Mulder getting out of the swimming pool near the beginning of X-Files season 2 episode "Duane Barry"
Friends. Yes, friends. It’s amazing the kinds of conversations that a group of about five or more geeky people can come up with. You know those slightly weird conversations the characters on the Big Bang Theory tend to have about their favorite “cultural icons”… Yeah, my friends and I have conversations that are very similar to those.
In recent weeks a new “in joke” has thrust its way into the group. The origins of this joke are partly down to my small knowledge regarding frontal shots of the actor David Duchovny and a friend’s fascination with the mythos surrounding dear old Cthulhu:
Go on, Cthulhu, give us a wave
Notice how Cthulhu has got this whole tentacles thing going on? Right, now just keep that in mind as you read on…
I needed to break this image up for full impact
This joke is not innocent in any shape or form. And should Mr Duchovny ever end up reading this blog post: please, sir, realise that I’m quite a fan of yours and it’s all meant in a general humourous fondness of yourself and your “physique”.
Just one more...
A few weeks back a few of my friends and I somehow ended up discussing David Duchovny’s crotch. I mentioned that he doesn’t appeared to have done a fully nude frontal shot on Californication, despite the rest of the extreme nudity that appears on the show. I then went on to mention that in one episode of The X-Files, the audience was given a pretty clear indicator of what Mulder – and therefore David – was packing down there.
Ladies and gentlemen - a Cthulhu crotch
The now infamous swimming pool scene from the “Duane Barry” episode of season 2 has all the hallmarks of being a classic piece of 1990s television – all because of that scene and the view that was given to the audience. I mean, Speedos – they hide nothing! But what does this have to do the high priest to the old ones? To quote a friend, who shall remain anonymous, who was pretending to be David on the set of Californication:
“I can’t do a frontal shot, my crotch looks like Cthulhu…”
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen – the birth of the Cthulhu crotch. So, if you ever see me with my friends and we all just happen to be sniggering in a corner somewhere, with one person waggling their fingers near their crotch area, as if said fingers were tentacles – someone has probably said that line.
We’ll understand if you try to avoid us.
P.S. People are welcome to add “extra appendages” to that pic, but just remember – I decided not to.
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*collapses into fits of giggles*
Brilliant! Cheered me up no end!
PS Do you happen to have his e-mail address? Just asking…
I don’t have his e-mail address. But I believe fanmail is usually best sent via an actor’s agent, else it looks as if you’re a stalker