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Upon a brief search I realize I recall this episode but not this dialogue. However, I do enjoy the mental image of Mulder needing to clarify the nature of the scream, lest Scully get the ick from his childhood memory—for not even a relatively stoic female FBI agent is immune from the ick. Observant as she is, Scully caught on though, as her next line was: "Mulder... are you sure it wasn't a girly scream?"
Fortunately, Bambi Berenbaum saved the day with her preselection services, overriding any ick induced by triggering Scully's sense of female mate-choice copying.
That being said, I can't relate to Mulder's mantis bigotry. I'm fairly size agnostic when it comes to insects. Stumbling upon a praying mantis IRL would strike me as much more cool than gross or creepy. In contrast, I'd get grossed out by a cockroach of any size, slightly enraged by a mosquito, with a fly somewhere in between. Maybe I'm just an insect racist who hates black and brown insect bodies.
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