Home is still a rough watch. I don't really believe in censorship or morality policing but woof. A very good episode but I would be being obtuse if I didn't understand a little of the uproar.
The sexual implications are the real reason this episode was so controversial. Meanwhile, later in the same season is the episode "Sanguinarium" with LITRES of blood, multiple people getting horrifcally killed, and a guy *cuts his own face off*
I nearly jumped out of my own skin when I saw the limbless mom hidden underneath the bed. Plus the baby buried alive and the incest. The sex was the least of this episode's problems.
No, it's the burying of the baby alive that was the most controversial, followed by the kid stepping in the body, followed by the woman's anatomy that I will not describe
I saw this when it first aired. There was a warning at the beginning which I rolled my eyes at and thought what wimps do they think watch this show? The opening set the tone and it just get darker from there.
I can't say for sure if the red part is intentional or just a quirk of the photography technique used to make it, but that in itself is pretty interesting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography
I remember the Peackock episode very well. I saw it in the 90s on Polish TV, when "X Files" was a big hit here. Peackock family even became something of a meme at our school, among us, the 90s kids.
I mean...this episode is pretty terrifying. Most of the subject matter in X Files is generally not that taboo, just like...weird and often horror genre related. When you tune into X Files you know what you're signing up for when it comes to subject matter. This is understandably very upsetting to someone who isn't prepared for it. I know when I first watched it I was shocked, especially since there's not an episode even remotely similar in subject matter leading up to it. I'm honestly amazed it was even greenlit in the first place, but I gotta give props to the X Files team for managing to create something scary enough to get pulled.
Hell yeah, I remember middle schooler me seeing the advisory warning during the premier and then thinking how stupid the reveal was. I didn't fully understand the family dynamics 😂😂😂
I was in sixth grade when this one aired - I even went trick or treating dressed as one of the peacock bros for Halloween that year (it was the scariest thing I could think of haha)
This is gold entertainment! I loved every one liner as it pertained to what was presented😂 Is every video like this? If not, you got the goose who laid the golden egg here! Do more in this style!🙏😁👌
I remembered this episode!! I think i caught the reshowing after hearing my mom talk about it being the only episode thatreally disturbed her. She loved the show and would watch every episode and tell me about them the next day since i was usually either doing homework, watching other shows on the TV in my bedroom or playing video games. So when Fox announced they were reshowing it, i made sure to tune in that night.
Reminds me of a few criminal minds episodes that did similar things. One was a gypsy like family that traveled the country kidnapping kids to marry off to their own kids. In the end they were never caught. Another was a similar inbreeding situation between a bother and sister, but the kid grew up to be the killer of the episode and was never caught. It was a really f**ed up series, but I held out hope for Morgan and Garcia.
Fun fact: this inspiration for this episode came from the unlikeliest source possible- Charlie Chaplin's autobiography. A young Chaplin, who was touring across England with a theatre group, briefly lodged in a miner's cottage in Ebbw Vale, Wales. After dinner, Chaplin's host led him to the kitchen with the promises of a spectacle, which Chaplin obliged. Out of the kitchen cupboard rolled out a legless man, who his host proudly billed as the 'human frog'. He performed a jerky stage routine in front of a horrified Chaplin. Glen Morgan, the episode's writer was also impacted by the incident, as he co-wrote the episode with James Wong (yes, that one), thirteen years after reading the anecdote.
Oh my god! I did absolutely see this broadcast! I wonder which airing it was? My aunt used to watch the X-files, so when I saw it pop up on TV at home I was like, “Yeah, let’s see what this is all about!” I was maybe 7 or 8 at the time. The visual of the lady strapped to that board and howling haunted me for, like, ever!! It was almost 20 years before I so-so-SO tentatively tried checking the show out again. And it seemed pretty tame when I dipped my toe in again, so I kinda thought it might’ve just been a nightmare I misattributed to the show. Very cool! Thanks for the memories!
Yeah, I was another person who saw it when it originally aired. X-Files sometimes pushed the limits, but that opening was pretty horrific for the time.
I never watched much X Files. Like, maybe 15 - 20 episodes while it was on the air. Then, I saw this episode, randomly, in the early 2010s. And, it, uh.... It left an impression...
Some of the creepier and more horrifying episodes of X-Files were the less supernatural ones. Grotesque and Irresistable were also great episodes. One of the main reasons I was so taken with the Millennium series with Lance Henriksen it focused more of the sick twisted nature of humanity itself.
Oh yeah. That one was the creepiest episode. Made me avoid portapotties for decades. The worst part is that it actually occurred in real life - it was a guy in a scuba suit.
one of the best episodes of he entire series. in my top 5. also you totally forgot to mention the part where the deputy gets his head chopped off by a booby trap.
This was one of the few episodes on TV at the time I just had to nope out of. Only episode of the Xfiles, I noped out of though. And now you all know why.
This is literally the only episode I remember anything about. My wife was watching through all the seasons recently and that episode is uh….it sticks with me like some of the stuff in Bone Tomahawk
The only creepy thing about "Home" to me was The Brothers driving around town listening to that damn Johnny Mathis song all the time. That whistle still haunts my dreams. 😵💫😵🫨
How is this "banned" episode the only episode i ever watched? I wasn't a fan of the show but caught this masterpiece, I want to say in the afternoon, some point in the late 90's.
At the urging of my uncle, who was a big X Files fan himself, "Home" was the first episode I'd ever watched. After seeing the inbreeding, infanticide and other unspeakable acts, I turned to my uncle and said, "Any show that's got the balls to break this many taboos inside of an hour is aces in my book," and I became an X Files fan for life after that....
I was like 'no way"... I dont remember anything too crazy that got banned... then 2 minutes into this video happens. Dammit. I think everyone in the world just collectively agreed to forget about this episode and never speak of it. So technically it wasn't banned, more like it traumatized a billion people all at once and was instantly psychologically obliterated from the cultural zeitgeist because it's a total barf-o-rama. Thanks for bringing it up again.
It also is my favorite episode. I recorded every episode back in the day, but that one I had on repeat since I live in Nashville. It really lets you get to know your neighbors down here, if you know what I'm saying.
I watched this episode live when it first aired. I may even have a VHS copy of the initial episode somewhere in my house (I always taped them in case I didn’t get back from my date in time - I never knew if an episode would ever show again)! I had no idea it was considered “controversial” and “banned” from ever being seen on TV again. It was a really good episode with very interesting discussion of reproductive science. I (obviously) never forgot that episode. But, it was no stranger than the episode where all the babies in a town had tails. Of course, I don’t know if they ever showed that episode again either. Anyway, it was shown late on Friday nights. Perfect time for horror. And, Saturday nights were Elvira’s “Up all night.” Those were the days.
"home" is fantastic, and the scene with the bed was nightmare fuel. x-files remains a watershed for me, overall the first 5 seasons were great and "clyde bruckman's final repose" is some of the best american tv ever - almost 30 years after seeing it it gives me food for thought. great show. the reboots did nothing for me.
I just watched that episode for the first time like 3 months ago and it's all I could think about everyday for like a week.. fucking nightmare fuel. .I was like, I just want to see some aliens or cryptids, not this disturbing ass family that could actually exist somewhere today.
In some ways this episode is a jab at The Andy Griffith Show. The town was named Mayberry, The sherrif was named Andy, the deputy was named Barney, and the town was a quaint small, rural town. It's like the writers were implying that Andy Griffith's Mayberry really had a dark secret.
It's funny, when I heard, much later, that it got banned, I was surprised. "The incest one? Oh, okay I guess." I think ironically I was actually too young to understand some of the impact.
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Is it "Home"? As soon as i saw "x-files" and "banned", i assumed "Home"
Home is still a rough watch. I don't really believe in censorship or morality policing but woof. A very good episode but I would be being obtuse if I didn't understand a little of the uproar.
Me too...
Turns out we were right.
I never watched THE X FILES but that’s one of the few I caught
Never saw all of that one; it was too creepy for me and I bailed about 30 minutes in when it originally aired.
The sexual implications are the real reason this episode was so controversial.
Meanwhile, later in the same season is the episode "Sanguinarium" with LITRES of blood, multiple people getting horrifcally killed, and a guy *cuts his own face off*
Sex has always scared Americans more then Violence....
Guns: yay!
Boobs: nay!
I nearly jumped out of my own skin when I saw the limbless mom hidden underneath the bed. Plus the baby buried alive and the incest. The sex was the least of this episode's problems.
No, it's the burying of the baby alive that was the most controversial, followed by the kid stepping in the body, followed by the woman's anatomy that I will not describe
I remember my mom and I watching this episode and after the Sheriff and his wife get murdered she says casually "this is why we lock the doors".
I saw this when it first aired. There was a warning at the beginning which I rolled my eyes at and thought what wimps do they think watch this show? The opening set the tone and it just get darker from there.
The weird purple face was unsettling, but as a kid, what _really_ freaked me out was the blue hand with _one_ red finger segment. _Why was it red!?_
I can't say for sure if the red part is intentional or just a quirk of the photography technique used to make it, but that in itself is pretty interesting. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography
I remember the Peackock episode very well.
I saw it in the 90s on Polish TV, when "X Files" was a big hit here.
Peackock family even became something of a meme at our school, among us, the 90s kids.
This episode gets banned because the family tree has no branches, but that one Folger's commercial is still played every year
This episode of xfiles has lived rent-free in my head for what feels like my whole life.😢
In inbred episode.
*the shot of them putting her back, was hilarious.
they didn’t, she pulled herself back under the bed with her arm stumps.
@@sinnsage Yeah, that's kinda evident. But the appearance is both deceiving & hilarious.
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I see it now. 😆
She has one good arm, and just pulls herself back under.
It’s still hilarious.
I cried myself to sleep over that episode.
I mean...this episode is pretty terrifying. Most of the subject matter in X Files is generally not that taboo, just like...weird and often horror genre related. When you tune into X Files you know what you're signing up for when it comes to subject matter. This is understandably very upsetting to someone who isn't prepared for it. I know when I first watched it I was shocked, especially since there's not an episode even remotely similar in subject matter leading up to it. I'm honestly amazed it was even greenlit in the first place, but I gotta give props to the X Files team for managing to create something scary enough to get pulled.
When you said "mother under the bed", we were like - "yeap. that one"
Yeah, I remember, but I can't blame FOX for not wanting to offend the culture and habits of their base.
Hell yeah, I remember middle schooler me seeing the advisory warning during the premier and then thinking how stupid the reveal was. I didn't fully understand the family dynamics 😂😂😂
"Home" is one of my favorite X files episodes. 😂
There's someone else besides my mother that likes that episode?😂
People used to tell me how X-Files was so good. I had never seen it. One night I watched an episode. This was the episode.
I was in sixth grade when this one aired - I even went trick or treating dressed as one of the peacock bros for Halloween that year (it was the scariest thing I could think of haha)
epsiode is banned, yet is also on streaming.
Banned from network television has nothing to do with streaming.
@darksidemacewindu2430 say that to Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
This one was rough, yet "Die Hand die Verletzt" and "Chinga" are the ones which gave me nightmares.
This episode is X-Files meets the Wrong Turn series of movies, although without the cannibalism.
I remember this episode. I think I was about 14, and I can never unsee.
Same
I've never seen it, but I remember my parents talking about it, and even just the description of it screwed me up.
I was in college and it's still burned into my brain. I had no doubt when I saw the title of this which episode they were referring to.
Hahaha, the "that would have made you the king of Spain" joke is amazing! Well played
i grew up just down the street from that house as a kid in B.C. canada ! was always so unsettling
Lil Brudder, look at him just trying to make it work
Can't blame you for the Gillian Anderson appreciation. My first celebrity crush, and even at 55 she's still a smoke show.
This is gold entertainment! I loved every one liner as it pertained to what was presented😂 Is every video like this? If not, you got the goose who laid the golden egg here! Do more in this style!🙏😁👌
I remembered this episode!! I think i caught the reshowing after hearing my mom talk about it being the only episode thatreally disturbed her. She loved the show and would watch every episode and tell me about them the next day since i was usually either doing homework, watching other shows on the TV in my bedroom or playing video games. So when Fox announced they were reshowing it, i made sure to tune in that night.
An absolute classic
Reminds me of a few criminal minds episodes that did similar things. One was a gypsy like family that traveled the country kidnapping kids to marry off to their own kids. In the end they were never caught. Another was a similar inbreeding situation between a bother and sister, but the kid grew up to be the killer of the episode and was never caught. It was a really f**ed up series, but I held out hope for Morgan and Garcia.
Fun fact: this inspiration for this episode came from the unlikeliest source possible- Charlie Chaplin's autobiography. A young Chaplin, who was touring across England with a theatre group, briefly lodged in a miner's cottage in Ebbw Vale, Wales. After dinner, Chaplin's host led him to the kitchen with the promises of a spectacle, which Chaplin obliged. Out of the kitchen cupboard rolled out a legless man, who his host proudly billed as the 'human frog'. He performed a jerky stage routine in front of a horrified Chaplin. Glen Morgan, the episode's writer was also impacted by the incident, as he co-wrote the episode with James Wong (yes, that one), thirteen years after reading the anecdote.
That was a great episode! I appreciated Scully's reference to "Babe" during the pig-wrangling scene.
Oh my god! I did absolutely see this broadcast! I wonder which airing it was? My aunt used to watch the X-files, so when I saw it pop up on TV at home I was like, “Yeah, let’s see what this is all about!” I was maybe 7 or 8 at the time. The visual of the lady strapped to that board and howling haunted me for, like, ever!! It was almost 20 years before I so-so-SO tentatively tried checking the show out again. And it seemed pretty tame when I dipped my toe in again, so I kinda thought it might’ve just been a nightmare I misattributed to the show.
Very cool! Thanks for the memories!
Remember seeing this live and it didn’t disappoint. The ending was stuck in my head for a while.
I remember catching this episode when it aired. I was always pissed the Peacock family just vanishes after this episode...
OMG, I remember the "HOME" episode. It was so gory.
Yeah, I was another person who saw it when it originally aired. X-Files sometimes pushed the limits, but that opening was pretty horrific for the time.
I never watched much X Files. Like, maybe 15 - 20 episodes while it was on the air. Then, I saw this episode, randomly, in the early 2010s. And, it, uh.... It left an impression...
Some of the creepier and more horrifying episodes of X-Files were the less supernatural ones. Grotesque and Irresistable were also great episodes. One of the main reasons I was so taken with the Millennium series with Lance Henriksen it focused more of the sick twisted nature of humanity itself.
That toilet monster was really scary.
Oh yeah. That one was the creepiest episode. Made me avoid portapotties for decades. The worst part is that it actually occurred in real life - it was a guy in a scuba suit.
Legit used to be scared by that purple face.
Great show. 👍
one of the best episodes of he entire series. in my top 5. also you totally forgot to mention the part where the deputy gets his head chopped off by a booby trap.
This is like the Aberdeen Pig Farm from Red Dead Redemption 2.
This was one of the few episodes on TV at the time I just had to nope out of. Only episode of the Xfiles, I noped out of though. And now you all know why.
I can't believe that me and my school friends all watched x files at 9pm when we were in 3rd grade -8 years old 😅
Ah once again, modern Cracked is 10 years behind every other mainstream media commenter...
This episode stayed in my head ever since i seen it as a kid😵💫😵💀
Like Li’l Brudder, you love got the heart of a champion.
Great video!
This is literally the only episode I remember anything about. My wife was watching through all the seasons recently and that episode is uh….it sticks with me like some of the stuff in Bone Tomahawk
The only creepy thing about "Home" to me was The Brothers driving around town listening to that damn Johnny Mathis song all the time. That whistle still haunts my dreams. 😵💫😵🫨
I saw that episode and it scarred me for life
I caught the original airing and the rerun on Scifi. Truly deranged. I was like, 10 when I saw that. Maybe it contributed to my general weirdness
How is this "banned" episode the only episode i ever watched? I wasn't a fan of the show but caught this masterpiece, I want to say in the afternoon, some point in the late 90's.
At the urging of my uncle, who was a big X Files fan himself, "Home" was the first episode I'd ever watched. After seeing the inbreeding, infanticide and other unspeakable acts, I turned to my uncle and said, "Any show that's got the balls to break this many taboos inside of an hour is aces in my book," and I became an X Files fan for life after that....
I remember that episode, and I remember it being super terrifying and fucked up
The 4/1st one. Her eye looking around was creepeeeeey. And one of the best ones.
Thank you for reminding me that not EVERYTHING about the 90s was better....
I was like 'no way"... I dont remember anything too crazy that got banned... then 2 minutes into this video happens. Dammit. I think everyone in the world just collectively agreed to forget about this episode and never speak of it. So technically it wasn't banned, more like it traumatized a billion people all at once and was instantly psychologically obliterated from the cultural zeitgeist because it's a total barf-o-rama.
Thanks for bringing it up again.
So my Dad used to watch this ALL THE TIME. The only memory I have is that last scene with "sister/mom" in the trunk! WOW!
Get your PTSD at 1:53
It also is my favorite episode. I recorded every episode back in the day, but that one I had on repeat since I live in Nashville. It really lets you get to know your neighbors down here, if you know what I'm saying.
I managed to watch it both times it aired!
I remember watching this as it aired as a kid. My dad and I loved The X-Files then. We had... different feelings after this episode.
Omg the effing puns are so good!
I saw this episode when it aired. I was 5.
And it wasn't like we didn't watch X-Files regularly.
I watched this episode live when it first aired. I may even have a VHS copy of the initial episode somewhere in my house (I always taped them in case I didn’t get back from my date in time - I never knew if an episode would ever show again)! I had no idea it was considered “controversial” and “banned” from ever being seen on TV again. It was a really good episode with very interesting discussion of reproductive science. I (obviously) never forgot that episode. But, it was no stranger than the episode where all the babies in a town had tails. Of course, I don’t know if they ever showed that episode again either. Anyway, it was shown late on Friday nights. Perfect time for horror. And, Saturday nights were Elvira’s “Up all night.” Those were the days.
Same here! It was also always on fx!
I remember watching that when it first aired on a friday night and talking about it with my friends on saturday ... damn it was fd up.
Oh, gosh, I think I've seen this episode. I had to have been like eight at the time too. What a nightmare. >_
We actually just watched this episode the other night! What a coincidence!
I remember watching this episode ein portugal
I miss Dan O’Brien. A lot.
Loved this episode! Taped it the night that it aired.
I remember watching this on TV as a kid I'm 38 this year
I remember that episode when it first aired. At the time I thought it was the most brutal episode yet and here we are.
This was my favorite episode TBH.
The reference to the movie babe was funny too.
Thanks again
Yep. The world wasn't ready for a documentary on Alabama...
Every once in a while I truly regret clicking on something
I watched it as a teenager in the 90s and was totally freaked out ! 😱
What's the song at the 1 minute mark?
"home" is fantastic, and the scene with the bed was nightmare fuel. x-files remains a watershed for me, overall the first 5 seasons were great and "clyde bruckman's final repose" is some of the best american tv ever - almost 30 years after seeing it it gives me food for thought. great show. the reboots did nothing for me.
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Indeed "Home" was simply too much for me. And this coming from a veteran horror movie aficionado.
Maybe they simply thought it's stretching the story too far
I just watched that episode for the first time like 3 months ago and it's all I could think about everyday for like a week.. fucking nightmare fuel. .I was like, I just want to see some aliens or cryptids, not this disturbing ass family that could actually exist somewhere today.
I the following Monday in school, EVERYONE was talking about this episode.
"They're just CHUDS with a car!"
I LOVE everything X-Files (even the spinoff!!!!)
I used to pretend to be asleep so I could watch this every night before bed
Home was messed up. It's a masterclass in horror
In some ways this episode is a jab at The Andy Griffith Show. The town was named Mayberry, The sherrif was named Andy, the deputy was named Barney, and the town was a quaint small, rural town. It's like the writers were implying that Andy Griffith's Mayberry really had a dark secret.
X files is my childhood trauma. It was everything of nightmare untill doom and crysis. Then nothing affects me.
I dont remember any episode od X-files except this one. Scared me as a kid.
Lil' Brudder!!
Erm I have seen the episode on Disney+ few weeks back
its been 20 years since i saw it, but i think the episode implied the cockroaches were alien in origin.
I saw this episode as a kid. Peeking through the crack of my bedroom door as my mom was watching it. Explains a lot, really.
Yeah, it was banned on Fox, but it got plenty of playtime on FX and syndicated television.
Clickbait…. It’s totally not banned.
It *was* banned.
Ohhhhhh, wittle brudderrrr!
Yea maybe at the time they show anything now
It's funny, when I heard, much later, that it got banned, I was surprised. "The incest one? Oh, okay I guess." I think ironically I was actually too young to understand some of the impact.