The Lone Gunmen Season 1 Episode 7 Synopsis

Our guest reveiwer for this episode is Dan Deckert, from the LGM-over-30 list on Yahoo.com. Thanks Dan, for letting us use your words!
Anybody who's read any of my X-Files reviews knows that my favorite episode are the ones that start well-written and come across as a total package. They also know that Vince Gilligan is one of my favorite writers. I've had the bad luck/timing to miss three episodes of TLG this season, so I can't say that Planet of the Frohikes (POTF) is the best episode of TLG that's ever aired. I do feel safe in saying that it is 'classic Vince', right up there with Small Potatoes and Bad Blood, IMHO. In case it isn't yet clear, I _really_ liked POTF.
I think that the thing that has really set Vince aside as a writer is that he takes his stories absolutely seriously, even when they're intended to be funny. Sometimes the basic concept is really fundamentally strange (Bad Blood and Home Fries stand out as examples of this), but it is always taken completely se

The Lone Gunmen Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Bond, Jimmy Bond
• s01e03 - Eine Kleine Frohike
• s01e04 - Like Water for Octane
• s01e05 - Three Men and a Smoking Diaper
• s01e06 - Madam, I'm Adam
• s01e07 - Planet of the Frohikes: A Short History of My Demeaning Captivity
• s01e08 - Maximum Byers
• s01e09 - Diagnosis: Jimmy
• s01e10 - Tango de los Pistoleros
• s01e11 - The Lying Game
• s01e12 - All About Yves
• s01e13 - The Cap'n Toby Show

The Lone Gunmen Show Summary

Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Loneballoonmen. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome of John Byers, Melvin Frohike, and Richard Langly play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude. While their newfound independence inspires them to investigate even the most shadowy of conspiracies, their social skills remain stagnant, which only makes their lives more difficult when they learn their chief competitor in the 'information business' is the brilliant and beautiful Yves Adele Harlow. Perpetually short of funds to publish The Loneballoonmen newspaper, Byers, Frohike and Langly begrudgingly take on Jimmy Bond as an unlikely benefactor who bankrolls their missions and joins them in their investigations to uncover the truth.