Favorite X-Files episode?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I haven't seen all of them, but I think my personal fave is the one where Peter Boyle plays the insurance guy who can see how you're going to die by touching you. Another favorite is the one with the carnival/Jim Rose freakshow people.

I like the shows best that stand alone as far as the story, and the ones that emphasize wry humor (which works the best with the Mulder character).

The lengthy alien/conspiracy story arcs are among my least favorite, I think all such things, like Twin Peaks, are weak because they are unable to live up to the hype generated, and the whole souffle must eventually collapse.

I just caught a bit of the one where Bruce Campbell plays the guy who was going to be the dad of the devil child, can't remember the twists of the story exactly but it was a good one.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. there was an episode about cockroaches.

that was probably my favorite, it was very funny and peculiar take on the x-files.

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. my favorite

the one where thier stuck in the videogame with the killer dominatrix

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Oh no. The video game was really really disappointing though the

premise was OK. I am an avid gamer and I was really looking forward to that episode.

The gal was hot tho, I'll give ya that!

[7th_Sephiroth]

5. i liked it

could have been better but it was a verry original episode

[GRLMGC]

3. Fiji mermaid

Because I saw it alone by myself when I was like 9 or 10 and it scared the crapola outta me.

[hickman1937]

6. The vampire one

although it was David Duchovny's least favorite. Its tied with the Peter Boyle episode. I also realy like the early ones with the Lone Gunmen, before they got too cute.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Thumbs up on EARLY Lone Gunmen episodes too.

[hickman1937]

11. I wish I had a copy of the episode

when Scully first met them. Her face was priceless.

[Goathead]

19. There are two vampire ones.

The Luke Wilson one and the other one.

[messyca]

8. "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"

Best episode ever! featuring...Charles Nelson Reilly, Jesse Ventura, Alex Trebek, and "Lord Kimbote". They should have made it into a movie.

[Dukkha]

14. There was a sequel

"Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"

an episode on Millennium

[Mike Niendorff]

28. seconded.

I can only imagine what they had to be smoking to dream up the plot for that one, but the resulting episode was really good.


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[roguevalley]

9. I loved the Cops ep. :)

[miss_kitty]

10. the vampire one

The two different versions of the story (Luke Wilson with and without buck teeth).
I like that Peter Boyle one too.

[hickman1937]

13. I jumped out of my chair at the end

I couldn't believe she'd burned them.

[tridim]

12. I like the underground psychedelic fungus episode

and pretty much all of the "lone gunmen"-cetric episodes.

Oh, and I really liked the "groundhog day" episode.

[jeff30997]

24. the "groundhog day" episode ?

Is it the one about the bank robbery ?

[tridim]

31. Yep.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. Watching new "X-files" episodes in the 90's was a way to be at home

on a weekend night, but not feel like a total loser.

Because that show was so cool, when it was good...

[Nomad559]

16. My favorite - Je Souhaite

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-61/epid-650

:)

[AngryAmish]

17. what was the one with the wilson brother with the teeth?

[Goathead]

18. "Humbug" and "Jose Chung's From Outer space"

also the one where Luke Wilson is a vampire.

[Dukkha]

20. the "Anasazi" trilogy

Anasazi
The Blessing Way
Paper Clip

Awesome X-Files Moment!

also loved Beyond The Sea with Brad Douriff
Home episode banned on Fox
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Little Green Men

pretty much all up to the movie
thenit was all downhill from there :-(

so sad to see my favorite show die like that

[jeff30997]

25. Yeah. The movie really sucked and after that...

The show got more and more boring.

[Lisa]

21. the one with the alien who played in the Negro League

I thought they did an excellent job, reminding people about how different the world was, back at the time of Roswell. Plus they revealed some interesting quirks about Mulder and Scully (though I still think it was farfetched that, growing up as a tomboy with multiple brothers, she wasn't familiar with baseball). But the story and acting were good enough to make me overlook that (and the fact that saguaro cacti don't grow in that location!). Nice social commentary.

I think Duchovny directed that particular episode, too.


Also, the one where Mulder switched bodies with a MIB (Michael McKean?) was pretty funny.

[BlueJazz]

22. I loved the one where the Guy robs the bank and kills Mulder...

but it's just part of a "Time Loop" and the Guy's girlfriend keeps warning Mulder (who, of course, doesn't remember the warning)

[Nay]

23. The circus freak one was my favorite, followed closely by the

one with the vampire country sheriff. That one, with its two viewpoints shown, was hilarious.

But heck, lots of X-files were just wonderful.

Oh, and how could I forget Tunguska, the black oil one?? Very scary.

[jeff30997]

26. Pusher. That was a cool episode and a cool character.

[harper]

27. the vampire episode, of course

Loved the two viewpoints. But there was another episode I thought was really funny. What was the episode where Sculley and Mulder went to the small town where all of the characters looked like farm animals. And the local doctor had been experimenting with artificial insemination? That was a hoot.

[Dzimbowicz]

29. "Home"

That family really creeped me out! Combined with "Chances Are" by Johnny Mathis completed the picture.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

32. Me too! I saw that all alone one night during a rainstorm

it scared the crap out of me! :scared:

[GregW]

30. Leonard Betts

There's just something about headless cancer-eating corpses that didn't sit right for me ... which is why I loved it!

[Modem Butterfly]

33. I just assumed this was a copycat thread

My bad.

I really enjoyed Jose Chung's From Outer Space, the Xmas episode, and the one where David Duchovny took off all his close and just danced naked in front of the camera for an hour. But X-Files really jumped the shark when they added the laugh track.