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22 out of 23 people found the following comment useful :- The FBI has nothing to hide., 4 June 2007 Author: Muldernsanta from Washington Terrace, Utah
Back in 2000, when this episode initially aired, if you missed the promo spots for X-Cops, you were in for a surprise. Opening up the X-Files with the Cops warning and theme would make you re-check the TV guide and make sure you were watching the right show. Wow. A collaboration between a fictional TV show and a reality TV show had to have been a first when X-Cops aired. This episode is so much fun, made all the funner if you're familiar with Cops. Besides having the Cops opening theme, the show also uses the Cops font for captioning locations and names. I envy the cop who got to frisk Scully. It's so funny to watch Scully's reactions to being filmed. Her acting has never been better than in this episode. I love it when she hides behind the door. I like Ricky the police sketch artist. His haircut reminds me of Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons. Steve and Edy are quite funny, though they make me squirm a little. Until I just looked it up on TV.com, I didn't get Mulder's line of "the Steve and Eydie?" It's a reference to a 60's and 70's husband and wife singing duo named Steve and Eydie. I also like Mulder's line that "bubblegum pink is a good color for Scully". It's funny to see Mulder completely enjoying Steve and Edy. Was that acting? Or could DD just not contain his laughter? Scully's line during the autopsy is great, smiling at the camera and saying, "the FBI has nothing to hide". And finally, when Scully laments that Mulder didn't get proof again of the paranormal, Mulder points at the camera and says "it all depends on how they edit it." Excellent episode! I laugh out loud the entire time I watch this episode every time. It is too fun.
13 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :- A great episode, 22 April 2008 Author: AdnanZ
The main complaint critics of this episode have about "X-Cops" is that it ridicules The X-Files. I don't know if 'ridicule' is the right word. It makes fun of itself in a loving way. The idea for the crossover here was certainly very creative and different, to combine a popular scripted series with well... COPS. What I like is that Vince Gilligan manages to include some of the more entertaining aspects of COPS in this episode of The X-Files. His script is one of his best, clever, witty, fun. The production work on this episode is also excellent.This is a creative and great episode that is unfairly criticized because some people have a preconceived notion of what The X-Files 'should be'. Personally, one of the things I admire most about the show is its diversity and creativity, and both are present in "X-Cops".10/10
12 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :- Funny, interesting...And unfairly panned., 1 May 2008 Author: lobomcthirsty from United States
I am a fan of the different. The strange, the unusual, the experimental. This sentiment is not always shared. And to the longtime fans of a television series in particular, a general sentiment is that everything is written in stone. To deviate is to blaspheme. And it seems, unfortunately, that is the case with this episode.Mulder and Scully chase a monster across Los Angeles, to which the witnesses of said monster can not all agree on what exactly the monster is. The twist? It's all being recorded--by the cameramen of COPS.I thought it was good, funny and strangely charming if a little open ended. But knowing how fans react to the different, strange, unusual and experimental (ironically the very things the X-Files were in the beginning and what attracted many fans, including myself, to the show), I was not surprised to find the episode had been panned. How irrelevant, they howled. Irrelevant to what, one wonders? The tired, seemingly endless plot line about a grandiose alien conspiracy? Is that what we should be saying about the interesting episodes about the Fluke-Man or the ancient killer insects in logs? Surely, there were no Hybrid Alien Government Green-Bloods in those! Maybe it was just the combination of my two favorite shows. Maybe it was the completely blind-siding concept. Maybe I just love a show that can poke fun at it's self and dare to mix things up. Or maybe it was that itch for the strange and unusual. But regardless, I loved it. And if you keep an open mind, like our intrepid duo, you may very well do so yourself.
14 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :- The FBI has nothing to hide., 26 July 2007 Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
Very creative idea for a cross-over. There are so many things I like about this episode that I won't even try to name them all. All I can say is there is some violence on this episode that I doubt they would actually play on Cops. Kudos to the gay black couple and the old Mexican lady. "You catch" as she points to the sketch of Freddy Krueger. I think I kind of like the idea that those who are so prone to panic over little nothings are the ones that get killed in this episode. Good riddance to most of them I say. Like the lady at the morgue when Scully is doing the autopsy. Man was I glad when she finally shut up. Anyway, 9/10 for me.
7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- Thought so, 26 March 2008 Author: Edgewalker from Tuxford, England
I can still remember where and with whom I watched X-Cops for the first time, it's definitely one of those episodes. But then it's meant to be. Like Home or Humbug, it fits in by not fitting in at all and by staying long and vivid in your imagination. Judson Mills has the unenviable task of making us comfortable in the episode's presence and he pulls it off with a casual, underplayed performance that probably looks considerably more natural than it actually is. The Sgt. Paula Duthie character could have been an horrendous, cliché-ridden mess, but Dee Freeman's timing and delivery are exquisite and the episode is blessed by her presence. Michael Watkin's couldn't really go wrong with the direction of X-Cops, but the scrappy and jumpy camera work is kept just enough in check and left just enough loose for you to believe that every second of every frame is as intended. Hands up anyone who doesn't love X-Cops...Thought so.
5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :- Good Cop, X Cop, 23 August 2007 Author: foxy_mulder from An old burnt down shack in the sahara
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Mulder and Scully are followed around by a "Cops" camera crew while investigating a monster that "feeds on fear". I felt that this episode had some parts that were somewhat similar to some parts in "The Blair Witch Project." 'Nuff said, I don't wanna spoil the whole thing for some people but really, if you haven't seen it, you must simply see it it is brill brill (my word for brilliant *wink*) A clap clap clap nine star episode and their are many other X-Files episodes I will recommend for you. 4x14: Leonard Betts 4x15: Memento Mori (which means 'Remember you will die') 3x03: D.P.O. 3x12: War of the Coprophages 4x22: Elegy 5x06: The Post-Modern Prometheus 1x02: Squeeze 1x20: Tooms (Squeeze II) 2x20: Humbug 2x18: Fearful Symmetry 6x02: Drive 6x07: The Rain King 6x09: Tithonus and many more!
1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- Sooo many funny lines / situations of X-files and Cops, 27 March 2009 Author: hansenmv2002 from United States
Vince displays what he does well in this one ---- a very clever take off of the Enterprise-Klingon episode of ST:TOS with the glowing/hovering ... uh ... pentacle/octagonal/? pinwheel-thing. It sets up the situation to essentially create endless conflict (and misery) for a very long time -- it keeps healing the minimal part of both the Kirk-squad and the Klingons allowed to fight (who control the lower engineering decks). And they shot X-COPS only in south-central - no other place has quite those cinderblock walls (and THOSE streets / foliage /ramsackle look).It only takes sound and video to shoot COPS (the Maui COPS tried to bust me once --- only because a camera crew was there, recording all.) I was boring - girlfriend and I were drinking beer in the Jeep about 200 feet from our condo. The locals wouldn't have wasted their time/effort otherwise - we lived on the island at the time - quite familiar with the habits of local cops. (The then-girlfriend - she didn't want her son to see her drinking beer... OK.) We hid the empties underneath the seat anyway - never know. COPS in Maui was way big news.(M/S break into a house - find a 2-man COPS shooting film team in a closet - - - cowering in fear.) M (I think) slams the closet door shut - S turns to the camera team following M/S - S: God I hate you guys. last lines: S: (to M) but would anyone believe this? M: depends on how THEY edit it (pointing at camera crew).S: Yeah - but who would write it.Classic ending to a great script. Woulda been cool to revisit this episode - expand the storyline.
4 out of 22 people found the following comment useful :- The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is... South Central LA?, 25 October 2006 Author: (andyetris@yahoo.com) from Philadelphia, PA
COPS is filmed in front of a live audience - so try to stay that way! In this parody-thriller, Deputy Wetzel keeps trying to flee his worst nightmare, while the COPS video-cam guys try (mostly) to keep up. Others are not so lucky and when an assistant coroner drops dead of something that acts like the Hansa virus, Mulder thinks he knows what's going on.Anyone familiar with the TV show COPS is going to recognize the video camera bouncing into dark alleys and its seamy-underside-of-America discoveries. Deputy Wetzel's comments on the slashed sketch artist is hilarious and there are some funny moments as cinema verite confronts Mulderisms. However...SO many possibilities are overlooked here that it's hard for me to watch. Nope, we're not afraid of poverty, drug addiction, street crime, social diseases, illegal aliens/immigration authorities, TV exposure, cops... We're afraid of Freddie Kreuger and the moth man! There's a great idea there too, but it fails to surface in this black comedy that doesn't even manage to keep the COPS parody completely in focus. One more sad example of dropping the ball in season 7.
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