Uh-oh, here we go again. The third season of the X-Files was infamous for episode names that you needed a dictionary for. You would think with the emphasis on cockroaches in the story, the 'War of the Coprophages' would have something to do with the tiny insects, and it does, but in a peripheral sort of way. Coprophagia actually deals with the eating of dung or excrement, not the most enticing of subjects to say the least, but the writers took that idea and ran with it and came up with one of the more hilarious episodes in the series.
This one really gets going when Mulder breaks into a USDA research facility and comes face to face with perhaps the most attractive female guest celebrity in the series run thus far. And Dr. Barbi Berenbaum (Bobbie Phillips) even has her own theory on UFO's caused by the nocturnal swarming of insects passing through an electrical field. Why Mulder never thought of that I'll never know, but her presence does engender an unusual jealousy from partner Scully, who's determination to help him out comes across as more comically macho than reassuringly feminine.
After the incident where the you know what hits the fan, the episode is beside itself with a myriad of poop jokes, and this would have been a good one to insert Scully's observation about Thomas Crapper inventing the flush toilet, but it was used in an earlier episode. I got a kick out of that sign outside the Alt-Fuels plant - 'Waste is a Terrible Thing to Waste', which combined with all the other goofy stuff going on, made for a hysterical joyride out of subject matter you didn't have to hold your nose for.
This one really gets going when Mulder breaks into a USDA research facility and comes face to face with perhaps the most attractive female guest celebrity in the series run thus far. And Dr. Barbi Berenbaum (Bobbie Phillips) even has her own theory on UFO's caused by the nocturnal swarming of insects passing through an electrical field. Why Mulder never thought of that I'll never know, but her presence does engender an unusual jealousy from partner Scully, who's determination to help him out comes across as more comically macho than reassuringly feminine.
After the incident where the you know what hits the fan, the episode is beside itself with a myriad of poop jokes, and this would have been a good one to insert Scully's observation about Thomas Crapper inventing the flush toilet, but it was used in an earlier episode. I got a kick out of that sign outside the Alt-Fuels plant - 'Waste is a Terrible Thing to Waste', which combined with all the other goofy stuff going on, made for a hysterical joyride out of subject matter you didn't have to hold your nose for.