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A W.C. Fields Finding Aid

We’ve long since passed 100 posts on the topic of William Claude Dukenfeld, a.k.a. W.C. Fields (1880-1946) on this blog and so we thought we’d mark his birthday (January 29) with this new handy finding aid to help you navigate them. And if you prefer to browse, the W.C. Fields section of Travalanche is here. Below, some of the key posts: Main Biographical Post (Including Vaudeville…

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The #Tweetcore Radio Hour, Episode 1

The #Tweetcore Radio Hour, Episode 1

Just realized that I can embed the #Tweetcore Radio Hour right here on my blog! In this inaugural episode, I play music by Phil Yates and the Affiliates, Bees!, Jr Moz Collective, Won’t Say Rabbit, Triangle Rain Club, The Star Crumbles, Brian Lambert, Eric Linden, Todd and Karen, the La La Lettes, Scoopski, Dino DiMuro, and the Dukenfields.

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William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was born on January 29, 1880 #botd

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Legitimate Nonchalance

Above: W.C. Fields was a well-known juggler and vaudeville performer decades before he became even more famous in the movies of the 1930s. William Claude Dukenfield was a vaudeville juggler who distinguished himself from other “tramp acts” by adding sarcastic asides to his routines. Internationally known for his juggling skills, by the turn of the century the man who billed himself as “The…

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If you have ever read about what William Claude Dukenfield, professionally W.C. Fields, went through as a child, it makes what he later accomplished all the more impressive.

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✨Trivia for “Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose”✨

-  This episode won two Emmy Awards: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Peter Boyle), and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

-  Clyde Bruckman is going through evidence trying to get psychic visions. When he is holding a blue piece of cloth, he says to Mulder, "I got it! This is yours. This is from your New York Knicks t-shirt!" He was wrong. However, in Season 1's The X-Files: Beyond the Sea (1994), murderer Luther Lee Boggs claims that he gets a psychic vision from a similar blue piece of cloth, but Mulder tells him, "I tore this off my New York Knicks t-shirt. It has nothing to do with the crime."

-  There is a scene where Clyde Bruckman is playing cards with Scully. The camera briefly shows his cards - the two black aces and the ace of hearts, and the two black eights. That hand is a variation on the so-called Dead Man's Hand that Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot in the back of the head in 1876 while playing poker. Four of the five cards in Hickok's hand were the two black aces and the two black eights.

-  Peter Boyle's character has the same name as a famous Hollywood writer and director of the 1920s - 1940s, Clyde Bruckman. He worked with many of the famous comedians of the day including Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy. He later fell on hard times and committed suicide in 1955.

-  Each of the winning lottery numbers announced on the radio is one number off of the numbers on Clyde Bruckman's ticket.

-  In 1997, the TV Guide ranked this episode number 10 on its "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" list.

-  Queequeg, Scully's adopted Pomeranian, is named for the tattooed harpooner in "Moby Dick."

-  The killer is played by Stuart Charno, husband of Sara B. Cooper who wrote Season 2's The X-Files: Aubrey (1995).

-  The victim found in the mud was named Claude Dukenfield, which is the original middle and last name of W.C. Fields.

-  The role of Clyde Bruckman was originally written with Bob Newhart in mind.

-  The character of Yappi is quite clearly a parody of the self proclaimed psychic Uri Geller. While Yappi bends pens in place of spoons. They even have a close physical resemblance.

-  The names of characters Detective Havez and Detective Cline are also references to a writer and director from the silent film era, Jean C. Havez and Edward F. Cline.

-  The name of the character played by Peter Boyle is the same as that of the co-writer/co-director of the Buster Keaton silent classic, The General (1926). According to his IMDb filmography, the original Clyde Bruckman (1894-1955) was a prolific screen writer and director whose career spanned over 3 decades from 1919 onward. He is also known for writing over 2 dozen The Three Stooges shorts, and after his death, the stooges incorporate his name as ad-lib dialogue in later stooge comedies.

-  Series regular David Duchovny previously played husband to Patricia Heaton in the movie Beethoven (1992), and guest star Peter Boyle later played father-in-law to Heaton on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996).

- Clyde Bruckman's telling Scully that she will not die starts the legend among some fans that Scully will not ever die in the series. Later in the series, in the episode "Tithonus (1999)," a man who cannot die exchanges Scully's death for his.

-  The first time we meet Queequeg, the dog that Scully ends up adopting.

-  Pay close attention when Scully scans the crowds at each murder scene. The killer appears in the crowd each time, except when the police are investigating the final psychic murder. In that scene, Scully is holding the tarot card picturing a bellhop ("The Page Of Cups") as she pulls aside the curtain to scan the crowd So even though the killer is absent from the crowd, he is still represented in the shot.

-  This is the first of 3 appearances and 4 characters played by Karin Konoval, who plays the first fortune teller killed "Madame Zelda." She later plays Mrs. Peacock in the infamous season 4 episode "Home." And then 2 characters in season 11 of the revival series, siblings Little Judy and Little Chucky Poundstone

-  The name of the hotel in this episode, "Le Damfino" is a reference to a boat used by Buster Keaton in the movie The Boat.

- Scully and Queequeg are watching the movie "The Bullfighters" at the end of the episode

-  TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time (1997) (TV Special) Ranked as #10.

-  TV Guide's Top 100 Episodes of All Time (2009) (TV Special) Ranked as #35.

-  WatchMojo: Top 10 X-Files Episodes (2016) (TV Episode) "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is #2.

-  A prime early influence on this episode was one of the series' previous episodes - "Beyond the Sea", which was Morgan's favorite episode of the series at the time of writing this one. Looking for inspiration, he rewatched the earlier episode several times. His initial intention was to write an episode that would be similarly dark and be very depressing. Morgan ended up adding jokes into the script as he simply could not help himself from doing so.

- Although this episode merely implies that Bruckman's death was probably a suicide, and does not explicitly establish that it was such (leaving open the possibility that he was referring to his own cause of death upon mentioning autoerotic asphyxiation to Mulder), Darin Morgan has since confirmed that his intention was that Bruckman did actually commit suicide at the end of this episode. The reason Morgan added this to the story was that he was feeling somewhat suicidal himself, at the time he wrote it.

-  The joke about autoerotic asphyxiation developed out of Mulder's interest in erotica as well as a book about homicide investigations that Morgan had read, as the book actually included a section about autoerotic asphyxiation, a cause of death that is often misinterpreted as suicide.

-  The character of the Stupendous Yappi (including the character's speech pattern) was based on Jaap Broeker, David Duchovny's stand-in.

-  The episode originally included two more scenes between Clyde Bruckman and Scully, as well as many additional gags. These were filmed but removed during editing.

- During production, Anderson kept laughing whenever the crew tried to film the scene wherein Yappi closely inspects Scully, attempting to find the source of some troublesome "negative energy."

- During production, Gillian Anderson got the impression that Peter Boyle was at first unsure of what to make of the situation, but warmed up by the time they got to the scenes that both featured them together and were, as Anderson puts it, "really sweet." All in all, Anderson found Boyle to be "a lovely man to work with."

-  Due to personal close calls with his own health issues, Peter Boyle had some real issues with death that influenced him to extremely dislike filming the dream scene wherein Clyde Bruckman decomposes. On the set of this scene, the discomforted Boyle remarked to Toby Lindala that having to appear in the scene represented the "worst day of [his] life."

- David Duchovny loved this episode and it was a favorite of his from the third season of The X-Files.

-  The episode focuses heavily on free will and fatalistic determinism—topics that Morgan was drawn to due to his frustration with the task of plotting episode stories.

-  While working on the script, Morgan realized that while Mulder is supposed to be intelligent, were he to talk to a "normal person" in real life, he would come across as paranoid or insane. The writer was thus inspired to "shake up Mulder's image" in the episode by making him fallible and foolish. This approach is illustrated by how Mulder views Bruckman "only as a phenomenon" and not as a person, whereas Scully views the titular character as a human, first and foremost.

- Morgan claimed that Bruckman knew full well how Scully would die, but decided to withhold the information simply because he liked her. However, many interpreted the line to mean that Scully could not actually die and was, in essence, immortal.

-  In 2016, Ira Madison of Vulture.com named it the best episode of the series and "one of the best episodes of television ever", stating that the episode "takes every element that made the series so iconic and throws them all into one heartbreaking installment".

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William Claude Dukenfield       Jan. 29, 1880 ~ Dec. 25, 1946       Humanitarian       

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Give a big hand to our next comedian guest, W. C. Fields (Andrew Chapman)!

William Claude Dukenfield was born in Philadelphia on January 29, 1880. He lied often about his past so no trustworthy documents of his past exist. He began vaudeville at age 21 with a comedy juggling act coupled with jokes.

With the rise of talking-films, he started doing films, most notably It’s a Gift, The Bank Dick and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. He signed on with Paramount Pictures and wrote many screenplays.

He is one of the most influential comedians in early days of talking-films, right up there with Chaplin and Keaton.

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If you frequent the X-Files newsgroup, you know that there are some threads that just won't die. People complain because Scully never drives or because Mulder always drops his gun. Here are the lists of episodes where many of these things occur -- so you can see for yourself whether or not any of these complaints/observations are valid.

Yes, Mulder does shoot people:

Young At Heart End Game (the alien doesn't die - but Mulder still shot him) Our Town Oubliette Grotesque (not a fatal shot) Pusher (not a fatal shot, but nearly so) Home Unruhe Paper Hearts Max (well, he tried to) Redux Monday (although it doesn't "stick") Trevor (not intended as a fatal shot) Field Trip (but it didn't really happen) Hungry Millennium Signs & Wonders (not a fatal shot) (Season 1: 1 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 3 / Season 4: 4 / Season 5: 1 / Season 6: 3 / Season 7: 3)

...and Scully shoots people too:

Beyond the Sea Lazarus Anasazi (does shooting Mulder count?) Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Home (although it doesn't hurt him) Teliko (not a fatal shot) Tempus Fugit (not a fatal shot) Elegy Detour Kitsunegari (not a fatal shot) Bad Blood (according to Mulder) Folie A Deux Milagro - although it goes right through him Millennium Orison Theef Patience (not a fatal shot) Badlaa (fatal or not, you decide?) (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 1 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 4 / Season 5: 4 / Season 6: 1 / Season 7: 3 / Season 8: 2)

...and sometimes Mulder, Scully, and/or Skinner get shot!:

Beyond the Sea (Mulder) Young At Heart (Scully) Anasazi (Scully - grazed) Anasazi (Mulder) Piper Maru (Skinner) Unrequited (Skinner - grazed) The Movie (Mulder) The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas (Scully - imagined) The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas (Mulder - imagined) Tithonus (Scully) Monday (Mulder twice - relived) Field Trip (Skinner - but not really) The Goldberg Variation (Mulder) (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 0 / Season 6: 5 / Season 7: 1)

Yes, Scully does drive:

Deep Throat Squeeze Ghost in the Machine Beyond the Sea E.B.E. Shapes The Erlenmeyer Flask Irresistible Fresh Bones Colony Blessing Way Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 731 War of the Coprophages Syzygy Teso Dos Bichos Avatar Quagmire - it's a boat but she still drives it!! Talitha Cumi Herrenvolk Home Unruhe Tunguska El Mundo Gira Kaddish Demons Gethsemane Christmas Carol Chinga Kill Switch The Pine Bluff Variant The Beginning Dreamland II How the Ghosts Stole Christmas One Son Field Trip Millennium X-Cops En Ami Invocation (Season 1: 7 / Season 2: 3 / Season 3: 9 / Season 4: 8 / Season 5: 4 / Season 6: 5 / Season 7: 3 / Season 8: 1)

...and Mulder cries:

Conduit The Erlenmeyer Flask (well, his voice breaks) One Breath End Game Anasazi Oubliette Talitha Cumi Herrenvolk The Field Where I Died Paper Hearts (kinda) Demons (well, he does according to the script) Gethsemane/Redux (same scene, two episodes) Redux II The Red and the Black (maybe) The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (in the "dream" world) Sein Und Zeit Closure (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 3 / Season 3: 2 / Season 4: 5 / Season 5: 3 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 3)

...but Scully cries too:

Beyond the Sea Irresistible The Blessing Way Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Pusher WetWired Memento Mori Elegy Gethsemane/Redux (same scene, two episodes) Redux II Christmas Carol Emily (well, she's teary-eyed) All Souls The Movie Milagro Field Trip The Sixth Extinction The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati All Things Requiem Within Without Badlaa This is Not Happening (a few times) DeadAlive (a few times) (Season 1: 1 / Season 2: 1 / Season 3: 4 / Season 4: 3 / Season 5: 5 / Season 6: 2 / Season 7: 4 / Season 8: 6 )

Yes, Mulder drops his gun A LOT:

Fire Genderbender Tooms Erlenmeyer Flask 3 (twice) One Breath Red Museum Aubrey Fresh Bones Die Hand Die Verletzt End Game Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose Nisei (but he has another one) 731 Grotesque Home Teliko (though you can't really blame him) Kaddish Unusual Suspects (again, can't really blame him) Detour (he drops it on purpose though) Signs & Wonders (though I can't blame him) (Season 1: 4 / Season 2: 8 / Season 3: 4 / Season 4: 3 / Season 5: 2 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 1)

... and Scully gets abducted/held hostage quite a bit:

Lazarus Duane Barry/Ascension Irresistible End Game Our Town Herrenvolk (kinda) Unruhe Kill Switch Orison The Movie Roadrunners (Season 1: 1 / Season 2: 4 / Season 3: 0 / Season 4: 2 / Season 5: 1 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 1 / Season 8: 1)

Mulder ditches Scully

Deep Throat Fallen Angel Little Green Men End Game Syzygy (at any rate, Scully says he did) Grotesque Herrenvolk Paper Hearts Demons (and strands her at his mother's house!) Triangle Terms of Endearment The UnNatural Field Trip(although it didn't really happen) Biogenesis Vienen (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 2 / Season 4: 3 / Season 5: 0 / Season 6: 5 / Season 7: 0 / Season 8: 1)

Mulder seems to be fond of porn

·  Jersey Devil - Scully catches Mulder looking at a model in a 'girlie' magazine, which he attempts to cover up by saying she was an abductee.

·  Beyond the Sea - Scully tells him "Last time you were that engrossed, it turned out you were reading the Adult Video News"

·  Blood - Mulder tells the Lone Gunmen that he must have overlooked their August issue because it arrived on the same day as his issue of "Celebrity Skin".

·  One Breath - Can't tell for sure, but what was that tape he was watching when he gets the call that Scully has reappeared?

·  Excelsius Dei - Mulder claims that the tape Scully found in the VCR wasn't his, and she replies that she put it back in the drawer with the rest of the tapes that aren't his

·  Paper Clip - Mulder tells Frohike that the he will have to wait a little bit longer for Mulder's video collection (implying that Mulder will leave it to him when he dies).

·  D.P.O. - Upon finding Darren's copy of Playboy, Mulder comments (at Scully's jibe) that he already has that issue

·  Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - While attempting to find Claude Dukenfield's body, Bruckman casually comments to Mulder that while there are worse ways to go, he can't think of anything less dignified than auto-erotic asphyxiation. Mulder, confused by this turn of topic, asks why Bruckman is telling him this, to which Bruckman quickly replies that it's none of his business and to forget that he mentioned it. While I doubt Mulder will really meet his end this way, I think that Bruckman choosing this way to rattle Mulder is a semi-reference to Mulder's porn-habit.

·  Nisei - after asking Scully to watch a video "that came in the mail", she mentions that "it's not your usual brand of entertainment".

·  Pusher - after being fitted with the 2-lux video camera, Mulder asks "Think I can get the Playboy Channel?"

·  Small Potatoes - Eddie (as the faux Mulder) finds an answering machine message to Mulder from a phone-sex company

·  Chinga - Mulder is watching a suspiciously pornographic-sounding tape titled "Alien Probe"

·  All Souls - Mulder hurries Scully so he can return to "A Decade of Dirty Delinquents"

·  The End - so it isn't porn, but it is rather telling when the mind-reading kid informs Mulder that "You've got a dirty mind"

·  Dreamland I - Mulder settles down for a good night's sleep to the soothing sounds of the porn station SIZL

·  Dreamland II - Mulder's long-lost bedroom is filled with boxes of files and at least one copy of "PlayPen".

·  The UnNatural - Mulder mentiones his "obscenely overdue triple-X bill" during his list of things that baseball makes you forget

·  Hollywood A.D. - while talking about ambient sounds we usually tune out, Chuck Burks mentions the sound of "Mulder's porn tapes on pause". (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 3 / Season 3: 4 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 2 / Season 6: 3 / Season 7: 1)

Danny & Chuck Burks Sightings! While not as well-known as the Lone Gunmen, Mulder does have other friends that he calls on to help him out from time-to-time. Mulder's oft-called but never seen friend Danny has helped Mulder and Scully through many-a-case. Here's a look at some of his "appearances"...

·  Conduit - Mulder faxes a page of Kevin's ones & zeros to "Danny Bernstein", who agrees to check it out in exchange for tickets to a Redskins game.

·  The Erlenmeyer Flask - Mulder calls Danny to run a partial license plate for him.

·  The Erlenmeyer Flask - Mulder calls Danny again, this time to track down the address for a telephone number (for Zeus Storage). Note: this marks the only time we get to hear Danny's voice.

·  Aubrey - Scully(!) calls Danny (although this time his last name is Valladeo(?)) for help in checking out adoption records.

·  Our Town - Mulder had Danny run a search on all missing persons last seen within a 200 mile radius of the town.

·  Avatar - Mulder calls on Danny to attempt to identify the face from the airbag.

·  WetWired - Mulder has Danny research the calls last made from the faux-doctor's hotel room.

·  Leonard Betts - Scully has Danny run Leonard Betts' fingerprints - leading them to his "Albert Tanner" alter ego.

·  Christmas Carol - Scully calls on Danny to send her the case files on her sister Melissa.

·  Roadrunners - Doggett(!) calls Danny (Season 1: 3 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 1 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 0 / Season 8: 1)

Another of Mulder's friends, Chuck Burks, is only called in when the case is extremely weird and Chuck's "special talents" are in order.

·  The Calusari

·  Leonard Betts

·  Biogenesis

·  Hollywood A.D.

·  Badlaa (Season 1: 0 / Season 2: 1 / Season 3: 0 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 0 / Season 6: 1 / Season 7: 1 / Season 8: 1)

When bad things happen to a good boss (Skinner, of course)

End Game - fights with Mr. X Anasazi - Mulder punches him The Blessing Way - Scully pulls her gun on him Paper Clip - Scully and Mulder point their guns at him, he later gets beat up in a stairwell Piper Maru - Shot in the stomach by Luis Cardinal Apocrypha - assassination attempt by Luis Cardinal Pusher - beaten up by secretary Avatar - accused of murder Unrequited - grazed by a bullet Zero Sum - set up by Cancerman, Mulder points his gun at him, altogether a bad situation for Skinner Redux - Scully believes that Skinner is the one who gave her cancer Redux II - Blevins asks Mulder to implicate Skinner in the investigation The Beginning - Repremanded for helping Mulder SR 819 - nearly killed by Alex Krycek and nanotechnology Biogenesis - Krycek cashes in on his nanotechnology threat The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati - attacked by Krycek in his office Without - attacked and injured by the caustic blood of the Alien Bounty Hunter Existence - Alien-Billy Miles hits Skinner in the head (Season 1: 0 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 6 / Season 4: 2 / Season 5: 2 / Season 6: 3 / Season 7: 1 / Season 8: 2)

What do you call a man without a name? This is a compilation of the names that our agents and their associates have called the man billed in the credits as "The Cigarette Smoking Man".

One Breath - "Cancer Man" (twice) by Mulder One Breath - "The Cancer Man" by Skinner One Breath - "You son of a bitch" by Mulder Anasazi - "black lunged son of a bitch" by Mulder Paper Clip - "Double-Crossing son of a bitch" by Krycek Paper Clip - "you son of a bitch" by Skinner Paper Clip - "your cigarette smoking friend" by Mulder WetWired - "Cancer Man" by Scully Talitha Cumi - "The Smoking Man" by Mulder Talitha Cumi - "The Cancer Man" by Mr. X Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man - "Cancer Man" by Mulder Memento Mori - "Cigarette Man" by Mulder Memento Mori - "our chain-smoking friend" by Mulder Zero Sum - "the Smoking Man" by Mulder Redux II - "Smoking Man" by Skinner The End - "Old Smokey" by Mulder Two Fathers - "Cigarette Smoking Man" by Scully Two Fathers - "Smokey" by Mulder Two Fathers - "The Smoking Man" by Mulder One Son - the "Biggest Bastard of All" by Cassandra One Son - "C.G.B." by Mulder One Son - "The Cigarette Smoking Man" by Mulder En Ami - "Smoking Man" by Mulder Requiem - "Cigarette Smoking Man" by Marita Requiem - "Cancerman" by Marita Requiem - "Cigarette Smoking son of a bitch" by Krycek (Season 1: 0 / Season 2: 4 / Season 3: 6 / Season 4: 4 / Season 5: 2 / Season 6: 8 / Season 7: 4)

Mulder's slide shows You know them. You love them. We can't go too long without them.

The Pilot Squeeze Conduit Eve Fire Genderbender Darkness Falls Tooms Red Museum The List Grotesque Pusher Bad Blood Mind's Eye (a Scully slide show!) Field Trip Biogenesis (well, a projector anyway) All Things Fight Club Patience (a Scully slide show!) (Season 1: 8 / Season 2: 1 / Season 3: 3 / Season 4: 0 / Season 5: 2 / Season 6: 2 / Season 7: 2 / Season 8: 1)

Elvis Lives On -- in the X-Files

·  Shadows - "Do you realize how hard it is to fake your own death? Only one person has pulled it off, Elvis."

·  Miracle Man - "Here's the part where they bring out Elvis"

·  Blood - when the 'too-serious' sheriff leaves the room, Mulder tells Scully that "He's probably one of those people who thinks Elvis is dead"

·  Irresistible - "You know people videotape police beatings on darkened streets, they manage to spot Elvis in three cities across America every day, but no one saw a pretty woman being forced off the road in her rental car".

·  Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - One of Yappi's predictions is that Elvis is really dead, but Buddy Holly is still alive

·  Home - Mulder pouts upon finding newspaper with headline "Elvis Prestley dead at 42"

·  Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man - the title to part 2 is "Just down the road aways from Graceland"

·  Never Again - Mulder makes a 'spiritual' journey to Elvis' home, Graceland

·  Post-Modern Prometheus - Mulder & Scully dance to "Walking in Memphis", a Marc Cohn song that is a tribute to Elvis.

·  Surekill - an Elvis-mention from Doggett, who upon seeing the bullet-ridden room mentions that Elvis used to do that to his hotel rooms

·  Empedocles - After a speech from Reyes on seeing evil, Mulder comments that he saw Elvis in a potato chip once (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 3 / Season 5: 1 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 0 / Season 8: 2)

Songs in the Key of X Chris Carter once said that eventually all songs from the album "Songs in the Key of X" would appear somewhere in the show. Here's how we are doing so far:

Ascension - Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's Red Right Hand Humbug - Screamin' Jay Hawkins' Frenzy Syzygy - Danzig's Deep Max - Soul Coughing's Unmarked Helicopters More Secrets of the X-Files - Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper's In the Hand of Death (Burn Baby Burn) More Secrets of the X-Files - P.M. Dawn Remix of the X-Files Theme Schizogeny - Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper's In the Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) Schizogeny - Danzig's Deep (Season 1: 0 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 1 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 0)

Episodes that promote Cannibalism Here are the episodes where people/bits of people are eaten! (List originally posted to alt.tv.x-files by Joe Ramirez)

Squeeze The Jersey Devil Tooms 3 Humbug Our Town 2Shy Teliko Leonard Betts Bad Blood Travelers The Movie Hungry Orison Alone (Season 1: 3 / Season 2: 3 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 2 / Season 5: 2 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 2 / Season 8: 1)

Deaths of recurring characters In this category, recurring characters are those that have appeared in more than one episode -- and two-parters only count as one episode.

Deep Throat in "The Erlenmeyer Flask" Tooms (kinda) in "Tooms" Crew Cut Man in "Red Museum" William Mulder in "Anasazi" Melissa Scully in "Paper Clip" Luis Cardinal in "Apocrypha" Queequeg in "Quagmire" Mr. X in "Herrenvolk" Max Fenig (kinda) in "Tempus Fugit" Agent Pendrell in "Max" Penny Northern in "Memento Mori" Section Chief Blevins in "Redux II" Robert Patrick Modell in "Kitsunegari" Quiet Willy in "The Red and the Black" The Well-Manicured Man in the Movie One of the Elders (George Murdock) in "Two Fathers" Jeffery Spender (?) in "One Son" Cassandra Spender (?) in "One Son" The Syndicate in "One Son" Albert Hosteen in "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" Michael Kritschgau in "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" Diana Fowley (?) in "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" Donnie Pfaster in "Orison" Teena Mulder in "Sein Und Zeit" Cancerman in "Requiem"?????? (although somehow I doubt it) Alien Bounty Hunter in "Without" (one of them, at least) Billy Miles in DeadAlive (even though an alien with his body is still around) Dr. Parenti in Essence Duffy Haskell in Essence Alex Krycek in Existence

--- Honorable mentions --- these characters were dead by the end of their first episodes, but since they keep poping up I suppose they must be considered recurring

Captain William Scully in "Beyond the Sea" (seen again in "One Breath") Emily in "Christmas Carol/Emily" (seen again in "All Souls")

--- Another kind of Honorable mention ---

According to "Closure", Samantha Mulder has really been dead for the entire series, although we've seen her in clones, flashbacks, adult imposters, etc. Thus, although we the "real" Sam was never alive all this time, it just seems criminal to not mention her here somehow. She was "THE" recurring character we all loved to see. (Season 1: 3 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 3 / Season 4: 4 / Season 5: 3 / Season 6: 4 / Season 7: 5 / Season 8: 3)

Mulder & Scully Hugs & Kisses: Special relationshipper section! For the romantic in us all.

Pilot - Hug - after determining the bumps are really mosquito bites Little Green Men - a hair ruffle and hand holding One Breath - some hand-holding Red Museum - the oh-so-romantic wiping of the barbecue sauce Irresistible - Hug - after Scully successfully evades Pfaster Anasazi - kinda Hug/kinda Collapse - as Mulder enters Scully's apartment Paper Clip - Hug - after Scully's sister dies Pusher - hand holding and a bit of drool! Herrenvolk - Hug - in Mulder's mother's hospital room Paper Hearts - Hug - in the office at the end of the episode Terma - Hug - in the courtroom, after Mulder's return from Russia Memento Mori - Hug & Top-of-the-head Kiss - in the hospital corridor, after Peggy Northern dies Demons - Hug - after Mulder almost shoots Scully Redux II - 3 Kisses (to cheek & hand, and other assorted schmoopyness) - as Scully lies dying in the hospital Detour - they snuggle! Post-Modern Prometheus - they dance! The Red and the Black - some hand-holding and hair-brushing All Souls - a semi-hug after Scully admits to seeing Emily Folie A Deux - some hospital hand-holding -- plus that great "You're my one in 5 billion" line The End - Hug - at "the end" of the episode The Movie - A Near-Miss-Kiss (now that's what I call close), some hugging, a forehead kiss, some hand-holding (this was a romantic movie) Triangle - BIG kiss between Mulder and a 1939!Scully, and an "I love you" from Mulder to Scully Tithonus - sweet handholding scene as Scully recovers in the hospital Milagro - desperate hug at the end The UnNatural - Every Mulder/Scully scene in entire episode! Field Trip - Hand Holding at the end The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati - some tender words and lovely hugs, Scully kisses Mulder's forehead Millennium - FINALLY! A real, honest-to-goodness, no bees to be found, mouth-to-mouth kiss!!! All Things - Scully in Mulder's bathroom, Mulder in bed, let the speculation begin... Brand X - hand-holding Hollywood A.D. - Mulder & Scully "vacationing" together in LA, hand-holding Je Souhaite - two happy agents enjoying an evening together watching movies & eating popcorn Requiem - some very adorable snuggling and a kiss to Scully's cheek in Mulder's bed, a nice hug outside Skinner's office -- and a baby???? Existence - big kiss, confirm that the baby is theirs (Season 1: 1 / Season 2: 5 / Season 3: 2 / Season 4: 5 / Season 5: 7 / Season 6: 4 / Season 7: 4 / Season 8: 1)

Scully uses her key to enter Mulder's apartment

Little Green Men End Game Anasazi (a few times) The Blessing Way 731 Grotesque Herrenvolk The Pine Bluff Variant Within (Season 1: 0 / Season 2: 3 / Season 3: 3 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 1 / Season 6: 0 / Season 7: 0 / Season 8: 1)

Mulder Sleeps on his Couch

E.B.E. Tooms The Erlenmeyer Flask Little Green Men 3 (well, he chooses a chair over the bed) One Breath Anasazi Grotesque Paper Hearts Dreamland I (again, he chooses the chair over a bed) Monday (yay!) (Season 1: 3 / Season 2: 4 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 0 / Season 6: 2 / Season 7: 0)

Why Haven't They Evicted Him Yet? Why would any apartment building want Mulder as a tenant? Listed here are gunshots and other assorted nastiness that occurs in and around Mulder's apartment.

Anasazi - Woman shoots husband in apartment down the hall from Mulder Anasazi - Scully is shot through Mulder's window Anasazi - Scully shoots Mulder outside the apartment building Herrenvolk - Mr. X shot in Mulder's hallway Redux - Gunshots in the apartment above Mulder's The Movie - Mulder shot outside the apartment building One Son - Mulder's apartment building is placed under quaranteen Monday - waterbed leak causes a lot of flooding Milagro - Scully attacked -- many shots fired -- Padgett dead by the furnace(?) Three Words - well, he's been dead 3 months, but he still has his apartment???

And on a related note -- his apartment doesn't appear to be very safe, considering just about everyone has broken in

E.B.E. - Deep Throat (and whoever bugged the place) Tooms - Eugene Victor Tooms Little Green Men - the Senator's man just walks right in One Breath - some bad guys who trash the place End Game - more bad guys to trash the place Nisei - someone ransacked the place Herrenvolk - someone is in his apartment just before Mr. X is killed Redux - Cancerman The Red and the Black - Krycek (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 6 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 2 / Season 5: 3 / Season 6: 3 / Season 7: 0 / Season 8: 1)

List for the sleep-deprived As long as we are on the topic of Mulder sleeping on his couch, here is a list of instances where Mulder has been told to "get some sleep"...

·  Tooms - told "You're delirious. Go home and get some sleep" by Scully

·  Ascension - told to "Get some sleep" by Skinner

·  3 - told to "get some sleep" by Detective Munson

·  Dod Kalm - told "you should sleep" by Scully

·  Anasazi - "you need to rest okay, rest" by Scully

·  Wetwired - "get some sleep" by the Plain-Clothed Man

·  Paper Hearts - Scully informs Skinner that she told Mulder to "get some sleep"

·  Paper Hearts - "Why don't you go home and get some sleep" by Scully

·  Detour - "You sleep, Mulder" by Scully.

·  Folie A Deux - "Sleep tight" by the evil nurse.

·  Triangle - told "get some rest, Mulder" by Skinner.

·  Biogenesis - told "you should be home in bed" by Scully

·  The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati - "Rest now" by Cancenman

·  Closure - "go get some sleep" by Scully (Season 1: 1 / Season 2: 4 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 2 / Season 5: 2 / Season 6: 2 / Season 7: 2)

Writer Vince Gilligan somehow references his girlfriend, Holly Rice, in his nearly all of his episodes

· Pusher - The secretary who beats up on Skinner is named Holly.

·  Paper Hearts - Mulder finds Roche's old car in Hollyville, Delaware.

· Unusual Suspects - When Suzanne first meets Byers, she tells him her name is Holly (like the sugar -- which also bore the name Holly).

·  Bad Blood - Sheriff Hartwell is named for Vince Gilligan's girlfriend, whose middle name is Hartwell.

·  Folie a Deux - The agent in charge of the hostage situation is named Agent Rice.

·  Drive - The gas station where Mulder hijacks the station wagon is named "Holly's"

· Tithonus - One of Fellig's pseudonyms was "L.H.Rice". This name was an homage to (Lucy) "Holly" Hartwell Rice. One of Fellig's press passes also bore Holly Rice's birthday, April 4th.

· Monday - The Cradock Marine Bank is named for a suburb of Portsmouth, Virginia where Holly grew up, and Holly's mother's maiden name is Bernard (the name of the man who tries to hold-up the bank).

· Hungry - The manager of the fast-food store is named Mr. Rice. Another employee is named Lucy, which is Holly's real first name.

· Millennium - much of the episode takes place in Rice County, Maryland, and the institution where Frank stays is the Hartwell Psychiatric Hospital in Virginia -- Vince's home state (Hartwell is Holly's middle name).

· X-Cops - The police first find Mulder and Scully on Holly Street.

·  Je Souhaite - the death of one of the Jinni's former "owners" was on April 4th, which is Holly's birthday.

·  John Doe - The American banker laundering money for the cartel was named "Hollis Rice".

·  Sunshine Days - The date mentioned on the videotape is April 4th, 1970. Holly's Birthday is April 4th. (Season 1: 0 / Season 2: 0 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 1 / Season 5: 3 / Season 6: 3 / Season 7: 4 / Season 8: 0 / Season 9: 2)

Mulder and/or Scully in the teaser We so rarely see Mulder or Scully before the opening credits, so you know that when they are there we are in for something special

Beyond the Sea Lazarus Little Green Men (Mulder voiceover) Ascension One Breath Colony The Blessing Way The Field Where I Died Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (voiceovers) Paper Hearts Tunguska Memento Mori Unrequited Max Demons Gethsemane Redux Redux II Christmas Carol Emily Patient X (Mulder voiceover) Bad Blood The Pine Bluff Variant Triangle Dreamland I Dreamland II (young Mulder) How the Ghosts Stole Christmas One Son (Mulder voiceover) Monday Biogenesis (Scully voiceover) The Sixth Extinction The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati Closure (Mulder voiceover) All Things Hollywood A.D. Within Without (Scully voiceover) Essense (Mulder voiceover) (Season 1: 2 / Season 2: 4 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 9 / Season 5: 7 / Season 6: 7 / Season 7: 5 / Season 8: 3)

The Big Blunders... note: Adding this list kinda breaks my heart. It has been requested by various people down through the seasons, and I've always avoided adding it here -- partially because some blunders are open to interpretation (especially with the now-muddled mythology), but mostly because I like to keep a positive feel to my website, and this one is pretty negative. However, comments made by the powers-that-be during Season 8 made me feel that maybe this list does need to be available for all to see -- maybe those guys need to be reminded that we do indeed keep up with this stuff. I'm not aiming to list every nitpick, just what I consider to be the "big blunders" and inconsistencies between episodes and plot points.

Where Scully's cross necklace came from:

· Original: "Ascension" - given to her on her 15th birthday

· Blunder: "Christmas Carol" - given to her at Christmas

· Attempt at Explanation: maybe she broke one, and was given another?

· Truth: The writers knew that they were messing up the history when they changed the cross-backstory, but thought it was "too good of an opportunity to pass up". I personally wish that they had passed.

How long was Scully missing during her abduction:

· Original: "Duane Barry"/"One Breath" - Abducted in August, returned in November

· Blunder: "Emily" - missing for 4 weeks!

· Attempt at Explanation: Perhaps her file said that she was only missing for 4 weeks because she had 2 months vacation saved up???

Mulder's regression on 6/16/1989:

· Original: "Conduit" - audiotape contains Mulder speaking about being in bed - only able to hear Samantha call his name, he cannot see her

· Blunder: "Closure" - videotape contains Mulder describing the abduction as first seen in "Little Green Men"

· Attempt at Explanation: I was willing to believe that using different regression techniques might provide different answers, and was always willing to believe that the scenes from "Little Green Men" were more accurate than those from "Conduit" - coming from a Mulder who had recovered more of his memories with time than the one on the audiotape from 1989, but "Closure" attempted to "do-over" what had occurred in "Conduit", which I think is sloppy storytelling.

Was Samantha alive:

· Original: "End Game" - bounty hunter tells Mulder she is alive, female clones say that they know so much about her because they know where she is.

· Original: "The Blessing Way" - Bill Mulder's "spirit" tells Mulder that Sam is not dead.

· Original: "Paper Clip" - there is a recent tissue sample in Samantha's file.

· Original: "Two Fathers" - Cassandra tells Mulder that Samantha did not visit Mulder in "Redux II", that the "real" Samantha is with "the aliens".

· Blunder: "Closure" - shows the "ghost" of Samantha, who has been dead since she was 14.

· Attempt at Explanation: I realize that some of these -- particularly the Cassandra & bounty hunter ones, could have easily been them lying or simply not knowing the truth. But the tissue sample in particular was such a cool plot-point at the time -- seems like such a shame to ruin it all by having her be dead all these years.

Dana Scully: the first woman to be pregnant for 12 months

· Original: "Within/Without" - Mulder's rental car receipts from just before he disappeared are dated in May (and Scully discovered she was pregnant right after his disappearance)

· Original: "The Gift" - Skinner states that Mulder has been missing since "last May"

· Blunder: "Redrum" - Date-stamps galore place this episode in December (thus Scully, who conceived in May at the latest, is seven months pregnant and not showing during this episode)

· Blunder: "Medusa" - getting home to watch "Survivor II" is mentioned -- episodes of "Survivor II" started airing in February -- which makes her 9 months pregnant and still not showing in this episode.

· Attempt at Explanation: Alien babies have a 12 month gestation period? All kidding aside, there really is no explanation for this one -- the guys at 1013 just hope we won't notice.

Mulder in Jeopardy, with Scully to the rescue:

Deep Throat The Jersey Devil Tooms Ghost in the Machine Erlenmeyer Flask Little Green Men Red Museum Excelsius Dei Aubrey Colony/End Game Dod Kalm (kinda) Anasazi Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 731 (over the phone) Pusher Home Teliko (cool drool!) Demons Detour Kitsunegari Kill Switch Bad Blood Folie A Deux Triangle The Sixth Extinction parts I & II Millennium Signs & Wonders First Person Shooter (Season 1: 5 / Season 2: 7 / Season 3: 3 / Season 4: 3 / Season 5: 5 / Season 6: 1 / Season 7: 4)

Scully in Jeopardy, with Mulder to the rescue:

Squeeze Genderbender Lazarus Shapes Duane Barry/Ascension/One Breath Firewalker (but she handles it herself) Irresistible End Game Our Town Blessing Way/Paper Clip (but Skinner would never hurt her, right?) Wet Wired Unruhe Memento Mori (well, he sends Byers) Redux II The Movie (in a big way) Milagro (although he doesn't make it in time) Orison (but she handled it herself) Signs & Wonders Theef (Season 1: 4 / Season 2: 5 / Season 3: 2 / Season 4: 2 / Season 5: 1 / Season 6: 2 / Season 7: 2)

Tag Line Changes Every so often the line 'The Truth Is Out There' during the opening theme is changed. Here are the changes so far:

The Erlenmeyer Flask - Trust No One Ascension - Deny Everything Anasazi - EL 'AANIGOO 'AHOOT'E 731 - Apology is Policy Herrenvolk - Everything Dies Teliko - Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate Terma - E Pur Si Muove Gethsemane - Believe the Lie Redux - All Lies Lead to the Truth The Red and the Black - Resist or Serve The End - The End Triange - DIE WAHRHEIT IST IRGENDWO DA DRAUßEN The Unnatural - In the Big Inning The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati - Amor Fati Closure - Believe to Understand Nothing Important Happened Today Part 2 - Nothing Important Happened Today 4-D - Trust No 1 - They're Watching Improbable - Dio Ti Ama (Season 1: 1 / Season 2: 2 / Season 3: 1 / Season 4: 4 / Season 5: 3 / Season 6: 2 / Season 7: 2 / Season 8: 0 / Season 9: 4) (Please see the season-based in-jokes pages by episode title for further information/definitions on the tag line changes.)

#the x files #fox mulder #dana scully

[leighmichele]

Curmudgeons Day is an annual celebration observed on January 29th of every year. Believe it or not, there exists a day in the calendar that celebrates the grumpiness and those cantankerous personalities. Curmudgeons Day is celebrated in honor of William Claude Dukenfield who was a famous comedian and self-professed curmudgeon himself. #curmudgeonsday #grumpy #grouchy #grinch https://www.instagram.com/p/CZT3V2POQB1/?utm_medium=tumblr

#curmudgeonsday #grumpy #grouchy #grinch

[fuzzysparrow]

What did the W. C. stand for in American comedian W. C. Fields' name?

W. C. Fields (1880-1946) was an American comic actor who performed on stage, film and radio. His real name was William Claude Dukenfield, and he began his career after running away from home at the age of 11. He initially achieved international success as a silent juggler, before performing in the 'Ziegfeld Follies', an elaborate theatrical show in 1915. On stage, Fields was recognised by his top hat, cutaway coat and cane.

In 1923, Fields starred in the Broadway musical comedy 'Poppy' as a small-time con man. He reprised the role in the film version of the play, 'Sally of the Sawdust', in 1925. This kick-started his career in movies and he went on to star in many more films. One of his biggest roles was the character Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (1935), based on the book by the Victorian author Charles Dickens.

From 1936 onwards, Fields struggled with heavy drinking and subsequent alcohol-related illnesses. By 1938, he was physically unable to star in films. During his recovery period, Fields appeared in radio shows, eventually returning to the screen in 1940. Sadly, he still suffered from bouts of illness and his movie career never regained its height. Instead, Fields concentrated on radio work, but even that proved difficult as his vision and memory deteriorated.

On Christmas Day 1946, Fields suffered a gastric haemorrhage and passed away aged 66. According to a 2004 documentary, Fields winked at a nurse, put a finger to his lips, and died.

#w c fields #actor #trivia

[bm2ab]

Arrivals & Departures 29 January 1880 – 25 December 1946 William Claude Dukenfield [W. C. Fields]

William Claude Dukenfield better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his supposed contempt for children and dogs.

His career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He gradually incorporated comedy into his act and was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies for several years. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy Poppy (1923), in which he played a colorful small-time con man. His subsequent stage and film roles were often similar scoundrels or henpecked everyman characters.

Among his recognizable trademarks were his raspy drawl and grandiloquent vocabulary. The characterization he portrayed in films and on radio was so strong it was generally identified with Fields himself. It was maintained by the publicity departments at Fields' studios (Paramount and Universal) and was further established by Robert Lewis Taylor's biography, W. C. Fields, His Follies and Fortunes (1949). Beginning in 1973, with the publication of Fields' letters, photos, and personal notes in grandson Ronald Fields' book W. C. Fields by Himself, it was shown that Fields was married (and subsequently estranged from his wife), and financially supported their son and loved his grandchildren.

[theoaonthecusp-blog]

Jesse Byers?

Sometimes it��s hard to explain to my friends or even fellow OA fans how I have come to a particular theory or stumbled upon a piece of information that may or may not be relevant, to anything at all really. It makes me sound like an absolute psychopath...which I am not...not yet, anyway. Are Brit & Zal trying to alienate OA fans from the people who used to love us so that we have no choice but to join some cult? ;) I don’t really think so, they seem like nice, good people...people who are too fucking genius but I won’t hold intelligence against them, even if I really wish I were that brilliant & creative too.

Anyway, I thought I’d share just one of my trips down one rabbit hole and where it got me so that you can share in the insanity too.

So one thing that left wanting more was Jesse. Why did he not seem to have a last night? What was the deal with his parents? They gave us all these visual clues but not a lot to hold onto for sure.

So what do we know about Jesse really? We know that he is essentially an orphan. We know that he remembers his dad from being a little kid, that his dad carried him to the car on some trip to Canada when he was little. He tells Uncle Carl the story about feeling like he was “floating”. Aside from that, we only know that his dad “left”. We know that his mother committed suicide and that he and his older sister Ali now live by themselves in a big family house in Crestwood. Ali appears to own a small business installing wood floors, I assume that it was probably a family business but we don’t know for sure. We’re pretty sure that Ali has a girlfriend named Maureen. We know that Jesse & Ali have both become big potheads, probably in an attempt to numb themselves from feeling the trauma they have experienced.

Anyway, when we meet Ali, we also get to see a glimpse into Jesse’s house. Stranger Things is playing on the tv. There are drawings all over the walls, as if someone has gone crazy. At first I thought that maybe the kids were responsible for the drawings since they no longer had any parental supervision, no authority figure to tell them to stop. But then I started to think that perhaps the drawings were a clue about their recently dead mother. Maybe she made the drawings? We see a weird-looking humanoid figure, a small airplane, a horse, some other scribbles and some scary anthropomorphized trees. The trees in particular reminded me of something...something that had crossed my mind several times while watching The OA. The movie Return to Oz, which I was majorly into as a little girl. I even dressed up as Ozma for Halloween one year. Anyway, in this version, the flying monkeys have basically been replaced by “The Wheelers,” a brigade of part man/ part bicycle creeps who serve as the Gestapo for Princess Momby. When Ali says “she better not be some giant blind creep”, it occurred to me that their mother might actually be Nancy Wheeler. Which meant that the dad could very well be Jonathan Byers. The dates don’t seem to exactly match up regarding their ages but nothing ever seems to match up perfectly when it comes to stories of interdimensional travel, does it? I could be totally wrong here but stick with me for a moment. Since Jonathan’s father Lonnie left, it’s not much of a reach to think that history might have repeated itself and that Jonathan did the same thing. Was Nancy continuously haunted by memories of her visit to the Upside Down and close encounters with the Demagorgan, another “giant blind creep”? Hmm.

Even though The OA tells us that logic is overrated, we can actually make it useful here. When trying to prove something unknown using the rules of logical inference, if we don’t have quite enough information to go on, we can start by making an assumption. So that is what I am doing here. Assuming that Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers are Jesse’s parents. Really I just need him to have a last name. So Byers it is. So I google “Jesse Byers” and the top hit seems to be some kid who auditioned for American Idol. Oh yeah, Miles name drops American Idol right before Steve punches him in the throat. Yep, this must be the guy. So I visit his Youtube channel and see that he sings all sorts of cover songs. So I narrow it down to videos that were posted within a few months of the initial airing of The OA season 1 and scan the titles. One in particular jumps out at me, “God is Great, Beer is God & People are Crazy.” Now that sounds right up our alley so I try watching it. I can’t fucking understand a damn word he’s singing so I google the lyrics instead. It’s about this guy who goes to a bar and meets an old man and they chat about things and the guy tells him “God is great, beer is good & people are crazy”. Later the guy spots the old man’s obituary and sees that he was a millionaire and that he had given his fortune away to a man he hardly knew. Ultimately we’re supposed to understand that the guy singing was the recipient of this inheritance. Ok, so whatever. So I decide to google that plot and wouldn’t you know, it’s a movie called “If I had a Million” from 1932.

I start looking at the credits for this movie for people named Will/ Bill, Billy, Billie, Willie, any version of William and right off the bat I see that one segment was written by a man named William Slavens McNutt so I follow him. Of course W.C. Fields who stars in that segment is a familiar name to me and I start to wonder what his full name is. Go figure, another William. Born William Claude Dukenfield. So now we’re definitely onto something, especially considering that Crestwood is actually set in Claude, Michigan. Hot on the trail! So I learn some shit about W.C. Fields and I learn that he had 2 sons, both named William. WTAF?!!! W.C. Fields Jr. is his “legitimate” son with his wife and then William Rexford Fields Morris is born out of wedlock & raised in foster care whom only ever meets his father one time. How shitty!

So upon googling “William Morris”, I ended up down a path to a different William Morris, an artist/ POET/ designer from 19th century England. Sort of odd but I follow the lead. He was married to an architect named Jane Burden...hmm, “the burden of raising a blind child”, maybe I’m still on the scent. Anyway, this William Morris was a big influence on Victorian period design including stained glass windows. He’s also into fantasy fiction, medievalism and socialism. He was really into the preservation of old buildings. He & some pals establish William Morris, Marshall, Falkner & Co. They opwn Liberty Department Store in the west end of London which becomes known for their floral and graphic prints that came to define the Victorian period. I learn a bunch of interesting potentially relevant factoids before discovering that the costume department there is directed by a guy named Edward William Godwin. Uh oh, another god damn William...better go follow him now. Immediately I find out that he is an architect/ designer known for RUSKINian gothic style and holy fuck shit motherfucker I’m still hot on the trail...somehow. This guy has a Japanese influence and I look up some of his buildings and holy shit...one of them looks exactly like Georgetown-fucking-University...which from here on out, I must refer to as GFU. Wouldn’t you know, that is where Brit & Zal met. Now I realize that not everyone would actually recognize that some random-ass castle in England looks exactly like GFU. But I do because I grew up in that area. Again, they are speaking a language I just happen to know. Weird and fucked up. So anyway, then I’m looking for the next Will and I find him. Edward William Godwin apprenticed to an engineer (hello, medium & engineer anyone?) where he met reform Gothic Designer, William Burges.

And here’s where shit gets weird, if it wasn’t already. I click on the Wikipedia link for William Burges and I don’t find another Victorian dude, I find a story about Benjamin Kyle or Burger King Doe and my brain quite literally explodes. I’m dead. And I still haven’t solved a damn thing.

#TheOA #BenjaminKyle #StrangestThings #BurgerKingDoe #JesseByers #WCFields #ReturntoOZ