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10 January 1999
(Season 6, Episode 8)
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A mayor of a small town asks Mulder and Scully to investigate Daryl Mootz, a man who apparently can make it rain at will...
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True Love changes the world around you... (Barf)
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(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Dirk Blocker | ... | Mayor Gilmore |
 | Frankie Ingrassia | ... | Cindy Culpepper (as Francesca Ingrassia) |
 | Victoria Jackson | ... | Sheila Fontaine |
 | Brian Johnson | ... | Man (as Brian D. Johnson) |
| Sharon Madden | ... | Hotel Manager |
 | David Manis | ... | Holman Hardt |
| Tom McFadden | ... | The Doctor (as Thom McFadden) |
 | Clayton Rohner | ... | Daryl Mootz |
| Sally Stevens | ... | Radio Singer |
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Argentina:60 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Continuity: When the car crashes into the pole you can see in the external scene that the fractured windscreen is gone but on the next internal shot it is back.
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Hotel Manager:
Oh, miss, we moved your boyfriend's things into your room.
Scully: He's my partner, and we prefer separate rooms.
Hotel Manager: Oh, old-fashioned are you, huh? Well, we're booked solid with the high school reunion. You can take it or leave it.
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Scully: He's my partner, and we prefer separate rooms.
Hotel Manager: Oh, old-fashioned are you, huh? Well, we're booked solid with the high school reunion. You can take it or leave it.
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Although this has to be the nadir of season six, this schmaltzy episode isn't badly written or acted. It's just that most of us looked to the X-Files for taut, gripping horror/thrillers ending without easy answers and moving toward dark but fathomable conspiracies. Season 6 gave us a stream of tongue-in-cheek comedies that undermined the show's continuity and, frankly, made Simpsons' Halloween Specials look like great thriller TV.
In this episode Victoria Jackson of SNL fame plays the long-suffering girlfriend of a man who sets himself up as a rainmaker. However her weatherman boss is the one who truly loves her and Mulder winds up having to provide him dating advice in order to get out of town.
There's some playful fun with the chemistry between the agents and some amusing but none-too-sophisticated characterization of Midwestern hicks. It's nothing you'd want to see more than once!
It's hard to figure out Season 6. X-Files creator Chris Carter seems bored by the whole 'Syndicate conspiracy' story arc and abandons responsibility to the black comedy writers.