x-files question for vod:
 

hey i saw the 'cockroach' episode from season 3 last night ..
i take it that it was supposed to be more of a comedic episode..

at one point a roach crawls past the screen ... the characters didnt notice it and then i realized that we - the viewers - were supposed to think that one just crawled across the TV screen ... kinda funny - kinda lame at the same time.

is there a fan history to this show ? (was it a big deal at the time ?)

I think it's called "War of the coprophages" right (War of the shiteaters, har har)

Yes it was a huge deal back in the day. i actually started watching the show right around that time period and the other people i worked with that watched it went apeshit over it.

honestly, i dont remember all the details of what they talked about, but i remember lots of conversations about were there alien roaches, Bambi was hot, blah blah.

I always got a kick out of it just because they really heavily played with preconcieved notions in that one.

If I may say so... That was one of my favorite episodes. I thought that one was a scream.

yeah - i'm seeing a pattern to the show .. they try to address a social issue as an underlying plot device (sexism, religious conviction, etc)

the roach episode seemed to be primarily a comedy - but it also addressed the posibility of coincidences being used to come to innapropriate conclusions ... and then they throw in a robot roach just to complicate things more.

i thought the roach running across the screen was pretty hoaky though ..
it gave me the feeling that by 1/2 way through season 3 they were feeling pretty big for their britches - enough to break the 4th wall ..

I remember when it first aired there were a couple of news reports about dumbshits who cracked their picture tube trying to smack the roaches.

A tv commercial followed that was even worse. it starts off as an ad for something innocuous and then a roach crawls across the screen, and then another and another and soon the screen is filled with bugs. A lot of busted sets over that one.:)

Tell me you're joking... Please tell me that they didn't try to file some lawsuit.:D

Fortunately, things werent THAT terribly bad back then....

God, was that a decade ago?

it was a while ago - thats for sure.
I keep laughing at the HUGE cordless phones everyone is using on the show ..

there is amuch later episode where i think they meet the lone gunmen for the first time (way pre-scully days), but was a late enough episode that mulder had a more compact cell phone in the regular ones. Anyway, Mulder gets a call at one point so he pull sout his cell phone, and it is oneo f those massive cell phone bricks they had in the late 80s that looked like a military radio from the korean war. I laughed my ass off the first time i saw it.

you mean a flashback ?
because they introduced the Lone Gunmen in season 1 i think ..

i bought the Lone Gunmen box set last night :)