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[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 59 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah, Mulder and Scully...

Gay best friends that are straight only for each other.

I mean look at them. To quote Raymond Gillette, nobody's that gay.

[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 38 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Had to look them up and came across this article and this one with some more.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 38 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I recalled this imagine instantly. Haven't seen that in awhile. I feel like I saw this originally in Rolling Stone? Too damn lazy to look it up.

Oh god I'm turning into dust as I type this out.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Remember to take your meds and to do light streches to help with the back pain.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Oh my, miss Scully!

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have a sudden urge to watch anime.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 5 points 6 days ago

fist me daddy

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 18 points 6 days ago

Oh, they are from David LaChappelle. That explains a lot, though those have been uncomfortably great.

Thanks for sharing!

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 days ago

That shit is weird as fuck. I never knew these existed. Thanks for sharing. Seems like such a strange vibe in some of them.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago

It was a simpler, more innocent time.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Little did we know that's a glance of the real inner Duchovny surfacing

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did you see Duchovny in Twin Peaks?
I do not know what his real inner person is, but I guess it has always been legendary...

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

We haven't yet seen his final form.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I never watched the show. I know it has something to do with aliens. But I didn't know that the alien was Ziggy Stardust.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's worth watching, if only for the historical value

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You misspelled "hysterical".

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[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I loved the monster of the week early seasons but never made it past the later seasons where Anderson and Duchovny were replaced. Is there anything worth watching past that?

[–] LycanGalen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pause for info dump: Season 3 lost two of the main writer-producers, who returned in seasons 4-5, and then were gone again after Duchovny insisted on moving the show to the US. You can tell the distinct tonal shift between the seasons, and also in how Mulder is written. Season five was also intended to be the series finale, but Fox renewed it. That's a big part of seasons 6-9 being a nothing burger that often contradicts earlier canon.

With all that said, I've been watching the later seasons fully leaning into critiquing it like Statler and Waldorf. From that angle, it's been fun.

As for the reboots, I think a similar thing happened where season 1 was a successfully nostalgic bit of fan service, and then they wound up with more seasons than they knew what to do with. Watch with low expectations when you want something to fill the time, but don't want to commit full attention.

[–] iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

Thank you! Lol I am now both vindicated and informed!

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[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ahhh... The 90s were a lot of fun...

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's hard to believe it was just 10 years ago.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 days ago

The short time after Reagan and before 9/11 where the US wasn't a complete piece of shit

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

The sex sells bit of these kind of makes sense for Duchovny since he recently did the Red Shoe Diaries (Showtime softcore porn) right before being cast for X-Files.

Still hyper-90s, if you all like this watch literally any music video around that time as well.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Didn't Duchovny check himself into rehab for sex addiction?

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Californication could have been a biography from what I hear.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think that came out after rehab, which really struck me as funny. Method acting indeed!

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 5 points 6 days ago

i want him and paul rudd to make a sandwich out of me

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

tlc - no scrubs

Missy Elliot had some. The trash bag outfit comes to mind.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 20 points 6 days ago

You can't fool me, these are the early shots from Californication.

[–] HypnoticSheep@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Scully giving big "return the slab" vibes here

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Does Duchovny sleep inside a magic eye poster?

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Did they know what the show was going to be when they took these photos?

[–] KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These photos were taken by David Lachapelle. This is his style, and I’ve found that a lot of his shoots are not about the subject, but about the fact that Lachapelle is shooting them. Celebrities seek him out more often than not.

These images are actually rather mild for him. In 2002 he shot a campaign for Lavazza coffee, and one of the images was a nude woman being driven on by toy dump trucks as they poured sugar and beans on her privates. Another involved a woman humping the air while grasping two rockets with the coffee brand on them, as an oiled bodybuilder flexed in the background.

It’s not my cup of tea (or coffee), but he’s gotten pretty darn famous for doing what he loves, so more power to him.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

They all look like they’re stuck inside a Windows 95 screensaver!

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Based reply.

This guy was there.

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Gillian Anderson started my Margaret Thatcher fetish.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

I would so be a the little green alien in that throuple.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I live not far from an X-Files museum. Next to a great bakery.

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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

I want to believe.

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