The X-Files

Shadows - S1-E6

Trivia: When Mulder and Scully are in the car park, and Howard Graves's car parking space is being renamed, the name being painted on is Tom Braidwood - who is the actor who plays Frohike and is also an Assistant Director of the series.

alargemango

Fire - S1-E12

Trivia: David Duchovny (Mulder) got burned while shooting a scene. The scar can be seen when he is at the party shortly before Phoebe arrives and asks if they can dance.

E.B.E. - S1-E17

Trivia: When Mulder and Scully arrive at the government building with the fake IDs, Mulder's ID says he's Tom Braidwood. Tom Braidwood played Melvin Frohike in this episode and many others.

Squeeze - S1-E3

Trivia: The shot of Tooms going down the chimney to reach his fourth victim was not done by any visual effects. A contortionist named Pepper actually squeezed inside, and then the sounds of bones cracking and snapping were added later. Confirmed by co-executive producer Robert Goodwin.

Tooms - S1-E21

Trivia: William B Davis (Cancer Man) spoke his first line in this episode.

Squeeze - S1-E3

Trivia: Doug Hutchinson is one of the two actors that played the character of Tooms, a liver eating mutant, in the episodes "Squeeze" and "Tooms." Hutchinson is actually a vegetarian, or was at the time. After filming "Tooms" he sent the liver of an animal to Chris Carter as a thank you for the opportunity to play a character on "X-Files."

Shadows - S1-E6

Trivia: When Mulder and Scully are in the library, if you look at the newspaper report, above the story of Howard Graves suicide there is an article about a killer who extracts his victims livers and escapes from impossible locations. A reference to Eugene Tooms.

Mr A Mclelland

Fire - S1-E12

Trivia: This episode originally included the following line of dialogue towards The End; Scully: Never let it be said that you wouldn't walk through fire for a woman, Mulder. Mulder: And never let it be said that I wouldn't do it for you again, Scully.

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Mistakes

Bad Blood - S5-E12

Visible crew/equipment: I don't know if this is visible in all formats, but on the newest UK release on DVD, watching in widescreen, it's amazingly obvious. When Mulder recovers from the vampire attack, he gets up from the floor and breaks up a chair to make a stake. There is a shot of his feet as he smashes the legs off and bends to pick up a piece. In the bottom left hand corner of the screen, you can see a crew member's hand carefully and quickly placing a piece of wood on top of the pile for Mulder to pick up.

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Quotes

Triangle - S6-E3

Skinner: Use your head Scully. It'll save your ass.
Scully: Save your own ass, sir. You'll save your head along with it.

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Questions

Trust No 1 - S9-E6

Question: After blowing up the car, when the NSA guy answers Scully's question, "How the hell do you know my size?" he says, "I know the name of your college boyfriend, your true hair colour, your ATM PIN number." This strongly suggests that red is not her true colour. Therefore, my question is: What is the true colour of Scully's hair?

Chop Luftmysza

Answer: He was being facetious. He doesn't specifically know that information, he was merely giving examples of the types of information he has access to.

I think so too.

lionhead

Answer: Actress Gillian Anderson's natural hair color is strawberry blonde, which she dyed fiery red. (Although in the revival of the show she wears a wig).

The question does not concern Gillian Anderson's true hair colour-it concerns Agent Dana Scully's true hair colour.

Chop Luftmysza

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