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“Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”

My memory was that I was not a fan of this episode when I saw it for the first time in 2016. However, this rewatch was a totally different opinion. I found this to be extremely funny and very cleverly done.

This worked much like the previous comedic episodes such as “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” and “Bad Blood.” Mulder, doubting his beliefs in the previous monsters, was hilarious in his depressive responses to the different monsters he had investigated as an X-File.

Rhys Darby does a fantastic job as Guy Mann, the horned lizard who had been bitten by a man and finds himself transformed into a man. The episode made it look like Guy Mann was the monster killing people, but, instead, it was Kumail Nanjiani.

There were a ton of easter eggs too. My favorite line was from Scully who said, after Mulder chastised her for approaching a dangerous suspect without backup, “You forget… I’m immortal.” This was a great reference back to “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” when Clyde Bruckman, who was a psychic who could see how someone dies, told Scully that she did not die. Scully also alluded to her dog Queequeg, who died in the episode “Quagmire.” Also from “Quagmire,” the stoner characters returned, played by Tyler Labine and Nicole Parker-Smith.

This episode is a parody of the “monsters-of-the-week” style of X-Files episode that have been peppered through the first nine seasons. This falls right in with the classic comedic episodes that this show has shown is capable of providing.