X-Files In-Jokes List

[Laura Witte]

I haven't posted this monster to the newsgroup in a long long time
because of the recent crack-down on X-Files Web Sites, but I figured I
couldn't hide forever.

Since so many people have been complaining about band-width
lately, I decided to just post the season four stuff along with some
of the multi-season lists. I can post the rest if anyone's interested,
or you can just go to the web site at
http://www.nashville.com/~subterfuge/xfiljoke.html.

Enjoy!

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The X-Files In-Jokes List

Last Updated: December 26, 1996
All new entries since the list was last updated on November 25th are
marked with a '+'.

This is my attempt at compiling a list of the inside-jokes from the X-
Files. I cannot take credit for recognizing many of them. Although I
did manage to notice a lot of them while watching the episodes
myself, quite a few of them came from the numerous discussions on
the alt.tv.x- files newsgroup. Others came from the highly
informative books "The Truth Is Out There: The Official Guide to the
X-Files" and "Trust No One, The Official Third Season Guide to the
X-Files", as well as the X- Files edition of "Cinefantastique" (October
1995). Many more have also been contributed by on-line X-Philes
since this list was first published on the newsgroup.

I am quite sure that the list is not yet complete, despite our best
efforts, so all additions and/or corrections would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks again to everyone who has already added to the
list. Please send messages to laura...@nashville.com.

Warning: this list does contain spoilers, but each episode is clearly
labeled. Read at your own risk.

Special Note --
I had a terrible mishap involving the corruption of my hard drive,
and some of the messages I had received from people that were going
to be included in this release were irretrievably lost. If you sent me a
message within the past few months and I responded by saying that I
would include your message in the list, but you don't see it listed here,
please accept my apologies and send me the message again. There
were some really good ones referencing the real people behind
characters' names that I just don't trust myself to remember correctly.

The X-Files In-Jokes List copyright 1996
The X-Files TM and copyright 1995 Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation and Ten Thirteen Productions. No Copyright
Infringement Intended.

-- Seasons One through Three Snipped --

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Season Four
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**** Herrenvolk ****
Title - 'Herrenvolk' is the Nazi/German word for 'Master
Race' - Hitler's plan for creating a world of perfect, blue-eyed blond
people.
There has been much speculation over the name of Mulder's
new 'informant', Marita Covarrubias. The word 'Rubia' means
'yellow'
or 'blonde' in Spanish. The word 'Covarrubias' means 'yellow cave'
and is the name of a medieval town in Spain.
Tag Line - The tag line "The Truth Is Out There" was
changed to "Everything Dies", which is the phrase the mighty-
morphing-power- alien tells Mulder before he throws him across the
parking lot.

**** Unruhe ****

**** Home ****
This episode marks the return of writers Glen Morgan and
James Wong, who left the show in the middle of season 2 to create
their own show, Space: Above and Beyond. Maybe the title 'Home' is
a fitting one?
The was something special about the way the location shows
up in the teaser for the episode - First off, we are viewing a close up
of the home plate as the word 'Home' appears in the lower left corner
of the screen. Just as we begin to wonder if they are going to start
showing the titles at the beginning of the episodes, we see the
completed line 'Home, Pennsylvania' - it's just the usual location that
appears in each episode after all.
Although there was much speculation that the inbreeding
family (the Peacocks) were named for the mascot of NBC (because of
their new 'copycat' shows this season - Dark Skies, The Pretender,
and Profiler), the family was really named after Glen Morgan's
parent's neighbors.

**** Teliko ****
925 - When Mulder glances at Aboah's resident alien card,
we see that Aboah's birthday is 9/25/62 -- Gillian's daughter Piper
was born on 9/25 also.
Tag Line - the usual tag line, "The Truth Is Out There", was
changed to "Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate", a phrase used by Scully
and Mulder in this episode. For those without a dictionary at their
fingertips, "Inveigle" means to win over by guile or persuasion, and
"Obfuscate" means to make dark or obscure, to confuse.

**** The Field Where I Died ****
Sullivan and Sarah - Sullivan Biddle and Sarah Kavanaugh
supposedly lived during the Civil War. In 'real life' a Civil War
soldier named Sullivan Ballou wrote a now-famous (and very
moving) letter to his wife, Sarah, in which he assured her that his
love for her was 'deathless' and that even though he might be killed in
the war, he would always be with her, he would wait for her, and that
'we shall meet again'. One week after writing the letter, Sullivan
Ballou was killed in the First Battle of Bull Run. Although his
references probably refer to being together in heaven, they can also be
interpreted as meeting in another life, much like the X-Files episode.
Mulder's soliloquy at the beginning and end of the episode is
from a long Robert Browning poem titled "Paracelsus".
Vernon Ephesian - the character likened to David Koresh
bears Koresh's real first name, Vernon.

**** Sanguinarium ****
Title - Sanguinary means carnage, bloodthirsty, consisting of
blood. Sanguinaria means bloodroot.
1953 Gardner Street - was probably named for Gerald
Gardner, who founded his own form of witchcraft, Gardnerian, in
1953. His is the most-practiced form of witchcraft today. Gerald
Gardner also published many books on witchcraft when laws against
the practice were revoked (also in 1953).
Rebecca Waite was the name of the nurse who was a witch.
Rebecca Nurse was the name of one of the Salem witches.
Vanitas Vanitatus - the words scrawled in blood on the
mirror mean 'Vanity of the Vanities'.

**** Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man ****
1013 - Security Council Resolution Number 1013 dictates
the immediate extermination of any Extra-Terrestrial Biological
Entities.
Lee Harvey Oswald called CancerMan Mr. Hunt. There
was a real Mr. Hunt, an E. Howard Hunt, who wrote a number of
espionage thrillers under a pseudonym at the same time that he
worked for the CIA *AND* who was supposedly in Dallas when JFK
was assassinated. His name has been batted around by JFK
conspiracy theorists for many years.
Closed Captioning revealed that CancerMan called Deep
Throat by the name 'Ronald'.
If you have freeze frame on your VCR, pause it on Scully's
senior thesis as CancerMan thumbs through it. You will find that her
thesis contains a discussion on and references to MJ-12 (I guess we
know why she was assigned to Mulder now).
The name of the magazine publisher who finally prints
CancerMan's story, Walden Roth, is named for Dana Walden, head of
drama at Twentieth Century Fox Television, and Peter Roth, one of
Fox's network heads.
+ The title of the magazine that CancerMan finally gets
published in, "Roman A' Clef", means a novel in which actual
persons or places are fictionally depicted.
+ When CancerMan goes to the magazine stand to get his copy
of "Roman A' Clef", look for the white-covered "End Credits"
magazine on the rack behind him. One of the stories on the cover is
titled "Where the hell is Darin Morgan?". (Anyone who doesn't know
who Darin Morgan is at this point should be shot, but for those who
don't: he is the brother of writer/co-executive producer Glen Morgan -
who wrote this episode, he is the actor who played the title character
in the episode "The Host", and he wrote such memorable episodes as
"Humbug" and "Clyde Bruckman's from Outer Space", among
others).
+ In CancerMan's books, his main character's name, Jack
Colquitt, is also the name of a marine in Glen Morgan and James
Wong's series "Space: Above and Beyond" from the episode "Who
Monitors the Birds?".
+ When CancerMan and Deep Throat flip a coin to decide who
will kill the alien, it is quite reminiscent of the way the Silicates (the
race of human-looking computers) made their decisions in Morgan
and Wong's series "Space: Above and Beyond".

**** Paper Hearts ****

**** Tunguska ****
Title - Tunguska is a location in Siberia where an object
(asteroid? UFO?) struck the earth in 1908. The blast leveled over half
a million acres and was hundreds of times stronger than the blast of
an atomic bomb.
When Krycek said the line about "When you go
underground you've gotta learn to live with the rats", did anyone else
think that maybe this was a reference to his internet-nick-name
'Ratboy'?
+ The closed-captioning revealed that as Mulder was looking
at the cockroach retrieved from his soup, the cockroach said
"Bambi?". Bambi is the entomologist that Mulder had a bit of a crush
on from "War of the Coprophages".

**** Terma ****
Title - 'Terma' is (possibly) Russian for prison or jail
+ Tag Line - 'E Pur Si Muove' is Italian for "And still it
moves" or "And nonetheless it does move". Supposedly, this is the
phase Galileo said under his breath after the Church forced him to
admit that his theory on the Earth rotating around the sun was
incorrect -- meaning that no matter what someone makes you say, it
doesn't change what you know to be true.
+ The 'honorable men' lines spoken by the Well-Manicured
Man were almost directly quoted from Shakespeare's 'Julias Ceasar'.
Of course, the 'honorable men' spoken about in Julias Ceasar
conspired against and killed Ceasar, so they weren't too honorable,
were they? -- I guess we can assume the same thing about the men
whom the Well- Manicured man was referring to as well.

**** El Mundo Gira ****
Title - 'The World Rotates' in Spanish

**** Kaddish ****
Title - a Kaddish is a prayer recited in daily synagogue
services and by mourners after the death of a close relative.

**** Never Again ****
+ Title - Once again, with this episode we bid adieu to Glen
Morgan and James Wong, two of the best things/people to ever
happen to the X-Files. We lost them previously during season two
when they left to work on their show "Space: Above and Beyond", but
they were gracious enough to come back to us for a short while in
season four. Now they are leaving again, and the title of this episode
reportedly indicates what they claim is the likelihood that they will
return to the show for a third time.

**** Leonard Betts ****

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Multi-Seasonal Inside Jokes
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The Numbers Game -- occurrences of 'special numbers'
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**** Occurrences of 11/21 ****
Chris Carter's Wife's Birthday (Dori Pierson) 11/21/48
Pilot - time on Scully's clock
Deep Throat - Colonel Budehas' birthday is 11/21/48
Fire - X-File #11214893
Miracle Man - Autopsy time 11:21
Erlenmeyer Flask - time on Scully's clock
The Host - Autopsy case #DP112148 (initials & full b'day)
Irresistible - time on Scully's clock
Colony - time on Scully's motel room clock
F. Emasculata - Package #DPP112148 (initials & full b'day)
Paper Clip - Samantha Mulder's birthday
Syzygy - Time Mulder brings first girl to police station is 11:48 (birth
day&year)
Piper Maru - Flight 1121 to Washington
Talitha Cumi - time when Mulder first visits his mother at the
hospital
Talitha Cumi - time when Scully is working at her computer

**** Occurrences of 10/13: ****
Chris Carter's birthday 10/13/56
Chris Carter's production company
Pilot - autopsy time 10:56 (month & year)
Deep Throat - case file #DF101364
Deep Throat - thug's license number: CC1356 (initials,day&year)
The Erlenmeyer Flask - door # 1056 (month&year)
Little Green Men - 1013 on 'WOW Signal'
The Host - John Doe #101356 (full birthdate)
End Game - top of Mulder's letter - To: Dana Scully,001013
Paper Clip - Fox Mulder's birthday 10/13/61
2Shy - time Mulder & Scully get Incanto's skin test results back
731 - Combination to unlock train door #101331
Apocrypha - door # where alien is held (& Krycek)
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man - Security Council Resolution #
for the immediate extermination of EBE's - #1013

**** Occurrences of 9/25: ****
Gillian's Daughter Piper's Birthday 9/25/94
Dod Kalm - liferaft number 925
F. Emasculata - Wife's house number 925
Teliko - Aboah's birthdate is 9/25/62

**** We finally have an answer! ****
According to "Trust No One, the Official Third Season Guide to the
X-Files", there is no significance to the numbers 111471 or the
letters JTTO -- they just keep appearing to keep us confused and
guessing! Well, as long as they go through the trouble to tease us, I'll
go through the trouble to keep listing them!

Duane Barry - the price of Scully's groceries - $11.14
Duane Barry - the receiver in Mulder's ear - model ID-111471
Irresistible - time and date of autopsy - 11:14 on November 14th
F. Emasculata/Paper Hearts - Mulder's badge number - JTTO4710111
731 - door code (for entry) - 1111471
Piper Maru - number on plane - JTTO111470
Teliko - Scully's badge number - JTTO331613


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X-Files in the Bathroom
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If you find yourself in an X-File, whatever you do - DON'T GO
INTO THE BATHROOM!!! Here are some reasons why (everything
listed here occurs in a bathroom):
Pilot - Scully discovers a couple of mosquito bites
Deep Throat - Mulder meets Deep Throat
Squeeze - Scully is attacked by Tooms
Shadows - Lauren Kyte has an upsetting paranormal vision
Ghost in the Machine - the CEO gets electrocuted
Ice - the pilot discovers that he is infected
Fallen Angel - Max gets apprehended by Mulder & Scully
Eve - an Eve poisons Mulder & Scully's drinks while they are in the
bathroom
Shapes - Lyle turns into a werewolf
Roland - Roland has some disturbing visions
Little Green Men - Mulder finds Jorge
Host - a man coughs up a fluke while taking a shower
3 - Mulder & Kristen 'make-out'
Red Museum - there's a peeping-Tom behind the bathroom mirror
Excelsis Dei - Mulder & the nurse are locked in a flooding bathroom
Aubrey - B.J. discovers the word 'Sister' carved into her chest
Irresistible - Pfaster likes for his victims to take baths first
Die Hand Die Verletzt - Mulder & Scully are to be killed in the
shower
Fresh Bones - Scully finds the dead soldier in the bathroom
Dod Kalm - toilet water is good for you
The Calusari - Teddy escapes while his mother in preoccupied in the
bathroom
F. Emasculata - The gas station attendant is found (and possibly
infected) in the bathroom
Anasazi - Mulder's father is killed in his bathroom
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - Det. Havez killed in bathroom
The List - Rogue & Speranza were killed by the warden
2Shy - Scully is attacked by 2Shy
Nisei - man killed by red-haired man at the railway station
731 - Mulder discovers a murdered scientist
Revelations - the boy is abducted from the bathroom
War of the Coprophages - a doctor dies from a burst aneurysm while
'straining'
Syzygy - a Cheerleader is killed by flying glass
Piper Maru - Krycek gets the Oil Slick Alien
Teso Dos Bichos - there are rats in the toilets
Avatar - Scully is accosted yet again in another bathroom
Teliko - man killed in an airplane bathroom

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X-Files Around the World
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The X-Files has become an international phenomenon and can now
be seen all over the globe. Here are some of the places where the X-
Files are shown, and what the show is called there.

This list was graciously contributed by Fredrik Tydal.

Country - Title - Translation
Albania - Fajllat X - The X Case
Argentina - Los Expedientes Secretos X - The Secret Cases
of X
Australia - The X-Files - The X-Files
Austria - Akte X - Die unheimlichen Faelle des FBI - X-
Files - The Unsecreted FBI Cases
Belgium - De X-dossieren - The X Dossiers
Brazil - Arquivo X - X-Files
Canada - The X-Files - The X-Files
China - X-Dang An - ???
Croatia - Dosije X - X Dossier
Czech Republic, The - Akta X - X Files
Denmark - Strengt Fortroligt - Strictly Confidential
Finland - Salaiset Kansiot - The Secret Folders
France - Aux Frontieres du Reel - At the Borders of Reality
(or Almost Unreal)
Germany - Akte X - Die unheimlichen Faelle des FBI - X-
Files - The Unsecreted FBI Cases
Greece - X-Files - X-Files
Holland - X-Files - X-Files
Hungary - X Aktak - X-Files
Iceland - Radgatur - Mysteries
Israel - Tikim Ba'afela - Files in the Dark
Ireland - The X-Files - The X-Files
Italy - X-Files - X-Files
Latin America - Codigo X - ???
Malaysia - X-Files - X-Files
Norway - X-Files - X-Files
Portland - Z Archiwum X - The X Archive
Protugal - Arquivo X - X Archive
Russia - Sekretnye Materialy - Secret Material
Serbia - Dosje X - X Dossier
Singapore - The X-Files - The X-Files
Slovakia - Akty X - X-Files
Slovenia - Dosjeji X - X Dossier
South Africa - The X-Files - The X-Files
Spain - El Expediente X - The X Case
Sweden - Arkiv X - Archive X
Switzerland - Akte X - Die unheimlichen Faelle des FBI - X
Files - The unsecreted FBI cases
Taiwan - X-Dang An - ???
United Kingdom - The X-Files - The X-Files

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X-Files Lists
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If you frequent the X-Files newsgroup, you know that there are some
threads that just won't die. People complain because Scully never
drives or because Mulder always drops his gun. Here are the lists of
episodes where many of these things occur -- so you can see for
yourself whether or not any of these complaints/observations are
valid.

**** Yes, Mulder does shoot people: ****
Young At Heart
End Game (the alien doesn't die - but Mulder still shot him)
Our Town
Oubliette
Grotesque (not a fatal shot)
Pusher (not a fatal shot, but nearly so)
Home
Unruhe
+ Paper Hearts

**** ...and Scully shoots people too: ****
Beyond the Sea
Lazarus
Anasazi (does shooting Mulder count?)
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Home (although it doesn't hurt him)
Teliko (not a fatal shot)

**** Yes, Scully does drive: ****
Deep Throat
Ghost in the Machine
Beyond the Sea
E.B.E.
Shapes
Irresistable
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Fresh Bones
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
731
War of the Coprophages
Syzygy
Avatar
Quagmire - it's a boat but she still drives it!!
Talitha Cumi
Herrenvolk
Home
Unruhe

*** ...and Mulder cries: ****
Conduit
The Erlenmeyer Flask (well, his voice breaks)
One Breath
Endgame
Anasazi
Oubliette
Talitha Cumi
Herrenvolk
The Field Where I Died
+ Paper Hearts (kinda)

**** Yes, Mulder drops his gun A LOT: ****
Genderbender
Tooms
Erlenmeyer Flask
3 (twice)
One Breath
Red Museum
Aubrey
Fresh Bones
Die Hand Die Verletzt
End Game
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Nisei (but he has another one)
731
Grotesque
Home
Teliko (though you can't really blame him)

**** ... and Scully gets abducted/held hostage quite a bit: ****
Lazarus
Duane Barry/Ascension
Irresistible
End Game
Our Town
Unruhe

**** Mulder in Jeopardy, with Scully to the rescue: ****
Deep Throat
Tooms
Erlenmeyer Flask
Little Green Men
Red Museum
Excelsius Dei
Aubrey
Colony/End Game
Dod Kalm (kinda)
Anasazi (kinda)
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
731 (over the phone)
Pusher
Home
Teliko (cool drool!)

**** Scully in Jeopardy, with Mulder to the rescue: ****
Squeeze
Genderbender
Lazarus
Shapes
Duane Barry/Ascension/One Breath
Firewalker (but she handles it herself)
Irresistible
End Game
Our Town
Blessing Way/Paper Clip (but Skinner would never hurt her, right?)
Wet Wired
Unruhe

**** Tag Line Changes ****
Every so often the line 'The Truth Is Out There' during the opening
theme is changed. Here are the changes so far:

The Erlenmeyer Flask - Trust No One
Ascension - Deny Everything
Anasazi - EL 'AANIGOO 'AHOOT'E
731 - Apology is Policy
Herrenvolk - Everything Dies
Teliko - Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate
+ Terma - E Pur Si Muove
(Please see the season-based in-jokes pages by episode title for further
information/definitions on the tag line changes.)

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That's all!

laura...@nashville.com
http://www.nashville.com/~subterfuge/xfiljoke.html
The X-Files In-Jokes List copyright 1996
The X-Files TM and copyright 1995 Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation and Ten Thirteen Productions. No Copyright
Infringement Intended.