History Recap / TheXFilesMiniseriesE03MulderAndScullyMeetTheWereMonster

** Also how Guy changes form to be human during the day and a monster at night... except when the plot requires otherwise.

* HopelessWithTech: Mulder has serious problems using his smartphone's camera app.

* RunningGag: Various characters, including eventually Guy himself, commenting on the stoners' description of Guy in his lizard form, which according to them had three eyes.
** Also, everyone Mulder and Scully talk to being on drugs but basically giving accurate accounts of what happened.

* ShoutOut: When not in his natural form, Guy wears a close facsimile of the IconicOutfit Darren Mcgavin wore on ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'', a series cited many times as a major inspiration for ''The X-Files''.
** The script was originally written for the 2005 ''Kolchak'' revival series. It was titled "The M Word," and a copy of the script can be [[http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Night_Stalker/Night_Stalker_1x12_-_The_M_Word.pdf found here]].
* SpiritualSuccessor: To the iconic episode, "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space']]"... written by the same person, no less. It's also a thematic one to "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E22Quagmire Quagmire]]".

** Also, referring to a psychiatrist as a "witch doctor."

** Scully adopted a dog she said reminded her of Queegueg; her dog who tragically died in the episode "Quagmire". (And by 'adopted', we mean 'stole'.)

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the iconic SomethingCompletelyDifferent episode, "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space']]"... written by the same person, no less. It's also a thematic one to "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E22Quagmire Quagmire]]".

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Who is the monster and who is the man?]] We'll leave it to you to guess.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Mulder says it best to Guy Mann, during their conversation over the latter's transformation story.

* ThemeTuneCameo: Mulder's ringtone.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the iconic SomethingCompletelyDifferent episode, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"... written by the same person, no less.
** Thematically to "Quagmire".

* HoldingBothSidesOfThConversation: Mulder has become so GenreSavvy about his own partnership with Scully that he carries on their usual debate regarding his supernatural theory entirely by himself.

* PeepingTom: The motel manager. He peeps in on ''Mulder'', who apparently sleeps in those red Speedos.

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'''Season 10, Episode 3:'''
!Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Who is the monster and who is the man?]] We'll leave it to you to guess.]]
->Written and directed by Darin Morgan

->''"Perhaps I've read you wrong, Mr. Mulder, but I wonder: who is in more need of an antipsychotic, a man who believes himself to be a were-lizard or a man who believes that man?"''
-->-- '''Dr. Rumanovitch'''

As one can read from the title, this is where [[ShapedLikeItself Mulder and Scully]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin meet the were-monster]].
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* SuicideByCop: Attempted by Guy Mann.

* TheCameo: DJ Pierce (AKA [[Series/RuPaulsDragRace Shangela Laquifa Wadley]]) as the transsexual hooker Annabell, and [[AscendedFanboy Kumail Nanjiani]] as Pasha the animal control officer, though the latter is more of an extended cameo.