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| 3 | [[folder:Season Four]] |
| 4 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Herrenvolk]]]] |
| 5 | * 'Herrenvolk' is in German, roughly translated to "master race"; a term coined by the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] to refer the projected end result of their genocide, the creation of a "superior and pure" human being. |
| 6 | * Upon encountering the body of a dead man on the road, Mulder pulls a work order from his pocket for a company named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus Telus]], an actual phone company in UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [[AC: Home]] |
| 9 | * Scully mentions her nephew watches ''Film/{{Babe}}'' fifteen times a day and even bleats "Bah-ram-ewe!" from the movie. |
| 10 | * Scully says Mulder’s idea of settling down in a small town “would be like living in Mayberry. Scully and Mulder encounter the sheriff and the deputy named Andy Taylor and [[Creator/DonKnotts Barney Pastor]]. Both refer to ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''. |
| 11 | * The [[{{Tuckerization}} Peacock family]]’s last names were named after former neighbors of Glen Morgan’s parents. |
| 12 | * 'Home' is defined as 1) one’s residence or house. 2) the social unit formed by a family living together. 3) a congenial environment or habitat. 4) a place of origin. 5) the objective in various games. 6) to go or return home. 7) processing to or toward a source of radiated energy used as a guide. |
| 13 | * Mulder pouts upon finding a newspaper with headline "Music/ElvisPresley dead at 42" when he and Scully go through the Peacock’s house. |
| 14 | * Scully refers the kids who found the buried infant as the [[Film/TheSandlot Sandlot Gang]]. |
| 15 | * The genetic deformities Scully observes in the dead infant are the quite rare 'Neu-Laxova syndrome,' 'Meckel-Gruber syndrome' and the 'extrophy of the cloaca'. |
| 16 | * During the primal beating of the deputy, the sheriff and the sheriff’s wife, Music/JohnnyMathis’s "Wonderful! Wonderful!" plays prominently on the radio of the Peacock family’s Cadillac. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Teliko]]]] |
| 19 | * 'Teliko' is a mythological African 'spirit of the air' sometimes thought to be an albino. |
| 20 | * 'Teliko' is Greek for 'final', |
| 21 | * Mulder mentions Music/MichaelJackson. |
| 22 | * Scully mentions 'albinism', a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin from Latin word 'albus' meaning 'white' that’s also called achromia, achromasia or achromatosis. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Unruhe]]]] |
| 25 | * 'Unruhe' is German for unrest or anxiety. |
| 26 | * Episode title is also similar to the last name of mass murderer [[LonersAreFreaks Howard Unruh]]. |
| 27 | * Brand of film [[SdrawkcabName ETAP]] is the last name spelled backwards of assistant prop master Jim Pate. |
| 28 | * A Polaroid camera taking pictures of something other than the intended subject is the basis for Creator/StephenKing’s novella ''The Sun Dog''. |
| 29 | * Scully says "Ich habe keine Unruhe" to Gary Schnauz literally meaning “I do not have anxiety” in German. |
| 30 | * The drug 'scopolamine' is an actual drug causing people to quickly become unconscious and twilight sleep, a condition that can render people unconscious following great moments of pain. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[AC: The Field Where I Died]] |
| 33 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Vernon Ephesian]]'s name combines real-life cult leader David Koresh's real name Vernon Howell and the title of a book from ''Literature/TheBible''. |
| 34 | * There are similarities to the Waco massacre involving Vernon. |
| 35 | * Another massacre this episode shares similarities to is the Jonestown Massacre. |
| 36 | * The [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar American Civil War]] battles described through the cult member were the Battle of Missionary Ridge and the Battle of Ringgold Gap. |
| 37 | * An hypnotized Mulder recalls himself in a [[PastLifeMemories past life]] dying on the field during the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] where his and Melissa Riedal-Ephesian's personas are Sullivan Biddle and Sarah Kavanaugh, names taken from real life Civil War soldier Sullivan Ballou who wrote a now-famous and very moving letter one week before [[TearJerker he was killed]] in the First Battle of Bull Run to his wife Sarah, in which he assured her his love for her was 'deathless' and even though he might be killed in the war, he would always be with her, would wait for her and that 'we shall meet again.' |
| 38 | * The poem Mulder recites at both beginning and end is taken from ''Paracelsus'' by Robert Browning. |
| 39 | * The words "sometimes I remember" which Mulder pronounces at the end belongs to Creator/PercyByssheShelley’s poem ''Prometheus Unbound''. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Sanguinarium]]]] |
| 42 | * Dr. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Theresa Shannon]] was named after actress [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Tweed Shannon Tweed]]. |
| 43 | * Nurse [[{{Tuckerization}} Rebecca Waite]]’s name most likely comes from Arthur Miller’s character [[Theatre/TheCrucible Rebecca Nurse]] and nineteenth century Occultist Arthur Edward Waite. |
| 44 | * The words 'vanitas vanitatum' scrawled in blood on Dr. Franklyn’s mirror means 'vanity of the vanities'. |
| 45 | * 'Sanguinarium' is Latin for 'place of blood'. 'Sanguinary' means carnage, bloodthirsty or consisting of blood. 'Sanguinaria' means bloodroot. |
| 46 | * The book Mulder reads and learns witches can make people vomit needles is ''Encyclopedia of Witchcraft & Demonology'' by Russell H. Robbins. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[AC: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man]] |
| 49 | * Magazine title to which Cigarette Smoking Man submits his stories is “[[ForeignLanguageTitle Roman à Clef]],” French phrase meaning "novel with a key" where real events are written up as fiction and the key referred to is not in the text, but in the reader's knowledge of the actual events being described under the guise of fiction. |
| 50 | * Dialogue spoken in the scene with the military men is lifted from ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. |
| 51 | * References to ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' are made: |
| 52 | ** Cigarette Smoking Man’s first novel is called ‘''Take a Chance'',’ a catchphrase. |
| 53 | ** Certain cases considered “classified compartmentalized” is a level of secrecy invented for the show. |
| 54 | ** Name of the main character in Cigarette Smoking Man’s novels is named [[{{Tuckerization}} Jack Colquitt]], a soldier appearing in the episode ''Who Monitors the Birds?''. |
| 55 | ** When young Cigarette Man and Deep Throat flip a coin to decide who will kill the alien, it is quite reminiscent of how the Silicates made their decisions. |
| 56 | * Editor [[{{Tuckerization}} Walden Roth]] who buys Cigarette Smoking Man’s story is named after Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox’s head of drama Dana Walden and President Peter Roth of the Entertainment Group for Fox Broadcasting Company. |
| 57 | * When ranting to a bum, Cigarette Smoking Man begins with "Life is like a box of chocolates" line from ''Film/ForrestGump ''. |
| 58 | * This episode was based on a ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comic book story called ''Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography''. |
| 59 | * Two of a young Cigarette Smoking Man’s aliases are based on supposedly real people: |
| 60 | ** When meeting [[GunmanWithThreeNames Lee Harvey Oswald]], the latter calls the former “Mr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Hunt]],” a name coming from an E. Howard Hunt that, according to some conspiracy theorist, Oswald kept corresponding with before UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy’s assassination. |
| 61 | ** And when Cigarette Smoking Man is referred to as “[[{{Tuckerization}} Raoul]]” by Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin [[GunmanWithThreeNames James Earl Ray]], a name numerous people identified a co-conspirator in the slaying of the activist and leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. |
| 62 | * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_Hell_%28film%29 War Is Hell]]'' is shown playing at the Texas Theatre where Lee Harvey Oswald is apprehended. |
| 63 | * When Cigarette Smoking Man is out on the street looking for the magazine that published his work, there’s another white magazine bearing the cover line “Where the hell is Darin Morgan?” which is in regards to writer/co-executive producer Glen Morgan’s brother Darin Morgan’s departure from the writing staff. |
| 64 | * Young Bill Mulder asks young Cigarette Smoking Man why he’s reading ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' instead of seeing the movie. |
| 65 | |
| 66 | [[AC: Tunguska]] |
| 67 | * The scientist infected by the Black Cancer, Dr. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Sacks]] is possibly named after famed neurologist Oliver Sacks. |
| 68 | * Alex Krycek tells Mulder “When you go underground you gotta learn to live with the rats,” a possible reference to Krycek’s actor Nick Lea’s nickname “Ratboy.” |
| 69 | * Scully unzips the diplomatic pouch the second courier drops as he escapes Scully, Mulder and Krycek at the Dulles International Airport only to reveal a seemingly unremarkable rock inside: |
| 70 | --> '''Mulder:''' What did you get for Halloween, [[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown Charlie]] [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Brown]]? |
| 71 | * 'Tunguska' refers to a location in Siberia where [[TheTunguskaEvent an object struck the earth on June 30, 1908]], leveling over half million acres and hundreds of times stronger than the blast of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| 72 | * The [[TheGulag gulag]] setting is based off Creator/AleksandrSolzhenitsyn’s works. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Terma]]]] |
| 75 | * Alex Krycek’s Russian alias "[[{{Tuckerization}} Comrade Arntsen]]" is named for Val Arntzen, a member of the Set Decorating Department. |
| 76 | * 'Terma' or correctly known as 'tyurma' is [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Russian]] for prison or jail along with being a Latin conjunction of death.\ |
| 77 | It’s also key [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Tibetan Buddhist]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}} Bön]] teachings, which the tradition holds were originally esoterically hidden by various adepts such as Padmasambhava and his consorts in the eighth century for future discovery at auspicious times by other adepts, known as 'tertöns'. |
| 78 | * Well-Manicured Man quotes a famous speech Mark Anthony held at Caesar’s burial in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' by saying “But, Senator Sorenson is an honorable man, they are all honorable... these honorable men...”, though replace Senator Sorenson’s name with Brutus. |
| 79 | * Tag line 'E Pur Si Muove' is Italian for "and still it moves" or "and nonetheless it does move,” a phrase supposedly said by Galileo under his breath after the Church forced him to admit his theory on the [[UsefulNotes/HeresiesAndHeretics Earth rotating around the sun]] was incorrect |
| 80 | * The [[TheGulag gulag]] is based from Creator/AleksandrSolzhenitsyn’s works, mainly ''[[Literature/OneDayInTheLifeOfIvanDenisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' and ''Literature/TheGulagArchipelago''. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[AC: Paper Hearts]] |
| 83 | * Mulder finds John Lee Roche’s trophy cloth heart inside a copy of Creator/LewisCarroll’s ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]]''. |
| 84 | * Roche’s old car El Camino was sold to a man and where Mulder finds it is in Hollyville, Delaware, named for Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice. |
| 85 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Bosher’s Run Park]] refers to Bosher’s Dam in James River Park. |
| 86 | * Both Mulder and Roche mention ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069606/ The Magician]]''. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle El Mundo Gira]]]] |
| 89 | * 'El Mundo Gira' is [[UsefulNotes/SpanishLanguage Spanish]] for 'The World Rotates'. |
| 90 | * As both Scully and Mulder walk away, Scully croons softly only Mulder can hear: |
| 91 | -->'''Scully:''' [[Theatre/WestSideStory Maria, Maria, I just met a girl named Maria]]. |
| 92 | * Mulder explains there been reported of black, red, blue, purple and green rains documented by witnesses. |
| 93 | -->'''Scully:''' Film/PurpleRain? |
| 94 | * Loosely translated as "goat sucker," [[{{Chupacabra}} El Chupacabra]] is an [[UrbanLegends urban mythical monster]] of [[UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica Latin American]] origin, believed to suck the blood of livestock animals, especially goats with descriptions varying wildly from a doglike form to a lizard type being. |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[AC: Leonard Betts]] |
| 97 | * "Will the real Leonard Betts please stand up?" is a famous catchphrase from game show ''Series/ToTellTheTruth''. |
| 98 | * The man from the bar who has lung cancer is named [[CompositeCharacter John Gillnitz]], an amalgamation of three writers John Shiban, Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | [[AC: Never Again]] |
| 101 | * Ed Jerse’s favorite bar is named “Hard Eight” for the production company of writers Morgan and Wong. |
| 102 | * The song playing while Scully and Ed Jerse sit together is "The Have Nots" from Music/XUSBand’s 1982 album ''Under the Big Black Sun''. |
| 103 | * The rock song playing while Jerse sits alone is "Tattooed Love Boys" from Music/{{Pretenders}}. |
| 104 | * Scully’s tattoo of a mythical snake eating its own tail is the '{{Ouroboros}},' a symbol of the never ending cycle of destruction and re-creations in the universe. The symbol is also used in ''Series/Millennium1996''. |
| 105 | * The camera angles and long tracking shot going backwards down the stairs are conscious homages to similar shots in Creator/AlfredHitchcock’s ''Film/{{Frenzy|1972}}''. |
| 106 | * Upon visiting Jerse at his apartment, Scully tells Ed on her last date she saw ''Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss'' and the characters had more than she did. |
| 107 | * Ed Jerse’s downstairs neighbor [[{{Tuckerization}} Kaye Shilling]] shares her name with Entertainment Weekly editor Mary Kaye Shilling. |
| 108 | * Mulder mentions the Republic of Karelia, a real place that’s part of Russia located at the border between the Russian Federation and Finland, having a level of autonomy roughly equal to a US state with its own internally elected government and assembly. |
| 109 | * During the first scene in which Betty the tattoo convinces the man to assault his neighbor, the song "Doesn’t Somebody Want to be Wanted" by ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'' is heard in the background. |
| 110 | * Betty the tattoo’s voice actress Creator/JodieFoster appeared in an episode of the {{sitcom}} in one of her earlier [[ActorAllusion roles]] called ''The Eleven Year Itch''. |
| 111 | * Scully mentions [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Rocky and Bullwinkle]]. |
| 112 | * When Scully connects to the internet from Jerse’s computer, a list of fictionalized search engines are seen based on real ones: ‘Magella’ = ''Magellan'', ‘Excited’ = ''Excite'', ‘Yahoots’ = ''Platform/{{Yahoo}}!'', ‘Infos’ = ''Infoseek'' |
| 113 | * Jerse’s web browser Cyberscope is a takeoff on Netscape. |
| 114 | * Mulder’s list of people for Scully to investigate include the names of popular Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff, author Creator/VladimirNabokov and Russian film maker Vsevolod Pudovkin of the 1920's. |
| 115 | * Mulder makes a 'spiritual' journey to [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]' home. |
| 116 | |
| 117 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Memento Mori]]]] |
| 118 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Kurt Crawford]] shares the exact name of creator Creator/ChrisCarter’s contact at the FBI whom he goes to check facts for accuracy. |
| 119 | * 'Memento Mori' 1) is Latin for “remember that you are mortal”; 2) refers to a type of Victorian photography where a recently deceased person is photographed post-mortem, often with family members, dressed and posed as though in a deep sleep rather than dead. |
| 120 | * In regards to John Byers. |
| 121 | -->'''Frohike:''' Smile Byers, you’re on Series/{{candid camera}}. |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Kaddish]]]] |
| 124 | * 'Kaddish' is the name of traditional Jewish mourning prayer repeated daily for thirty days for a relative or a spouse or eleven months for a parent following day of burial and is also related on the anniversary of death. |
| 125 | * Episode title shares the same name as an episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. |
| 126 | * Isaac Luria is presumed to have returned as a {{golem}}, a being created for a purpose, often to defend or avenge, in Jewish folklore. |
| 127 | * [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Isaac Luria]] is named after famed rabbi of the same name who is regarded as the father of Jewish mysticism. |
| 128 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Detective Bartley]] is named after ex-cinematographer John Bartley. |
| 129 | * Kolin is mentioned as the place where the communal ring was made and it's mentioned as a village near Prague. Kolin is in fact a rather big town near Prague. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[AC: Unrequited]] |
| 132 | * Mulder mentions 'The Warren Commission' who investigated the 1963 assassination of [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates President]] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone but many people, including conspiracy theorists, don’t believe the Commission’s findings. |
| 133 | * 'Unrequited' means 1) not avenged. 2) not requited. 3) not reciprocated or returned in kind. |
| 134 | * General [[{{Tuckerization}} Peter McDougal]] was named for series editor Heather [=MacDougal=]. |
| 135 | * When Nathaniel Teager confronts Mrs. Davenport in front of the Vietnam Memorial, two names visible on the wall behind her are [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Jesse R. Ellsion]] and [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Harlan L. Hahn]]. Creator/HarlanEllison is a famous science fiction writer and fan of the show. Model and actress Jessica Hahn is well-known for the sex scandal involving her and Reverend Jim Baker. |
| 136 | * Names of ''X-Files'' crewmembers are etched into the wall. |
| 137 | * Nathaniel Teager turning invisible and back to being visible at will is just like [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Susan Storm/Richards]], [[ComicBook/PhantomLady Sandra Knight]], [[Radio/TheShadow Kent Allard]], WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost, [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Miles Morales]], [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} Stephanie Brown]], [[Series/GeminiMan Sam Casey]] and others. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Tempus Fugit]]]] |
| 140 | * Crash survivor [[{{Tuckerization}} Larold Rebhun]] shares his name but not its pronunciation with ''X-Files''’ sound mixer Larold Rebhun. |
| 141 | * 'Tempus Fugit' is a Latin expression meaning “time flees,” more commonly translated as “time flies”. |
| 142 | * Title also shares the same name of a song by Music/{{Yes}}. |
| 143 | * After Mulder establishes the reason of him and Miller share the goal as to why the plane crashed: |
| 144 | --> '''Mike Millar:''' And if any of the capable men and women find Doctor [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock’s phaser]] or some green alien goo, we’ll be sure to give you all the credit. |
| 145 | * The pseudonym Max Fenig uses is [[{{Tuckerization}} Paul Gidney]], the last name “Gidney” deriving from one of the two [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Moon Men]]. |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[AC: Max]] |
| 148 | * The song playing when Scully turns on Max Fenig’s stereo is "Unmarked Helicopters" by Music/SoulCoughing. |
| 149 | * Again, Max’s pseudonym [[{{Tuckerization}} Paul Gidney]] possibly derives from one of the two [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Moon Men]]. |
| 150 | * Dialogues base from ''Film/TheThirdMan'' is used. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[AC: Synchrony]] |
| 153 | * Opening scenes mirror scenes from ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. |
| 154 | * 'Synchrony' means 1) simultaneous action, development, or occurrence. 2) the state of operating or developing according to the same time scale as something else. |
| 155 | * Mulder tells Jason Nichols that the frozen dead security guard has become {{WesternAnimation/Frosty the Snowman}} gone south. |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[AC:Small Potatoes]] |
| 158 | * 'Small potatoes' is a phrase meaning “not a big deal” or “not overly important.” |
| 159 | * As Eddie van Blundht looks at Mulder’s driver’s license, the street address where Mulder lives is 42-2630 Hegla Place, the numbers 2630 is the street number for the building used on York Avenue in Vancouver for exterior shots of Mulder’s apartment. |
| 160 | * Disguised as Mulder, Eddie [[Film/TaxiDriver looks at himself in the mirror]] while practicing his techniques. |
| 161 | * Doing a [[Creator/RobertDeNiro DeNiro]] impression: |
| 162 | --> '''Eddie van Blundt:''' [[Film/TaxiDriver You looking at me? There ain't nobody else here, you must be lookin' at me]]. You want a piece of this? |
| 163 | * Eddie van Blundht flees from Mulder and Scully and takes refuge in the guise of a husband to one of the tailed babies’ mothers, giving her the pet name “Babboo,” a reference to [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Sally Brown calling Linus]] her “Sweet Babboo.” |
| 164 | * Mulder refers to the opening of Cole Porter’s ''Let’s Fall in Love'' by saying “birds do it, bees do it, even educated [=MDs=] do it.” |
| 165 | * Interrupting Amanda Nellingan who’s humming a familiar theme: |
| 166 | --> '''Scully:''' How many times have you seen Franchise/StarWars, Amanda? |
| 167 | * One of the headlines on the tabloid newspaper is “[[SdrawkcabName ETAP]] Bigshot Busted” from pro-master Jim Pate. |
| 168 | * Eddie-as-Mulder listens to Mulder’s answering machine: |
| 169 | -->'''Langly:''' Mulder, Langly. You gotta see this. As online associate of ours, who will remain anonymous, has figured out a way to digitize the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film Zapruder footage]] so he can extrapolate a bird’s eye view of the Dealey plaza at t he exact moment of the [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy assassination]]. You’ll never believe where the third shot came from. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[AC: Zero Sum]] |
| 172 | * 'Zero Sum' refers to the precept of game theory that a situation in which a participant’s gain or loss is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of another. |
| 173 | * Name of the school is [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy J.F.K.]] Elementary School. |
| 174 | * Bees [[Film/TheBirds attack the children and their teacher]] while playing on the playground. |
| 175 | * When Skinner flips through a filing cabinet, one of the files is labeled “Music/FooFighters,” also a term of unexplained flying objects observed by pilots during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[AC: Elegy]] |
| 178 | * Mulder asks Harold Spuller about one of the victims named [[{{Tuckerization}} Risa Shapiro]], the name of Mulder’s actor David Duchovny’s agent. |
| 179 | * Harold Spuller’s roommate [[{{Tuckerization}} Chuck Forsch]] is named for Creator/ChrisCarter’s UsefulNotes/LosAngeles based assistant. |
| 180 | * '' [[{{Tuckerization}} Dr. Martin Alpert]] is named after writer John Shiban’s physician. |
| 181 | * An 'elegy' is a poem expressing grief for someone who passed away. |
| 182 | * One of the original titles for the episode was 'Tulpa,' a ghostly manifestations of a thought-formed produced by the mind in [[{{Tibet}} Tibetan]] mystic practice. |
| 183 | * Another title of the episode was 'Revenant,' one that comes back following an absence or one who returns after death. |
| 184 | * [[ActorAllusion Sidney Lassick]] plays a patient at the New Horizon Psychiatric [[Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest mental institute]], and Nurse Innes is similar to Nurse Ratched. |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[AC: Demons]] |
| 187 | * At one point, Mulder asks Scully if she’s familiar with the words “[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson Orenthal James Simpson]].” |
| 188 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Amy Cassidy]] and [[{{Tuckerization}} David Cassidy]] were named after Greek prophetess Cassandra from classical Greek mythology. |
| 189 | * Ill-fated police officer [[{{Tuckerization}} Michael Fazekas]] was named for Co-Executive Producer Frank Spotnitz’s assistant. |
| 190 | * 'Demons' could refer to 1) an evil spirit or {{Satan}}. 2) a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin. 3) an attendant power or spirit. 4) a supernatural being of Greek mythology intermediate between gods and men. 5) one that has exceptional enthusiasm, drive, or effectiveness. |
| 191 | * Episode was influenced from ''An Anthropologist on Mars'', a series of essays by Oliver Sacks in particular ''The Landscape of Dreams'' featuring a man who could recall every detail of his childhood. |
| 192 | * 'Geschwind syndrome' is the ability to recall every memory of one's younger life. |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[AC: Gethsemane]] |
| 195 | * 'Gethsemane' refers to biblical garden Gethsemane where Jesus Christ was betrayed by Judas. |
| 196 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Michael Kritschgau]] is named for a former drama teacher of Gillian Anderson, Dana Scully’s actress. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Season Five]] |
| 200 | [[AC: Redux]] |
| 201 | * 'Redux' means brought back, as following retirement, illness or long inactivity. |
| 202 | * There are some references to ''Film/{{JFK}}'': |
| 203 | ** When Kritschgau describes the government conspiracy to Mulder is much like the scene in ''Film/{{JFK}}'' between [[Creator/KevinCostner Detective Jim Garrison]] and his informant X. |
| 204 | ** Mulder says “Let the truth be known though the heavens fall” during his voiceover is quite similar to Garrison’s line "Justice be done though the heavens fall." |
| 205 | ** Much like the meeting between Cigarette Smoking Man and The Elder, ''[=JFK=]'' also had a “secret meeting” taking place at a race track. |
| 206 | * Mulder says “If this treason should prosper” in a voiceover narration in the opening scenes, a paraphrase of line usually attributed to Roman Poet Ovid, not to mention credit has gone to English epigrammist Sir John Harrington: |
| 207 | --> Treason doth never prosper\ |
| 208 | What’s the reason?\ |
| 209 | Why if it prosper,\ |
| 210 | None dare call it treason. |
| 211 | * The monitor the guard watches as he witnesses Mulder’s wandering through the top secret area is labeled with brand name “[[SdrawkcabName ETAP]],” again, a reference to prop-master Jim Pate. |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[AC: Redux II]] |
| 214 | * 'Redux' means come back following retirement, illness or long inactivity. |
| 215 | * The name [[{{Tuckerization}} Roush]] is probably a reference to then-''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers USA Today]]'' writer Matt Roush. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[AC: Unusual Suspects]] |
| 218 | * Susanne Modeski’s dentist Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Michael Kilbourne]] is named after writer Vince Gilligan’s own dentist. |
| 219 | * Byer’s full name is [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John Fitzgerald]] Byers and he was born on November 22, 1963, the same day of the thirty-fifth president’s assassination. |
| 220 | * The video game Byer’s booth partner is seen playing during the first half of the episode is ''VideoGame/DigDug''. |
| 221 | * Episode title ‘Unusual Suspects’ 1) refers to ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''. 2) may or may not be based from the line “[[Film/{{Casablanca}} round up the usual suspects]]” said by [[Creator/ClaudeRains Captain Louis Renault]]. 3) a play on phrase “the usual suspects.” |
| 222 | * 'White Rock' is the name of a small, unincorporated town in New Mexico, largely populated by employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory and their families. |
| 223 | * Ripping off Byers’ FCC button: |
| 224 | --> '''Frohike:''' Welcome to the [[Franchise/StarWars dark side]]. |
| 225 | * [[WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings Elron the Druid]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit Middle Earth]] are mentioned. |
| 226 | * Richard Langly comes up from behind a dividing curtain to his own booth connected to Melvin Frohike and pulls the curtain away to see Frohike and Susan Modeski: |
| 227 | --> '''Langly:''' Hey lady, if you want to watch ''Series/{{Matlock}}'' with [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Griffith]] all blue and squiggly, go right ahead and buy from this guy. But, if you want quality bootleg cable, you talk to me. |
| 228 | * Byers ask Susan what secret forces within the government did to [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]]. |
| 229 | * As Frohike rants on about the government that gave UsefulNotes/{{Amtrak}} is behind some conspiracies, Langly mentions the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony Susan B. Anthony]] dollar. |
| 230 | * The line “Your kung fu is best” refers to famed computer hacker Kevin Mitnick leaving voice messages “My kung fu is best” to tease investigators who were attempting to apprehend him. |
| 231 | * Detective John Munch mentions American attorney, journalist, author, reporter and talk show host Gerald Rivera in his line “Don’t lie to me like I’m Geraldo Rivera. I am not Geraldo Rivera!” which is a very similar line used in the pilot of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. |
| 232 | * When Susanne first meets Byers, she tells him her name is “Holly,” borrowing the name from the packet of Holly Sugar on the table but it’s also the name of Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice. |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[AC: Detour]] |
| 235 | * A 'detour' is 1) a road used temporarily instead of the main route. 2) a deviation from the direct course of action |
| 236 | * Search and rescue leader Officer [[{{Tuckerization}} Michele Fazekas]] is named after writer and executive producer Frank Spotnitz’s assistant Michael Fazehas. |
| 237 | * Mulder, Scully, Agent Michael Kinsley and Agent Carla Stonecypher find themselves in a [[Film/{{Deliverance}} hostile environment]] just like Lewis Medlock, Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe and Drew Ballinger. |
| 238 | * Mulder asks Scully if she identified more with [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Betty or Wilma]] as child. |
| 239 | * Scully sings [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dog_Night Three Dog Night]]’s “‘''Joy to the World''’” to Mulder in the woods. |
| 240 | * After Scully asks the local technician’s thought on who killed the men surveying an area of the forest: |
| 241 | --> '''Jeff Glaser:''' Nature is populated by creatures either trying to kill something they need to surviv or trying to avoid being killed by something that needs them to survive. If we become blinded by the beauty of nature, we may fail to see its cruelty and violence.\ |
| 242 | '''Scully:''' Creator/WaltWhitman?\ |
| 243 | '''Jeff Glaser:''' No, [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293702/ When Animals Attack!]] on the [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] Network. |
| 244 | * Louis Asekoff watches ''Film/TheInvisibleMan1933''. |
| 245 | * Scully asks Mulder if the Mothman is listed in the X-Files next to “the Cockroach that ate Cincinnati,” a reference to a [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115919/ 1996]] movie and a 1974 song by Rose and the Arrangement. |
| 246 | * 'Mothman' was a legendary creator first reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from November 15, 1966 to December 15, 1967 that’s been later popularized by John keel in his 1975 book ''Literature/TheMothmanProphecies'' which was later made into a 2002 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]]. |
| 247 | * 'Mothman' was also the name of a Franchise/{{Batman}} villain. |
| 248 | * The 1991 “Tailhook Scandal” is mentioned where on the thirty-fifth Annual Tailhook Symposium held September 5 to September 7 of that year at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, eighty three women and seven men claimed to be sexually assaulted and since there was much controversy about the ensuing investigation and allegation that the [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush Bush administration]] considered a witch hunt. |
| 249 | * Mulder admits the only time he has ever thought about seriously dying was at the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Capades Ice Capades]]''. |
| 250 | * The [[{{monster of the week}} monsters of the week]] being primitive humanoid beings with tree bark like skins are able to [[Franchise/{{Predator}} perfectly camouflage itself almost to the point of complete invisibility]] in order to stalk and attack people in or around the forest. |
| 251 | * Mulder and Scully examine the dead creature Scully shot after falling through a hole into an underground chamber where the bodies of their missing companions are stored, the Latin words for “into darkness,” 'Ad Noctum' are carved into a tree trunk. |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[AC: The Post-Modern Prometheus]] |
| 254 | * There are many references to ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'': |
| 255 | ** The title relates to Creator/MaryShelley’s novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' that’s subtitled as ''[[EitherOrTitle The Modern Prometheus]]'' which in turn is a reference to demi-god [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Prometheus]] who made men out of clay and is probably best remembered as being the one who stole fire from Olympus and taught mortal men how to use it and got punished by being chained to a rock and having an eagle eat his liver every day by Zeus. |
| 256 | ** Dr. Francis Pollidori having to leave to deliver an address at the [[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} University of Ingolstadt]], a reference to the Ingolstadt University institution where medical student Victor Frankenstein has the idea of creating a human. |
| 257 | ** Dr. Pollidori’s wife is named Elizabeth, the same name as Dr. Frankenstein’s wife. |
| 258 | ** Pollidori shows Mulder and Scully the image of a fruit fly with legs growing out of its mouth, claiming he created the mutant by [[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} genetic manipulation]], worth noting it’s actually a random mutation that does occur in nature without human intervention in real life. |
| 259 | ** The line "[[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} IT’S ALIVE]]!" |
| 260 | ** Mulder even calls Pollidori “Dr. Frankenstein.” |
| 261 | * Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Pollidori]] was named for personal physician Dr. John Pollidori of Lord Byron, the latter suggesting the ghost story competition inspiring Mary Shelley to writer ''Frankenstein''. |
| 262 | * Several references to ''Film/TheElephantMan'': |
| 263 | ** Whole episode’s in black and white. |
| 264 | ** Similar monologue. |
| 265 | ** A celebrity embraces the deformed person. |
| 266 | * To Pollidori as he tries to leave in order to deliver an international address: |
| 267 | --> '''Scully:''' Sir, unless you want your scientific achievements end up as a footnote on ''Series/TheJerrySpringerShow'', I suggest that the time. |
| 268 | * Two (fake) episodes of ''The Jerry Springer Show'' along with Jerry Spring [[AsHimself himself]] also appear. |
| 269 | * Three songs by Music/{{Cher}} are heard: "The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore" during the teaser, "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" when Mulder and Scully arrive at the fumigated house, and "Walking in Memphis" during the concert at the end. |
| 270 | * Mutato watches ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'' starring Music/{{Cher}}. |
| 271 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Shaineh Berkowitz]] gets the name after [[SerialKiller serial killer]] David Berkowitz. |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[AC: Christmas Carol]] |
| 274 | * On the back of the photograph Bill Jr. shows Scully is an “[[SdrawkcabName ETAP]]” logo, again, the last name of assistant prop master Jim Pate spelled backwards. |
| 275 | * 'Christmas Carol' is an obvious take on Creator/CharlesDickens’ ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. |
| 276 | ** Emil’s adopted family name of “Sim'' is taken from actor Alastair Sim who played [[Film/{{Scrooge 1951}} Ebenezer]] [[WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1971 Scrooge]]. |
| 277 | * The person running the DNA analysis at the end of the episode is named “[[{{Tuckerization}} John Gillnitz]],” a combination of three staff writers and producers John Shiban, Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz. |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[AC: Emily]] |
| 280 | * Emily watches ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'' in her hospital room. |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Kitsunegari]]]] |
| 283 | * 'Kitsune-gari' means fox-hunt in Japanese. |
| 284 | * Linda Bowman’s brain tumor looks like a [[Series/LoisAndClark diamond with an “S” in the middle]], though it may be because the co-writer of this episode [[ActorAllusion Tim Minear]] was fresh off the staff of the show. |
| 285 | * Calmly to Skinner: |
| 286 | --> '''Modell:''' Hey, it’s [[Series/TheDickVanDykeShow Mel Cooley]]. |
| 287 | * The cerulean blue paint used was manufactured by the “Gulf Breeze” company, 'Gulf Breeze' being the name of a suburb in Florida known for being a hotbed for [=UFO=] sightings. |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[AC: Schizogeny]] |
| 290 | * The “Ich Bin Ein Auslander” poster is for the band Music/PopWillEatItself. |
| 291 | * In the opening scene, Bobby Rich is playing ''VideoGame/{{MDK}}'' and listening to "Hands of Death" by Music/RobZombie, featuring Music/AliceCooper. |
| 292 | ** The camera centers on a wall in Bobby’s room covered in posters where two of them are the covers of Music/{{Megadeth}}’s albums ''Rust in Peace'' and ''Countdown to Extinction''. |
| 293 | ** Another poster is of Canadian hard rock/metal signer Chrissy Steele’s only album ''Magnet to Steele''. |
| 294 | * Replace the “e” with an “o” in 'Schizogeny' and you get the word that means reproduction by multiple asexual fissions. |
| 295 | |
| 296 | [[AC: Chinga]] |
| 297 | * 'Chinga' is 1) named for an iron meteorite structurally an ataxite with very rare kamacite lamella. 2) an offensive [[ClusterFBomb slang term]] in UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}. 3) a political ward in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Kenya}} Othaya Constituency]]. |
| 298 | * The episode’s setting takes place in the coastal town of Ammas, Maine where Creator/StephenKing, who wrote this episode, was not only born but uses the state as the principal setting for almost all his novels. |
| 299 | * The "Hokey Pokey" playing throughout the episode is performed by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Ann_Greer Jo Ann Greer]] & [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skyliners The Skyliners]]. |
| 300 | * Name of the boat is Film/WorkingGirl. |
| 301 | * The book on Scully’s nightstand in her motel room is titled “''Affirmation For Women Who Do Too Much,” is a reference to Arianna Carrillo’s book ''Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much''. |
| 302 | * When Scully mentions the possibility of a possessed doll being involved in the killings, Mulder jokingly mentions [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]]. |
| 303 | * The {{classical music}} selection playing as Scully drives into town and when she takes a bath is "Piano Concerto No.3, Opus 89" by [[{{Composers}} Johann Nepomuk Hummel]]. |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[AC: Kill Switch]] |
| 306 | * A 'kill switch' is usually a button or switch that shuts something down completely and may or may not be the normal method of turning something off, sometimes meant to be used only in emergencies. |
| 307 | * A “swoosh” sound effect used for the firing of the orbital weapons platform is a [[StockSoundEffects stock sound]] used in many other movies. |
| 308 | * The A. I.’s missile system was compared to the technology from ''Film/ANewHope''. |
| 309 | * Esther Nairn’s blonde hair and particularly her black makeup make her look like [[Film/BladeRunner Pris]] at the end of the movie the latter appears in. |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[AC: Bad Blood]] |
| 312 | * The episode is similar to [[Series/TheDickVanDykeShow Rob and Laura Petrie]] each telling their neighbor their version of what lead to their fight. |
| 313 | * The plot of a same event being recounted by two or more characters is like ''Film/{{Rashomon}}''. |
| 314 | * 'Bad Blood' refers to a 1975 song by Neil Sedaka, name of an episode of ''Series/DegrassiHigh'', a limited ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' comic series, title of a chapter in ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', a volume from the ''Creation Cinema'' series, three movies (1982 British-new Zealand thriller, a 1986 French film and the last one made in 1989), a 1990 action role-playing game, or a term meaning enmity or bitterness among individuals or groups of people. |
| 315 | * The episode taking place in a fictional Texas town called “[[Creator/LonChaney Chaney]],” probably so named since both father and son played vampires during their illustrious film careers. Though there is a real Texas town named ‘Chaney’ about half-way between Abilene and Ft. Worth founded in the 1880's and named after its 1902 Post Master. |
| 316 | * Alleged vampire Ronnie Strickland shares the same middle name “[=LaVelle=]” as [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander Harris]]. |
| 317 | * Ronnie works for AB Pizza, 'AB' being a blood type among three others. |
| 318 | * Scully suspects that the killer isn't a vampire but instead somebody who has seen too many Creator/BelaLugosi movies. |
| 319 | * As the camera pans across the funeral home's display room doubling as the morgue, a casket in the foreground sports a tag identifying its model name as 'Iditarod,' a sixteen hundred kilometer dogsled race run from [[UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}} Anchorage to Nome]], starting on the first Saturday in March. |
| 320 | * When mentioning possibly being thrown in prison to Scully: |
| 321 | --> '''Mulder:''' Your cell mate’s nickname is going to be [[Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure Large Marge]], she’s going to read a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein Gertrude Stein]]. |
| 322 | * Mulder jokingly suggests satanic cultists: |
| 323 | --> '''Scully:''' You’re not gonna tell me you think it’s that [[{{Chupacabra}} Mexican goat-sucker]] thing.\ |
| 324 | '''Mulder:''' [[{{Chupacabra}} El Chupacabra]]? No, they got four fangs, not two and they suck goats hence the name. |
| 325 | * The "Music/RideOfTheValkyries" composed by Music/RichardWagner is heard in the background shortly after Mulder’s futile attempt to stop the runaway [=RV=] that eventually rolls to a halt on its own. |
| 326 | * Sherriff [[{{Tuckerization}} Hartwell]] is named for Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice. |
| 327 | * A drugged Mulder regurgitates ''Film/{{Shaft}}''’s theme song when Scully finds him on the floor next to the bed |
| 328 | * When Mulder explains his theory on vampires being obsessive, having to undo knots and collect seeds, Sheriff Hartwell compares that to [[Film/RainMan Raymond Babbitt]]’s counting sticks. |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[AC: Patient X]] |
| 331 | * Well-Manicured Man answers the phone: |
| 332 | --> '''Alex Krycek:''' Well, look who’s answering the [[Series/Batman1966 Batphone]]. |
| 333 | * Just like Amy Cassidy and David Cassidy from the twenty-third episode of season four, [[{{Tuckerization}} Cassandra Spender]] was named after Greek prophetess Cassandra. |
| 334 | * The [[UsefulNotes/{{Constellations}} Cassiopeia constellation]] is paid particular close attention, named for [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Queen Cassiopeia]] who was placed in the heavens by Neptune but was condemned to sit in her throne for all eternity, it’s speculated aliens originate from that particular area. |
| 335 | * 'Patient X' is a term used to describe a patient remaining anonymous. |
| 336 | * Mulder almost ad verbatim a famous quote by a British politician as well as [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in regards to [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] with his line “This whole phenomenon is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a government agenda.” |
| 337 | --> '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill:''' I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. |
| 338 | * As Cassandra watches the news footage and mourns the loss of people she knows killed on Skyland Mountain, some of the staff’s names roll by: Val Arntzen -– a set decorator, James Pate – an assistant prop master, Kathleen Kasinger – another assistant prop master. |
| 339 | |
| 340 | [[AC: The Red and the Black]] |
| 341 | * 'The Red and the Black' refers to Creator/{{Stendhal}}’s novel ''[[Literature/TheRedAndTheBlack Le Rouge et le Noir]]'', name of a Music/BlueOysterCult song, a song from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', name of a film made by the American government in the 1950s during the height of [[RedScare McCarthyism]], name of the first solo album by former member Jerry Harrison of Music/TalkingHeads and Music/TheModernLovers and perhaps to [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the Blue and the Grey]]. |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[AC: Travelers]] |
| 344 | * 'Fellow Travelers' were Americans who were sympathetic toward the Communist cause during the [[RedScare McCarthy]] era. |
| 345 | * Agent Arthur Dales’ partner [[{{Tuckerization}} Hayes Michel]] was named after then fiancé of Creator/ChrisCarter’s executive assistant Mary Astadourian. |
| 346 | * The song playing in the German doctor’s house is “‘''Lili Marlene'',’” a German love song popular with soldiers of both sides in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 347 | * J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoid rant[[note]] “In 1945, ''at the time of the first conference to map out the peace, after the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Second World War]], there lived within the Soviet orbit 180 million people. Lined up on the anti-totalitarian side at that time were one billion, 625 million people. Today, Mr. Dales, just seven years later, there are 800 million people under the absolute domination of Soviet Russia--an increase of over 400 percent. On our side the figure has shrunk to around 500 million. In other words... in less than seven years the odds have changed from nine to one in our favor, to eight to five against us''. The threat of global communist domination is a reality that can be ignored only at the risk of our own annihilation. If we are to defeat the enemy, we must use their tools. We must go further. We must do those things which even our enemies would be ashamed to do. It is only through strength that we can make our enemies fear us, and thereby ensure our own survival. You have one chance, Mr. Dales, to save yourself--to demonstrate that you have the strength to serve your country.”[[/note]] to Arthur Dales about the Communist menace was taken almost verbatim from a speech given by former Wisconsin Republican Senator: |
| 348 | --> '''Joseph [=McCarthy=]:''' Six years ago, at the time of the first conference to map out peace. There was within the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] orbit 180 million people. Lined up on the anti-totalitarian side there were in the world at that time roughly 1,625 billion people. Today, only six years later, there are 800 million people under the absolute domination of [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Russia]] – an increase of over 400 percent. On our side, the figure has shrunk to around 500 million. In other words, in less than six years, the odds have changed from nine to one in our favor to eight to five against us. |
| 349 | * The record the agents stop on the turntable was recorded by a “[[{{Tuckerization}} Paula Rabwini]],” one of the producers of the show and was recorded on a “[[SdrawkcabName ETAP]]” recording label, once more referring to the last name of assistant prop master Jim Pate. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[AC: Mind’s Eye]] |
| 352 | * Not only does 'Mind’s Eye' refers to the human’s ability for visualization but it was made known from the second scene of act one in [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]’s play ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' where Hamlet recalls his father to his close friend: |
| 353 | --> '''Hamlet:''' My father – methinks I see my father. |
| 354 | --> '''Horatio:''' Where, my lord? |
| 355 | --> '''Hamlet:''' In my ''mind’s eye'', Horatio. |
| 356 | * While it’s true Shakespeare used the phrase, thus making it well known, it was [[OlderThanDirt first used]] in ''Exposition of Revelations'' written by Christian mystic Joachim of Flora in 1183: |
| 357 | --> ''"I suddenly perceived ''in my mind’s eye'' something of the fullness of this book and of the entire harmony of the Old and new Testaments."'' |
| 358 | * A published version of the 'mind’s eye' concept can be found in a 1577 letter written by a French diplomat to Sir Philip Sidney: |
| 359 | --->'''Hubert Languet:''' What will not these golden mountains effect... which I dare say stand before your ''mind’s eye'' day and night? |
| 360 | * [[Creator/GeoffreyChaucer Chaucer]] used the term 'mind’s eye' one hundred, eighty seven years before Languet, in the twenty-second stanza in part two of ''[[Literature/TheCanterburyTales The Man of Law’s Tales]]'': |
| 361 | ---> That oon of hem was blynd and myghte nat see,\ |
| 362 | But it were with thilke ''eyen of his mynde''\ |
| 363 | With whiche men seen, after that they ben blynde. |
| 364 | * This series isn’t the only one to use “''Mind’s Eye''” for an episode title: The ninetieth-eight ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode has a “the.”Fourteenth episode of ''Women: Stories of Passion'' uses the title on the fourteen episode. |
| 365 | * Excluding other titles made after this episode, other medias used 'mind’s eyes' include Håkan Nesser’s 1993 novel ''The Mind’s Eye'', a song by Music/{{Wolfmother}}, a pair of Series/DoctorWho audio stories called "The Mind's Eye & Mission of the Viyrans", a series [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] {{radio drama}} titled ''Mind’s Eye'' set in UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} about the paranormal, a 1991 book ''In The Mind’s Eye'' by Thomas G. West, American theatrical radio company The Mind’s Eye, a series consisting several art films using computer-generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication, name of an 1986 album as well as a song by Vinnie Moore, the song “‘''The Mind’s Eye''’” by Compos Mentis from ''Gehennesis'', a video analysis research project by the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates U.S.]] [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks Military]] using artificial intelligence, name of a Swedish progressive metal band, video game developer Mind’s Eye Productions based out of the United Kingdom, a 1994 Stiltskin album called ''The Mind’s Eye'', a site in the Cayman Islands, live action role-playing game ''Mind’s Eye Theatre'' based on the Creator/WhiteWolf’s ''[[TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness World of Darkness]]'' universe, and a song by the titular ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. |
| 366 | * Marty Glenn is considered the opposite of [[Film/WaitUntilDark Susy Hendrix]]. |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[AC: All Souls]] |
| 369 | * Skimming through a sort of an “Unholy Bble,” Mulder ironically wonders why aren’t there citations from ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar''. |
| 370 | * When Scully takes Emily’s picure from her desk and tearfully looks at it, the piano theme playing is Music/DmitriShostakovich’s ''Fifth Symphony, 3rd movement''. |
| 371 | * 'All Souls Day' is a holiday with its roots in the ancient "Pagan Festival of the Dead," celebrating the Pagan belief that the souls of the dead would return for a meal with the family. |
| 372 | * The four faces Scully sees on the 'seraphim' at the end are animals associated with the four evangelist apostles: Matthew (Winged Man), Mark (Lion), Luke (Bull) and John (Eagle), used in Christian art to symbolize these saints. |
| 373 | * Mulder refers to a crucifix hanging in what is usually considered an 'inverted crucifix' known as the “Cross of Saint Peter” when Peter was martyred, he asked to be crucified head down because he was unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus Christ. |
| 374 | * “Well Scully, aren’t you the WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel?” |
| 375 | |
| 376 | [[AC: The Pine Bluff Variant]] |
| 377 | * 'Pine Bluff' refers to the fact a United States biological warfare compound existed in Pine Bluff, Arkansas during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and the 'variant' part of the title perhaps refers to a disease or viral strain much like Ebola Reston is a variant of the Ebola virus named for the place it was discovered, Reston, Virginia. |
| 378 | * The title also refers to the 'Pine Bluff Arsenal,' an United States military base with stockpiles of chemical weapons. |
| 379 | * The alias Mulder uses while staying at the Aaron Burr Motor Court Hotel and later when Scully asks for him, is [[Film/NorthByNorthwest Mr. Kaplan]]. |
| 380 | ** Aaron Burr, UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson’s Vice President and responsible for the dueling-death of UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton, was convicted of treason in 1807 but was acquitted, though has gone down in history as a traitor. |
| 381 | * In the torture scene, Mulder refers to Jacob Haley’s skinhead strongman as “[[Film/PulpFiction The Gimp]].” |
| 382 | ** Mulder’s response towards the “Gimp” roughing him up in the interrogation scene is almost identical to [[Creator/HumphreyBogart Sam Spade]]’s response to [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 Wilmer Cook]] after being roughened up. |
| 383 | * ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' and ''Film/DarkCity'' are shown at the cinema. |
| 384 | * Posters for ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' and ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' are seen. |
| 385 | * Mulder refers to the Pepsi challenge, a Pepsi blindfolded advertising scheme the Pepsi company ran where they were served both Pepsi and Coke and asked which the customer preferred. |
| 386 | * This episode was influenced by ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold''. |
| 387 | |
| 388 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Folie à Deux]]]] |
| 389 | * Agent [[{{Tuckerization}} Rice]], who’s in charge of the hostage situation, is named for writer Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice. |
| 390 | * Creator/ShirleyTemple’s 1935 film ''Film/TheLittleColonel'' is being watched inside Gretchen Starns’ house. |
| 391 | * 'Folie à Deux' is French for “a madness shared by two” or 'shared psychosis,' a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[AC: The End]] |
| 394 | * Mulder’s line “how’s little Carnac doing?” refers to [[Series/TheTonightShow Carnac the Magician]], a spoof mind reading character created by Johnny Carson. |
| 395 | * Gibson Praise watches a clip from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode “''The Cartridge Family'',” an episode of {{the nineties}} ''The Silver Surfer'' animated show and ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode “''Shins of the Father''.” |
| 396 | * Gibson complains the only American show he can watch in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} is ''Series/{{Baywatch}}''. |
| 397 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Inget Murray Hospital]] is named for set designers Shirley Inget and Graham Murray. |
| 398 | [[/folder]] |
| 399 | |
| 400 | [[folder:Season Six]] |
| 401 | [[AC: The Beginning]] |
| 402 | * The guard sleeping on the job in front of the nuclear power plant console is named [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer]]. Homer is also named for the writer of ''Literature/TheIliad'' and ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. |
| 403 | * Mulder’s and Scully’s new boss is named Kersh, after characters Dr. Kersh and Anton Kersh from ''Film/VampireCircus''. |
| 404 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} A. D. Maslin]] was named for New York Times film critic Jane Maslin. |
| 405 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} A. D. Bart]] was named for Variety critic Peter Bart. |
| 406 | * ''Film/MenInBlack'' is brought up in dialogue. |
| 407 | |
| 408 | [[AC: Drive]] |
| 409 | * In yet another reference to writer Vince Gilligan's girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice, the gas station where Mulder steals the station wagon is named "[[{{Tuckerization}} Holly's]].” |
| 410 | * After Mulder asks what caused the wife’s nosebleed: |
| 411 | --> '''Patrick Crump:''' What do I... I’m... I’m like ''Series/QuincyME''? How the hell should I know what caused it? |
| 412 | * The ELF communications system 'Project Seafarer' was not simply invented for this episode, it actually did exist although not in Nevada. The two antennas located at Clam Lake, Wisconsin and Gwinn, Michigan was the subject of many protests about the environmental impact of ELF waves. In 1984 a federal judge halted construction and operation of both sites pending further environmental testing, but this ruling overturned by an appeals court. The US Navy spent $25 million studying the environmental impact and came to the conclusion that any effects were similar to those produced by power distribution cables. Needless to say, many people refused to accept these findings, claiming a government and military cover-up. During the late 1990's, Project Seafarer was increasingly seen to be obsolete as improvements in communications technology rendered the use of ELF waves unnecessary. Seafarer was discontinued and dismantled in September 2004. |
| 413 | * Mulder makes a reference to ''Film/{{Speed}}'' in his line “If you stop moving, you die?” and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it by saying he’s seen this movie. |
| 414 | * The opening footage is done in the style of a news report. |
| 415 | * Country music singer and songwriter along with steel guitar player Junior Brown plays the part of farmer Virgil Nokei, the man who buys a lot of fertilizer. |
| 416 | * Some old woman watches ''Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing''. |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[AC: Triangle]] |
| 419 | * When asked who the scientist on board the ship is, Mulder points to an already dead man on the ground is a reminiscent of a scene in ''Film/SchindlersList'' where a young Jewish boy tells the Nazi officers that a man who was just shot stole the chicken they were interrogating them about, thus saving more people from being shot though unlike the boy, Mulder is unsuccessful in his attempt to trick the Nazis. |
| 420 | * The episode was filmed in the style of ''Theatre/{{Rope}}'' with the story taking place in real-time and being shot in continuous takes with no cutaway shots. |
| 421 | * This episode has many references to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': |
| 422 | ** Mulder running into people who look identical to those who are important to him. |
| 423 | ** Mulder’s wrecked boat’s called “[[Creator/JudyGarland Lady Garland]],” ‘Garland’ being the last name of Dorothy’s actor. |
| 424 | ** The first ballroom scene includes a band named "Elmira Gulch and the Lollipop Guild. 'Elmira Gulch' was the name of the old woman who wanted to take Toto and turned out to be the Wicked Witch of the West and the 'Lollipop Guild' was the ruling body of the Munchkins. |
| 425 | ** Captain [[{{Tuckerization}} Yip Harburg]] shares the exact name as the film’s lyricist. |
| 426 | ** In the hospital when Mulder is telling Scully and Skinner that [[ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou they were there]], Skinner replies “Right, me and my dog Toto.” |
| 427 | ** Scully says “Mulder, I want you to close your eyes and I want you to think to yourself 'there's no place like home’" to Mulder. |
| 428 | ** The events Mulder witnesses on the Queen Anne are taking place in 1939, the same year the movie was released. |
| 429 | * Frohike calls Mulder [[Series/GilligansIsland Gilligan]]. |
| 430 | * Episode title 'Triangle' may be a reference to Music/PinkFloyd’s ''[[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon Dark Side of the Moon]]'' album cover. |
| 431 | [[AC: Dreamland]] |
| 432 | * Michael [=McKean=]’s character [[{{Tuckerization}} Morris Fletcher]] gets his last name from the actor’s son Fletcher. |
| 433 | * After opening Morris Fletcher’s closet filled with black suits. |
| 434 | --> '''Mulder:''' Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Music/JohnnyCash. |
| 435 | * Mulder-as-Fletcher encounters his reflection and [[Film/DuckSoup proceeds to do a dance]] in front of the mirror, where in reality, both actors David Duchovny and Michael [=McKean=] perfectly synchronized their movements. |
| 436 | * The Golf game Morris-as-Mulder plays on the office computer is ''Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99''. |
| 437 | * To Mulder, about his clandestine source: |
| 438 | --> '''Scully:''' How do we know he's not just another crackpot whose encyclopedic knowledge of extraterrestrial life isn't derived from reruns of Franchise/StarTrek? |
| 439 | * Jeff Smoodge says “[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Beam me up]], [[BeamMeUpScotty Scotty]]!” |
| 440 | * 'Dreamland' is a nickname standing for [[FunWithAcronyms Data Repository Establishment And Management Land]] for {{Area51}}, the Air Force base near Groom Lake, Nevada reputed to be the US Government's base for conducting experiments with alien technology. |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[AC: Dreamland II]] |
| 443 | * 'Dreamland' is an acronym standing for “[[FunWithAcronyms Data Repository Establishment And Management Land]]” for {{Area51}}, the Air Force base near Groom Lake, Nevada reputed to be the US Government's base for conducting experiments with alien technology. |
| 444 | * Morris Fletcher’s voiceover begins with {{Once upon a time}}, alluding to fairytales. |
| 445 | * To Mulder-as-Morris: |
| 446 | --> '''Scully:''' I’d [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes kiss you]] if you weren’t [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes so damn ugly]]. |
| 447 | * Morris-as-Mulder plays ''Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99'' on the office computer. |
| 448 | * Fletcher-as-Mulder comments that UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein is really a dinner theatre actor named “John Gillnitz,” the name being a composite of writers John Shiban, Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz. |
| 449 | * There’s a home movie showing a young Mulder dressed as [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] playing with his sister Samantha. |
| 450 | * A frustrated Mulder-as-Fletcher calls old Indian lady Lana Chee “Grandma Film/TopGun.” |
| 451 | * Contemptuously to Frohike as he leaves the Lone Gunmen’s place: |
| 452 | --> '''Morris-as-Mulder:''' Back off [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Sneezy]]. |
| 453 | * A scene takes place in a bar called "Little A'Lie'Inn,” where there’s such place called “Little Al’Le’Inn” in Rachel, Nevada complete with UFO and time capsule just off a road called "The Extraterrestrial Highway." |
| 454 | * The cover story on The Lone Gunmen newspaper that Morris-as-Mulder reads is titled "Monica - Minx Or Mandroid," a reference to the Clinton/Lewinksy political sex scandal emerging in the late 1990s from a sexual relationship between [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates forty-second President of the United States]] UsefulNotes/BillClinton and then-twenty two year old [[TheWhiteHouse White House Intern]] Monica Lewinsky. |
| 455 | [[AC: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas]] |
| 456 | * The haunted house’s address 1501 Larkspur Lane refers to Literature/NancyDrew mystery story ''Password to Larkspur Lane''. |
| 457 | * A heartbeat heard under the floorboards is from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe’s ''The Tell-Tale Heart''. |
| 458 | * To Mulder in his car: |
| 459 | --> '''Scully:''' Tell me you didn't call me out here on Christmas Eve to go [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} ghost busting]] with you. |
| 460 | * Mulder watches ''[[Film/{{Scrooge 1951}} Scrooge]]'' on television. |
| 461 | * Character Maurice mentioning the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nod to his actor [[ActorAllusion Edd Asner]]’s own well-known crusades for liberal causes. |
| 462 | * 'How the Ghosts Stole Christmas' is an obvious allusion to ''[[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch]] [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Stole Christmas]]''.. |
| 463 | * Fictional author [[{{Tuckerization}} R. Grimes]] of fictional book ''[[TitleDrop How the Ghosts Stole Christmas]]'' is named after assistant props master Marty Grimes. |
| 464 | * Scully asks Mulder if he heard any [[Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles hound barking out by]] the moor. |
| 465 | [[AC: Terms of Endearment]] |
| 466 | * The film playing on television when Mulder and Scully enter Wayne Weinsider’s house is ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Gray_Flannel_Suit The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit]]''. |
| 467 | * The illuminated milk Wayne holds while walking up the spiraling staircase in the dark is taken from Creator/AlfredHitchcock’s ''Suspicion''. |
| 468 | * 'Terms of Endearment' refers to the title of [[Film/TermsOfEndearment a film]] with Creator/ShirleyMacLaine based on a book of the same name by Larry [=McMurtry=]. |
| 469 | * To the kids: |
| 470 | --> '''Mulder:''' Ok [[Anime/SpeedRacer Speed Racers]], that enough driver’s education for today. |
| 471 | * When Wayne and later Betty drives the red sports car, the song "Only Happy When It Rains" by Music/{{Garbage}} is heard. |
| 472 | * Scully mentions ''Film/RosemarysBaby''. |
| 473 | * There are stylistic references to ''Film/TheExorcist'' and ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. |
| 474 | |
| 475 | [[AC: The Rain King]] |
| 476 | * 'The Rain King' may be a reference to Saul Bellow’s ''Literature/HendersonTheRainKing'' novel. |
| 477 | * Mulder says “I’ll build the ark, you gather the animals” to Scully as the heavens open to release a rainstorm that’s threatening the reunion guests refers to [[Literature/TheBible biblical story of Noah]], who was told by God to build [[TheArk an ark]] and take two of every animal with him as the [[TheGreatFlood floods]] rose. |
| 478 | * The theme of the high school reunion at the end is ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' theme along with the song “‘''Over the Rainbow''’” being played. |
| 479 | * As Mulder and Scully wander down the street, they pass “[[{{Tuckerization}} Vince’s]] Diner,” Vince being the name of writer Vince Gilligan. |
| 480 | * An unshaven and drunk Daryl enters the Kroner High School gym where the dance is via an outside door: |
| 481 | --> '''Daryl Mootz:''' [[Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI It’s good to be the king]]! [[Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI It’s good to be the king]]! |
| 482 | * The real culprit [[spoiler:Holman Hardt]] being able to control the weather is like [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Ororo Munroe]], [[Literature/CircleOfMagic Trisana Chandler]], [[Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish Rob McKenna]], [[Franchise/TouhouProject Tenshi Hinanawi]] and some others. |
| 483 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Kroner]], Kansas was named for writer Jeffrey Bell’s college roommate Paul Kroner at the University of Cincinnati. |
| 484 | |
| 485 | [[AC: S.R. 819]] |
| 486 | * The trainer mentions Music/StevieWonder. |
| 487 | * The main thrust of the plot is based on ''Film/{{DOA}}''. |
| 488 | * The nurse’s line “at lease you didn’t get your ear bitten off” refers to the infamous Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield boxing fight, when Tyson bit off part of Holyfield's ear. |
| 489 | * 'S. R. 819' refers to actual Senate Resolution from 1993 regarding a hazardous, toxic and potentially deadly chemical 'Trifluoromethylaniline.' |
| 490 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} St. Katherine’s Hospital]] was named for writer John Shiban’s sister, Katie. |
| 491 | * Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Katrina Cabrera]] was named after a researcher on ''The X-Files'' staff. |
| 492 | |
| 493 | [[AC: Tithonus]] |
| 494 | * Mulder’s line “the [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslim]] superstition that taking someone's picture is stealing their soul” refers to well-documented belief in societies where practice animist religions where in the Muslim world, an aversion to being photographed may have more to do with a general artistic prohibition on depicting the human form. |
| 495 | * Police photographer [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Alfred Fellig]] who knows when people will die is named after Arthur “[=WeeGee=]” Fellig, a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity photographer in the [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]], [[TheForties 1940s]] and [[TheFifties 1950s]], taking gruesome crime scene photos which the newspapers usually printed along with their stories. |
| 496 | ** [[{{Tuckerization}} Alfred Fellig]]’s name comes from another famous photographer Alfred Stieglitz. |
| 497 | *** Other than the "[[{{Tuckerization}} L.H. Rice]]" reference to Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice the girlfriend of Vince Gilligan, all of Alfred Fellig's other pseudonyms were references to real-life photographers. |
| 498 | ** Another character named for a real life photographer is [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Henry Strand]], sharing the last name of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity photographer Paul Strand in the early [[TheEdwardianEra 1900s]], who went through a period of photographing his subjects without their knowledge in attempt to extract a "quality of being" from them. At the time this act was quite controversial. |
| 499 | ** [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Louis Brady]] may been named for Mathew Brady, a photographer covering the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War era]] when photography was still relatively new. |
| 500 | * 'Tithonus' is the name of a mortal man in Greek Mythology who fell in love with Eos, Titan Goddess of Dawn and Zeus made him immortal after Eos begged him though neglected to give him eternal youth. |
| 501 | ** It is worth mentioning a "tithonograph" is defined as "a photograph produced by the action of 'tithonic' rays on a sensitized surface" and "tithonic rays" are "analogous to rays of dark heat." |
| 502 | ** Alfred Fellig has thematically been compared to [[Creator/AlfredLordTennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]’s monologue ''Tithonus''. |
| 503 | * Creator/DickClark is mentioned. |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[AC: Two Fathers]] |
| 506 | * Again, in Greek, the name Cassandra means “prophet of doom,” and here we have [[{{Tuckerization}} Cassandra Spender]] that can see the future wanting to [[spoiler:end her life because her existence as the first alien/human hybrid signals the beginning of an alien colonization]]. |
| 507 | * Alex Krycek says a variant of the [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Borg]]’s trademark saying by quipping “Resistance was futile then, why would it be any less so now?” |
| 508 | |
| 509 | [[AC: One Son]] |
| 510 | * The alien colonists being played by young girls in costumes just like the aliens from ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' were. |
| 511 | |
| 512 | [[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Agua Mala]]]] |
| 513 | * When Deputy Greer calls in before entering the apartment building, he identifies himself as “[[Series/Car54WhereAreYou Car 54]].” |
| 514 | * 'Agua Mala' is Spanish for “bad Water.” |
| 515 | * The term 'agua mala' is a slang name the particularly venomous Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish in the Caribbean. |
| 516 | * A Shipley boy is wearing a [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Miami Dolphins number 13 Dan Marino jersey]] but with the name “SHIPLEY” on the back. |
| 517 | * Mulder and Scully pulls into the Breakers Condominium’s parking lot besides Deputy Greers’s flashing vehicle and both get out the car and enter the garage. |
| 518 | --> '''Scully:''' Mulder, isn’t that...\ |
| 519 | '''Mulder:''' Film/ForrestGump. |
| 520 | * A ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' poster is seen in George Vincent’s living room. |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[AC: Monday]] |
| 523 | * The man who tries to hold-up the bank, [[{{Tuckerization}} Bernard Oates]], shares the maiden name “Bernard” to the mother of Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice. |
| 524 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Cradock Marine Bank]] is named for 'Cradock,' a suburb in Portsmouth, Virginia. |
| 525 | * 'Cradock' is a name of a town in the Eastern Cape Province of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica. |
| 526 | * Mulder is seen wearing an Omega watch. |
| 527 | * Though the episode’s plot has a woman named Pam living through the same day multiple times has people believe it’s a reference to ''Film/GroundhogDay'', though according to [[WordOfGod John Chiban and Vince Gilligan]], it’s actually based on ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Shadow Play". |
| 528 | * This episode shares the same plot as ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Window of Opportunity". |
| 529 | * There’s a resemblance to ''Film/RunLolaRun'', where there are four different "what if" stories, all ook almost the same only with a difference of changing just a little bit in the story then future can change completely. |
| 530 | * This episode was previously titled 'Mobius,' a one sided surface that can be formed from a rectangular strip by twisting one end one hundred degrees and fastening it to the other end. |
| 531 | [[AC: Arcadia]] |
| 532 | * The name of one of the neighborhood mailboxes [[{{Tuckerization}} Polizzi]] is in honor of Lauren Polizzi, one of the art directors on design directed Corey Kaplan’s staff. |
| 533 | * Mulder is seen again wearing an Omega watch. |
| 534 | * In ancient Greece, 'Arcadia' was the name of a district famous for its rustic peace and simplicity. |
| 535 | ** 'Arcadia' is even defined as region in ancient Greece held to be an ideal of rural simplicity and peacefulness, or a region offering rural simplicity and tranquility. |
| 536 | ** 'Arcadia' are also geographical places. Or small town in [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Victoria]] a village and town on [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Magnetic Island]]. And a suburb of [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Sydney]]. |
| 537 | * In fact, there are plenty of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_%28disambiguation%29 disambiguation]] for arcadia. |
| 538 | * The name 'Ubermenscher' is actually a Tulpa, a Tibetan thought form brought to life through mysticism. |
| 539 | * 'Ubermenscher' is close to the German word 'Übermensch,' meaning ‘super human.’ |
| 540 | * Mulder and Scully use pseudonyms [[Series/TheDickVanDykeShow Rob and Laura Petrie]] while going undercover. |
| 541 | [[AC: Alpha]] |
| 542 | * Kennel owner [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Karin Berquist]] and Dr. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Ian Detweiler]] are a nod to writer Jeffery Bell’s friends as well as a nod to singer and songwriter Karin Bergquist along with pianist, guitarist and bassist Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine and an oblique reference to the band’s 1996 album ''Good Dog, Bad Dog''. |
| 543 | * Name of Chinese freighter T'ien Kou translates to “heavenly dog,” a Chinese term for “shooting star.” |
| 544 | * 'Alpha' is 1) the first letter of the Greek alphabet. 2) the vowel sound represented by this letter. 3) the leader or authority in a group. 4) used to designate the brightest star in a constellation. 5) one of two or more isomeric compounds in chemistry. |
| 545 | |
| 546 | [[AC: Trevor]] |
| 547 | * [[{{Tuckerization}} Trevor Gurwitch]] is named for John Shiban’s young nephew Trevor Marquiss. |
| 548 | * Wilson Rawls is a criminal who controls electricity nicknamed “[[Film/{{Shocker}} Pinker]]” or Pinkie. |
| 549 | * Scully mentions 'spontaneous human combustion,' describes the burning of a living or very recently deceased human body without an apparent external source of ignition. |
| 550 | * Wilson Rawls’s ability is intangibility, the same power as [[Comicbook/DoomPatrol Larry Trainor]], [[Comicbook/XMen Kitty Pryde]] and such. |
| 551 | |
| 552 | [[AC: Milagro]] |
| 553 | * Phillip Padgett is seen smoking a “‘Morley’” brand cigarette, again the name of fictional brand that not only appeared in the series but also in ''Film/MurderInTheFirst'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Cigarettes 200 Cigarettes]]'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1963}}'', ''NashBridges'', ''Series/That70sShow'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannix Mannix]]'', ''Series/MissionImpossible'', ''Series/{{ER}}'', ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_August Dan August]]'', ''[[Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond Space: Above and Beyond]]'', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', ''[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Beverly Hills, 90210]]'', ''Series/Millennium1996'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderers%27_Row_%28film%29 Murderer’s Row]]''and ''Series/{{Becker}}''. |
| 554 | ** Nicholas Lea has played a character named "[[ActorAllusion Phillip Padgett]]" in an episode of ''The Burning Zone''. |
| 555 | * The index cards Padgett pins to his wall are covered with plot points from Creator/TSEliot's poem ''Literature/TheWasteLand''. |
| 556 | * A variation of Dr. Ken Naciamento's last name spelled 'Nascimento' is Portuguese for "birth". Another variant spelled 'Nacimento' is Spanish for "birth" as well. |
| 557 | * Naciamento can be referred to 'nacimiento,' a traditional nativity scene in many countries of UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, UsefulNotes/LatinAmerica and other parts of the world. Also names of a settlement in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}, UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}, UsefulNotes/{{California}} and UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}. Other geographic features with the name 'nacimiento' are [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Nacimento River]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico Nacimiento Mountains]], [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Lake Nacimiento]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico Nacimiento Formation]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} Cerro del Nacimiento Mountain Peak]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} Nacimiento Campground]]. |
| 558 | * In the cemetery, the camera passes a headstones bearing the names [[Series/PartyOfFive Diana and Nicholas Salinger]] with the year of death being 1994. |
| 559 | * The name in the cemetery may refer to Creator/JDSalinger. |
| 560 | * 'Milagro' is Spanish for 'miracle'. |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[AC: The Unnatural]] |
| 563 | * 'The Unnatural' episode title refers to ''Film/TheNatural''. |
| 564 | * Arthur Dales refers Mulder as “Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}” a few times. |
| 565 | * Scully’s comments about getting an urgent message on her answering machine from one [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Fox Mantle]], an allusion to former [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York Yankees player]], Mickey Mantle who has been induced into the [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} National Baseball Hall of Fame]]. |
| 566 | * Mulder quipping “ET steal home” to Dales regarding the possible alien baseball player not only refers to titled alien [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial ET]], but the famous film phrase “ET phone home” as well as a baseball “stealing home.” Even the baseball that is ominously thrown from the dark. |
| 567 | * Baseball loving alien [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Josh Exley]] was modeled on Josh Gibson who played for Washington’s [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Homestead Grays]]. |
| 568 | * The name “Exley” derives from American author Frederick Exley. |
| 569 | * The Coach’s jersey identifies his name as “[[{{Tuckerization}} Shiban]],” name of Producer John Shiban. |
| 570 | * Name of Josh Exley’s team is called the Roswell Grays, recalls both legendary Negro league baseball team [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Homestead Grays]] and the archetypal “grey aliens” of [=UFO=] lore. |
| 571 | * The song heard near the end is “‘''Come and Go With Me''’” originally by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Johnson_Reagon Bernice Johnson Reagon]]. |
| 572 | * The baseball announcer on television as Scully heads on her way to Mulder’s office is [[MLBTeams Vin Scully]], the man whom Agent Dana Scully is named after. |
| 573 | |
| 574 | [[AC: Three of a Kind]] |
| 575 | * 'Def-Con' is an actual convention held in UsefulNotes/LasVegas where it’s a gathering of computer hackers. |
| 576 | * At the poker game, the defense contractor asks John Fitzgerald Byers about the “[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey AE-135]]” unit. |
| 577 | * Timothy ‘Timmy the Geek’ Landau asks Richard Langly to attend a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game in his late friend James ‘Jimmy the Geek’ Balmont’s honor [[spoiler:but it’s a setup to inject him with analytic histamine substance]]. |
| 578 | * Frohike asks the bouncer if he wants to “[[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome Thunderdome]].” |
| 579 | * Scully calls the Lone Gunmen "Film/TheThreeStooges." |
| 580 | * When bringing a drugged Scully back to a hotel room where the other two Gunmen are: |
| 581 | --> '''Frohike:''' I found Agent Scully-[[Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys go-lightly]] going court (''Scully grabs his butt'') bar! |
| 582 | * Richard Langly wears Music/{{Motorhead}} t-shirts. |
| 583 | * When speaking to Susanne Modeski, Frohike mentions UsefulNotes/MataHari, born Margaretha Zella, a Dutch citizen achieving fame as an exotic dancer and high-class prostitute executed in 1917, accuse of spying for UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI where she was actually a spy for UsefulNotes/{{France}}. |
| 584 | |
| 585 | [[AC: Field Trip]] |
| 586 | * After shooting Skinner, Mulder strikes a Film/JamesBond pose. |
| 587 | * Sound effects from ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' are used. |
| 588 | |
| 589 | [[AC: Biogenesis]] |
| 590 | * 'Biogenesis' is Latin for “creation of life” and its meaning is “the doctrine that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter.” |
| 591 | * Footage of the two cavemen walking through a snowstorm is footage from ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'' during Scully’s prologue on the origins of life on Earth. |
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