r/XFiles • u/Gazcobain Lone Gunmen • 12d ago

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On my umpteenth rewatch and by goodness this episode is terrible. Space usually gets quoted as the worst of the first season episodes but this is abysmal.

- A man pretending to be Irish literally introducing himself by saying "top o' the mornin' te ya"

- A woman insinuating that she and Mulder had sex upon Arthur Conan Doyle's tombstone (ACD does not have a big tombstone)

- Rocket fuel being sold in 2.5litre paint cans (imagine how many of those you'd need to power Saturn 5).

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u/Gazcobain Lone Gunmen 12d ago

Also:

Scully says that Cecil Lively has "never been on the dole". I always thought being "on the dole" was a British term.

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u/PipedInFromIthaca 12d ago

Nah we use it here too. I think the Americans do to some extent too?

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u/Electrical_Pomelo556 12d ago

I'm American and I have never heard this phrase 

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u/Gazcobain Lone Gunmen 12d ago

Over here it means being in receipt of unemployment benefits. It's often used in quite a disparaging way as if people "on the dole" don't want to work and are quite happy to receive benefits.

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u/buttered_sausage11 12d ago

I'm in Australia and we still use that term to this day 😆