The episode was written and directed by Darin Morgan, and featured guest appearances by Bill Macy, Dick Bakalyan and Alex Diakun.
The episode has received mixed to positive reviews, and earned Morgan a Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay nomination in 1999.
Perry sought to emulate Johnny Mack Potter, the country's most prolific killer, and to break his record number of murders.
Perry, with Blurk in tow, began to murder a number of prostitutes and vagrants, quickly surpassing Potter's body count.
One day, Abum added an additional irritation to Brock's life: he posed as a traffic warden and gave the man a ticket.
Greb assumed the form of a small demonic baby and revealed himself to Figgleif, who broke down and began attempting to censor everyday life.
Greb repeated his trick, encouraging Figgleif to burst onto the set of a science fiction show about alien abduction and kill several actors.
Morgan attacked and parodied this approach with one of the tales in "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me", with a network censor again targeting the use of the word "crap" and storming onto the set of a show resembling The X-Files being taped, featuring lookalikes of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with theme music very similar to that series' playing in the background.
Handlen felt that the episode's "disarmingly simple" premise belied its depth, and praised Morgan's script as perhaps the writer's best work.
[4] Bill Gibron, writing for DVD Talk, rated the episode 3.5 out of 5, calling it "a very fun, very irreverent respite for the series".
[9] Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me" two stars out of five, finding that it fit poorly with the tone of the series.