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Chris Carter (creator)
Vince Gilligan (written by)
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Original Air Date:
20 April 1997 (Season 4, Episode 20)
Plot:
Five unrelated women in a small town give birth to babies with small tails. The prime suspect is a man who can shape shift into whomever he wants. | add synopsis
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Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | David Duchovny | ... | Fox Mulder |
 | Gillian Anderson | ... | Dana Scully |
 | Mitch Pileggi | ... | Walter Skinner |
 | Darin Morgan | ... | Eddie Van Blundht |
 | Christine Cavanaugh | ... | Amanda Nelligan |
 | Lee de Broux | ... | Eddie Van Blundht Sr. |
| Robert Rozen | ... | Dr. Alton Pugh |
 | Paul McGillion | ... | Fred Neiman / Angry Husband |
| Jennifer Sterling | ... | Angry Wife |
| David Cameron | ... | The Deputy |
| Forbes Angus | ... | Security Guard |
| Peter Kelamis | ... | Husband #2 |
| P. Lynn Johnson | ... | Health Department Doctor |
| Carrie Cain-Sparks | ... | Duty Nurse (as Carrie Cain Sparks) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Tom Braidwood | ... | Melvin Frohike (voice) |
 | Dean Haglund | ... | Richard Langly (voice) |
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Argentina:60 min
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Writer Vince Gilligan said that originally he wanted wings to be the "deformity" that the babies were born with, because he was afraid that tails wouldn't be very cute. Tails proved much easier to create digitally, though, so the wings were changed to tails in the script. more
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References Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1963) more
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Quite possibly the most hilarious X-Files episode ever. Darin Morgan comes back to the X-Files one last time, not as a writer but as an actor playing the shape shifting alien loser Eddie Van Blundht. This is the best episode in season four, and one of my all time favorites. The teaser is very funny and weird. Five babies are born with a tail and all because of Eddie Van Blundht who just wants to be loved. David Duchovny shows his comedic talents during the last act of this episode playing somebody else playing him. Vince Gilligan who wrote the episode really knows how to do great comedies. Unlike Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose this episode is not touching and it is completely mindless. But it is still great