Or about half of season 6.

Huh, well, I just had to check, and I could've sworn he wrote that 3rd season episode with KISS in it, but apparently not.

It pretty much ran the full gamut from po-faced horror-tragedy to B-movie shlock to artful self-parody to full-on doofing around.

Quite. X-Files already gave us two gay black guys in a monogamous relationship who don't die specifically because they're not cowards. I think they've earned some breathing room.

I don't know. Certainly he comes off like the geeks of old, who love a show so much that they spend hours of every night picking apart its flaws. The kind of love where eventually you just HAVE to wear its skin like a suit.

At first I wondered if they were "doing" a Bunyip story or something.

Oh come on, it's not even CLOSE to the most retarded thing on this show. What about that people-eating shadow?

I think it's the "outrage" you're perceiving that's causing the problem. No one here is outraged.

What surprised/relieved me was that Mulder didn't go via Jurassic Park frogs changing their sex in his explanation, because I really thought they were going to go there and I don't know how I would have felt about it.

And now I need my José Chung fix.

She was definitely goofing around in Hannibal. Pretty sure she and Mads had a bet on or something, because she didn't move her neck at all for the first season.

The thing I love about it is that it's never explained.

OK, something I have to ask:

An article on Slate that makes mountains out of molehills? Shurely shome mishtake?

I keep looking at him and thinking that I was too hard on the ageing make up from "Død Kalm", because they pretty much nailed it. I first noticed this in Zoolander and it's only got more pronounced since.

Yeah, this was referenced before (by Darin Morgan) - there was a Detective Manners in "José Chung's From Outer Space" who swore (kind of) a lot.

Ha, brilliant, I thought it was them but wasn't totally sure.

So is the guy getting high in this one the same one who was getting high in a bunch of other Season 3 episodes, only a couple of decades older?

One of them is supposed to have lived as a paranoid shut-in for the past decade. I think it's fair enough for him not to look pristine.

I keep seeing people saying "they've age badly". The objection seems to be to them ageing at all. Personally I'm itching for an X-Files/Death Becomes Her crossover. I'm pretty sure Isabella Rosselini would be up for it, if she's still alive.