"You only spoof the thing you love, there's no fun in ribbing a bad movie. It's too easy. You have to have a target you respect, one that's big enough to stand up to parody."
- Mel Brooks

"Fox & Rat" Virtual Series began on a little site called "Fox and Alex Build A Website" which is often refered to as "FAABAW" (pronounced: fah-bah). The website was first available online on September 5, 1999 (the first day "S.R. 819" reaired on the Fox Network). Soon following it came the story of "Lucky Charms vs. Cheerios" - a story of two friends at odds who work together to find breakfast food. After receiving much appreciated feedback from the site's visitors, all of which told us to continue writing, we decided to write more Mulder and Krycek adventure stories. Eventually we had so many stories that we decided to archive them on their very own site which became known as "Fox & Rat" Virtual Series. Since we had so much fun writing those first stories, we decided that a Season Two would be on its way. So began our little virtual series.

So why the hell did we call it "Fox & Rat"? Well, the user name of FAABAW was: foxandrat. What exactly inspired us to write about Mulder and Krycek being best buddies? "The X-Files" episodes "Tunguska" and "Terma" - Mulder and Krycek running around having adventures in Russia! How could we not write about them getting into trouble and being friends after we saw them digging through mud to crawl under a fence? Nevermind the betrayal of Mulder by Krycek later in the episode. Friends at odds indeed.

"Fox & Rat" went from being a small series about two characters to having an ensemble cast. The transition began with adding Scully, Marita and Skinner. We smoothly brought them into our first season, and they were full time cast members by the second.

With "The X-Files" changing so drastically during its eighth season, two new characters were introduced into the whacky world of "Fox & Rat". We welcomed John Doggett and Monica Reyes with open arms as they lead the fourth season. With so many new characters to work with, the story ideas have become endless. The addition of Brad Follmer was something fun and intersting to work with. His character is so serious to the polar opposite of Mulder and Krycek's humor.

During the fifth and sixth seasons, "Fox & Rat" introduced many characters from "The X-Files" that were never seen before in FRVS. Deputy Director Alvin Kersh, the re-entering of Jeffrey Spender, Kim Cook, and Jana Cassidy. With the writers interest going beyond "The X-Files", the introduction of three new "Without A Trace" characters happened, welcoming Martin Fitzgerald, Jack Malone, and Danny Taylor in New York, as recurring guest characters (friends of Brad Follmer).

Why do we continue to write "Fox & Rat" after so many years? Our lives keep happening. Many of the stories you read in FRVS have some truths to them. Scary, isn't it? We like to laugh about things that life throws at us so we exaggerate these moments through FRVS to bring you quality storytelling. Also we can view "The X-Files" seriously, but especially with humor. Through telling these stories, we can exaggerate some of the actual "X-Files" character personalities that we have seen. Everything that you see in FRVS in terms of character behaviour, is an exaggeration on something we actually saw on the show. "The X-Files" series ended before some interesting character aspects were touched on, we feel that we can explore these characters through writing in FRVS.

When it comes down to it, we like writing humorous stories, a talent we've been told we have. However, no matter how much we love to write slapstick humor, we have been stretching our writing skills by including more serious episodes to our series. With our upcoming seventh season you'll be getting a good dose of that, along with the comic style of the FRVS stories you love.

FRVS began as FAABAW and has grown to become one of the better known "X-Files" virtual series on the world wide web, at least we've been told as much. This is how "Fox & Rat" Virtual Series came to be.

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