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watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top ten
brilliant x-files secrets and easter
eggs before we begin we publish new
videos every day so be sure to subscribe
for more great content for this list
we’ll be looking at the little details
and in jokes scattered throughout the
long-running and popular sci-fi show
number 10 lost friends in the third
episode of season 10 there are lots of
in story and out story nods one is when
agent Mulder wakes up from about of
binge-drinking lying against a headstone
in a graveyard the name on the stone is
Kim manners the epitaph let’s kick it in
the ass this was an honor of one of the
show’s former directors and producers
Kim manners who passed away and the
grave inscription was his signature
catchphrase sharp-eyed viewers also
spotted the name Jack Hardy a former
First Assistant Director on the show who
had also passed number nine Kurt
Crawford first appearing in the season
four premiere as a group of eerily
silent children and again halfway
through the same season in the episode
memento mori
Kurt Crawford or more precisely the
Crawfords plural where a series of
alien-human hybrids created as part of a
colonization project the name rang a
bell for some Marty mr. propper Crawford
was also the last name of the agent in
charge of the behavioral science unit in
the Hannibal Lecter series and it seemed
like this might be the fictional in joke
reference but actually Kirk Crawford is
the name of a real-life member of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation the
Crawford’s of the x-files were named
directly after series creator Chris
Carter
contact at the FBI so many Crawford’s
number eight Breakfast at Tiffany’s back
in 1995 Lynn Redgrave Stephen King and
David Duchovny went toe-to-toe on a
celebrity episode of the popular game
show Jeopardy what a frog’s right
despite some amusing mutterings what are
frogs the company did pretty well and
was in the lead going into final
jeopardy but on what Alex Trebek clearly
thought was an easy question only King
was able to guess Truman Capote’s novel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s as the answer for
the win obviously thinking that someone
in the alien chasing duo ought to brush
up on the reading just a few months
later we spot Scully reading the very
book that stumped Mulder
perhaps she can tell him all about it
over brunch number seven twin peaks’
jose chung’s from outer space is one of
the series most creative episodes in
which a teenage couple claims to have
been abducted by aliens who were again
abducted by scarier aliens the whole
thing is a little surreal and told by a
series of unreliable narrators in one
scene
Mulder enters the diner and orders slice
after slice of pie will asking his
questions you ever experienced that
period of missing time you ever had the
suspicion that you’ve been abducted by
aliens it sure reminds us of another pie
loving FBI agent of the 90s Dale Cooper
from Twin Peaks well this one can’t be a
hundred percent confirmed for fans of
both series it feels like an in-joke for
sure I’ve been looking forward to this
pie I’ve heard so much about number six
piper Maru a French salvage ship the
piper Maru limped into port in San Diego
yesterday all the way from the North
Pacific in this classic episode a French
salvage team on the ship piper Maru come
across a world war two wreck at the
bottom of the ocean upon investigating
one of the crewmen becomes infected with
the black oil a creepy series staple it
is an important episode in the
development of agent Scully but the
episode had added significance for
actress Gillian Anderson as the salvage
ship was named after her daughter who
had been born during the production of
the previous season number five the red
speedo the episode Duane Barry is a
memorable fan favorite for many reasons
but one of them came wrapped up in a
little red package interrupted during a
fitness routine agent Mulder exits a
swimming pool clad in a red speedo the
head turning moment became iconic as did
the speedo even if the company regretted
it somewhat years later as one of the
many jokes in the third episode of the
season 10 reboot the showrunners decided
to bring back the brightly hewed briefs
when the creepy proprietor of a motel
takes a page out of Norman Bates book
and the audience gets a quick peek at
the Scarlet garment number for stoners
redux some things never really change
this anonymous pair of slacker teenagers
on a quest for a good hi first appeared
in the skin crawling episode war of the
coprophagia the fume huffing stoners
made a second appearance just ten
episodes later in quagmire another fun
monster of the week outing in which the
kids expand their intoxicant palette
to include frogs and the licking of them
Oh
in the 2016 revival two seemingly random
burnouts muse on life and whether
they’ve wasted theirs by getting wasted
all the time but fans recognized actors
Tyler Labine and Nicole Parker right
away dude they’re even in the same
clothes number three
recursive everything to begin with this
Russian doll like episode was written
and directed by Mulder aka David
Duchovny himself airing in the middle of
the seventh season when the series was
already beginning to wind down the
entire episode is filled with self
referential jokes and Easter eggs for
longtime viewers and all this yellow was
ambient sound that we habitually tuned
out it’s the hum of my hardware Mulder’s
porn tapes on pause a friend of
Skinner’s wishes to create a movie based
on some of the x-files cases what
results is a movie in an episode that
also refers back to the actual episode
being aired by the end other delightful
asides include Mulder as portrayed by
comedian Garry Shandling taya Leone two
companies then-wife portraying Scully
and Duchovny’s dog in its own guest
appearance speaking of Hollywood I think
that tail leone has a little crush on
you Yeah right like talionis ever gonna
have a crush on me number two moby dick
why didn’t they both quickly
throughout the series there are
references made to Herman Melville’s
novel Moby Dick the tale of a fanatical
sea captain and his hunt for the great
white whale a trait that is reflected in
Mulder and his need for proof of alien
life everything takes on a warped
significance to fit your megalomaniacal
cosmology incidentally most of the
callbacks have to do with Scully
including her nickname Starbuck a
character from the novel Scully’s dog
Queequeg the harpoonist in the novel and
her father whose nickname was Ahab most
recently in Mulder and Scully made aware
monster there is another dog named after
a Moby Dick character
daggoo which let’s be honest is a great
dog name come with me it practically
memes itself
number one the immortal Dana Scully back
in season three the agents encounter a
man named Clyde bruckman who claims that
he can see how a person will die Scully
ever the skeptic does not believe him
but his later tempted to ask how she
will die to which he replies with a wry
grin you don’t
although the showrunners
initially never meant for this to be
taken literally fans latched on to the
idea of an immortal Dana Scully this
idea was reexamined in the episode –
Asst where it does seem that death has
passed her over it’s clearly something
that weighs on Scully’s mind because in
season 10 she quips to Mulder in
response to concerns about her safety
while tracking a serial killer forget do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
need to pay attention welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top ten
brilliant x-files secrets and easter
eggs before we begin we publish new
videos every day so be sure to subscribe
for more great content for this list
we’ll be looking at the little details
and in jokes scattered throughout the
long-running and popular sci-fi show
number 10 lost friends in the third
episode of season 10 there are lots of
in story and out story nods one is when
agent Mulder wakes up from about of
binge-drinking lying against a headstone
in a graveyard the name on the stone is
Kim manners the epitaph let’s kick it in
the ass this was an honor of one of the
show’s former directors and producers
Kim manners who passed away and the
grave inscription was his signature
catchphrase sharp-eyed viewers also
spotted the name Jack Hardy a former
First Assistant Director on the show who
had also passed number nine Kurt
Crawford first appearing in the season
four premiere as a group of eerily
silent children and again halfway
through the same season in the episode
memento mori
Kurt Crawford or more precisely the
Crawfords plural where a series of
alien-human hybrids created as part of a
colonization project the name rang a
bell for some Marty mr. propper Crawford
was also the last name of the agent in
charge of the behavioral science unit in
the Hannibal Lecter series and it seemed
like this might be the fictional in joke
reference but actually Kirk Crawford is
the name of a real-life member of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation the
Crawford’s of the x-files were named
directly after series creator Chris
Carter
contact at the FBI so many Crawford’s
number eight Breakfast at Tiffany’s back
in 1995 Lynn Redgrave Stephen King and
David Duchovny went toe-to-toe on a
celebrity episode of the popular game
show Jeopardy what a frog’s right
despite some amusing mutterings what are
frogs the company did pretty well and
was in the lead going into final
jeopardy but on what Alex Trebek clearly
thought was an easy question only King
was able to guess Truman Capote’s novel
Breakfast at Tiffany’s as the answer for
the win obviously thinking that someone
in the alien chasing duo ought to brush
up on the reading just a few months
later we spot Scully reading the very
book that stumped Mulder
perhaps she can tell him all about it
over brunch number seven twin peaks’
jose chung’s from outer space is one of
the series most creative episodes in
which a teenage couple claims to have
been abducted by aliens who were again
abducted by scarier aliens the whole
thing is a little surreal and told by a
series of unreliable narrators in one
scene
Mulder enters the diner and orders slice
after slice of pie will asking his
questions you ever experienced that
period of missing time you ever had the
suspicion that you’ve been abducted by
aliens it sure reminds us of another pie
loving FBI agent of the 90s Dale Cooper
from Twin Peaks well this one can’t be a
hundred percent confirmed for fans of
both series it feels like an in-joke for
sure I’ve been looking forward to this
pie I’ve heard so much about number six
piper Maru a French salvage ship the
piper Maru limped into port in San Diego
yesterday all the way from the North
Pacific in this classic episode a French
salvage team on the ship piper Maru come
across a world war two wreck at the
bottom of the ocean upon investigating
one of the crewmen becomes infected with
the black oil a creepy series staple it
is an important episode in the
development of agent Scully but the
episode had added significance for
actress Gillian Anderson as the salvage
ship was named after her daughter who
had been born during the production of
the previous season number five the red
speedo the episode Duane Barry is a
memorable fan favorite for many reasons
but one of them came wrapped up in a
little red package interrupted during a
fitness routine agent Mulder exits a
swimming pool clad in a red speedo the
head turning moment became iconic as did
the speedo even if the company regretted
it somewhat years later as one of the
many jokes in the third episode of the
season 10 reboot the showrunners decided
to bring back the brightly hewed briefs
when the creepy proprietor of a motel
takes a page out of Norman Bates book
and the audience gets a quick peek at
the Scarlet garment number for stoners
redux some things never really change
this anonymous pair of slacker teenagers
on a quest for a good hi first appeared
in the skin crawling episode war of the
coprophagia the fume huffing stoners
made a second appearance just ten
episodes later in quagmire another fun
monster of the week outing in which the
kids expand their intoxicant palette
to include frogs and the licking of them
Oh
in the 2016 revival two seemingly random
burnouts muse on life and whether
they’ve wasted theirs by getting wasted
all the time but fans recognized actors
Tyler Labine and Nicole Parker right
away dude they’re even in the same
clothes number three
recursive everything to begin with this
Russian doll like episode was written
and directed by Mulder aka David
Duchovny himself airing in the middle of
the seventh season when the series was
already beginning to wind down the
entire episode is filled with self
referential jokes and Easter eggs for
longtime viewers and all this yellow was
ambient sound that we habitually tuned
out it’s the hum of my hardware Mulder’s
porn tapes on pause a friend of
Skinner’s wishes to create a movie based
on some of the x-files cases what
results is a movie in an episode that
also refers back to the actual episode
being aired by the end other delightful
asides include Mulder as portrayed by
comedian Garry Shandling taya Leone two
companies then-wife portraying Scully
and Duchovny’s dog in its own guest
appearance speaking of Hollywood I think
that tail leone has a little crush on
you Yeah right like talionis ever gonna
have a crush on me number two moby dick
why didn’t they both quickly
throughout the series there are
references made to Herman Melville’s
novel Moby Dick the tale of a fanatical
sea captain and his hunt for the great
white whale a trait that is reflected in
Mulder and his need for proof of alien
life everything takes on a warped
significance to fit your megalomaniacal
cosmology incidentally most of the
callbacks have to do with Scully
including her nickname Starbuck a
character from the novel Scully’s dog
Queequeg the harpoonist in the novel and
her father whose nickname was Ahab most
recently in Mulder and Scully made aware
monster there is another dog named after
a Moby Dick character
daggoo which let’s be honest is a great
dog name come with me it practically
memes itself
number one the immortal Dana Scully back
in season three the agents encounter a
man named Clyde bruckman who claims that
he can see how a person will die Scully
ever the skeptic does not believe him
but his later tempted to ask how she
will die to which he replies with a wry
grin you don’t
although the showrunners
initially never meant for this to be
taken literally fans latched on to the
idea of an immortal Dana Scully this
idea was reexamined in the episode –
Asst where it does seem that death has
passed her over it’s clearly something
that weighs on Scully’s mind because in
season 10 she quips to Mulder in
response to concerns about her safety
while tracking a serial killer forget do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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