Xfiles season 8 openin1/15/2024 Play 2 “Bad Blood”īoldly opening with our hero plunging a stake into the heart of a seemingly mortal young man and facing a potential multimillion-dollar lawsuit as a result (which seems fair), “Bad Blood” boasts a Rashomon-esque structure. While “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” is a bonkers story about The Twilight Zone, off-brand Jell-O, The Berenstain Bears, and other unexplained consequences of the Mandela Effect – wait, no, make that the Mengele Effect. The first one, “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” features Flight of the Conchords’ Rhys Darby as the titular were-monster. The rebooted 10th and 11th seasons of The X-Files each featured a comedy-centric episode written and directed by Darrin Morgan – and they’re both great. Play 3 “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster” And “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” It's a simple equation Mulder + Michael McKean = Comedy Gold. There’s so much to love about this show a bewildered Mulder casually screwing up his host body’s life, a horned-up McKean attempting to use his new waterbed to seduce Dana, Nora Dunn as the sleazy guy’s distraught wife – bonus comedy points for the part where Duchovny and McKean replicate the Marx Brothers’ famous mirror gag from Duck Soup. “Fox Mulder Freaky Fridays with Michael McKean” is such a strong premise that “Dreamland” is stretched into two episodes. It’s spooky, funny, and one of the best ways to celebrate the birth of Jesus other than watching Die Hard and/or getting drunk. Play 5 “How The Ghosts Stole Christmas”Ī Christmas episode set entirely in a haunted house is awesome enough – but the ghosts happen to be played by TV icons Lily Tomlin and Ed Asner. A Hollywood producer, played by comedian Wayne Federman (and also, oddly, named “Wayne Federman”) makes a movie all about Mulder and Scully – and casts David Duchovny’s real-life buddy (and occasional on screen crush ) Garry Shandling as Mulder and his then-wife Tea Leoni as Scully. While not the best episode by far, “Hollywood A.D.” features one of the funniest conceits in the entire series. Bonus points for the scene where Scully autopsies an invisible man, and the fact that it ends with Mulder and Scully drinking beer and watching Caddyshack. In its seventh season, The X-Files went full Kazaam with “Je Souhaite” in which a couple of dim-witted bros draw the attention of the FBI after their wishes, granted by a sardonic genie, backfire horribly. Also it was far less grossly negligent than the real Cops. Like, we get to see Mulder and Scully monologuing to a camera crew about why they get “paid the big bucks” for their paranormal investigations. While the corporate synergy machine combining two popular Fox shows could have easily been disastrous (thankfully Mulder and Scully were never sent to investigate any strange happenings at Melrose Place) “X-Cops” thrust our favorite FBI agents into the world of Cops – and the results were shockingly delightful. Come for Mulder in a pink golf shirt, stay for Scully calling him “Poopiehead.” Play 8 “X-Cops” Did we mention that they’re working under the aliases “Rob and Laura Petrie”? Yeah, Mulder makes a pretty big gamble that no one in this town has ever seen, or even heard of The Dick Van Dyke Show. While not the most overtly goofy episode, there is much comedy to be mined from the premise of “Arcadia” Mulder and Scully go undercover as a married couple in a suburban community where a monster is seemingly murdering residents who don’t adhere to the collective aesthetic. Also, a not-insignificant number of episodes were funny as hell … 9 “Arcadia” Some weeks you might get a paranoia-filled conspiracy thriller, while other times would present a straight-up horror story about, say, a house full of inbred mutants. Part of what made The X-Files so great – in addition to the unrelenting sexual tension you could cut with an alien autopsy scalpel – was its tonal diversity.
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His decision is swayed toward the LeBaron when the salesman tell him it may have been formerly owned by actor Jon Voight. George is conflicted about which used car to buy: a reliable 1989 Volvo, or a Chrysler LeBaron. The tech is visible in the center of the steering wheel when he “stops short” with George’s mother. In the 1990s, a ’73 Impala wasn’t really considered a classic vehicle, and would have been a cheap option for somebody like Kramer - who doesn’t have a steady job.Īlthough it wasn’t that special at the time, Kramer’s Impala was actually an extremely rare experimental vehicle from GM, one of only 1,000 fitted with airbags as standard from the factory. Kramer’s car is a 1973 Chevrolet Impala, and perfectly fits with his “hipster doofus” vibe. The plate also scores Kramer a date with a big-bottomed woman named Sally, plus catcalls when driving down the street. Although initially upset, Kramer eventually realizes he can use them to park in a space marked “doctors only” and try to pass himself off as a proctologist. Kramer goes to the DMV to renew the licence plates for his vehicle, but is instead given plates that read “ASSMAN”. Mehlman’s friend would continually pitch terrible ideas for the show only to have them rejected, but his own complaining turned out to be good enough for a plot. The idea for the episode came from a friend of writer Peter Mehlman, who had been complaining about the smell of his own vehicle. They get overwhelmed by the same smell that has plagued the car the whole episode. It doesn’t work out.Įventually, Jerry calls the vehicle a total loss, dropping the keys in front of a street hoodlum in hopes they will take it. Jerry brings the car back to the valet to make him smell the car and pay for a cleaning. 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While Jerry deals with Puddy, Kramer and a salesperson test a demo model to see how far they can go before running out of gas, since he hates filling up the tank when he borrows Jerry’s car. George goes with Jerry to make sure he doesn’t get the bad end of a deal, as he’s skeptical of car dealers and their wicked ways. Jerry is looking to buy a new Saab 900 NG Convertible from Elaine’s boyfriend Puddy, who has been promoted to salesman. The incident was inspired by a story by writer Greg Daniels’ father. “The Parking Space” was actually shot outdoors bleachers were brought in for the studio audience to watch, although they couldn’t hear the dialogue very well. George’s declaration “I wish you could make a living parallel parking” is ironic, considering he did as much a few episodes earlier. In the end, they both miss the fight on TV. George and Elaine were headed to Jerry’s apartment to watch a boxing match, but now George must instead duke it out with “Mike” (who also wants to watch the fight at Jerry’s) over the spot.Įventually, the entire neighbourhood gets involved in the debate between George and Mike. He shows off by attempting to parallel park in front of Jerry’s apartment, only to have his spot taken away from him by somebody in a ’69 Buick trying to nose it in headfirst. Article contentĪfter scoring a new hat at the flea market, George is feeling good, and starts bragging to Elaine about his parking prowess. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 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These aren’t nefarious purposes-they are actually rather sensible-but they are clearly secondary or at least tangential to helping employees become more productive.Ĭompanies could probably alleviate some of the current dissatisfaction by being more straightforward that the performance management system is not for you, the employee it is instead a company system, designed to ensure a bell curve of compensation, and alignment to company goals. Instead the purpose of these systems is twofold: first, to allocate compensation fairly and second, to align each individual’s goals with the values and strategies of the company. I would argue that a performance management system should be designed primarily for this purpose, and indeed some purport to be-but scratch the surface and you quickly learn that they aren’t. One cause of this dissatisfaction is a misunderstanding of motives: managers think that their performance management system is designed to help them accelerate the performance of their people. The world we are leaving behind is unquestionably a deeply unpopular world-not only do most managers dislike their performance management system, but most human resources professionals don’t like theirs, either. And so now is an excellent time to ask ourselves “What is the world we are leaving behind and where precisely are we headed?’ Performance, how we manage it, measure it, and reward it, is changing. Nonetheless, when Microsoft throws out ratings, and on closer scrutiny one discovers that in the last year many other companies, such as Adobe, Medtronics, Kelly Services, NY Life, and Juniper have done the same, it’s time to sit up and pay attention. Hard to say, of course-after all, on the day Microsoft announced its rejection of ratings, Yahoo was publicly struggling with the fall-out from its botched re-launch of stack rankings. So, if Microsoft is ditching ratings, if they are saying that ratings hinder performance rather than help it, what does that mean for the 90% of us who labor every six months to generate them for our teams? And what does it mean for the software providers whose systems compel us to do so? For HCM systems, that something is ratings. All systems are designed to produce something. These ratings are the lingua franca of performance, and are so central to performance management that HCM software providers are competing with each other to see who can help managers generate them faster, explain them better, and display them ever more graphically. They pinpoint performance gaps and then trigger the necessary training and learning interventions. These ratings-of overall performance, and of the many competencies that apparently combine to create overall performance-are the raw material for everything else that the company does to and for its people. Every single one of the big Human Capital Management (HCM) software companies, from Oracle to CornerstoneOnDemand to SuccessFactors, uses ratings as the lynch pin of its platform. No more ratings? According to the CEB study, more than 90% of all companies surveyed use some kind of rating system to measure performance. No, the big news came in the next paragraph of Lisa’s email: However, welcome as it is, Microsoft’s ditching of stack ranking isn’t the big news-according to a Corporate Executive Board survey, only 29% of companies use a forced curve in their performance management system. After all, this practice of “stack ranking,” of being forced to rate every single one of your team on a bell curve from excellent to poor (even if the whole team had, in fact, performed excellently) has been singled out by everyone from HBRto Vanity Fair as one of the reasons for Microsoft’s inability to foster high-performing teams, a major cause of its “lost decade.”Īnd not just big news, but welcome news for anyone who has ever struggled to keep a straight face while telling a direct report that a “3” really isn’t that bad, that it truly does mean “meets expectations,” and that, hey, sixty percent of the company gets that rating, so don’t be too down on yourself. This was big news, the lead of many a business section. “No more curve,” said Lisa Brummel, Microsoft’s EVP of HR last week, curtly dismissing Microsoft’s much-derided but iconic practice of ranking each team member on a forced distribution. AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. 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