#txf 7x19

[philbins]

THE X FILES - S07E19: Hollywood A.D.

[skelavender]

“i’m in love with assistant director walter skinner” the fucking GUFFAW i just let out

[bisexualfbiagents]

You know, Scully, we've got four weeks' probation vacation and nothing to do, and Wayne Federman's invited us out to LA to watch his movie being filmed... and God knows I could use a little sunshine.

California, here we come.

THE X FILES GIF MEME [8/20] EPISODES Hollywood A.D. (7.19)

[the1013file]

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

One of my personal headcanons is that Mulder and Scully had a film night in the unremarkable house sometime in season 11 but they couldn't decide what to watch so they just ended up rewatching The Lazarus Bowl starring Garry Shandling and Téa Leoni

I just think they would've really got a kick out of it the second time, y'know ??

[bakasara]

I THINK THAT THEY.

[enigmaticxbee]

✖️✖️✖️✖️ 7x19 Hollywood A.D.

The one where... they make a movie about Mulder and Scully starring Garry Shandling and Tea Leoni.

Best: The Mulder-Scully-Skinner split screen bubble bathtub scene. Iconic. Skinman!!

Worst: I love so many individual moments in this episode but it’s kind of all over the place. And the conclusion of this case isn’t very satisfying - they get kicked off the case for autopsying a murder victim and basing the identity of the victim off the id found on the body (unless the identity is in question wouldn’t that be the standard assumption?? although if the “id” in question is the cell phone then Skinner’s got a point) and then find out 18 months later that both suspects died in a murder-suicide. So... whose body was that in the crypt?

✔️ Flashlights

❌ Woods/Desert

❌ Slideshow

✔️ Autopsy

❌ Evidence Disappears

❌ Scully Misses It

❌ Mulder Ditch

❌ Sunflower Seeds

❌ Voiceover

❌ Catch Phrase

❌ Scully is a Medical Doctor

❌ Mulder is Spooky (no, but he calls Scully ‘Sister Spooky’ which is 😍)

❌ Scuuullllaaaaayy! Muullllderrrr!

❌ Fox/Dana

✔️ Inappropriate Touching (that I am here for)

❌ Casual Scully (no, but that little black dress and the cute little headband!)

✔️ Casual Mulder

❌ Trench Coats

❌ Bad Tie Watch

❌ Glasses Watch

50 States: California x18 & DC x71 (40/50)

Investigate: Together & Apart

Solve Rate: 62%

❌ Bechdel Test: Tea Leoni says something to Scully but they walk off so we don’t hear her respond.

MSR: 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Goriness: 👽👽

Creepiness: 👽👽

Humor: 👽👽👽👽👽

Rewatch Thoughts:

SOSS: I mean, Hollywood date night - Scully’s positivly giddy about going out on the town on Associate Producer Walter Skinner’s dime.

Just... the implications of DD having his wife dress up to look like his female costar/his character’s romantic interest is... a LOT 👀

Trying to figure the timeline on txf is a futile task but... 18 months earlier...sometime in season 6? WTF does this episode take place?

A modern miracle - cell phone reception in the catacombs. If you saw a name come up on a ringing cell phone wouldn’t you assume that was the name of the person calling and not the owner of the phone 🤔

Of course Scully can read Ancient Greek 😂

No warrants, no permission, no research - that’s the X-Files baby!

Wayne Federman: (to Mulder) You’re crazy for believing what you believe. (to Scully) And you’re crazy for not believing what he believes. Exactly.

Scully’s Sister Spooky story - and then Mulder calling her Sister Spooky, they’re just sickeningly cute sometimes.

I tried to watch the Murder Among the Mormons documentary about the true story that this case is based on but I couldn’t get into it.

Coming just after All Things but taking place 18 months earlier really highlights how far Scully has come in opening up to Mulder about her vision in the Buddhist temple in All Things vs pretending her visions of the dead here aren’t happening.

Scully running back and forth to demonstrate to Tea Leoni how to run in heels in the background while Gary Shandling tries to figure out whether Mulder dresses to the right or left 😂

Gary Shandling as Mulder: I love you, Scully. No ifs ands or - Tea Leoni as Scully: - bees. The idea that one of them TOLD Federman about the hallway incident (or told SKINNER who told Federman) makes me unhinged 🤪

Skinner’s so happy 😂

I just love the ending with the zombies dancing on the graveyard set.

Episode-Related Fanfic Recs:

Untitled by @06666666 - post ep date night. He eats with her there in the warm water, bumping knees and feeding French fries to his little sea monster.

The Big Orange by @teethnbone - pre and post ep, NSFW. Just fantastic. It’s 5AM and you’re on your way to the airport to catch a flight to see a film based on a screenplay based (loosely) on the idea of the two of you. Though “the idea of the two of you” has shifted subtly in the months since you were used as source material.

Socially Inept by Adrienne - post ep, NSFW. An old fave. Their beverage of choice was vodka, and a lot of it. (On Gossamer so if the link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)

Younger Than Springtime - post ep date night, NSFW. Carefree Scully takes Mulder out on the town. (On Gossamer so if the link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)

Style and Substance by Gina Rain - post ep date night. Another Scully takes Mulder out on the town fic. So sweet. (On Gossamer so if the link doesn’t work you can search for it there.)

[scullydubois]

thoughts on Hollywood AD (7x19)

Written & Directed by David Duchovny

I wanna see this movie

This is gonna be the catalyst for my mental breakdown...can’t explain why, it just is

The premise of this is basically exactly up my alley...a dumb ass movie based on Mulder and Scully? Yes please

No bee!!

Chris Carter, did I just see you on my screen?? Get out, sir, get out!

I identify with the screenwriter following them around

Whose goddamn cellphone be ringing

Nokia getting that product placement

Feng shui...that’s happening

That skull just moved

Wild

I have no idea what’s happening, but it’s cool

He made some points

Aww Scully’s story is cute

Lazarus Bowl!

What’s that noise

I don’t understand all this religious stuff oops

A bomb in his heart...wow

Garry Shandling and Tea Leoni..heard of them

Ummm what

Scully be careful

Whomst?

Micah Hoffman? In this economy?

Skinner chill

Go to Hollywood and calm down you guys

A 4 week leave?

He am become Jesus Christ...that’s literally what he said

Literally what is he saying

Aww, movie night!

42 times?? Yeah same

Go to Hollywood! Go to Hollywood! Go to Hollywood!

Thank you jesus

I think...you should meet Tea and Garry...just for funsies, you know

Seeing double, perhaps

“Big fan”- Gillian’s face, oop

The running in the background...true comedy

I wish my shoulder was made of turkey

Yesss the bathtub scene...iconic

Plot twist!

Mulder really got up in the middle of the movie and started screaming...I know you feel personally attacked, but calm down

Good for Skinner honestly

They’re alive...young...having a fun time methinks

This is what they deserve

Is that...holding hands that I see? Not allowed

This is fun

Good job Duchovny

Consensus: I didn’t really care about/understand the actual X-File of this episode, but all the movie stuff was cute.

4 out of 5 stars

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

The X-Files makes a cameo appearance in The Fault in Our Stars

Hollywood A.D. (7x19)

[cla-u-strophobic]

[msr-gaze-olicity-linger-love]

Cuties

[gillovny1013]

SCULLY: Well, we’re alive, we’re relatively young, and Skinner was so tickled by the movie… MULDER: I bet he was. SCULLY: …He has given us a bureau credit card to use for the evening.

[skelavender]

DANCING BONES?????

[bisexualfbiagents]

THE X FILES | Hollywood A.D. (7.19)

[skelavender]

later than usual bc socialization but i had a melatonin and it’s x files time :))

[skelavender]

that episode was so silly i love