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The X-Files: "Beyond the Sea" and "Humbug"

109 min • 1 oktober 2024

In this episode, Lindsey and Jeff break down two exception X-Files episodes, “Beyond the Sea” and “Humbug”, from season one and season two, respectively. Lon Suder and the Enigma feature prominently, and the Man From Another Place even makes an appearance!

Next time: The Wizard of Oz!

 

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The Kurt Locker

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Recommendations

 

Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) with Jamie Loftus

Dickenson on Apple TV+

The Maid and the Crodocile by Jordan Ifueko

 

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Shattered Worlds RPG

Everything is Awesome with Jeff and ?

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Links

 

Bobby Darin

Billie Holiday

Mariah Carey

Christina Aguilera

Lola Montez

"Whatever Lola Wants She Gets"

Star Trek: Voyager "Meld"

Brad Dourif

"War of the Cephalopods"

COPS chasin a werewolf episode

Rashomon vampires episode

Shaft

tasseographer

The Man From Another Place

Twin Peaks

Carnivàle

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Meow Wolf Arts Collective

Henry David Thoreau

Ben Mooney

Any Album You Like

The Dress

 

Extended Notes

 

Beyond the Sea

 

season 1 ep 13

 

its christmas!

her dad likes to tease her

is she religious?

she rebels by punishing herself with pine needles lol

mom doesnt know why he wants to leave early?

or does she know something?

ohhh she wants dad to admit hes proud of Dana

motherfuckers will pay anything to look like they have hair

whats dad saying?

we lost your dad :(

hes a ghost!

our first look at the credits

groovy song

seems more like the credits of an unexplained mysteries

inappropriate, Dana

shes shocked to be called Dana by Mulder

Luther Lee Boggs - Brad Dourif

Boggs is a family annihilator

what do we know about FAs

LLB wants to meet Mulder

Dana works to deal with pain

Mulder is sweet with Dana

he wanted to be spread in the sea and not buried at Arlington

french beyond the sea

 

"he was your father"

 

what does that mean?!

what four letter words would you put on your fists?

LLB channeling, he really goes for it

have you ever seen someone channel for real?

Ramtha in Yelm

can convicts have earrings?

 

"i gotta go, i gotta go"

 

he sings the tune! but not in French? is that just for us or does it mean anything

this music is so creepy

haunting horns, feathery strings

Mulder is mad!

 

"I thought that youd be pleased that id opened myself up to extreme possibilities"

 

"I love this job" "You love your father"

 

spooky circle pan

so wet

dont go near the white cross

your blood spills on the white cross

oh dang Mulder got it in the leg

Danas trippin

was Lucas Henry Boggs's partner?

wow Scully says some angry nonsense

Dana sees Mulder? its always odd when cops are hallucinating yet stay at work

whoa now hes channeling Scully at 14!

 

"theres plenty o room in that cold dark place for liars, Scully"

 

is it proof that he hasnt reformed not giving up the boys

location? or is saving your own life enough to justify letting someone dies?

great prison model!

Cops lie! Bearing false witness is a commandment and your good catholic girl Scully crossed that one right off the list

its our ACAB moment of the day

circles, barrels, huge vats

condemned factory

old blue devil brewery

 

"dont follow Henry to the devil, leave that to me"

 

wow Scully just rolls into view, shes feelin reckless

lol she sent a goon on ahead

love that rat squeakage

oops Boggs got him

she didnt really need that warning considering it was all the way across the room

 

"I believe that if you had orchestrated this kidnapping, Lucas Henry would have been aware of the danger you warned me about"

 

hes got some wild eyebrows

i trim mine, did men not do that in the 90s?

ugh the death penalty sucks...im reminded of The Player and also Dead Man Walking

Mulder is like now you dont believe? weird

"I'm afraid. I'm afraid to believe."

 

"He was my father."

 

Mulders soft touch on her arm - what a chap

Humbug

 

season 2 ep 20

 

weird reddish face of guy in the woods

hand all funky

kids playing in pool

green eyes

something in the water

weird red gloopy mouth?

goes in water, scares gatorman

kills gatorman

48 attacks!!

same weird weapon

sounds like a hungry monster,

like flukeman

Scully is stunned by the idea of being ugly

the freak funeral is great

suspects!

 

"they rod and thy staff"

 

pastor has no arms so uses his feet

bearded lady is gatormans wife

subway ghost from Ghost!

Vincent Schiavelli

 

"i cant wait for the wake"

 

Jerry was an escape artist

Hepcat Helm, artist that drew fishman

Hepcat seems spooky

 

"Who are the rubes?"

 

"Its a tabernacle of terror." "Its a fun house"

 

Dead monkey sewn onto the tail of a fish

a genuine fake

 

"you never where the truth ends and the humbug begins"

 

is the Fiji Mermaid real?

 

"Do you recall what Barnum said about suckers?"

 

lil man works behind the bar - is this the Man From Another Place?

he reads Mulder!

 

"your unimaginative necktie design"

 

Larry loved the freak life

he would show off his dead conjoinedbrother Leonard

Mr Nutt, the kindhearted manager

now he carries the luggage

he says the bedbug thing lol

 

"dont let the Fiji Mermaid bite"

 

oof this song is terrible

 

"im in a frenzy, bwaaaaah"

 

Mermaid wastes the prop guy

its Xenomorphin Time

Mulder sees someone swimmin

he has a fish!

its the Enigma! the conundrum

he runs off

Scullys sleepin

folks are trampolinin

Larrys back

shows bro, peeps Scullys boob

new murder

Mulder TOUCHED THE BLOOD ON THE WINDOW

 

"theyd have to be a contortionist, or just plain crazy, or both"

 

escape guy not going very fast

under three minutes?

 

"Dr Blockhead does not perform tricks!"

 

he claims to be from Yemen? 

theres blood on the nail!

Tieu Bu Shan

 

"did you know you can train your testacles to draw up into your abdomen?"

 

 "oh Im doing that as we speak?”

 

the music sort of clangs off the goofs

conundrum eats all manner of stuff

Scully ate a live bug

Mulder wasnt into it

she was doing magic!

 

"everybodys uncles an amateur magician"

 

checkin out the freak museum

Chang and Eng

museum docent has a melty half face

this guy has real Garak vibes

hes in five xfiles eps

canadian actor

last role was in 2019 twilight zone, "The Blue Scorpion"

the exotic life of the Dog-faced boy

good mirror stuff with melty guy

charging a cop to investigate is shady

is he locking her in here?!

treasure chest

its empty

door to rear exit opens?

Mulder at trailer, snooping around

find guy under trailer

did Mulder just pretend to make a pass at him?

an orphan discovered in the wild forest of Albania in 1943

Sheriff Hamilton was dog faced boy

why did melty guy lead them to Sheriff?

Sheriff be diggin

doin somethin with a knife

is this a setup? does he know theyre watching? show got me thinkin paranoid thoughts

spooky bushes again

hyperthrosis does not include lycanthropy

theyre just calmly admitting to spying on Sheriff without a warrant

Conundrums in a loincloth chasin a dog

Trailer Manager is totes chill, takes a rent check from Conundrum in advance

oh snap creature

is trying to yank dude

out

little lady face mermaid screams at dude covered in blood

Larry rolls in, says "Hes dead"

Larry loved lil man

weird spike thing with blood

Sheriff settles Larry down

 

"If people knew the true price of spirituality thered be more atheists"

 

blockhead is a bit of a goofster

he does some escape artist shenanigans

knocks down Mulder

Sheriff catches Blockhead

someones stalking Lanny

uh oh somethings arrived, Larry is trippin

does he know what it is?

 

"I dont know why he hates me so. Ive taken care of him all our lives. perhaps that was the problem."

 

he thinks you cam be born bad

 

"how mobile could such a thing be?" "too mobile"

 

"What an act!" too bad hes a murderer, Blockhead

 

Mulder's somewhere spooky

reminds me of basement in dresden files Mavra's vampire lair

is this the tabernacle of terror?

yep

goblin laughing on string

critter still lurkin

Hall of Mirrors!

gross creature noise

she's just shooting at the creature? i know its killed but thats pretty rude

they go outside - did she injure it? dog is coming too

heres Conundrum

critter attacks!

did Conundrum eat him! Wtf

 

"Now you know howI feel"

 

Lanny died!

he was a mega drunk

 

"Nature abhors normality. Maybe some mysteries were never meant to be solved"

 

"probably somethin I ate"

 

That was it?

weird

 

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