Beyond the Sea.
No question.
First season. Scully the believer, Mulder the skeptic. The song, holy crap the song.
Brad Douriff as Boggs: best television performance of all time. Hands down.
Only DPO comes close.
Best X-Files ep
Ethan Torres
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Kayden Smith
Damn, I'd have to say a tie between the Flukeworm or the one with the school and pedo/satanic cult ring
Gavin Moore
I agree. That Dourif performance was incredibly intense.
Aiden Lopez
For me, it's Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Cooper Robinson
this desu
Jace Peterson
>I only enjoy the funny meta episodes
Jaxon Hernandez
Why do people seemingly get mad if you think Jose Chung's is the best episode? Or your favorite.
Wyatt Perez
I respect that
checked
Nathan Turner
For me it's Pusher. That cop setting himself on fire shocked the shit outta me.
Jason Martin
>so break down what is "funny" to you for us...
>just so the point you are trying to make doesn't fall flat like a bridge jumping attempt
Ayden Richardson
Pusher is sick
Evan Rogers
Cylde Bruckman or the one where Mulder finally got closure with his little sister
Leo Myers
Good choice, that episode is kino.
Luke James
still D.P.O. had the Sonic theme in the intro. Plus Giovanni Ribisi, young Jack Black, and the first time "you're pissing me off" aired on network tv.
Carson Martinez
For me, it's Paper Hearts. Tom Noonan invading Mulder's dreams, implying he's the one who actually killed Mulder's sister.
Mulder's doubt, Scully's disgust with Noonan as he constantly twists the knife with Mulder.
Evan Foster
This
Adrian Morales
not my favorite but easily one of my favorites
Thomas Ramirez
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is a television landmark
Jace Richardson
These are both correct answers, because they're both A+ episodes.
Jeremiah Reed
Too bad they ended the revival of the series. 2nd season was far better than first. Just hire a new Scully. Scully's sister. Scully's daughter. Scully's next door neighbor's former roommate. Boom. There. Done.
Ratings only went down because before the 2nd season she said she'd leave the series. Nowadays, you just have to keep going and can't let crowd reaction get to you.
Juan Watson
for me its "the walk" that episode fucked me up as a kid watching it
Thomas Myers
Probably because of how meta and self-referential it is. It relies a lot on the established tropes of the show -- it's not standalone in the sense someone could watch it without having seen any other eps and get it.
But it's still one of the GOATs. I love that it's kind of a love letter to science fiction and the entire alien abduction phenomenon, with all its literature and tropes and esoterica.
Cooper Martin
Honestly, I loved the second revival season too. But part of the reason I thought it worked was because it seemed to be aware that it was the last season. That sense of finality works really well for it.
Isaiah Phillips
OOGA BOOGA
GIVE ME DEM PIGMENTS
Jaxson Sullivan
The best Darin Morgan episode for me was the Lost Art of Forehead Sweat and that honestly should've been the series finale.
Alexander Price
>Scully's sister
My Melissa ;_;
Thomas Ross
Given recent events, I want to bring attention to one of my personal favorites, F. Emasculata, the contagion episode from season 2. A great thriller, I was on the edge of my seat.
Jaxon Evans
literally his worst ep. at least the first revival was kinda worth it for were-monster
Juan Morris
one of the best explanations on the internet
Xavier Stewart
Have you guys watched DPO recently? Ribisi kills it as an electro-autist. Young skinnier Jack Black as his pal? The final scene that broke network tv standars just because it was a Friday night late show? Everything about it is too good to be denied.
John Johnson
THAT'S WHY I SAY HEY MAN, NICE SHOT
Nathaniel Lewis
no
Daniel Bailey
Kill Switch
Cameron Perry
kill switch was great but
dude did you even watch the first four seasons?
Lincoln Morales
Based answer. Personally it's Squeeze/Tooms
Ayden Gomez
It's one of the best episodes. X-Cops is up there too.
Ayden Bell
Henry Thompson
Beyond the Sea and Paper Hearts are up there for me as the very best.
I have to admit some bias though, I prefer the show's more serial killer type story lines instead of just the regular super natural material so my X Files taste is a little unconventional.
Jonathan Jackson
x-file serial killer or regular serial killer?
Jace Diaz
Goddamn this was such a shit episode, but hot damn Scully looked gorgeous in it.
Jaxson Taylor
underrated af episode
Aaron Adams
the skinner episodes were the best ones and everyone knows it.
Eli Bailey
for me it's Duane Barry, unfortunately the next episode is when Scully is kidnapped which marks the end of good story arc episodes
Adrian Gutierrez
lulz this thread is so dead
because all the good heads
are watching these episodes
instead
>pic unrelated
Lincoln Cox
You mean other than Darin Morgan episodes? Because those are clearly better than everything else.
Dylan Hill
Were-monster was absolutely amazing, and the only reason the revival should exist. It's more of a sendoff/love letter to the series.
Cameron Anderson
Either :)
Jace Watson
>My man
Cameron Powell
>You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than auto-erotic asphyxiation.
>...Why are you telling me this?
Benjamin Moore
The one with the inbred family and also any if the ones with Michael McKean are great.
Adam Stewart
yeah this is very underrated, glad to see it mentioned
Duane barry is also my favourite arc episodes, but wtf are you talking about? You didn't like one breath, or s2 finale, or operation paper clip? Some of the best arc episodes followed the duane barry/kidnapping arc.
Humbug is the classic episode in my mind, both humorous and doubles down on the bizarre subject matter that M&S usually deal with.
Brody Perry
It unironically isn't
Jeremiah Russell
kek
so many implications
Hudson Barnes
notice how every great episode is a monster of the week? why do people love them specifically but hate them in general? serialized x files is mediocre.
Jackson Nelson
I liked field trip
Isaac Watson
>CTRL F "Arcadia"
>Zero replies
Plebs, the lot of you.
Brandon Collins
Dogget episodes are kino.
Like the one where he has amnesia in Mexico.
Jaxon Wood
hard to disagree with Humbug but I still think Beyond the Sea beats it because of Scully's screaming rant
You set us up...{/spoiler]
Jason Martin
War of the corophages
The postmodern Prometheus
Jason Jenkins
Not really though, people have mentioned story beyond the sea or duane barry. In fact, I would rank the pilot, the second episode, E.B.E., the erlenmeyer flask, little green men, duane barry/ascension, anasazi, blessing way, paper clip, piper maru, nisei and the s04 finale and s05 redux episodes as better than most MOTWs in the series.
But keep in mind they did a LOT more MOTW episodes, and they had a lot more freedom to experiment with them, it makes sense that some turned out to be strokes of genius and better than the rest. However if you take into account all the crappy motws, the average arc episode is better than the average motw, at least for the first 4, maybe 5 seasons.
Logan Collins
>No mention of 'Drive' yet
>No mention of the episode that inspired the ryan gosling movie of the same name and the breaking bad universe.