I've been waiting for this one, but now that it's here, I just don't know what to say. This is in my top 5 favorite episodes, and is consistently mentioned by fans and critics as one of the best of the series. If I tried to list everything I love about this episode... well, I'd basically just be writing a transcript, so I'm going to stick to 5 and hope that conveys me deep, abiding love for it.
In no particular order:
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The scene with Stupendous Yappi. His amazing eyebrows, "I can't take you anywhere," "So's your old man!" You know right off the bat that this is going to be an hilarious episode, but all the characters are so fucking serious in their roles that it just makes it even funnier. It's like everyone is the straight man, and no one knows it.
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"It's from your New York Nicks t-shirt!" "Miss!" Wow, Mulder, way to be a dick. Also, nice callback to another amazing episode, Beyond the Sea, wherein self-professed psychic Luther Lee Boggs fails to recognize that that same shred of fabric is, indeed, from that t-shirt.
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Detective all blah blah blah hard evidence will catch this guy... Scully out of nowhere: It's the bellhop!
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That doll. The doll that turns into a corpse in Bruckman's hands. That fucking doll. Oh god.
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Scully finding Bruckman after he commits suicide. It's a beautiful, heart-wrenching moment that I could not begin to describe. Yes, the episode is mostly a comedy, but it's such a dark comedy interspersed with moments of deep tragedy culminating in this very scene. When Bruckman described it earlier, we laughed it off as a horny old man flirting with (the devastatingly hot) Scully... only to have that prediction come back and STAB US IN THE HEART.
Special mention: Bruckman's obsession of which precise type of pie Mulder steps in before being stabbed. Always makes me giggle. And want pie.
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