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03×02 – Paper Clip
03×02 – Paper Clip1450
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The worldwide ranking generated by 1.9k votes

100 / 219
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03×02 – Paper Clip03×02 – Paper Clip1450
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03×10 – 73103×10 – 7311440
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02×25 – Anasazi02×25 – Anasazi1437
#4
02×05 – Duane Barry02×05 – Duane Barry1396
#5
03×20 – Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'03×20 – Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'1389
#6
03×04 – Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose03×04 – Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose1384
#7
04×13 – Never Again04×13 – Never Again1377
#8
08×04 – Roadrunners08×04 – Roadrunners1357
#9
08×06 – Redrum08×06 – Redrum1356
#10
05×18 – The Pine Bluff Variant05×18 – The Pine Bluff Variant1350
#11
05×12 – Bad Blood05×12 – Bad Blood1336
#12
04×09 – Tunguska04×09 – Tunguska1331
#13
04×05 – The Field Where I Died04×05 – The Field Where I Died1323
#14
09×14 – Scary Monsters09×14 – Scary Monsters1322
#15
07×06 – The Goldberg Variation07×06 – The Goldberg Variation1319
#16
06×19 – Three of a Kind06×19 – Three of a Kind1316
#17
06×15 – Monday06×15 – Monday1315
#18
03×21 – Avatar03×21 – Avatar1313
#19
02×20 – Humbug02×20 – Humbug1312
#20
06×18 – Milagro06×18 – Milagro1312
#21
01×23 – The Erlenmeyer Flask01×23 – The Erlenmeyer Flask1309
#22
01×07 – Ice01×07 – Ice1308
#23
09×18 – Sunshine Days09×18 – Sunshine Days1308
#24
05×11 – Kill Switch05×11 – Kill Switch1303
#25
03×12 – War of the Coprophages03×12 – War of the Coprophages1302
#26
07×18 – Hollywood A.D.07×18 – Hollywood A.D.1300
#27
06×02 – Drive06×02 – Drive1299
#28
08×17 – Empedocles08×17 – Empedocles1297
#29
02×14 – Die Hand Die Verletzt02×14 – Die Hand Die Verletzt1293
#30
08×14 – This Is Not Happening08×14 – This Is Not Happening1292
#31
02×06 – Ascension02×06 – Ascension1291
#32
04×19 – Synchrony04×19 – Synchrony1290
#33
03×17 – Pusher03×17 – Pusher1290
#34
03×13 – Syzygy03×13 – Syzygy1289
#35
04×08 – Paper Hearts04×08 – Paper Hearts1288
#36
08×05 – Invocation08×05 – Invocation1287
#37
08×13 – Per Manum08×13 – Per Manum1286
#38
07×21 – Je Souhaite07×21 – Je Souhaite1283
#39
02×22 – F. Emasculata02×22 – F. Emasculata1283
#40
03×08 – Oubliette03×08 – Oubliette1283
#41
02×10 – Red Museum02×10 – Red Museum1282
#42
03×14 – Grotesque03×14 – Grotesque1281
#43
05×04 – Detour05×04 – Detour1279
#44
06×04 – Dreamland06×04 – Dreamland1278
#45
03×01 – The Blessing Way03×01 – The Blessing Way1270
#46
02×08 – One Breath02×08 – One Breath1268
#47
07×11 – Closure07×11 – Closure1267
#48
04×14 – Leonard Betts04×14 – Leonard Betts1265
#49
06×12 – One Son06×12 – One Son1264
#50
01×09 – Fallen Angel01×09 – Fallen Angel1262
#51
01×14 – Lazarus01×14 – Lazarus1258
#52
08×01 – Within08×01 – Within1256
#53
02×18 – Fearful Symmetry02×18 – Fearful Symmetry1256
#54
05×14 – The Red and the Black05×14 – The Red and the Black1255
#55
06×21 – Field Trip06×21 – Field Trip1250
#56
11×04 – The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat11×04 – The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat1250
#57
03×16 – Apocrypha03×16 – Apocrypha1250
#58
04×20 – Small Potatoes04×20 – Small Potatoes1247
#59
07×15 – En Ami07×15 – En Ami1246
#60
02×15 – Fresh Bones02×15 – Fresh Bones1244
#61
04×12 – Kaddish04×12 – Kaddish1243
#62
06×22 – Biogenesis06×22 – Biogenesis1242
#63
06×06 – Terms of Endearment06×06 – Terms of Endearment1241
#64
03×23 – Wetwired03×23 – Wetwired1240
#65
10×05 – Babylon10×05 – Babylon1240
#66
01×10 – Eve01×10 – Eve1238
#67
03×03 – D.P.O.03×03 – D.P.O.1236
#68
05×20 – The End05×20 – The End1235
#69
06×11 – Two Fathers06×11 – Two Fathers1235
#70
04×23 – Demons04×23 – Demons1235
#71
10×03 – Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster10×03 – Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster1235
#72
07×03 – Hungry07×03 – Hungry1233
#73
02×07 – 302×07 – 31232
#74
08×12 – Medusa08×12 – Medusa1232
#75
02×21 – The Calusari02×21 – The Calusari1232
#76
09×05 – Lord of the Flies09×05 – Lord of the Flies1231
#77
04×02 – Unruhe04×02 – Unruhe1230
#78
03×24 – Talitha Cumi03×24 – Talitha Cumi1230
#79
08×07 – Via Negativa08×07 – Via Negativa1230
#80
09×11 – Audrey Pauley09×11 – Audrey Pauley1229
#81
02×01 – Little Green Men02×01 – Little Green Men1228
#82
07×16 – Chimera07×16 – Chimera1228
#83
08×16 – Three Words08×16 – Three Words1227
#84
09×04 – 4-D09×04 – 4-D1222
#85
07×22 – Requiem07×22 – Requiem1222
#86
06×20 – The Unnatural06×20 – The Unnatural1221
#87
03×06 – 2Shy03×06 – 2Shy1220
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01×13 – Gender Bender01×13 – Gender Bender1220
#89
09×02 – Nothing Important Happened Today II09×02 – Nothing Important Happened Today II1219
#90
02×13 – Irresistible02×13 – Irresistible1219
#91
06×07 – The Rain King06×07 – The Rain King1218
#92
02×12 – Aubrey02×12 – Aubrey1218
#93
03×09 – Nisei03×09 – Nisei1217
#94
11×06 – Kitten11×06 – Kitten1212
#95
03×22 – Quagmire03×22 – Quagmire1211
#96
04×18 – Max04×18 – Max1211
#97
09×13 – Improbable09×13 – Improbable1208
#98
03×15 – Piper Maru03×15 – Piper Maru1207
#99
07×02 – The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati07×02 – The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati1207
#100
08×11 – The Gift08×11 – The Gift1207

What the community says

What's your favorite episode of The X-Files? Rank all 219 episodes of the cult sci-fi and suspense series with Mulder and Scully.

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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What's your favorite episode?

  1. #1
    03×10 – Monstres d’utilité publique, 2ème partie [731]
  2. #2
    03×02 – Opération presse-papier [Paper clip]
  3. #3
    02×25 – Anasazi [Anasazi]

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