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Michael J. Anderson, “Humbug”

Unfortunately, the sharp-tongued Mr. Nutt doesn’t survive the monster of the week.
Unfortunately, the sharp-tongued Mr. Nutt doesn’t survive the monster of the week. Screenshot: Fox

Season two’s “Humbug” features an array of eye-catching guest stars since it takes place within a community of former sideshow performers. But Anderson—then at the height of his fame after starring on a different “weird FBI” series, Twin Peaks—makes an impression as Mr. Nutt, the manager of the trailer park where Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) stay during their investigation. In an amusing exchange, he takes great offense when Mulder suggests Mr. Nutt might be a former circus performer: “You thought that because I am a person of short stature, that the only career I could procure for myself would be one confined to the so-called big top?”

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