I am so not looking for X-Files icons right now. And there is absolutely no way I am considering trying to scrounge up money to buy the DVDs either. But if I was doing that second thing I'd probably be considering buying seasons 3-5 first because they have some of my favorite episodes like "Detour"*, "Bad Blood", "Small Potatoes", "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Jose Chung's From Outer Space".
If only some eccentric rich person would stumble upon my Amazon.com wishlist and buy them for me. But that's even less likely than the publishers clearinghouse showing up at my door with a giant check. *sigh*
*Oh to hear Scully singing "Joy to the World" so very badly again.
ETA: Gratuitous X-Files quotes!
Mulder-"I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who was already naked."
Scully-"Maybe if it rains sleeping bags you'll get lucky."
Mulder-"They became known as the Mothmen. There's an X-file dating back to 1952 on them."
Scully-"What would that be filed next to, the Cockroach That ate Cincinnati?"
Mulder-"No, that would be in the Cs. Mothmen is over in the Ms."
Scully-"Have you ever thought seriously about dying?"
Mulder-"Yeah, once when I was at the Ice Capades."
Clyde (a psychic who can tell people how and when they will die)-"There are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation."
Mulder-"And why are you telling me that?"
Clyde-"Look, forget I mentioned it. It's none of my business."
Mulder-"The absence of birds singing."
Hartwell-"There ya go! 'Cause I, I ain't hearin' any birds singin', right? 'Course, it's winter and we ain't got no birds."
Mulder-"Well, historically cemeteries are thought to be a haven for vampires. As are castles, catacombs and swamps but unfortunately you don't have any of those."
Hartwell-"We used to have swamps, only the EPA made us take to callin' them wetlands."
Mulder-"Prison, Scully. Your cell mate's nickname is going to be Large Marge. She's going to read a lot of Gertrude Stein."
Scully-"You're not gonna tell me you think it's that Mexican goat sucker thing."
Mulder-"El Chupacabra? No, they got four fangs, not two, and they suck goats, hence the name."
Scully-"Begin autopsy on white male, age sixty, who is arguably having a worse time in Texas than I am, though not by much. I'll begin with the Y-incision. Yee-ha."
Scully(Hanging up the phone)-"That was Detective Manners. He said they just found your bleepin' UFO."
Scully-"Well think of it this way Mulder -- by the time there's another invasion of artificially intelligent dung-eating robotic probes from outer space, maybe their uber-children will have devised a way to save our planet."
Mulder-"You know I never thought I'd say this to you Scully..... but you smell bad."
Mulder-"Yeah, I had a praying mantis epiphany and, as a result, I screamed. Not, not a girly scream but the scream of someone being confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet I inhabited. Did you ever notice how a praying mantis' head resembles an alien's head? The mysteries of the natural world were revealed to me that day but instead of being astounded I was repulsed."
Scully-"Mulder, are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?"
Mulder-"It appears that cockroaches are mortally attacking people."
Scully-"I'm not gonna ask if you just said what I think you said because I know it's what you just said."
Mulder-"Were you abducted?"
Amanda-"Huh? No, no, he dropped by my apartment one day, and one thing sort of led to another..."
Mulder-"But the baby's father is an alien?"
Amanda-"No, no, I didn't say he was an alien, I said he was from another planet. His name is Luke Skywalker. He's what's known as a Jedi Knight."
Scully-"Did he have a light saber?"
Amanda-"No, he didn't bring it."
Morris(voice-over)-"Once upon a time, there was a guy with the improbable name of Fox Mulder. He started out life happily enough, as these things go. He had parents who loved him, a cute kid sister. He had a roof over his head, got all his flu shots, had all his fingers and toes and aside from being stuck with the name "Fox" which probably taught him how to fight - or not - he pretty much led a normal life. But the worst thing by far - the biggest kick in the slats this kid Fox ever got - was what happened to his sister. One day, she just disappeared. Now, Fox buckled down and worked his butt off. Graduated top of his class at Oxford then top of his class at the FBI academy. None of that hard work made up for his sister, though. It was just a way of putting her out of his mind. Finally, the way I figure it, he went out of his mind and he's been that way ever since. Fox Mulder pissed away a brilliant career, lost the respect of supervisors and friends and now lives his life shaking his fist at the sky and muttering about conspiracies to anyone who will listen. If you ask me, he's one step away from pushing a baby carriage filled with tin cans down the street."
Jose Chung(voice over)-"Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways on this planet, we are all alone."
That last one is one of my favorite quotes from anything evar!
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visionofblue on AIM last night and the topic shifted from Supernatural to The X-Files* and now I'm all nostalgic and wanting to see that show again. I wish I had the first 7 seasons on DVD. I don't want the post Mulder gets abducted by aliens seasons though, they suck.
