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unusual facts about Jose Chung's From Outer Space


Darin Morgan

Morgan wrote two additional episodes of The X-Files, the absurdist cockroach invasion story "War of the Coprophages" (originally aired on January 5, 1996) and the famously convoluted "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" (April 12, 1996), as well as contributing an uncredited rewrite to "Quagmire" (May 3, 1996).


Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense

As a series of still photographs pass into view, author Jose Chung describes the life of Juggernaut Onan Goopta, who went to college hoping to become a famous neuroscientist and instead was overcome by dementia and institutionalized.

Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me

Morgan had previously written and directed "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" earlier in the season.


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