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The Morris Fletcher Collection of
Second Season Rumors

Okay, folks... I've heard entirely too much of this.  The real truth is that nobody but the deep insiders on Fox know what's going to happen to the show -- and it may not be fully decided until Tuesday or Wednesday.  This, however, has not stopped people from chiming in and claiming they have special knowledge.

So in the spirit of things, we're collecting the Official Season 2 Rumors.  No matter what happens, ya saw it here first, right?

Right!

• The show is definitely canceled

• Fox is airing four new episodes of Freakylinks it  still has in the can in the TLG time slot and then shifting Dark Angel there for the  summer. The fate of TLG is still to be decided.
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• Dark Angel will be on Fridays this fall. TLG will probably end up on the FX channel   where new episodes will be made
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• The X Files (askthexfiles@fox.com) said that it wasn't  until summer that the fate of LGM would be known. (note: this isn't something that Ye Editors heard.  It was reported by someone on a news group.)
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• It's scheduled for summer reruns.
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•  Barney is slated to guest star.  (just wanted to see if you're awake).
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• The show will be canceled next week (NOTE:  just for your perspective, this prediction was made on Usenet, back on March  18th)
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• It'll be put on hiatus like Freakylinks until Fox sees if some of the new shows tank badly.  If they do, "Lone Gunmen" will be called up for another set of 13 episodes.
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• It'll get canceled, but reruns will show up on F/X.
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• If the X-Files doesn't come back then CC will get Fox to put the Lone Gunmen in the 9PM time slot on Sunday nights. 
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Spoilers.  Rumors.  Some folks love 'em, some folks hate 'em.  In the interest of acommodating everyone's tastes, we present the "Morris Fletcher Library of Spoilers and Rumors."   

Some of the following are true.  Some of them are weird speculations by fans based on partial information.  Some of them were planted as deliberate red herrings.   It's up to you, dear reader, to figure out which are which. 

"Believe the Lie..." (Spoilers & Rumors)
From good sources, strange sources, ... and Morris Fletcher sources

 

 There were so many rumors about what would be in various episodes that we decided we'd do our own set of rumors.  And since rumors can be false, we decided that (what the heck) we'd make up a few of our own.  Here's the ones for the first season and the sources:

• The original quote (from a very good source who loves to tease us) was "Jimmy and Skinner get close."  They were, of course refering to Pileggi playing Jimmy playing Skinner.  We added a twist of our own -- and the resulting rumor was quite false!Jimmy Bond and Skinner ... uh... do some real close bonding moves in the 9th episode. 

• Another true tidbit from our reliable source.  Two words:  Langly.  Cows.  ('nuff said)
• A semi-true tidbit.  This one got mangled in the retelling (refers, of course, to "Madam, I'm Adam") Byers and Jimmy get help from a guy who talks to aliens from another dimension. (They're not saying if it's the guy who's so helpful or the aliens who are so helpful.  Or both.) 
• We knew this one was true Two words:  Frohike.  Tango.  (believe the lie!) 
• Absolutly false --in fact, Pyrts made this one up not knowing that there were ANY plans to put McKean on a show.  Imagine our outright astonishment....  There's good news and bad news.  The good news is that Jimmy Bond finds his own 'snitch.'   The bad news is that it's Morris Fletcher.
• Rumor.  The Alien Bounty Hunter appears in one episode.
• We knew this one to be true. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) appears in an episode.
• Turned out to be false, alas.  Hawking's one of my heroes.  Dr. Stephen Hawking does a cameo in one of the episodes.
• True.  Later confirmed in interviews by Snedden.  Jimmy Bond does an Elvis impersonation. 
• True.  In one episode, we have a flashback with the Lone Gunmen as kids. 
• True.  We knew about this one fairly early.  Langly does a rectal palpation on a bull ("Turn your head and cough, please.")
• True, again. .  One sequence features midget wrestling.  Frohike is NOT involved, thank you.
• True.  Byers gets beat up by a Death Row prisoner -- and he deliberately goads the guy into doing it.  We're not sure if this is before or after the shower scene.
• Absolutly false.  We were having too many true rumors in here.  Time to plant a red herring. .Frohike gets involved in an ultra-survivalist group while tracking down a scientist and gets a taste of some paranoia that's a bit too extreme -- even for them!
• True.  We did get some garbled interpretations when we checked other sites.   Chimps, red herrings, and more Chimps.  Super intelligent chimps being trained for military service.
• Ah lied like a big yellah dawg!.   In an effort to pay off their printing bill for the previous issue, the guys start investigating the printer.  It turns out he's into printing more than just newspapers.  Tisk, tisk.
• It's a good thing my ancestry didn't include Pinocchio.  My nose would have been six feet long for this one! .The fruit growing industry has a bad apple in the barrel and the guys soon find themselves up to their ears in a web of corruption, bribery, and philandering senators.
• True.  And we knew it!  One scene features Frohike being given a bath -- by a woman.