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3.11 – Mystery Spot

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3.11 – Mystery Spot

DETAILS

Writers: Jeremy Carver, Emily McLaughlin
Director: Kim Manners
First aired: Thursday February 14, 2008

SAM WATCHES DEAN DIE – Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) investigate the disappearance of a man who went missing at a tourist location. While searching the site, Dean is shot and killed by the owner. Sam is devastated but stunned when he wakes up the next morning to find Dean alive and well. As the day unfolds, Sam realizes he is re-living the previous day and tries to prevent Dean’s death, but to no avail. Dean dies again and Sam must learn to live life without his brother by his side.

Kim Manners directed the episode with teleplay written by Jeremy Carver and story by Jeremy Carver and Emily McLaughlin.

 

Recap/Review

 

RECAP/REVIEW

 Recap by Smallville29

Mystery Spot

Intro “Then” featuring clips from “The Magnificent 7”, “What Is And What Should Never Be”, “Tall Tales”, “All Hell Breaks Loose pt2”, “Dead Mans Blood”, “Dream A Little Dream Of Me”, “Bad Day At Black Rock”, “Nightshifter”…. Now, Sam is waken up by Dean blasting his stereo in there hotel room, Sam gets up and goes to brush his teeth with Dean. There getting ready to leave but Dean can’t find his gun… he finds it and they head to breakfast. Dean gets the special “Pig’n’a’poke”… Sam gets a short stack and they both get coffee. There looking for Bela, but they stopped to do some side jobs since they have no clue where she is. There looking into a “Mystery Spot” where supposedly there is no laws of gravity, etc… Dean thinks it’s crazy but Sam thinks it’s worth a look since threes nothing else for them to do. There going to sneak in after closing time to check it out, Night time…. they break in and are checking it out.. (it looks like a bad haunted house) Sam’s not getting any EMP reading… Owner comes in with a shotgun and Dean aims his pistol at him. Dean lowers his gun and there getting ready to leave when the owner pulls the trigger on accident… Dean’s hit in the shoulder, Sam runs over to him and Dean’s slowing dying… “Not like this” says Sam….

“Mystery Spot”

Sam is waken up by Dean blasting his stereo. Sam is sorta freaked, trying to figure out how he dreamed the whole day before… The two of them brush there teeth and Sam tells Dean that he had a weird Dream…. Dean replies “Clowns or Midgets?”, they head down to breakfast and Dean gets a Pig’n’a’poke… Sam doesn’t order anything cause he’s still freaked. Sam Tell’s Dean that he’s thinks it’s like bad Deja’vu… He proves it to Dean when the waitress comes back and drops the hot sauce, Sam catches it because he knew it was going to happen. They start walking down the road and everything is EXACTLY the same as in Sam’s dream.. Dean and Sam are trying to figure out what the heck’s going on… Dean wants to go after closing but Sam wants to go now, because he’s trying to change the outcome… Dean steps to cross the street and BANG, he’s bit by a car….. “THESE ARE THE MOMENTS” Sam wakes up to the same lyrics, and song as in the two previous days… but this time he knows somethings wrong. He watches Dean brush and they go to breakfast…. Sam orders for Dean…. and starts to tell him whats going on, Dean thinks it’s like groundhog day, Sam catches the hot sauce again and Tell’s Dean they HAVE to figure out how to stop it or he’ll die. Dean says OK and they will figure it out, he wants to go to the mystery spot and Sam says no because he died there, then Sam stops Dean from crossing the street so he doesn’t get hit. They make it to the mystery spot and are faking as reporters. The owner isn’t giving them much at all… Dean thinks that the best thing they can do is go and wait till midnight so that the loop stops, they head to get food and go to the hotel… right then workers drop a desk and it lands on Dean….. Sam wakes up again and lays back down in disappointment.
Commercial #1
Sam’s depressed, there in the dinner again. Dean’s asking what he thinks it is… and Sam says he thought it was the mystery spot but now he’s not sure, Dean changes his order and is trying to stop himself from dying… he gets sausage instead of bacon… takes a bite and chokes. Sam wakes up again, Dean is in the shower and Sam tells him there not leaving the apartment…. we hear Dean yell and slip in the shower…. Sam wakes up again. There eating food in the apartment and Dean says “Do these tacos taste funny to you?”..Sam wakes up again… Dean plugs in his shaver and electrocutes himself… Sam wakes up again. Sam has had it. He’s at the mystery spot with Dean, the owner is tied up and Sam is breaking down the walls trying to find out whats going on, Dean thinks he’s going to far and tries to get the axe from him…. it goes wrong and Sam wakes up again. Back at the dinner.. Sam took the old mans keys so that he can’t run over Dean later, Sam tells the waitress to get better at archery cause shes a terrible shot. Dean connects it to groundhog day… And Sam tells him this is the 100th Tuesday in a row. Dean tries to show that he doesn’t know everything and starts to say things like “Sam Winchester wears makeup, Sam Winchester cries through sex, Sam Winchester keeps a ruler by his bed and..” Sam says these word for word with Dean, he tells him he’s tried everything and nothings worked… Same things are happening, Dean decides to run back and say hi to a girl to try and throw off the loop, apparently she has a paper and she is the daughter of a guy who died and was a writer… Dean goes to pet the dog… Sam wakes up again. Sam is looking into this guys death, there at the dinner, he was a writer that focused on special places…”The Mystery Spot”, etc… Sam and Dean go to look into it more cause Sam’s been getting more and more info over the past days and he has a lead… He notices that one of the other people in the dinner had strawberry syrup instead of maple… and things NEVER change in this loop. Sam wakes up again….. and he watches the guy order maple syrup this time… he knows something wrong, he follows him out of the restaurant and pulls a stake on the guy, he says “i know who you are, or lemme say what”… he’s a trickster! the same one from “Tall Tales” (season 2) The trickster reveals himself, so it’s for sure. HE’S THE ONE CONTROLLING THE LOOP!

Commercial #2

Sam has the steak to the guys neck, he asks why he’s doing this… and he says “because they almost killed him last time” and he enjoys watching Sam watch Dean die, cause it’s his worst nightmare. he says “how long will it take you to realize you can’t save your brother”.. He tries to make a deal they don’t kill him and he stops the loop. Sam says no and the trickster restarts the day.. BUT IT’S DIFFERENT! IT’S WEDNESDAY! Sam is super happy that they made it, and Dean remembers the day before with the trickster.. they are getting out of town fast… Dean loads up the car and then someone points a gun at him and is robbing him, Sam hears a shot… runs out and Dean is dead. Sam’s day doesn’t restart.

Commercial #3

Sam is obsessively trying to find the trickster, Bobby is leaving messages and he is worried about Sam.. Sam is apparently killing demons like a mad man and it almost acting like Gordon. He eats alone and only focuses on the trickster, Bobby is getting really worried… he finally calls Sam and tells him that he found the trickster. Sam shows up and Bobby is relieved to see him… Sam is stone cold. Bobby has a summoning spell that will bring the trickster there but they need a gallon of fresh blood, Sam says he will go and get it… Bobby stops him “you break my heart kid, I’m not going to let you murder a innocent man”… Bobby says that if he has to kill someone to get the trickster then to kill him. Bobby gets on his knees ready for Sam to take him… Bobby would rather he die then someone who’s innocent, he hands Sam the knife and tells him that he wants to help. Sam stabs Bobby in the back…. but not with his knife, but the stake. He says “Because your nor Bobby”… nothing happens, Bobby just lays there…. and then he disappears, it was a illusion, trickster shows up behind Sam and Sam asks to be taken back to that Wednesday when Dean died for real and they wont go after him if he does it for them.. The trickster says that “Dean’s your weakness.. and bad guys know it too” he tells Sam that this is what life will be like without Dean and that he needs to prepare himself. Trickster snaps his finger….

Commercial #4

Sam wakes up and it’s that Wednesday, he jumps up and hugs Dean… Dean says all he remembers is Sam being whacked out and having a lot of Tuesdays.. they pack are about to leave.. Dean asks if anything else happens and Sam says it was a “weird dream”… Dean says “clown or midgets”….

The End

Well, Sam can’t live without Dean… and the darkness in him and the things he will do for his brother are limitless… If Dean can’t get out of his deal who will be the one that really dies? Dean or Sam?…. “Mystery Spot” that’s what we have right now… a mystery.

Review by Gaelic

The fantastic thing about this show is that it does not let up. Not once. Even when you’re laughing with shocked, partially guilty delight, you’re waiting for the sucker punch that will drive the air from your lungs and you are not disappointed. There are certain mannerisms and facial expressions these boys give that are so unique to them — not just to the actors, but to the characters they embody — that if I ever saw them in anything else, and saw one of those looks, I’d think “Dean!” or “Sam!” God, I love this show. Like no other.

 *deep breath* Here goes nothin’.

 When we saw the Trixter in the previouslys, I immediately knew how they were going to get stuck in the time-loop. I had purposely only watched the previews from last week before tonight because I didn’t want to be spoiled, but had literally JUST been talking about the time-loop episode of X-files with a friend this afternoon, so I was chewing on the “how” and when we saw him, I was like “ohhhh…” But that didn’t ruin a bit of this fantastically layered episode for me.

 Okay, rewinding epi in my my head. One of these days, I’ll learn to take notes. Maybe for Season 4. Heat of the Moment was hilarious. Although, gotta say, my favorite Asia song is Only Time Will Tell… “You’re leaving now… it’s in your eyes… there’s no disguising it…” Ahem. ANYWAY. Knowing that Sam was going to have a Groundhog Day, I found myself watching every little detail, as if for clues. It struck me as funny how their normal routine in the morning got so many eye-rolls from Sam. “Anytime you’re ready” to his big brother. The black bra. HA! Dean not being able to go to breakfast without his .45 (love that guy — have I said that yet this review?).

 Dean’s lip sync to Heat of the Moment with the Night at the Roxbury head bob was funny every time we saw it. He’s just such a natural big brother. Annoying as hell when he knows he can get away with it. “Rise and shine, Sammy!” I mean, who else but your siblings know how to push your buttons and exactly what order to push them in to elicit the reaction they were going for: annoyance, laughter, tears, anger… Siblings know you like no other and depending on their nature, that can be good or bad for you.

 I continued to watch the steps that Sam repeatedly lived through from Doris saying buh-bye to Mr. Picket, to Cal ordering coffee… trying to pick out the tell that would show us where the trixster was. I don’t even know if that’s how you spell trixster, but we’re going with it for this review. I gotta tell you, though, I did NOT expect for Dean to get shot and die before the opening credits. That was one of those gut punches. I was busy chuckling at Sam’s eagerness to find something at the Mystery Spot because they didn’t know where Bela and the Colt were, Dean’s attempt at humoring Sam because what the hell else is he going to do and BLAM. I was choking right along with Dean watching him shudder and shake and look desperately at his brother… and then literally, the light left his eyes. How did he DO that? That was amazing and riveting and painful to watch.

 Confused Sam is cute. I think I might like that version of Sam best. Dean’s wise-ass “clowns or midgets” when Sam claimed a weird dream had me smirking and the “how is that not deja vu” argument is the 2nd best exchange the whole show. LOVED the “Dingo’s ate my baby” crazy reference. The writers of this show are fantastic with their pop culture knowledge, their witty exchanges, their sly remarks that you have to almost watch two or three times to truly appreciate. Not that that’s a problem…

 Sam not telling Dean that he died the 1st time ’round was going to be a problem, I knew. So… when Dean got hit by the old man in the car, I blinked, but kinda “felt” that coming. Oh — loved the “What do you want, a Pulitzer?” comment from the two guys trying to move the ginormous table in through the teeny door. Oh, and the blonde — I KNEW the blonde would be something, but didn’t put her with Hasslehoff… or whatever the missing guy’s name was.

 On of the best lines had to be Dean’s “I get all tingly when you take control” to Sam. I laughed out loud. These writers so read fanfic. You KNOW they do. One of Jared’s “Sam” maneuvers that I will forever associate with that character is his way of pleading with Dean to please believe him even though he sounds three levels of crazy. He tucks his chin down to the right, and looks up through the tops of his eyes, eyebrows just slightly raised. The limpid innocence held in those eyes just tugs at you, regardless of if you’re a Dean girl or a Sam girl. No one could resist that plea, man. No one.

 Sam’s “you pee’d yourself” comeback when Dean wanted to know if it looked cool when he got hit by the car? Priceless. As was Sam’s grab to pull Dean out of the path of the car. The big table falling on Dean second after he declared that all they had to do was to make sure he didn’t die TOTALLY caught me by surprise. I should feel shame for not seeing that one coming but I actually gasped and covered my mouth. Those beautiful bowed legs were just sticking out from underneath and I gaped right along with Sam.

 But… it was at this point I started to get a bad feeling. Because while it had been traumatic the first time for Sam to literally have Dean die in his arms, he kept waking up. I started to get a knot in my stomach, waiting for the punch that would level me. I even glanced at the clock to time out when they would throw it, because I knew it couldn’t be this easy. Dean dying so many times was actually starting to be funny. That’s not right. I mean (and I know I’m not the only one) I’ve actually watched someone die. All the air is sucked out of the room and you can’t hear anything and you can’t tear your eyes away and all of the ramifications of every day of your life being around without this person in the world hits you like a literal weight and you can’t even cry because you know it won’t matter. That’s not what I was seeing, but that’s exactly what I was waiting for.

 I loved Dean’s reassuring “whatever this is, we’ll figure it out” declaration whenever Sam told him (over and over) what the situation was. That’s one of the things that makes him an awesome big brother. Sam says it’s true, it’s true. No matter how implausible. No matter how scary. No matter if he can’t see it. Sam said he saw angels. Okay, angels exist even if he had felt betrayed by them from age four. Sam said there was a time loop. Okay, they’ll find a way to stop it. Anything to get that freaked out, desperate look out of Sammy’s eyes.

 When Dean said “If you and I decide I’m not going to die, then I’m not going to die” I actually said “uh-oh” out loud. So this is what the kicker is. A lesson in the futility of fighting the future. And even though I was admittedly grinning through the choking on the sausage (I mean, who didn’t see that coming), the “does this taco taste funny,” the electrocution (that was fairly intense), the fight over the ax (shakes head at Sam), I felt that knot I mentioned earlier tightening. I don’t think I have YET gotten through an episode w/out my stomach in knots.

 When Sam declared it was his 100th Tuesday, my heart broke for him. He’d had to watch his brother die 100 times. And hadn’t been able to do a thing to stop it. Dude, the joke was SO on him at this point. And what a sick, twisted joke it was. The scene, though — and Terry, I know this had to have been the scene you tried to get me to watch today because I laughed my ass off — when they boys said the same things at the same time… that was PERFECT. Just absolutely, I love these guys, perfect. “Sam Winchester cries his way through sex”?!?! And the RULER… OMG. Brothers. *hugs them both*

 Hasselhoff, beck, whatever, was pretty much a red herring the whole time. A non-issue. A done deal. Even when they started down that path, I didn’t buy it as any sort of solution. So what if he debunked different mystery spots. Blah blah blah. The point was that Sam was being played and Dean was being Dean, trying to help his brother. As he always does. That’s really the thing — without each other, they don’t exist. And really, how true is that of any of us? How much do others that we love, that we care about, feed into the person that we are? How different would we be if we lost the most important person in our lives? If fate took them from us and there was literally nothing we could do about it, there is no way we would come out on the other side unscathed. The same.

 Without Sam, Dean is empty — he’s said as much to himself. His whole life, his whole purpose is about his brother. Sure, he’d be someone with Sam gone. But he wouldn’t be Dean. Not the Dean we’ve seen. Not the Dean he knows. And naively, I always thought differently about Sam, but life has put up a couple of mirrors for me personally of late and I realize now that no one is immune to the change that loss brings. Without Dean, Sam has no guidance. No freedom. No one to take care of the details so that he can relax. No one to protect him. And not just from the monsters in the world. From himself. Without Dean, Sam burns up from the inside out.

 So, when they encountered the trixster, my heart dropped. He said as much when he called Sam “Bogo” (at least that’s what I heard — as in buy one, get one). The lesson, kids, is twofold. One — apparently the entire underworld/demon community knows not only about Dean’s deal but that Sam is desperate to save him and that Dean is Sam’s weakness and Sam is apparently supposed to either lead them or defeat them, and Two — Dean can’t be saved.

 I’m stubbornly refusing to believe number two. I think it’s gotta be a trick in wording — a loophole. Perhaps he can’t be SAVED, but maybe he can…negotiate, win, barter, defeat, escape… oooo — escape?? Okay, moving on.

 The Huey Lewis touch was hilarious. Nice nod to Back to the Future, which I thought had to be a fav of Kripke’s ever since Simon Said and Dean was sleeping in the same twisted, arm-behind-his-back position as Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly in same said movie. But when Sam was giddy that it was Wednesday, I curled up tighter into my Ball Of Imagined Protection because there was too much time left. When Cal robbed Dean instead of the other dude he was supposed to rob, my throat went dry. Sam’s little-boy-lost “I’m supposed to wake up…” while he held his brother in his arms once more… after it wasn’t have supposed to have happened… GOD. *sob* And although I never want to see it again, Jensen dies so well. He actually manages to look pained and peaceful at the same time. That guy is friggin’ AMAZING.

This is what I’d been watching for. The aftermath. The reality of death without deals. Of a life changed irrevocably. Of the person you used to be so far behind you they aren’t even a speck in your rear view mirror. I don’t think Sam turned into Dean as much as he became his father. The maps and search information on the wall? Very John from Dead Man’s Blood. The military-neat room and the way he straightened his bed? I don’t see Dean caring that much about the bed. The bed would just be something that served a purpose in an almost meaningless life. For Sam, though, it was a routine. A step in the process of his day, like how he brushed his teeth and held his toothbrush with the glass of water when he rinsed.

 He turned into the consummate hunter his father and brother had been, too — demon thing in Death Valley, Vamp nest in Austin, digging out a bullet and sewing up the hole… damn. Bad. Ass. Especially with the facial expressions of the Terminator. Sam was gone. And this was over a period of three months. In three months time, Sam became a shell without Dean. A machine. When he saw Bobby, he didn’t even hug him back. Of course later we saw it was because he totally suspected it to be the trixster, but I didn’t realize that at first. I just saw him standing, wooden, while Bobby embraced him. Bobby’s soft “you break my heart, kid” was just… yeah. Mine, too, man. Because it’s not fair.

 The idea of sacrificing Bobby to save Dean… all I could think was nonononononononono do NOT go there. But then I realized — one second before Sam staked him — what was going on. Instant relief. INSTANT. Some of the things NotBobby said though had to be true — about Dean and Sam being the closest thing he had to family, and that he wanted to give Dean back to him. Those are real sentiments. I think the trixster has to have ways of pulling in reality. He must. Sam’s scary moment of doubt when he thought for just one instant that he’d made a mistake literally made me sweat.

 The trixster driving the point home that Dean was Sam’s weakness…I wanted to say, “Well, DUH!” What does the demon population expect? Sam has NOTHING ELSE. They already killed Jess, Dad, Mom… Of course his only brother and the man who not only raised him but literally sacrificed EVERYTHING for him would be his weakness. If he wasn’t, there wouldn’t be anything inside of Sam worth salvaging and then he would be worthless to them. It’s Sam’s goodness that makes him so desirable to the demon community. His Clark Kent meets Wolverine drive to do right while trying to hold in his temper and keep his heart camouflaged on his sleeve. Otherwise, they wouldn’t care.

 The trixster’s ominous “He’s going to be the death of you” has me thinking, too. About Kripke’s five year plan. About Dean’s deal. About possibilities and story lines. *knot returns* Oh, and Travis Bickel in a skirt? That trixster is one funny dude. I haven’t seen Taxi Driver in years, but that? Was funny.

 When Huey returned, I felt tears in my eyes. One, because he was back and Dean was back and two because Sam had lived through all of that and still carried the scars that only memories can dig so deep. When he got up and crossed the room and hugged his brother — so exactly like Dean’s utterly relived hug in AHBL2 — I felt a tear slip. Dean’s quiet, “how many Tuesday’s did you have” was perfectly pitched. I think he had to have known from the way Sam held on so tight that this was not a moment for snark. He recognized the same desperate “oh thank GOD” silent cry that he’d had himself not so long ago. And I wonder if he’d been just a little bit afraid at that similarity.

 And is it me, or did Dean’s eyes and lashes just literally JUMP from the screen when he was saying he remembered Sam had been pretty freaked out and they met the trixster? Whew.

 I know these reviews are way too long — everything I write is way too long, apparently — but this is my way of watching it twice in one night. Once for real, and once in my head. Just a few more musings and I’ll let you go. They have faced death so many times — naturally and supernaturally. They have narrowly escaped with bruises and cuts, concussions and broken bones. But I wonder if now, now that he’s literally seen his brother die, how Sam will react — I wouldn’t want to let him out of my sight (for obvious reasons). I wonder if knowing that Sam saw him die hundreds of times will change anything for Dean.

 And I wonder how this repeated affirmation from the demon world that there’s no way to save Dean will affect them. Will it defeat them or trigger them? Will they give in and enjoy the time they have left “killing as many evil sonsabitches as they possibly can” while Dean’s alive? Or will they rage against the dying of the light? Jeeze, I canNOT seem to leave Dylan Thomas alone when it comes to getting out of this deal…

 Sam’s sad “had a weird dream” and Dean’s half-hearted attempt to lighten the weight in his brother’s eyes by the “clowns or midgets” comment was a nice way to get balance back. But Sam still has to carry those months with him. He still has to come to terms with how vital Dean is to him. How if they CAN’T find a way out, he’s lived life without his brother, and it was a life without light. Dean, for all of his faults, for all of his dysfunctions, for all of his crass humor and sluttish ways, for all of his teasing and protecting and sacrifice and care… Dean is Sam’s light, and Sam got a taste of real darkness. And I don’t think he liked the flavor.

 These boys are so good… so, next week? Assault on Precinct 13 anyone? Can’t. Wait.

 Thanks for sticking with me if you’re still here…

Guest Stars

GUEST STARS

Recurring Role:Jim Beaver (Bobby Singer)

Guest Star:
Katherine Horsman (Hasselback’s Daughter)
David Abbott (Hasselback)
Derek Green
Denalda Williams (Doris)
Dean Moen
Lloyd Berry (Mr. Pickett)
Rob deLeeuw (Piano Mover)
Brock Johnson
Richard Speight Jr. (Trickster)
Andrew McIlroy (Mr. Carpiak)
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Episode Stills

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TRAILER/CLIPS

Promo 01

Promo 02

 

 

Music

MUSIC

Heat of the Moment, by Asia

Back in Time, by Huey Lewis and the News

Quotes

QUOTES

Dean: Rise and shine, Sammy!
(Sam, realizing it’s Wednesday, gets up and hugs Dean)
Dean: How many Tuesdays did you have?
Sam: Enough.

Dean: All right, all right. We’ll go tonight after closing, get us a nice long look.
Sam: Wait… what? No!
Dean: Why not?
Sam: Uhhh…. Let’s just go now – right now. Business hours! Nice and crowded.
Dean: My god, you’re a freak.

Dean: I’m not gonna die; not today.
Sam: Twice now I’ve watched you die and I can’t. I won’t do it again, okay? You’re just gonna have to believe me. Please?
Dean: Okay. I still think you’re nuts, but…okay, whatever this is. we’ll figure it out.

Sam: (looking at alarm playing Back in Time) It’s Wednesday!
Dean: Yeah, which usually comes after Tuesday. Turn that thing off, would ya?
Sam: What, are you kidding? This isn’t the most beautiful song you ever heard?
Dean: No! Geez, how many Tuesdays did you have?

(after Dean gets hit by a car)
Dean: And?
Sam: And what?
Dean: Did it look cool, like in the movies?
Sam: You peed yourself.
Dean: Of course I peed myself. Man gets hit by a car, you think he has full control over his bladder? Come on!

Dean: You mean we can’t even go out for breakfast?
Sam: You’ll thank me when it’s Wednesday.
Dean: Whatever that means.

Trickster: Whoever said Dean was the dysfunctional one has never seen you with a sharp object in your hands.

Trickster: Sam, there’s a lesson here that I’ve been trying to drill into that freakish Cro-Magnon skull of yours.

Trickster: Dean’s your weakness. The bad guys know it too. It’s gonna be the death of you, Sam. Sometimes you’ve just gotta let people go.

Dean: Sammy, I get all tingly when you take control like that.

Sam: Yesterday was Tuesday but today is Tuesday too!
Dean: …yeah. You’re totally balanced.

Sam and Dean (In unison): Right you’re a mind reader. Cut it out Sam. Sam. You think you’re funny but you’re being really, really childish. Sam Winchester wears makeup. Sam Winchester cries his way through sex. Sam Winchester keeps a ruler by the bed and every morning when he wakes up… okay, enough!

Sam: I had a weird dream.
Dean: Yeah? Clowns or midgets?

Trivia

TRIVIA

  • When we first see Dean having a shower and we see his hair, it is all flat, and then the second time we see him, it has been pulled into a mohawk.
  • The first time around when Sam and Dean come out of the Diner, a heavyset lady in red and her partner leave from a store next door. She can still be viewed in the background up to the time Dean bumps the blond. This couple does not show up in any of the subsequent loops. Even though the other loops don’t show the couple coming out of the store, they should still be seen in the background.
  • During the second Tuesday discussion, after the blond bumps Dean there is a couple that walks across the screen from right to left, twice.
  • Injoke: The song that plays when Sam wakes up on each new Tuesday was sung by Eric Cartman in the South Park episode “Kenny Dies,” in which Kenny (a character who dies and returns each episode) died for “real” and stayed that way for some time.

 

ALLUSIONS

  • Trickster: Holy Full Metal Jacket
    Referencing the 1987 movie starring Matthew Modine and R. Lee Ermey, and chronicling new Marine recruits during the Vietnam war.
  • Trickster: You’re Travis Bickle in a skirt, pal.
    Referencing the character played by Robert De Niro in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver. De Niro plays a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran who decides to “protect” a teenage prostitute.
  • Dean: Like Groundhog Day?
    Referencing the 1993 movie featuring Bill Murray as a weatherman who finds himself reliving the same day over… and over… and over again.
  • Dean: It all seems a little too X-Files to me.
    Referencing the TV series that premiered in 1993 and ran for nine seasons, and featured David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents investigating the paranormal. A number of crew on Supernatural worked on the series.
  • Dean: Okay, Kojak. Let’s get some air.
    Referencing the TV series of the same name that premiered in 1973, and featured Telly Savalas as a bald Greek police detective who sucked on lollipops and uttered the phrase “Who loves ya, baby?”

Episode Schedule

Thu, Oct 10 15.01 - Back and to the Future - Season Premiere
Thu, Oc 17 15.02 - Raising Hell
Thu, Oct 24 15.03 - The Rupture
Thu, Nov 7 15.04 - Atomic Monsters
Thu, Nov 14 15.05 - Proverbs 17:3
Thu, Nov 21 15.06 - Golden Time
Thu, Dec 05 15.07 - Last Call
Thu, Dec 12 15.08 - Our Father, Who Aren’t In Heaven
Thu, Jan 16 2020 15.09 - The Trap
Thu, Jan 23 2020 15.10 - The Heroes' Journey
Thu, Jan 30 2020 15.11 - The Gamblers
Mon, March 16 2020 15.12 - Galaxy Brain
Mon, March 23 2020 15.13 - Destiny's Child
Thu, Oct 08 2020 15.14 - Last Holiday
Thu, Oct 15 2020 15.15 - Gimme Shelter
Thu, Oct 22 2020 15.16 - Drag Me Away (From You)
Thu, Oct 29 2020 15.17 - Unity
Thu, Nov 05 2020 15.18 - Despair
Thu, Nov 12 2020 15.19 - Inherit the Earth
Thu, Nov 19 2020 15.20 - Carry On - Series Finale

* This Schedule might change as new info come.

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