This is one of my favorite episodes. My mom remembers that cerulium blue scene to this very day. It really unnerved her. It creeps up on her everytime she pulls out onto a road.
Love Pusher. It's one of my favorites and almost always the first episode I recall when thinking about the X-Files. He would have been a great villain for a feature length X-Files film...but alas, here we are.
Pusher is a brilliant episode, and the character is real scary. The idea that someone can just pish thoughts on to you and make you do stuff is like taking the cult-like behaviour of say Manson's followers in carrying out murders and pushing it further and giving it a spooky, ex-files twist. Great job by Gilligan for this one, and by you for the review.
they were handy at times but when you had to use one one of the things that came to mind was how unsanitary is this thing who's been breathing all over the mouth piece and ear piece. Never thought about it when young but as a preteen i used to wipe then off on my jacket be fore use. This was back in the late 70's.
"Pusher" definitely deserves to be included as an iconic X Files episode (probably just behind the OTHER notable Vince Gilligan-penned episode "Drive" with Bryan Cranston, who also starred in the 2011 movie "Drive", bonus detail for ya); great supporting cast, especially the villain, with a "could be supernatural, but also maybe a medical condition" affliction that supports either believer or skeptic outlook. Outside of your "how do you verbally induce a heart attack" nitpick (although I'd counter that there are cases of "mind over matter", placebo effect-type things that could be a possible plausible explanation). And, this is a bit of a reach, but, in addition to "Robert Patrick" coincidentally being part of his name and the actor who shows up later, "Modell's" is the name of a chain of sporting goods stores, so when he goes to the golf/driving range, my mind makes that connection. I don't think it actually means anything or was on purpose to be a reference, just how my brain associates those details.
When I first saw this, I thought it was a funny reference that he called Skinner ‘Mel Cooley’ , character from the Dick Van Dyke Show, which did have that creepy alien episode with the walnuts.
One of the very best MOTW episodes. Between this, Paper Hearts, Folie a Deux, Unruhe, Drive, Tithonus, I feel like it is a shame that he became, almost exclusively, the go-to guy for comedic episodes once Darin Morgan left the show.
Not to mention Roadrunners and John Doe, as even in the Dogget years Gilligan still wrote great dramatic episodes with very unique and suspenseful sequences. What he DIDN'T do, though, was write three-dimensional female characters other than the female leads, and let's face it, if not for the scene in which she speaks fluent Spanish, Reyes could very well be switched for Scully in John Doe.
A good episode for sure and I've always enjoyed it myself. I still remember when this episode first aired and Skinner getting pepper sprayed by his assistant and then the crap kicked out of him while my older sister hooted and hollered in joy, hey she was a Fox Mulder fan so it tracked after Skinner was Mulder's greatest adversary.
I personally prefer Grotesque to this one, but it's still an amazing episode ! The premise alone-having someone control your mind, while being unable to stop yourself- is terrifying to say the least ! Maybe an 8.5 for me. Keep up the good work !
There are so many great episodes in the show, it's hard for me to really say which ones are better. Thank you for the kind words and I'm definitely trying.
@@JBSpookyReview Yes, seasons 2-3 were the golden years of the show, many incredible episodes, most of which fall in the monster of the week category !
Entering FBI building with a "PASS" would be a very nice power to have. Also the new power at the cost of death or losing health trope is still powerful but I was expecting something more like a government experiment vibe on the reason side. But still the power of mind goes strong. At least one less member at the endless X-Files villains asylum.
I actually don't remember this episode, and I bingewatched nearly the whole series. Weird. This was another good one, like better-than-fatsucker good. It is also nice that you keep referring to Millenium in these retrospective bits. The Lone Gunmen get nods but like all act like Millenium never happened. I actually never saw the show. If you so a set on that, it could be unique. I also suggest Alien Nation, or First Wave, as others to look in to. Few know of the former and less of the latter. I can think of a few others and an open to suggestions too. So much from even the past ten years could already be lost to time, so anything that references what exists could be essential.
@@JBSpookyReview Could there be a conspiracy to compel the masses to not consider the subject matter? With current events it is astonishingly possible.
07:37. Interesting. Back in antiquity, people with seizures/epilepsy were considered "touched by the gods" and were used as sources of divination. 09:50. Because budget. 10:27. Would you ever review stuff from Steven Seagall's filmography? 11:21. But how did they figure out loud noises break his influence?
Frank was one of the only members of law enforcement on the show that was supportive towards Mulder and not dismissive of the supernatural. To me that made his death more tragic than a lot of characters. I think he would have been a friend and ally to Mulder if he lived.
I don't really get people saying "Pusher" is underrated. It was watched by 16.2 million people and overwhelmingly well received both at the time and since, to the point of being listed as one of the best episodes of the show by pretty much every critic who ever made a list. Praise which, in my opinion, is quite justified. Within each new story act the bad guy's ability is richly explored in progressively creative ways while the detectives also appear smart and competent, which is absolutely vital when this extraordinary villain keeps proclaiming our hero to be his only worthy adversary. The episode explores Mulder and Scully's partnership as a highly functional one, peppering it with an air of intimacy, though not exactly romance, and placing it at the center of the climax scene, when what's at stake is the very idea of Mulder harming Scully, possibly lethally. I find it great that Modell's powers are made quite clear very early on and that there's a lot of interaction between him and the agents, making it feel like their part in the plot is more than just arriving at the crime scene after the fact and then wait for another murder to happen, something that unfortunately happens in way too many episodes. Instead, and this is a good instead, the plot has this effortless feel to it, flowing organically from one story beat to the next, all the while featuring well developed characters, engaging perfomances, cool visuals, and a whole bunch of very suspenseful and unpredictable set pieces. I'll bet this Gilligan guy will go on to do great things. He seems really good at the "douchebag loser is diagnosed with cancer and becomes a powerful evil mastermind" trope. Next we'll get The X-Files version of "Cats", only it's not the awful musical. It's just, you know, plain awful.
@@JBSpookyReview I see your point. It is not as subversive as Jose Chung or as iconic as Home or as flashy as Post-Modern Prometheus. It is more of an incredibly competent procedural romp that avoids a lot of the sameness that plagues many episodes, sometimes for weeks in a row. It’s also devoid of that gloominess found in a lot of episodes in the early years of the show. No sob story to speak of, no tragic characters, Burst’s death is more cool than sad, the villain is as witty as Mulder. Maybe it doesn’t rank as high for me as Home or Chung, but it is as well conceived and executed as one could hope for and I would argue that it got its due recognition for that ever since its first showing. An all time classic in its own right.
She's stunning. I've lost track of how many wallpapers I used to have of her, LOL. (And I am a 100% straight as can be woman.) Most are now lost through the years in various computer disasters.
Bullshido - Hahahaha! Is that a real slang term or did you make that up? Wow, I'd never heard of that Frank Dux guy. Kinda reminds me of a guy I used to know. He was forever claiming to have done this and that and you could never quite prove it or disprove it. I wish Skinner had been allowed to finish beating the daylights out of Modell. He's such a coldhearted piece of scum. He just doesn't CARE. I can't bear to watch Skinner get heel stomped by Holly. But I also felt sorry for her. You could tell she felt SO bad about it. 9:45 Wow, it sure does look like Toomsy Boy! love/hate relationship with CC - HA! So say we all. This is such a fantastic episode. Robert Wisden was perfection. Glad you brought up The Deer Hunter. This one gets under my skin, precisely because of it. I watched that at way too young an age. Messed me up forever.
Sadly some local teens years ago played Russian roulette. The fatal mistake they put 1 quite pill in the mag. Yes they used the wrong type of pew pew and never stood a chance
To this day, whenever I come across someone being a jerk, I'll look over to my wife and jokingly say "cerulean blue" as if I'm correcting the offender with mental powers.
That's the Japanese pronunciation, although the emphasis is on the first syllable (ROH-neen). Maybe Mulder put the emphasis on the second syllable to emphasize that that's the part he thinks she mispronounced. Still, it's fine to say ROH-nin, that seems to be the English pronunciation. translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=浪人&op=translate (click on the speaker symbol on the Japanese side)
@@JBSpookyReview lol. It’s the 90s, if Pam was the lead, they would doo so much to put her in so many steamy situations that it would become blatantly obvious. This show wouldn’t last. Because scully looks kinda average for a Hollywood pretty girl, the characterization went so far.
Pusher. yeah. A word with several meanings, an inny door, a cowboy brassiere, when they put the propellor on the wrong end of a plane, and a person who encourages people to use drugs. Written by Vincent Gilliwil Gilligan who'd later go on to create the award winning show about people encouraging drug use: Methalated Spirits, where a recently deceased former Olympic speed-skater teams up with a disgruntled astronaut trainee to illegally formulate wood preservatives and sell them on the black market to the under-the-table DIY enthusiasts. Co-starring Christina Appelgate as a lingerie model who rents out the astronaut's backroom. No, i don't think that would be gratuitous pandering, shut up. I dunno about this one, I keep getting dropped out of the SOD chair. It's things like, Muldrocity shoots an unarmed man full in the chest, almost certainly whilst on camera, and isn't immediately arrested and investigated for murder. What could the defense possibly be? Y'all saw him: he had a gaze. "I was under the mental control of a dangerous man." "Who?" "The guy I shot." "Mighty convenient..." One wonders what would have happened if Pusher had bumped into that guy that eats tumours... "You have something I need...." "I want you to do something for me..." "Is it eating your brain?" "Uh, no?" Personally i think they had Skinner take a beating every time he took too many pies off the catering cart. Oi, Pie-Leggy! Leave some for the f^&king crew, alright, tot-poss? I dunno how one could talk someone into a heart attack, at least, not that quickly, I mean it's pretty easy to persuade people to have another slice of pizza, but that'd take a while to pan out. I also don't know how it's meant to work over the phone, because that means it's the sound of the words that does the compelling, but he doesn't sound any different, so, they're trying to make it a biological thing when it cannot possibly be so, and again, SOD chair snaps under pressure, like a Jersey Shore longshoreman who's been caught stealing underwear off clothes lines. "What is it wit you, Guido, you's skips the Victoria Secret and go fudda Seers & roebuck every toime..."
@@JBSpookyReview It's pretty good and worthwhile. Does a similar monster of the week thing at times and in the end a more satisfying mythology that pays off better than the X-Files. Some peak sci-fi in there.
@@schulzbrianr I probably should check out Supernatural. For some reason it didn't appeal to me in my mid 20's. You could even add Dark Skies (almost as a prequel) and something like Space Above and Beyond as a encore to the X-Files.
@@Blend42 I adored Supernatural. Except I've never seen the final season or the finale and don't know how it ended. I'm afraid to find out. Hiding from spoilers forever!
This is the first X Files episode I remember seeing! My dad was watching it when I was visiting for Christmas several years ago. It completely sucked me in and led me to eventually binge watching the entire series! Leaving some cerulean blue hearts for the excessive M & S handsiness this episode 🩵🩵🩵
I miss the 90s food and stuff was keeper everything was more simple everybody got along and at the end of the day everybody could take a joke and not get all offended by every little thing you say this is pretty sad
1. The ronin weren't THAT into girls. Samurai had squires who attended to EVERYTHING. lol There's no such thing as ghosts Mulder!......Jesus coming back from the dead wasn't a ghost! This one was a banger. They brought him back. There's no way Scully is with Mulder. She admits her mistakes and apologizes to him. Just because Steven Segal has no defense against buffets and domestic violence charges means he's a phony. He actually taught a japanese martial art in Japan. Now you want bullshido. The guy to look up is Frank Dux, who the movie "Bloodsport" was based off of. lol
I feel like Pusher is usually underrated, but it’s one of my favorites.
It's a really great self contained episode.
There's no way you're working with Scully and don't develop a crush
Bruh she’s boring lol. You must be some dweeb who never worked with women.
It would be impossible. She's too damn cute.
Pusher is just about the best example of what an x-files episode should be. I love it, 1 of my favorites.
Pusher is top tier I think.
Love this episode. Nice most unwanted callback. I freakin love the Russian roulette scene.
The end scene is so good.
Doubly freaks me out because I was messed up by watching The Deer Hunter at a WAY too young age, which also has a RR scene.
@@Yesica1993 No doubt, both masterful scenes and interestingly very different.
One of my favourite episodes… so thrilling
It's so good.
This is one of my favorite episodes. My mom remembers that cerulium blue scene to this very day. It really unnerved her. It creeps up on her everytime she pulls out onto a road.
That is one of the most memorable scenes in the series I think.
Love Pusher. It's one of my favorites and almost always the first episode I recall when thinking about the X-Files. He would have been a great villain for a feature length X-Files film...but alas, here we are.
You could do some really high stakes things with him.
Pusher is a brilliant episode, and the character is real scary. The idea that someone can just pish thoughts on to you and make you do stuff is like taking the cult-like behaviour of say Manson's followers in carrying out murders and pushing it further and giving it a spooky, ex-files twist. Great job by Gilligan for this one, and by you for the review.
Gilligan does a great job with this one and you can see hints of Walter White in this character I think.
This episode totally deserves the praise, one of the greatest of the series, and one of the most sadistic, chilling villains.
I kind of miss payphones being everywhere.
What we could have had nowadays would be special access points.
They're very rare to come by.
they were handy at times but when you had to use one one of the things that came to mind was how unsanitary is this thing who's been breathing all over the mouth piece and ear piece. Never thought about it when young but as a preteen i used to wipe then off on my jacket be fore use. This was back in the late 70's.
"Pusher" definitely deserves to be included as an iconic X Files episode (probably just behind the OTHER notable Vince Gilligan-penned episode "Drive" with Bryan Cranston, who also starred in the 2011 movie "Drive", bonus detail for ya); great supporting cast, especially the villain, with a "could be supernatural, but also maybe a medical condition" affliction that supports either believer or skeptic outlook. Outside of your "how do you verbally induce a heart attack" nitpick (although I'd counter that there are cases of "mind over matter", placebo effect-type things that could be a possible plausible explanation). And, this is a bit of a reach, but, in addition to "Robert Patrick" coincidentally being part of his name and the actor who shows up later, "Modell's" is the name of a chain of sporting goods stores, so when he goes to the golf/driving range, my mind makes that connection. I don't think it actually means anything or was on purpose to be a reference, just how my brain associates those details.
Haha that Modell's is an interesting bit of trivia. You're right though I love how the mind can make all these connections.
"Drive" is incredible!
That climax was one of the most stressful scenes I've ever watched. I swear I could hear Mulder's heart pounding during it.
It's one of the best scenes in the series I think.
I definitely agree that this episode is underrated, very good self contained episode.
I agree 100% JoJo.
I JUST watched this episode with my daughter. Literally while you were uploading this! My all time fav show. Michael Buble also in Apocrypha.
Oh wow perfect timing. What does your daughter think of it?
@@JBSpookyReview She loves horror shows and movies while also being quite the Mulder and Scully "Shipper"!
When I first saw this, I thought it was a funny reference that he called Skinner ‘Mel Cooley’ , character from the Dick Van Dyke Show, which did have that creepy alien episode with the walnuts.
That reference is gonna go over so many people's heads.
Dude, this is one of my favorite episodes!
It's an awesome episode.
One of the very best. Cerulean Blue...
I love this episode.
One of the very best MOTW episodes. Between this, Paper Hearts, Folie a Deux, Unruhe, Drive, Tithonus, I feel like it is a shame that he became, almost exclusively, the go-to guy for comedic episodes once Darin Morgan left the show.
I wonder if they ever asked Duchovny.
I didn't even realize they did that to Vince damn.
Not to mention Roadrunners and John Doe, as even in the Dogget years Gilligan still wrote great dramatic episodes with very unique and suspenseful sequences. What he DIDN'T do, though, was write three-dimensional female characters other than the female leads, and let's face it, if not for the scene in which she speaks fluent Spanish, Reyes could very well be switched for Scully in John Doe.
There were some amazing MOTW episodes.., and Pusher is definitely one of them.
@@dlaimer I loved Reyes. And I loved John Doe!
A good episode for sure and I've always enjoyed it myself. I still remember when this episode first aired and Skinner getting pepper sprayed by his assistant and then the crap kicked out of him while my older sister hooted and hollered in joy, hey she was a Fox Mulder fan so it tracked after Skinner was Mulder's greatest adversary.
Hahaha did she eventually come around on Skinner?
This is at the front of my top 5. I loved Pusher!
It's definitely up there.
I love when the bad guy is on the same level as Mulder, it gives his character room to shine
Yes when he has someone he can play off of. It adds a nice dimension to the mix.
Another great vid about a great episode!!!!
Thanks so much brother.
Burst. Great name
Haha I like it.
I personally prefer Grotesque to this one, but it's still an amazing episode ! The premise alone-having someone control your mind, while being unable to stop yourself- is terrifying to say the least ! Maybe an 8.5 for me. Keep up the good work !
There are so many great episodes in the show, it's hard for me to really say which ones are better. Thank you for the kind words and I'm definitely trying.
@@JBSpookyReview Yes, seasons 2-3 were the golden years of the show, many incredible episodes, most of which fall in the monster of the week category !
You mentioned the actor who played Patrick Modell was in Final Destination. That was originally intended to be part of the X Files.
Yes I actually have the Script for what was supposed to be the episode.
Now that's what I call a sticky situation
It was pretty damn sticky.
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Entering FBI building with a "PASS" would be a very nice power to have. Also the new power at the cost of death or losing health trope is still powerful but I was expecting something more like a government experiment vibe on the reason side. But still the power of mind goes strong. At least one less member at the endless X-Files villains asylum.
The X-Files has it's own Arkham Asylum.
One of my top 5 favorite x files. Thank you so much for the hard work. It is o much appreciated. Have a good weekend!! 👽
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I hope you have a good weekend as well.
5:06 nice Luis burn lol
Well I didn't see Mulder missing.
It was a pretty brutal episode. Gritty
I agree I love it.
I actually don't remember this episode, and I bingewatched nearly the whole series. Weird. This was another good one, like better-than-fatsucker good.
It is also nice that you keep referring to Millenium in these retrospective bits. The Lone Gunmen get nods but like all act like Millenium never happened. I actually never saw the show. If you so a set on that, it could be unique. I also suggest Alien Nation, or First Wave, as others to look in to. Few know of the former and less of the latter. I can think of a few others and an open to suggestions too. So much from even the past ten years could already be lost to time, so anything that references what exists could be essential.
I've only seen a handful of Millennium episodes, but I do own the dvd's. I've just never gotten around to it and I don't know why.
@@JBSpookyReview Could there be a conspiracy to compel the masses to not consider the subject matter? With current events it is astonishingly possible.
Me over here with my "Harsh Realm" DVDs, wishing more people knew about that show.
07:37. Interesting. Back in antiquity, people with seizures/epilepsy were considered "touched by the gods" and were used as sources of divination.
09:50. Because budget.
10:27. Would you ever review stuff from Steven Seagall's filmography?
11:21. But how did they figure out loud noises break his influence?
I could possibly cover some Seagall stuff, if there's something that fits the channel.
@@JBSpookyReview "Attack Force."
Frank Burst 💥 lol
haha right.
Frank was one of the only members of law enforcement on the show that was supportive towards Mulder and not dismissive of the supernatural. To me that made his death more tragic than a lot of characters. I think he would have been a friend and ally to Mulder if he lived.
I don't really get people saying "Pusher" is underrated. It was watched by 16.2 million people and overwhelmingly well received both at the time and since, to the point of being listed as one of the best episodes of the show by pretty much every critic who ever made a list. Praise which, in my opinion, is quite justified.
Within each new story act the bad guy's ability is richly explored in progressively creative ways while the detectives also appear smart and competent, which is absolutely vital when this extraordinary villain keeps proclaiming our hero to be his only worthy adversary. The episode explores Mulder and Scully's partnership as a highly functional one, peppering it with an air of intimacy, though not exactly romance, and placing it at the center of the climax scene, when what's at stake is the very idea of Mulder harming Scully, possibly lethally.
I find it great that Modell's powers are made quite clear very early on and that there's a lot of interaction between him and the agents, making it feel like their part in the plot is more than just arriving at the crime scene after the fact and then wait for another murder to happen, something that unfortunately happens in way too many episodes. Instead, and this is a good instead, the plot has this effortless feel to it, flowing organically from one story beat to the next, all the while featuring well developed characters, engaging perfomances, cool visuals, and a whole bunch of very suspenseful and unpredictable set pieces.
I'll bet this Gilligan guy will go on to do great things. He seems really good at the "douchebag loser is diagnosed with cancer and becomes a powerful evil mastermind" trope.
Next we'll get The X-Files version of "Cats", only it's not the awful musical. It's just, you know, plain awful.
I think those of us in the know, know it's not underrated, but it's rarely talked about when people bring up their favorite episodes.
@@JBSpookyReview I see your point. It is not as subversive as Jose Chung or as iconic as Home or as flashy as Post-Modern Prometheus. It is more of an incredibly competent procedural romp that avoids a lot of the sameness that plagues many episodes, sometimes for weeks in a row. It’s also devoid of that gloominess found in a lot of episodes in the early years of the show. No sob story to speak of, no tragic characters, Burst’s death is more cool than sad, the villain is as witty as Mulder. Maybe it doesn’t rank as high for me as Home or Chung, but it is as well conceived and executed as one could hope for and I would argue that it got its due recognition for that ever since its first showing. An all time classic in its own right.
Perfect Timing 👍🏾
I'm glad it was hahaha.
This was a great episode… Cerulean blue…
I can't see the word cerulean and not think of this episode.
@@JBSpookyReview I know, right? That's a sign that you're a true Phile!
1:55 Gillian looks like a painting
I've always thought she was beautiful, but sometimes, there are certain shots where she just looks stunning.
She's stunning. I've lost track of how many wallpapers I used to have of her, LOL. (And I am a 100% straight as can be woman.)
Most are now lost through the years in various computer disasters.
Can not go to the paint store and not look for certain colour blue.
Yeah anytime I see or hear it, I immediately think of this episode.
Bullshido - Hahahaha! Is that a real slang term or did you make that up?
Wow, I'd never heard of that Frank Dux guy. Kinda reminds me of a guy I used to know. He was forever claiming to have done this and that and you could never quite prove it or disprove it.
I wish Skinner had been allowed to finish beating the daylights out of Modell. He's such a coldhearted piece of scum. He just doesn't CARE.
I can't bear to watch Skinner get heel stomped by Holly. But I also felt sorry for her. You could tell she felt SO bad about it.
9:45 Wow, it sure does look like Toomsy Boy!
love/hate relationship with CC - HA! So say we all.
This is such a fantastic episode. Robert Wisden was perfection.
Glad you brought up The Deer Hunter. This one gets under my skin, precisely because of it. I watched that at way too young an age. Messed me up forever.
Bullshido is a real term made for those fake martial artists that can knock people down with their minds and stuff like that.
@@JBSpookyReview That's hilarious!
13:59 shout out to Napoleon!!!
He's top notch.
One of the best episodes of season 3 hands cerulean Blue... I'm glad they bring Robert Patrick Model back in season 5
He's a great character.
One is the best
Cant argue with you.
Dave Grool!!!
I wonder how many people know that was him.
Sadly some local teens years ago played Russian roulette. The fatal mistake they put 1 quite pill in the mag. Yes they used the wrong type of pew pew and never stood a chance
Wow that's awful.
So horrible.
check the Millennium show if u haven't
It's something I need to do at some point. I do own the series on DVD.
My favorite episode.
Great episode to have as your favorite
Agent Frank said he weighed 190lbs, who was he kidding!
Haha not me that's for sure.
Good stuff
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
To this day, whenever I come across someone being a jerk, I'll look over to my wife and jokingly say "cerulean blue" as if I'm correcting the offender with mental powers.
Hahahaha
IKR who pronounces it it Roneen? lol
Hey maybe we're all wrong, but I have never heard it pronounced like that.
That's the Japanese pronunciation, although the emphasis is on the first syllable (ROH-neen). Maybe Mulder put the emphasis on the second syllable to emphasize that that's the part he thinks she mispronounced. Still, it's fine to say ROH-nin, that seems to be the English pronunciation.
translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=浪人&op=translate (click on the speaker symbol on the Japanese side)
I’m kind of glad they made the relationship work as much as possible, it takes away the whole cliched future romance thing.
Something they really wanted to push when they were talking about casting Pam Anderson instead of Gillian.
@@JBSpookyReview lol. It’s the 90s, if Pam was the lead, they would doo so much to put her in so many steamy situations that it would become blatantly obvious. This show wouldn’t last. Because scully looks kinda average for a Hollywood pretty girl, the characterization went so far.
Pusher. yeah. A word with several meanings, an inny door, a cowboy brassiere, when they put the propellor on the wrong end of a plane, and a person who encourages people to use drugs. Written by Vincent Gilliwil Gilligan who'd later go on to create the award winning show about people encouraging drug use: Methalated Spirits, where a recently deceased former Olympic speed-skater teams up with a disgruntled astronaut trainee to illegally formulate wood preservatives and sell them on the black market to the under-the-table DIY enthusiasts. Co-starring Christina Appelgate as a lingerie model who rents out the astronaut's backroom. No, i don't think that would be gratuitous pandering, shut up.
I dunno about this one, I keep getting dropped out of the SOD chair. It's things like, Muldrocity shoots an unarmed man full in the chest, almost certainly whilst on camera, and isn't immediately arrested and investigated for murder. What could the defense possibly be? Y'all saw him: he had a gaze.
"I was under the mental control of a dangerous man."
"Who?"
"The guy I shot."
"Mighty convenient..."
One wonders what would have happened if Pusher had bumped into that guy that eats tumours...
"You have something I need...."
"I want you to do something for me..."
"Is it eating your brain?"
"Uh, no?"
Personally i think they had Skinner take a beating every time he took too many pies off the catering cart. Oi, Pie-Leggy! Leave some for the f^&king crew, alright, tot-poss?
I dunno how one could talk someone into a heart attack, at least, not that quickly, I mean it's pretty easy to persuade people to have another slice of pizza, but that'd take a while to pan out. I also don't know how it's meant to work over the phone, because that means it's the sound of the words that does the compelling, but he doesn't sound any different, so, they're trying to make it a biological thing when it cannot possibly be so, and again, SOD chair snaps under pressure, like a Jersey Shore longshoreman who's been caught stealing underwear off clothes lines. "What is it wit you, Guido, you's skips the Victoria Secret and go fudda Seers & roebuck every toime..."
Haha I always wondered how they explained Mulder shooting an unarmed man as well.
TH-cam unsubscribed me from your channel.
I've heard that happening to other channels. Thanks for letting me know, but I have no idea what causes it.
Fringe did an episode with basically the same theme, "Of Human Action" in their 2nd season. Both are great shows but Fringe owes a lot to the X-Files.
Yeah I've had some people ask me to do videos on fringe, I've just never seen it. I might have to look into it.
@@JBSpookyReview It's pretty good and worthwhile. Does a similar monster of the week thing at times and in the end a more satisfying mythology that pays off better than the X-Files. Some peak sci-fi in there.
It's part of a trilogy, maybe quadrilogy, with X Files, Supernatural, Fringe, and I guess Twin Peaks could be thrown in? @@Blend42
@@schulzbrianr I probably should check out Supernatural. For some reason it didn't appeal to me in my mid 20's. You could even add Dark Skies (almost as a prequel) and something like Space Above and Beyond as a encore to the X-Files.
@@Blend42 I adored Supernatural. Except I've never seen the final season or the finale and don't know how it ended. I'm afraid to find out. Hiding from spoilers forever!
Team Smully
Team Smully all the way.
I MEAN, COULDN'T HE START WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?????
God I wish.
Dave Grohl is obsessed with the spotlight.
He has to be the center of attention.
This is the first X Files episode I remember seeing! My dad was watching it when I was visiting for Christmas several years ago. It completely sucked me in and led me to eventually binge watching the entire series!
Leaving some cerulean blue hearts for the excessive M & S handsiness this episode 🩵🩵🩵
What a great first episode to get sucked into the series with.
I miss the 90s food and stuff was keeper everything was more simple everybody got along and at the end of the day everybody could take a joke and not get all offended by every little thing you say this is pretty sad
Yeah the 90's were great.
Yeah kids dont play with guns. There are no winners. Who plays Russian roulette
I remember taking BB guns out into the woods with my friends and we would run around shooting each other, but we never did do Russian roulette lmao
@@JBSpookyReview we had sticks and went pew pew
1. The ronin weren't THAT into girls. Samurai had squires who attended to EVERYTHING. lol There's no such thing as ghosts Mulder!......Jesus coming back from the dead wasn't a ghost! This one was a banger. They brought him back. There's no way Scully is with Mulder. She admits her mistakes and apologizes to him.
Just because Steven Segal has no defense against buffets and domestic violence charges means he's a phony. He actually taught a japanese martial art in Japan. Now you want bullshido. The guy to look up is Frank Dux, who the movie "Bloodsport" was based off of. lol
I mention Frank Dux near the end.
I'm just saying that the random sexual comments towards scully really drag these videos down! A tad disturbing!
Sexual comments towards scully?
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Then Frohike's comments towards Scully must be REALLY disturbing to you XD.
@@Bonez0r Ha ha, I do love him!