The Lone Gunmen : Season 1

Teaser: A Mission-Impossible style break-in as Frohike and Byers attempt to steal the Octium IV chip from E-Com-Con's top security room. Langly fakes an allergy attack to distract security from their monitors. A "Bearded Man" is seen, and Langly obviously recognizes him. The "Bearded Man" takes advantage of the chaos to steal the chip -- right out from under Frohike's nose -- by hijacking the software that Byers is using to run the winch for Frohike's little trapeze getup. Byers is informed of

An influential Japanese businessman who is running an illegal whaling fleet comes to consciousness in a traditional-looking Japanese room. He's threatened by Toshiro in Japanese. Frohike makes an appearance that is truly amazing, and an homage to all those samurai movies and Hong Kong kick flicks you've ever seen. As Frohike attempts to coerce the information about the whaling fleet out of the businessman, we see that it's really a setup by the Gunmen, with their friend's help, to expose the ill

Frohike has to disguise himself as the long-lost son of a woman who is believed to be a Nazi war criminal that the Gunmen are trying to smoke out of the woodwork. She was famed for poisoning the pastries of the French Resistance. Apparently in at least one scene, Frohike appears in leiderhosen! For the Frohike Liberation Organization, I present this particular priceless gem. One scene in this ep features the little old German lady giving Frohike a bath. Yes, I know that certain members of the F

Jimmy narrates a rather twisted history of heroes as he talks about his admiration for the Lone Gunmen. We see clips of each of the Gunmen as a child. John Fitzgerald Byers, living in Sterling, Virginia, grows up wanting to be a career bureaucrat so that he can "help people." Richard Ringo Langly grows up on a dairy farm in Nebraska, wanting to be a Computer God. Melvin Frohike, already a Man of Action in Pontiac, Michigan, beating up on football players three times his size, expresses his desir

The Lone Gunmen become reluctant and rather inept nursemaids to the illegitimate baby of a drunk, philandering, saxophone-playing Senator whose campaign-aide girlfriend died in a suspicious accident. This is the episode where, as Bruce Harwood put it in one chat, "Tom gets his nipples sucked!"

And now, a word from our Guest Reviewer, Lori Summers: Tonight on "The Lone Gunmen": Our heroes meet a strange man who may or may not have been transported by aliens from a parallel universe. Oh, and there's goo. Rating: 9.0 out of 10 Quick summary...Byers and Jimmy meet a man named Adam Burgess who has found someone else living his life and he's not recognized by anyone he knows. He thinks he's been transported by aliens from a parallel universe where everything is the same except him, bu

Our guest reveiwer for this episode is Dan Deckert, from the LGM-over-30 list on Yahoo.com. Thanks Dan, for letting us use your words! Anybody who's read any of my X-Files reviews knows that my favorite episode are the ones that start well-written and come across as a total package. They also know that Vince Gilligan is one of my favorite writers. I've had the bad luck/timing to miss three episodes of TLG this season, so I can't say that Planet of the Frohikes (POTF) is the best episode

Our episode starts out on a cruise ship in the Pacific, where the boys are chasing down a man they think is Elvis, still live and kicking. All our guys get some funny bits, but the scene that stole the teaser for me was Jimmy's not-too-bad-at-all Elvis imitation! "Elvis" turns out to be an embezzler, and not Elvis at all. As the first act opens, the Gunmen's warehouse basement office is approached by a little old lady, Alberta Pfeiffer, who has been a faithful reader of their zine since day one

While the trio stalks a grizzly-bear poacher in a snowy forest, an injured Jimmy believes his doctor is a killer profiled on "America's Most Wanted." (from TV Guide)

After the Lone Gunmen ruin her first attempt to get close to a suspected smuggler, Yves arranges to become the man's partner in a tango competition -- with a little help from her... ah... friends. Apparently the plot involves the Gunmen turning the table on Yves for once, and bugging her to follow her on a case. The chase leads to Miami, and drug smugglers.

The boys' investigation into the shooting death of the brother of Byers' college roommate, a blackmailer, yields a definite suspect: FBI Asst. Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). We've heard for quite some time that in the Skinner episode, Jimmy and Walter get kinda... close. Nobody's sure just how close that means.

In this episode, we learn some secrets about Yves, and according to Frank Spotnitz, this is where we start to see the Gunmen's mythology open up. Morris Fletcher is apparently snatched by aliens (apparently the Gunmen in disguise!), and Fox Mulder runs into Jimmy Bond. I've heard rumors that this episode may also feature a second appearance by Skinner, but I haven't seen any concrete evidence for it.

Langly's childhood hero, kid's show host Cap'n Toby, is accused of being an international spy. It's Gunmen to the rescue!