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-->'''Blaine''' (talking about Scully and Mulder): ''One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn't pulling it off. Like, her hair was red, but it was a little too red, y'know? And the other one, the tall, lanky one, his face was so blank and expressionless. He didn't even seem human. I think he was a mandroid.''

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* ADateWithRosiePalms [[spoiler:Mulder]] has one of this, when watching [[spoiler:Bigfoot found footage]]

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* ADateWithRosiePalms [[spoiler:Mulder]] has one of this, when watching [[spoiler:Bigfoot found footage]]footage.]]



* AlienAutopsy [[spoiler:It's not an alien being autopsied.]]

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* AlienAutopsy AlienAutopsy: [[spoiler:It's not an alien being autopsied.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Chung is largely based on TrumanCapote, with his research trip to Klass County and boasting about creating a "new literary genre" of "non-fiction science fiction" being pretty obvious parallels to the making of ''InColdBlood''. He's also (like his actor Charles Nelson Reilly) very obviously gay, though this is never directly commented upon.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Chung is largely based on TrumanCapote, Truman Capote, with his research trip to Klass County and boasting about creating a "new literary genre" of "non-fiction science fiction" being pretty obvious parallels to the making of ''InColdBlood''. He's also (like his actor Charles Nelson Reilly) very obviously gay, though this is never directly commented upon.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms [[spoiler:Mulder]] has one of this, when watching [[spoiler:Bigfoot found footage]]
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** Detective Manners was based on show director Kim "Bleeping" Manners, who did curse like that in real life.
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** Klass County was named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Klass Philip Klass]], a prominent UFO skeptic.

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** This episode crams nearly every variation of abduction stories (and their possible explanations) into one narrative.
* AlienAutopsyAlienAutopsy [[spoiler:It's not an alien being autopsied.]]


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* MeaningfulEcho: Certain phrases get repeated often, adding to the overlapping effect of unreliable narration to what really is happening in Klass County.
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* UnreliableNarrator

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* UnreliableNarratorUnreliableNarrator: Several of them, some of which are having their unreliable narration re-told second hand by another UnreliableNarrator (either Chung or Scully)
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Chung is largely based on TrumanCapote, with his research trip to Klass County and boasting about creating a "new literary genre" of "non-fiction science fiction" being pretty obvious parallels to the making of ''InColdBlood''. He's also (like his actor Charles Nelson Reilly) very obviously gay, though this is never directly commented upon.
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* PrisonRape: Mulder tells Harold that he's likely to experience this. The threat is gentler than you might expect because Mulder is sure that Harold is innocent of taking advantage of Chrissy, and is also trying to get the truth about the UFO.

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* BetterThanSex: Flying a UFO is.

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* BetterThanSex: Flying BetterThanSex:
--> '''Lt. Schaefer:''' Have you ever flown
a UFO is.flying saucer? Afterwards, sex seems trite.
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* Absurdism: One of the best examples of this philosophy in recent TV, this episode actually has a serious message under all the comedy: it's about the conflict between the innate human desire to make connections with other and the fact that we are ultimately isolated by the subjective nature of our own perceptions.

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* Absurdism: {{Absurdism}}: One of the best examples of this philosophy in recent TV, this episode actually has a serious message under all the comedy: it's about the conflict between the innate human desire to make connections with other and the fact that we are ultimately isolated by the subjective nature of our own perceptions.
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* Absurdism: One of the best examples of this philosophy in recent TV, this episode actually has a serious message under all the comedy: it's about the conflict between the innate human desire to make connections with other and the fact that we are ultimately isolated by the subjective nature of our own perceptions.
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* HotScientist / FairCop: The writer Chung fancied Scully, calling her a brainy beauty with good taste in literature.
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Chung.
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* MindScrew: What really happened there, we'll never know.
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* FictionalDocument: The book ''From Outer Space'' which is being written by Jose Chung.
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* ContinuityNod: Stupendous Yappi, known as a PhonyPsychic from "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", appears in a video of alien autopsy.

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* ContinuityNod: Stupendous Yappi, known as a PhonyPsychic from we met in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", appears in a video of the alien autopsy.autopsy which Scully performed.
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* CelebrityParadox: Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek and wrestler/future governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura appeared in the roles of TheMenInBlack. The Celebrity Paradox was ZigZagged. The man in black played by Ventura was described as "creepy," while the one played by Trebek just "looked like Alex Trebek," which made those reporting them seem all the more crazy.

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* CelebrityParadox: ZigZagged. Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek and wrestler/future governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura appeared in the roles of TheMenInBlack. The Celebrity Paradox was ZigZagged.TheMenInBlack. The man in black played by Ventura was described as "creepy," while the one played by Trebek just "looked like Alex Trebek," which made those reporting them seem all the more crazy.



* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Scully is uncomfprtable with Detective Manners's cop-mouth.

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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Scully is uncomfprtable uncomfortable with Detective Manners's cop-mouth.

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* AlienAbduction



* BetterThanSex: Flying a UFO.

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* BetterThanSex: Flying a UFO.UFO is.


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* ContinuityNod: Stupendous Yappi, known as a PhonyPsychic from "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", appears in a video of alien autopsy.

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* TheConspiracyTheorist: A lot of them.

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* TheConspiracyTheorist: ConspiracyTheorist: A lot of them.



* MoneyDearBoy: InUnniverse reason why

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* MoneyDearBoy: InUnniverse InUniverse reason why Chung is writing the novel.


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* UnusualEuphemism: Bleep used as various parts of speech, a-hole and many others.
* YouLookFamiliar: Detective "Bleeping" Manners was Sheriff John Oakes in "Die Hand die verletzt". He would later appear in two more episodes.

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Room Full of Crazy
The Conspiracy Theorist who believes in aliens and who wants to be abducted in "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" has a corner in his room which is a nice foil to Mulder's office. He even has a similar poster but the message reads "I believe".



* RoomFullOfCrazy: The Conspiracy Theorist who believes in aliens and who wants to be abducted in "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" has a corner in his room which is a nice foil to Mulder's office. He even has a similar poster but the message reads "I believe".



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* TheConspiracyTheorist: A lot of them.
Room Full of Crazy
The Conspiracy Theorist who believes in aliens and who wants to be abducted in "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" has a corner in his room which is a nice foil to Mulder's office. He even has a similar poster but the message reads "I believe".



* FictionAsCoverUp
* GasLeakCoverup
* JurisdictionFriction: The local police force, the FBI, the CIA, TheMenInBlack, and the Military. Wow!



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* NarrativeProfanityFilterMoneyDearBoy: InUnniverse reason why
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Scully is uncomfprtable with Detective Manners's cop-mouth.
* RashomonStyle



* Fiction as Cover-Up
* Gas Leak Coverup
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* LargeHam: You only saw '''the planet Venus'''.



* NarrativeProfanityFilter



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* UnreliableNarratorUnreliableNarrator

* Fiction as Cover-Up
* Gas Leak Coverup
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* CurseCutShort:
** Detective Manners.
** Jose Chung interrupts Scully when she seems to want to say what Detective Manners ''really'' said.


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* SoundEffectBleep: Detective Manners in Scully's narration.
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** They keeps appearing in this episode.
** Mulder himself is referred to as a man-in-black-government-authority-figure type, with a blank expression and emotioneless face.

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** They keeps keep appearing in this throughout the episode.
** Mulder himself is referred to as a man-in-black-government-authority-figure type, with a blank expression and emotioneless emotionless face.
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* CelebrityParadox: Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek and wrestler/future governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura appeared in the roles of TheMenInBlack. The Celebrity Paradox was ZigZagged. The man in black played by Ventura was described as "creepy," while the one played by Trebek just "looked like Alex Trebek," which made those reporting them seem all the more crazy.
* TheMenInBlack
** They keeps appearing in this episode.
** Mulder himself is referred to as a man-in-black-government-authority-figure type, with a blank expression and emotioneless face.

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* BetterThanSex: Flying a UFO.
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