Oddly enough for a top ten list, I mostly agree with it. I would add the episode though with cigarette man’s biography, including that he writes pulp fiction stories only to have them rejected by comic books. That episode was an act of courage for the show to humanize an mysterious and villanous character like that.
My favorite was the episode with the cockroaches. I’d been trying to tape the series & had just recorded it. The tape was still in the deck, & my house was broken into. The creeps stole the vcr & that tape along with some other stuff. The police finally caught them, but all I got back was an old blue blanket & a spoon. Really p*ssed me off!
I much preferred The Night Stalker
1. The episode starring Victoria Jackson, with the weatherman whose emotions effected the weather.
2. The episode starring Peter Boyle as a life insurance salesman.
3. The episode where Scully went nuts after watching subliminal messages on TV.
4. The episode with the hillbillies who drove an old Cadillac.
My fav was the one about angels. It was very spiritual.
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But I can never listen to Johnny Mathis again after they used "Wonderful, Wonderful" with the Hillbillies and the Ick factor that was involved...
Home and Fluke are my two favorites and the creepiest episodes. I didn’t care for Jose Chung nor some guy’s final repose. I guess I’m not nerdy enough to understand those.
- We're too late! It's already been here.
- Mulder, I hope you know what you're doing.
- Look, Scully, just like the other homes: Douglas fir, truncated, mounted, transformed into a shrine; halls decked with boughs of holly; stockings hung by the chimney, with care.
- You really think someone's been here?
- Someone or some THING.
- Mulder, over here - it's a fruitcake.
- Don't touch it! Those things can be lethal.
- It's O.K. There's a note attached: "Gonna find out who's naughty and nice."
- It's judging them, Scully. It's making a list.
- Who? What are you talking about?
- Ancient mythology tells of an obese humanoid entity who could travel at great speed in a craft powered by antlered servants. Once each year, near the winter solstice, this creature is said to descend from the heavens to reward its followers and punish disbelievers with jagged chunks of anthracite.
- But that's legend, Mulder -- a story told by parents to frighten children. Surely you don't believe it?
- Something was here tonight, Scully. Check out the bite marks on this gingerbread man. Whatever tore through this plate of cookies was massive and in a hurry.
- It left crumbs everywhere. And look, Mulder, this milk glass has been completely drained.
- It gorged itself, Scully. It fed without remorse.
- But why would they leave it milk and cookies?
- Appeasement. Tonight is the Eve, and nothing can stop its wilding.
- But if this thing does exist, how did it get in? The doors and windows were locked. There's no sign of forced entry.
- Unless I miss my guess, it came through the fireplace.
- Wait a minute, Mulder. If you're saying some huge creature landed on the roof and came down this chimney, you're crazy. The flue is barely six inches wide. Nothing could get down there.
- But what if it could alter its shape, move in all directions at once?
- You mean, like a bowl full of jelly?
- Exactly. Scully, I've never told anyone this, but when I was a child my home was visited. I saw the creature. It had long white strips of fur surrounding its ruddy, misshapen head. Its bloated torso was red and white. I'll never forget the horror. I turned away, and when I looked back it had somehow taken on the facial features of my father.
- Impossible.
- I know what I saw. And that night it read my mind. It brought me a Mr. Potato Head, Scully. IT KNEW THAT I WANTED A MR. POTATO HEAD!
- I'm sorry, Mulder, but you're asking me to disregard the laws of physics. You want me to believe in some supernatural being who soars across the skies and brings gifts to good little girls and boys. Listen to what you're saying. Do you understand the repercussions? If this gets out, they'll close the X-files.
- Scully, listen to me: It knows when you're sleeping. It knows when you're awake.
- But we have no proof.
- Last year, on this exact date, SETI radio telescopes detected bogeys in the airspace over twenty-seven states. The White House ordered a Condition Red.
- But that was a meteor shower.
- Officially. Two days ago, eight prized Scandinavian reindeer vanished from the National Zoo, in Washington, D.C. Nobody - not even the zookeeper was told about it. The government doesn't want people to know about Project Kringle. They fear that if this thing is proved to exist the public will stop spending half its annual income in a holiday shopping frenzy. Retail markets will collapse. Scully, they cannot let the world believe this creature lives. There's too much at stake. They'll do whatever it takes to insure another silent night.
- Mulder, I --
- Sh-h-h. Do you hear what I hear?
- On the roof. It sounds like . . . a clatter.
- The truth is up there. Let's see what's the matter.
Not sure what the name is, but the episode where Scully kept hearing the same song over and over again. Something to do with a demon or something. The music always freaked me out. I want to say it was the episode where the preacher turned into a snake, but I could be wrong.