Favorite X-Files Episodes

[Killbeggar]

I'm watching my favorite X-Files episode "Jose Chung's Fom Outer Space" and just noticed that all the episodes I really remember and enjoy are their "funny" episodes. Alex Trebek & Jesse Ventura as MIB's is frikkin brilliant! And of course: "This is not happening. This is not happening. This is not happening. ". All of these would have been great figures.
Other faves the one with Peter Boyle as the man who can see how others die, and the B&W one with the deformed Romeo.
Anyone else like it better when the X-Files took itself less seriously?

 

[tomandshell]

My wife and I both enjoyed the Area 51 two-parter where Mulder switched bodies with Michael McKean. It was fun using one of the two-parter slots for a comic story rather than another mythology arc installment. I also liked the one where Mulder and Scully were posing as married suburbanites, and the one with the wish granting female genie. Many of my favorites were not serious episodes, but it was the mythology episodes that really got me hooked on the show and kept me watching over the years.

 

[show73]

Most definitely the "dueling banjo's" episode. Great television!

 

[Jase]

The episode with the Flukeman creature. Loved it!

 

[Seaward]

Wasn't there an episode with Shandling playing Mulder and Tea Leoni playing Scully. or was that a bizarre fever dream?

 

[Killbeggar]

Wasn't there an episode with Shandling playing Mulder and Tea Leoni playing Scully. or was that a bizarre fever dream?

Both.
Yeah the episode was the making of an X-Files movie, with zombies and Uwe Boll quality direction.

 

[dr2red]

Favorites are Squeeze and Tooms.
Doug Hutchison is amazing as Eugene Victor Tooms.

 

[Darth Rage]

Some of the funny episodes are really great but the mythology has been my favorite along with the darker episodes with Donny Pfaster. Great charactor.
Is your hair treated?

Rather than the overall funny episodes, I loved a lot of the great one liners Mulder and Scully tossed about.

When Mulder gets the bile on his hands in squeeze " How do i get this off my hand quickly without betraying my cool exterior." Plus the lone gunman are great comic relief.

 

[XPhile]

I like the mythology episodes best, though it's hard to pick which ones specifically. Maybe the Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip trilogy that bridged seasons 2 and 3. As for the stand alones, my favorites include the Darin Morgan-penned episodes, like Humbug and Jose Chung's From Outer Space. The Dreamland 2-parter with Michael McKean as Morris Fletcher is very funny. I just watched those again last weekend. It's all great stuff.

 

[Batty]

Jose Chung's is one of the best stand alone episodes. My other favorites are Bad Blood, Humbug, Small Potatoes and Home. There are so many. I also loved any mention of Mulders fondness for porn.

I need to bust out my box sets, it's been a while since I've watched any episodes.

 

[Darklord Dave]

You'll notice that most of the "funny" episodes are written by Darin Morgan - the only person to win a "creative" Emmy on X-Files. And he also played the fluke monster.

 

[tomandshell]

I've watched a few of the episodes from season 8 and 9 recently. At the time, I was frustrated at the lack of Mulder and the shifting main character slate, and the feeling that it just wasn't as good as it used to be. Watching the later episodes a few years later (can't believe it's been that long!), I am finding that they are much better than I remembered. At the time, I just wanted the show to end rather than drag out any longer. Now I kind of wish I had one more season with Doggett and Reyes. Time has increased my fondness for the show and its characters.

 

[Vince]

Hardto pick a favourite.

I'll just have to go for the second season, not one episode fails for me!

 

[bcm77]

I didn't see the last couple of series but the release here in the UK of "The Ultimate X-Files DVD Collection" has rekindled my intrest in the show. Every fortnight you get 4 episodes on DVD along with a magazine packed with info about each episode,plus all kinds of stuff like interviews and real life incidents that inspired certain episodes in the series. My favorite episodes are the ones with the Lone Gunmen. I wonder if Sideshow will release any more X-Files figures as there's a few characters I'd like to see. (the Lone Gunmen and Mr X for starters)

 

[Morris Fletcher]

My wife and I both enjoyed the Area 51 two-parter where Mulder switched bodies with Michael McKean.

I don't remember anything about that.

The Dreamland 2-parter with Michael McKean as Morris Fletcher is very funny.

Who's Michael McKean? I don't understand . . .

 

[screamingmetal]

I like the main story arc episodes the most. One Ep. I just recently saw was a good one I liked from manny years ago called "Rush". I can't really remember the other non story arc episodes I like but there are a few.
The tongue in cheek episodes I like because they break the monotony of the usual X-Files series tone.

 

[tomandshell]

I don't remember anything about that.



Who's Michael McKean? I don't understand . . .

Oops!!! Sorry!! Morris Fletcher!!

 

[abstractharmony]

How about 'Ice' from Season one?

Great 'base under seige' type story.

 

[Morris Fletcher]

Oops!!! Sorry!! Morris Fletcher!!

Heh, sorry . . . was trying to make a bad joke about the fact that since everything gets more or less returned to status quo at the end of those episodes, if I were actually Morris Fletcher I'd have no memory of Mulder or Scully or anything . . . ermm . . . or something like that.

 

[tomandshell]

Heh, sorry . . . was trying to make a bad joke about the fact that since everything gets more or less returned to status quo at the end of those episodes, if I were actually Morris Fletcher I'd have no memory of Mulder or Scully or anything . . . ermm . . . or something like that.

Oh, I get it! I thought I just offended you by referring to your namesake by the name of the actor instead of the character.

(I like that Mulder kept the waterbed...)