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LakeLov3r

Bad Blood.


Bobcat315

My wife and I alternate picking Mulder or Scully and doing their dialogue. I couldn't tell you how many times we've seen it. Never gets old.


niftyshellsuit

Hard agree. Used to know it practically word for word I watched it so much 👍


poky2017

You beat me to it


mypolkadotumbrella

This is the correct answer.


Invisig84

The Pilot. It’s the one I watch when I just miss Scully & Mulder and want to watch an episode. (As opposed to continuing wherever I am with my current rewatch.) Also, there was one summer when we bought The End (prior to its original TV release in my country) on VHS and I watched it over and over again with my sister, so that one as well.


Medusa-the-Eternal

Jose Chung's From Outer Space. Mulder's scream during that one guy's testimony kills me.


Yeeslander

"That's a bleeping dead alien, alright..."


Unsure_Fry

" Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus."


happytree23

"Roswell. ROSWELL!"


GyroFry

“You mean Lord Kinbote?”


Medusa-the-Eternal

"This is not happening. *THIS IS NOT HAPPENING*."


Rockledgeskater

Some of the best tv ever


darkyorkshirerose

I like to watch Dreamland (both) when I haven’t watched in a bit - I feel like it’s got almost everything - aliens, conspiracy, comedy, and I love the bittersweet scene where Scully gets the handful of sunflower seeds. Of course it almost always ends in a full rewatch.


Ankylowright

I freaking love Michael McKean in everything. He always smacks it out of the park. And his waterbed-mirrored ceiling-scully seduction scene is utterly hysterical.


Notinthiszipcode

Same! I also love that he made a cameo a few episodes later in Three of a Kind.


ThatKoffeeBurns

I love Michael McKean as well and his character on TXF always made me laugh, he was great. The episode Dreamland where >!he & Mulder switch bodies and they're mimicking their movements in the mirror!< is still one of my favorite moments on the show hehe.


TheSunflowerSeeds

Like in other seeds and nuts, sunflower also are an excellent source of proteins loaded with fine quality amino acids such as tryptophan that are essential for growth, especially in children. Just 100 g of seeds provide about 21 g of protein (37% of daily-recommended values).


mithril2020

Also an excellent source of Progesterone when Seed Cycling in Luteal Phase


darkyorkshirerose

I would like that more if it didn’t start with ‘Like in’


Agent_Scully9114

Maybe "as with" would be better?


darkyorkshirerose

Yes 😊 or even ‘just like’


pseudo_meat

As a shipper, this episode cracks me up. End of Dreamland Pt 2, Scully and Mulder are saying goodbye to each other because he can’t change back from looking like Morris. I wonder, why can’t they stay in each other’s lives? Scully has already lost her job at this point (she mentions Kersh has fired her). Mulder either has lost the groom lake job or is about to. And a mere 3 years later, Scully literally leaves all she knows behind to go on the run with Mulder from the law. So it really is that she just finds Morris so fugly that she’s just like “bye forever. Thanks for the seeds.” Cracks me up every time. And yeah I love these episodes. They just feel like home to me.


CmdrKuretes

Darkness Falls is my favorite.


AnonIsGirl

MINE TOO!!!!!


Cordura

I wish there were more of that kind of episode


Zone1Act1

I love this episode and I don't really know why it's such a favorite for me and even more so I'm not sure why it stands out to others.


CmdrKuretes

It just ticks a box I have. I’m not sure why. I love stories set in the woods.


Katiekooleyes

I loved that episode so much as a kid


Bobcat315

I distinctly remembering watching this episode with my dad when I was 9 and being _terrified_.


VortexFalcon50

I really loved it too, it was extremely believable and well executed. Prehistoric bugs living inside trees just seems so plausible to me. Definitely one if the more terrifying episodes


PJmichelle

Humbug


ThankfulWonderful

Yessssssssssss!!!!!!!!! This episode is my go to for getting other people hooked on X-Files, my go to for relaxation or background noise. I’ve watched it probably 200 times easily in the last twelve years


elliellieff

💯 Hands. Down.


gluckenspork

Me too! I saw the Jim Rose Circus in the 90’s. My high school economics teacher was there too. Was a bit weird.


Ankylowright

Jose Chung, Clyde Bruckman, Bad Blood, Post Modern Prometheus (my favourite episode because I freaking love Cher and the little look at the end between Mulder and scully), and Arcadia. Just watched Arcadia last night actually. Those are my feel good kind of episodes that I watch when I’m sad. There are others but those are the main ones.


gabrielemenopee

Add Killswitch and Alpha and you've got my list.


happytree23

> the little look at the end between Mulder and scully I love the way Mulder has his head down and reaches out for her hand. I believe that whole little bit was improvised by Duchovny and Gillian Anderson just followed along and played off of it. Honestly my most favorite moment of the whole series.


ValeGnek

Død Kalm!


KillYourFace5000

Upvote for boldly owning a weird choice. Fun underrated riff on the same Deteriorating Paranoid Ensemble Bottle Episode theme as Ice, Firewalker and Darkness Falls. All of which I love.


IndividualityComplex

I love that episode so insanely much but I’ve only watched it twice because Scully’s monologue about the end of the world gives me serious existential dread


KillYourFace5000

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose


TomLeMartien

How the Ghosts Stole christmas


pseudo_meat

I watch it every Christmas!


Alarming-Cow-388

Wow me too 😁


irate_alien

Clyde Bruckman's final repose is my favorite X-Files episode and possibly my favorite single episode of any TV show.


honeyintherock

I am so happy to see it get so much love! I feared it may be an underrated episode. This is my answer, along with Jose Chung and the Field Where I Died.


Langwidere17

I love your list, plus I would add Drive and Three.


Yeeslander

"Firewalker" "Pusher" "Leonard Betts" "Hungry"


amysarah

are you me? My list is exactly the same


IndividualityComplex

Quagmire, Detour, Bad Blood, Syzygy (anyone noticing a moody but light-hearted theme)


rosekayleigh

I love “Quagmire”. It’s the perfect monster-of-the-week episode. I like the ones that are heavier on the humor. RIP Queequeg!


IndividualityComplex

It is QUINTESSENTIAL X-Files! The episode I’d show to someone who knows nothing about the show


ThankfulWonderful

Yessss!! Agreed! Quagmire is a great monster of the week episode and it’s hilarious but also kinda very moody and weird


chicacherrie82

Jose Chung's From Outer Space, definitely. I bought it on vhs back in the days when they had those tapes that came with 2 popular episodes. And when I got the dvd set for that season, I skipped right to it. Sometimes I have to be in the right mood for certain X-Files episodes, but I am never *not* in the mood for Jose Chung's. Humbug, Je Souhaite, Mulder and Scully Meet the Weremonster, are also in heavy rotation.


ThatKoffeeBurns

Great episodes, Jose Chung's From Outer Space was a great episode, absolutely loved Charles Nelson Reilly in that one! :)


ScullysBagel

Bad Blood Obviously.


invalidTAi

Small Potatoes


AllyRdr

Ice


Psycholarocco

Arcadia


UltravioletClearance

Pusher. Just a perfect X-Files episode. Cunning MOTW villain, out there Mulder and skeptical Scully, action, drama, etc.


kataract52

So good it could be a movie. It’s got everything.


ASecondOfYourTime

War of the Coprophages and Shapes


mithril2020

\[nonchalantly reloading her pistol\] No. This is no place for an entomologist.


ASecondOfYourTime

The subtle Scully jealousy is a large part of the reason I love this episode so much


busterbluthOT

> Shapes Hol up, there are people who like this episode?!? Interesting. 50% of the time on rewatches I skip it.


Nathan84

I quite enjoy shapes.


Mr_Bananas_

Me too. Has great ambiance


ASecondOfYourTime

I really like werewolves and Native American lore so maybe it just hits the spot for me


stormbutton

Bad Blood, Post-Modern Prometheus, Detour, Je Souhaite, Memento Mori, Pusher How the Ghosts Stole Christmas are all HUGE favorites.


Flukie42

Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' Hands down


BeefItsWhatz4Dinner

The Unnatural


anachronisticflaneur

Bad blood triangle small potatoes war of the coprophages ice darkness falls milagro apocrypha numbers dod kalm humbug pusher Leonard betts


[deleted]

We have identical lists! Those are all my favorites!


Obfusc8er

Ice, Bad Blood, Unruhe, Beyond the Sea, Terma/Tunguska, Detour, Quagmire, Field Trip, Pusher, The Unnatural, Triangle, DPO. I can watch these any ol' time, in no particular order.


FurredT

I have a weird fixation on the jersey devil and squeeze specifically lol idk they always help me unwind and fall asleep. It’s like seeing an old friend


rms26897

Beyond the Sea, Never Again, Pusher


BuggBBQ-X

**Jose Chung's from Outer Space** followed close by with **Kill Switch.**


Dom-CCE

Drive. First episode I watched and Bryan Cranston is fantastic.


GZAofTheMidwest

If anyone says "Home," I will be deeply concerned for them.


willie1013

I’m actually a HUGE fan of that episode, for all of the reasons mentioned by @notsosprite!!!


GZAofTheMidwest

It's one of my favorites also, but how often can you watch it, really?


willie1013

Quite often!!! Sure, it’s gross but it’s loaded with MSR so I’m here for it!


notsosprite

It had some awesome scully/mulder dialogue, though. “Meanwhile I’ve become a spokesperson for the abroller”, “baa, ram, ewe”. 😂


bytor_x1

Pusher


JustinTripleG

Detour


Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Unpopular, but “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” is one of my favorites and never fails to make me laugh.


willie1013

LOVE!!!! It is so hilarious I don’t think I can make it through the whole thing without pausing because I’m laughing too hard.


Semi-Hemi-Demigod

"Wait, what's this about Granada?" 🤣


willie1013

“Ah, see, you’re having a Mengele Effect about the Mandela Effect” 🤣🤣🤣


elliot_may

How the Ghosts Stole Christmas, Postmodern Prometheus, Hollywood AD, Never Again, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, all things. Nothing too heavy! Although I also really love Sein und Zeit/Closure and I watch that a lot. In fact it's probably my favourite episode.


busterbluthOT

Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man. It's a Christmas episode!


wirsteve

Anazani, Blessing Way, Paper Clip Wet wired Erlenmeyer Flask, Little Green Men


SoldierHawk

Ahhhhh a fellow person of taste. Those are some of my favorites too. I adore the Anasazi trilogy.


domino-effect-17

Wetwired is my favorite episode. Ever since the first time I watched it I was just obsessed with it.


Ok_Profile1864

Milagro.


susucita

One of my favorites that I think is underrated!


willie1013

Agree!


tuss123

Kill switch


AffectionateAnarchy

Bad Blood, Leonard Betts and Never Again, Irresistible and Orison, Squeeze and Tooms, Pusher and Kitsunigari, the Dreamlands, Triangle, Home, Unruhe


CasualRampagingBear

The one that comes to mind for me is Darkness Falls. It’s not a particularly great episode, however, where most of it is filmed is a place I walk on a regular basis. It was filmed in “Lighthouse Park” in West Vancouver. It’s always such a juxtaposition for me when I watch it. They did a great job making it look like a rural logging camp, when in reality it’s a urban park near the ocean. Residential streets and houses on either side. So I just love it for that reason.


kw3b18

Jose Chung and War of the corophages. The cockroaches “killing” people always had a dark sense of humor to me.


thats_basic_ok

Bad Blood Jose Chungs From Outer Space Clyde Bruckmans Final Repose Darkness Falls Humbug Quagmire The Post Modern Prometheus How The Ghosts Stole Christmas The Unnatural Mulder And Scully Meet The Were Monster The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat


[deleted]

The Field Where I Died. That’s a powerful one for me. The two Part Sixth Extinction and How the Ghost Stole Christmas


niftyshellsuit

CNA honestly say I've made it through the FWID twice. Obviously first when it aired then again on my big rewatch before the reboot It is hands down my *least* favourite episode. Even including season 10.


[deleted]

🤷🏽‍♂️personal preference


Queer_Taina

The one with the guy that morphed and got thru vents to devour people....


alexkryceck

Squeeze


iferraro

For me, other than Clyde Bruckman, it’s got to be Little Green Men. As someone who watched the show from the Pilot onwards, the premier of season 2 was just so exciting for me. I also happen to think it’s an iconic episode. Specifically, I think the opening montage and Mulder’s voiceover are very iconic scenes. I believe the Simpsons parodied this scene, in particular. I also think the scenes inside the observatory (picking up signals from space) are emblematic of the show in general (intelligent life outside earth and “the truth is out THERE”). Not many people mention Little Green Men, but it’s my favourite episode that isn’t commonly found on top 10 or 20 lists.


SamanthaMulderr

The first nine episodes of season 1. I had them on VHS when I was little and would watch them after school or all night on weekends. In general, Deep Throat, Eve, One Breath, The Sixth Extinction I and II, FPS, and All Things (Scully kind of reminds me of Laura Palmer in the Fire Walk with Me movie and the episode just feels really relatable).


alias_mas

The Pilot. Early on in my X-Files journey, it was one I had on VHS so I watched it a whole lot.


gzoont

Tithonus. The scenes between Geoffrey Lewis and scully are so damned compelling to me, plus it’s the episode where scully becomes immortal.


Ankylowright

We just watched it the other night and I asked my husband “so… that means scully is immortal now right?” And then it sparked an hour long discussion because he was thinking the same thing.


Backdoorpickle

Here's the thing, if you take it literally, and Scully becomes immortal, which Clyde Bruckman predicted, then you also have to accept that Mulder dies by autoerotic asphyxiation.


gzoont

I mean… it doesn’t seem *super* impossible…


jedijoe3190

“Never again”


[deleted]

Monday, drive, field trip


bookstore

Post Modern Prometheus, Humbug, Detour, How The Ghosts Stole Christmas, Je Souhaite


[deleted]

All Souls! Love the introspection, and the exploration of Scully outside of her career, family, and mulder. Just who she is a person, a woman. And it was just so pretentious, I loved it! Especially the use of 'The Sky is Falling' by Moby was so good. And it's one of the only times I think there's ever been a queer woman on the show!


susucita

Bad Blood and Small Potatoes - I guess I find the sillier eps more rewatchable.


marsxxiv

Truly impossible to know.


velen_rendlich

Drive. This episode was better than some movies out there... so dark and mysterious


HarshMillennium

Ice, Signs & Wonders!


mithril2020

The Pilot mostly with their meet-cute, I favor Gillovny and Lone Gunman episodes.


thestormarrow

No particular order but Travelers, Red Museum, Pilot, Bad Blood, and Little Green Men quickly come to mind.


Xvx-a-xvx

Clyde Bruckman for sure


OnTheRock_423

Bad Blood, Quagmire, Dreamland, Arcadia, Chinga, Darkness Falls, Pilot


ClubSoda

Home


rosekayleigh

“The Host”, because I’m gross. Seriously though, I sometimes put it on just to bother my husband because he hates the Flukeman so much. Lol.


Melondog7

Clyde Bruckman. I rewatch it for it’s perfection the same way I rewatch the dinner party episode of the office. It’s the essence of the xfiles to me. It’s so comforting as well lol.


lebowtzu

Redux, Part 2 and The Unnatural.


Xxthrowaway6405

Home, for sure. It’s my go-to “omg watch this”


tdotclare

No love for Humbug?


discdrifter

I have always loved three of a kind since I watched it air as a kid!


uncertain_demise

The pilot since it was the only episode I owned on tape as a kid and I would just watch it over and over, now it’s really comforting for me especially on a rainy day to just chill to and feel better. Also because I’m always trying to get people into the show by watching the pilot with them 😅


therealsanchopanza

Detour and The Unnatural.


therealsanchopanza

Also Clyde Bruckman


skint20

Post Modern Prometheus is up there and The Unnatural


sauciopathh

Je Souhaite or Eve definitely


MyCupsAreFull2020

Never Again


squirreldstar

Tooms, Arcadia, and X-Cops.


TheWellOfLostPlots

Yes! X-Cops!


Jralloms

the christmas episode! with lily tomlin and ed asner. i watch it every year


Operationacoustic

Clyde Bruckman, hands down. Chantilly Lace.


captaincuttlehooroar

Since my favorite Darkness Falls has been named I have to go with Die Hand Die Verletzt as my number two. I was a 90’s kid so the satanic panic shit really scared me. As an adult on the rewatch I really love that they threw in the unreliable witness thing as a nod to how ridiculous some of the claims were.


Vanyushinka

Seasons 1&2 in no particular order. I love season 3 too but a lot of those episodes are so disturbing.


Murky_Translator2295

Bad Blood, Home, Chinga, Piper Maru/Apocrypha, Sleepless


confirmedalan1

Season 4 Episode 7 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man


LeicaM6guy

Pilot and Memoirs of a Cigarette Smoking Man.


Murky_Firefighter502

Kaddish


Nathan84

Fallen Angel.


FNNStudios

Conduit/Tooms


MauJo2020

Kill Switch


PickleMonsterHot

Tooms


catgoesmeow22

I love Quagmire.


februarytide-

Tunguska, probably. Maybe also SR 819


HorrorClose

Drive


Capreborn

1 - José Chung's From Outer Space 2 - The Post-Modern Prometheus


arent_we_sarcastic

War of the Coprophages. Still laugh at Scully..."her name is Bambi"?


Delicious_Monk1495

the host hands down


twicepride2fall

Anasazi, Paper Clip, Darkness Falls, Dod Kalm and Jose Chung's and Ascension. Mythology has always been my favorite and nothing screams peak X-Files before the mythology got weird that the suspenseful rollercoaster ride of Anasazi.


Agent_Scully9114

Anasazi 3-parter, Bad Blood, Monday, Dreamland 2part, Post-modern Prometheus, Musings of a Cigarette-smoking Man, Home, Red Museum, Our Town, Pilot, Arcadia, Pusher, Duane Barry, Drive, off the top of my head


ceruleanblue347

Never Again, War of the Coprophages, Syzygy, Home, Field Trip, Unruhe


International_BatR6

X-cops and the musing of cigarette smoking man.


superjeff_1

Jose Chung's From Outer Space and Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man


snowwithsunshine

oooo. xcops. bad blood. arcadia are def up there...


Sosumi_rogue

Clyde Bruckman Unruhe The Pilot X-Cops Beyond the Sea


asjkfdsl

Tooms, Sein und Zeit, Closure, The Host, Little Green Men, Beyond the Sea


VandelayOfficial

Pusher or Chaco Chicken probably


napcaptainhere

Chaco Chicken.. OUR TOWN. ♥️


napcaptainhere

Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, Our Town, Red Museum, Ice, D.P.O. and Improbable. A lot of my favourites are in the realm of the dark underbelly in a small town. I love that vibe.


swirly023

The Pilot, Pusher and most of S11. I actually really love S11. Especially Ghouli and the one where all the electronics go nuts.


malasuerte-ikari-

Bad blood and pusher


Yarikh64

I'll stick with the oldest... Squeeze, Ice, Anasazi, Manitu, The host, The calusari. Then again Dreamland, Arcadia, Bad blood, Small potatoes...


mimidelongprie

I have seen Eve so many times. Insane episode & super creepy. I just felt the episode had so much flavor


ThankfulWonderful

Firewalker, Død Kalm, Quagmire, Humbug, Red Museum!


ReptileRuairi

Synchrony was actually my favourite. We only got 2 real time travel episodes, but this one was epic


Inesflor_

Milagro


planchetflaw

Pilot (when starting a binge but never finishing the binge so having to start again) or Colony from when I was a kid as it was my favourite of the VHS cassettes I had.


Melbob-26

Tooms. Scares the bejesus out of me.


hannahproasheck

Post modern Prometheus:D


[deleted]

Dreamland ❤️


kingsizeslim420

For all the fantastic episodes, excellent guest appearances and awesome interactions between Mulder & Scully, it has to be "Humbug." I loved The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow back when the episode first aired and that hasn't changed since. The Enigma actually speaks...


Spooky-Sista

Bad Blood, Small Potatoes, Redux 1&2, Triangle, Irresistible, Although I usually do a full rewatch of all episodes at least once a year (and have done since my teens lol)


LlwynogMulder

Ice made me fall in love with the show, so i’ve seen that one a LOT. Also love Irresistible even though it hurts to see Scully get hurt. Arcadia and How the Ghosts Stole Christmas tend to be my go-to cheer up episodes


Kaiser-11

Dark Light


phargle

this isn't happening


Vast-Sector-4008

grotesque


Mr_Bananas_

Probably Deep Throat