War of the Coprophages

"Great roaches and creepy scenes scurry steadily across the screen, in one instance literally."

-Michael B.-


The episode, "War of the Coprophages", originally aired on January 5, 1996. That episode of The X-Files was the 12th episode of the third season.

Mulder goes to the small town in pursuit of UFO reports but finds instead a town terrorized by roaches, in this darkly humorous send-up. Mulder pursues both a theory on alien robotic probes and a lovely entomologist named Bambi, while Scully faces down a panicked, fleeing mob. Cockroaches with metallic exoskeletons mix with insectoid automatons, a synthetic fuels researcher with a license to import dung, and walls that literally undulate with insects to render a creepy, funny, and very strange night for Mulder and Scully.

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Name                Rating
 
Dena C....................10
Julie C...................10
Michael B.................10
Sean A.....................9


Average Rating       9.8

"Damn cockroaches! Always getting into my computer! The X-Files is the perfect vehicle for oddball humor. The weirder, the more darkly humorous, the better in my opinion. Among my top ten favorite episodes are "Humbug", "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" and this...killer roach story. Great glimpses of Scully relaxing at home, washing her dog, ect. Bobbie Phillips is perfect as the sexy entomologist Bambi Berenbaum. Duchovny and Anderson each play off Phillips with great comic skill and all of the supporting characters are brilliant including a very philosophic bug exterminator, and a colorful panicking mob. This is a homage to killer bug movies with the characters that are present in every bug movie included...the police chief, the doctor, the sexy female scientist, the old disabeled scientist..it even has a killer bug movie soundtrack. Great roaches and creepy scenes scurry steadily across the screen, in one instance literally. I love the scene with the cockroaches crawling in the teenagers flesh."
-Michael B.-

"This is such a funny episode! Mulder and Scully's phone conversations were so cute, and it was funny when Mulder kept having to go and hanging up on Scully. Queequeg gets a bath, and runs off before it's finished. It was also very creative to have that one cockroach look like it was crawling across the viewer's television screen. This episode was definitely another great triumph for Darin Morgan, my favorite writer."
-Julie C.-

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