History Recap / TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace

* {{Absurdism}}: One of the best examples of this philosophy on television, this episode actually has a serious message under all the comedy: it's about the conflict between the innate human desire to make connections with others and the fact that we are ultimately isolated by the subjective nature of our own perceptions.

* {{Absurdism}}: One of the best examples of this philosophy in recent TV, this episode actually has a serious message under all the comedy: it's about the conflict between the innate human desire to make connections with others and the fact that we are ultimately isolated by the subjective nature of our own perceptions.

* RashomonStyle: Every person interviewed by Jose Chung and/or Mulder and Scully offers a different, contradicting interpretation of various events. It is indicated that this is actually be an InvokedTrope, employed by the Syndicate, who are strongly implied to have interfered with the witnesses' memories to make sure they remember the events in broadly similar, yet widely different ways. By creating a bunch of {{Unrealiable Narrator}}s surrounding the events, it makes it hard to get any kind of clear picture of what actually happened.
* RomanAClef: In-universe, the novel ''From Outer Space'' is based on real events, with the names changed. Fox Mulder, for instance, is represented as a character named "[[Literature/ReynardTheFox Reynard]]".

* RashomonStyle: Every person interviewed by Jose Chung and/or Mulder and Scully offers a different, contradicting interpretation of various events.

* HotScientist / FairCop: The writer Chung fancied Scully, calling her a "brainy beauty" with good taste in literature.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Roky starts a cult based on his encounter, Blaine takes Roky's old job as a power company lineman, Chrissy devotes herself to philanthropy and rejects Harold, Scully reads Chung's book, and Mulder watches videos of Bigfoot.

* AlienAutopsy: According to Scully's [[RashomonStyle interpretation of events]], an autopsy which she performed on an alien and allowed to be video taped became commercially released as ''Dead Alien! Truth Or Humbug?''. Embarrassed by it, Scully complains that the video ignores several of her findings, chief among them being that the dead alien was revealed to be a ManInARubberSuit. This was a parody of the recent (at the time) ''Alien Autopsy'' film of 1995 (which claimed to be real but was, naturally, a hoax).

** The location, Klass County, is in honor of UFO researcher Phil Klass. In the same vein, Lt. Jack Shaeffer and his co-pilot Robert Vallee are named after {{UFO}}logists Robert Schaeffer and Jacques Vallee.

** Chung is largely based on Creator/TrumanCapote, with his research trip to Klass County and boasting about creating a "new literary genre" of "non-fiction science fiction" being pretty obvious parallels to the making of ''Literature/InColdBlood''. He's also (like his actor Charles Nelson Reilly) very obviously gay, though this is never directly commented upon.

** The location, Klass County, is in honor of UFO researcher Phil Klass. In the same vein, Lt. Jack Schaeffer and his co-pilot Robert Vallee are named after {{UFO}}logists Robert Schaeffer and Jacques Vallee.

** The location, Klass County, is in honor of UFO researcher Phil Klass. In the same vein, Lt. Jack Schaeffer and his co-pilot Robert Valley are named after {{UFO}}logists Robert Schaeffer and Jacques Vallee.

** The appearance of Lord Kinbote is an homage to Ray Harryhausen and his stop-motion model animation and effects work, while his name is taken from a character in Creator/VladimirNabokov's ''Literature/PaleFire''.

* HotScientist / FairCop: The writer Chung fancied Scully, calling her a brainy beauty with good taste in literature.

** Lt. Shaeffer sculpts his mashed potatoes à la ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.

-->-- '''Chrissy Giorgio'''

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->''"He's stealing my memories."''

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