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* IncestIsRelative: The Peacock family involve a female matriarch who engages in incestuous relations with her sons, one of them is the father of the other two sons. The mother has also given birth to severely deformed offspring which she and her sons murder during infancy.
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->Written by Glen Morgan & James Wong\\
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Directed by Kim Manners
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'''Season 4, Episode 02:'''
!Home
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'''Season 4, Episode 02:'''
!Home
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->''♫ It's wonderful, wonderful
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->''♫ It's wonderful, wonderfulwonderful\\
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-->-- '''Sherman Peacock'''
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->''"They'll be coming now. We knew this day was going to happen. That they'd try to change the way things are. All we can do about changing things... is be ready for it... be ready for them. Let them know, this is our [[TitleDrop home]] and this is the way it's going to stay."''
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->''♫ It's wonderful, wonderful
Oh, so wonderful, my love... ♫''
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* {{Foil}}: The Sheriff to the Peacocks. While both are unhappy about changes to their small town enviroment, Sheriff adjusts to it. The Peacocks lash out violently.
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* {{Foil}}: The Sheriff to the Peacocks. While both are unhappy about changes to their small town enviroment, environment, Sheriff Taylor adjusts to it. The Peacocks lash out violently.
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*AngstWhatAngst: Mulder and Scully are remarkably dismissive of Deputy Pastor's death, considering they were more or less responsible for it in the first place. They almost casually observe the animalistic nature of the Peacocks as they tear the deputy apart, and two minutes later they're making ''Babe'' jokes.
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-->'''Scully:''' Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child and then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?
-->'''Mulder:''' Apparently not much in this case if she just threw it out with the trash.
-->'''Mulder:''' Apparently not much in this case if she just threw it out with the trash.
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* WombHorror: Mrs Peacock gives birth to a horrifically disfigured and deformed baby that is later buried alive by the Peacock brothers. Agents Mulder and Scully are both extremely uneasy during the autopsy. The baby's face is distorted and its legs are bent out of shape.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Scully and motherhood. Also mention of "the Mulder family pass[ing] genetic muster".
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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Deputy Paster's reaction to Mulder's joke about whether his last name is Fife.
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Mulder and Scully investigate after a deformed baby's corpse is found, and uncover the dark history of the family living in a nearby house.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even in the very serious and grim series, this episode takes the cake as one of the darkest, most violent, and most disturbing in the entire show. It was the first to have a Parental Advisory warning and the only one to be a TV-MA. It was also barred from being reran for years. Despite that, it's also considered one of the best episodes of the entire series.
** Reportedly, Tucker Smallwood asked a member of the crew if this kind of material was normal for the show. He was allegedly told, "This is awful even for us."
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Even in the very serious and grim series, this episode takes the cake as one of the darkest, most violent, and most disturbing in the entire show. It was the first to have a Parental Advisory warning and the only one to be a TV-MA. It was also barred from being reran for years. Despite that, it's also considered one of the best episodes of the entire series.
**Reportedly, Tucker Smallwood asked a member of the crew if this kind of material was normal for the show. He was allegedly told, "This is awful even for us."" Despite that, it's also considered one of the best episodes of the entire series.
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* DeathOfAChild: The deformed baby dies in the teaser.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Home" is an expression of the episode's themes, and also the name of the town where it is set.
* EvilCripple: A hissing limbless mother of the incestuous Peacock clan. She approves of hersons sons' murderous behaviour. In her eyes they are only protecting their family.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Home" is an expression of the episode's themes, and also the name of the town where it is set.
* EvilCripple: A hissing limbless mother of the incestuous Peacock clan. She approves of her
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** The murder of the Sheriff and his wife is also not shown in full, but the scared eyes of her are painful to watch. Poor woman. There is also lots of blood spattered around.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. The deformed baby dies in the teaser.
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* OffWithHisHead: Deputy Pastor winds up like this when he accidentally triggers one of the Peacock's traps.
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* OffWithHisHead: Deputy Pastor winds up like this when he accidentally triggers one of the Peacock's Peacocks' traps.
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* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Mrs. Peacock and the youngest son get away in the end]].
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* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Mrs. Peacock and the youngest son get away in the end]].end.
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* [[BannedInChina Banned in the UK]]: This episode is outright banned by BBC Two, as it has too much graphic nature.
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* BerserkButton: Mulder asking Deputy Barney Pastor if his last name is Fife. The way he says no suggests he's been asked this many times and is quite sick of it.
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* MadeOfIron: The ill and deformed Peacocks are surprisingly resistant to gunshots and baseball bat hits. This is TruthInTelevision, as properly motivated (as in "animalic adrenaline rush") people [[TakingYouWithMe can do a lot of damage before succumbing themselves]].
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* MadeOfIron: The ill and deformed Peacocks are surprisingly resistant to gunshots and baseball bat hits. This is TruthInTelevision, as properly motivated (as in "animalic adrenaline rush") people [[TakingYouWithMe can do a lot of damage before succumbing themselves]]. Plus it seems like the inability to feel pain runs in the family as Mrs. Peacock took getting crudely stitched up after the car crash that left her crippled years prior as one would getting breakfast. She even has to examine her sons to see if they injured themselves.
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* MadeOfIron: The ill and deformed Peacocks are surprisingly resistant to gunshots and baseball bat hits. This is TruthInTelevision, as properly motivated (as in "animalic adrenaline rush") people [[TakingYouWithMe can do a lot of damage before succumbing themselves]].
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* CurbStompBattle: The Sheriff does not go quietly when the Peacocks invade his house and fights back with a baseball bat, but unfortunately it may as well have been made of foam for all the good it does him.
* DaylightHorror: Most of the episode takes place during the daytime and afternoon, including the climax. Though some of the freakiest moments, namely the inbred child's death and the Sheriff's murder, take place during the dark too.
* DaylightHorror: Most of the episode takes place during the daytime and afternoon, including the climax. Though some of the freakiest moments, namely the inbred child's death and the Sheriff's murder, take place during the dark too.
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* OffWithHisHead: Deputy Pastor winds up like this when he accidentally triggers one of the Peacock's traps.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Scully and motherhood.
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* {{Foil}}: The Sheriff to the Peacocks. While both are unhappy about changes to their small town enviroment, Sheriff adjusts to it. The Peacocks lash out violently.
* {{Foil}}: The Sheriff to the Peacocks. While both are unhappy about changes to their small town enviroment, Sheriff adjusts to it. The Peacocks lash out violently.
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* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: Mrs. Peacock and the youngest son get away in the end]].
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* AdultFear: Bucketloads of it. Imagine that such a nasty family lives in your neighbourhood. Or that your baby will be born with such horrible deformities. It's even present in-universe with Scully's uneasiness and anxiety over the issue.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''. When Mulder expresses his desire for an idyllic life in American wholesome town, Scully says t would be like life in Mayberry. The local Sheriff's name is Andy Taylor (Mulder is kinda excited and asks if that's for real). His Deputy's name is Barney. But not Barney Fife (which Mulder hoped for, apparently). It's Barney Pastor.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''. When Mulder expresses his desire for an idyllic life in an American wholesome town, Scully says t it would be like life living in Mayberry. The local Sheriff's name is Andy Taylor (Mulder is kinda excited and asks if that's for real). His Deputy's name is Barney. But not Barney Fife (which Mulder hoped for, apparently). It's Barney Pastor.
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* EvilCripple: A hissing limbless mother of the incestuous Peacock clan. She approves of her sons murderous behaviour. In her eyes they are only protecting their family.
* EvilMatriarch: Mrs Peacock. She's involved in incestuous relationships with her sons. One of them is the father of the other two. Ugh.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Peacocks.
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** We don't actually see the burying of the baby, but he's heard crying. Still scary as hell.
** The murder of Sheriff and his wife is also not shown in full, but the scared eyes of her are painful to watch. Poor woman.
* InfantImmortality: Averted. The deformed baby dies in the teaser.
* {{Mundanger}}: The Monsters of that week were not paranormal.
* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Scully to Mulder who is a bit spaced out and playing with a baseball.
-->'''Scully:''' Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI and become a spokesperson for the Ab-roller.
* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''. When Mulder expresses his desire for an idyllic life in American wholesome town, Scully says t would be like life in Mayberry. The local Sheriff's name is Andy Taylor (Mulder is kinda excited and asks if that's for real). His Deputy's name is Barney. But not Barney Fife (which Mulder hoped for, apparently). It's Barney Pastor.
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Wonderful, wonderful", a cheery tune by Johnny Mathis is used for a horrible murder and son/mother mutant sex, trying to conceive another child in a rocking car and all.
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* EvilCripple: A hissing limbless mother of the incestuous Peacock clan. She approves of her sons murderous behaviour. In her eyes they are only protecting their family.
* EvilMatriarch: Mrs Peacock. She's involved in incestuous relationships with her sons. One of them is the father of the other two. Ugh.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Peacocks.
* GoryDiscretionShot:
** We don't actually see the burying of the baby, but he's heard crying. Still scary as hell.
** The murder of Sheriff and his wife is also not shown in full, but the scared eyes of her are painful to watch. Poor woman.
* InfantImmortality: Averted. The deformed baby dies in the teaser.
* {{Mundanger}}: The Monsters of that week were not paranormal.
* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Scully to Mulder who is a bit spaced out and playing with a baseball.
-->'''Scully:''' Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI and become a spokesperson for the Ab-roller.
* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''. When Mulder expresses his desire for an idyllic life in American wholesome town, Scully says t would be like life in Mayberry. The local Sheriff's name is Andy Taylor (Mulder is kinda excited and asks if that's for real). His Deputy's name is Barney. But not Barney Fife (which Mulder hoped for, apparently). It's Barney Pastor.
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Wonderful, wonderful", a cheery tune by Johnny Mathis is used for a horrible murder and son/mother mutant sex, trying to conceive another child in a rocking car and all.
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