A Chronological List Of My Favourite X-Files
“What X-File I Watch?” you ask. I curate list. You watch. You. Watch. Especially the Darin Morgan episodes.
Season 1 (Think Of It As A Really Long B-Movie)
1-1 Pilot When Mulder met Scully
1-2 Deep Throat Not porn
1-3 Squeeze Scary contortionist liver harvester
1-8 Ice Field trip to Alaska featuring ear worms
1-11 Eve Clones, clones, clones
1-13 Beyond the Sea Scully’s first big loss of MANY
1-17 E.B.E. Meet the Lone Gunmen
1-20 Darkness Falls Scary invisible bugs take over the North Shore
1-21 Tooms Return of the liver harvester
1-24 The Erlenmeyer Flask Look how pregnant Gillian Anderson is
Season 2 (When The Show Got Really Fucking Good)
2-1 Little Green Men Aliens! Puerto Rico!
2-2 The Host Darin Morgan as… FLUKEMAN!
2-3 Blood Darin Morgan tells us about subliminal messaging
2-5 Duane Barry Mulder goes for a swim, meets Krycek
2-6 Ascension Red Speedo part 2: Scully’s alien abduction
2-8 One Breath Red Speedo part 3: Scully’s return
2-9 Firewalker It’s basically Alien, right down to the chest bursters
2-10 Red Museum Fucking vegans
2-11 Excelsis Dei Ghost rape
2-12 Aubrey “I’ve always had a thing for girls named BJ”
2-13 Irresistible Sometimes the monster of the week is just a serial killer
2-14 Die Hand die Verletzt Evil teachers
2-15 Fresh Bones Haitian zombies
2-20 Humbug Darin Morgan writes another gem, Scully eats bugs
2-21 The Calusari Evil twins
2-24 Our Town Mad chicken disease
Season 3 (The One Where Mulder Dies And Is Resurrected For The First Time)
3-3 D.P.O. Jack Black runs an arcade
3-4 Clyde Bruckman Psychics, Darin Morgan, need I say more?
3-6 2Shy Internet dating culture in 1995
3-8 Oubliette Jewel Staite gets kidnapped
3-9 Nisei Aliens on a Train
3-10 731 Aliens on a Train pt. 2
3-12 War of the Coprophages Darin Morgan’s cockroach friends
3-13 Syzygy “Hate him, wouldn’t wanna date him.”
3-17 Pusher Brain tumors = psychic abilities
3-18 Teso dos Bichos Attack of the kitties
3-19 Hell Money Lucy Liu-kemia
3-20 Jose Chung's Scully doesn’t swear, according to Darin Morgan
3-21 Avatar Skinner kills hookers
3-22 Quagmire Darin Morgan’s Ogopogo kills Scully’s dog
3-23 Wetwired Mulder is colour blind
3-24 Talitha Cumi Meet Jeremiah Smith and the alien bounty hunter
Season 4 (Don’t Worry, Scully Is Immortal)
4-1 Herrenvolk So many Samantha Mulders
4-2 Home Incest: too hot for TV
4-3 Teliko Delicious pituitary glands
4-4 Unruhe German dental torture
4-6 Sanguinarium Plastic surgery featuring Satan
4-7 Musings of a CSM CSM kills everyone important
4-12 Leonard Betts Nomnomnom, cancer
4-13 Never Again Your Jodie Foster tattoo is talking to me
4-14 Memento Mori Aliens give Scully the gift of brain cancer
4-15 Kaddish Hasidic Jews
4-20 Small Potatoes Darin Morgan fucks all the bitches
4-21 Zero Sum ‘Member killer bees? I ‘member.
4-22 Elegy Mulder & Scully go bowling
4-23 Demons Mulder starts flipping his shit
4-24 Gethsemane Mulder dies, again
Season 5 (The Season Everyone Liked)
5-1 Redux Jokes, Mulder is alive; Scully might die
5-2 Redux II Jokes, Scully’s fine - probably immortal
5-3 Unusual Suspects Lone Gunmen origin story
5-4 Detour Scully sings to Mulder in the forest
5-5 Post-Modern Prometheus Frankenstein’s monster loves Cher
5-6 Christmas Carol Scully has a child?
5-7 Emily Let’s kill it off and do it again come season 8
5-10 Chinga Stephen King and the Lynn Valley Dairy Queen
5-11 Kill Switch Upload yourself to the internet
5-12 Bad Blood Pizza and vampires, can you dig it?
5-17 All Souls Polydactyl quadruplets vs. the Catholic church
5-18 The Pine Bluff Variant Biological weapons in the movie theater
5-19 Folie a Deux Everyone is insane and there are giant bugs
5-20 The End As in the end of filming in Vancouver
Season 6 (80% LOLs, 20% Bullshit, 100% California)
6-1 The Beginning Welcome to California.
6-2 Drive Before Breaking Bad, there was X-Files
6-3 Triangle Mulder and Scully do “Titanic”
6-4 Dreamland Mulder gets a water bed
6-5 Dreamland II Mulder gets his body back
6-6 How Ghosts Stole Xmas Haunted Christmas house with Miss Frizzle
6-7 Terms of Endearment Ash from Evil Dead wants children
6-13 Agua Mala Florida is fucking ghetto
6-14 Monday Groundhog Day starring David Duchovny
6-15 Arcadia “Woman, get in here and make me a sandwich”
6-18 Milagro A creep stalks Scully and writes her a fanfic
6-19 The Unnatural Ice cream, baseball, aliens, and the KKK
6-20 Three of a Kind The Lone Gunmen drag Scully to Vegas
6-21 Field Trip Mulder and Scully do shrooms
Season 7 (Enjoy Mulder While He’s Still Here)
7-3 Hungry Meat is murder, for reals
7-6 The Goldberg Variation Shia LaBeouf needs a lucky liver
7-7 Orison Donnie Pfaster returns
7-8 The Amazing Maleeni Twin magicians
7-9 Signs and Wonders Snakes for Jesus
7-12 X-Cops Probably the most 1999 crossover
7-13 First Person Shooter Mulder and Scully play very early, shitty VR
7-15 En Ami CSM is a gross fucking rapist
7-17 all things Scully meets some nice holistic lesbians
7-19 Hollywood A.D. X-Files starring Tea Leoni and Garry Shandling
7-22 Requiem Mulder gets abducted by aliens, Scully is pregnant
Season 8 (The One With The Baby)
8-4 Roadrunners The cult of the back slug
8-5 Invocation Time traveling ghost babies
8-10 Badlaa The little man that hides in your ass
8-12 Medusa Spooky tunnels
8-13 Per Manum Alien fetuses are the only reason I watched S8
8-14 This is Not Happening Mulder is dead! Again.
8-15 DeadAlive Did I say dead? Jokes.
8-19 Alone This is basically a self-insert fanfic
8-20 Essence Supersoldiers want Scully’s baby
8-21 Existence Scully has the baby, Reyes becomes her wife
Season 9 (X-Files With Doggett & Reyes)
9-5 Lord of the Flies Jackass featuring actual flies
9-11 Audrey Pauley Reyes’s coma adventure
9-13 Improbable If man is 5, then the devil is 6, and God is Burt Reynolds
9-14 Scary Monsters Children are awful
9-15 Jump the Shark The one where they murder the Lone Gunmen
9-16 William Mulder and Scully give up their not-so-alien baby
9-18 Sunshine Days This dude *really* loves the Brady Bunch
9-19 The Truth It’s not good, but it’s “the end”
9-20 The Truth II
Season 10 (Dear God, Why?)
10-2 Founder's Mutation Some X-Men shit
10-3 Were-Monster Welcome back, Darin Morgan
10-4 Home Again Tim Armstrong is the Trashman