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* The Legendary Creature in the episode is nicknamed "Big Blue". At almost 13 minutes into the episode, in a possible hidden play-on-words reference, a "Great Blue" Heron is seen flying along the lake.
* The Legendary Creature in the episode is nicknamed "Big Blue". At almost 13 minutes into the episode, in a possible hidden play-on-words reference, a "Great Blue" Heron is seen flying along the lake.
* The teenagers featured licking the toad in the scene on the dock appeared earlier in the season in the episode "[[War of the Coprophages]]."
* The teenagers featured licking the toad in the scene on the dock appeared earlier in the season in the episode "[[War of the Coprophages]]."
* This episode is notable for being one of the few story lines that does not deal with supernatural forces.


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"Quagmire (The X-Files)"

"Quagmire" is the twenty-second episode of the third season of The X-Files. When a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances are reported near a lake in a small town, Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. With local folklore of a killer sea serpent running rampant amongst the locals, each of the agents takes an own approch of searching for the truth to the water: while Scully is so sure it's only a myth that every morning she goes for a naked swim in the mysterious sea, Mulder believes that there actually is something out there. Text taken from the "Quagmire" summary here.

Trivia

  • The title itself, Quagmire refers to the type of area in which most of the episode is set.
  • Queequeg, as is revealed, is the harpoonist from Moby-Dick, which is the inspiration for what Agent Scully names her dog. Dana inherited the dog itself from a previous episode.
  • Furthermore, Moby-Dick seems to be the inspiration for the nicknames Dana and her father used for each other in the first season, which were Ahab and Starbuck, respectively.
  • The name of the location of the 'sea monster' sightings, Heuvelmans Lake, is likely a reference to French 'father of cryptozoology' Bernard Heuvelmans, given the cryptozoological nature of the episode.
  • In Heuvelmans Lake appears on souvenir mugs in The X-Files: The Game.
  • The episode bears many similarities to the 1999 film Lake Placid, in which a community is threatened by a giant alligator.
  • The Legendary Creature in the episode is nicknamed "Big Blue". At almost 13 minutes into the episode, in a possible hidden play-on-words reference, a "Great Blue" Heron is seen flying along the lake.
  • The teenagers featured licking the toad in the scene on the dock appeared earlier in the season in the episode "War of the Coprophages."
  • This episode is notable for being one of the few story lines that does not deal with supernatural forces.