Line #200 ShoutOut/TheXFilesSeasonsSevenToNine


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3	[[folder:Season Seven]]
4	[[AC: The Sixth Extinction]]
5	* 'The Sixth Extinction' makes a reference to a real scientific study with the same name stating that humanity is on the verge of extinction by its own hands.
6	* To Michael Kritschgau, just before performing a clairvoyance test:
7	--> '''Mulder:''' [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Who you gonna call]]?
8
9	[[AC: The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati]]
10	* 'The Sixth Extinction' makes a reference to a real scientific study with the same name telling us that humanity is on the verge of extinction by its own hands.
11	* 'Amor Fati' is Latin for “love of (one’s) fate” used to describe an attitude which one sees everything that happens in a life such as suffering and loss as good, which can be a religious term, having to do with our lives being divinely willed thus we are supposed to love our lives
12	* The relatively famous phrase is repeatedly used in Creator/FriedrichNietzsche’s writings
13	* The phrase has also been linked to the writing of Marcus Aurelius.
14	* Mulder’s dream sequence is borrowed from the last thirty minutes of ''{{Film/The Last Temptation of Christ}}''.
15	* Scully mentions Mulder being injected with 'phenytoin', a generic form of the drug Dilantin.
16	* At the beginning of the episode when Cigarette Smoking Man is in Mulder’s hospital room, he says "I’m showing you how to take the road not taken," the last five words being the name of a poem by Creator/RobertFrost.
17
18	[[AC: Hungry]]
19	* In keeping with writer Vince Gilligan inserting the name of his girlfriend, Lucy "Holly" Hartwell Rice, somewhere in an episode, the fast-food store manager is named Mr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Rice]].
20	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Rob Roberts]] is named for Vince Gilligan’s helicopter flight training instructior as well as a morning traffic reporter in Richmond, Virginia.
21	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Derwood Spinks]] is a combinations of Gilligan’s sixth grade teacher Derwood Guthrie and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Leon Spinks.
22	* The speed-metal music playing in the first victim’s car is the band called Unearthed.
23	* Private investigator [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Steve Kiziak]] shares the same name as his actor.
24	[[AC: Millennium]]
25	* 'Millennium' refers to
26	** the fact this episode takes place as the new millennium begins
27	** a period of time equal to one thousand years
28	** the same name as [[Series/Millennium1996 another show]] created by Creator/ChrisCarter
29	** The thousand years mentioned in ''[[Literature/TheBible Revelation 20]]'' during which holiness is to prevail and Christ is to reign on Earth.
30	** a period of great happiness or human perfection.
31	* [[{{Crossover}} Frank Black]] appears.
32	* Skinner hands Mulder and Scully the [[Series/Millennium1996 Millennium Group]]’s symbol representing the never ending cycle of destruction and re-creations in the universe known as '{{Ouroboros}}', a mythical snake eating its own tail.
33	* Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice, is mentioned.
34	* Much of the episode takes place in fictional town [[{{Tuckerization}} Rice County]], Maryland
35	* and name of the institution where Frank stays is the [[{{Tuckerization}} Hartwell Psychiatric Hospital]].
36	* About the zombies:
37	--> '''Mulder:''' [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Shoot for the head]]... it seems to stop them.
38	* Necromancer [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Mark Johnson]] is named for producer Mark Johnson.
39	* Both Creator/DonaldTrump and Creator/DickClark appear.
40
41	[[AC: Rush]]
42	* Teenagers Max Harden and his girlfriend Chastity Raines acquiring {{super speed}} and running at the speed faster than the eye is like speedsters [[Myth/GreekMythology Hermes]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Johnny Quick]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Jay Garrick]], Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Black Flash]], WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales, [[Franchise/TheFlash Jesse Quick]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]], [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats Cheetara]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Professor Zoom]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Bart Allen]], ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, [[Franchise/TheFlash Max Mercury]], [[Franchise/TheFlash XS]], [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Little Beeper]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Tornado Twins]] and the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]] among other examples.
43	* Among the posters on Max Harden’s bedroom walls are ones of Music/TheDoors, [[NuMetal Staind]] and Music/BustaRhymes.
44	* Max telling Scully she must’ve been a “Betty” back in the day is slang for an attractive young woman.
45	* To Mulder who’s in Max’s hospital room along with Scully and Officer Harden:
46	--> '''Max:''' If I wasted Babbitt, then how did I do it? Am I Literature/{{Carrie}} or something? I used some kind of mental powers?
47	* Max tells Mulder he’s whistling "Dixie", a slim possible nod to Music/DixieChicks.
48	* Max and Mulder make an allusion to popular song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Music/{{Nirvana}}.
49
50	[[AC: The Goldberg Variation]]
51	* Scully mentions [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]].
52	* 'The Goldberg Variations' were special compositions by Music/JohannSebastianBach’s works consisting of an aria and a set of thirty variations in the 1700s by brilliant harpsichordist Rueben “Rube” Lucius Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author along with being a trained engineer and accomplished artist. His “inventions” known making simple tasks complex by utilizing dozens of arms, wheels, gears, handles, live animals and such to accomplish something as simple as squeezing orange juice or closing a window and thus the name “Rube Goldberg” became associated with any convoluted solutions to perform a simple task.
53	* Mulder shuffles a deck of cards exactly how [[Film/TheSting Henry Gondorff]] does right after saying an injury he got “stings a bit.”
54	[[AC: Orison]]
55	* Amongst the words scrawled on the prison chapel’s walls is “Sheep go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell,” chorus line of “‘''Sheep go to Heaven''’” by Music/{{Cake}}.
56	* Mulder alludes to Creator/WilliamBlake’s work when he speaks about the ''Doors of Perception'' in relation to the gates of Hell.
57	* Scully’s clock malfunctions, showing the time as [[Film/TheOmen 6:66]], generally taken to be the number of the [[MarkOfTheBeast Beast]].
58	* 'Orison' is a literary word for a prayer.
59	* Ending scenes between Scully, Donald Pfaster and Mulder look eerily similar to the scene [[Film/TheMatrix when Mr. Smith shoots Neo]], including the flash as the gun goes off reflects on a character’s face, a spent cartridge falling to the ground and the gun going off in slow motion.
60	* A recording of singer John Hiatt’s version of the song "Don’t Look Any Further" by Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett is heard.
61
62	[[AC: The Amazing Maleeni]]
63	* Magician [[{{Tuckerization}} Billy LaBonge]] is named for Bob [=LaBonge=] the Second Unit Director of Photography.
64	* Titular 'Amazing Maleeni' refers to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Malini Max Malini]], who was famous for relying on his own skill rather than props.
65	* Ricky Jay, who play brothers [[ActingForTwo Herman and Albert Pinchbeck]], is himself a very famous magician, renowned for sleight of hand and card tricks as well as a whole host of 'magical' abilities.
66	* Maleeni taking a magician’s name and then spells it differently refers to Creator/HarryHoudini if not Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.
67	* At one point, Mulder talked like fussy neat freak [[Theatre/TheOddCouple Felix Unger]].
68
69	[[AC: Signs and Wonders]]
70	* Reverend Enoch O’Connor’s namesake can be found in the Literature/BookOfGenesis, an ancestor of Noah, the prophet Enoch "walked with God" and was transferred so as not to see death.
71	* O’Connor’s name homages to Southern Gothic writer [[Creator/FlanneryOConnor Flannery O’Connor]].
72	* 'Signs and Wonders' is a common biblical phrase used to describe the acts used to convince followers of the Christ and his apostle’s nature.
73
74	[[AC: Sein und Zeit]]
75	* Last names of [[{{Tuckerization}} Kathy Lee Tencate]] as well as [[{{Tuckerization}} Bud, Amber Lynn and Billie LaPierre]] are from Chris Carter’s two former girlfriends.
76	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Amber-Lynn LaPierre]] is named for Chris Carter’s assistant Amber Woodward on ''Series/HarshRealm''.
77	* Bud [=LaPierre=] is watching ''Series/HarshRealm'' in the teaser.
78	* [=LaPierres=]’ lawyer [[{{Tuckerization}} Harry Bring]] is named after Harry V. Bring the unit production manager.
79	* 'Sein und Zeit' is the title of a rather famous philosophy book by world renowned German philosopher Martin Heidegger roughly translated to “being and time.” This book deals with the topics of death and anxiety, and claims that the confrontation with death can wipe away illusions and self deceit.
80	* Doll versions of [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin the Martin]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kero_Kero_Keroppi_no_Daibouken_%28series%29 Keroppi]], [[Franchise/HelloKitty Badtz-Maru]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochacco Pochacco]] appear in Amber-Lynn’s room.
81	* In Skinner’s officer where he and Mulder are watching a recorded image of the newscast:
82	--> '''AD Walter Skinner:''' Intensify our search where? Franchise/{{The twilight zone}}?
83	** Skinner mentions 'Twinkie defense,' a claim by a criminal defendant at the time of the crime he or she was of diminished mental capacity due to intake of too much sugar-rich snacks as from eating "Twinkies," successfully arguing by a defense psychiatrist in the notorious case of former San Francisco County Supervisor Dan White who shot and killed San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and County Supervisor Harvey Milk, resulting in White's conviction for only manslaughter instead of murder.
84	* At the end of the notes written by the abducted children’s mothers is the phrase “no one shoots at SantaClaus,” a campaign slogan used by Al Smith in 1936 while running against UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt in the democratic primary, intended as a warning to politicians about the folly of attacking government entitlement programs.
85	* The kids sing "[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]" while at the seedy Santa's Village attraction
86	* With the park theme and graves, Santa’s Village is like the “Dead Children’s Playground” tucked away in a peaceful cover surrounded by a rock cliff on three sides and picturesque paths leading through the woods within the Maple Hill Cemetery limits, the oldest and largest cemetery in Alabama founded in 1822, reaching over one hundred acres of land. Stories about unnatural phenomena include swings moving by themselves, laughter of children is heard and children calling out when no one has been in the area and orbs of light being caught on photos. Local stories has it spirits of the dead children come to the playground to play, occurring between ten at night and three in the morning.Some say spirits of the dead children come to the playground to play. Another legend has it that Huntsville suffered a rash of child abductions in the 1960s and the bodies of the children were found in the area of the playground.
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88	[[AC: Closure]]
89	* During the first scene in which the FBI discover a mass grave site containing dozens of missing children and near the end when Mulder encounters his sister Samantha’s spirit, Music/{{Moby}}’s song "My Weakness" from the album ''Play'' is heard
90	* Mulder finds his sister’s former home on “Albatross Way,” the street name 'Albatross' being a cliché of having “[[Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner an albatross around one’s neck]]” taken from [[Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge Samuel Coleridge]]’s narrative poem meaning a heavy burden of guilt that becomes an obstacle to success.
91	* The definition of 'Closure' 1) a means of enclosing. 2) an act of closing. 3) the condition of being closed. 4) something that closes. 5) French translation of 'clôture'. 6) the property that a number system or a set has when it is mathematically closed under an operation. 7) a set that consists of a given set together with all the limit points of that set. 8) an often comforting or satisfying sense of finality. 9) something (as a satisfying ending) that provides such a sense.
92	* Agent [[{{Tuckerization}} Lewis Schoniger]] is named for next door neighbors of Creator/ChrisCarter’s grandparents.
93	* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' and ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' are mentioned.
94	* Mulder watches ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' on television.
95
96	[[AC: X-COPS]]
97	* Episode title is a blend of ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'' and ''Series/{{COPS}}''.
98	* Smiles and dramatically poses for camera:
99	--> '''Edy:''' [[Film/SunsetBoulevard I’m ready for my close up]].
100	* A composite sketch looks like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]].
101	* This episode was made to look like it been shot exactly like a normal episode of ''Series/{{COPS}}'' except its seemingly freestyle story was scripted.
102	* This episode appears to be a homage to ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' with the use of a hand-held camera footage and the scene with the camera falling to the floor, handprints on the wall and the fact the audience never gets to see this “monster.”
103	* The police first find Mulder and Scully on [[{{Tuckerization}} Holly]] Street. Holly is Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend, Holly Rice.
104	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Chantara Gomez]] is named for Gilligan’s literary agent Rhonda Gomez.
105	* Sergeant [[{{Tuckerization}} Paula Guthrie]] was named for Gilligan’s sixth grade teacher.
106	* Characters [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Steve and Edy]] refers to husband and wife singing duo Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme in TheSixties and TheSeventies.
107
108	[[AC: First Person Shooter]]
109	* A 'FirstPersonShooter' is actually a computer game genre.
110	* Scully comments that she can get into the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon Pentagon]] easier than into the First-Person Shooter ([=FPS=]) offices.
111	* 'Maitreya' means “loving one” in the [[UsefulNotes/IndianLanguages Sanskrit]] language.
112	* Maitreya’s line “Watashiga korekara surukotowo yurushitene” to Darryl Musashi is Japanese for “Forgive me for what I am about to do,” said just [[spoiler:just before she kills him]].
113	* Jade Blue Afterglow uncrosses and then re-crosses her legs to allow Mulder a lecherous glimpse and then a pan of Mulder's titillated look in the police station is the same thing [[Film/BasicInstinct Catherine Tramell]] does.
114	* Maitreya uses acrobatics to attack Mulder just like [[Film/BladeRunner Pris]].
115	* Mulder explains to the stripper being held in custody who [[ActingForTwo looks just like]] the computer generated Maitreya, who killed two of the three people who were the first people to play the game with a fourteenth century broadsword and a flintlock pistol:
116	--> '''Jade Blue Afterglow:''' Oh. You must have had me confused with my sister [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena, Warrior Princess]].
117	* And then there’s Mulder’s [[Film/RagingBull That’s entertainment]] line.
118
119	[[AC: Theef]]
120	* Name of the reporter covering the flesh-eating disease story is [[CompositeCharacter John Gillnitz]], long-running in-joke of combined names of writers John Shiban, Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz.
121	* Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Robert Wiede]] was named for Frank Spotnitz’s assistant Sandra Tripicchio’s doctor.
122	* The woman who owns the shop which Scully and Mulder go to for information describes actor [[ActorAllusion Billy Drago]]’s character Orel Peattie as “Series/{{charmed\|1998}}.”
123	* After Scully corrects the spelling of “theef” as “thief” though the former appears [[TitleDrop throughout]] the episode:
124	--> '''Mulder:''' Insert your own UsefulNotes/DanQuayle joke here.
125	* Dr. Wieder mentions the Literature/BabaYaga, some kind of witch from Eastern Europe folklore reputedly lived in a house standing on chicken legs, who supposedly kidnapped and ate children.
126
127	[[AC: En Ami]]
128	* 'En Ami' is French for “as a friend” yet phonetically sounds like 'enemy'.
129	* In regards to how Jason [=McPeck=] was cured of his cancer after his parents denied him any medical treatment because of their strong religious belief that {{{God}} would heal him:
130	--> '''Mulder:''' I just wanna know if it’s [[Series/TouchedByAnAngel Roma Downey or Della Reese]].
131	[[AC: Chimera]]
132	* Mulder asks if Martha’s last name is actually “Stewart” instead of “Crittondon” refers to the queen of house and home Martha Stewart, whose advice on cookery, centerpieces, decor and all kinds of things have been followed by people everywhere for quite a few years. ''
133	* While discussing ravens with Walter Skinner, Mulder brings up Creator/EdgarAllanPoe well-known poem as well as the repetitive phrase “[[Literature/TheRaven Nevermore]].
134	* The little girl’s name in the teaser being “[[{{Tuckerization}} Michelle]]” and the psychiatric hospital is called “[[{{Tuckerization}} Deschamps County Hospital]],” refers to writer David Amann’s wife Michelle Deschamps.
135	* The term for 'Chimera' is 1) the fabled monster from Greek mythology said to be made up of different animal parts, usually a lion’s head or three heads which one of them is a lion, a goat’s body, a dragon’s tale and the capability to breath fire. 2) a foolish fancy. 3) an organism, especially a plant, with tissues from at least two genetically distinct parents.
136	[[AC: all things]]
137	* After the theme is played, Mulder is dancing to Music/{{Moby}}’s "The Sky is Broken" which is featured prominently throughout the episode.
138	* ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'' is brought up.
139	* After Scully says she had some kind of vision, Mulder quips "having David Crosby’s baby", a fact that singer and songwriter David Crosby refers to him being a sperm donor for singer Melissa Etheridge and her former partner Julie Cypher and fathers to Cyper’s two babies named Bailey Jean and Beckett.
140	* According to [[WordOfGod Gillian Anderson]], 'all things' "speaks to that which is innate in everything and the unity of life energy and all of us and of all things"
141	[[AC: Brand X]]
142	* 'Brand X' is the generic term advertisers give to a competitor’s products.
143	* A Korean fellow is mentioned looking like Franchise/WonderWoman.
144	* Darryl Weaver watches ''Guadalcanal Diary''.
145	* Characters Joan Scobie and Dr. James Scobie get their last names from [[Film/{{Charade}} Herman Scobie]].
146	* Victim [[{{Tuckerization}} Thomas Gastall]] is named for Ten Thirteen’s Office Production Assistant.
147	* Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Libby Nance]] is named for the sister of script coordinator Barbara Nance.
148	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Ashford Medical Center]] is named after writer Greg Walker’s girlfriend Michelle Ashford.
149	* Morley Security Chief Daniel Brimley was modeled after [[Film/TheFirm Bill Devasher]], coincidentally both characters are played by [[ActorAllusion Wilford Brimley]].
150	* Once more, fictional “'Morley Cigarette'” brand not only appears in this show but has appeared in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderers%27_Row_%28film%29 Murderer’s Row]]'', ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171356/ Gun Shy]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Cigarettes 200 Cigarettes]]'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233656/ Epicenter]]'', ''Series/{{The Outer Limits\|1963}}'', ''NashBridges'', ''Series/That70sShow'', ''[[VideoGame/SystemShock System Shock 2]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannix Mannix]]'', ''Series/MissionImpossible'', ''Series/{{ER}}'', ''Series/JudgingAmy'', ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_August Dan August]]'', ''[[Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond Space: Above and Beyond]]'', ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'', ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', ''[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Beverly Hills, 90210]]'', ''Series/Millennium1996'', ''Series/{{Becker}}'' and ''Film/MurderInTheFirst''.
151
152	[[AC: Hollywood A.D.]]
153	* Forger [[{{Tuckerization}} Micah Hoffman]] was named for real-life forger Mark Hoffman who made extremely good forgeries that seemed to cast doubt on the origin of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the ’80s. The most prominent of these was the 'Salamander letter' forgeries passing several tests and at one point declared authentic but Hoffman's Mormon accomplices threatened to expose him as a fraud so Hoffman planned to kill them by blowing them up with homemade bombs. When one of his own bombs went off early and hurt him, it started an investigation that exposed most of what he had sold over many years as fake
154	* At the beginning, Garry Shandling, who’s playing Mulder, hides behind a headstone reading “AlanSmithee” in the graveyard while avoiding gunshots.
155	* Obnoxious [[{{Tuckerization}} Wayne Federman]] is named for Mulder’s actor David Duchovny’s friend Wayne Federman, who plays the part.
156	* Federman describes Scully as 'Creator/JodieFoster's foster child on a Payless budget' and Mulder as '[[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Jehovah's Witness]] meets Creator/HarrisonFord’s ''Film/{{Witness}}'''.
157	* ''Witness'' was a movie trivia question in a celebrity edition of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' that David Duchovny didn't get right.
158	* To Mulder:
159	--> '''Federman:''' [Skinner] said that you come at things maybe a little fahtke, a little Franchise/{{Star Trek}}ky, which is the exact vibe I'm looking for, for this thing I'm doing It's a [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Silence of the Lambs]] meets [[Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold Greatest Story Ever Told]] type thing.
160	* Federman ends his above rant with "I'll be strictly Hiesenbergian, like a hologram." The 'Hisenberg Theory' states, among other things, that one cannot observe something without changing it.
161	* Mulder mentions watching ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' forty two times.
162	* While taking a bubble bath, Scully asserts Mulder that [[AsHimself Téa Leoni]] and [[AsHimself Gary Shandling]] both having a crush on him alludes to the fact both Téa Leoni and Mulder’s actor David Duchovny are [[RealLifeRelative married]] and David Duchovny had a recurring role on ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'' where he had a gay crush on Shandling’s character.
163	* Scully tries to defend herself by explaining the dead man looked very much like Hoffman as she and Mulder sit in Assistant Director Albert Skinner’s office, getting reprimanded:
164	--> '''Skinner:''' Agent Scully, if I’m carrying Creator/MarilynMonroe’s purse, do you assume that I slept with [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy J.F.K.]]?
165	* Mulder is asked who he sees playing him in Federman’s movie and suggests [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gere Richard Gere]].
166	* After Scully mentions they should’ve gotten a warrant:
167	--> '''Mulder:''' Hey, it’s only the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFederalism Constitution]], no big deal.
168	* Shandling asking Mulder whether he dresses on the left or right is in regards to tailored men’s pants having a little extra room in the tip right or left inseam to accommodate male anatomy.
169	* Federman’s line “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows” comes from Music/BobDylan’s song “‘''Subterranean Homesick Blues''.’”
170	* An actor playing a zombie is roaming the set all the while screaming:
171	--> '''Tofurkey Zombie:''' [[Film/SoylentGreen The people are made out of turkey]]!
172	* Mulder’s “Man-o-Manischewitz” comment has been featured for over twenty years as a tag line for Art Kumbalek, a fictional columnist or Milwaukee (WI US) newspaper Shepherd Express. Each week, Art For Art's Sake opens with, "I'm Art Kumbalek and man oh man manischewitz what a world, ain'a?"
173	* 'Hollywood A.D.' could be reference to 1) the “A.D.” standing for 'Anno Domini' Latin for “the year of our Lord” and the designation for the time after Christ as opposed to 'B.C.,' the time before Christ. 2) the 'Hollywood A.D.' is in reference to A.D. (Assistant Director) Skinner, who has pitched an X-Files story to a Hollywood filmmaker.
174	* Newly-mobile body of Micah Hoffman says "Noli me tangere" to Scully, Latin for "touch me not," which is what Jesus said to Mary Magdalene when he appeared to her at the tomb.
175	* There’s a mention of biblical figure “Lazarus,” the man Jesus brought back to life after being dead for four days in one of the miracle recounts in Literature/TheBible.
176	* After Scully explains having a wacky nun named Sister Callahan in Catholic School and calling her “Sister Spooky” for telling scary stories:
177	--> '''Mulder:''' [[Music/TwistedSister Twisted sisters]], my kind of nun.
178	* Wayne Federman mentions the 'ShroudOfTurin,' an ancient linen cloth bearing the image of a man who appears to be crucified. Many worshippers believe it could be the cloth that covered Jesus Christ when he was placed in the tomb.
179	* As Scully watches Chuck Burks examining the pottery piece with sophisticated laser equipment in Mulder’s office, Burks quip “there’s music in the air,” a line from ''Series/TwinPeaks''.
180	* After stating the language on the pottery is [[UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} Aramaic]] and Scully asks if a linguist translated it, Burks explains that it’s in two parts. The first part is roughly translated as 'I am the walrus. I am the walrus. Paul is dead. Coo-coo-ca-choo.' "I am the Walrus" is the title of a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] song and the 'Paul is dead' line was an {{urban legend}} made in regards to Beatles’ member Music/PaulMcCartney.
181
182	[[AC: Fight Club]]
183	* Episode title 'Fight Club' is based on 1) a 1996 [[Literature/FightClub novel]] written by Creator/ChuckPalahniuk. 2) a 1999 [[Film/FightClub movie]] directed by Creator/DavidFincher.
184	* A ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' cartoon is seen.
185	* Mulder enters Koko’s copy shop and shows badge to the manager:
186	--> '''Mulder:''' I’m looking for... (''sees Betty Templeton'')... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Girl that girl]]...
187	** The “Koko’s” copy shops are a clear references to the “Kinko’s” copy shopes before being bought out by [=FedEx=].
188	* Argyle Saperstein says "Ma nish ta na" when Mulder mispronounces his name is a Hebrew slang-like statement shortened from the phrase "Ma nish ta na ha'lilah hazeh" which means "why is this night different statement from all other nights" and the shortened version can be read more like "So what else is new?"
189	* [[{{Tuckerization}} LuLu Pfeiffer]] was named for [=LuLu=] Powers, a regular catering chef for Ten Thirteen Productions. “Pfeiffer” is also the last name of Creator/MichellePfeiffer.
190	* The manhole Mulder is sucked into closes in a similar way and identical sound as the [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk Ark of Covenant]].
191
192	[[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Je Souhaite]]]]
193	* 'Je Souhaite' is 'I Wish' in French.
194	* Anon Stokes permanently becoming invisible is like [[ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen Hawley Griffin]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 Winslow the Gnome Magician]] and the original invisible man [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan Griffin]] only to become visible again after certain consequences happen.
195	* Mulder and Scully watch ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'' at the end.
196	* Jenn compares her previous master to [[Film/SaturdayNightFever Tony Manero]].
197	* Mulder hums the ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' theme.
198	* Jenn mentions one of the wishes people make is becoming cool like [[Series/HappyDays the Fonz]].
199	* Mulder mentions ''Film/SteelMagnolias''.
200	* Jenn mentions [[{{God}} Allah]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddha]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]].
201	* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Anson Stokes]] gets his name from actor Anson Williams.
202	* [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Jay Gilmore]], the man without a mouth shares his name with the son of former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore. It's also a very normal surname.
203
204	[[AC: Requiem]]
205	* A [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]] toy is seen.
206	* Mulder quotes one of [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York Yankees]] UsefulNotes/{{baseball}} star Yogi Berra’s most famous quotes “It’s like déjà vu all over again” whilst standing by the same red cross in the road he had marked in the pilot episode seven years previously.
207	* A 'requiem' is a 1) hymn, composition, or service mass for a deceased person. 2) musical composition for such a mass commemorating the dead.
208	* The group scene in Walter Skinner’s office is modeled after Creator/LeonardoDaVinci's ''The Last Supper''. See LastSupperSteal.
209	* Deputy [[{{Tuckerization}} Ray Hoese]] probably got his name from a Ray Hoese who appears in the credits of the Season One gag reel.
210	[[/folder]]
211
212	[[folder:Season Eight]]
213	[[AC: Within]]
214	* Agent [[{{Tuckerization}} John Doggett]] is named after sports commentator [[MLBTeams Vin Scully]]’s co-commentator Jerry Doggett.
215
216	[[AC: Without]]
217	* Agent [[{{Tuckerization}} Landau]] may been named for [[Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture Alvin Kurtzweil]]’s actor, Martin Landau.
218
219	[[AC: Patience]]
220	* On finding the missing two fingers, Doggett comments “V for Victory,” UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill’s famous hand gesture during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, using the first and second fingers slightly parted to suggest a “V” after victory with palm out and other fingers clenched. In the [[TheSixties 1960s]], hippies and other members of the anti-[[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]] movement used it as a sign of “peace.”\
221	Of course, the same gesture reversed has a very different and insulting connotation.
222	* The main villain being a human-bat hybrid like one of Franchise/{{Batman}}’s arch-nemesis, Man-Bat.
223
224	[[AC: Roadrunners]]
225	* The first scene is reminiscent of ''Literature/TheLottery'' in concept if not in detail.
226	* As he hotwires the bus:
227	--> '''Doggett:''' [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds1974 Gone in]] [[Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000 sixty seconds]].
228	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Hank Gulatarski]] is named after the brother of Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice.
229	* Mr. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Milsap]] was named for famed singer and songwriter Music/RonnieMilsap.
230	* Sheriff [[{{Tuckerization}} Ciolino]] was named after Vince Gilligan’s mortgage broker.
231
232	[[AC: Invocation]]
233	* The song Ronald Purnell sang to Billy Underwood to keep him quiet and was featured as a backmasked message on Scully’s tape recorder is a traditional African American lullaby "All the Pretty Horses" from the southern United States.
234
235	[[AC: Redrum]]
236	* Besides being backwards for 'murder', 'redrum' is best known as a phrase in ''[[Literature/TheShining The]] [[Film/TheShining Shining]]''.
237	* Several shots of [[ActorAllusion Doggett]] mirrors those of the T-1000 in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''.
238	* Former successful lawyer [[{{Tuckerization}} Martin Wells]] gets his name from [[Creator/HGWells H. G. Wells]].
239
240	[[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Via Negativa]]]]
241	* Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} André Bormanis]] shares the same name with Frank Spotnitz’s childhood friend who is a behind the scenes worker on the set of many [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] television shows from 1993 until about 2004.
242	* Latin for 'the negative way' or 'the negative path', 'Via Negativa'. 1) was first designed as a way of talking about {{God}} as language limits a supposed infinite {{God}}, it was concluded the only way to talk about {{God}} was by saying what {{God}} is not. 2) is a Latin phrase that refers to the darkest path taken en route to enlightenment.
243	* The Doctor Directory printed on “Washington National Hospital” letterhead contains three names:'C. Carter' = Creator Creator/ChrisCarter.'D. Scully' = Dana Scully, the main character and protagonist.'C. Kaplan' = Production Designer Corey Kaplan.
244
245	[[AC: Surekill]]
246	* When Scully and Doggett are discussing the possibility of X-Ray vision:
247	--> '''Doggett:''' Call in [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]].
248	* Using his pencil to collect a piece of fabric into an evidence bag:
249	--> '''Doggett:''' An old [[Film/TheGodfather Godfather]] trick. Wrap a towel around a pistol, muffle the sound. The killer was up here all right, so how in hell did he make that shot?
250	** The gun trick Doggett mentions is what a young Vito Corleone used in ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather: Part II]]''.
251
252	[[AC: Salvage]]
253	* Raymond Aloysius Pearce [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} gets revenge on those responsible for making his cellular structure into metal]] after being exposed by an unknown substance.
254	* Ray being a man of walking metal is like the [[Film/TetsuoTheIronMan Metal Fetishist]].
255	* There are references to ''Film/TheTerminator'' and ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
256	** Ray poking at his face in front of a mirror under the flickering bathroom light of an old white building in a rundown section of town.
257	** Ray tells his wife Nora to “get out!” in the same manner as [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger T-800]] in his bathroom at the halfway house
258	** Doggett comment to Scully about metal men only happening in movies is a {{shout out}} to his actor Robert Patrick playing [[ActorAllusion T-1000]].
259	* 'Salvage' means “rescue” and as such may refer to 1) 'marine salvage' is the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo and sometimes the crew from peril 2) 'salvage tug' is a type of tugboat used to rescue or salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking 3) 'vehicle salvage' 4) 'salvage data' is the process of extracting data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible primary storage media 5) 'salvage archaeology' is an archaeological survey and excavation carried out in areas threatened by construction or development 6) 'salvage ethnography' is the practice of salvaging a record of what was left of a culture before it disappeared 7) 'salvage therapy' is medical treatment for those patients not responding adequately to First line treatment.
260	* The three scientists Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Puvogal]], Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Chamber]] and Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Clifton]] were named after engineering friends of staff writer Jeffrey Bell.
261	* The four-door 1973 Ford Torino destroyed in the beginning is the same vehicle owned by [[Film/TheBigLebowski The Dude]].
262	* The soundtrack features a theme from the first movement of [[{{Composers}} Edvard Greig]]’s piano concerto.
263	* A newspaper mentions UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush succeeding UsefulNotes/BillClinton as [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates American President]].
264
265	[[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Badlaa]]]]
266	* 'Badlaa' is a word in [[UsefulNotes/{{India}} Urdu]] for exchange, retaliation or revenge.
267	* Scully discovers that a chemical spillage at a village called Vishi was the catalyst for the Indian mystic's vengeance, referring to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster Bhopal incident]] in 1984 where around 8,000 people died in the few weeks after the Union Carbide plant accidentally released a large amount of methyl isocyanate gas.
268
269	[[AC: The Gift]]
270	* In the teleconference between [=FBI=] Special Agent John Doggett, Assistant Director Walter Skinner and the Lone Gunmen, Richard Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Byers where they’re discussing the medicine wheel, Langly reenters the camera frame, zipping up a newly0donned pair of pants:
271	--> '''Langly:''' That’s the part that takes some conjecture there, Agent [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Dogbert]].
272	* A 'medicine wheel' is a [[UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans Native American]] symbol common in folklore that is considered sacred. Although the size and shape varies, it usually consists of a central stone or cairn, concentric circles of stones and at least two lines coming from the center of the middle stone. The stone usage been mired in controversy but most Native American scholars agree that it represents the "synthesis and wholeness, including concepts of renewal and rebirth."
273
274	[[AC: Medusa]]
275	* Robert Patrick makes another {{actor allusion}} when his character Doggett says that he’s just a good shot in regards to his [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1000]] role where director Creator/JamesCameron was impressed by Patrick’s shooting in the movie that he didn’t do anything like fast motion or any other special effects.
276	* 'Medusa' is one of the three “Gorgons” with hair of snakes and a gaze that turns a creature to stone in Greek Mythology slain by Perseus. It is the name of a kind of jellyfish body type along with the less-popular "polyp." It also means “sovereign female wisdom.”
277	* Lieutenant Bianco, Steven Melrick, Agent John Doggett and Dr. Hellura Lyle are in the subway tunnel:
278	--> '''Bianco:''' Ooh, it feels like UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} in August.\
279	'''Doggett:''' Yeah, it’s the middle of winter. How come it’s so hot down here?\
280	'''Melnick:''' They shut down ventilation last night. Normally you have almost a million cubic feet of fresh air per minute pushing through here but now we’re in a sweatbox.\
281	'''Lyle:''' Aren’t we lucky? Hot, sticky and crawling in the dark. All so every commuter in UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} can get home to watch [[Series/{{Survivor}} Survivor II]].
282	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Hellura Lyle]] and [[{{Tuckerization}} Kai Brown]] were named after two Writers Guild members who served during the first part of the eight season on the show’s staff.
283	* [[{{Tuckerization}} Steven Melrick]] is named after [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox 20th Century Fox Television]] Vice President of Media Relations, formerly served as a publicist.
284
285	[[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Per Manum]]]]
286	* 'Per Manum' means “by hand” in Latin, referring to masturbation in medical sontext and in vitro fertilization method.
287	* 'Zeus Genetics' refers to Zeus, lord of lightening in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]].
288
289	[[AC: This Is Not Happening]]
290	* According to ''Literature/TheBible'', Absalom was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.
291
292	[[AC: [=DeadAlive=]]]
293	* [[spoiler:Mulder]] rising from the dead has been seen as a metaphor for Jesus's resurrection.
294	* Absalom was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur from ''Literature/TheBible''.
295	* Scully’s role in this episode was partially based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificent_Obsession_%281954_film%29 Rob Merrick]] as she tries to cure [[spoiler:Mulder]] like how Merrick tries to cure widower Helen Phillips’ blindness.
296
297	[[AC: Three Words]]
298	* In ''Literature/TheBible'', Absalom was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.
299	* Doggett is told in order to access the secret database the password is the three words “[[Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture Fight the Future]],” which the episode title refers to.
300	* Dr. Lim asks how Mulder is:
301	--> '''Mulder:''' Like Film/AustinPowers.
302	* Mulder’s line “Remember boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes, doesn't mean you win” refers to the fact that UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush became president despite UsefulNotes/AlGore getting more votes than him.
303	* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026292/ Doubting Thomas]]'' is mentioned.
304
305	[[AC: Empedocles]]
306	* After a speech from Agent Monica Reyes on seeing evil, Mulder comments that he saw Elvis in a potato chip once.
307	* Scully mentions feeling stuck in a ''Series/MadAboutYou'' episode.
308	* 'Empedocles' refers to Εμπεδοκλης, which is the Greek spelling of Empedokles or Empedocles, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who formulated the theory of the four elements: [[DishingOutDirt earth]], [[BlowYouAway air/wind]], [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[MakingASplash water]].
309
310	[[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Vienen]]]]
311	* Mulder and Doggett [[Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid hesitate as they prepare to leap from the burning rig]] on Doggett’s count of two.
312	* After Doggett explains how five years ago, Mulder and Scully investigated the “black oil” substance that somehow curved into an alien colonization theory:
313	--> '''Mulder:''' And you’d like to help but you left your [[Franchise/StarWars light-sabre]] at home.
314	* 'Vienem' is Spanish for 'they come'.
315
316	[[AC: Alone]]
317	* Special Agent [[{{Tuckerization}} Leyla Harrison]] was named for a fan whose life was cut short in February 2001 when she lost her battle with skin cancer.
318	* Harrison asks when Mulder went to UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}} to save Scully [[Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture from being taken by a spaceship and running out of gas in his sno-cat]], she inquires how both agents got back.
319	* Mulder mentions watching a lot of ''[[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]]'' to know what a pregnant woman goes through.
320
321	[[AC: Essence]]
322	* Mulder says Scully’s got "manos de piedra,” Spanish for “hands of rock/stone.”
323	* Dr. Frankenstein from the 1910 ''[[Film/{{Frankenstein 1910}} Frankenstein]]'' short is mentioned.
324
325	[[AC: Existence]]
326	* Several allusions to the story of Jesus’ birth are made:
327	** Mulder is guided to Scully’s location by a light like how the three wise men were guided by the star.
328	** The Lone Gunmen act as the three wise men by bringing gifts for the baby.
329	** The super soldiers leaving the birthplace, apparently concluding that who they found wasn’t who they were looking for, paralleling the Pharisees’ prospect in the Gospels who refused to acknowledge Jesus as the messiah, having concluded that he was just an ordinary person, and not the king they sought.
330	[[/folder]]
331
332	[[folder:Season Nine]]
333	[[AC: Nothing Important Happened Today]]
334	* Assistant Director [[{{Tuckerization}} Brad Pollmer]] is named after Creator/ChrisCarter’s assistant.
335	* The Greater Maryland Water Reclamation Facility worker is named after [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox FOX]] network’s Vice President of Broadcast Standards Roland [=McFarland=].
336	* There are references to the short-lived ''Series/TheLoneGunmen'' show such as Frohike and Byers making it known them being unemployed and Langly coming in with a very blue face.
337	* One of the names on Doggett’s list of soldier friends is [[{{Tuckerization}} Steve Maeda]], a writer of the series.
338	* The phrase 'TitleDrop Nothing Important Happened Today' or words to that effect was the entry [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution King George III of England]] made in his personal diary on [[{{Irony}} July 4, 1776]], the same day the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates United States colonists]] declared independence from the [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British Crown]] since he couldn’t have known about the events occurring for several weeks.
339	* Agent Monica Reyes mentions the sex scandal tapes of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
340
341	[[AC: Nothing Important Happened Today II]]
342	* Again, [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution King George III of England]] wrote '[[TitleDrop nothing important happened today]]' in his personal diary the same day the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates United States colonists]] declared independence from the [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British Crown]] on [[{{Irony}} July 4, 1776]] since he couldn’t have known about the events occurring for several weeks.
343
344	[[AC: [[ForeignLanguageTitle Dæmonicus]]]]
345	* A dog is named [[{{Tuckerization}} Happy]] after a dog owned by Gillian Anderson, Scully’s actor.
346	* Last name 'Kobold' of Josef Kobold is a German spirit which can appear in the form of a human or an animal.
347	* 'Dæmonicus' is Latin for {{Satan}}.
348	* Monica Reyes enters one of the autopsy rooms where Doggett and Scully are talking:
349	--> '''Reyes:''' What did you find?\
350	'''Doggett:''' I asked Agent Scully for expertise on this, looks like we can rule out Film/{{the Exorcist}} after all.
351	* Doggett refers to the '{{Ouroboros}}' symbol by saying “a snake swallowing its own tail,” a symbol of never ending destruction and re-creations cycle in the universe.
352	* Reyes mentions ectoplasm:
353	--> '''Doggett:''' Ectoplasm?\
354	'''Reyes:''' You’ve heard of it, Agent Scully?\
355	'''Scully:''' Agent Mulder used to refer to it as psychic plasma, a residual by-product of telepathic communication. In theory it would have inorganic properties that couldn’t be explained otherwise.\
356	'''Doggett:''' So what are we talking now? The ''Film/{{Ghostbusters\|1984}}''?
357	* Doggett alludes to a film a cast member was in, this time to actress [[ActorAllusion Annabeth Gish]] when he suggests the killer might use [[Film/TheLastSupper1996 human flesh to fertilize his garden]] to Reyes.
358
359	[[AC: 4-D]]
360	* Agent [[{{Tuckerization}} Rice]] was named after Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice, writer Vince Gilligan’s girlfriend.
361	* Monster of the week Erwin Timothy Lukesh is inspired by [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]] though without [[spoiler:his mother being dead until he [[SubvertedTrope kills]] her]].
362	* Reyes’ new Georgetown apartment address of [[{{Tuckerization}} 67 Bennett Avenue]] was actually Creator/RodSerling’s home address in Binghamton, New York.
363	* ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}'': Number six is her apartment.
364	* A hospitalized but unconscious Doggett with a cervical collar on his neck uses [[EveryoneKnowsMorse Morse Code]] with his fingers to spell out “Lukesh” the man who shot him to Skinner, Scully and Reyes.
365	* The fact one of Doggett’s fingers is attached to a Morse button, which is connected to a laptop at the end of his bed in order to interprets his finger presses and displays the letters on the screen, thus capable for him to communicate is like Creator/StephenHawking suffering from Motor Neurone Disease, thus quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair where he uses a computer voice synthesizer.
366	* Doggett being only to communicate through [[EveryoneKnowsMorse Morse Code]] is like French journalist, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who had been paralyzed and could only communicate by blinking his left eyelid.
367	* ‘4-D' is the abbreviation form of “fourth dimension” which is generally accepted as time whereas length, breadth and height as the first three dimensions.
368
369	[[AC: Lord of the Flies]]
370	* The aggressiveness of the flies in the episode is inspired by actual habits of [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Australian]] blow flies.
371	* The fictional reality show David Winkle and Bill Kizzler, each calling themselves a nickname, perform dangerous stands is called ‘''[[Series/{{Jackass}} Dumbass]]''.’
372	* David Winkle tries to sell the tape of Bill’s final act before his death to [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox FOX Network]].
373	* Scully and her partner for the duration of the episode, an entomologist, go up the steps to the Lokensgard’s residence where the front door is partially ajar to search the premises:
374	--> '''Dr. Rocky Bronzino:''' Dr. Scully? This is so exciting! I’ve never had a partner before.\
375	'''Scully:''' I have.\
376	'''Dr. Bronzino:''' I’d like to think of it as a hymenopteran relationship. Two scientists using their special knowledge reaching higher than either of them could ever reach alone. And if I may say so doctor, [[Film/JerryMaguire you complete me]].\
377	''''Scully:''' I got upstairs, you take down.
378	* Scully makes her way up in the attic where she finds large human sized webbed sacs to her horror, many of them hanging from various positions in the ceiling and Dr. Bronzino is in one of them:
379	---> ''''Bronzino:''' [[Film/TheFly1958 Help me, help me]]!
380	* 'Lord of the Flies' is the
381	** 1) English translated name for Semitic demon Beelzebub.
382	** 2) title of William Golding’s [[Literature/LordOfTheFlies novel]].
383	* Doggett and Reyes interview David Winkle in Principal Lokensgard’s office where the hand held video of the port-potty train plays on the television set behind them:
384	--> '''Doggett:''' That’s very entertaining, Sky Pilot.\
385	'''David Winkle:''' [[WesternAnimation/SkyCommanders Sky Commander]], if you don’t mind.
386	* Dylan Lokensgard wears a Music/SydBarrett t-shirt, even talking about him to Natalie Gordon.
387	* Two of Barrett’s songs "No Good Trying" and "Terrapin" are featured.
388	* On Dylan’s walls are posters related to [[Music/PinkFloyd Syd Barrett]] seen among many other posters
389	* Posers of Music/{{Radiohead}}, Music/{{Garbage}} and Music/FearFactory among others appear on Natalie Godron’s wall.
390
391	[[AC: [=TrustNo1=]]]
392	* Terry O’Quinn plays a character only known as the [[WesternAnimation/HappilyEverAfter Shadow Man]].
393
394	[[AC: John Doe]]
395	* The case Doggett works on concerns a banker named [[{{Tuckerization}} Hollis Rice]] was named for the girlfriend of writer Vince Gilligan, Lucy “Holly” Hartwell Rice.
396	* A character uses the name “Ladatel” when he reads it posted on a public phone booth, the name of the credit card system for public telephone use is 'Ladatel' in UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} and is handled by cars, not money.
397	* 'John Doe' is generally the name given to someone with amnesia, as well as 'Jane Doe' for females, simply as something to call them until their real identities are discovered.
398
399	[[AC: Hellbound]]
400	* Episode’s plot it similar to the mythology surrounding agriculture god [[Myth/AztecMythology Xipe Totec]].
401	* Dr. [[{{Tuckerization}} Sackheim]] is named after a producer and director.
402
403	[[AC: Provenance]]
404	* The definition of 'provenance' is a place or source of origin.
405
406	[[AC: Providence]]
407	* 'Providence' is foresight, or care or preparation beforehand.
408	* Needing proof of Mulder’s death, the cult leader demands Scully “Bring me the head of Fox Mulder,” an allusion to the tale of [[Literature/TheBible John the Baptist]] where Salome as pleased the king with her dancing that she was granted any wish and her mother Herodias told her to ask for the head of said saint, not to mention the phrase has also been used in other forms.
409
410	[[AC: Audrey Pauley]]
411
412	[[AC: Underneath]]
413	* Doggett’s former partner [[{{Tuckerization}} Duke Tonasick]] was named for ''The X-Files'' construction coordinator.
414	* Reyes and Doggett are sitting inside his car outside Jana Fain’s house at night, Reyes suggest Doggett gets some sleep hence not getting any rest in forty-eight hours:
415	--> '''Doggett:''' I’ll sleep once we make sure this guy, Fassi, never kills again. Fassi or this UsefulNotes/CharlesManson sidekick.
416	* Reyes and Doggett have a [[Film/TheThirdMan chase through a sewage system]] after the bearded man.
417	* Reyes suggests Robert Fassi physically becoming another person:
418	--> '''Doggett:''' So what, we moved from WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost to [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]?
419	* The sewage system in the episode was based on the 1952 Literature/LesMiserables’ blueprints.
420
421	[[AC: Improbable]]
422	* The tagline is changed to Dio Ti Ama, [[UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} Italian]] for “God loves you.”
423	* Mr. Burt is turning over cards at the end fo the teaser, naming the cards just before they’re shown where a woman enters the room screaming about a murder, the final card that’s turned up is the ace of spades, which is the death card in divination with standard playing cards as opposed to Tarot.
424	* Reyes’s comment “God doesn’t play dice with the universe” is a very loose translation to UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein’s quote “[[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber bösehaft ist er nicht]],” though a more literal translation of this is “God is clever, but he is not perverse.”
425	* The songs "Ça Va Ça Va", "Torero", "I Love You for Sentimental Reasons", "Ponciana", "La pense", "Inouis", "Io Mamate e Tu" and "El Bodeguero" are from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Z%C3%A9ro Karl Zéro]].
426
427	[[AC: Scary Monsters]]
428	* 'Scary Monsters' shares its name with Music/DavidBowie album ''Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)''.
429	* While Doggett, Reyes and [=FBI=] Agent Leyla Harrison are at the Conlon residence, Scully states to they being in grave danger to the sheriff and Harrison’s potential suitor:
430	--> '''Gabe Rotter:''' That’s my girlfriend up there, [[Series/{{Bonanza}} Hoss]].
431	* Tommy Conlon shows a picture to Reyes, uttering famous phrase “I made this” spoken while the Ten Thirteen logo appears after the end credits of every ''X-Files'' episode.
432	* In the last scene, Tommy is lying in a hospital in front of a dozen televisions with Doggett’s voiceover saying they tried reducing the boy’s fantasies is very similar to the one in ''Film/{{The Man Who Fell to Earth}}''.
433
434	[[AC: Jump the Shark]]
435	* The Lone Gunmen’s intern is named [[Literature/JamesBond Jimmy]] [[Film/JamesBond Bond]].
436	* Yves Adele Harlow is an [[SignificantAnagram anagram]] for [[GunmanWithThreeNames Lee Harvey Oswald]], [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates President]] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy’s assassin.
437	* Man with bioweapon is named Professor [[CompositeCharacter John Gillnitz]], [[DrinkingGame once more]] the combined names of writers John Chiban, Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz.
438	* Pop-cultural phrase 'Jump the Shark' refers to the moment at which a popular television show reaches its peak and then starts to go downhill.
439	* In regards to Fletcher giving reasons why Doggett and Reyes shouldn’t seek the help of the Lone Gunmen in search of Yves while the six are at the Gunmen’s headquarters:
440	--> '''Morris Flecther:''' Agent, I’m tellin’ ya, you don’t want these three involved. I mean, they don’t even have their ridiculous tinker toy gizmos. This place is like ‘[[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas How the Grinch]] [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Stole Radio Shack]].’
441	* After Morris mentions being a [[TheMenInBlack Man in Black]], Doggett brings up the fact he saw the [[Film/MenInBlack movie]].
442	* Jimmy travels to [[UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}} Zurich]], UsefulNotes/{{Malta}} and UsefulNotes/{{Yemen}} whilst tracking Yves.
443	* Yves Harlow, Jimmy Bond, Melvin Frohike, John Byers and Richard Langly are stopped from entering the conference hall and he asks them what newspaper they work for after Byers tells him they’re reporters:
444	--> '''Byers:''' Uh... uh... [[Series/TheLoneGunmen The Lone Gunman]].
445	* The blueprint floating on the water after the boat’s destruction is the [[Series/LostInSpace Jupiter 2]] diagram.
446	* After the Lone Gunmen pull a fire alarm, causing large emergency doors to seal shut, simultaneously containing the virus and entrapping them along with the second bioterrorist who has a virus filled organ, a distraught Jimmy [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan places his hand on the other side of the glass where the hands of]] Byers, Frohike and Langly are placed as [[spoiler:they are exposed to the deadly virus, thus killing the Lone Gunmen]].
447	* Fletcher’s voiceover {{Once upon a time}} there were three... how shall I put this... geeks. At the beginning is like “[[Series/CharliesAngels Once upon a time, there were three little girls...]]”
448
449	[[AC: William]]
450	* At the beginning, Scully sings [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dog_Night Three Dog Night]]’s "Joy to the World" to her son William.
451
452	[[AC: Release]]
453	* Rudolph Hayes’s profiling skills seems remarkably similar to [[Series/Millennium1996 Frank Black]]’s.
454	* Nicholas Regali mentions ''[[UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC The Washington Post]]''.
455	* Rudolph Hayes was crafted to be an ambitious character either a genius adept at solving crimes comparable to Franchise/SherlockHolmes or a criminal mastermind like [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Professor Moriarty]].
456
457	[[AC: Sunshine Days]]
458	* Oliver Martin is a {{man child}} with psychic ability of a dangerous level who’s real name is [[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Anthony]].
459	* References to a 1960’s {{dom com}} series are made:
460	** The main suspect has a strong obsession with ''Series/TheBradyBunch''
461	** 'Sunshine Days' refer to song "It’s a Sunshine Day" sung by the [[Series/TheBradyBunch Brady children]] when they formed a band.
462	** Oliver Martin is inspired by Carol Brady’s nephew [[CousinOliver Oliver Tyler]]
463	** Two teenagers invade a house at the beginning and Doggett and Reyes investigate two murders revolving around a house that at some points in time is identical to the [[Series/TheBradyBunch Brady]] house
464	** There are nine actors playing the main [[TheOtherDarrin Brady]] cast: Marice Lynn Ross as ‘[[SelfDeprecation Alice Nelson]], Keith Forster as ‘[[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Mike Brady]]’, Robbie Troy as ‘[[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold Carol Brady]]’, Nick Campisano as ‘[[LovableJock Greg Brady]]’, Danielle Savre as ‘[[SmittenTeenageGirl Marcia Brady]]’, Nolan Irwin as ‘Peter Brady’, Stephanie M. Herrera as ‘Jan Brady’, Jack Bensinger as ‘[[MrImagination Bobby Brady]]’, Sharayah Montgomery as ‘[[CheerfulChild Cindy Brady]]’.
465	** Father figure to Oliver, the psychiatrist Dr. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed John Rietz]] has the same name as Robert Reed, born John Robert Rietz who played the father.
466	* After Doggett tells Reyes the roof’s been patched after getting off said roof, stating he noticed a smell of fresh plaster while inside:
467	--> '''Reyes:''' So, are you gonna fill me in?\
468	'''Doggett:''' A - Eyewitness places the deceased inside this house just prior to the time of his demise. B - We found a fragment of roofing shingle at the scene of the impact. It would seem it matches the discarded piece you now hold in your hand. C - There's a hole in the roof, recently patched, this big around. Connect A to B to C.\
469	'''Reyes:''' Much in the fashion of, say, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck or [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wiley Coyote]], the deceased shot straight up through the roof, flew high into the air and landed on his buddy's car? You're serious?
470	* Doggett asks why people are still watching a thirty year old show that’s ''Series/TheBradyBunch'':
471	--> '''Reyes:''' Because they’re the family everyone wishes they had, loving, parents, lots of brothers and sisters, everybody getting along.\
472	'''Scully:''' They’re the, uh, perfect family. And since Oliver didn’t have one as a child, he created one.\
473	'''Doggett:''' Sure, I’d buy all that, but in this case, why ''Series/TheBradyBunch''? Why not ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily''? Why not ''Series/EightIsEnough''?
474
475	[[AC: The Truth: Part 1]]
476	* Footage of the [[Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture prehistoric virus]] is shown.
477	* Skinner and Scully visit Mulder in his holding cell:
478	-->'''Mulder:''' [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs I smelled you coming Clarice]].
479
480	[[AC: The Truth: Part 2]]
481	* Cigarette Smoking Man the final alien invasion will occur December 22, 2012, the same day the [[MayanDoomsday Mayan calendar]] ends.
482	[[/folder]]

Context ShoutOut / TheXFilesSeasonsSevenToNine