You can watch Morgan's episode for free of Fox's website, FYI. I thought it was suitably ridiculous and maybe the laugh out loud funniest thing Morgan's done (though it doesn't even begin top the overall brilliance of his
Millennium satire of Scientology, which it is my duty to once again remind you is still the most audacious thing to ever air on network TV). The whole thing's a play on the Mandela Effect (or the Mengele Effect, as one character insists) in which a sweaty man named Reggie (played by Brian Huskey, the bald dude from all those Sonic commercials) claims to have started the X-Files with Mulder and Scully, and the agents don't remember because They erased their memories. They being Dr They. This leads to a montage of Reggie inserted into classic and not so classic older episodes, including "Teso dos Bichos," in which he proclaims, "Guys, if this turns out to be killer cats, I'm going to be very disappointed." The Trump jokes near the end are creaky, but I loved the extended scene set in a bizarre sculpture park in which Mulder and Dr They get to the bottom of, well, nothing and everything. As in the previous Morgan episode, he gives every fantastical allegation plausible deniability in the end, but it hardly matters. Morgan's done his homework overall, with stabs at the Berenstein/Berenstain Bears controversy, but many of the funniest lines are free-standing from the premise, like the junk shop owner's response to whether he has a certain item, or how Mulder is spending his free time when Scully calls him at the outset of the episode. And then the ending line, in which Morgan throws shade on the very vehicle in which his episode appears? Beautiful. As I say every time this show gives Morgan an episode: how does Morgan not have a movie or TV show of his own?
Also, apparently in the previous "normal" episode of this season,