![]() The idea was brought up and embodied during one of the book’s many retreats. “We tried to come up with a reasonable explanation for what that alien really was.” “We thought it would be interesting if there was an alien they saw in Springfield,” executive producer Al Jean explained to The Wall Street Journal. ![]() In the case of “The Springfield Files,” honoring both The X-Files and its two main characters (David Duchovny’s Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson’s Dana Scully) wasn’t out of desire to do so, it came to tell a strange story in Springfield. ![]() But they didn’t just go for references unless they served a greater purpose for either the joke, a personal moment, or the story itself. Emulating pop culture has always been something the Simpsons did exceptionally well.
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