The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 87%, based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""The Naked Gun" is chock full of gags that are goofy, unapologetically crass, and ultimately hilarious." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 76 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film three-and-a-half stars (of four), and said: "The movie is as funny, let it be said, as any comedy released this year ... You laugh, and then you laugh at yourself for laughing."
The X-Files (season 1) was the only choice after auditions. Carter's initial pitch for "The X-Files" was rejected by Fox executives. He fleshed out the concept and returned a few weeks later, leading to the commission of the pilot. Carter worked with "NYPD Blue" producer Daniel Sackheim in further developing the pilot, drawing stylistic inspiration from the 1988 documentary "The Thin Blue Line", and the English television series "Prime Suspect". Inspiration was also taken from Carter's memories of watching "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and "The Twilight Zone" in his youth; as well as from the then-recently released film "The Silence of the Lambs", which