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* HilariousInHindsight: Oh Creator/VinceGilligan, [[Series/BreakingBad you and your stories about unremarkable looking men leading criminal double-lives while evading the authorities]].



* SpecialEffectFailure: Scully's autopsy bonesaw is clearly not spinning, despite the addition of mechanical whirring foley.

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* SpecialEffectFailure: Scully's autopsy bonesaw is clearly not spinning, despite the addition of mechanical whirring foley.foley.
* ValuesDissonance: It would be harder today to broadcast a television episode about a man committing several rapes by fraud in a comedic light then when this episode originally aired.
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He wasn't articifially impregnating them. He was having sex with the women women while pretending to be their husbands.


* SpecialEffectFailure: Scully's autopsy bonesaw is clearly not spinning, despite the addition of mechanical whirring foley.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Since her abduction in Season 2, Scully has always reacted particularly badly to cases involving the specific targeting of women. "Home", an early episode of Season 4, establishes that Scully would like children. Halfway through Season 4, Scully contracts a cancer which is known to cause infertility, the psychological fallout of which is frequently returned to over the back half of the series. This leads us to the end of Season 4 and an episode about a creature artificially impregnating women... which isn't focussed on Scully in the slightest and doesn't seem to affect her any differently than any other episode would.

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* SpecialEffectFailure: Scully's autopsy bonesaw is clearly not spinning, despite the addition of mechanical whirring foley.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Since her abduction in Season 2, Scully has always reacted particularly badly to cases involving the specific targeting of women. "Home", an early episode of Season 4, establishes that Scully would like children. Halfway through Season 4, Scully contracts a cancer which is known to cause infertility, the psychological fallout of which is frequently returned to over the back half of the series. This leads us to the end of Season 4 and an episode about a creature artificially impregnating women... which isn't focussed on Scully in the slightest and doesn't seem to affect her any differently than any other episode would.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Since her abduction in Season 2, Scully has always reacted particularly badly to cases involving the specific targeting of women. "Home", an early episode of Season 4, establishes that Scully would like children. Halfway through Season 4, Scully contracts a cancer which is known to cause infertility, the psychological fallout of which is frequently returned to over the back half of the series. This leads us to the end of Season 4 and an episode about a creature impregnating women and giving them deformed children... which isn't focussed on Scully in the slightest and doesn't seem to affect her any differently than any other episode would.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Since her abduction in Season 2, Scully has always reacted particularly badly to cases involving the specific targeting of women. "Home", an early episode of Season 4, establishes that Scully would like children. Halfway through Season 4, Scully contracts a cancer which is known to cause infertility, the psychological fallout of which is frequently returned to over the back half of the series. This leads us to the end of Season 4 and an episode about a creature artificially impregnating women and giving them deformed children...women... which isn't focussed on Scully in the slightest and doesn't seem to affect her any differently than any other episode would.
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* YouWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Since her abduction in Season 2, Scully has always reacted particularly badly to cases involving the specific targeting of women. "Home", an early episode of Season 4, establishes that Scully would like children. Halfway through Season 4, Scully contracts a cancer which is known to cause infertility, the psychological fallout of which is frequently returned to over the back half of the series. This leads us to the end of Season 4 and an episode about a creature impregnating women and giving them deformed children... which isn't focussed on Scully in the slightest and doesn't seem to affect her any differently than any other episode would.

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* YouWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Since her abduction in Season 2, Scully has always reacted particularly badly to cases involving the specific targeting of women. "Home", an early episode of Season 4, establishes that Scully would like children. Halfway through Season 4, Scully contracts a cancer which is known to cause infertility, the psychological fallout of which is frequently returned to over the back half of the series. This leads us to the end of Season 4 and an episode about a creature impregnating women and giving them deformed children... which isn't focussed on Scully in the slightest and doesn't seem to affect her any differently than any other episode would.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: Scully's autopsy bonesaw is clearly not spinning, despite the addition of mechanical whirring foley.

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* SpecialEffectFailure: Scully's autopsy bonesaw is clearly not spinning, despite the addition of mechanical whirring foley.foley.
*YouWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Since her abduction in Season 2, Scully has always reacted particularly badly to cases involving the specific targeting of women. "Home", an early episode of Season 4, establishes that Scully would like children. Halfway through Season 4, Scully contracts a cancer which is known to cause infertility, the psychological fallout of which is frequently returned to over the back half of the series. This leads us to the end of Season 4 and an episode about a creature impregnating women and giving them deformed children... which isn't focussed on Scully in the slightest and doesn't seem to affect her any differently than any other episode would.
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* HollywoodHomely: Scully insinuates that no woman would consensually have sex with a man who looked like Eddie.

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* HollywoodHomely: Scully insinuates that no woman would consensually have sex with a man who looked like Eddie.Eddie.
* SpecialEffectFailure: Scully's autopsy bonesaw is clearly not spinning, despite the addition of mechanical whirring foley.
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* HollywoodHomely: Scully insinuates that no woman would consensually have sex with a man who looked like Eddie.

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