The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
- Episode aired Jan 24, 2018
- TV-14
- 45m
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8.1/10
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Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.
Peter Boyle
- Clyde Bruckman
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Tom Braidwood
- Melvin Frohike
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe idea of a former partner named "Reggie" has some basis from earlier in the series. In a prequel place in 1989 called Unusual Suspects (1997), Mulder gets an incoming call and answers his cell phone saying "Oh, hey Reggie." At the time Unusual suspects was made, this was assumed to be Mulder's 1989 boss, Reggie Purdue, who was seen in Young at Heart (1994).
- GoofsAt some point, Mulder starting with the concept of another universe, says that we could live in another dimension. But this is not the same thing. As we know, there are four dimensions but as theoretical science goes there could be eleven. Nevertheless, no matter how many they are, they all happen here not in another universe. So we are already living in them the same way we are living in the four others but without feeling them.
- Quotes
Fox Mulder: Confuse "The Twilight Zone" with "The Outer Limits"? DO YOU EVEN KNOW ME?
- Crazy creditsAt 23:13 the plot is interrupted by an opening montage to an alternate reality X-Files with the theme song with added vocals; Reggie Something replacing Walter Skinner; Reggie inserted into a clip from Squeeze (1993), entering the apartment between Scully and Mulder; and the famous tagline changed to "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE?" with a question mark.
- ConnectionsEdited from The X-Files: Pilot (1993)
Featured review
Darrin Morgan goes over the Top
After Carter and Wong and Darrin's brother write the serious episodes, in walks Darrin with Size 12 Doc Martin Steel Toed Boots to stomp it all down.
Last Year's "Mulder and Skully meet the Weremonster" was more like the fantasy MillenniuM Episodes Darrin had written, where it seems like we are watching from a Dream state.
This episode however, really futzes with our sense of reality. Was it called Kool-Aid or Flavor-Ade? Is it really called The Mandala Effect, or something else?
What is amusing is that there are people in this country that are living in the Mandala effect right now, where things that are happening all around them, are not happening. Where the smallest Inauguration Day crowd ever is translated to the largest ever, even after photographic evidence refutes it. And now, where the State of the Union was watched by the fewest people ever, somehow this translates into the highest Neilson Ratings ever. The Biggest! The Best! In reality the smallest, and worst.
People like to wrap themselves up in whatever fiction they fancy, I know I do. But in my case, I know how to separate my fancies from my facts.
And we either have a record amount of people accepting the "alternate facts", or we have a record number of people who don't exist, whose numbers have been inflated digitally, doing so.
In today's world, I've seen things happen right in front of me, and then have it denied it ever happened by people who were with me when I watched it happen. In today's world, a whole church congregation has a pandemic Measles outbreak, and their leader then tells them to NOT get Flu Shots.
And I think this kind of behavior is what's being targeted here. People will believe a lie is the truth, if enough people parrot that lie. And then, when challenged, they yell "Fake News".
There are two things happening in this country right now: An unprecedented attack on our first amendment rights and on the news media, and an unprecedented amount of people yelling "Fake News! Fake News".
This is why I respect Darrin more than any other X-Files writer, nothing is sacred to him, all is fair game. And by exposing our idiocies, he causes us to think about it.
Last Year's "Mulder and Skully meet the Weremonster" was more like the fantasy MillenniuM Episodes Darrin had written, where it seems like we are watching from a Dream state.
This episode however, really futzes with our sense of reality. Was it called Kool-Aid or Flavor-Ade? Is it really called The Mandala Effect, or something else?
What is amusing is that there are people in this country that are living in the Mandala effect right now, where things that are happening all around them, are not happening. Where the smallest Inauguration Day crowd ever is translated to the largest ever, even after photographic evidence refutes it. And now, where the State of the Union was watched by the fewest people ever, somehow this translates into the highest Neilson Ratings ever. The Biggest! The Best! In reality the smallest, and worst.
People like to wrap themselves up in whatever fiction they fancy, I know I do. But in my case, I know how to separate my fancies from my facts.
And we either have a record amount of people accepting the "alternate facts", or we have a record number of people who don't exist, whose numbers have been inflated digitally, doing so.
In today's world, I've seen things happen right in front of me, and then have it denied it ever happened by people who were with me when I watched it happen. In today's world, a whole church congregation has a pandemic Measles outbreak, and their leader then tells them to NOT get Flu Shots.
And I think this kind of behavior is what's being targeted here. People will believe a lie is the truth, if enough people parrot that lie. And then, when challenged, they yell "Fake News".
There are two things happening in this country right now: An unprecedented attack on our first amendment rights and on the news media, and an unprecedented amount of people yelling "Fake News! Fake News".
This is why I respect Darrin more than any other X-Files writer, nothing is sacred to him, all is fair game. And by exposing our idiocies, he causes us to think about it.
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- Morton Park, West End, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada(Mulder meets Dr. They at the "A-maze-ing Laughter" sculpture, but the location is not identified in the story)
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- Runtime45 minutes
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