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I typed the tagline for the title card for this one several weeks ago, before I came to a hard decision. Quoting the Animals song from the beginning of the episode, We gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do... it kinda feels on the nose now. Since everyone can probably already guess what I mostly have to say about this one, I'm gonna use this space for a personal st...

Garth! That's really all we need to know to enjoy this one, right? Good! LINKS! The Superwiki page My tag My rewatch notes from July 2019 A bit of Set Dec Appreciation via the Angry Pig sign Rewatch notes from May 2017 (i.e. garth is Doing His Best and you can too!) Amy Pond vs Benny (more tied into 8.09 than here, but also tangentially relevant) We have call sheets and script sides! You can r...

no, really, how does benny know how this portal works? how is he the only being in the universe that seems to know about it, and exactly how it works? how does he know it’s only for humans to pass through? why does cas so easily believe it’s truly only for humans to pass through? i have always believed that it’s because it suits their respective agendas to believe that, whether it was the truth or...

I forgot to mention the cut scene on the dvd for this one, or maybe I just blanked it out of my mind, but Sam tries to call someone from a phone booth and then hangs up. When she calls back, he hangs up again. After Sam and Dean leave, Kate runs over, calls the last number dialed, and gets Dr. Amelia Richardson, veterinarian, who is very confused about Kate asking if she consults for the FBI. I th...

why is dean always the target of heartache, heartbreak, heart attacks, and other various and sundry attempts to stab, poke, crush, fold, spindle, mutilate and impale his heart? it is a mystery! but we're gonna wail about it for a bit today... LINKS! The Superwiki page My tag oh look a destiel mirror down the bunny hole… My tag for this one is short, but it’s almost entirely about the heart ima...

We all remember the origin of the tagline, “the destiels will never have that now,” right? When Sam hugs Cas in 9.11, folks cheered that Cas hugged Sam before he hugged Dean, as proof that Dean doesn’t like Cas or some nonsense. And then everyone else just laughed at them, because the destiels had already had the destiel reunion hug in this episode for like a year and a half. So we decided we will...

Welcome to Carver Era! Sam hit a dog, and Dean spent a year in Purgatory. Wait, where's Cas, and why is Dean resurrecting and then hugging a vampire? Now you're all caught up! Kinda... :'D Sometimes I think we need to talk about Kevin so we won't have to talk about any of THAT ^^ yet. But since we're here to talk about all of it, that's what we're gonna do. :) LINKS! Th...

As we bid farewell to the Gamble Era and usher in Carver era, Kevin goes from having leviathan troubles to demon troubles, Cas chooses to take responsibility for himself and he and Dean are destined for Purgatory, and poor Sam is left standing all alone in the aftermath... at least the leviathans are effectively washed from the earth... Gosh that makes it sound like not much of import happens in t...

I just realized how threatening the subheading on that graphic looks... I am not actually out for blood over Dabb's nonsense car things... >.> For those unfamiliar with our longstanding feud with Andrew Dabb over car and driving continuity issues, there’s some pretty glaring examples in this episode. Obviously the Supernatural Universe is not OUR universe, they have cities we don’t and v...

KEVIN! This poor kid... just add him to the list of Terrible Things Chuck Did. We have a Leviathan Tablet and a new prophet to read it, which wakes Cas into a state of abject denial and depression of what he did, brings the angels back into play, and sets Sam and Dean on a big scavenger hunt for parts for a weapon powerful enough to end the leviathans. Also, bees. I think that about sums it up......

CHARLIE! That's all I need to say, right? Oh, we also get the plot set in place for the rest of the season, with the awesome heist they pull on Dick's Brick. Dean gets to be both a lil geeky AND a lil queer. And Bobby goes terrifyingly close to vengeful. So much happening, and we're at least now pointing directly toward the season finale, so borax ahoy! LINKS! The Superwiki page My tag...

It's another one of those episodes I always used to forget existed until it came back around on the loop again. Yeah, we get some weird Bucklemming-flavored ghost lore, but it proves at least interesting in context with Bobby's ghost. Because we also finally get to see Bobby's ghost again, right along with Sam and Dean, with the reminder of the mytharc happening elsewhere feels like a...

We officially have a Gross of SpnGeorg! wheee! I sincerely appreciate Garth as a person, and as a friend to Sam and Dean. If anyone could've made them feel even a little bit better about the universe after last week, it was Mr. Fizzles Garth. I also appreciate the expansion of the supernatural universe, especially through the medium of Beer Brands. We talk about beer in Supernatural having met...

Do I need to introduce this one? Really? We're all here for the return of Cas, and a massive turning point in the structure and narrative of the series. There's just so much good here, even if Cas gets shoved back in a box at the end of the episode. At least he's ~there~ again. So much changes after this point, but first and foremost, Dean reclaims just a tiny shred of hope. And in sea...

Yes, things locked in boxes unwittingly released to wreak havoc and ruin lives. Again. Still kinda shocked at how many times Sam and Dean still attempt to lock things up to solve their problems after all the escaped things they've had to round up and deal with over the years. We also get a lot of innuendo and queercoding for Dean, and Sam's decompensating fast now that that he can't st...

Does this make Dean the dog again? Also, a very good reminder that antipossession symbol tattoos are a thing in this universe, and maybe it would've been a good thing for them to have shared with a heck of a lot more people than they did, you know? Also, some very interesting parallels through the MotW, a guy who went to extraordinary measures to bring back the demon (angel?) because he was in...

I love this episode. After half a season of beating on Dean emotionally, while all of Sam's crazy fit under the Hallucifer umbrella he could control with the button on his hand, Sam finally gets some horror from the outside. From clowns. I mean, Dean has to face some baggage from his childhood, as well, but it's not as dramatic as Sam getting pounded on by maniac clowns. Plus we get an act...

Oh, bucklemming with their fast-growing monster babies... only they foisted this one off on Dean. To me, this one has always felt like a ham-fisted attempt to balance out the Amy Pond storyline from earlier this season, that just makes it all the more unbalanced. Sam might think the scales are balanced now, but mostly because he's not exactly in touch with reality himself here... or at the ver...

Time travel, and Dean gets to meet a personal hero in the flesh, while Sam and Jody have to save his ass from 1944. I love watching them all work at the same problem from opposite directions, and are able to make everything come together in the end. Plus who can resist Dean in that suit? Or resist just how much Dean loves that suit? Plus he's absolutely brilliant throughout this one (thank you...

Sam and Dean each try to cope with Bobby's death and honor him in their own way-- Sam by helping a young girl asking for Bobby's assistance, and Dean by obsessively trying to decode the numbers Bobby died to give them. It's all not particularly healthy, but they all learn something by the end. Sam learns that Vetalas usually hunt in pairs, and Dean learns that if he doesn't want to...

Welcome to another episode, it's time to feel Sad and Angry... sangry? That's right, Bobby dies. Sam is sad, but struggling hard to maintain his grip on reality, and it hurts him deeply that he can't fully mourn Bobby. I mean, we can't see it here, but just imagine how horrible the Hallucifer in his head could be in this situation. His beloved father figure dying could've prove...

Can you guess when I joined GISHWHES for the first time? Aah, nostalgia for Team AngrySandwich! So clearly I enjoy this episode (at least until the last two minutes...) :'D Dean finally gets a little respite from his feelings via the aforementioned sandwich, only for realty to crash back down on him ten times as hard. And he and Sam each have a heartfelt conversation with Bobby, before the afo...

And here we finally get an episode that gets right to the heart of Dean's fears. He's just trying so hard to be a Good Brother. To respect Sam's wishes, to let him make his own decisions about his life, and not only does Sam STILL think Dean is being judgmental and controlling when he tries to save Sam from what is very obviously a terrible situation from the outside, Sam resents him f...

I do really enjoy this one, even if a lot of the fandom doesn't. I do enjoy Dean finally getting to feel at least a little relief, justifying his actions and turning at least a little of that back around on Sam. It's a bit of an unconventional case, and I always enjoy those. And the character growth is incredibly on point considering this is the only episode these two writers ever did. The...

Welcome to the show, Robbie Thompson! Do... do we need more hype than that for this week's episode? If so, we get more Jody Mills! We get Sam, Dean, and Bobby having to confront their gooey leviathan duplicates, we meet Frank, we get a little trip down memory lane to some early s1 cases, Baby goes into her s7 lockdown and we begin the journey of POS cars. But we also get a breakthrough on deal...