The grocery store's name is “Mt. Foodmore.” For some reason, thinking about this name for too long this morning made me start singing a song about it set to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey." I cannot explain the mysteries of my gray matter.

Modell hums along with the Muzak. I also sing along when I’m shopping by myself. Probably because I, too, ( Read more... )

Both Darin Morgan and Peter Boyle won the Emmy for this. Deservedly so.

I love when I love the teaser! This happens so rarely, especially now, when I’m watching episodes I’ve seen a ridiculous number of times.

“What the hell is Lalapalazzo?”

“So what do they say about the entrails?” “Yuck.”

The fake-out is great, when Cline and Havez are talking about ( Read more... )

I’m sorry to speak ill of the entirely fictional dead, but that girl is weird-looking and fish-lipped.

The guy at the mortuary is eating a popsicle when he comes in and discovers Donnie. I love little touches like that.

I wish they would’ve dropped the demon visions. They add nothing.I guess the format demands that there be a hint of the supernatural ( Read more... )

( 2x10 Red Museum )

Mulder's listening to a wiretap! While doodling, eating sunflower seeds, poking holes in his Styrofoam cup and playing seed football. I like that he’s being punished in such a mundane way.

He gets all squinty when they open the door to relieve him of his duty. And he has his tie undone.

Mulder has to put on rubber boots with his suit to go down in ( Read more... )

This is one of those episodes that seems really long and meandering, but in a good way. As it went on, I kept thinking, Oh! THIS is in this episode! And this, too!

There’s a Prairie Home Companion-style commercial for “Goody’s Headache Powder” on the truck radio. “When the night’s been too long and the party’s been too hardy, Goody’s Headache Powder ( Read more... )

One of the earliest appearances of the recurring theme of "we're not who we are." Ultimately, that becomes one of the largest fears on this show, one of the biggest dangers. How can you trust people when you're never quite sure if they are who you think they are?

Best credit sequence ever? Maybe I’m biased and blinded by my love, but 15 years later ( Read more... )

Ah, 1993. I really could’ve used this show in seventh grade, which was pretty awful in a nervous breakdown kind of way. It would’ve been nice to have friends like Mulder and Scully living in the TV back then. Alas, I was still watching TGIF on Friday nights. (Tangentially, isn’t it strange to think that a major network successfully devoted an ( Read more... )

( 9x20 The Truth Part Two (2/2) )

( 9x20 The Truth Part Two (1/2) )