X-Files Flashcards
Gillian Anderson’s character was named after this famous L.A. Dodgers announcer.
Vin Scully
Agent Scully’s character was based off his fictional character in film. The actress who played said fictional character, actually voiced a talking tattoo in Season 4 of the X-Files.
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)
This character is Agent Mulder’s primary antagonist in the show. In the first season, this character speaks no more than four words total.
Cigarette Smoking Man
These two characters took Mulder and Scully’s places in the X-Files office after their forced leave at the beginning of Season 6.
Jeffrey Spender, Diane Fowley
This Breaking Bad showrunner wrote an episode of the X-Files as a freelancer.
Vince Gilligan
The X-Files was filmed in this location for the first five seasons before moving to Los Angeles.
Vancouver
Part of the reason for moving the show to Los Angeles was because David Duchovny wanted to be closer to this fellow actress and his then-wife.
Tea Leoni
This character, played by Mitch Pileggi, supervised the X-Files office.
Walter Skinner
According to show composer Mark Snow, the theme song was inspired by this Smiths song.
How Soon Is Now?
This “Monster of the Week” episode, named after said monster, was the most-watched episode of the X-Files ever. It aired after Super Bowl XXXI.
Leonard Betts
This was the showrunner and creator of The X-Files.
Chris Carter
This actor played the main antagonist in the “Monster of the Week” episode “Drive.” In it, he plays a seemingly deranged man who traps Mulder in a car.
Bryan Cranston
Nicholas Lea played this eventual X-Files antagonist, who at first replaced Scully in the second season after her disappearance.
Alex Krycek
A “Monster of the Week” episode during the X-Files’ seventh season was a crossover with this reality television program.
Cops
In S02E05, Mulder comes face-to-face with this character, a former FBI agent who was locked up in an asylum due to his beliefs about alien abduction and experimentation.
Duane Barry
While S03E12 is centered around cockroaches, the episode’s title has a more general title of “War of the ______.” What is the missing word, which is a term given to creatures that feed on feces.
Coprophages
This actor plays the titular character in the X-Files episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.”
Peter Boyle
S03E02 is named after this real-life operation that brought Nazi scientists to the US in order to win the space race.
Operation Paperclip
Fox prevented the episode “Home” from being re-aired due to its disturbing content. The episode centered around this family, a Pennsylvania family of incestuous mutants.
Peacocks
In S04E14, Agent Scully learns she has a rare form of cancer. The episode’s title is this Latin term, which literally translates to “remember that you have to die,” and was used in Latin Christian theory to remind people about the mortality of life.
Memento mori
In S03E20, Scully is interviewed by this fictional author who is writing a book about alien abductions called “From Outer Space.”
Jose Chung
