7x01 Hungry
Mod note: Guys, I'd just like to ask you if we can refrain from any spoilery (even mild) talk about XF2. And If you guys can stop from using really spoilery icons? I know no one has yet, but my co-mod and I'm sure plenty other of people in our comm wont be seeing the movie until next week with the later release date in Europe. Meanwhile, I have seen it, so I dont care. lol. No, seriously, please if you could try and control yourselves, there are some people who dont want to be spoiled still.
Synopsis
A fast-food restaurant is linked to the discovery of a submerged car with a body in the trunk, but no brain in the body. Mulder and Scully investigate further and find that a monster is trying to live a normal life but sometimes has to kill people because of the hunger.
Writer/s: Vince Gilligan
Director: Kim Manners
Originally aired: 21st November 1999 (in the US) - 22nd March 2000 (in Australia)
Quotes
Mulder: Hey, Scully, check it out. You know how they say you never want to see the kitchen of any of your favourite restaurants?
Scully: Somehow, I don't think Lucky Boy would make that list.
Mulder: Look at this. Does that look like blood to you?
Scully: Yes, it looks like it.
Mulder: What is that? Next to it. Is that, uh... oh, my... ugh. Is that brain? Is that brain matter there?
Scully: No, I'd say that's ground beef.
Mulder: Ground beef.
Scully: Yeah.
Links
Episodes: Fanpop and SideReel.
Transcripts: Episode transcript.
Screen captures at: The X Files Screen Grab Archive
Episode related fanfic: Page 1
Season 7 Gag Reels: Part 1 and Part 2
Mods thoughts and discussion attempts
I cant believe I was unfortunate to get this episode. But I’m sure everyone is preoccupied with XF2 to even care about the post today, hooray!
So, we’ve seen enough freaks in the show to know that they don’t all want to be bad they just have unfortunate freaky attributes that make them that way. I really didn’t need to see an episode in a freaks POV to know any of that. Can I have the Millennium kiss now? No? Oh fine.
Mulder and Scully checking out the kitchen together was cute. I loved how Mulder was so sure there was brain matter on the stove.
The dude in the car? Is that the dude from Fight Club? Mulder’s stunt double/stand-in?
Extra
The original aspect of this episode is that it is told from Rob's point of view. Mulder and Scully's investigation is not the main focus and they only appear for brief periods throughout.
The air date of this episode was November twenty-first, Chris Carter's wife's birthday.
In keeping with Vince's habit of putting his girlfriend's name (Holly Rice) in each episode he writes, the manager of the fast-food store is named Mr. Rice. Another employee is named Lucy, which is Holly's real first name.
Vince set this episode in Costa Mesa because his brother Pat lives there.
Rob Roberts, a main character in the episode, is named for Vince Gilligan's helicopter flight training instructor, as well the morning traffic reporter in Richmond, VA (Vince's hometown). The psychiatrist, Mindy Rinehart, is named after real-life Rob Roberts' wife.
Derwood Spinks was named for Gilligan's sixth grade teacher, Derwood Guthrie. The last name came from World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Leon Spinks.
The speed-metal music playing in the first victim's car is that of a band called "Unearthed". Producer Paul Rabwin's daughter was dating a member if the band.
Synopsis
A fast-food restaurant is linked to the discovery of a submerged car with a body in the trunk, but no brain in the body. Mulder and Scully investigate further and find that a monster is trying to live a normal life but sometimes has to kill people because of the hunger.
Writer/s: Vince Gilligan
Director: Kim Manners
Originally aired: 21st November 1999 (in the US) - 22nd March 2000 (in Australia)
Quotes
Mulder: Hey, Scully, check it out. You know how they say you never want to see the kitchen of any of your favourite restaurants?
Scully: Somehow, I don't think Lucky Boy would make that list.
Mulder: Look at this. Does that look like blood to you?
Scully: Yes, it looks like it.
Mulder: What is that? Next to it. Is that, uh... oh, my... ugh. Is that brain? Is that brain matter there?
Scully: No, I'd say that's ground beef.
Mulder: Ground beef.
Scully: Yeah.
Links
Episodes: Fanpop and SideReel.
Transcripts: Episode transcript.
Screen captures at: The X Files Screen Grab Archive
Episode related fanfic: Page 1
Season 7 Gag Reels: Part 1 and Part 2
Mods thoughts and discussion attempts
I cant believe I was unfortunate to get this episode. But I’m sure everyone is preoccupied with XF2 to even care about the post today, hooray!
So, we’ve seen enough freaks in the show to know that they don’t all want to be bad they just have unfortunate freaky attributes that make them that way. I really didn’t need to see an episode in a freaks POV to know any of that. Can I have the Millennium kiss now? No? Oh fine.
Mulder and Scully checking out the kitchen together was cute. I loved how Mulder was so sure there was brain matter on the stove.
The dude in the car? Is that the dude from Fight Club? Mulder’s stunt double/stand-in?
Extra
The original aspect of this episode is that it is told from Rob's point of view. Mulder and Scully's investigation is not the main focus and they only appear for brief periods throughout.
The air date of this episode was November twenty-first, Chris Carter's wife's birthday.
In keeping with Vince's habit of putting his girlfriend's name (Holly Rice) in each episode he writes, the manager of the fast-food store is named Mr. Rice. Another employee is named Lucy, which is Holly's real first name.
Vince set this episode in Costa Mesa because his brother Pat lives there.
Rob Roberts, a main character in the episode, is named for Vince Gilligan's helicopter flight training instructor, as well the morning traffic reporter in Richmond, VA (Vince's hometown). The psychiatrist, Mindy Rinehart, is named after real-life Rob Roberts' wife.
Derwood Spinks was named for Gilligan's sixth grade teacher, Derwood Guthrie. The last name came from World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Leon Spinks.
The speed-metal music playing in the first victim's car is that of a band called "Unearthed". Producer Paul Rabwin's daughter was dating a member if the band.