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"The X-Files" Small Potatoes (TV Episode 1997) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Plot. Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate the birth of five babies in the town of Martinsburg, West Virginia, who were born with tails. The mother of the most recent baby, Amanda Nelligan, tells the agents that the father of her baby is Luke Skywalker.
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A town celebrates a surprising number of births in a short span of time, only all the newborns have tails...
While being rolled down a hospital hallway to deliver, a pregnant woman admits the father is from another planet. She gives birth to a little girl, but the doctor looks puzzled. Out of view of the mother, he holds up the child to reveal a wiggling tail on the baby and says, "Lord, not another one..." Mulder and Scully are driving to investigate whi...
Mulder to Scully: "Scully, should we be pickin' out china patterns or what?" Eddie to Mulder: "You're a damn good-lookin' man." "Not so spry." - Mulder's comment when the mummified body falls from the attic. Van Blundht to Mulder: "I just think it's funny. I was born a loser, but you're one by choice." Mulder: "On what do you base that astuteassess...
Production
Vince Gilligan wrote this episode with Darin Morganin mind to play the character of Eddie Van Blundht. Morgan, who wrote many of the most memorable episodes during the second and third season, returns to The X-Files for the final time. David Duchovnylists this episode on his blog as a favorite, probably because he does a superb job of playing Eddie-as-Mulder and he enjoys performing comedy. Although they never share a scene in this episode, Paul McGillion, who plays the angry husband Fred Nei...
Notes
Although heavily dramatized with sci-fi and supernatural elements, the episode takes cues from the crimes of Dr. Cecil Jacobsen, a fertility doctor impregnating women in his clinic with his own reproductive cells. It was such a scandal, a made-for-TV movie named The Babymakerwas produced based on the case. Eddie-as-Mulder's comment in his apartment, "Where the hell do I sleep?" is a rib to the many X-Philes who have asked that very same question. Also, picking up the basketball and clumsily d...
Goofs
When Scully mentions using PCR showed that the five children have the same parental DNA, she actually means gel electrophoresis. Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR, basically augments a small amount of DNA into a large amount while it is the electrophoresis that does the actual separation and shows the different bands of DNA we see in one scene.
Starring 1. David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder/Eddie Van Blundht 2. Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully Also Starring 1. Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner Guest Starring 1. Darin Morgan as Eddie Van Blundht 2. Christine Cavanaugh as Amanda Nelligan 3. Lee de Broux as Eddie the Monkey Man/Eddie Van Blundht Co-Starr...
Small Potatoes on WikipediaSmall Potatoes on IMDbThe series wouldn't be the same without the Darin Morgan episodes. He gave the show most of it's charisma.
Apr 20, 2017 · Twenty years ago today (April 20, 1997) marked the premiere of “The X-Files” Season 4 episode “Small Potatoes,” the wildly hilarious entry written by Vince Gilligan and directed by Cliff Bole.
- Marcus James Dixon
Permalink. Small Potatoes is about Mulder and Scully traveling to a small town, when there are reports of five babies born with tails. The episode's laughs a minute, with superb writing and Darin Morgan golden as Eddie.
"Small Potatoes" is the twentieth episode of season four of the paranormal television series The X-Files and the 75th episode of the series overall. It was directed by Kim Manners and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. It first aired on the Fox Network on Friday, April 20th, 1997.
