History ReferencedBy / TheXFiles

* From [[https://fanfiction.net/s/12210984/1/Keijo-Note-Dark-Yagami-and-the-Haunted-Chest Keijo Note Dark Yagami and the Haunted Chest]] by Creator/DarkYagami:

** The phone calls from Grunkle Stan in the Cipher Hunt ARG had ''The X-Files'' theme playing in the background.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The episode "The Springfield Files" is homage and AffectionateParody of ''The X-Files'' craze.
* Had it not been for its cancellation, ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' would have had an ''The X-Files''-esque episode about the Yuuzhan Vong abducting Jedi.

* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': in the episode "Go Eat Worms", a little girl proudly announces her involvement in the school science fair. An older boy jokingly mocks her, asking her if she's going to "use dolls to act out a story from ''The X-Files'' (the girl reveals that her science project is actually about the life cycle of a robin).

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' did a whole episode to homage ''The X-Files''. Castle whistles the theme song, Becket is called Scully, they become entangled in a government project, and the villain is called the cigarette-smoking man.

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* In ''[[Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy Johnny and the Bomb]]'' Johnny thinks the MenInBlack say "The truth is out there" (which is kind of the wrong way round, but he's under a lot of stress and probably only knows the series second-hand).

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* ''VideoGame/PhantomDoctrine:'' You can find a document in which a spook suggests that "our friends in Hollywood" make a TV show about an agent who investigate ghosts and aliens and conspiracies. Plots would include distorted versions of real conspiracies, so that if investigators uncover those, people will accuse them of getting their ideas from TV.

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** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' episode "The Widening Gyre", we have Agent Locke and Agent Bryson, who are obvious {{expy}}s of Scully and Mulder. One of them also says "I want to believe."

* ''Series/Goosebumps'': in the episode "Go Eat Worms", a little girl proudly announces her involvement in the school science fair. An older boy jokingly mocks her, asking her if she's going to "use dolls to act out a story from ''The X-Files'' (the girl reveals that her science project is actually about the life cycle of a robin).

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': The episode "Trust No One" kicks off the show's own mytharc and features binomes Fax Modem and Data Nully, the latter voiced by Gillian Anderson herself.

* The 1990's parody series ''The X-Fools'', starring Agents [[IdiotHero Smoulder]] and Sulky.

* ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'': The detective protagonist's boss is a red-haired woman named Scully who doesn't share his interest in supernatural phenomena.

* In the 14th ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' when Marco, Rachel and Cassie get busted sneaking into an Area-51 type installation, they give their names as Fox Mulder, Dana Scully and Cindy Crawford. Somehow, the arresting officer doesn't get either reference and later gets odd looks at an amusement park when he claims to be looking for the same.

** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' episode "The Widening Gyre", we have Agent Locke and Agent Bryson, who are obvious {{expy}}s of Scully and Mulder. One them also says "I want to believe."

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The phone calls from Grunkle Stan in the Cipher Hunt ARG had ''The X-Files'' theme playing in the background.