Special Agent Fox Mulder certainly does not express much remorse (if any) after Deputy Bernard Paster is impaled by the immense spike at the front door. Instead, he rambles on with conveniently possessed knowledge regarding the current situation.
Great Lines-"I just never thought of you as a mother before."-Mulder to Scully before they enter the Peacock's house for the first time. Foreshadowing?
NANJAO-Usually the only time I have ever heard the Civil War called the War of Northern Aggression is when Northerners portray Southerners.
A digression-As person whose ancestors come from the Mid-Appalachian region I am offended whenever they are portrayed in the media as "inbreds driving retreads" as the musical "Kudzu" put it. It is a fact that two people getting married there are more likely to be cousins than in a place such as New York. This is because after 200+ years in a sparsely populated area there simply aren't that many people that aren't distantly related. Having documented many of these relationships in a search of relatives, I can state with some authority that in those 200 years that you could count the number of marriages closer than 2nd cousin on one hand. This produces close, not incestuous or inbred, relations.
On the other hand, one early settler of the area I'm from was a wandering son of one of New England's leading families. As my library has a book on the genealogy of this family I decided to look into it. I mentioned before that in the mountains you don't commonly marry closer than 2nd and the further away the better. These people in crowded New England seemed to have considered 2nd cousin as the least related you ought to be to your spouse. They also claimed descent from English royalty so I looked into the royal lineages. All I can say there is WOW.
I saw a nit in the halloween airing of this episode. Sherriff Taylor and Mrs. Taylor seem to sleep while wearing their watches. (I didn't get a good look at the Mrs. Taylors wrist, so it might be a bracelett. But, the sherriff's watch is definatelly on his wrist while he sleeps.)
This episode was banned for
three years, though not for the
reasons they claimed.
Well, I think it's safe to say that there are very compelling reasons NOT to watch this episode. If you do watch it, it'll be too late to get back that hour of your life that you've wasted. It's not only in poor taste, but it's BORING too.
I found this episode funny. A parody of the bad horror movies, in my opinion.
I disagree, Josh. This episode almost scared me into wetting my pants. I had nightmares after I watched it. I've never been that affected by any other TV show/movie.
I don't know. I didn't find this episode that horrible, it is rather horrific though. I remember back when it first aired, and boy was it a shock then.
I really like the shots of the Peacock brothers driving in their car, with the radio blaring. It a very interesting piece of direction.
While it is gross and disturbing, I didn't get too freaked out by it, mainly because of the tongue-in-cheek atmosphere the episode puts on--I mean Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney? Johnny Mathis?
I guess Scully was exaggerating a little about her nephew watching Babe 15 times a day. It's listed run time is 92 minutes - which is only enough to watch it 15 times if you don't have to rewind the tape, don't take any bathroom breaks, don't stop for meals and so on.
Special Agent Fox Mulder certainly does not express much remorse (if any) after Deputy Bernard Paster is impaled by the immense spike at the front door. Instead, he rambles on with conveniently possessed knowledge regarding the current situation.
And than 5 minutes later while sneaking through the sheep he cracks a bad joke about being a little turned on by the current situation.
I saw a nit in the halloween airing of this episode. Sherriff Taylor and Mrs. Taylor seem to sleep while wearing their watches. (I didn't get a good look at the Mrs. Taylors wrist, so it might be a bracelett. But, the sherriff's watch is definatelly on his wrist while he sleeps.)
Why is that a nit?
This episode desperately needs to be MISTied. It definitely belongs to be in the same world as Manos: Hands of Fate.
Why bury the infant outside their property? No one ever steps on their property, the sheriff never visits them.
The car must be haunted. It seems to always play Mathis' "Wonderful Wonderful" (and while we could try to attribute to an oddity radio station at Home, we have to conclude they were far enough away by the end of the episode). :P
Even with the mother in the trunk (likely because she wants to be there), have trouble seeing Edmund elude the FBI, etc. He seems pretty inept just like his "brothers". :P
Based on what the sheriff said, it sounds like these boys never leave the property and raise their own livestock and crops. If that's the case, how did they get themselves a sourdough baugette?