8-Bit Spock's Top 5 Favorite X-Files Episodes

Ever since the continuing season of X-Files was announced I've noticed EVERYONE is online making their list of top favorite episodes. I love to make lists! Plus, every episode from the original show is now on Netflix streaming AND Hulu Plus. You have zero excuses.  So here's 8-Bit Spock's top 5 BEST X-Files episodes:

5. "Hollywood A.D."
     Season 7, Episode 19 
   

In this episode Mulder and Scully find themselves the topic of a ridiculous movie plot. In the opening scene, before the credits, they're sitting together at the film's premiere as their likenesses, played by Garry Shandling and Tea Leoni, shamelessly make out in a coffin. Tea Leoni was married to Duchovny at the time the episode was shot and rumored to be the reason he left the show for a time around season 8. X-Files was mostly shot on the East coast and Leoni, who lived in LA, demanded Duchovny spend more time with her. But again, that's just a rumor.
                                                                                                                                      
This episode also hits my top 5 because this happens:

Then there's that scene where Tea Leoni dressed as Scully asks the real Scully how she runs all the time in heels . . . and then Scully demonstrates. #lol

4. "Arcadia"
     Season 6 episode 15

Playing house is fun when you're a kid, but maybe not as much when you're an adult . . . and a FBI agent. Mulder takes it better than Scully in this episode as the pair go undercover as newlyweds who just bought a house in a neighborhood with STRICT homeowners association rules. But the real fun in this episode is watching Mulder and Scully pretend to be married. It's so good I wish it were a 2-parter.

Mulder is all about it and it makes us love him even more. He starts to poke at the homeowners association by decorating his front lawn with gaudy things like pink flamingos. A lot of the best parts of this episode are due to Mulder's goofiness while undercover. Duchovny is really a fun actor to watch because he has so much range and by season 6 he really developed Mulder as a character that is deeper than just a guy obsessed with the paranormal.

The whole goofy story ends up being a huge sh*t monster, (Seriously, WATCH IT.) which just fuels the fact that this is one of the funnier episodes of X-Files.




 Also, the 90's newspaper ad that was sent out for this episode cracks me up.

 
3. "Bad Blood"
     Season 5, Episode 12

Mulder straight up murders the fat ginger kid from The Sandlot. BEFORE THE OPENING CREDITS! This also happens to be one of the episodes, (I feel like there are a few like this,) where Mulder and Scully tell the same story, but in each character's point of view. These are always funny because you get exaggerations and silly differences. Like, in this episode, Luke Wilson guest stars as a Texas police officer and in Scully's version he's dreamy, but in Mulder's version he's a super redneck with goofy teeth.

He's such a good sport.

And oooooohhhh, Mulder is jealous! Also, this part where Scully tells Mulder what he did while drugged. 

 

That really is the most fun part of this episode. Scully sometimes tries to show how boring autopsies are, especially when Mulder is out doing something crazy and fun, but the way she conveys it in this episode is by far the funniest.

noe.

The rest is vampires.

2. "X-Cops"
    Season 7, Episode 12

It's an episode of X-Files shot exactly like an episode of Cops. Cops is great. X-Files is great. This episode is epic. Mulder is dragging Scully around searching for a werewolf, but soon comes to the conclusion it's really a shape shifter. Along the way they get to raid a crack house and chase down a hooker, just like on Cops! The opening credits are even tossed to make way for a special mash-up credit sequence which is also dead-on PERFECT! 

 

Sorry the video is kind of crappy, but it was the only one I could find. Still, you can tell it's PERFECT!  ;P  The episode is also really fun and different because it's shot on a steady-cam like Cops and feels almost like it's in real time, (with only a few chunks cut out.) There's a lot of goofiness when Scully completely disapproves of the camera crew following them around and Mulder's talking to the police like he's crazy. (Because let's face it, he kind of is.) 

1. "War of the Coprophages"
     Season 3, Episode 12

A town freaks out when people who cross paths with cockroaches start dying. Like Dante in Clerks, it's Scully's day off, so Mulder is alone at the beginning of this one, but he finds that he keeps needing to consult Scully and calls her non-stop until she finally says, "Screw it." and goes out to meet him. By that time the town is in an all out frenzy.

 

Sorry about the quality here. Not mine.  ;P

Throughout the episode we meet a creepy Stephen Hawking-like scientist and a sexy entomologist and the whole thing ends up at a sewage treatment plant and, OMG! It's poop again! I don't care what you think, poop is hilarious. 

Again, this episode is a comedic one and it successfully takes normal, everyday problems and translates them to Mulder and Scully PERFECTLY. Why is this my number one favorite episode? I couldn't tell you specifically, it's just non-stop funny and chaotic. I guess that's the sort of thing I like.  ;P  Yeah, I'm weird.

 And that's all she wrote.

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And now, your reward for reading this entire list:

trust no derp.