X-Files Rewatch: Season 1
Tell you what: you tell Wardrobe to stop putting me in white tights, I’ll believe aaaany kookbag alien shit you want.
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.
Follow along and/or guess the episodes by following the Twitter hashtag #XFilesRewatch.
S01E06 Hallie Lowenthal Has A Poltergeist Boss
S01E07 Remember That Movie Electric Dreams? Here It Is Again, Just: Shorter
S01E08 Dana Whitaker, Kiefer’s Boss From 24, And Some Other People Get Ice Cooties
S01E09 Borg Queen Fights Space Ghost, Reenacts End Of Apollo 13
S01E10 Gordie Lachance’s Dicky Father Tries To Get Mulder Fired
S01E11 Harriet Sansom Harris vs. The Clones Who Failed To Graduate From Acting School
S01E13 Doc Cochran and Scully’s Dead Dad, LLC
S01E14 TransAmish: A Journey (alternate titles: “It’s Raining Mennonites”; “Rumspringa Queen of the Desert”)
S01E15 Scully’s Ex Gets Freaky Fridayed
S01E16 Joan Harris’s Mom Analyzes A Dead Guy’s Writing (With Rose Abbott, U.S. Attorney)
S01E20 State’s Attorney Glenn Childs And Melrose Matt’s Closeted Navy Boyfriend Versus The Giant Spideroid Of The Forest (Sorry: “Giant Angry Glo-Termites”)
S01E21 Uh Oh: That Dude With The Rubber Ball From Kidnapped Is Back To Snacking On People’s Livers
S01E23 Rain Man Zeljko Ivanek Is Possessed By Dead Twin, Love Of Stickers
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I was thinking about a rewatch, too, since I never saw the whole series.
And now I want to rewatch Sports Night.
YES!! Haha – I personally enjoy S01EP02 Scott Evil is a stoner conspiracy theorist
The best part of…I want to say it’s season one, but maybe it’s two? is watching them try to dress Scully so she doesn’t look PHENOMENALLY PREGNANT. Because she was PHENOMENALLY PREGNANT.
Stella: I call S01Ep02 “The One Where Mulder and Scully’s Rental Car is My Car From College.” (Tan Cutlass Ciera FTW!)
I have been doing
an X-Files Rewatch literally since 2010 when it appeared on Netflix streaming. I could have watched the whole series in that time, but I was trying to blog it, and my enthusiasm just sort of fizzled out. My goal for 2012 was to finish the series. Who knows?
I agree with Sars, though, that the first few seasons at least are especially rewatchable.
#XFilesRewatch is my favorite thing on twitter these days.
But since my Twitter handle is @hmbscully, it’s probably not too surprising.
I’ve probably seen the first season at least 8 times all the way through. I could replay the whole episode in my head just from your tweets. Despite that, I still want to rewatch it yet again.
The white tights! I forgot all about those. God, they dressed Scully in some horrible things that first season.
Mmmmm, X Files. The first series to really parlay that sex tension without a)making it all about the sex tension to the detriment of the show or b)forgetting about the sex tension at crucial moments so you spend precious episode time wondering if one of the characters had sustained an offscreen closed-head injury and forgotten they TOTALLY HAD SEX TENSION with their costar.
Heh, a couple weeks ago Jezebel had some item about Gillian and David hooking up and the comments were stuffed with variations of “OMIGOD PLEEEEEAAAAASE BE DOING IT!” for a show that went off the air two decades ago! These two are more legendary then anything they investigated.
After my husband, my children and my cats, I love my X-Files DVDs. They are going in with me when I am cremated. All three versions. So at least something about my final hours will bring happiness to my family!
Wow, Zeljko Ivanek played Roland? My mind, she is blown. I haven’t seen that episode in years. I so need to do my own rewatch.
I found Felicity Huffman looked so different in “Ice” from the way she was (not that many years later, really) as Dana Whitaker that it wasn’t until re-watching the first season that I even realized she was in the episode! I find, looking back, that The X-Files seems to have a higher “Wow, he was in that? quotient than a lot of shows, even if it was on the air for most of decade.
Hee! Or, as I like to think of it: “Amish Rake Fight: The Early Adventures of Ratboy, er, -girl”
Thank you SO much for putting up the list of Tweets. As someone who had an, um, okay it was an obsession with this show, your Twitter feed has been cracking me up with these.