Well what party is the chihuahua?

Is it sponge-worthy?

Spinal Tap leans over and whispers, "Fasc-IST."

I remember when First Day of Camp came out, they had the film so people could get caught up before watching the series. Personally, I would like to see the whole WHAS saga get collected in a big Criterion box set. (And stop making them here, please. The ending was a perfect place to conclude all these stories.)

Definitely stick with it for a few more. I can't say I was blown away by the first episode, but I was by the season as a whole.

I've never watched Fringe (always meant to) so I can't properly compare. Maybe Fringe was more scientific, but it always seemed to me that the X-Files liked to give an explanation even though it would be based in pseudo-science.

Funny, I'm always torn on that one because it's so well written (*cough* Vince Gilligan *cough*) but it seems a little too fantasy for the world of the X-Files. It's a great hour of TV, it just never felt very X-Files to me.

At the time, The X-Files and The Simpsons were the pillars that held Fox up, so I'm sure Carter was offered a ton of cash to keep going. But it was pretty unhealthy for the show (even though some good episodes were still to come).

Mulder and Scully are still entertaining to watch today. They help you get through the bad episodes.

I'd say Season 1 has a lot of rough spots since they were still figuring things out. (Now Mulder's afraid of fire! Now the face on Mars is haunting astronauts!) Kumail Nadjiani's X-Files podcast is a good guide as he skips over the bad ones (for the most part). Seasons 2 and 3 are the best overall, and marked the…

I think Chris Carter was capable of writing good episodes in the show's early days. I won't defend his atrocious work in the last season, though. And he could have done a much better job plotting the mythology arc as the series went on, obviously. (I feel it should have stopped when the first X-Files film came out.…

When "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" came out, someone in the theater whooped with joy when Skinner showed up, which made me happy.

Yeah, I think this video is Starcrash canon, not MCU canon.

Not quite what I meant. I'm referring to the way the show explored the moral issues of what the agents (particularly Fitz) did inside the virtual world, exposing aspects of their personality that may have been sublimated or driven purely by actions they took in their life that took them down a different path. That…

Mine were Boogie Nights and the Criterion Time Bandits. Those were the days when I would watch every single special feature of every DVD I rented or owned. I hadn't owned a laserdisc player so it seemed so cool at the time to have audio commentaries, etc.

She was the main reason I was able to binge watch the show.

I don't think they've done that lately, though. They pretty much ignored the Doctor Strange movie, other than introducing some more magic/mystical elements with the Ghost Rider arc.

Agreed. Agents of SHIELD has strangely turned into more of a cult show, with a smaller but fervent audience that recognizes just how great the cast and scripts have gotten. The last story arc went to philosophical places that I've never seen explored before (in the virtual reality subgenre), at least not in TV or…

This may be the single greatest video the AV Club has ever posted.

Oh definitely. But I have an affinity toward 60's psych in general, so their first album is a sweet spot for me. The way they were able to survive and make the leap to being leaders in prog rock and build a larger audience is notable, particularly since they continued to make challenging music in different ways.