Ten Great Running Bits in Supernatural

Single Perfect Tear (also known as the One Perfect Tear)

 

This was really meant for Dean, and lord knows he’s made a trademark of it.  There’s the very famous closing shot in “Heart”…

 

 

Or the one that still makes me bust out crying to this day, Dean’s speech to dead Sam in “All Hell Breaks Loose Part Two”…

 

 

Then there’s another one of my favorites, when Dean confronts Samifer in the future in “The End”…

 

 

However, even Sam has been known to pull off a few single perfect tears as well, especially in the later seasons.  In the earlier seasons his tears were sloppy wet messes.  The one that gets me the most is Dean dying in his arms in season nine’s “Do You Believe in Miracles?”

 

Isn’t it any wonder that the Single Perfect Tear got it’s own song in season ten’s “Fan Fiction?”  These lyrics to “Single Man Tear” are so wrong they’re right.  

 

 

A single man tear slips down his face

He shows emotion without a trace

He hides behind a mask so strong

Worried that he could be wrong

I wish that he could see the way I see him

The perfect brother, a man without sin

Cause underneath the manly sheen

It is my brother, a boy named Dean

A single man tear, a single man tear, a single man tear, that’s all we fear

 

A single man tear, that’s all I’ll spare

I bury feelings, don’t show I care

Even though I am haunted, must be the man daddy wanted

Wish I could be as strong as Sam

Blaze my own trail, be my own man

But underneath this broken mask

It is my father, with all his wrath

A single man tear, a single man tear, a single man tear, that’s all we fear

 

 

As you can tell, this wasn’t a comprehensive look.  I only scratched the surface!  Are there any unmentioned scenes from one of these bits that stands out for you?  Please share and fondly recall twelve seasons worth of golden material along with me.  

 

A big huge thanks to Supernatural Wiki for all their wonderful pages on these bits, right down to the episodes that include them.  It made this article a ton easier!