"X-Cops" is the twelfth episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. Directed by Michael Watkins and written by Vince Gilligan, the installment originally aired on the Fox network in February 2000. In this episode, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), special agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are interviewed for the Fox network reality television program Cops during an X-Files investigation. Mulder, hunting what he believes to be a werewolf, discovers that the monster terrorizing people craves the fear it provokes. While Mulder embraces the publicity of Cops, Scully is uncomfortable about appearing on national television. "X-Cops" is one of only two X-Files episodes that was shot in real time. The episode has been thematically analyzed for its use of postmodernism and its presentation as reality television. It has been named among the best episodes of The X-Files by several reviewers, for its humor and format.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1470:

Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Annam (Vietnam) launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cham%E2%80%93Annamese_War_(1471)

1660:

At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society (coat of arms pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society

1895:

The first automobile race in the United States, the Chicago Times-Herald race, was held in Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Times-Herald_race

1971:

Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal was assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasfi_al-Tal

1987:

South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in- flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_295

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

trypophobia: An irrational or obsessive fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, such as those found in honeycombs. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trypophobia

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.   --William Blake https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Blake