The kind of Mulder who'd stand in front of her and rambunctiously act out her side of a hypothetical argument about lizard men.ġ0 "Humbug" (Season 2) When a carnival freak show sees some of its own brutally murdered, Mulder and Scully decide to investigate the strange world of "humbug" - the old-school term for hoax or fraudulent spectacle. The monster man got a dog and NAMED HIM DAGOO! C'MON! And Scully hit the nail on the head with "I forgot how much fun these cases could be." Yeah, she knew Mulder was being "batcrap crazy," but it was the Mulder she preferred. From the opening scene featuring Mulder chucking pencils at Scully's poster to him trying to figure out how to photo and/or video the mystery creature for proof of its existence (we just get a shot of Mulder screaming hysterically as blood lands on his cheek) to the were-monster himself lying about Scully coming onto him in the cellphone shop, this installment was on its toes the entire time. In fact, writer Darin Morgan, who penned this chapter, is the creative force who gave us "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Jose Chung's From Outer Space." Everything about this one was solid. It's not the first time the show's given us outside-the-box silliness like this. In fact, Reggie will tell you he invented the X-Files division itself - and even hung up the "I Want to Believe" poster! Overall, it's a masterful, and loving, lampooning of the series featuring hilarious performances from both Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.ġ1 "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster" (Season 10) A funny, clever, absorbing episode, "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster" twisted and played with tropes from the show's old trademark monster-of-the-week episodes. They has been systematically changing the population's collective memory - touching on everything from innocuous old toys, TV shows, and Jell-O products to illegal government operations. Written and directed by Darin Morgan, this romp featured all-rounder Brian Huskey as Reggie, a man on the brink of mental collapse who tries to convince Mulder and Scully (aka "Muldy" and "Sculls") that the infamous Dr. ![]() Or whatever you want to call it when no one's ever really on the same page about the truth, which is supposed to be an objective construct. It sort of all funneled into a joke this episode as Mulder and Scully found themselves in an absurdist adventure all about collective acceptance of lies. The messaging of the likely final, eleventh season continued here about how no one (whether it's the American public or actual viewers of The X-Files) cares about shadowy government conspiracies anymore because everything is terrible and nothing is scared. 12 "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" (Season 11) "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" is an outrageously funny, outside-looking-in chapter that explored/skewered the phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect (or is it the Mengele Effect? or am having a Mengele Effect about the Mandela Effect?).
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