Alice’s Full Recap: “Supernatural” 8.20, “Pac-Man Fever”
Sam and Dean arrive then split up. We know this isn’t a good idea, because Sam right now couldn’t win a fight against a moth. Dean finds Charlie slumped in the chair with a blue mark on her arm. She won’t wake up. Sam finds the Djinn and she smacks the crap out of him. He’s flung against a fenced area and Sam is so weak and helpless he can only watch with intense fear as power suit with the blue eyes approaches him slowly with her hand of doom. The close up on Sam’s fearful face might not have been a good idea, considering he still looks like crap. Actually it is, because I’m still finding sick Sam really hot. Damn, what’s wrong with me? Anyway, Djinn suddenly sparks and drops dead. There’s Dean just in time with the silver knife. Sam is somehow alarmed by this. Really? After the countless times Dean has saved your bacon and vice versa? How is that shocking?
They rush to Charlie, and Sam has his Djinn poison antidote. Continuity! I’m so flipping happy! If anyone remembers, this was something used in the season six premiere on Dean. It was one of Samuel Campbell’s concoctions. Another thing Jared revealed in the live tweet, the blue color was added later by VFX. Wasn’t it milky white in “Exile In Main Street?” Ah well, I’m assuming its the improved version.
Sadly, it doesn’t work because this is not the normal Djinn. Dean has a bit of a freakout, so Sam thinks things through. “Djinn poison puts your brain into a feedback loop while your blood boils, right? If the anecdote didn’t break the loop, then maybe we can find a way to break it from the inside. Djinn take you to your happy place, your happy place is a like a dream…” Then they both say it together and I love it! “African dream root.” More continuity! I’m doing backflips here. For those that don’t remember, Sam and Dean went dreamwalking in Bobby’s head with African dream root in season three’s “Dream A Little Dream of Me.” So yes, I do believe they would have some in the Impala. It was after all rare and hard to find.
Next thing they’re getting the glass of the nasty stuff ready, and for those that missed this most important bit in the continuity, Sam quickly yanks a hair from Charlie’s head while Dean grabs a chair. Gotta have a piece of the person who’s dream you want to crash. This next part I absolutely love, because Sam and Dean are always the best when they’re improvising. “I’m going to need to go to sleep fast, so punch me,” Dean tells Sam, who hesitates. “Look man, I know you don’t want to…” nope, Sam has no problem. He punches Dean, but it doesn’t do much. Sam winces over his hurting hand, and this is a reminder again that Sam is a little weak. “You’re a little off your game there because that was pretty-” Sam punches Dean much harder this time, and he goes out. Hee, great scene!
So that takes us full circle back to the beginning. Dean in army doctor uniform wakes at the desk, finds the paper outside in the hall, and then gets accosted by monsters while waiting for the elevator. Just as the creatures approach, the door opens. There’s Charlie, in full Lara Croft type garb, complete with eye patch. Dean steps back and lets her come out with guns blazing, blowing away the monsters. She grabs hold of Dean’s arm. “Come with me if you want to live.” Dean raises his eyebrows. “I’ve always wanted to say that,” she responds. So why is he in her dream? Dean reminds she was attacked by a Djinn, and that they send people to their happy place. “No judgement, but you have a really strange sense of happy kiddo.” Hee, we already know Dean’s happy dreams are fishing or girls giving him a lap dance at a brothel.
Turns out this is the fear Djinn, and this is really a recurring nightmare of hers. It’s a video game. “It was called the Red Scare, first person shooter against super soldier vampires. I copied it off of the game company’s server before it was finished, programmed it to reflect my flamingly liberal politics, and then I released it, for free.” Ooh, you have done some bad things, haven’t you Charlie? How does liberal politics play into gunning down super solider vampires? You are only using green bullets? Of course naturally they tracked her down and had her arrested. She was only 12 at the time. Dean finishes that sentence, she’s been on the run ever since.
Back to Sam, who’s having a coughing fit, just because we still have to remember he’s sick and in a vulnerable position right now. The noise he hears while watching over sleeping Dean and Charlie is ominous. Back to dreamland, and Charlie wonders how they get out of there. Dean isn’t sure, since the anecdote didn’t work and he killed the Djinn. “Both of them?” Charlie asks. Ruh roh!
Sam goes back to the dead Djinn coroner in a pant suit, and what do you know, there is another one. Her son. “You killed my mom.” Sam preps for a fight, but his sickly appearance and the flashing blue eyes of the Djinn indicate Sam probably isn’t going to win this one.
Dean is very insistent on getting back and helping “Sammy.” Aww, eight seasons and I never tire of that pet name. They’ve got to win the game. Dean gets to blow away a few soldier vampires while talking, just for fun. I love watching him do that! That’s Charlie’s problem, she never does win the game. When she saves the patients, she gets reset back to a new level except there are less weapons and the vampires are faster. Ah, you mean like real life. “It’s an infinite loop, like Pac-Man without level 256.” Dean doesn’t get it. Charlie moves on.
Charlie and Dean barricade a ward, the ward where the patients are. You see what’s coming here? Dean walks through and sees to the left Charlie’s mom in a coma state. It’s serious, it’s serious… Fine, I’ll shut up now. Dean tells her he knows who it is and what he and Sam found after she went missing. He confesses that he went and saw her mom, looking for her. Charlie is quite mortified to say the least, for her deepest, darkest, lifelong secret is now out. “She’s why I’m in Kansas,” Charlie says. She goes onto tell more, and the way the lighting is hitting her face through the blinds is just gorgeous. It’s a common setup for Serge Ladoucer, and it’s amazing every time. “I sneak into the hospital whenever I can and I just…I read to her. She used to read me to sleep at night when I was a kid. She’d read me The Hobbit. She’s the reason I love the stuff I love.” Dean says he’s sorry for her loss, and Charlie harshly reminds him she’s not gone. She closes the curtain and goes back to defending against soldier vampires. Me think denial ain’t a river in Egypt! (I know, bad joke).
Dean realizes he’s not getting through and moves to check out the rest of the ward. There’s one more patient. Oh come on, you know who it is! In a way I wish it was really Sam, just so I could see how these two figure out how to get an unconscious Gigantor out of the ward. BTW, powder blue isn’t really Sam’s color. He looks strangely better in white. Charlie comes to take a look. “Is this my nightmare or yours?” Uh oh, now Dean’s buttons are getting pushed. The soldier vamps start pounding at the door, so Charlie and Dean ready their weapons.
Back at the abandoned warehouse that obviously isn’t abandoned, Sam is again getting the crap kicked out of him. So Sam decides to slow the young man down by talking to him. “So, it wasn’t your mom that messed up. It was you.” He smacks Sam across the room again, turns his back to Sam (?!) then somberly looks at his Mom’s dead body. Psst young dude, monologuing is never a good idea when you’re in the same room with a big guy with a weapon. Clearly not a bright kid. He tries to tell the story about how he had to feed since he came of age and his mother knew how to cover her tracks…but it’s cut a little short when he turns back around. Turns out, Sam is not so weak and sick that he can’t stand up with the knife that he was thrown near and shove it through the kid’s heart when he’s not looking. “You should have listened to your mom,” Sam says as the kid falls back and dies. So good of you Sammy to give a kid advice after it’s way too late for him to use it.
Dean and Charlie’s barrier begins to breach, so Charlie says it’s time to save the patients. Remember that time in “Mystery Spot” when Sam was stuck in his endless time loop and he couldn’t see past saving Dean to get himself out of the situation? How Dean changed things by talking to the woman who kept walking by each day? Same thing here, Charlie is stuck in the loop because she keeps wanting to save the patients, aka her Mom. Dean has the answer. She has to stop playing. Charlie doesn’t want to do that. “We got to save them. Nut up Winchester.”
Dean explains the logic. It’s poison. It’s designed to put her mind into an endless cycle. The fuel is fear, and she has to let go of that fear and not play the game. “I know that your fear is creating all this, and you’re not afraid of those super soldier vamps out there, you’re not afraid of this game, and you’re not afraid of what it did to you.” Dean forces her to look at him. “You’re afraid of losing her. Charlie, she’s already gone.”
Charlie should be a Winchester little sister, because guilt seems to be eating away at her too. “You don’t understand, I was at a sleepover and I got scared so I called my parents to come and get me. They should have never been driving that night.” Dean tells her it wasn’t her fault. “I just want to tell her that I’m sorry and that I love her and have her hear it again. I just need her to hear that one more time, but she can’t.” Dean knows. “But you have to let it go. Game over kiddo.” She goes back to pointing her gun at the bad guys, but Dean isn’t joining her. He just watches her with sympathy until is all hits her. She backs off and suddenly the game ends. Cue the sad music as Dean moves the desk from the door and goes out in the hall to check things out. Charlie checks the bed, her mother is gone.
Alice, I absolutely did not have time to read this at work today, but as soon as I started I couldn’t stop! So, who cares if I have to stay back 30 minutes to get my work done, it was worth it! And why do these stupid people keep asking me work questions, can’t they see I’m busy SQUEEing all over the place! Gah.
Now, important points. Sam IS hot when sick and bedheaded, it’s a fact, so I’m not sure why you’re worried about yourself! Also, tight top and v-neck and can I add (as seen in your screen cap) that tight top hugs so nice it clings, enhancing a bit of “perky”. Now do you feel better? Obviously, my problems are worse!
And the yellow tie. I gasped when I saw your screen cap from WIAWSNB! Nice! But boy howdy, does Sam wear that suit better these days.
The Winchesters were epically distracting in this one…in ALL the right ways.
Right…I must get back to work. Thankfully this episode is on TV here is Aussie tonight, so I can watch it again. Not that I haven’t watched it a handful of times already! It’s kinda been on high rotation!
Thanks for taking the time to do this re-cap! So much fun. You know you’re going to have to do more of these, right?
Glad you liked it Amy!
I did these recaps for every episode from season three all the way to mid season six. I also went back and did some retro recaps for seasons one and two. I don’t know how, but I did! Finally, I couldn’t keep up anymore. We were a much smaller site back then, so I wasn’t spending anywhere near the time on admin duties, moderating comments and playing editor to a staff of writers for not only here but TV For The Rest of Us. Since the recaps had the lowest amount of hits/interest than any of the other articles, it was pretty easy to decide what was getting cut from my schedule!
This one took three days to write. It takes another half a day to get all the screencaps together. However, I hope to go back and do some retro recaps during the hiatus. I know I have a half finished one from The French Mistake that I should complete. I’ll entertain any requests too.
Just popping in to say that despite being new, I’ve gone and hunted down every single recap of yours in the past one year 😆 Love them all, Alice, and this one is no exception.
Hi Alice
this was so fun to read, thank you!
One thing: you had included the fact supported by Jared’s tweet on how his parents were present in that one crime scene shot.
So I was also hoping you had mentioned another part of the episode based on another of Jared’s tweets that still has me wondering. See, I had found his tweets the next day, AFTER I had watched; so the one where he said, “I wasn’t on set when Jensen was looking at me” was a scene I couldn’t place. I asked him to be more specific but got no reply. I knew I wouldn’t but thought it wouldn’t hurt to try…
In anycase, can you or anyone else, point out which scene it was? I would appreciate it.
[quote] So I was also hoping you had mentioned another part of the episode based on another of Jared’s tweets that still has me wondering. See, I had found his tweets the next day, AFTER I had watched; so the one where he said, “I wasn’t on set when Jensen was looking at me” was a scene I couldn’t place. [/quote]
Hi Mer:
I think the scene Jared was referring to was the hospital bed scene in the video game dream – Sam and Dean are never in the same shot. When Dean pulls back the curtain, I’m pretty sure he’s looking at nothing – the shot of Sam in the bed was inserted later in the editing. Hope that helps… 🙂
Yep, that’s right. He was referring to that. He said that by not having to be there to film that scene, he got a long weekend out of it to be with family.
thank you, both of you. Now I can relax;-)
Thanks Alice for a very funny and informative recap.
I’ve watched this episode about 5 times already and I’m still not bored with it. I totally missed the tie call back and a few others as well. Thanks to your ency***** Um, big book knowledge I’ll hopefully spot them on the next (yes really) viewing.
If I’d known that you stopped writing these recaps partly because of low volume feedback, I would have commented more often.
Thanks again. Looking forward to the next recap.
Glad you enjoyed it! I’ll probably do a few more of these during summer hiatus, just for fun. I’m not sure why, but these types of recaps were never popular. Probably because it’s like reading a novel. It’s not for those with short attention span or lack of time.
I loved reading your novel. Please write more!
That was a fun recap, Alice!
Thanks.
(And I’m right there with you on the Vneck and bedhead look for Sam, but you knew that, right? 😳 )
Please do more of these, I wasn’t around for your previous ones, but I’ll be heading back to the archives to find a few when I have a spare minute – hour – day.
🙂
I’m happy I could entertain.
You’ll find a full set of recaps for seasons three, four, and five, and up to “Mannequin 3: The Reckoning” for season six. There’s a few for season one and two, like “Home,” “Salvation,” “Devil’s Trap,” “In My Time of Dying,” “Born Under A Bad Sign,” “What Is And What Should Never Be,” and the two “All Hell Breaks Loose” episodes. Just go to the episode guides and anything that says “Recap” is mine.
Alice – Thanks… that was a lot of fun to read. Sounds like you had fun writing it too.
Thanks! Yes, it was fun. My family kept interrupting that fun, but it was fun.
Alice, that was a fabulous recap! As I am fairly new to the site, this was the first long recap of yours that I’ve read, and I love it.. a little critique, and little plot, a little BTS, and a little squee…. what more could a Supernatural fan want? Love the Smith’s reference also, I wonder if anyone else got that? I was a huge Smith’s fan back in the day.
I’m sure few did, but who knows? I swear, anytime I see anyone in a coma, suddenly “Girlfriend In A Coma” starts ringing in my head. It’s serious, it’s serious… 😆
I love it when at least one person gets an obscure reference I throw in, so you’ve made my day!
Hi Alice:
I’m thrilled you were able to recap this episode because beyond the story itself, there were so many moments (deep and shallow 😉 ) to enjoy. It was a great read – thank you!
Another trivia point, although I can’t take credit for this one – one of the SPN crew members sent out a tweet suggesting we look at the byline on the front page of the newspaper Dean picks up: It’s written by D. Scully 😆
Gotta love the crew’s attention to detail!
Ooh, great catch! Thanks for mentioning. I do try to be thorough, but it’s hard to get everything.
Thanks, Alice, for taking the time to do this fun and informative recap. Nothing to add except my appreciation.
Hi Alice, this was so much fun to read. Where reviewers just tell you what happened in the episode is not much fun but seeing what you got out of the episode is great. Thanks for all the work – and the screencaps, oh the screencaps …. (sorry where was I?)
This episode was not what I was expecting and was so much better for it. I definitely feel that the trailers were messing with the fans that didn’t want to see Sam benched and isolated from the other characters for the episode (hah, you think you’re so funny don’tcha guys 😉 ) I am glad they decreased the geek level of Charlie and made her more human since it appears we will be seeing more of her in future episodes.
Oh, and while the Star Wars references are starting to get old (for me) there can never be too many Smiths references in any review 😀 keep it up.
(EDIT: Heh, someone got there ahead of me on girlfriend in a coma …)
What a treat Alice. I can understand how it would take you a long time to write this, but Thank You. This was such a special episode, the last 10 minutes I don’t think I did anything but wipe my eyes. You are right when you say the show has not done this to us in a long time. I always look forward to your reviews, and this one was sure worth the wait!
Alice-that was a lot of fun to read, I laughed a lot. Very intertaining. Love the fact that your recap with your thoughts gives new light to episodes.
If you do some recaps how about one for Season 6 when Dean is a Vampire. He is so hot in that.
Also, in Season 8, the episode with the Gollum. That actor brought such great presence to the gollum character.
Anyway, keep writing.
It’s you lucky day, I did one when Dean was a Vampire. I at least had the first half (and beyond) of season six covered.
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Consider a recap for “Everybody Hates Hitler” next on my list. That’s still my favorite ep of the season so far.
I would definitely read a recap for Everybody Hates Hitler. It’s still my favourite ep of the season, too!
(Well, I’d read a recap of anything SPN, but you know, that one in particular I’d really enjoy 🙂 )
Thank you, thank you and thank you again for this great recap. I’m one of the few that loved it when you did this. But, hey, I understand how long they take to write and prepare and how busy this site and TV for the Rest of Us keeps you. I read this at work, even though I didn’t really have time, but I couldn’t help myself, this site is like a drug! 😆
I’ve watched the episode everyday since it’s been on, I am so in love with it. I love Charlie so much, she is now a de-facto Winchester in my book. 😉 The part at the end really got to me bigtime. I was the only one of my siblings at my mother’s bedside when she passed, so I really got the emotions Charlie was going through. Knowing you have to let go, but just wanting that last little bit with your mom. Oh, here I go, tearing up just thinking about it. 😥
Okay, ending on a happy note here. Did anyone notice the caduceus on Dean’s uniform? Not only did his name tag read Winchester, but he was a doctor! 😀 Good for him. That is definitely a man that looks good in uniform. 😳 And don’t worry overmuch Alice, I also think sick Sam is very hot. I think it’s the mother in us all that would LOVE to take care of him for just one day…or more. 😳
Wonderful review. Now I need to rewatch, AGAIN! This episode is definitely going in my top 5, maybe top 3. And the hug at the end? Best ever. No return from death or MIA. Just purely for Love!!!!
Alice, I read this before work this morning and couldn’t wait to get home to tell you how much I enjoyed this. This one is really yours, right? 😀 Anyhow, really fun and lengthy read (I was a little late 🙂 )! I know your time is limited but I would love to see more of these. Maybe if you had less of those pesky emails :-* .
Oh yes, this one is mine. I do recall sacrificing the last three days of my life to get it done! It really is easier if I just put my name on someone else’s work. 🙂
Oh trust me, pesky emails is just the tip of the iceberg. 🙂
I loved this review and I love these types of reviews especially.. I usually look forward to your reviews and didn’t know you’d done some longer ones. I’m going to have to go back and read all your other revews as I’m kind of new here and this is the first full recap I’ve ever seen.
Just to let you know I love your recaps, and always don’t reply to them as when I reply to one review I feel redundant to waste your time with similar posts. :-*
Anyway, is it the hits or the posts that tell you if we are interested in the different articles?
I’m just saying I want to go on record that I love to read your long and rambling recaps with lots of pictures, even though not always commenting. 😛 🙂
Thanks.
No, the recaps got good replies. It was the number of hits (which I can track for each article). I was actually writing a regular review for Blogcritics and a recap every week. The review hits outdid the recap 4:1. It was just obvious what had to go.
Glad to know you read them! I’ll have to work them into the rotation a bit more in S9.
I think these type of recaps are great! Where they point out a lot of the little details I missed and all filled with excitement for the episode.
Sam does look extremely hot when he is sick perhaps that is why they keep making him all frail. Him in those scrubs last year about gave me palpitations.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of my all time favorite movies. My family and I reference it all the time. Although my favorite line is to say,”Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?” when someone says something particularly stupid. What’s hilarious is we quote that line from Princess Bride all the time too.
And I loved all the references to earlier seasons, especially the Carver Edlund stuff. I’ve often thought that Chuck would finish publishing, especially with Becky that for a while to egg him on. And for some reason I find the idea of Charlie knowing all the[i] intimate[/i] details of their lives hilarious. I don’t even know why. The only thing that could make me happier about that is if she finds out about Wincest or somehow tells Garth. I hate that we never got to see Bobby find out about it, although I might not have recover from seeing that. Although I do have one small bitch and I KNOW it was done this way for comedic effect, but it bothered me a tiny bit that it did look as if she only thanked Dean for saving the world. But she later said nothing “they can’t do together” so really it was a pretty minor thing that I will probably regret mentioning.
Charlie is a great addition to the show and that stuff with her mom was sweet and heartbreaking. And the episode gave great broments -new favorite word. So happy Robbie Thompson came to the show.
What a fabulous recap, Alice. Thank you for this. I’ve always loved your long recaps, I used to look forward to someone over at Supernatural TV (which was my message board home in those days) posting the link to them after each episode.
This episode really surprised me as, based on the trailer, I wasn’t expecting to like it so much. As it turned out I loved it. Really loved it. I’ve re-watched it a few times already, which is more than I can say for most of the other episodes this year so far.
Before this episode I wasn’t a huge Charlie fan (liked her in the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo episode but not so much in the Larping episode) but now her backstory has made her a much more human and 3 dimensional character. Her scene at the end with her mother was so heartbreaking I had to look away as, like for many other folk here, it brought back too many painful memories. Loved what Charlie said to Sam about him being able to complete the trials.
Most of all I LOVED the broments. 😆 I’m absolutely loving the brotherly relationship these days. The surprise hug at the end had me melting. It was just wonderful.
Too many great moments to list but I especially loved when Dean sent Sam ‘home’…awwww. Also loved Sam’s ‘I hate that thing. And I want one.’ 😆 ; Dean being desperate to get back to ‘Sammy’ and Sam panicking over Dean when Dean started to wake up.
And, yeah, Sick!Sam is extremely hot. It feels so wrong to be thinking it but I just can’t help it… 😳 The peaky, bedhead, wobbly, v-neck T-shirt look got me seriously giddy. 😆 The poor boy is looking so unwell, I want to gather him up and give him a great big cwtch (that’s a Welsh word for a loving protective cuddle, so quite innocent enough… 😆 )
Oh…that bedhead….it was glorious. 😆 Loved Dean’s clippers comment afterwards. Although if Dean dares get anywhere near Sam with those clippers he and I might fall out… 😛
Fabulous episode.
I love your recaps, Alice! You bring so much excitement and joy to them. I love all the little details you mention and the screen caps are great. I did not realize Sam reused his tie..from another of my fav episodes! Loving sick Sam and protective Dean. Loving the ‘little sister’ Charlie is becoming. I’ve said it before, but they just behave better around her! She reminds them of how important they are to each other. Thanks, and I agree that I’d love to see a recap of the episode with the Golem, Everybody Hates Hitler.
Hi Alice!
So glad you’re doing the recaps again. I’ve always enjoyed them! And you are definitely not alone thinking that Sick!Sam is hot. He so totally is! 🙂
I really liked this episode. Loving the relationship between the brothers again and I love Charlie. They better not kill her off!!’
Just one nitpick: you used the word “anecdote” for what Sam injects Charlie with. The word is actually “antidote.” I don’t usually correct people, but his actually changes the meaning of the sentence and it’s used quite a few times.
Anyway, that aside, keep up the good work and I can’t wait until Wednesday!
Crap! I actually typed right, but I have this autocorrect on my Mac that’s so damned annoying. It often gets words wrong. Thanks, I’ll change that.
Totally understandable! I’m a Mac girl myself and autocorrect drives me crazy! I was chatting with my brother once and mentioned that Mare Winningham was in a movie. What I didn’t realize is that autocorrect had translated that to more winning ham. It’s been a joke between us ever since.
I see complaints about auto correct all the time. Can’t you just turn it off? Or let it ask you?
Really want to know why Sam prefers a Mac…
Confused, l2b
I thought it was so cute that behind Dean there is a 50-star flag. In 1951, of course, there were only 48 states. But this is Charlie’s dream and she is dreaming incorrectly. Funny!
Great catch. I didn’t even notice that. I’m willing to bet that was a flaw in the video game that Charlie didn’t catch. A lot of foreign people program those games and wouldn’t know that.
Assuming we’re talking a video game here. Really, the issue lies with the set decorator. After all, they’re Canadian! 🙂
Awesome review Alice!
I love the stream-of-consciousness vibe (although I know the whole thing is carefully crafted!) and the extremely HOT, I mean enlightening screen caps!
As far as I’m concerned there can never be enough Monty Python and the Holy Grail references. I think at the Moondoor Mid-Year Jubilee they should call themselves the Knights That Go Neeee, or I guess in Supernatural parlance it could be the Knights That Go Deeeeeeean.
I should be going to bed but my brain is stuck in the endless loop of mashing together Supernatural, Monty Python and the Princess Bride.
I’m really waiting for an episode where the monster/villain says “Good night Winchesters… Sleep well.. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.” It’s really inconceivable that the line hasn’t been used yet!
Sigh.. Such a great episode.. Maybe they could get Robbie Thompson to write 6 episodes next year. Who needs to eat or sleep?
One note I must add, I dearly loved the return of the smart Winchesters. I liked watching both brothers put the pieces together mentally, and both brothers be the manly man friend heroic action figures… Which may be a new favourite phrase.. “My manly man friend”
Okay, I’m rambling so it’s off to determine the flying velocity of an African swallow versus a European swallow.
Cheers!
Pragmatic Dreamer
[quote]I’m really waiting for an episode where the monster/villain says “Good night Winchesters… Sleep well.. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.” It’s really inconceivable that the line hasn’t been used yet![/quote]
“Inconceivable!”
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
E, 😀 😆 Big Princess Bride fan here. 😆 😀
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
HELLO!…
Same here, I’m always quoting from that movie, it drives my work colleague nuts! 😆 Anytime I hear the word marriage, it gets me going. [i][b]Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam…[/b][/i] 😆
Sylvie, at my last job I did the same thing with The Holy Grail and people would look at me like I was crazy. I would say I couldn’t believe they hadn’t seen that movie and they said no body has seen that movie. One time I told them even my teenage nieces and nephews friends loved it and they swore I was making it up. So I picked up the phone and declared that I would call my sister’s house and give a quote and it wouldn’t even matter who answered the phone they would know what it was from and could finish the quote. My then 12 year old niece got it right immediately. My coworkers looked at me like I had committed some form of child abuse 😀 I had never been so proud. I took her ice cream after work.
Hi Kelly,
I would certainly fit in with your family. When I was a kid, it wasn’t Thanksgiving or Christmas if we didn’t do some kind of Monty Python sketch over the turkey.
Let’s just say our Grace was something along the lines of “Spam, spam, spam, spam.. Wonderful spam, spam, spam, spam….” I suspect you get the picture.
So with that in mind –
This parrot is dead. No it’s not. It’s resting… No, it’s not. It’s dead. It’s pushing up the daisies. It’s pining for the fjords! (Which come to think of it this sketch and the dead/not-dead is perfect for the Winchesters!)
I could go on all night, but again in the spirit of the Winchesters and the Princess Bride, “There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead”
Pragmatic Dreamer
Oh Sylvie, I really LOL when I read about mawage! I’m still laughing! I have the whole movie memorized too!
Have fun storming the castle!
chortling like a loon here…. 😀
Love your recap and of course I love this episode too!! It took my whole lunch hour, but who needs to eat, I’ll eat later…
I have a question. Robbie Thompson is the one who created the character Charlie? I used to watch Eureka! and when they introduced Felicia Day to the show, I thought it was a good move, now I’m thinking the same, and I hope she get more episodes next season.
By the way, I like him as a writer, he really does his homework, I understand that he not only check supernatural wiki, he also watch (or re-watches) old episodes from the characters he is writing and he keeps up with fans sites. That is why we are all please with his episodes. He brought back the little thing that makes us happy. Like the guys talking at the same time! I don’t know why, but listening to that and Dean saying Sammy, makes my heart melt. (Even more)
I finally had time to read your recap Alice… and it is wonderful! It’s so much fun to re-live the episode with your comments and insights. I do hope you get time to do some more in season 9. My suggestions for the hiatus would be LARP and the Real Girl and Everybody Hates Hitler 😀
If there is something wrong with you in regards to your thoughts about Sam, then I think there is something wrong with many more of us, lol. It doesn’t matter what he wears or how ill he looks, Sam is still smoking hot 😉
Although I have to say that my heart hurts a bit when I see him looking so ill… but then I just want to make him soup and look after him (like Dean is trying to do, lol).
I also needed a big box of tissues for this episode… Felicia Day did a great job with Charlie’s story… and this is one of my all-time favourite Supernatural episodes. Thanks for the recap 🙂
Fabulous recap Alice! I enjoy reading these so please do not stop writing them. I love the little extras you throw in that make us laugh or cry or call out some little detail that was missed by most. I rewatch this one all the time, but then who am I kidding. I rewatch all of them over and over until the next episode comes out. This one stands out as one of my favorites though. I love Charlie and the relationship she has with the guys. I love all the broments and glad they are writing more of those into the story lines. We can never get too many brotherly hugs. Now I am going to have to go back and see if I missed any of your other recaps. Thanks again Alice!!