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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Truebluestef"  wrote   
   > "XXXXgizzieXXXX"  wrote:   
      
   >> In The Day, I was prety much The Cheese Standing Alone if that I did not   
   >> like ANY of the "comedy" episodes.   
   >> Not Jose Chung (my dislike of that episode is legendary) Not Bad Blood.   
   >> Nit   
   >> even--despite it being Lone Gunmen centric--Three of a Kind. If I wanted   
   >> a   
   >> laugh, I watched Seinfeld.   
      
   > Okay, since we're sharing episodes we didn't like, I have one that   
   > will get me glares....Never Again.   I Don't know WHY I didn't like   
   > it, but it left me with a flat feeling at the end.  And I know this   
   > was the ep that pushed you off the fence, Giz, but I just didn't like   
   > it.   
      
   I never really cared for NA, either. Of course, that was just because I was   
   pissed because Scully got laid by someone who wasn't me.   
      
   I haven't watched it again yet recently, so I'm officially withholding   
   permanent judgment until then.   
      
   In other olds, I somewhat to a certain extent kinda sorta agree with Giz.   
   Not that I hate *all* the comedy episodes. There are some I really like,   
   especially the Darin Morgan ones. But from about 'Small Potatoes' on, there   
   was always an underlying feeling that, yeah, this is funny, but I'm not sure   
   it really belongs on The X-Files. And while I'm willing, reluctantly, to   
   accept them as part of the show, I've never been able to understand those   
   people whose favourites are ALL comic eps.   
      
   And some of the comic eps -- 'The Rain King', 'Hollywood A.D.' -- are   
   undoubtedly, at least in my mind, absolute lowlights for all 9 years of the   
   show.   
      
   I recently rewatched 'Fight Club' and 'Je Souhaite', and they were okay   
   enough for me to not HATE them, but they certainly weren't anywhere in my   
   Top 50. I love to laugh, but when it comes to The X-Files, I should be   
   laughing at a great one-liner about every 15 minutes, not continuously   
   through the whole episode.   
      
   IMO, the one 'funny' episode that was almost completely flawless was 'Clyde   
   Bruckman', and a lot of that had to do with the fact that it was also sad   
   and tragic at times. It didn't *limit* itself to funny. Serious, spooky   
   X-Files eps allow themselves to be funny at times, too. The problem with   
   most of the 'funny' eps is that they were ONLY funny, and didn't allow   
   themselves any spookiness or creepiness. And I think that was a fatal flaw   
   in all the post-Darin comic episodes -- not necessarily a *fatal* flaw for   
   each individual one, but at least a bit of a flaw for them all, and a   
   fucking ruining factor for a few of them.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com   
   [House interrupts a surgery, sneezes all over the place, and leaves]   
      
   Doctor: There's no way we can do this surgery now.   
      
   Surgeon: Ya THINK?!   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)