Season 1, Episode 17: “E.B.E.”
Original Airdate: February 18, 1994
“E.B.E.” is a solid, dependable, perfectly good, sometimes very good, borderline-unremarkable episode. It feels a lot like the sort of episode you’d show your friend who was kinda late getting into the show and she doesn’t want to waste her time watching the whole thing and is there anything that can kinda, give her like, the feel or whatever, just real quick? It hits the highlights of the myth arc thus far—government conspiracy, UFOs, alien reclamations, Mulder’s uncanny ability to always fall down while chasing things—and livens things up by feeding us a little more information about Deep Throat and introducing the three most adorable conspiracy theorists, The Lone Gunmen. Along the way, we learn some valuable lessons about the difference between lies and other lies, and also, we get to see Mulder fall down. But I think I said that.
[Swamp gas?]