This show is overflowing with funny "crap". In that vein we have several cockroach related deaths one of which is a doctor "taking one on the 'ol (Thomas) Crapper" while reading Scientific American magazine. There's more, too much to cover except to say creativity abounds ..like a juvie huffing poop derived methane in his super weed. Add to the bug mayhem a super double top-secret department of agriculture "typical two-story residential home" purposely turned into a "roach motel" complete with the coolant wearing beauty of a research scientist named Bambi (which Mulder can't resist and answers Scully's call on his cell saying "not now" and hanging up while in deep Bambi gaze).
The writers obviously had a good time with this story as if anything that came to mind was game. There's a S. Hawking inspired mad scientist obsessed by his robotic creations with the simply complex thinking that only insects possess. Robots baby! " If you think alien visitation will come in the form of living beings with big eyes you've obviously been brainwashed by too much science fiction" exclaims Dr. Ivanoff to, perhaps, the one person who has always believed the opposite. The spaghetti on the wall concept continues to great effect in a mob scene of locals panic buying for the looming catastrophe such as a sailor opting to purchase chocolate bars and women's hosiery instead of the more pertinent cans of "Die Bug Die" insecticide.
Watch this episode a few times and you catch more and more of the fun. Great stuff like a cockroach strolling across the actual filming of a scene, a explosion of a combination of waste and methane in which Mulder and Scully get "pooped" to which Mulder says to Scully something he claims he never thought he'd say to her: "Scully, you smell bad"! Well, all one can say is there's a brilliant silliness here that is a great break from the norm, don't miss this one as it is pure comedic gold!
The writers obviously had a good time with this story as if anything that came to mind was game. There's a S. Hawking inspired mad scientist obsessed by his robotic creations with the simply complex thinking that only insects possess. Robots baby! " If you think alien visitation will come in the form of living beings with big eyes you've obviously been brainwashed by too much science fiction" exclaims Dr. Ivanoff to, perhaps, the one person who has always believed the opposite. The spaghetti on the wall concept continues to great effect in a mob scene of locals panic buying for the looming catastrophe such as a sailor opting to purchase chocolate bars and women's hosiery instead of the more pertinent cans of "Die Bug Die" insecticide.
Watch this episode a few times and you catch more and more of the fun. Great stuff like a cockroach strolling across the actual filming of a scene, a explosion of a combination of waste and methane in which Mulder and Scully get "pooped" to which Mulder says to Scully something he claims he never thought he'd say to her: "Scully, you smell bad"! Well, all one can say is there's a brilliant silliness here that is a great break from the norm, don't miss this one as it is pure comedic gold!