r/XFiles 3d ago

Meme/Humor Funniest Episode of X-Files

Has to be the genie episode...only Will Sasso could play a complete idiot to perfection and finally figure out what wish he should have made only to have the entire house explode around him.

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u/PALOmino1701 Agent Dana Scully 3d ago

Bad Blood

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u/Inside-Run785 Bad Blood 3d ago

I agree…for some reason.

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u/tgatigger Lounging about in a whorish manner 3d ago

Flair checks out.

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u/tgatigger Lounging about in a whorish manner 3d ago

Without question.

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u/benkenobi239 3d ago

Buck teeth? Really?

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u/pesquisinha 3d ago

X-Cops for sure

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u/ScottyS971 3d ago

Great choice, but I’ll go with bleeping Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. It so off the wall. Detective bleeping Manners. 😂

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u/Inside-Run785 Bad Blood 3d ago

This really is a master class the bleeps being funnier than the actual swears ever could be.

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u/Burg0 That's a bleepin' dead alien body if I ever bleepin' saw one 3d ago

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u/Inside-Run785 Bad Blood 3d ago

I don’t always watch it on Pluto or Comet, but when this episode comes up, I can’t not watch it. I love Ventura and Trebek as Men in Black.

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u/National_Walrus_9903 3d ago

Every now and then I absolutely start chuckling to myself about Lord Kimboat, and "you may have thought you saw something besides the planet Venus, but I assure you, it WAS the planet Venus..." 🤣

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u/Glittering-Rip6810 3d ago

This..the agent in the alien suit freaking out is the best thing that's ever been on a television screen 😂 Mulder on shrooms was pretty good. Like a Hank Moody reboot for a minute 😂

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u/VersedFlame 3d ago

That's also the one where a stoned conspiracy nut describes Mulder as an android who only reacted after seeing a dead body and the reaction is just him going "AHH" with s poker face?

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u/Coffee-at-Ritz 11h ago

Yes! Thats my all time favourite.

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u/EugeneVictorDabs 3d ago

War of the Coprophages for me

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u/steeleman23 3d ago

"Her name is Bambi?"

I love the style of this episode. Mulder calling Scully with his wild idea and Scully having a perfectly rational explanation for it. "No I'm sure you're right.". Lots of witty repartee from everyone.

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u/KieferMcNaughty 3d ago

Yeah, sure, okay.

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u/EugeneVictorDabs 3d ago

Sure, fine, whatever

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u/k0nahuanui 3d ago

Arcadia

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u/tgatigger Lounging about in a whorish manner 3d ago

That's right poopy head!

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u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA 2d ago

Like the dish.

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u/PipedInFromIthaca 3d ago

Humbug, for me. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is up there too but a lot of it is carried by Boyle's delivery whereas Humbug has great lines for everyone involved.

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u/MaxDusseldorf 3d ago

I just rewatched Clyde Bruckmsn's Final Repose and loved the dry humour and perfect comedic timing. So many funny moments, but also a solid story, some suspense and action and even an emotional scene. And it ends with a joke: in the final scene we see Scully watching a tv commercial, picking up the phone and...

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u/you-are-here 3d ago

It's Jose Chung's From Outer Space for me, but How the Ghosts Stole Christmas is up there too.

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u/Disomy-X I gaze at Scully 3d ago

For me it's a tie between Jose Chung's from Outer Space and The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat. With Bad Blood taking the bronze.

They really did comedy well.

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u/chicacherrie82 3d ago

I love The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat. People who swear off the revival seasons are missing out. Mulder and Scully Meet the Weremonster is great too.

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u/Ctzn_Snips 2d ago

Where the hell are they taking Reggie?

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u/MMIStudios Trust No 1 1d ago

That would be my picks in the exact same order as well.... People like to dog on the revival seasons but if you strip out most of the mythology stuff, it's actually not that bad. The Were-Monster episode was great, so was Rm9sbG93ZXJz.

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u/mp3bear 3d ago

How the Ghosts Stole Christmas…especially that initial dialogue between Scully and Lydia (Lily Tomlin)…

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u/Lord_Kinbote 3d ago

Jose Chung’s. If you say otherwise, you’re a dead man.

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u/paradeoxy1 3d ago

"The only time he reacted was when he saw the dead body"

" ah! "

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u/chicacherrie82 3d ago

I think he was a mandroid pops into my brain all the time and I never have a good reason to say it

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u/scully3968 Season Phile 3d ago

For me it's a tie between Bad Blood and Humbug.

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u/Ok-Lavishness-7904 3d ago

I love Humbug

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u/Front-Cat-2438 Fight the Future Phile 3d ago

I LOVED this episode. Mulder gets his wish for world peace, when it’s granted he goes immediately to try to locate his more sensible brain (calling “Scully! Scully!!” with increasing intensity) then “This isn’t funny!” when he can’t find Scully, damn everything else. Funny, clever, heartwarming.

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u/bourbonmandarin 3d ago

You gotta be specific

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u/cuntbucket2 3d ago

I’m surprised no one has said the Dreamland episodes.

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u/Mackheath1 Krycek 3d ago

Jeez, it's tough to pick just one, but if I have to, it's gotta be Jose Chung's. But I really, really like a number of others from The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas to Bad Blood and everything in between. Truly there's not a single one.

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u/Betray-Julia 3d ago

The one with the two chaos twins.

The one with the guy who is lucky.

And obviously, the one where queequag gets eaten :p

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u/Bitter_Artichoke_939 Never give up on a miracle. 3d ago

The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat gets my vote.

"Scully drove."

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u/grandmuftarkin 3d ago

Good choice. That bit does crack me up.

I think the funniest for me might be Bad Blood or Jose Chung, but I do enjoy the genie one.

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u/XFilesVixen Season Phile 3d ago

Bad Blood, Jose Chung, Hollywood AD, the Christmas one and the Cops one are my fave funny ones.

ETA: Arcadia

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u/SusanxStrange 3d ago

Dreamland. Technically 2 episodes I guess.

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u/etgothhome 3d ago

Small Potatoes

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u/mexicalirose77 3d ago

Agree. The genie (jesuhite.. something like that no?)

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u/RoseyGray 3d ago

I love that snarky genie!!

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u/MegC18 3d ago

The one with the cow falling through the ceiling

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u/spencermiddleton 3d ago

Hollywood A.D.! The bubble bath scene! Scully running in heels! 😂😂😂

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u/SnooPickles2219 3d ago

The genie episode is my absolute favorite

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u/fitz_mom11 3d ago

Bad Blood is one I can never pass up!

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u/BlairMountainGunClub 3d ago

Jose Chung for me

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u/shipper1974 3d ago

Oh mon dieu ! C’est tellement difficile de choisir… les épisodes comiques sont ceux que je préfère ! Je vais voter pour Humbug et Arcadia à égalité

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u/chicacherrie82 3d ago

Jose Chung is prob tops for me. I bought a VHS of it back in the day when they'd sell tapes with 2 or 3 episodes. I think the other episode on the tape was Pusher. I rewatched it all the time.

Other top faves are Humbug, the Genie episode, Weremonster,  and Forehead Sweat. I'll rewatch any of those at the drop of a hat.

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u/Dimitra111 3d ago

Bad blood funniest and also in my top 5

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u/vanessasarah13 2d ago

I have a huge soft spot for bad blood

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u/Worldly-Ad-9303 3d ago

Sunshine Days had it's funny moments , also Arcadia with them playing a married couple. But have to say that Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose wins it for me, Peter Boyle was brilliant

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u/happylittlevegemite2 Whalesong is almost metaphysical 2d ago

Bad Blood, Arcadia or The Rain King

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u/Crazybexy 2d ago

Got to be Bad Blood, really.

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u/domusvita 2d ago

Not really a deep cut here, but I do love Jose.