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-->'''Mulder''': It appears that cockroaches are mortally attacking people.\\
'''Scully''': I'm not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said.
-->'''Mulder''': It appears that cockroaches are mortally attacking people.\\
'''Scully''': I'm not going to ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said.
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%%* IncrediblyLamePun: "You look pooped."%%How is this a pun?
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* HotScientist: Entomologist Dr [[EmbarrassingFirstName Bambi]] Berenbaum.
-->'''Scully:''' ''(Incredulous)'' Her name is ''Bambi''?
-->'''Scully:''' ''(Incredulous)'' Her name is ''Bambi''?
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* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Scully leaves her Washington DC home at night and arrives in Miller's Grove, Massachusetts on the same night. She might be able to pull this off if she left at the beginning of the night, drove at top speed, and encountered zero traffic.
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* YouCanPanicNow: Scully attempts to control the mob with a [[ShamingTheMob speech]] about how they are giving in to panic. The mob ignores her and creates havoc.
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* BreatherEpisode: This episode (and ''Syzygy'', which follows it) is much LighterAndSofter than the mythology-heavy ''Nisei/731'' and the dramatic ''Revelations'', which preceded it. (In spite of the deaths.)
* ClingyJealousGirl: Scully is quite unconcerned with the mystery, until Mulder meets a scientist named Bambi. She instantly goes into this mode (the "snide comments" variation), drops everything and races to the scene.
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* MechanicalInsects: The inhabitants of a small town are seemingly being attacked and killed by cockroaches. The deaths all turn out to have mundane explanations, but they do discover something more bizarre: some of the cockroaches in town prove to be robots with metal exoskeletons, which an expert in the field declares to be far more advanced than anything he's ever seen. It's never confirmed where they come from, but Mulder suspects they may be alien surveillance drones.
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[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E01TheBlessingWay 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E03DPO 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E04ClydeBruckmansFinalRepose 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E05TheList 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E06TwoShy 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E07TheWalk 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E08Oubliette 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E09Nisei 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E10SevenThreeOne 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E11Revelations 11]] | '''12''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E13Syzygy 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E14Grotesque 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E15PiperMaru 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E16Apocrypha 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E17Pusher 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E18TesoDosBichos 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E19HellMoney 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E21Avatar 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E22Quagmire 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E23Wetwired 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E24TalithaCumi 24]]]]-]]]
'''Season 3, Episode 12:'''
!War of the Coprophages
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Greetings from planet Earth."'']]
->Written by Darin Morgan\\
Directed by Kim Manners
->''"I just hope you're not implying you've come across an infestation of killer cockroaches."''
-->-- '''Dana Scully'''
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E01TheBlessingWay 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E02PaperClip 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E03DPO 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E04ClydeBruckmansFinalRepose 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E05TheList 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E06TwoShy 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E07TheWalk 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E08Oubliette 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E09Nisei 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E10SevenThreeOne 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E11Revelations 11]] | '''12''' | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E13Syzygy 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E14Grotesque 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E15PiperMaru 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E16Apocrypha 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E17Pusher 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E18TesoDosBichos 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E19HellMoney 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E21Avatar 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E22Quagmire 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E23Wetwired 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS03E24TalithaCumi 24]]]]-]]]
'''Season 3, Episode 12:'''
!War of the Coprophages
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->''"I just hope you're not implying you've come across an infestation of killer cockroaches."''
-->-- '''Dana Scully'''
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* OutrunTheFireballOutrunTheFireball: The explosion, yes. The poop, on the other hand...
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Strange incidents surround a cockroach infestation in a small town.
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** Also references the infamous 1938 radio broadcast of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. The town is named "Miller's Grove", a twist on Grover's Mill, for example.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Referencing ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''.
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** Referencing ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''.
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* CreepyCockroach: So very creepy!
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* ApocalypseAnarchy: Locally. At People think that they are all going to be killed by cockroaches which got there either due to government conspiracy and their experiments, or that they are alien robotic invaders. Chaos ensues. It's most apparent in one point, everyone scene in a convenience store where everybody is freaking out and looting, grabbing trying to grab whatever supplies they see.
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Cockroaches are the MonsterOfTheWeek, and at one point one scurries across the TV screen (as if it's [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou IN YOUR HOUSE!]]).
*EccentricExterminatorEccentricExterminator: A cockroach exterminator opens the episode with a heartfelt ode to roaches before finishing it with "But to them, we humans are gods and should act accordingly" and stomping a particularly unlucky specimen on the floor. It doesn't end well for him.
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* JumpScare: If you're watching this episode for the first time, nothing is going to prepare you for when [[spoiler:that that cockroach shows up on your screen.]] And [[{{Jerkass}} just for kicks]], ''we're not going to tell you when that happens''.[[note]]Trust us, '''it's beyond your comprehension'''...[[/note]]
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** One fan theory is that [[spoiler:the [[HeroOfAnotherStory Earth cockroaches were waging a literal war on the alien metal cockroaches]], which was why they would suddenly swarm in certain areas and then disappear. We humans were merely getting in the way...]]
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