When the general public looks back on The X-Files, they picture a dark and serious 1990s show about aliens and government conspiracies. But die-hard fans know that some of the series’ best episodes were a laugh riot.
The show began to churn out a few episodes per season with a comic bent, beginning with the circus freaks episode “Humbug” in Season Two. And “Humbug” writer Darin Morgan, who also wrote a few funny episodes in Season Three, is generally credited with the comedic relief of the early seasons. Morgan, however, only wrote for the show for two seasons (although he returned in 2016 when the show was briefly revived). The writer responsible for the later funny episodes was Vince Gilligan.
Gilligan’s first largely comedic episode was “Small Potatoes,” a caper in which a pathetic man with a tail named Eddie Van Blundht impregnates several women in town by morphing into exact duplicates of their husbands.
The show began to churn out a few episodes per season with a comic bent, beginning with the circus freaks episode “Humbug” in Season Two. And “Humbug” writer Darin Morgan, who also wrote a few funny episodes in Season Three, is generally credited with the comedic relief of the early seasons. Morgan, however, only wrote for the show for two seasons (although he returned in 2016 when the show was briefly revived). The writer responsible for the later funny episodes was Vince Gilligan.
Gilligan’s first largely comedic episode was “Small Potatoes,” a caper in which a pathetic man with a tail named Eddie Van Blundht impregnates several women in town by morphing into exact duplicates of their husbands.
- 4/1/2025
- Cracked
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has shifted both the DVD release of The Grudge 3 and the Blu-ray edition of the original Grudge from March 24 to May 12. And Bob Badway’s claustrophobic chiller The Uninvited (no relation to the recent DreamWorks feature) will no longer be released by Empire Home Entertainment/Hannover House; a new distributor and date will be announced shortly. You can read more-advance-than-we-expected previews of Grudge 3 and Uninvited in Fango #282, on sale this month.
• New DVDistributor Osiris Entertainment sent along word that it will give commercial release to the indie horror flick Summer School. Previously self-distributed by its creators at Random Creatureface Films, the movie is set to street April 14. Summer School was directed by Lance Hendrickson, Troy McCall, Mike P. Nelson, Steven Rhoden and Ben Trandem, who each tackled sections of the story, in which a student attending summer classes overdoses on B-horror movies and enters a...
• New DVDistributor Osiris Entertainment sent along word that it will give commercial release to the indie horror flick Summer School. Previously self-distributed by its creators at Random Creatureface Films, the movie is set to street April 14. Summer School was directed by Lance Hendrickson, Troy McCall, Mike P. Nelson, Steven Rhoden and Ben Trandem, who each tackled sections of the story, in which a student attending summer classes overdoses on B-horror movies and enters a...
- 2/24/2009
- Fangoria
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