5. “When The Levee Breaks”/”My Bloody Valentine” – Curse of the Demon Blood
Not all of Sam’s humiliating incidents are funny. A few turn a bit tragic, and none more so than Sam’s struggles with demon blood addiction. Sam, in extreme withdrawal, is caught biting into a demon’s neck right in front of Dean. That gets his powers back, but the cat’s out of the bag now. Dean won’t discuss it, but that’s because he’s already made arrangements with Bobby to lock Sam away.
Sam is caged in Bobby’s inescapable panic room (well, except this was before they figured out angel proofing) and he’s forced to detox from the demon blood that he needed to take on Lilith. This does not go well. He hallucinatines extreme torture from Alastair, his 14 year old self berating him for not following through with their plans to escape the life, and even a visit from his dead mother giving him full support to continue drinking the blood so he can be strong. The demon blood withdrawal causes not only seizures, but involuntary TK tosses into the wall. He has to be handcuffed down to the bed. Then he sees the absolute worst. A hallucination of Dean calling him a monster.
When Sam escapes (stupid angels) and confronts Dean later, his plea for solidarity is flat out refused. The real Dean instead does the absolute worst thing, calls him a monster. Ouch, ouch, ouch. Dean has just given Sam a reason to now make this a suicide mission. Humiliating, heartbreaking, complete and total annihilation of the soul.
This continues in season five with “My Bloody Valentine” when the spell of Famine triggers all the demon blood desires again. Sam requests to be locked down as a precaution, and in his madness is left alone by being handcuffed to the bathroom sink. He goes nuts. He fights against the cuffs and as soon as two stupid demons show up to release him, the crap hits the fan. He drinks their blood and is now powerful enough to take on Famine. Unfortunately, this all happens in the full view of Dean, who’s never really seen the full impact of Sam’s powers before. It spooks the living crap out of him. Then Sam has to go through another round of very painful detox. It’s way more than either Sam or Dean can take.
Alice Jester is the founder, editor-in-chief, head writer, programmer, web designer, site administrator, marketer, and moderator for The Winchester Family Business. She is a 30 year IT applications and database expert with a penchant for creative and freelance writing in her spare (ha!!) time. That’s on top of being a wife, mother of two active kids, and four loving (aka needy) pets.
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All of them were hilarious.Thank you for this article. nothing extra comes to mind about Sam
About Dean how about chased by that small dog in yellow fever
Hi Alice,
Sam just seems to have the worst luck sometimes, doesn’t he? I was cringing for him just reading this. I think you just about covered it.
I, too, have a confession to make, though. I actually love Sam in that ridiculous yellow shirt…
Alice, I absolutely loved this! My favorite episode for funny Sam humiliation has got to be Bad Day at Black Rock. Some of Jared’s best physical comedy, in my opinion.
Thanks!
Great list! Hilarious! I think you covered all Sam’s. For Dean, Yellow Fever someone mention above and also lederhosen. A lot of them like the red gym shorts, Sam would’ve been embarrassed by, but Dean took them in stride.
Heehee, this is so much fun! Poor Sammy!
It made me realize that while they love to stuff Dean in silly outfits and stuff food in Dean’s silly mouth, they save the really soul-destroying humiliations for Sam!
And they really love to hit him below the belt too! I’d add Patrick giving Sam the clap in Curious Case to all his below-the-belt woes.
As for the kid in Swap Meat, it obviously wasn’t just to get Dean. He wanted out of his scrawny nerdy body and into Sam’s (and who can blame him really?) He was trying to escape his life. They even have the big talk at the end where Sam convinces him his life isn’t that bad, then as soon as the kid’s gone says “No, his life totally sucked.”
For the rabbit’s foot, he wasn’t specifically reaching for it. He was being choked out and was just grasping and groping around for anything he could use as a weapon. The rabbit’s foot just happened to be the only thing within reach.
And Becky, well she’s resourceful. I’m smaller than she is, and I would’ve found a way to manhandle Sam into bed, trust me.
Oh my, these were so good, and came at a great time too. I absolutely love your no. 1! Just the look on Dean’s face was worth it. And Sam covered in clown glitter was just too good to be true, I still laugh just thinking about it.
Damn, somedays it just sucks to be Sam Winchester. 😆 😆
The worst has to be the Becky episode, from beginning to end. You are right Alice, Dean should have just knocked Sam out and took him somewhere safe. And how did Becky move an unconscious Sam???????
Perhaps in Swap Meat, the teenagers decided to swap bodies with Sam because the knew they can’t kidnap Dean that easily. I mean the man is scary and also big and executing dangerous aura even if he’s calm. He’s also 6’2″ and those teenagers are cute and tiny. I think they are smart by not hitting Dean full frontal.
But lookie here, who’s the guy beside him? He’s 6’4″ even bigger than Dean. Hmmm I’m sure Sam could out power Dean if he wants to. And also I won’t refuse swapping meat with him and objectifying his body like Gary. LOL
Gah, so much fun!!! Poor Sammy! All of these moments made me smile, and I remember choking during the cougar-mauling. But hey- I loved Sam in the yellow shirt! I think my favorite is Bad Day at Black Rock, though, it was just way too funny.
As for Dean, I agree that the running-from-the-little-doggy in Yellow Fever would probably make my list. Oh, and his freak out in Sam, Interrupted. And what could have been a probing table situation in Clap Your Hands If You Believe.
Now that someone reminded me of “Clap your Hands…” I remember and crack up with glee the look on our Sammy’s face as he lifts that tiny tea cup and innocently asks “do you have bigger cups?” This just knocked me OUT!
Good list but for me the most humiliating moment for Dean is a little poodle chasing him at the time when he gets that fear psychosis. That was really funny and Dean acted really well.