Best X-Files episode.
By far.
Agree. Very tongue in cheek and self deprecating humor. Charles Nelson Reilly was a riot.
I second the motion. So do a lot of folks at IMDB.
(Check out the "Trivia" section for some great wink-wink-nudge-nudge scenes.)
Sample: "In the scene in the diner when Mulder is interviewing Lt. Jack Schaefer the pilot is sculpting his mashed potatoes into a flat topped hill shape." I about fell off the sofa on that one.
The "Quotes" section also had some beauties:
[Scully reading the final book "From Outer Space"]
(underlines mine - another fall-off-the-sofa moment) Jose Chung: is noble of spirit and pure at heart - she remains nevertheless - a Federal employee. As for her partner - Ranerdt Muldradt - a ticking time bomb of insanity - his quest into the unknown has so warped his psyche - one shudders to think how he receives any pleasures from life.
Or . . .
Blaine: (the Geek) [about Scully and Mulder]
"One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn't pulling it off. Like, her hair was red, but it was a little too red, y'know? And the other one, the tall, lanky one, his face was so blank and expressionless. He didn't even seem human. I think he was a mandroid."
Like "Citizen X", the movie is chock full of great lines.