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War of the Coprophages 3X12
Air date: January 5th, 1996
Written by: Darin Morgan
Directed by: Kim Manners

Title Meaning: Tribute to one of the best-known mass hysteria stories, War of the Worlds
Tag Line: The Truth Is Out There

Other Information:
• The product names Die, Flea, Die! and Die, Bug, Die! are actually tributes to the horrid horror flick, Die, Monster, Die!
• Notice that Scully was reading Breakfast At Tiffany's? That's because when David once appeared on the quiz show, Jeopardy, he got an easy question wrong about that book
Dion Anderson (Sheriff Frass)
Raye Birk (Dr. Jeff Eckerle)
Alex Bruhanski (Dr. Bugger)
Alan Buckley (Dude)
Bill Dow (Dr. Rick Newton)
Tom Heaton (Resident #1)
Ken Kramer (Dr. Alexander Ivanov)
Tyler Labine (Stoner)
Tony Marr (Motel Manager)
Nicole Parker (Chick)
Bobbie Phillips (Dr. Bambi Berenbaum)
Wren Robertz (Orderly)
Bobby Stewart (Resident #2)
Norma Wick (Reporter)

3X12The town of Miller's Grove, Massachusetts seems to be overrun by a breed of killer cockroach.

Mulder conducts his own investigation of the strange happenings that occur whenever the cockroaches are around while Scully sits in her apartment helping Mulder over the phone, and seems to find that all the deaths actually have nothing to do with cockroaches. As events go on it seems that all the deaths are actually coincidences and the cockroaches are nothing to do with the crimes. Mulder seems to think though that the roaches could be visitors from another planet, or are they?

Rating: 9 out of 10
Another strong script from the comic genius himself - Darin Morgan. David and Gillian's dry humour performances in thise episode are top-class and I love the way Darin keeps the episode entertaining all the way through. All the guest stars help the humour with dry performances and some of the scenes between Mulder and Scully over the phone are hilarious. Plus, it's packed with in jokes and subtle references which makes it one to keep coming back to just to spot them. Utterly brilliant!
Nitpicking
Ermm.. I really couldn't find anything wrong with this episode.