16 Episodes That Prove 'The X-Files' Is Secretly A Comedy

Gillian Anderson often cites "Bad Blood" as her favorite episode of The X-Files.Bad BloodThe X-FilesAfter Mulder accidentally slays a teenager posing as a vampire, Mulder and Scully each tell their version of events. This shows how partners view each other's quirks; neither paints a flattering picture.

Mulder and Scully remember Sheriff Hartwell (Luke Wilson) differently. Scully sees him as a charming dreamboat with a Southern drawl. Mulder sees huge teeth, an exaggerated accent, and little brains. Scully gets the sheriff's looks right.

Thriller novelist Jose Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly) writes about alien abductions and UFOs. He interviews Scully about a strange alien abduction case Mulder and Scully investigated in Klass County, WA.

The episode recounts bizarre case details. It involves multiple alien species, hypnosis, Men in Black (Jesse Ventura and), and more.Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek.Host Alex Trebek joins. Chung interviews Blaine, a teenager searching for UFOs. Blaine claims he found an alien body recovered by Mulder, Scully, and a detective. Blaine describes Mulder as emotionless, except for a shriek when he sees the alien body. Mulder's shriek is the episode's best part for laughs.

Written by Vince Gilligan, "Small Potatoes" features David Duchovny and guest star Darin Morgan. Mulder and Scully investigate five babies born with tails in Martinsburg, WV. They find all five share the same father, the shapeshifter Eddie Van Blundht (Morgan).

Mulder and Scully work perfectly together. Their banter is good. As the FBI agents piece together the case, Mulder asks Scully if she wants his theory. Scully replies, "Van Blundht somehow physically transformed into his captor then walked out the door, leaving no one the wiser?" Mulder asks, "Boy, Scully, should we be picking out china patterns or what?"Mulder and Scully's banter keeps shippers soaring.Mulder and Scully's banter keeps shippers soaring.

Van Blundht poses as Mulder and tries to get with Scully. He almost kisses her before real Mulder enters. It is awkward.

Mulder and Scully visit Area 51. Men in Black stop them as an aircraft flies overhead. Mulder and Men in Black agent Morris Fletcher (Michael McKean) switch bodies; nobody else notices the body swap.

Scully realizes Mulder is wrong after he flirts with Skinner's secretary and buys a waterbed. When he calls Scully "baby," she pulls a gun on Fletcher-as-Mulder and warns, "Baby" me and you'll be peeing through a catheter. Angry Scully wins.

Clyde Bruckman (Peter Boyle) sees future deaths. This helps his life insurance sales but his psychic ability leaves him upset. Mulder and Scully meet Bruckman while investigating fortune teller slayings; he joins the case against his will.

Mulder wants to meet someone psychic, but his questions annoy the weary Bruckman. To silence Mulder, Bruckman casually mentions auto-erotic asphyxiation as an undignified way to die. Mulder asks why. Bruckman replies, "Forget I mentioned it, it's none of my business." This shows the dark humor of "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose."

Mulder and Scully go undercover as married couple, Rob and Laura Petrie, to check for disappearances in a fancy community. The case lacks punch, but the episode delivers for the undercover antics.

Mulder exaggerates the "married couple" angle to irritate Scully. He uses sexual innuendo and pet names. He once told a neighbor they "spooned up and fell asleep like little baby cats." Mulder survived this episode.

"Humbug," premiering late in season two, becomes the first overtly funny episode ofThe X-FilesDarin Morgan wrote this. Mulder and Scully investigate slayings in a community of former sideshow performers. Mulder suspects the suspect is the "Fiji mermaid," but Scully claims the mermaid is just a hoax.

This episode plays with "The Other." Mulder and Scully, attractive and reserved, seem out of place among the sideshow performers. Scully has her own tricks. One memorable scene shows her eating a live cricket in front of Mulder and Dr. Blockehad (Jim Rose), but it is just her own humbug.

In this spooky holiday episode, Mulder and Scully explore a haunted house on Christmas Eve. Ghosts, played by Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin, try to fill Mulder and Scully with holiday loneliness and despair. When they split up, the ghosts take turns trying to drive the FBI agents mad.

Ghosts play mind games with Mulder and Scully, making them think their partner will kill them. The dark funny moment happens when Mulder and Scully "shoot" each other; the ghosts pull the trick. They bleed from fake gunshot wounds, drag themselves to the door, argue nonstop while "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" plays. Merry Christmas indeed.X-Files.

This episode shows the X-Files.The X-Files.The show takes cockroach fear to a new level, humorously. Corpses show cockroaches in Miller's Falls, MA. Mulder investigates UFO sightings nearby. He looks into bug-related sightings and teams up with researcher Dr. Bambi Berenbaum (Bobbie Phillips). Mulder suspects the bugs are not from this world. Scully offers theories and comments ("Her name is Bambi?") over the phone from Washington.

Mulder and Scully's phone calls show many charming moments from this episode. They work off the clock. Mulder chases UFOs. Scully cleans her gun. She eats a salad. She bathes her dog. Mulder presents a theory. Scully uses science to stop him. Scully gets tired. She travels to Massachusetts to join the action.

Mulder and Scully arrive when killings happen, pointing to a monster. Mulder thinks Guy Mann (Rhys Darby) turns into a were-monster and commits the killings. Mulder's theory fails. Mann is actually a lizard person who started changing into a human after being bitten by the real killer.

Mulder meets Mann in a cemetery. Mann explains his sad time as a were-human. Becoming human brought human worries: needing clothes, a job, and starting his novel. Getting a dog named Dagoo made him feel better. "The only way to be happy as a human is spending all your time with non-humans," he tells Mulder.X-Files.The show delivers humor at its best.

Mulder and Scully meet a genie (Paula Sorge). She is tired from granting wishes to selfish humans over centuries. She takes wishes literally. For instance, when Mulder asks for "peace on earth" for three wishes, the genie makes everyone on Earth disappear except Mulder.

Scully totally enjoyed performing an autopsy on an invisible man, Anson Stokes (Kevin Weisman). Stokes wanted to become invisible, then a truck hit him crossing the street. Scully made him visible again by covering his whole body in yellow powder. This is probably the most fun she has in all 11 seasons.

By season seven, just a comedic episode wasn't enough for the show. This time,The X-FilesThe X-Files plays with its format by doing its own version ofCops.

Mulder and Scully investigate strange deaths. Mulder thinks they are chasing a werewolf. The monster actually feeds on fear; it makes victims so scared they die. While they investigate, the TV showCopsThe show follows the case too. Mulder loves acting for the camera. Scully avoids it. Fun moments happen because Scully hates the camera crew. One crew member wants to ride in her car. She glares until the camera person moves to the back seat. Dana got the point.

Hollywood producer Wayne Federman, a college friend of Skinner's, makes a movie inspired byThe X-FilesMulder and Scully dislike it. Federman follows the partners on a case about the Lazarus Bowl. The bowl is supposedly inscribed with words Jesus Christ spoke to raise Lazarus from the dead.

The episode has lots of odd humor and Hollywood jokes. A top moment happens during the cold open. Garry Shandling and Téa Leoni guest star as the movie versions of Mulder and Scully. At the premiere, Mulder and Scully watch in horror as their on-screen selves share cheesy talk and make out inside a casket.

Mulder and Scully look into disappearances near a lake in Blue Ridge, GA. Mulder thinks the culprit is "Big Blue," a cryptid like the Loch Ness Monster. Scully is not convinced.

The talk in this episode is great. The long "Conversation on the Rock" happens when Mulder and Scully get stuck on the lake at night. Earlier, Scully's dog, Queequeg, gets eaten by the strange creature. Mulder asks why she named her dog Queequeg. She replies with a thought about how her father used to read to her fromMoby DickShe named her dog after the harpoonist in the book. "It's funny, I just realized something," she says. "It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?" Mulder answers. Mulder always gives a deadpan joke during intimate moments.

Mulder and Scully meet Reggie Something (Brian Huskey). He claims he worked with the FBI partners, yet they do not recognize him. The episode takes an offbeat trip into memory.Mandela Effect.and the audience's nostalgia forThe X-Files..

In the final scene, Mulder and Scully track down what they obsessed over all episode. For Mulder, it is an oldTwilight Zone.knock-off TV episode called "The Lost Martian." For Scully, it is the off-brand Jell-O she recalls from childhood, which she made in a mold shaped like Sasquatch's foot. Scully stops before eating the dessert. "I want to remember how it was. I want to remember how it all was," she says. Mulder nods, and the camera moves to a starry night sky.The X-Files.The X-Files mixed humor with a little emotional hit.

Chris Carter wrote this episode. It features a rare planetary alignment that makes everyone in a small town act strangely. Two teen girls (Lisa Robin Kelly and Wendy Benson), born on the same day, feel the effects more than anyone else.

Mulder and Scully feel cosmically off, bickering all episode. Mulder likes the local detective, which worsens the tension between Mulder and Scully. While examining remains, Mulder snarks at Scully, "Be my guest. I know how much you love snapping on the latex." When Scully asks why she never drives the car, Mulder says he was "never sure her little feet could reach the pedals." This episode is rough but funny for the usually matched pair. It gives us one of Scully's best lines: "Sure. Fine. Whatever."