The utter (Terminator) humor of Doggett investigating a metal man is great.

I especially loved the discussion of smart metals a'la the T-1000.

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XFiles: The X-Phily Sink and other stuff: The Kitchen Sink is out there...

By Mike Deeds on Monday, January 15, 2001 - 11:16 am:


Muncie, IN episode - Salvage. It was nice to see an X-File take place in Muncie (my hometown). I think the XF producers should try to hit all 50 states before the show ends.

By Mike Deeds on Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 06:41 am:


Muncie laboratory watching

By KEITH ROYSDON

MUNCIE - When the FBI agents of The X-Files investigate strange goings-on
at a Muncie metallurgy lab during Sunday night's episode, one group of local
residents will be watching closely.

No one in town will be more interested than the 71 employees of Muncie's only
metallurgy lab.

"There's a lot of interest," said Larry Herker, vice president of marketing for
Sherry Laboratories. "We'll be watching."

A few weeks ago, The Star Press reported that Sunday's episode of the Fox
thriller series would be set in Muncie. The episode was written by Jeff Bell, a
former Indianapolis resident. His mother is a former Muncie resident. His
grandmother still lives in Muncie.

The Star Press was contacted by the show's production department, which
wanted permission to reproduce the newspaper.

Production employees revealed the episode would be set in a local metallurgy
lab and involve an employee who becomes a half-human, half-metal hybrid.

http://www.thestarpress.com/Local_News/0113xfiles.html

Muncie at the movies

By KEITH ROYSDON

MUNCIE - Possibly because of its reputation as Middletown, the typical small
American city, Muncie has been the setting for or mentioned in a number of
movies and television shows:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Probably the best known fictional use
of Muncie, the 1977 Steven Spielberg film is set in large part in the city, as the
character portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss becomes obsessed with unidentified
flying objects and the mother played by Melinda Dillon loses her toddler son to
a UFO. Some references to the town were accurate - including a mention of
Cornbread Road - but others were not, most notably a police-UFO chase
scene that ends with a police car driving off a steep hillside overlooking a
valley.

Muncie officials had hoped to entice Spielberg into making the movie here and
reportedly bought new police cars as part of the effort. The movie was filmed
in California and Alabama, however.

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. - Dick Van Dyke starred in this 1966 movie about
a Navy pilot stranded on an island. At one point, he angrily complains that
makeshift navigational equipment will only tell him how many miles it is to
Muncie.

Bikini Summer - A contestant in a wet T-shirt contest in this 1991 teen flick
is introduced as "Holly from Muncie, Indiana."

The Hudsucker Proxy - The Tim Robbins character in this 1994 farce went
to business school in Muncie.

Tom Slick - The 1967 Saturday morning cartoon often featured race car
driver Tom Slick in a race from Pittsburgh to Muncie.

The Simpsons - The Fox animated series has made several references to
Muncie. School Supt. Chalmers went to Ball State University, he noted in one
episode. Another Simpsons character, the hoodlum Snake, "played lacrosse for
Ball State." That fact is mentioned when prison officials tried to execute the
criminal.

http://www.thestarpress.com/Local_News/0113xfilessidebar.html

By Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 09:21 am:


>I think the XF producers should try to hit all 50 states before the show ends.>

I seriously doubt they hit Kentucky. When they want a "Southern" ep. they go to Tennesse. When the want a "Midwestern" ep. the hit Indiana. Since Kentucky is neither, Scully and Doggett won't be here any time soon. (If you doubt me, check the facts: IN, 2; TN, 2; KY, 0.)

By Mike Deeds on Tuesday, January 16, 2001 - 11:02 am:


Charles, Re: IN - 2. What was the other Indiana episode?

I believe it was "Post-Modern Promethius", (AKA "The Black and White Frankenstine Episode").

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A lack of realism and scientific accuracy is what I saw in this episode, though I really need to watch it again..