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Picspam Reaction: Supernatural 7.14
Contains profanity and rambling. And a spoiler for Sherlock Series One and Doctor Who Series Two. o.O
Spoiler and Theory Summary
Spoilers everywhere.
Sam gets attacked by evil clowns, because there's a monster that uses childhood fears to get at people that some kids called up at a birthday party somehow or something like that. Also, the Impala might return. Which would be cool, because the last evil clown they had, they didn't have the Impala either.
What I'm hoping, but what I doubt will happen, is that Sam will go 'Pft!' and laugh because he has scarier crap living in his head every day now. Or it'll unsettle him enough that this fragile "I'M TOTALLY COPING WITH IT, LOOK AT ME COPE, ALL ON MY OWN!" crap will get fractured and we'll start finding out what's really going on with Sam, because it's about time for some development on that front.
What I'm really really hoping though, is that it'll go after Dean too. Because I suspect his childhood fears (being things more along the lines of abandonment and not being needed and not being useful to the family and father issues and all that good stuff) and his current mental state are a teeeny bit connected, and that could fracture his mental crap and get it out in the open too, and get some progress happening for that situation. And could also hypothetically include some cool guest stars or flashbacks.
Or there will be evil clowns, and nothing of greater import will come of it. But I still hope show's got more up its sleeve than that.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.14 - "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie"
I am so earwormed by P!nk's "Funhouse" right now, it's not even funny. I hope someone does a vid to it with clips from this episode and "Everybody Loves a Clown". Someone might have already used it for ELaC, but really, if there's more evil clowns, there needs to be more vid. Right?
Anyway. SO SIDETRACKED BY EARWORMS.
"This used to be a fun house, but now it's full of evil clowns..."
SORRY! MOVING ON.
-Skipping the THEN. Though I bet it's got lots of ELaC in it. 30 seconds. Short THEN. O.o
-Hee! Is Sam getting a 'running from a very non-threatening thing' open like Dean did in Yellow Fever, or is this going to be a fake non-threatening thing that's actually threatening?
-Considering he's still got undealt-with Lucifer-in-the-brain issues, Sam is a seriously altered puppy right now.
-"If it bleeds, you can kill it." Shades of "Predator: The Musical? Weeeeeelll... Leviathans bleed black ooze. Not so much luck in the killing department, except for that one guy in Bobby's basement. So maybe "if it bleeds or has a sensitivity to common household chemicals and can be decapitated you can kill it."
-There are going to be so many animated GIFs of Sam peeking out from behind this car aren't there?
-Hi clown!
-Sam has this face. It's amazing. He does things with it that make my tea explode.
-All the barricades in all the world won't keep out the monsters in your head. If this one's in his head. Not sure how this manifestation is working here yet.
-Okay shootitshootitshootitshootitwhy have you not shot it yeeeeeeet? O.O
-HEEEE! Rainbow sparkle splat!
-The countdown sound of the chyron is reminiscent of the 24 countdown clock sound. Kind of cool, actually.
-RINGING PAYPHONE! OH CRAP IT'S MYCROFT! XD
-"I am the egg-man." *snerk* Like from Sonic the Hedgehog? And I'm guessing that would mean it's Frank then. Darn. Mycroft would scare the crap out of Frank, wouldn't he?
-Sorry, brain's on random.
-Longest title yet? I think it could be.
-*blocking guest stars, but hoping for a familiar name in there somewhere*
-Apparently Fred Savage has been taken over by a Leviathan. ... but WHY??? O.o
-"This whole 'protocol du jour' thing is really creeping my cheese." ...I have no idea what that means. But I'm giggling.
-"You spawn a monster baby see how quick you wanna dive back in the pool." And having her killed in front of him when he wasn't sure if she could be turned from the whole murdery death thing didn't help either, I'm betting.
-Sam's by a SUV-ish thing, Dean's heading for a... no idea. Maverick? No. Whatever. Classic-ish non-Impala. Are they in separate vehicles now? Okay, something has to break soon, because that's just wrong.
-I see someone had a childhood fear of octopi.
-Wichita, Kansas. KANSAS. Perfect place for some confrontation of childhood fears, yeah?
-"Aren't giant octopi kinda rare around here."/"And yet, here we are." I like this coroner guy too. That's two awesome coroner guys in a row.
-"So what are we looking for? Octo-vamp? Vamptopus?" No, Dean, that's season 12 when the CW lets go or goes under and the SyFy channel picks you up. Annnnd TIE REPORT! Stripes going in the same direction on both of them, seems promising, but they are quite complex ties, so things are not as simple and harmonious as they appear on the surface. Sam's tie interestingly has a kind of fabric texture vertical striping overlay to it, so yes, something going on under the surface there. *nods like she's not insane*
-Written by Dabb and Loflin, designated crown princes of backstory, so yay. Directed by Mike Rohl, who's directed a bunch of episodes.
-Ah, and octopus man was having a thing with the nanny. And I'm guessing that's one of the kids that called up the childhood fear monster.
-Ha, ha, ha. House number. 667. The Neighbour of the Beast. Or more accurately, the House across the street from the Beast. Cute. Lucifer's lurking around somewhere still. *nods*
-"I thought you said no hot chicks?"/"We don't know that she's hot." Pfffffft. Dean. *headshake*
-Title is a restaurant name. Nanny is cute. Thing behind Nanny might be unusually funky clock or just weird metal flower art. Opinions?
-"She thinks there's a monster in her closet."/Dean: *INTENSE LOOK OF INTENSITY WITH SWALLOWING AND JAW-CLENCHING* Me: Bwahahahahahahah! Yeah.
-She's drawing an octopus. Having brief flashback to Doctor Who episode "Fear Her" which is always disorienting. Only in this case if she was drawing things to life and letting them loose, it would kind of be in reverse.
-"I tried to warn my Dad, that the monster would get him." Yeah, that never really does much good, does it?
-'RAWR! I'MMA OCTOPUS! ...What's that? I've got nine legs, not eight? What? I- JUST SHUT UP! I'MMA EAT YOOOOOU!' Hee!
-Later that night a man in pyjamas is being chased by a horse. Rather uncappably. Of course.
-Ohhhh, it's a unicorn. Wait... Who's afraid of unicorns? Did this guy do bad things to virgins? It which case he deserved it if said virgins weren't consenting. Hm. I don't know whether to be glad this guy's dead or not. I should just hit play and wait for the exposition.
-Also, who am I to talk? I was scared of Big Bird. :-P
-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! From Houses of the Holy. "You know what, there's a ton of lore on unicorns too. In fact, I hear that they ride on silver moonbeams, and that they shoot rainbows out of their ass!" And so, the lore is dead on. *snerk*
-Ah yes. Still a ways to go to get to this point, but why not check in on Sam getting his ass imperiled by evil fear-monster clowns. Hm. Is it a Boggart, or since this is Kripke's gig and not Rowling's, a Bogeyman?
-Beep noise when he hits the clowns HEE!
-"If it bleeds you can kill it." Aaaand if it sparkles... you can write a series of romance novels about it?
Bella: "Your skin is pasty and white, your smile seems painted on, and your nose is red and bulbous. Edward, you're a..."
Edward: "Say it. Out loud."
Bella: "You're a... clown."
Edward: *HONK*
...somehow I don't think it would have sold nearly as well.
-Hee! Sam getting beat up by clowns. Also, Sam. Your hair is in danger of impeding your line of sight in hand to hand combat. You should get it- what am I saying. You suck at hand-to-hand anyway. *dismissive handwave*
-And we're back in the pre-Now again, with Dean investigating a hole.
-Dean has a new tie. Stripes going in the opposite direction, still not a simple striped tie, so not much real change, but we don't know which way Sam's stripes are going, so jury is out. How many ties do these guys pack around, anyway?
-"So, what, like a lance?" Oooo, excellent guess, Dean! A jousting knight would be a possible answer. Nifty.
-"His father did take him to a friend's birthday party yesterday." Surprise! Yeah, not much. Damn spoilers. Seriously though, what kind of thing did a bunch of eight-year-olds unleash at the Supernatural equivalent of Chuck E. Cheese? Does everyone have a hyperactive closet monster?
-Rock walls, clock radio phones and masks. It's the return of the funky hotel room! \o/
-"You remember a chain called 'Plucky Pennywhistle's'?" Ha. Oh Sam definitely does. Not so much a childhood fear as a "lurking in the back of the mind even after getting your soul trapped at the mercy of Lucifer for a few subjective decades" fear. Maybe Sam's head-Lucifer would have better luck getting to Sam if he put on a rubber nose and a crazy wig.
-Woooooooooow. Now that's a hotel room! \o/
-"This isn't about your clown thing, is it?"/"What?....no." Sam, Sam, Sam. You are such a very bad liar.
-"Sammy?" Awwww.
-"99.99% of all clowns can't hurt you." Hehehehehe. Dean has no idea what show he's in. Silly. *pats him*
-Eeeeek. No. Eeeek.
-Ah, Sam tie change! Stripes going the same direction as Dean's tie change, so they're still on the same wavelength or something. Still complex striping, so no change there. Lighter, not as bold, feeling under-confident, off-balance? Yeah maybe a wee bit.
-Hey, he's been a server-guy or something on the show before, hasn't he?
-Okay, yeah, creepy red-eyed animatronic clowns are creepy, but what is up with the faceless fairy over Sam's shoulder? O.o
-Yeaaaaah. That's not right.
-Oh, well, pft. If you're going to put the writing on the wall, why not? Looks like there's a kid afraid of evil basketballs and one afraid of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. which given the intensity of Disney copyright protection is likely as close to a Monsters Inc. crossover as will ever get to air. I wonder if this episode is why the Monsters Inc. crossover I wrote in 2008 has been experiencing a weird sudden flurry of favoriting over on FF.net. XD
-"Johnson, FBI." Hey, I thought you guys were sticking to 'Smith' now?
-"'Aiding children's development'" Those are some really intense air-quotes there.
-"Plucky magically transforms it into rainbows and candy." Yeeeaaaaaah. Sure.
-"If these fears run wild it effects kids long into their adulthood." Naw. Never happens. Does it, Sam?
-Sketchy Janitor is not inspiring confidence. If he was acting less like he was worried about his meth lab in the basement being discovered, it would help.
-"Come back after closing." Alone. With the sketchy janitor and all the masses of creepy clown paraphernalia you can shake a stick at.
-Extremely random here, but I'm quite impressed that they re-upholstered that chair with the same material as the drapes. I don't know why I am, I just am.
-Well, there you are then. It wasn't farting rainbows, that was the tail. Or whatever. Close enough for lore.
-"Some kid puked in the ball pit." Eeeuuuuuaaaagch. Okay. I can see why this guy might be inclined towards going evil or something, if that's what's going on.
-Oh this looks like fun. Giant ball-sucking machine and a set-up for something like the crusher scene in Star Wars, with something lurking in the depths? Bring it on.
-Or Jaws. Jaws works.
-Little bit late, guys.
-"They think the ball washer did it."/"The what?"/"The ball-washer."/"The what?" Dean, never stop being twelve.
-Sam doubts his brother's detailed knowledge of shark anatomy. I blame the sideburns.
-AAAAH! THERE'S TWO EMFS! AAAAH! *flails*
-AND SUDDENLY A GIANT LASER EYED ROBOT RAVAGED... Seattle? Toronto? Does Wichita have a tower with a thing on top?
-Back to the Now, where Sam is still getting beaten up by clowns. I warned you about that hair, Sam.
-And back to the not so Now but nearly Now, with a Journal being consulted! \o/
-"Maybe a Tulpa?" FIRST SEASON MONSTER REF! Wheeee! \o/
-"Yeah a guy in his thirties hanging out at Plucky's alone, that's normal. That's not pervy at all." Heh. Well, there was a window treatment store right nearby, you could hang out there and wait for the screaming to start?
-Business entirely as usual, but they roped off the ball pit. Nice. Oh, hey, evil octopus on the wall!
-Sammy does 'bad cop' quite well, actually, even when surrounded by clowns.
-Oh dear. Dean's going to go play with the toys, isn't he?
-"Giant Slinky!" Why not indeed?
-"You mainline the Kool-aid, hunh?" Just a little bit.
-"So that's your excuse." Okay, Sam's good at bad cop when it's semi-silent glowering and menacing. The direct bad-copping, not so much.
-"It's not as if I'd ever do anything illegal."/*tablesmack* "Sure you wouldn't." Pfffffft!
-Dean and Sam are texting now. With capitals and punctuation. Cool. Makes sense when one of you is interviewing suspects/witnesses and the other is stalking an employee.
-"'Special' Agent? Wow!" *facepalm* Hee!
-The "Jackass" chorus. Heee, and awww. Dean and kids.
-*giggles all over Dean and the kid bonding*
-"They have laser eyes." Oh dear god, it's the reincarnation of Ronald Resnick. O.o
-I'm just going to keep giggling, I think. It seems to be the most sensible option at this point.
-SAM'S BLOCKED BY CLOWN DANCE! XD
-You know, given how carefully he's watching the stairs, I wonder if someone didn't slip and skid down them on a few takes there.
-*sneeeerk*
-*babbles about meth labs and fingerprints*/"You're not using kid's nightmares to smoke people are you, Cliff?"/"...I don't... think so?" HEEEEEE! And you thought the drugs made the world go wacky.
-I'm wondering if they didn't have Cliff in here just to show us that Sam's hair isn't really that long. Or is this a glimpse of Sam's future hair...
-"You ever shroom in a ball pit? *turns to Sam, gasps* Not that I would, Agents." *facepalm* *headshake* *giggle*
-"Robot, about the size of a house, shoots destructo-beams out of its eyes."/"At least I'll see it coming."
-Oh well, nothing like a nice obvious burning altar. So much for my unstated theory that adorable wee Tyler had some psychic eruption thing going on and it was spilling over into other kids. And I have no idea whose altar this is.
-"Drop it." Aw, and I was hoping he was just genuinely nice. Darn. I didn't suspect him at all, but I was really hung up on the telepathic kid idea, so I stopped looking.
-"As far as I know, none of these things could poop out a unicorn." Ahhh, but that's what using the kids drawings does, accesses the power of kid's imagination or something.
-Or fear. fear works. *nods*
-Ah Dean, going for a second weapon there?
-Or throwing the book at him. Ha Ha Ha. It's surprisingly effective. And not capping well.
-Um. Dean. You might want to tear the actual picture.
-"No drawing, no Iron Giant." See, now that movie was produced by Warner Brothers, much less legal wrangling for permission to reference than a Disney/Pixar film.
-"I've got ways to take care of bullies. Like that FBI guy, he's your friend, right?" And suddenly Dean's attention is a lot more focussed than it is by a gun,
-"Five minutes ago, his business card was torched." His entirely fake business card, but it did belong to him and he did touch it, so there you are. Never give anyone your business card, for they might use it as a spell component.
-And we have reached the Now. Ish.
-HAHAHAHAHA! "RIGHT FRIGGIN' NOW" (or at least a few minutes ago)
-"And when the management spot opened up-" Oh dude. It's a manager job at a fast food chain. Killing over it is not the typical response.
-It's definitely a personal object.
-"Those parents were horrible, they deserved what they got." They might not have been great, but there are far worse parents, dude.
-"You had a little girl watch her dad get ganked by the closet monster, that's putting her first?" Excellent point Dean.
-Also, pause faces are awesome.
-"I would've been." Yep. There had to be a personal side to this. There always is when people start murdering. ...I can't figure out how that second face works. Also, NARWHALS!
-Ah, and a brother that drowned. Family is all over everything on this one. Shock!
-Apparently, clowns brought up from some kid's nightmare have, uh, nards. That's disturbing. O.o
-Aha! If it loses teeth you can kill it, maybe?
-And now Dean has enough spell components to try to turn the spell against the guy. Water. Um. Eeek.
-You missed at that range? That was less than 12 feet. Dude, you suck.
-Oh crap. Maybe it's not the water he's afraid of.
-Like Red Sky at Morning. Spontaneous dry-land drowning. And ghost brothers, sort of.
-AHAHAHA. AND THIS. XD
-Was the purpose of this episode solely to get Sam beat up by clowns and then covered in clown sparkles? I believe I approve of this. If we can't have deep, meaningful grappling with childhood fears and the breaking down of walls, by all means lets have some sparkly clown crack! \o/
-And a reunion shot a bit reminiscent of the one at the end of "The End"
-Yep. When you show up covered in clown sparkles, best you can do it throw your hands in the air and invite all the mockery to get it over with before you hit the road and get trapped in the car with it.
-"I'm sorry for psychologically scarring you." Well there's something no one else in the Universe is likely to say, so take it where you can get it, Sam.
-"Which time?"/"Shut up, seriously." AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH. XD
-"And now what else could a clown possibly ever do to me?" True. Though you may not want to tempt fate there, Sam.
-GIANT RAINBOW SLINKY! AWWW! WHO'S THE BEST BABY BROTHER EVER! \o/
-"A clown-phobia sobriety chip." *facepalm* Dean can be a bit of a dick sometimes. But he means well. I'm pretty sure.
-Kind of glad they didn't get the Impala back this episode, if Sam's going to be riding around in clown-sparkles until they find a shower and a laundromat.
-Sam got to decapitate it, which is also therapeutic, considering he didn't actually beat the clowns, just kept them off until the spell ended.
-GAAAAH WAS THAT WINK REALLY NECESSARY??? O.O
And I have important things to do today, so I'm posting now and will fix any errors later. Play nice! Avoid the ball pit! IT HAS SHARKS.
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Spoiler and Theory Summary
Spoilers everywhere.
Sam gets attacked by evil clowns, because there's a monster that uses childhood fears to get at people that some kids called up at a birthday party somehow or something like that. Also, the Impala might return. Which would be cool, because the last evil clown they had, they didn't have the Impala either.
What I'm hoping, but what I doubt will happen, is that Sam will go 'Pft!' and laugh because he has scarier crap living in his head every day now. Or it'll unsettle him enough that this fragile "I'M TOTALLY COPING WITH IT, LOOK AT ME COPE, ALL ON MY OWN!" crap will get fractured and we'll start finding out what's really going on with Sam, because it's about time for some development on that front.
What I'm really really hoping though, is that it'll go after Dean too. Because I suspect his childhood fears (being things more along the lines of abandonment and not being needed and not being useful to the family and father issues and all that good stuff) and his current mental state are a teeeny bit connected, and that could fracture his mental crap and get it out in the open too, and get some progress happening for that situation. And could also hypothetically include some cool guest stars or flashbacks.
Or there will be evil clowns, and nothing of greater import will come of it. But I still hope show's got more up its sleeve than that.
Picspam Reaction, with speculation and randomness for Supernatural 7.14 - "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie"
I am so earwormed by P!nk's "Funhouse" right now, it's not even funny. I hope someone does a vid to it with clips from this episode and "Everybody Loves a Clown". Someone might have already used it for ELaC, but really, if there's more evil clowns, there needs to be more vid. Right?
Anyway. SO SIDETRACKED BY EARWORMS.
"This used to be a fun house, but now it's full of evil clowns..."
SORRY! MOVING ON.
-Skipping the THEN. Though I bet it's got lots of ELaC in it. 30 seconds. Short THEN. O.o
-Hee! Is Sam getting a 'running from a very non-threatening thing' open like Dean did in Yellow Fever, or is this going to be a fake non-threatening thing that's actually threatening?
-Considering he's still got undealt-with Lucifer-in-the-brain issues, Sam is a seriously altered puppy right now.
-"If it bleeds, you can kill it." Shades of "Predator: The Musical? Weeeeeelll... Leviathans bleed black ooze. Not so much luck in the killing department, except for that one guy in Bobby's basement. So maybe "if it bleeds or has a sensitivity to common household chemicals and can be decapitated you can kill it."
-There are going to be so many animated GIFs of Sam peeking out from behind this car aren't there?
-Hi clown!
-Sam has this face. It's amazing. He does things with it that make my tea explode.
-All the barricades in all the world won't keep out the monsters in your head. If this one's in his head. Not sure how this manifestation is working here yet.
-Okay shootitshootitshootitshootitwhy have you not shot it yeeeeeeet? O.O
-HEEEE! Rainbow sparkle splat!
-The countdown sound of the chyron is reminiscent of the 24 countdown clock sound. Kind of cool, actually.
-RINGING PAYPHONE! OH CRAP IT'S MYCROFT! XD
-"I am the egg-man." *snerk* Like from Sonic the Hedgehog? And I'm guessing that would mean it's Frank then. Darn. Mycroft would scare the crap out of Frank, wouldn't he?
-Sorry, brain's on random.
-Longest title yet? I think it could be.
-*blocking guest stars, but hoping for a familiar name in there somewhere*
-Apparently Fred Savage has been taken over by a Leviathan. ... but WHY??? O.o
-"This whole 'protocol du jour' thing is really creeping my cheese." ...I have no idea what that means. But I'm giggling.
-"You spawn a monster baby see how quick you wanna dive back in the pool." And having her killed in front of him when he wasn't sure if she could be turned from the whole murdery death thing didn't help either, I'm betting.
-Sam's by a SUV-ish thing, Dean's heading for a... no idea. Maverick? No. Whatever. Classic-ish non-Impala. Are they in separate vehicles now? Okay, something has to break soon, because that's just wrong.
-I see someone had a childhood fear of octopi.
-Wichita, Kansas. KANSAS. Perfect place for some confrontation of childhood fears, yeah?
-"Aren't giant octopi kinda rare around here."/"And yet, here we are." I like this coroner guy too. That's two awesome coroner guys in a row.
-"So what are we looking for? Octo-vamp? Vamptopus?" No, Dean, that's season 12 when the CW lets go or goes under and the SyFy channel picks you up. Annnnd TIE REPORT! Stripes going in the same direction on both of them, seems promising, but they are quite complex ties, so things are not as simple and harmonious as they appear on the surface. Sam's tie interestingly has a kind of fabric texture vertical striping overlay to it, so yes, something going on under the surface there. *nods like she's not insane*
-Written by Dabb and Loflin, designated crown princes of backstory, so yay. Directed by Mike Rohl, who's directed a bunch of episodes.
-Ah, and octopus man was having a thing with the nanny. And I'm guessing that's one of the kids that called up the childhood fear monster.
-Ha, ha, ha. House number. 667. The Neighbour of the Beast. Or more accurately, the House across the street from the Beast. Cute. Lucifer's lurking around somewhere still. *nods*
-"I thought you said no hot chicks?"/"We don't know that she's hot." Pfffffft. Dean. *headshake*
-Title is a restaurant name. Nanny is cute. Thing behind Nanny might be unusually funky clock or just weird metal flower art. Opinions?
-"She thinks there's a monster in her closet."/Dean: *INTENSE LOOK OF INTENSITY WITH SWALLOWING AND JAW-CLENCHING* Me: Bwahahahahahahah! Yeah.
-She's drawing an octopus. Having brief flashback to Doctor Who episode "Fear Her" which is always disorienting. Only in this case if she was drawing things to life and letting them loose, it would kind of be in reverse.
-"I tried to warn my Dad, that the monster would get him." Yeah, that never really does much good, does it?
-'RAWR! I'MMA OCTOPUS! ...What's that? I've got nine legs, not eight? What? I- JUST SHUT UP! I'MMA EAT YOOOOOU!' Hee!
-Later that night a man in pyjamas is being chased by a horse. Rather uncappably. Of course.
-Ohhhh, it's a unicorn. Wait... Who's afraid of unicorns? Did this guy do bad things to virgins? It which case he deserved it if said virgins weren't consenting. Hm. I don't know whether to be glad this guy's dead or not. I should just hit play and wait for the exposition.
-Also, who am I to talk? I was scared of Big Bird. :-P
-AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! From Houses of the Holy. "You know what, there's a ton of lore on unicorns too. In fact, I hear that they ride on silver moonbeams, and that they shoot rainbows out of their ass!" And so, the lore is dead on. *snerk*
-Ah yes. Still a ways to go to get to this point, but why not check in on Sam getting his ass imperiled by evil fear-monster clowns. Hm. Is it a Boggart, or since this is Kripke's gig and not Rowling's, a Bogeyman?
-Beep noise when he hits the clowns HEE!
-"If it bleeds you can kill it." Aaaand if it sparkles... you can write a series of romance novels about it?
Bella: "Your skin is pasty and white, your smile seems painted on, and your nose is red and bulbous. Edward, you're a..."
Edward: "Say it. Out loud."
Bella: "You're a... clown."
Edward: *HONK*
...somehow I don't think it would have sold nearly as well.
-Hee! Sam getting beat up by clowns. Also, Sam. Your hair is in danger of impeding your line of sight in hand to hand combat. You should get it- what am I saying. You suck at hand-to-hand anyway. *dismissive handwave*
-And we're back in the pre-Now again, with Dean investigating a hole.
-Dean has a new tie. Stripes going in the opposite direction, still not a simple striped tie, so not much real change, but we don't know which way Sam's stripes are going, so jury is out. How many ties do these guys pack around, anyway?
-"So, what, like a lance?" Oooo, excellent guess, Dean! A jousting knight would be a possible answer. Nifty.
-"His father did take him to a friend's birthday party yesterday." Surprise! Yeah, not much. Damn spoilers. Seriously though, what kind of thing did a bunch of eight-year-olds unleash at the Supernatural equivalent of Chuck E. Cheese? Does everyone have a hyperactive closet monster?
-Rock walls, clock radio phones and masks. It's the return of the funky hotel room! \o/
-"You remember a chain called 'Plucky Pennywhistle's'?" Ha. Oh Sam definitely does. Not so much a childhood fear as a "lurking in the back of the mind even after getting your soul trapped at the mercy of Lucifer for a few subjective decades" fear. Maybe Sam's head-Lucifer would have better luck getting to Sam if he put on a rubber nose and a crazy wig.
-Woooooooooow. Now that's a hotel room! \o/
-"This isn't about your clown thing, is it?"/"What?....no." Sam, Sam, Sam. You are such a very bad liar.
-"Sammy?" Awwww.
-"99.99% of all clowns can't hurt you." Hehehehehe. Dean has no idea what show he's in. Silly. *pats him*
-Eeeeek. No. Eeeek.
-Ah, Sam tie change! Stripes going the same direction as Dean's tie change, so they're still on the same wavelength or something. Still complex striping, so no change there. Lighter, not as bold, feeling under-confident, off-balance? Yeah maybe a wee bit.
-Hey, he's been a server-guy or something on the show before, hasn't he?
-Okay, yeah, creepy red-eyed animatronic clowns are creepy, but what is up with the faceless fairy over Sam's shoulder? O.o
-Yeaaaaah. That's not right.
-Oh, well, pft. If you're going to put the writing on the wall, why not? Looks like there's a kid afraid of evil basketballs and one afraid of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. which given the intensity of Disney copyright protection is likely as close to a Monsters Inc. crossover as will ever get to air. I wonder if this episode is why the Monsters Inc. crossover I wrote in 2008 has been experiencing a weird sudden flurry of favoriting over on FF.net. XD
-"Johnson, FBI." Hey, I thought you guys were sticking to 'Smith' now?
-"'Aiding children's development'" Those are some really intense air-quotes there.
-"Plucky magically transforms it into rainbows and candy." Yeeeaaaaaah. Sure.
-"If these fears run wild it effects kids long into their adulthood." Naw. Never happens. Does it, Sam?
-Sketchy Janitor is not inspiring confidence. If he was acting less like he was worried about his meth lab in the basement being discovered, it would help.
-"Come back after closing." Alone. With the sketchy janitor and all the masses of creepy clown paraphernalia you can shake a stick at.
-Extremely random here, but I'm quite impressed that they re-upholstered that chair with the same material as the drapes. I don't know why I am, I just am.
-Well, there you are then. It wasn't farting rainbows, that was the tail. Or whatever. Close enough for lore.
-"Some kid puked in the ball pit." Eeeuuuuuaaaagch. Okay. I can see why this guy might be inclined towards going evil or something, if that's what's going on.
-Oh this looks like fun. Giant ball-sucking machine and a set-up for something like the crusher scene in Star Wars, with something lurking in the depths? Bring it on.
-Or Jaws. Jaws works.
-Little bit late, guys.
-"They think the ball washer did it."/"The what?"/"The ball-washer."/"The what?" Dean, never stop being twelve.
-Sam doubts his brother's detailed knowledge of shark anatomy. I blame the sideburns.
-AAAAH! THERE'S TWO EMFS! AAAAH! *flails*
-AND SUDDENLY A GIANT LASER EYED ROBOT RAVAGED... Seattle? Toronto? Does Wichita have a tower with a thing on top?
-Back to the Now, where Sam is still getting beaten up by clowns. I warned you about that hair, Sam.
-And back to the not so Now but nearly Now, with a Journal being consulted! \o/
-"Maybe a Tulpa?" FIRST SEASON MONSTER REF! Wheeee! \o/
-"Yeah a guy in his thirties hanging out at Plucky's alone, that's normal. That's not pervy at all." Heh. Well, there was a window treatment store right nearby, you could hang out there and wait for the screaming to start?
-Business entirely as usual, but they roped off the ball pit. Nice. Oh, hey, evil octopus on the wall!
-Sammy does 'bad cop' quite well, actually, even when surrounded by clowns.
-Oh dear. Dean's going to go play with the toys, isn't he?
-"Giant Slinky!" Why not indeed?
-"You mainline the Kool-aid, hunh?" Just a little bit.
-"So that's your excuse." Okay, Sam's good at bad cop when it's semi-silent glowering and menacing. The direct bad-copping, not so much.
-"It's not as if I'd ever do anything illegal."/*tablesmack* "Sure you wouldn't." Pfffffft!
-Dean and Sam are texting now. With capitals and punctuation. Cool. Makes sense when one of you is interviewing suspects/witnesses and the other is stalking an employee.
-"'Special' Agent? Wow!" *facepalm* Hee!
-The "Jackass" chorus. Heee, and awww. Dean and kids.
-*giggles all over Dean and the kid bonding*
-"They have laser eyes." Oh dear god, it's the reincarnation of Ronald Resnick. O.o
-I'm just going to keep giggling, I think. It seems to be the most sensible option at this point.
-SAM'S BLOCKED BY CLOWN DANCE! XD
-You know, given how carefully he's watching the stairs, I wonder if someone didn't slip and skid down them on a few takes there.
-*sneeeerk*
-*babbles about meth labs and fingerprints*/"You're not using kid's nightmares to smoke people are you, Cliff?"/"...I don't... think so?" HEEEEEE! And you thought the drugs made the world go wacky.
-I'm wondering if they didn't have Cliff in here just to show us that Sam's hair isn't really that long. Or is this a glimpse of Sam's future hair...
-"You ever shroom in a ball pit? *turns to Sam, gasps* Not that I would, Agents." *facepalm* *headshake* *giggle*
-"Robot, about the size of a house, shoots destructo-beams out of its eyes."/"At least I'll see it coming."
-Oh well, nothing like a nice obvious burning altar. So much for my unstated theory that adorable wee Tyler had some psychic eruption thing going on and it was spilling over into other kids. And I have no idea whose altar this is.
-"Drop it." Aw, and I was hoping he was just genuinely nice. Darn. I didn't suspect him at all, but I was really hung up on the telepathic kid idea, so I stopped looking.
-"As far as I know, none of these things could poop out a unicorn." Ahhh, but that's what using the kids drawings does, accesses the power of kid's imagination or something.
-Or fear. fear works. *nods*
-Ah Dean, going for a second weapon there?
-Or throwing the book at him. Ha Ha Ha. It's surprisingly effective. And not capping well.
-Um. Dean. You might want to tear the actual picture.
-"No drawing, no Iron Giant." See, now that movie was produced by Warner Brothers, much less legal wrangling for permission to reference than a Disney/Pixar film.
-"I've got ways to take care of bullies. Like that FBI guy, he's your friend, right?" And suddenly Dean's attention is a lot more focussed than it is by a gun,
-"Five minutes ago, his business card was torched." His entirely fake business card, but it did belong to him and he did touch it, so there you are. Never give anyone your business card, for they might use it as a spell component.
-And we have reached the Now. Ish.
-HAHAHAHAHA! "RIGHT FRIGGIN' NOW" (or at least a few minutes ago)
-"And when the management spot opened up-" Oh dude. It's a manager job at a fast food chain. Killing over it is not the typical response.
-It's definitely a personal object.
-"Those parents were horrible, they deserved what they got." They might not have been great, but there are far worse parents, dude.
-"You had a little girl watch her dad get ganked by the closet monster, that's putting her first?" Excellent point Dean.
-Also, pause faces are awesome.
-"I would've been." Yep. There had to be a personal side to this. There always is when people start murdering. ...I can't figure out how that second face works. Also, NARWHALS!
-Ah, and a brother that drowned. Family is all over everything on this one. Shock!
-Apparently, clowns brought up from some kid's nightmare have, uh, nards. That's disturbing. O.o
-Aha! If it loses teeth you can kill it, maybe?
-And now Dean has enough spell components to try to turn the spell against the guy. Water. Um. Eeek.
-You missed at that range? That was less than 12 feet. Dude, you suck.
-Oh crap. Maybe it's not the water he's afraid of.
-Like Red Sky at Morning. Spontaneous dry-land drowning. And ghost brothers, sort of.
-AHAHAHA. AND THIS. XD
-Was the purpose of this episode solely to get Sam beat up by clowns and then covered in clown sparkles? I believe I approve of this. If we can't have deep, meaningful grappling with childhood fears and the breaking down of walls, by all means lets have some sparkly clown crack! \o/
-And a reunion shot a bit reminiscent of the one at the end of "The End"
-Yep. When you show up covered in clown sparkles, best you can do it throw your hands in the air and invite all the mockery to get it over with before you hit the road and get trapped in the car with it.
-"I'm sorry for psychologically scarring you." Well there's something no one else in the Universe is likely to say, so take it where you can get it, Sam.
-"Which time?"/"Shut up, seriously." AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH. XD
-"And now what else could a clown possibly ever do to me?" True. Though you may not want to tempt fate there, Sam.
-GIANT RAINBOW SLINKY! AWWW! WHO'S THE BEST BABY BROTHER EVER! \o/
-"A clown-phobia sobriety chip." *facepalm* Dean can be a bit of a dick sometimes. But he means well. I'm pretty sure.
-Kind of glad they didn't get the Impala back this episode, if Sam's going to be riding around in clown-sparkles until they find a shower and a laundromat.
-Sam got to decapitate it, which is also therapeutic, considering he didn't actually beat the clowns, just kept them off until the spell ended.
-GAAAAH WAS THAT WINK REALLY NECESSARY??? O.O
And I have important things to do today, so I'm posting now and will fix any errors later. Play nice! Avoid the ball pit! IT HAS SHARKS.
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