X-Files Rewatch: Season 3
So, I started rewatching The X-Files from the beginning — or, really, “watching it,” because during the series’ run, I came in late and only watched casually. It holds up pretty well almost 20 years later, despite those horrendously budge credits, but you get some hilarious guest stars along the way, so I decided to tweet alternate titles for some of the episodes.
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S03E01 Mulder Is Blathered At By The Dead In An Episode Evidently Written By Jim Morrison
S03E02 Among My People, Omen Of White Buffalo Can Mean Only One Thing: FBI Man Krycek Is A Twat (alternate title: “Skinner Skinner He’s Our Man, If He Can’t Blackmail No One Can”)
S03E03 God Lightning-Strikes Ribisi For Crappy Cornpone Accent, Yet Allows Jack Black’s Tired Stoner Shtick To Live?
S03E04 Everybody Loves Raymond’s Psychic Dad
S03E05 Who Could Possibly Want Revenge On Ethical ‘n’ Cuddly Warden J.T. Walsh?
S03E06 By-Now-Familiar Internet Scaremongering Not Afraid To Double Down With Some Fattism
S03E07 Stanford Blatch’s Co-Dependent Relationship With An Astral-Projecting Amputee
S03E09 Sisterhood Of The Traveling Tumors
S03E10 Mulders On A Train
S03E11 DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THOSE ARE REAL STIGMATA, PRIVATE PYLE? (alternate title: “One Flew Over The Kevin’s Nest”)
S03E13 Darla Hansen And Laurie Forman Kill Ryan Reynolds And Others With Weird Girlworld Mind Meld; Gail Stanwyk Macks On Mulder
S03E15 Radioactive Shapeshifter Fails To Improve Krycek’s “Personality”
S03E17 Budo ALSO Teaches The Warrior Not To Rip Off “The Deer Hunter”
S03E18 More Rats, Scully
S03E19 Father Ray Mukada Explains It All For You
S03E20 Ventura, Trebek, And Charles Nelson Reilly Make This Episode An X-File Its Own Self
S03E22 Nessie 1, Pomeranian 0
S03E24 Zog The Bounty Hunter
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AHHHHH!
Raymond’s psychic dad! I LOVE Raymond’s psychic dad!
Especially the scene in the car:
RPD:(apropos of nothing) Ya know, I always thought the most embarrassing way to go was autoerotic asphyixiation.
Mulder: Huh? Why did you tell me that?
RPD: No reason.
Scully: *giant smirk*
‘Jose Chung’s From Outer Space’ and ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’ are both definitely in my top 5 X-Files ever! Season 3 is great. I was always a fan of the quirky/”funny” ones though.
“Sisterhood Of The Traveling Tumors”
Wow, it is incredibly to keep yourself from laughing and/or choking on your granola bar so you don’t scare your co-workers.
* incredibly hard
(That’s what Mulder said)
I always felt so bad for Scully after Quequeg got eaten. :(
3X13: That was Ryan Reynolds? Holy cats, I gotta rewatch…
YES … “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” is one of the best. And the autoerotic asphyxiation line … perfect.
“One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn’t pulling it off. Like, her hair was red, but it was a little TOO red, y’know?” Love. It.
I will always, always love “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space“, not least for “I didn’t spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons without learning a little something about courage.”
“Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space'” is pretty much my second-favorite episode Of All Time. Right behind “Bad Blood” (alternate title: “Rashomon Sings the Theme From ‘Shaft'”).