Join us as we discuss The X-Files season 10 episode five, titled: Babylon. This episode was not nearly as bad as we thought from our original viewing. There is some really good stuff here.

Show Notes

So THAT is what Mulder was hearing at the end of the episode.

Music

Urban Islam – Audio Android

My Give a Damn’s Busted – Jo Dee Messina

Bankegah – Trad

Something Bad – Performed by Carrie Underwood with Miranda Lambert

Achy Breaky Heart – Performed by Billy Ray Cyrus

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk – Performed by Trace Atkins

Secret Heart – Written by Ron Sexsmith, Performed by Ron Sexsmith

Misery Is the River of the World – (uncredited) – Performed by Tom Waits

Ho Hey – (uncredited) – Performed by Lumineers

ReCap

Name Combinations

Mulder and Scully – Sculder

Miller and Einstein – Millinstein

Scully and Miller – Sciller

Mulder and Einstein – Mulstein

 

Recap

Cold Open

Shiraz is praying and eating and driving. He eyes a couple ladies. He shoots them a smile, they look him up and down and disregard him. Local bumpkin, and his 2 cousins (who he’s probably dating) pull up next to him and revs his engine. They begin making racist comments that you’d normally hear at a Trump rally. Then then drive off to attend a Trump rally. Shiraz picks up terror buddy, Kellogg. They drive to an art gallery, enter, and blow it up. The explosion is massive and yet there are people running around on fire?…

Question: Are schools doing enough to teach proper “stop, drop and roll” technique. Are we failing these kids?

Shiraz shows signs of not being that into the cause. He smiles at the girls, listening to dubstep in the car when he’s alone, then switching it to traditional terrorist music when his friend is with him.

Ziggura is a fake name

way to further the muslim stereotype – Fox

Quotes: (woman chuckling) Woman: Looks like we got a visitor. Woman 2: A little brownie. Man: Are we in the wrong country then? Huh? Woman: All right, all right.

Intro

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We open with Sculder in their office doing what they do best: arguing over something spooky. Mulder is arguing that, in the video they are watching, god might be blowing his horn and Scully is refuting all his claims. Agent Miller knocks at the door, asking if anyone is down there and Scully answers “nobody but the FBI’s most unwanted.” Mulder shoots her a look and she says, “i’ve been waiting 23 years to say that.” Miller and Einstein, or Millinstein, enter the room and have a conversation with Sculder. These two are Sculder’s doppelgangers from 23 years ago.

Question: Do Mulder and Scully actually believe in the side they are arguing, or at this point, do they just enjoy the exercise? Answer: They enjoy the exercise.

Question: Was Scully as mean to Mulder as Einstein is to Miller? Answer: No.

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Millinstein are at the airport discussing Sculder, why they work the x-files, why they work with each other when Miller gets a call from Scully. She wants to help Miller communicate with the terrorist. Einstein gets a call from Mulder. He wants to help her communicate with the terrorist. Miller heads to Texas and Einstein heads to Mulder’s office. We cut to a scene of a terrorist making bombs.

Great Quote: Newscasters – It’s just a painting. Yeah. Of Mohammed sitting on a toilet defecating radical Islamists!

Question: Are Mulder and Scully trying to hook up with each other’s younger, attractive doppelgangers? Answer: Maybe…

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