That ending always makes me tingly, with Mulder and Scully dancing (and that’s how they should have stayed. Dancing). I don’t think anyone has mentioned the episode **Dreamland** yet, where Mulder switches bodies with an Area 51 offical (Michael McKean). The whole two-parter was hilarious, especially when Mulder is getting yelled at by the other guy’s wife and Mulder’s bachelor pad decorating job. Another vote for **Home** , more specifically, the two scenes set to Johnny Mathis’s “Wonderful, Wonderful” (the attack on the police chief and the ending). How is it that one show managed to produce some of the funniest and most frightening television ever broadcast? ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552/60 "2003-06-17T06:09:56Z")
Ooohh…you guys mentioned my favorite moments!! And I just saw one that I thought I’d be original with, but alas, someone mentioned it. Keep in mind I just started watching the XFiles in January when the seasons started over in January on TNT… Count me in on _Postmodern Prometheus_ where “Walking in Memphis” was sung by Cher, and Mulder and Skully danced at the end. That moment just grabbed at something right in the middle of my chest (and not in a creepy Alien/Xfiles kinda chest-grabbing, but in an Aww-how-oddly-beautiful-and-good-goosebumpy kinda chest grabbing). And in \* Bad Blood\* the sunflower seed spilling was priceless…also in Mulder’s POV the cute sheriff had ugly teeth…and in the end when Skinner asks Mulder, “Is all this true according to your recollection?”, and Mulder says “Yes.” Then the credits start rolling, and you hear Mulder’s voiceover, “All except the part about the big buck teeth”… Bwahahaha!! And the one I mentioned in the beginning of this post was the latest one that aired tonight on TNT (don’t know the title) where Mulder tracked down the lost _Queen Anne_ and “went back in time”. This episode was filled with what looked to be loooong continuous shots of the chases in the ship that became amusingly cartoonish, but the part that was the best was when Scully learned from the Lone Gunmen that Mulder was lost, she ran to Skinner to get help, then she went up the elevator to the new A.D. and saw the Smoking Man, then went to threaten Spender, then went back up the elevators talking on the cell phone, learned Spender was a stool pigeon, then met Skinner again, then ran to a speeding car where she was picked up by the Lone Gunman. Loved it, laughed my ass off. And I read this thread at my own risk, came across spoilers I didn’t want to know. DAMMIT!! 😉 New X-Phile, Lorie [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-x-files-moments/181552.md?page=4)