I'm watching X-files on DVD right now, and I was thinking that it would be interesting to see what episodes most people like best. It's such a great show, and I love Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny... anyway please post your top five eps if you watch the show, as well as any comments/discussions about the show... If you don't know the names of the eps, just describe them. You can do less than five too if you like... you don't have to put them in any kind of order either. I'll post mine in a little bit, I have to do some thinking about it first... There are so many episodes I love.

There are so many quality X-Files eppys that its hard to pick just 5 but I'll list 5 of my faves

Jump The Shark (The one where the Lone Gunmen die, very sad)

Redux 1 and 2 (where Section Cheif Blevins is revealed as the 'man at the FBI')

Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (A look back at the possible life of CGB Spender aka Cigarette Smoking Man)

Erlenmeyer Flask (end of season 1)

Eve (midway through season 1)

I absolutely loved the X-Files, I have the entire set all 206 episodes! My only quibble was that season 8 and 9 werent as good due to the lack of Mulder, although Dogget and Reyes did well, it wasnt quite the same.

CGB Spender was a damn good villian, a real bastard you loved to hate, Alex Krycek was a slimy wee shit, but a loveable sly shit, and I will admit that I had the hots for Marita Covurrubias lol

The funny eps were usually some of the best. Some of the least interesting were the mythology episodes, unfortunately.

Just off the top of my head: "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" (specifically the pie scene, and Mulder's surprised yelp), "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "Pusher", "Humbug". I also remember loving "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas", with Lily Tomlin and Ed Asner, but it's been years since I've seen it.

I might remember some more later.

1. Bad Blood

2. Anasazi

3. Ascension

4. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

5. Jose Chung's From Outer Space

6. Triangle

7. Small Potatoes

8. Pusher (and Kitsunegari...I know I didn't spell it right)

9. The Post Modern Prometheus

10. Arcadia

that's just off the top of my head 

Let's do top ten instead... there are too many great ones for top five (people who only did five can add more to their list). I'm gonna try and do this in order, though I'm not saying that the one at the top is my absolute favorite. I've only got the first 4 seasons on DVD, so all these are gonna be from those:

1. Beyond the Sea

2. Jose Chung's From Outer Space

3. The Erlenmeyer Flask

4. Ice

5. Syzygy

6. Paper Clip

7. Gethsemane

8. Fearful Symmetry

9. Home

10. Eve

1. Bad Blood

2. Jose Chung's From Outer Space *Roswell! ROSWELL!* ;)

3. The Post Modern Prometheus

4. Pusher

5. How The Ghosts Stole Christmas

6. Paperclip

7. Ice

8. Grotesque

9. Duane Barry

10. The Unnatural

How about, Biggest Letdown X-Files Episode? That prize goes to the Talking Tina ripoff written by Steve "Phoning It In" King.

Okay, so there are some really creepy scenes in it (like the bleeding eyeballs, for one), but the whole concept is so beneath King and the show.

I collected the entire series one by one about 2 years ago, but haven't watched them at all since I finished. But my fav episode is probably...the ep where the guy is going backward in the week. You know, he starts at the end of the week and makes his way back. It was during the John Doggett era.

"Home" and "Paperclip" are two great ones..."Duane Barry"...awesome, I just like Steve Railsback, perfect casting for Duane...I should have just put "Duane Barry" and "Ascension" into one pick like I did "Pusher" and its sequel.      

the ep where the guy is going backward in the week.

"Redrum", starring Joe Morton, who costarred (but shared no scenes) with Robert Patrick in Terminator 2.

It probably is the most intersting nonmythos episode of the final two seasons. Though that one where Doggett has the extended (vaguely Lynchian) dream sequence and wakes up just before killing Scully is also really terrific. Especially the brief segment where Doggett speaks backwards (with subtitles, even).

Here's another batch of favorites.

"Humbug"

"The Jersey Devil"

"Kill Switch" -- if not for the Gunmen in this episode alone. Frohike, "She is so HOT."

"Triangle"

"Monday"

Holy shit, I need to set aside some time to go through this forum and delete some of these old threads before j resurrects them all.

In no particular order...

The Post-Modern Prometheus. Possibly the most bizarre episode of series television ever created that doesn't have the name "Twin Peaks" on it. Freaks, animal-human hybrids, Jerry Springer, Cher...just genius.

The Unusual Suspects. Flashback to Mulder's first meeting with the Lone Gunmen. Cool, hilarious and so much fun that I can even forget that the lovely Gillian Anderson isn't in this one.

Can't remember the name of this one, but it's the first time we meet Donnie Pfaster the death-fetishist/serial killer and he kidnaps Scully. Just a great, creepy episode.

Again, can't remember the name of this one. I'll just call it the Genie episode. Hilarious. Mulder gets three wishes, wishes for world peace and gets it...because all the people disappear.

All of the Mythology stuff from Season 2 up to about Season 5 (it got way too convoluted after that). It's hard to single out a single episode, but Paper Clip and The Blessing Way are standouts.

Hard to pick just five. So many great shows.

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EDIT

I didn't realize we were doing ten, now. That's what I get for not reading the whole thing before I post. Here's five more:

Triangle

Jose Chung's From Outer Space

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Small Potatoes

Bad Blood

The genie episode is called Je Souhaite (sp?) it had Kevin Weissman and Will Sasso in it

Humbug - Je Souhaite - Jose Chung's From Outer Space - all things - Memento Mori - Per Manum - Talitha Cumi - The Goldberg Variation - Sunshine Days - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

I watched the Season 7 episode First Person Shooter last night.  I knew it was gonna be good when the locale text flashed across the lower left bottom of the screen INLAND EMPIRE, CA.

I knew it was gonna be good when the locale text flashed across the lower left bottom of the screen INLAND EMPIRE, CA.

Why is that then?

I knew it was gonna be good when the locale text flashed across the lower left bottom of the screen INLAND EMPIRE, CA.

Why is that then?

 Because the Cigarette Smoking Man came slowly running at the screen from a great distance until eventually it was an extreme closeup of his distorted grinning?/crying?  face.