What's Not To Love....

Because WGN has had an all-day X-Treme X-Files Halloween Marathon, I got to see one of my all-time personal favorites.

The reason I love this episode is because it's the only X-Files where at the end I feel good and teary-eyed. But, lemme give you a quick rundown of the story and I'll get to the best part.

Episode 5X06 "Post-Modern Prometheus"

The episode, shot on black & white film, and directed by series creator Chris Carter, is a Frankenstein-esque story. A woman writes the X-Files....and Jerry Springer.....because she has been impregnated by an alien monster. Therefore, Mulder and Scully go to investigate. In the small town they find locals who are extremely smalltownish and extremely exicted about Jerry Springer coming to town. Well, after investigations and the other content that take up the next 45 minutes of kooky airtime, the agents discover that a scientist had accidentally created a monster, but his dad—out of pity—had taken care of the creature as a son. (it was really just a guy who had two faces....albeit really ugly) '

Well, the basic heart of the episode lies with it's similarity to the Cher movie "Mask" starring Cher and Eric Stoltz as a kid with a deformed face yet loved by his mom Cher anyway. Everyone else starts to like him too....once they can look past the ugly face.

Well, in the end it turns out the monster really likes Cher, and before he is taken to jail, Mulder and Scully take him to a Cher concert, and she is singing "Walking In Memphis," and the monster gets up and dances.....then in the best part!.......Mulder lends Scully his hand and they dance together.

Then they turn into a comic book drawing, and the book closes, and the credits roll.

One of the most lighthearted and sweetest episodes ever. Oh man, it's so good.