Isms: Classic lines from The X-Files

Welcome to The Project's isms page.
What is an ism? you may be asking.
An ism is the name that has come to be given to the classic lines from The X-Files, the ones either memorable for their significance to the show or because of their humour.
"isms" is short for Mulderisms or Scullyisms.
Enjoy!

Mulder: "You didn't come to raid my mini-bar did you?"

Pilot

Mulder: "It's still there, Scully, 200000 years down in the ice. "
Scully: "Leave it there."

Ice

Mulder: "I have to admit, I've fulfilled one of my boyhood fantasies."
Scully: "Yeah, it ranks right up there with learning to braid my own hair"

Space

Mulder: "Abducted."
Scully: "Kidnapped."
Mulder: "Pot-ay-toe pot-ah-toe"

Eve

Mulder: "Do you believe in an afterlife?"
Scully: "I'd settle for a life in this one."

Shadows

while stuck behind a cow on a narrow road
Scully: "Have you ever had any dealings with a cow?"
Mulder: "Agent Scully, WHAT are you implying?!"

Shapes (cut)

"I'm sure you'll be able to squeeze in"
Tooms: "I'm sure I will."

Tooms

Mulder: "How was the wedding?"
Scully: "You mean the part where the groom passed out or when the dog bit the drummer?"

Roland

Scully: "If this is monkey pee, you're on your own."

The Erlenmeyer Flask

Deep Throat: "Trust no one"

The Erlenmeyer Flask

Scully: "What if he's already dead?"
Mulder: "He'll have a tough time answering my questions"

Firewalker

Mulder: "Whatever tape you found in that VCR wasn't mine."
Scully: "Good, because I put it in the drawer with all the other tapes that aren't yours."

Excelsius Dei

Melissa: "Why's it so dark in here?"
Mulder: "Because the lights aren't on"

Ascension

X: "They only have one policy - Deny Everything."

Ascension

Mulder: "How was the opera?"
X: "Wonderful, I've never slept better"

End Game

Mulder: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

Soft Light

Mulder: "You're telling me this is Sheriff Hamilton?"
Scully: "I'm telling you that before he was Sheriff Hamilton he was... Jim-Jim, the dog-faced boy."

Humbug

Mulder: "Lots of files."
Scully: "Lots and lots of files."

Paper Clip

Scully: "That's spooky."
Mulder: "That's my name isn't it?"

Oubliette

Mulder: "I get tired of losing my gun..."

Nisei

"Sure. Fine. Whatever."

Syzygy

Scully: "Why do you always have to drive? Because you're the big macho man?"
Mulder: "No, I was just never sure your little feet could reach the peddles"

Syzygy

Scully: "Did you get a composite?"
Mulder: "Yeah, it looks like Kevin was abducted by Homer Simpson's evil twin."

Revelations

Scully: "I'm just constantly amazed by you. You're working down here in the basement, sifting through files and transmissions that any other agent would throw away in the garbage."
Mulder: "Well, that's why I'm in the basement, Scully.
Scully: "You're in the basement because they're afraid of you, of your relentlessness, and because they know that they could drop you in the middle of the desert and tell you the truth is out there and you would ask them for a shovel."
Mulder: "Is that what you think of me?"
Scully: "Well maybe not a shovel. Maybe a back hoe."

Piper Maru

Mulder: "He gave the guy the whammy!"
Scully: "Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy."

Pusher

Mulder: "Hey Scully, check this out. Mango Kiwi Tropical Swirl. Now we know we're dealing with a madman."

Pusher

Mulder: "Well, aside from the need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be abducted by aliens involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster."

Home

Scully: "How'd you get involved with these men?"
Krycek: "They found me in North Dakota. They liberated me on a salvage hunt. Hey, you go underground, you gotta learn to live with the rats."
Mulder: "I'm sure you had no trouble adapting."

Tunguska

Krycek: "There is one law - fight or die, and one rule - resist or serve"

The Red and the Black

Krycek: "Tell them it's all gone to hell."

Patient X

Mulder: "I was once told the best way to regenerate body heat was to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who was already naked."
Scully: "Maybe if it rains sleeping bags you'll get lucky."

Detour

Scully: "Mulder, you don't want me to sing."

Detour

Mulder: "Oh sh<title music>"

Bad Blood

Mulder: "Prison Scully. Your cell mate's nickname is going to be Large Marge, she going to read a lot of Gertrude Stein."

Bad Blood

Scully: "You're not going to tell you think this is that Mexican Goat Sucker thing."

Bad Blood

Mulder: "Come on Scully, get those little legs movin, c'mon. "

Bad Blood

Mulder: "Shaft! Can you dig it? They say this cat shaft is a real bad mother, shut your mouth. Talkin bout shaft!"
Mulder: "I did not!"

Bad Blood

Scully: "He had big buck teeth?!"
Mulder: "He had a slight overbite."

Bad Blood

Scully: "Just keep reminding him you were drugged. "
Mulder: "Will you stop that."
Scully:" Couldn't hurt. "
Mulder: "Stop it."
Skinner: "Scully, Mulder."
Mulder: "I was drugged!"

Bad Blood

Scully: "It's a de..."
Mulder: "Dead cow. Six dead cows actually."

Bad Blood

Mulder: "And that, is, essentially, exactly, the way it happened.
Except for the part about the buck teeth."

Bad Blood

Mulder: "This was all being strategized. Every move. I just couldn't see it. That it was all part of a plan."

Scully: "Whatever you believe Mulder, this time they may have won."

The End

Scully: "Those talks include instructions from the Justice Department to close The X Files."

The End

Scully: "Had you big time."

FTF

Mulder: "Next time you're buying."

FTF

Mulder: "We are close to something here Scully."

FTF

"If I quit now, they win."

FTF

CSM: "It's all gone to hell."

FTF

Bronschweig: "The impossible scenario we never planned for? Well we better come up with a plan. "

FTF

X-Files reopened. Stop. Please advise. Stop.

FTF

Gibson Praise: "You already know. You just don't want to believe it."

The Beginning

Scully: "It all comes down to a matter of trust. I guess it always has."

The Beginning

Fowley (to CSM): "When have I ever let you down in the past?"

Two Fathers (doesn't she make you wanna *scream*!!)

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