Favorite X-Files episodes?

[Kenbo Slice]

I love The X-Files. It's one of my favorite television shows. There's so many good episodes, it's hard to pick one favorite. But my top 5 would have to be:

1. Home (One of, if not the scariest episode)
2. The Host (has my favorite Monster of the Week, The Flukeman)
3. The Elrenmeyer Flask (amazing all around episode where you can tell this show is only going to get better)
4. Humbug (the freak show episode, it's just plain awesome)
5. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (hilarious episode)

Honrable mentions go to: Pusher, Ice, Talitha Cumi, and Ansazi.

So my fellow Escapists, what are your favorites?

 

[Tiger King]

I love The X-Files. It's one of my favorite television shows. There's so many good episodes, it's hard to pick one favorite. But my top 5 would have to be:

1. Home (One of, if not the scariest episode)
2. The Host (has my favorite Monster of the Week, The Flukeman)
3. The Elrenmeyer Flask (amazing all around episode where you can tell this show is only going to get better)
4. Humbug (the freak show episode, it's just plain awesome)
5. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (hilarious episode)

Honrable mentions go to: Pusher, Ice, Talitha Cumi, and Ansazi.

So my fellow Escapists, what are your favorites?

Man this is going back a bit...

I can't recall it's title but I will try and describe it.
Ok so, when people start going missing in the woods the agents investigate and find bodies that are all wrapped up like a spider has caught them.
At night some mutant Mosquitos come out and capture anyone they find and feed off of them. The agents become trapped in a log cabin and discover the bugs cannot stand the light in the cabin and thus cannot get them. Unfortunately the electric supplied to the cabin comes from a generator and it's fuel is limited...

I liked this episode because it showed the show was more than just conspiracy stuff. I wish they had done more of this type of stuff.

 

[TheBlueRabbit]

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4. Humbug (the freak show episode, it's just plain awesome)
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A great episode. If for no other reason than containing Michael J. Anderson from Twin Peaks, although that's definitely not the only reason it is great.

Man this is going back a bit...

I can't recall it's title but I will try and describe it.
*snipped for brevity*

That one's called Darkness Falls and is also one of my personal favorites.

I also really enjoyed Sleepless, which featured Tony Todd

There were many others I enjoyed, but these two always stick in my head when I think of the show.



Captcha: mars rover

Huh. Maybe the truth really is out there.

 

[Yal]

Gotta go with Post-Modern Prometheus, just by virtue of the way it stands out from the pack fifteen years since I saw it and long after all the other episodes have blended into an indistinct slurry in my head.

Or maybe just for Cher.

 

[LostAlone]

The ones that stick out in my memory to this day are (in no particular order):

Pusher - It's wonderfully creepy and the guy acts it really well. No so good on his second time through, but still. Great concept, really well done.

Squeeze - Another great creepy villain, very unlike the kind of sci-fi stuff that was around at the time and the effects while somewhat crude compared to today still creep me out.

First Person Shooter & Killswitch - Both written by William Gibson, which is all I need to love them. I remember as a kid loving the game they play in FPS, and the headfuck interogation the computer does to Mulder in Killswitch.

Drive - It has a great concept that pushes the story along. Stop and you die. The 'villain' turns out to just be a normal guy who is trying to avoid having his head explode.

Fight Club - Weird but funny episode with midgets and amateur wrestlers.

The X-files was, and continues to be a really superb show. The writers and directors had such a strong idea of grotesque aesthetics. From the freedom fighter aliens with their eyes sewn shut to the black oil sheen in people's eyes, they always applied the effects available to them extremely well. Particularly they never gave into the temptation to have laser guns and light sabers, keeping the alien weapons to fire and sharp objects which makes them still scary today.

I always loved that for the longest time even the most die hard fans couldn't agree on if there really were aliens in the show at all. Personally, I still prefer the idea that the 'aliens' are nothing of the kind, and all the information Mulder gets that points to them is fabricated for him to find. To me the who atmosphere is so very much scarier if it really was the government all along, covering up their attempts at genetic manipulation and mind control by making the one man that might be able to uncover the truth think that its aliens and thus never be taken seriously.

 

[unbreakable212]

God Home was a great episode, really weird though, but great.
Have to agree with The Host, the monster/mutant in it still freaks me out to this day.

One of my favourites would have to be D.P.O., Detour (forest monsters that can camoflage) and any episode that had Tooms in it, as he's probably the most memorable and iconic villain.

 

[Worgen]

The main 2 that I remember really enjoying are one set in a forest where weird mutant fireflys or something are killing loggers, that one creeped me out way back when. The other is a comedy one that has the point of view from Scully then Molder and its about supposed vampires in a small town, it was pretty hilarious and awesome.

 

[Frezzato]

The main 2 that I remember really enjoying are one set in a forest where weird mutant fireflys or something are killing loggers, that one creeped me out way back when. The other is a comedy one that has the point of view from Scully then Molder and its about supposed vampires in a small town, it was pretty hilarious and awesome.

I can't recall it's title but I will try and describe it.
Ok so, when people start going missing in the woods the agents investigate and find bodies that are all wrapped up like a spider has caught them.
At night some mutant Mosquitos come out and capture anyone they find and feed off of them. The agents become trapped in a log cabin and discover the bugs cannot stand the light in the cabin and thus cannot get them. Unfortunately the electric supplied to the cabin comes from a generator and it's fuel is limited...

I liked this episode because it showed the show was more than just conspiracy stuff. I wish they had done more of this type of stuff.

Season 1, Episode 20: Darkness Falls. My favorite episode by far.

 

[Uhura]

The X-Files is probably my favorite TV-show ever and it has tons of great episodes. I think I'm just going to name a few monster-of-the-week episodes instead of the mythology stuff. In chronological order:

1. Ice (I love The Thing and this episode is the X-Files version of The Thing)
2. Darkness Falls (Looks like a lot of people really like this one.)
3. The Host (The Flukeman is cool as hell! I remember being really freaked out by this episode when I was younger.)
4. Død Kalm (It's the ghost ship episode [the one with the premature aging, not the nazi ship]
5. Humbug (The circus episode. Scully eats a bug!)
6. Quagmire (the Loch Ness monster episode.... poor Queequeg.)
7. Detour (the forest monster episode. Scully sings to Mulder!)
8. Bad Blood (The mystery vampire episode with Luke Wilson. This episode is just hilarious.)

Oh shoot, now I wish I had my X-Files dvd sets here...

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

1. Closure - I cried at the end of that episode. Beautiful.
2. Via Negativa - one of the creepiest things I've ever seen on television. The nightmare sequences are scary as shit.
3. John Doe - really highlights Robert Patrick's skill as an actor, who got an unfair rap from show fans.
4. Jump the Shark - A respectful sendoff for the Lone Gunmen. I was sad to see them go.
5. One Son - seeing the Syndicate finally get what they deserved was supremely satisfying.
6. All Souls/Revelations - A fantastic treatment of Christian mythology in those two episodes. It's too bad they never went very far with the whole "Scully as a Holy Protector" thing. Along with her presumed immortality, that would have made for some awesome television.
7. Pretty much any episode with Krycek -- he's my favorite bad guy of all time.

Damn, it's been years since I watched the show. Time to fire up my DVDs!

EDIT: Fuck me in the ear, I forgot all about Home, despite the fact that everyone else here mentioned it.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

1: Syzygy.
This is the episode where a random New Hampshire town becomes a circus of bizarre incidents, including a group of schoolgirls seemingly succeeding in performing the classic "Bloody Mary" - ritual, and every TV in town getting nothing but old Keystone Kops movies on every channel. I love urban legends, and an episode featuring more than just one type of weirdness was a welcome change of pace!

2: Tooms.
The idea of something that eats nothing but human livers and looks like a perfectly normal person until it silently squeezes through your mailslot while you sleep, literally kept me awake for a whole night, paralyzed with fear because I was terrified of all noises - including any I might make myself! It's the only time in my life that I've been too scared to sleep.

3: Død Kalm.
This episode takes place outside the coast of Norway. YAY NORWAY!! All the Norwegian people are played by Americans, though. I thought they were trying to speak Danish!

 

[piinyouri]

What's the episode were at one point a drawer opens and a really creepy pair of eyes looks out?

 

[puff ball]

the two that must be mentioned are bad blood, and Jose Chung's "from outer space" the former because i love how Mulder and Scully describe each other in their versions of the same story. the later for one single reason Alex Trebek, or was it just someone who bore a striking resemblance to Alex Trebek will never know.

 

[puff ball]

The main 2 that I remember really enjoying are one set in a forest where weird mutant fireflys or something are killing loggers, that one creeped me out way back when. The other is a comedy one that has the point of view from Scully then Molder and its about supposed vampires in a small town, it was pretty hilarious and awesome.

as has already been said the first one is darkness falls. its the first episode i remember seeing as a kid it really scared me back then. the second is bad blood one of my two favorites as well.

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

Most of the episodes related to the main alien conspiracy! Of the Monster-of-the-Week episodes I'd say The Host since it's the episode that actually got me into the X-files. Me and a friend of mine were going hiking on a mountain, but stopped for a while in a lodge and on the TV there was that episode. I thought the monster was awesome as all hell and he told me he was a fan of the X-files so I decided to check it out. Turns out it became one of my favorite TV shows! Other than that most episodes dealing with religious themes like All Souls and Revelations, Via Negativa etc.

There are some that I don't remember the name of, like the one with the cloned sisters where they killed their "fathers" by draining their blood. Or the one with the pedophile/killer who collected hearts from the girls' dresses. There are many more. The X-files was a superbly written show, if somewhat dragging on for too long. It went seriously downhill since S6 and totally unwatchable S8 and 9 with very few exceptions like Via Negativa. It ended kind of unsatisfactory too.