‘X-Files’ – Jimmy Kimmel Tells Scully and Mulder What We’ve All Been Thinking

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Jimmy Kimmel’s a huge X-Files fan who’s anxiously awaiting the new limited The X-Files series on Fox. But unlike the rest of us X-Files fans, Kimmel actually got to hang out with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson who are reprising their roles as FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. In this skit that aired on the January 12, 2016 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel plays FBI Agent Keith who meets up with Mulder and Scully in a dark, abandoned lab that houses an actual preserved alien under glass. Mulder and Scully are, unfortunately, still stuck in the ’90s, using a huge portable phone (with an antenna!) and connecting to the internet via a dial-up modem and AOL. When Keith tells them we’ve moved on, they reminisce about the greatness of the ’90s with its Hootie and the Blowfish and beanie babies, and Scully and Mulder worry we won’t like them anymore. And then Kimmel as Keith say what X-Files fans have been thinking, suggesting they just go ahead and finally have sex. “It’s been like 23 years. Everybody knows,” says Keith. Scully and Mulder deny it but Agent Keith insists, “It’s time to do it already.”


The X-Files will premiere on Fox on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 10pm ET/7pm PT after the NFC Championship Game.

The X-Files Details:

Thirteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of The X-Files is a thrilling, six-episode event series from creator/executive producer Chris Carter, with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson re-inhabiting their roles as iconic FBI Agents FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY. Mitch Pileggi also returns as FBI ASST. DIR. WALTER SKINNER, Mulder and Scully’s boss, who walks a fine line between loyalty to these investigators and accountability to his superiors.

The upcoming event series will encompass a mixture of stand-alone episodes and those that further the original show’s seminal mythology. In the opening episode, Mulder and Scully take on a case of a possible alien abductee. The all-new episodes will feature appearances by guest stars, including Joel McHale, Robbie Amell, Lauren Ambrose, Annabeth Gish, Annet Mahendru, Rhys Darby, Kumail Nanjiani, and William B. Davis, who reprises his role as “Cigarette Smoking Man.” Three of the episodes are written and directed by Chris Carter, with the remaining new episodes written and directed by original series veterans Glen Morgan, Darin Morgan and James Wong.

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