AKA: Not Even Bottom Five Worst Children Entertainers Scandal
That The Lone Gunmen is more focused on being a comedy show than The X-Files is, I think, pretty self evident at this point. And this is a good way of covering for some shortfalls; No one complains that the plots of a later season of Seinfeld isn't perfectly tight, because if it makes you laugh, it's 80% of the way to being a good episode. But this critical lens is a double edged sword, because if an episode doesn't make you laugh, all of its flaws are much more obvious.
