Product Details

• Directors: Richard Compton, James A. Contner, Allen Coulter, Tucker Gates, Ralph Hemecker
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: September 30, 1997
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304563892
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #46,862 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

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This pair of third season episodes from the irreverently inventive pen of Darin Morgin have become fan favorites. Peter Boyle stars in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (episode 4) as the reluctant psychic Bruckman, whose flashes of future events inevitably revolve around an individual's demise. Mulder (David Duchovny) enlists Bruckman's help in finding a killer known as the Puppet (Stu Charno), another man with psychic powers. Morgin's mix of mirth and melancholia creates an offbeat but moving episode, highlighted by Boyle's sad performance as a man who can't escape his visions of death. "War of the Copraphages" (episode 12), the story of a cockroach "invasion" of a small Massachusetts town, is (among other things) a witty homage to Orson Welles's 1937 radio play War of the Worlds, right down to the mad panic. As Mulder investigates a series of deaths connected to a sudden infestation of cockroaches, he discovers a dead specimen that appears to be metallic rather than organic. With the help of a beautiful entymologist named Bambi (Bobbie Phillips) and a robotics scientist (Ken Kramer), both of whom just happen to be studying in this same obscure town, Mulder attempts to explain this overpopulation and the mysterious metal bug while Scully rushes in from Washington, D.C., to make sense of the sudden rash of deaths. Morgin's deadpan screenplay piles crazy coincidence with outrageous situations, concluding in an explosive finale involving an enormous stockpile of manure. --Sean Axmaker

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ...Bruckman &...Coprophages are my favorite X-File episodes, October 14, 1998

By A Customer

Clyde Bruckman-I think that this episode brings new aspects to question in the show's thread. I was most pleased when Clyde Bruckman gives his prognostication of the two Agent's (Mulder and Scully) death. It leaves you wondering...once again...where the story is leading us. I would say that this is the episode that got me completely hooked on The X-Files. War of Coprophages-Is a great ice breaker for any hard core X-File fan. It has many great moments of comic releaf through-out the story. And it also spreads some light on both Agent Dana Kathren Scully and Agent Fox William Mulder's feelings. If you are looking for the X-File Mythology you will not find it here. This episode stands on its own creating a story that will spark your brain. END

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best example of the X-Files best, September 20, 2000

By A Customer

"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is an entertaining jaunt through what many people consider to be the most interesting part of the X-Files world: The relationship between Mulder and Scully. Yes, the episode is strange, but...that's the X-Files. And if it's strange you're looking for, "War of the Coprophages" is a definite must. An episode that caused quite a stir when it first aired, WOTC is meant to be viewed as a parody, much like "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' " (another X-F must). So, if you're only going to buy two episodes of the X-Files EVER, "Repose" and "Coprophages" are the episodes, if only just to see Scully mutter "Bambi" repeatedly and (almost) eat a bug.

5.0 out of 5 stars This one delivers a KO!, March 16, 2002

By	Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Veteran character actor Peter Boyle is brilliantly memorable in "Buckman" while the second episode features a cleverly filmed roach that is quite believable and misleading to the viewer.

These are two of the best from one of television's most haunting and original series.