History Radar / TheXFiles

* In the 7th season episode "Signs and Wonders," the agents investigate a church that practices snake-handling. Scully says snake handling is something ''she'' never learned in Sunday school, and Mulder replies, more crassly than usual, "funny, I knew Catholic schoolgirls who were experts at it." [[spoiler: If that went over your head, he's referring to handjobs.]]

* The tenth episode of the 5th season is named "Chinga", like the doll that stars the episode, [[UnfortunateImplications which is]] [[UnfortunateNames Mexican Spanish for "f**k" (in sexual context)]]. Maybe it's because of that that the episode was renamed "Bunghoney" in the UK.

* Mulder in "Chinga" is supposedly watching a tape of the "World's Deadliest Swarms", though the moaning noises and the viewer knowing his favorite form of entertainment would suggest otherwise.
** There are a ''lot'' of hints throughout the series that Mulder loves adult entertainment. This little exchange in "Excelsis Dei", for example:
--->'''Scully:''' Good morning.\\
'''Mulder:''' ''(Slightly panicked)'' Whatever tape you found in that VCR, it isn't mine.\\

** In the 3rd season episode "Teso Dos Bichos", "bichos" is an euphemism for "testicles" ("balls") in Colombia and Argentina. One member from the crew joked that this "controversy" would be good for ratings.

* In Season 7's "Je Souhaite", Mulder and Scully are able to dance around the cause of the death of the female genie's previous master, apparently he wished for a [[GagPenis Gag Penis]], which caused his death, using terms like "extreme priapic condition".

-->'''Scully:''' (unlocking the handcuffs) How is it that you're able to operate so well with your hands cuffed behind your back?

* To start, there's "Home", one of the most infamous episodes of the whole show, and the only one that was never shown on Fox again for several years after its premiere (it can now be seen on DVD and streaming). A {{Mundanger}} that starts with an inbred family burying a hideously deformed baby outside their farmhouse and gets worse from then on, it's an episode that would likely push an R-rating as a film. The rest of the story features moments like a family being beaten to death with baseball bats, impromptu death traps, and the reveal that [[spoiler: the Peacock family sons keep their limbless mother under the bed and try to impregnate her--in fact, the eldest brother is the father of the other two, and [[BizarreHumanBiology all three]] are the father of the dead baby.]] How it got past the censors with just a viewer discretion warning is still a mystery worthy of a Mulder and Scully investigation.

* Deep Throat. Of course, the name is a reference to Woodward and Bernstein's famous informant, but it's pretty incredible that they were able to say that phrase -- on network television -- ''so many times'' given the porn film and sexual act that it ''really'' referred to.

* The tenth episode of the 5th season is named "Chinga", like the doll that stars the episode, [[UnfortunateImplications which is]] [[UnfortunateNames Mexican Spanish for "f**k" (in sexual context)]]. Maybe it's because of that that the episode was renamed "Bunghoney" in the UK.
** In the 3rd season episode "Teso Dos Bichos", "bichos" is an euphemism for "testicles" ("balls") in Colombia and Argentina. One member from the crew joked that this "controversy" would be good for ratings.

* In Season 1's "Fire"
--> '''Scully:''' Yeah, I noticed how you couldn't drop everything fast enough in order to help her out.
-->'''Mulder:''' I was merely extending her a professional courtesy.
-->'''Scully:''' Oh, [[DoubleEntendre is that what you were extending]]?
* Mulder in "Chinga" is supposedly watching a tape of the "World's Deadliest Swarms", though the moaning noises and the viewer knowing his favorite form of entertainment would suggest otherwise.
** There are a ''lot'' of hints throughout the series that Mulder loves adult entertainment. This little exchange in "Excelsis Dei", for example:
--->'''Scully:''' Good morning.
--->'''Mulder:''' (slightly panicked) Whatever tape you found in that VCR, it isn't mine.
--->'''Scully:''' Good, because I put it back in that drawer with all those other videos that aren't yours.

* Mulder in "Chinga" is supposedly watching a tape of the "World's Deadliest Swarms", though the moaning noises and the viewer knowing his favorite form of entertainment would suggest otherwise.

* To start, there's "Home", one of the most infamous episodes of the whole show, and the only one that was never shown on Fox again for several years after its premiere (it can now be seen on DVD and Netflix streaming). A {{Mundanger}} that starts with an inbred family burying a hideously deformed baby outside their farmhouse and gets worse from then on, it's an episode that would likely push an R-rating as a film. The rest of the story features moments like a family being beaten to death with baseball bats, impromptu death traps, and the reveal that [[spoiler: the Peacock family sons keep their limbless mother under the bed and try to impregnate her--in fact, the eldest brother is the father of the other two, and [[BizarreHumanBiology all three]] are the father of the dead baby.]] How it got past the censors with just a viewer discretion warning is still a mystery worthy of a Mulder and Scully investigation.

* In season 1's "Fire"

-->'''Scully:''' Oh, [[DoubleEntendre is that what you were extending]]?

-->'''Scully:''' Oh, is that what you were extending?

** In the 3th season episode "Teso Dos Bichos", "bichos" is an euphemism for "testicles" ("balls") in Colombia and Argentina. One member from the crew joked that this "controversy" would be good for ratings.

* In Season 7's "Je Souhaite", Mulder and Scully are able to dance around the cause of the death of the female genie's previous master, apparently he wished for a [[GagPenis Gag Penis]], which caused his death, using terms like "extreme priapic condition".

For nine seasons, [[ArcWords the truth was out there]]...but so were sexual innuendos, dark and horrifying [[NightmareFuel/TheXFiles moments]], and {{Squick}} that could push the boundaries of network TV.

* To start, there's "Home", one of the most infamous episodes of the whole show, and the only one that was never shown on Fox again for several years after its premiere (it can now be seen on DVD and Netflix streaming). A {{Mundanger}} that starts with an inbred family burying a hideously deformed baby outside their farmhouse and gets worse from then on, it's an episode that would likely push an R-rating as a film. The rest of the story features [[SarcasmMode family-friendly]] moments like a family being beaten to death with baseball bats, impromptu death traps, and the reveal that [[spoiler: the Peacock family sons keep their limbless mother under the bed and try to impregnate her--in fact, the eldest brother is the father of the other two, and [[BizarreHumanBiology all three]] are the father of the dead baby.]] How it got past the censors with just a viewer discretion warning is still a mystery worthy of a Mulder and Scully investigation.

* To start, there's "Home", one of the most infamous episodes of the whole show, and the only one that was never shown on Fox again for several years after its premiere (it can now be seen on DVD and Netflix streaming). A {{Mundanger}} that starts with an inbred family burying a hideously deformed baby outside their farmhouse and gets worse from then on, it's an episode that would likely push an R-rating as a film. The rest of the story features [[SarcasmMode family-friendly]] moments like a family being beaten to death with baseball bats, impromptu death traps, and the reveal that [[spoiler: the Peacock family sons keep their limbless mother under the bed and rape her.]] How it got past the censors with just a viewer discretion warning is still a mystery worthy of a Mulder and Scully investigation.

* In the 7th season episode "Signs and Wonders," the agents investigate a church that practices snake-handling. Scully says snake handling is something <i>she</i> never learned in Sunday school, and Mulder replies, more crassly than usual, "funny, I knew Catholic schoolgirls who were experts at it." [[spoiler: If that went over your head, he's referring to handjobs.]]

* To start, there's "Home", one of the most infamous episodes of the whole show, and the only one that was never shown on Fox again for several years after its premiere. A {{Mundanger}} that starts with an inbred family burying a hideously deformed baby outside their farmhouse and gets worse from then on, it's an episode that would likely push an R-rating as a film. The rest of the story features [[SarcasmMode family-friendly]] moments like a family being beaten to death with baseball bats, impromptu death traps, and the reveal that [[spoiler: the Peacock family sons keep their limbless mother under the bed and rape her.]] How it got past the censors with just a viewer discretion warning is still a mystery worthy of a Mulder and Scully investigation, though, for a time, the episode was banned from reruns due to its dark content. It can now be seen on DVD and streaming.

* To start, there's "Home", one of the most infamous episodes of the whole show, and the only one that was never shown on Fox again for several years after its premiere. A {{Mundanger}} that starts with an inbred family burying a hideously deformed baby outside their farmhouse and gets worse from then on, it's an episode that would likely push an R-rating as a film. The rest of the story features [[SarcasmMode family-friendly]] moments like a family being beaten to death with baseball bats, impromptu death traps, and the reveal that [[spoiler: the Peacock family sons keep their limbless mother under the bed and rape her.]] How it got past the censors with just a viewer discretion warning is still a mystery worthy of a Mulder and Scully investigation.

--> '''Mulder:''' Well, I'd like to know why this police woman would suddenly drive her car into a field the size of Rhode Island and for no rhyme or reason, dig up the bones of a man whose been missing for 50 years. I mean unless there was a neon sign saying 'Dig Here'.

* In Season 2's "Aubrey":

* In the second season episode "Blood", Mulder is sprayed with an experimental chemical [[spoiler: that is shown to cause subliminal effects to its target]] and sees an attractive woman on TV advertising a fitness center. The words on her shirt? "DO IT."

For nine seasons, [[ArcWords the truth was out there]]...but so were sexual innuendoes, dark and horrifying [[NightmareFuel/TheXFiles moments]], and {{Squick}} that could push the boundaries of network TV.

* To start, there's "Home", one of the most infamous episodes of the whole show, and the only one that was never shown on Fox again for several years after its premiere. A {{Mundanger}} that starts with an inbred family burying a hideously deformed baby outside their farmhouse and gets worse from then on, it's an episode that would likely push an R-rating as a film. The rest of the story features [[SarcasmMode family-friendly]] moments like a family being beaten to death with baseball bats, impromptu death traps, and the reveal that [[spoiler: the Peacock family sons keep their limbless mother under the bed and rape her.]] How it got past the censors with just a viewer discretion warning is still a mystery worthy of a Mulder and Scully investigation.