Men in Black - in a commercial for the WB cartoon series, Agent J is in a dream sequence as Ed's personal secretary. It begins with Agent J typing into a not-so-normal computer: "The truth is ou" The statement is never finished.
Pokémon - in a commercial for this cartoon series (airing on the WB Network), someone was leaving the show. The X-Files spoofed music (from another WB animated series, "Detention") plays and "Detention"-character Emitt pipes up saying, “I heard they were abducted by aliens".
Jews for Jesus - in July 1998, this San Francisco based group used the Mulder & Scully characters in a cartoon on their informational pamphlets. Jews for Jesus have begun using pop-culture icons to promote their religion. - July 1998
Daffy's - in 1998 a Daffy's retail store set up a display window at the front of their store containing a mannequin dressed in a suit and brown wig (Mulder), another in a suit dress and red wig (Scully) holding a saw -- about to start an autopsy, a large pile of bones, and one last mannequin suspended in the air as if floating away (Samantha). Autopsies in their display windows? What other show would inspire such?
Dave Barry (the Miami Herald) - in one of Dave Barry's great humor columns, he comments on gravity and odd things that have fallen from the sky. He reports that he read an article about a woman who was working in her garden when it began raining tomatoes. Barry called her to ask whether or not anyone had determined how this had happened, and when she reported that it remained a mystery, he asked her if she had contacted anyone at the X-Files. Barry goes on to describe what a great X-Files episode this might be, including a scene where Mulder and Scully are stalked by "a mutant zucchini the size of Shaquille O'Neal".
Dave Barry (the Miami Herald) - in Dave Barry's column published Thursday, February 10, 2000, Barry offers up an imaginary game of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". The piece includes a contestant using one of his "lifelines" to call his mother, who admonishes her son with "You call your mother DURING THE X-FILES?? (click)"
See the column here
El Pais - Spain newspaper - commemorating the anniversary of Elvis's death, the newspaper published a parody-article with Mulder & Scully searching for him.
