So Darin Morgan's 100% hit ratio continues…

I guess I'm the only one who liked The List.

"She also, in the first ep, asked Mulder if he had seen O'Malley's show on "the Net," which nobody says anymore."

Yeah, but cmon: she IS a Catholic.

Yeah, and it's not like any individual gay Indian letter opener ear penetration is the problem - it's just the sheer quantity.

There isn't one.

"Mulder’s interactions with Gupta, Sanjay’s (male) lover was… I dunno. I think it came out okay? It helped that Scully pointed out later how strange it was that Sanjay still had to hide his sexual activities in 2016."

Supposedly it's actually a reference to Karl Knausgård's fictionalised memoirs of the same name. I'm now trying to figure out what the hell difference that makes.

Ha, I was going to ask what the theory was, but now I know.

"The 'internment camps' are just supply storage points for disaster relief equipment. Like tents, RVs, body bags etc."

Yeeeah, about that: is the FEMA conspiracy an actual Thing? Because it sounded nuts (and sounded like it was SUPPOSED to sound nuts in the movie).

Because someone in charge saw that Burt Reynolds episode and thought "whoa, what the hell have we been throwing money at all these years?!"

The third is Darin Morgan. Darin Morgan is physically incapable of bad writing.

Welllllllll… in The Erlenmeyer Flask, they established that a bacterium was extra-terrestrial because it had "a fifth and sixth base pair". So presumably all you'd have to do is look for those chemicals.

I really hope so. If you've ever seen the movie Bug, there's a scene in that where two people in a tin foil chamber in their underwear rattle out a long breathless folie a deux explanation for how they must have been contact-poisoned by fruit (I promise it's a lot better than that sounds). And that's what that scene…

Nah, I don't mean that website - I mean, the YouTube stand-in that Mulder watches a couple of times. A nice cyclical reference as I'm pretty sure that Mind Quad was an X-Files reference.

Not as depressing as when O'Malley takes Mulder to the warehouse full of paranoid people and my only thought was "oh god, it's going to be the Lone Cocking Gunmen!"

I'm assuming that your favourite shows are maybe six episodes long?

Y'know, it's way more fucked up to call an episode Mein Kampf - in apparent reference to the main character's exploits - when he's been established as being FRICKING JEWISH.

I guess it's harder to understand now that serialisation is way more common, but there was a time when the show was basically a really good anthology with a solid framing device in the form of its protagonists, and then every now and then you'd tune in to find that, ugh, it's a two-parter? And this was when you might…