![]() Yeah, it's a ridiculous, but guest stars Michael McKean and Nora Dunn add to the ridiculousness, in a wonderful way. At the end of the episode, time "snaps back like a rubber band," putting right everything that is in the correct path, and leaving no one with any memory of the last few days. Highlights include Mulder and Fletcher doing a mirror image dance, a la Duck Soup Fletcher - in Mulder's body - trying to hook up with Scully (in a waterbed with mirrors on the ceiling!) and Mulder - in Fletcher's body - caught by Fletcher's wife after falling asleep watching porn all night. Honestly, the X-file in this episode is ridiculous and only serves as a way to get Mulder and Fletcher into ridiculous situations. Mulder and Morris Fletcher, one of the Men in Black, switch bodies, unbeknownst to anyone else. This two-part episode sends Mulder and Scully to Area 51, where they are met by Men in Black, and a ship passes overhead, creating some kind of bend in space-time. The presumption is that they take him to prison after, but the idea that he is rewarded for being a rapist is just something I cannot stomach. Instead of taking him to prison, Mulder and Scully (and the rest of the town, including the women he raped) take him to a Cher concert. The kid who admits to raping at least two women is basically given a pass because he is severely deformed and forced to live away from other humans. It is a beautifully shot, delightfully quirky episode with one, fatal flaw. Note: I should point out that I did not include fan favorite "The Post-Modern Prometheus," which was Chris Carter's version of a Frankenstein story. Every time I scrolled through this list, I wanted to rearrange episodes. If tasked with the same 25 episodes, I probably couldn't rank them in the same order a second time. This was far more difficult than it sounds. In honor of the show's 25th anniversary, I have ranked the top 25 episodes of the series. With two theatrical movies and 218 episodes, dozens of books and comic books, 16 Emmy awards, five Golden Globes, two SAG awards, a Peabody award, and a rabid fanbase that literally invented the term "shipping," The X-Files is an unstoppable force. The series ran for nine seasons in its initial run, before returning for two "revival" seasons, the last of which ended earlier this year. Ten minutes into the pilot episode, and I was beyond hooked. ![]() I remembered seeing an ad for this show about aliens, and being a weird kid, thought this was right up my alley. ![]() I first stumbled onto The X-Files as a 13 year old kid, looking for something to watch on Friday night. They are confidants, they are best friends, they are soulmates, and eventually, lovers. Initially Scully is sent to "spy" on Mulder and his pet project, the X-files (unexplained cases that the FBI would rather forget), but the two become much more than just partners. She is the skeptic: a medical doctor who rewrote Einstein and who believes only in the scientific method. He is the believer: he believes in aliens, UFOs, psychics, ghosts, and all manner of paranormal phenomenon, likely stemming from his younger sister, Samantha's, abduction by aliens when they were children. This cult-favorite sci-fi/horror show created by Chris Carter stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. ![]() The 25th anniversary of the premiere of The X-Files is upon us. ![]()
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