7x19 Hollywood A.D. - The X-Files Episode Guide

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- Episode 07x19

Episode: 07x19
Title: Hollywood A.D.
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 7ABX18
First Aired: Apr. 30, 2000

Season 7 » Episode #19 - Hollywood A.D.

Summary: Mulder and Scully have to watch a movie which was made based on them and a case that they investigate revolving around the The Lazarus Bowl, a mythical piece of pottery reputed to have inscribed on it the words that Jesus Christ spoke when he raised Lazarus from the dead.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Tina	played by Tina M. Ameduri
Sugar Bear	played by Barry K. Thomas
Garry Shandling	played by Garry Shandling
Zombie	played by Tim Roe
Director	played by Bill Millar
Micah Hoffman	played by Paul Lieber
David Duchovny	played by Steve Kiziak
Cinema Audience	played by David Alan Grier
Zombie Dancer	played by Andr� Fortin

	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Hollywood A.D. Cigarette Smoking Pontiff: I'll offer you a deal. You give me the Lazarus bowl and I'll give you Scully. Téa Leoni: Mulder! Garry Shandling: How about this deal? You give me Scully, I don't smash the Lazarus bowl and shove the pieces where the Son of God don't shine you Cigarette-Smoking Mackerel Snapper.
	Season 7 / Episode 19: - Hollywood A.D. Walter Skinner: Agent Scully, if I am carrying Marilyn Monroe's purse, do you assume that I slept with JFK?

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

CREW: When Scully is alone performing the autopsy on Micah Hoffman a shadow can be seen on the wall behind her. As the scene ends with her staring at her cut finger you can see a person's shadow cross the wall behind her from left to right.
CREW: Gillian Anderson's stunt double can be seen after Tea Leoni asks 'Scully' to show her how to run with high heels. It's also noticeable how the stunt double starts running before Anderson leaves the frame.

TRIVIA

Chris Carter (I), Minnie Driver and David Alan Grier are in the audience watching the premiere. Driver and Grier star alongside David Duchovny in Return to Me (2000) which was released a couple of weeks before this episode aired.
When Garry Shandling meets Fox Mulder, he asks, "Do you dress on the right or the left?" When men's pants are tailored, extra room is provided in one of the pants legs, either the right or left, to accommodate the wearer's genitalia. This is the side on which one "dresses". Note that the exchange ends with Shandling calling out, "Wardrobe!"
During the early 1980s, a number of documents purporting to be original papers relating to the origin and development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormon Church) appeared on the collector's market. These documents, if true, would have cast some aspects of Mormon history and tradition in a dubious if not negative light; the most famous example was the so-called "Salamander Letter," which the church itself bought and which claimed that the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, did not really see an angel (as he said he had) but instead was visited by a talking salamander. These documents were eventually all revealed to be the forgeries of a formerly devout Mormon named Mark Hofmann. Many elements of this episode's plot, including the similarity of the forgers' names and the priest obtaining the forged document that he considers blasphemous, are drawn from the Mark Hofmann case.
Scully tells Mulder that she thinks Téa Leoni has a crush on him, and Mulder wonders how she could. Téa Leoni is David Duchovny’s wife in real life.
The "clay pot as recording media" plot device was investigated in "MythBusters" (2003). They determined that it was so highly unlikely as to be impossible.