This episodes stars Richard Belzer as Detective Munch from Homicide: Life on the Streets. Thus, it implies that Homicide and The X-Files exist in the same fictional universe. However, here comes the nit. In the Homicide episode 'Partners' (1/20/95), a character refers to The X-Files as a fictional TV show that airs at nine o'clock on Fridays! Can you guess which character has this line? Yes, it is Munch played by Richard Belzer! So, this episode implies that these two shows do NOT exist in the same fictional universe!

Possible explanation: the Consortium has been making a TV show about M&S to discredit them. This was origionally suggested on the X-Files movie discussion board.

Yo, Michael, Charles, check out the discussion on
The Kitchen Sink board, The Coexistence of Scream
And Halloween. We talk about this kind of thing.
By the way, does the Preview/Post Message thing
cut off the last few letters of your message too,
or is it just me? It's really irritating.

Does it really matter? Both are great shows, both are Emmy winners, and now both are on seperate days which makes my life easier.

No kidding. I hate it when they schedule my favorite shows back to back. Illistration:
Garth DoubleLive and Voyager on back to back, **on different stations.** When you
live in the boonies and all you have is one lousy antennae, this is a big problem, as my
mom is trying to adjust the antennae to 29 from 41, and my dad is yelling cause she's
standing in the way and it won't record, and the dog is barking and the baby is
screaming, and I've gone past the point of no return. Just ask Mr. Bimble. Mr. Bimble
is a little man who lives in my finger. He knows everything. He is very smart. I think
I'll hum quietly to myself now. La la la la la, la, la la la...

Check out the Kitchen Sink-Crossover Madness for my post that "proves" you can link XF to over forty different TV shows through the Homicide-St. Elsewhere link.

The Internet as shown in this episode did not exist in 1989. In 1989, state of the art was 2400 baud modems, graphical browsers did not exist, nor did software to parse URLs. The web was invented in the early 90's by Tim Berners-Lee (sp?).

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Also, wouldn't Deep Throat be "decontaminating" the warehouse, rather than X? Unless, of course, X had that job in '89, DT took his place in '93 (or a little earlier), died, and X took his job back in '94.
Remind you of anything?
See: The many assistants of Lwaxana Troi

It wasn't Aliens, so I don't think it was IMPORTANT enough for DT to do it

In "Homicide: Life ON The Street", there have been numerous references to a show in their universe called "Homicide: Life on the Street". So, it's entirely possible that there is also a show called the X Files in the XF/Hlots universe.

Karra

Having an X-Files show in the X-Flies/Hlots universe would be a good way to discredit Mulder. Especially if Cancerman is involved with the Military/Industrial/Entertainment complex. I think it would be real funny if Mulder walked into his office spouting the paranormal and Scully/Skinner/Kiresh said, "Mulder, that was on TV last night.":)

The XF/Homicide link from this episode leads to other links. The following is a letter by John Pierce published in Spectrum magazine Issue #6 (June 1996):

"Law & Order and The X-Files take place in the same make-believe world.
Is this a joke? Of course. But I can prove it, too.
It begins - well, ends, actually - with the February 7 and 9 crossover episodes of Law & Order and Homicide on NBC, in which New York detectives Lenny Briscoe and Reynaldo Curtis collaborate (none too smoothly) with their Baltimore counterparts Frank Pembleton and Tim Bayliss on a mad bomber case, ripped, as they say, from the headlines.
Crossover episodes are nothing new: they're an established network gimmick to attract viewers. There was nothing novel about the latest. In fact, it wasn't even the first crossover between the two series. Law & Order's Det. Mike Logan appeared on Homicide in the previous season ('Law and Disorder'), bringing a prisoner from New York to Baltimore.
But a few weeks before the bombing episodes, Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, late of the CBS series Chicago Hope, also turned up on Homicide in a brief cameo. His appearance in both series places them in the same fictional reality.
One of the more infamous visitors to Chicago Hope in a couple of episodes was Picket Fences' Douglas Wambaugh, feisty lawyer from Rome, Wisconsin. First he suffered a heart attack and was taken to Chicago Hope. Then he showed up as plaintiff's counsel in a malpractice case, browbeating the doctors as only he could.
Not long before his heart attack, Wambaugh had argued a case in Rome involving cattle used as surrogate mothers. That episode of Picket Fences was conceived as a crossover with The X-Files. Producers David E. Kelley and Chris Carter cooked the idea, but CBS vetoed an actual appearance by or reference to Fox Mulder. But Rome's coroner, Carter Pike, discussed Mulder's case (televised on the previous week's XF) taking place in nearby Delta Glen.
There you have it - Law & Order's link to The X-Files.
[There might be a fatal flaw in this whole chain of reasoning, and that flaw is this in an episodes of Homicide 'Partners', Det. Munch joked that his bar was empty because everyone was home 'watching The X-Files.' But there is a way - albeit a devious one - out of the difficulty. Baltimore was the scene of the Tooms case. Maybe in the fictional world of Homicide, The X-Files was a 'reality' show based on that case.]
We could even continue the Law & Order/Homicide/Chicago Hope/Picket Fences/The X-Files chain link further. In Strange Luck, Chance Harper finally locates his brother Eric, who turns out to be the victim of a government conspiracy involving germ warfare and has to flee at the end. In a letter to Chance, Eric tells him that if he ever hears anything strange about him that doesn't sound right, to get in touch with a friend of his - an FBI agent named Mulder!
Science fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer once wrote a 'biography' called Tarzan Alive, which used coincidence and specious logic to 'prove' that Tarzan was not only a real person, but blood kin to dozens of other 'fictional' heroes like Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, the Shadow, Doc Savage, etc. All tongue-in-cheek, of course - and none of the actual creators of those series and their heroes had a clue about their supposed interconnections.
One could say the same about the TV crossovers that link Law & Order to The X-Files - except that the connections aren't coincidental and the logic isn't specious. All the same, I'm not holding my breath waiting for Fox Mulder to show up helping Briscoe and Curtis solve an alien abduction case in Manhattan."
The XF/Homicide/St. Elsewhere link also leads to other links. The following is a letter by Stephen Wiss published in Spectrum magazine Issue # 12 (January 1998):

"In Spectrum 6, John Pierce wrote a letter showing that Law & Order and The X-Files take place in the same imaginary world. His 'crossover chain' contained six series. You invited your readers to submit any longer chains they might discover. Well, be careful what you ask for, you might get it. I have discovered a 'crossover chain' (well, actually it's more like a branching tree) consisting of approximately thirty-one series that leads from the classic The Dick Van Dyke Show to the current Dan Ackroyd abomination on ABC, Soul Man. This chain encompasses both situation comedies and dramas from NBC, CBS, and ABC.
On The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke played Rob Petrie, the head writer for 'The Alan Brady Show'. Alan Brady was played by series creator Carl Reiner, who later guest-starred as Alan Brady on an episode of Mad About You, narrating a documentary produced by Paul Buchman.
An earlier episode of Mad About You revealed that Paul Buchman still rented his old bachelor apartment, which he was subleasing, to Kramer from Seinfeld.
Another episode of Mad About You had Jamie blacking-out New York City, which affected that night's episodes of Friends and Man of the People.
A recurring character on Mad About You is the ditzy waitress Ursula, who is the twin sister of Phoebe Buffet from Friends. Ursula appeared in a two-part Friends dating Joey. In another Friends episode Jamie and Fran from Mad About You visited the Central Perk coffee house and mistook Phoebe for Ursula.
Ross from Friends appeared in an episode of The Single Guy befriending the character of Jonathan where each mistakenly thought the other was gay.
On Friends, Joey and Chandler ran into a woman who may have been Caroline from Caroline in the City. (The woman was not named but NBC's 'Big Cross-Over Thursday' would seem to imply the woman played by Lea Thompson was meant to be Caroline.) Later on the episode of Caroline in the City that aired the same evening, Annie met Friends' Chandler in a video store.
An episode of Caroline in the City had Del write one of Caroline's newspaper comic strips. The end of the episode showed characters from Frasier (Niles and/or Martin) reading that strip in a Seattle newspaper.
Likewise, The John Laroquette Show had John Hemingway speaking to a psychiatrist over the phone. The end of the conversation revealed that he was talking to Frasier's Frasier Crane and the entire conversation was aired on Frasier's radio show.
Frasier Crane and his then wife Lilith appeared on an episode of Wings. Both of those characters originated on Cheers.
Carla Tortelli, a waitress on Cheers, had an ex-husband Nick who was the subject of the short-lived spin-off series The Tortellis.
Carla and the Cheers bar also appeared in an episode of St. Elsewhere, wherein several of the doctors from St. Eligius stopped by the bar for a drink.
One of the characters on St. Elsewhere was an orderly named Warren Coolidge who originally appeared on The White Shadow. And in one episode of St. Elsewhere, a doctor said that the Douglas family wanted to see the body of their Uncle Bub. Uncle Bub was, of course, the pre-Uncle Charly mother substitute to the Douglases on My Three Sons. (This crossover is very tenuous since it only involved a single throw-away in-joke.)
A 1985 episode of St. Elsewhere featured Mr. Carlin (Jack Riley) from The Bob Newhart Show. (Interestingly enough, Mr. Carlin was shown watching an episode of The White Shadow, so this show is both 'real' and 'fictional'.) That same episode revealed that a high-ranking NASA official was named 'Commander Healy'. Was Commander Healy formerly Major Healy from I Dream of Jeannie? (More on this below.)
Bob Hartley from The Bob Newhart Show appeared in an episode of Murphy Brown visiting the FYI newsroom. Murphy Brown appeared in an episode on Ink, where it was revealed that she had an on-again off-again affair with Jack. An earlier episode of Murphy Brown revealed that Corky and Frank shared the same agent, Al Floss from The Famous Teddy Z.
Murphy Brown crossed over with The Nanny, Can't Hurry Love, and High Society in early 1996 with a plotline in which Elizabeth Taylor searched for her missing set of black pearls. I believe Murphy Brown also crossed over with Love and War when characters in the latter show were watching an O.J. Simpson-like slow speed chase involving an astronaut who killed his brother with a moonrock. This plotline began on Murphy Brown.
The final episode of Newhart revealed that the entire series was but a dream of psychiatrist Bob Hartley. This was confirmed in The Bob Newhart Show 20th Anniversary Special when Bob discussed his dream with his friends. In the dream Bob was a Vermont innkeeper who wrote 'how to' books. Bob's neighbor Howard Borden revealed that for several years he had a dream where he was a NASA astronaut … Major Healy; thus tying in The Bob Newhart Show with I Dream of Jeannie. At the end of the show, Bob ran into three dimwitted elevator repairmen - Newhart's Larry, Darryl and Darryl.
In a 1997 episode of Coach, assistant coach Luthor Van Damme (played by Dick Van Dyke's brother Jerry) met Mimi from The Drew Carrey Show at an Elvis memorabilia auction in Las Vegas and interacted around a craps table with Grace Kelley from Grace Under Fire, Paige and Spence from Ellen, and Drew from The Drew Carrey Show.
An early episode of The Drew Carrey Show had Tim Taylor from Home Improvement fly into Drew's yard wearing a jet-pack. And finally, Tim Taylor appeared on an early episode of Soul Man.
Well, there it is, a thirty-one series crossover chain. And it may still not be complete. I vaguely recall Mr. Carlin appearing in another sitcom complaining about his old psychiatrist in Chicago.
I am the first to admit that this crossover chain is far from perfect. My memory may be wrong, and even if it isn't, the chain is tenuous and often self-contradictory.
One of the weakest links in the chain is St. Elsewhere, because the final episode revealed that the entire series may have taken place in the imagination of an autistic boy named Tommy. However, the way the final scenes were constructed, it is possible that only the final scene occurred in Tommy's imagination while the rest of the series occurred in 'reality'. But if St. Elsewhere is a daydream then this could indicate that every series connected to St. Elsewhere is also only the product of a person's imagination. But isn't that what fiction is?
The links to I Dream of Jeannie are tenuous, but if there is indeed a link then the series is only a dream of either Howard Borden or Tommy.
The self-contradictory aspects of the chain revolve around St. Elsewhere and The White Shadow (discussed above) and Seinfeld. While Mad About You had Paul subleasing his old apartment to Kramer, a later episode of Seinfeld had George watching Mad About You on television. Likewise, in the Seinfeld episode 'The Keys', Kramer moved to Los Angels to become an actor, resulting in a guest shot on the sitcom Murphy Brown as one of Murphy's secretaries. However, as I've shown, both Seinfeld and Murphy Brown take place in the same 'reality'.
How do I explain it? I don't. It's just TV. It's rare to find continuity within a single television series from episode to episode, let alone thirty-one plus series airing on three different networks over a time span of thirty-five years.
If your readers have any additions or corrections I would be interested in seeing them."

Um, wow! I do have one comment, though. The series on which Mr. Carlin appears complaining about his old psychiatrist was "Newhart", which collapses back into "The Bob Newhart Show", so this one doesn't really count. (It was the episode where Dick and Joanna sought couples' therapy.)

I'd add that Drew Carey once appeared on Sabrina, and that Homer Simpson once entered the bar on Cheers.

yeah, but Drew Carry appeared as himself, not the character

They just showed this episode in Manila -- yeah, talk about late, but please remember this is international syndication -- and one of my acqaintances had the theory that Holly Modeski is actually a spoof of Ally McBeal, without elaborating further. Does this theory hold any water for you? I don't see any possible connection, except maybe their haircuts.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) During 1989, was the Internet publicly popular or even easily accessed?
2) How did Ringo Langly automatically know how to spell Mulder? Furthermore, would this name not acquire multiple results?
3) When did Special Agent Fox Mulder shed his pants and underwear? Prior to the commercial break they are still on; after the commercial break they are now off.
4) After they place one of the injured gunners, who previously fired at Special Agent Fox Mulder, into a body bag, it appears almost as if there is half a body in the bag as apparent by the bag's proportion and shape.
5) One thing came to mind from the very moment the credits rolled--why exactly did Suzanne Modeski approach John F. Byers and how was she so implicit that he would assist her?

In one of the L&O/Homicide crossovers, Munch gets his FBI file, and it's empty.

Should't there be something in it relevant to the events here, or did The Conspiracy wipe his file?