Morley (cigarette)

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A pack of Morley Cigarettes from X-Files
A pack of Morley Cigarettes from X-Files

Morley is a fictional brand of cigarettes likely based on the shortened name for Marlboro cigarettes, marleys. This brand has appeared in various television shows and movies.

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[edit] 200 Cigarettes

a block of Morley Cigarettes in "200 cigarettes"
a block of Morley Cigarettes in "200 cigarettes"

In the movie 200 Cigarettes Lucy (Courtney Love) presents a block of Morley cigarettes to Kevin (Paul Rudd). The name of the movie comes from the amount of cigarettes in one carton (20 cigarettes in a packet, 10 packets in a carton).

[edit] Broken Saints

The character Raimi buys a packet of Morley cigarettes in the online cartoon Broken Saints. William B. Davis of The X-Files is a member of the voice cast, but Brooke Burgess, creator of Broken Saints, confirmed that the Morley cigarettes were in the original series "WELL before Bill signed on — but he liked the nod, none-the-less."

[edit] Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Spike (James Marsters) on the television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer smokes Morley cigarettes. Erroneously, James Marsters was quoted by Zap2it [1] as saying "We smoke Morleys. We both smoke the same brand. We're the only two characters on TV that do," in reference to William B. Davis on The X-Files.

[edit] Cold Case

In the episode The Plan of the CBS television program Cold Case, the character Jerry smokes Morleys, and a pack is seen during an interrogation scene when Detective Nick Vera removes a cigarette from Jerry's hand that has burned down to his fingers.

[edit] Criminal Minds

In the episode North Mammon of the television program Criminal Minds, a pile of Morley cigarette butts led the FBI team to suspect a soccer coach, who smoked Morleys, of stalking one of his star female players because his DNA was on the butts. Interestingly, upon analysis of the footage in the episode, the packet of cigarettes the coach holds is actually a Marlboro packet and not a fictional Morley packet.

[edit] E.R.

A packet of Morley cigarettes is seen in the episode "Beyond Repair".

[edit] Gun Shy

In a meeting between the police in Gun Shy, the character Charley has a box of Morley cigarettes in front of him on the conference table.

[edit] Jake 2.0

Morleys make an appearance in the sci-fi spy TV series, Jake 2.0, when a terrorist disguises powerful explosives as a pack of Morley cigarettes and demonstrates its incredible power by exploding a piece of swamp in the Philippines.

[edit] Killer Instinct

Morley cigarettes appear in the desk of and are smoked by Lt. Matt Cavanaugh, played by Chi McBride, in the episode 'Game Over'.

[edit] Malcolm in the Middle

A packet of Morley cigarettes is one of the things found hidden by Malcolm's mother (Jane Kaczmarek) in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle.

[edit] Millennium

In "The Time Is Now", Peter Watts discovers a Morley stub in the mysterious Millennium Group's basement as a nod to the Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files (also created by Chris Carter).

[edit] Mission Impossible

Morley brand cigarettes appear in the original Mission Impossible television series. Several characters can be seen with this brand of cigarette.

[edit] Nash Bridges

Morleys appear in episode 420 Power Play, on a desk in a criminal's house.

[edit] Prison Break

A pack of Morley cigarettes appears in episode 11, season 2, when T-Bag is picking it up from a bag in Roy's apartment.

[edit] The Outer Limits

A man getting on a bus on an episode of The Outer Limits has a pack of Morley cigarettes.

[edit] Prozac Nation

The character played by Christina Ricci smokes Morley cigarettes in the film version of Elizabeth Wurtzel's autobiographical Prozac Nation. Ricci plays a young writer who occasionally uses the empty cigarette packs as scrap paper.

[edit] Space Above And Beyond

Ray Butts, the main character of episode 1x06 "Ray Butts", has a pack of Morley cigarettes at the beginning of the episode.

[edit] Spy Game

A packet of Morley cigarettes is seen in the movie Spy Game.

[edit] thirteen

A packet of Morley cigarettes are seen in the movie thirteen.

[edit] The X-Files

Cigarette Smoking Man
Cigarette Smoking Man

The "Cigarette Smoking Man" (William B. Davis) on The X-Files smokes this fictional brand. The X-Files is probably the most well known use of Morley cigarettes. One episode even had Mulder and Scully visiting Morley's Headquarters after one of their employees was murdered.

[edit] Freddy Got Fingered

In the film Freddy Got Fingered Gord (Tom Green) can be seen smoking a pack of Morley's in one scene

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