What, nobody has anything to say about this episode?

I wonder if TPTB are trying to see what the show would be like without M&S. If so, it wasn't bad. It was nicely written. I really felt for Robert.

And I'm not sure, but when Mulder shot Robert I think something bloodlike hit the camera lens. Or am I insane? One never knows.

By the way,
Hi, this is my first time posting to this board.

I enjoyed this episode. I thought it was neat idea to follow the story from the view of the criminal rather than Mulder and Scully. I hate to say it but I kind fazed out at the end, so I won't make any nits in case I'm just flat wrong about something.

Chicken,
You are not insane because I saw the same thing too... unless we are both insane. Muhahahaha!

Rob Roberts certainly has a nice apartment, for someone flipping burgers at a nondescript fast-food restaurant.

And 3000 miles is quite a long way to send two FBI agents to investigate a murder, isn't it? (Yes, we're very familiar with this nit by now.)

That's really all I could come up with.

Jason, that's an H in my name, not a K. It's a bad-joke reference to a tv commercial.

Mulder seemed to be imitating Lt. Columbo in this episode. I almost expected him to say to Rob "Oh, one more thing."

The don't-blink-or-you-missed it references to brains were a very nice touch.

Throw a bone to the nitpickers: for once, the killer admits that he's ramped up the crime spree just in time for our heroes to find him.

A great alternate ending would have had Overeaters Anonymous curing Rob, with our heroes left out in the cold.

Strange coincidences bureau: I videotaped this episode. When Rob told the psychiatrist "As of 10:38 AM I no longer work there," the clock on my VCR read 10:38 AM!!!!! The Secret Masters have been playing around without permission again.

CHICHEN,
I am sorry for misspelling your name. I could never spell anyway.

If Rob doesn't have ears how can he hear?

He has ears, they're just small, like a sharks.

When Rob and the psych were talking in his apartment I kept expecting her to say "Yes, Rob, I DO understand" and then take out her teeth.

This episode was basically a remake of "Jersey Devil" from season one.

Nit: I used to work in a fast food restaurant. Those drive-thru mike systems simply are not that sensitive, which is a good thing. As noisy as it got in the kitchen/order area the customer would never have been able to understand me. Rob should not have been able to hear M&S talking. Even if the restaurant used headsets (which I did not see) and there were many of them lying around turned on there shoud have been some variance as M&S walked around.

Did anyone else find it almost torture when Rob was describing his desire to eat brains? prentend he is talking about steak for example.

My nitpicks are as numerically proceeds:
1) A murder occurs at an apparently prominent fast-food restaurant in a small vicinity in California. However, it takes three days to commence a federal investigation, or any investigation for that matter, upon the crime. Why did they take so long?
2) Not truly a nitpick, but I, too, noticed this episode primarily focussing on the alleged villain rather than the protagonists. And yes, I, too, suspected the psychologist to reveal herself to be a "monster."
3) The preview for this episode dispensed false information. Although the preview stated that the "monster" has a taste for human flesh, the "monster" in fact had a taste for brains. Speaking of which, why did the "monster" not consider consuming brains from animals (mostly preferred deceased animals)? It worked for Brad Pitt's character in Interview with the Vampire. Happy Thanksgiving!

Isn't it better grammar to say "My nitpicks are numerically as follows"?
Isn't that statement at the start of a list a tautology anyway? We know this board is for nitpicking, so it's rather redundant, don't you think? Anyone else agree?

When I first saw the preview for this episode, I swore they were bringing Flukeman back again. The preview looked just like him, I thought.

*sigh* The worst part of this episode was my sister moaning about how cute Rob was. *shakes head* Dang hormones.

I very much liked the departure from the usual X-Files motif: we focus on the MOTW instead of M&S... I wonder if this is foreshadowing. They have suggested continuing the show without them.... No!!!!!

They love these episodes where someone has a compulsion to eat something we'd consider disgusting... Tooms was after livers, then there was the fat-sucking vampire and now this guy has to eat brains to survive.

Deuce, you'll be glad I'm not your sister also,...
I totally adored Rob, too.
The psychologist really freaked me out, though...
it seemed like her character was a commentary on the (psych) profession.
This beautiful, blond, brilliant, educated woman somehow felt the need to "save" Rob from himself, even when he was about to, erm, have a lucky boy blond brilliant brain burger.
("you poor, poor man")....for crying out loud, the dude is about to kill you.
I wondered if there was a message about how some people can insist on defending, and putting up with being abused by people they have some kind of relationship with. It seemed pretty deep.
Unless I'm totally reading stuff into it.
Maybe brain-eating, unclassified mutants are just
brain-eating, unclassified mutants.
by the way, I loved the OA meeting, especially
the black dude openly salivating over the description of how meat tastes. I couldn't stop laughing.

I thought that, perhaps, in part, the doc was commiserating with Rob in order to talk him out of something drastic (like eating her brains). If you say unexpected things to a person contemplating violence, you can sometimes derail them.

I noticed that "Hungry" has the same eyes
as "chimera" does when she gets angry.