Please tell me its dial up ♡

Heh, the network? No. ;)

Despite boxy appearance and cables in and out, it's not a dialup modem nor does it make high pitched noises that might offend sensitive ears.

...Rose is doing enough hearing disruption at the moment anyways. ;)

I first imagined that for her scream..but omg the thought both people are going thru that noise at the same time..ahhh!

And this is why Wyatt told Rick to grab the ear protection and put it on. ;)

Her screaming was expected...by Wyatt, at least.

Memories coming back?

I think he's cleared a memory block.

Mulder : Did you bring enough ice cream to share with the rest of the class?

Scully : It's not ice cream... it's non-fat tofutti rice dreamsicle.

Mulder : Ugh... I bet the air in my mouth tastes better than that.

--The X-Files, "The Unnatural" (1999)

If you only watch one X-Files episode, make it The Post-Modern Prometheus. ;)

Post-Modern Prometheus is simply a great "Monster of the Week" episode that stylistically is an homage to the monster movies of the 1930s (obviously Frankenstein in particular). ;)

Always liked the Monster of the Week ones better than the "massive alien conspiracy" arcs -- but then, I'm a fan of the X-Files inspiration: Kolchak: the Night Stalker (the original, not the SyFy reboot).

Amusingly, Darren McGavin (who played Kolchak) did eventually make a cameo in X-Files as "a retired FBI agent".

He was supposed to reprise that role in The Unnatural, but had suffered a stroke two days into filming.

Ah, yeah, they'd do several Monster-of-the-Week each season, especially in the beginning :) The alien conspiracy really took over the storyline in the later seasons.

For non-alien episodes, I'd recommend:

Humbug -- Murder at a circus sideshow
The Host -- The infamous Flukeman
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose -- someone is murdering psychics
Squeeze -- Murders dating back to 1903, all apparently by the same killer (a rare 'monster' sequel episode was made to this: 'Tooms')
X-Cops -- an X-Files/Cops 'crossover'/parody episode
Bad Blood -- vampires


Particularly, I'd recommend Humbug and Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose of those two (tho the latter has a definitely human monster).

And special mention just because it's amusing: Improbable -- a killer's victims are thought to be connected via numerology. ...and we find out who God is in the X-Files universe. ;) And that he _really_ likes music.

Couple additions from folks I'm chatting with:

Home -- definitely a "horror movie plot" sort of episode
Jose Chung's From Outer Space -- Originally didn't list this one because, while it's good, it does have aliens....but at the same time, it doesn't....so...

You're welcome! And no worries :) Hope you enjoy the episodes!