Last night I was up late watching TV and stumbled across the X-Files on TNN at midnight. It was a bizarre episode about a subdivision in California that had summoned up some sort of demon creature to "take care of" residents that didn't adhere to the community rules and regulations. Mulder and Scully were undercover as a yuppie married couple. After that, another episode came on, this time about a man who nocturnally shape shifted into a supposedly extinct Asian breed of dog and murdered a bunch of people. Interestingly enough this was the episode penned in part by a friend of Over the Rhine and included some references to the band. One of their albums is entitled Good Dog Bad !
Dog which could be why the writer chose to insert the references into this particular episode. One of the characters was named Karin Berquist (lead singer) and one had the last name Detweiler (primary songwriter for the band). I had heard that there was such an episode so it was pretty cool to randomly see it. Finally at 2am, and still not tired, I started flipping the channels and came across yet a third episode of The X-Files, this time on the Sci-Fi Channel. I couldn't pass it up -- it was a good old alien abduction episode. The only bad thing is that it turned out to be a "to be continued" which means I'll probably be up until 3am again tonight to watch the conclusion.