One's gotta be "You Shook Me All Night Long."  What's the other?

I would have picked Heat Wave over Nowhere to Run, but I'm not gonna turn down the chance to vote for my lady Martha.

B4-4th grade?

James Morrison had done a fine job in the Millennium episode "Dead Letters" a few years earlier.  He's one of those great reliable semivisible character actors.

It's true.  FPS just has that many layers of suck.  The murders that neither the police nor anyone else show sign of giving a shit about.  The guest supermodel sleeping through her villain part, not that I can blame her.  The final shock reveal that someone's made a 3-d animation of Scully in action bondage gear. …

I actually… okay saying I "like" Fight Club would be a little strong.  But I thought it had good direction and was pleasantly surprised by Kathy Griffin's performance.

Were it still possible to do such things, I'm guessing Michael Emerson would buy up all the copies and burn them.

Did you ship them?

And Penny's "I can spin this, which is why everyone at work calls me the old spinster."

That's a callback to the first season, when Penny could only speak Italian when she drank and drinking also made Alex devour six plates of ribs.  One of the few scenes in season 1 where Alex felt like the character she is now.

Also "I meant that in a figurative way, not a domestic violence way."

I'll have to ask how that works one of these days.

Lite Rock radio stations still play "All Star", so if you voluntarily or otherwise listen to those stations and also watch Happy Endings, you'll get it.  Not sure what that Venn diagram would look like.

It has a lot more style than "Left Behind", which is no small deal.  The marks against this episode are the fact that the X-Files had covered this territory in one of its best episodes ("Die Hand Die Verletzt") and that if you think about it for ten seconds the episode smears all Christians who aren't intolerant…

It has a lot more style than "Left Behind", which is no small deal.  The marks against this episode are the fact that the X-Files had covered this territory in one of its best episodes ("Die Hand Die Verletzt") and that if you think about it for ten seconds the episode smears all Christians who aren't intolerant…

One irony about "Sein und Zeit" and "Closure" - not a spoiler because it's partly wrapped up in this ep - is that as harrowing as this case has to be for Mulder on a personal level, it's a boon to him professinally.  He finds enough evidence in this episode to nail Bad Santa.  This is the guy who usually writes weird…

One irony about "Sein und Zeit" and "Closure" - not a spoiler because it's partly wrapped up in this ep - is that as harrowing as this case has to be for Mulder on a personal level, it's a boon to him professinally.  He finds enough evidence in this episode to nail Bad Santa.  This is the guy who usually writes weird…

There's a reason "Orison" feels like an episode of Millennium, I think.  The episode is written by Chip Johannesen, who worked on all three seasons of that show.  My guess would be that he started writing it in the hopes they'd get a fourth season, maybe with Emma Hollis in Scully's place.

There's a reason "Orison" feels like an episode of Millennium, I think.  The episode is written by Chip Johannesen, who worked on all three seasons of that show.  My guess would be that he started writing it in the hopes they'd get a fourth season, maybe with Emma Hollis in Scully's place.

Agreed that it's not really an episode of the X-Files.  It's more like a lighthearted April Fool's episode of the Rockford Files.  Something by Stephen Cannell, anyway.  I enjoyed it, though, and it looked like the cast was enjoying it as well.