This episode is an excellent satire. It seems to me that the producers of the show said to the cast, 'OK everyone, let your hair down and have a giggle'. The shows fans should view this story in the same way and enjoy the spectacle of Mulder and Scully exaggerating their personal idiosyncrasies.
There are too many comic moments to list individually but I love the scene immediately after the opening credits. Mulder and Scully meet the morning after the night before to sort out their story, setting the mood for what is to follow. Mulder's childish tantrum when he flattens the waste bin and Scully's description of his attack on Ronnie, "I didn't do the..(imitates hammering action), with the thing", had me laughing out loud. In the same scene Gillian Anderson almost consigns one take to the blooper bin. Its the bit when Mulder warns Scully she's going to end up in prison with a cell-mate called Large Marge who reads a lot of Gertrude Stein - watch her put her head down and cover her face with her hand. If you look closely GA has the broadest of grins on her face at this point before she recovers her composure.
The ending makes perfect sense to me if you take note of the last scene between Scully and Sheriff Hartwell. He apologises for Ronnie Strickland's actions 'he doesn't understand the concept of low profile', we (vampires) are not like that anymore, we're good neighbours, we pay taxes'. I take that to mean this community of vampires doesn't harm or kill people, they just want to live, as far as possible, ordinary lives. Ronnie it appears, watched too many Bela Lugosi movies just like Scully said. The vampires incapacitate Mulder and Scully to make good their escape. They don't kill them, that would only invite further intrusion into their world by the authorities. Presumably the vampires flee to set up a new community elsewhere away from the spotlight.
Other favourite lines;
Mulder: Come on Scully get those little legs moving!
Scully: Its not that Mexican goat sucker either!
There are too many comic moments to list individually but I love the scene immediately after the opening credits. Mulder and Scully meet the morning after the night before to sort out their story, setting the mood for what is to follow. Mulder's childish tantrum when he flattens the waste bin and Scully's description of his attack on Ronnie, "I didn't do the..(imitates hammering action), with the thing", had me laughing out loud. In the same scene Gillian Anderson almost consigns one take to the blooper bin. Its the bit when Mulder warns Scully she's going to end up in prison with a cell-mate called Large Marge who reads a lot of Gertrude Stein - watch her put her head down and cover her face with her hand. If you look closely GA has the broadest of grins on her face at this point before she recovers her composure.
The ending makes perfect sense to me if you take note of the last scene between Scully and Sheriff Hartwell. He apologises for Ronnie Strickland's actions 'he doesn't understand the concept of low profile', we (vampires) are not like that anymore, we're good neighbours, we pay taxes'. I take that to mean this community of vampires doesn't harm or kill people, they just want to live, as far as possible, ordinary lives. Ronnie it appears, watched too many Bela Lugosi movies just like Scully said. The vampires incapacitate Mulder and Scully to make good their escape. They don't kill them, that would only invite further intrusion into their world by the authorities. Presumably the vampires flee to set up a new community elsewhere away from the spotlight.
Other favourite lines;
Mulder: Come on Scully get those little legs moving!
Scully: Its not that Mexican goat sucker either!