Season 5, Episode 13: The Song Remains the Same

"Your father was supposed to protect you."  "He was trying.  He died trying.  Believe me.  I used to be mad at him.  I mean, I used to - I used to hate the guy.  But now, I - I get it.  He was just doing the best he could.  And he was trying to keep it together in this impossible situation.  See . . . my mom, um . . . she was amazing, beautiful, and she was the love of his life.  And she got killed.  And . . . I think he would have gone crazy if he didn't do something.  Truth is, um, my dad died before I got to tell him that I understand why he did what he did.  And I forgive him for what it did to us.  I do.  And I just - I love him."

Then:

"Castiel should be in every episode.  That's all I'm saying. #Supernatural #Season5"
"'He's tough for a little nerdy dude with wings.'  #Supernatural #Season5"
"I like how John Winchester looks the same in 1982 and 2005, but is a different, much younger person in 1978 #Supernatural #Season5"
"'Awesome.  Six degrees of Heaven Bacon.' HA! #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 6, 2013

Now:

• Anna showing up in Dean’s dream.  “This is awkward.”
• Oh Anna.  “Sam Winchester has to die.”  She’s like Gordon 2.0.
• Season 5 really had a good overarching theme.  Every episode advanced the plot?
• I love the conversation about who Glenn Close is.   “Does Anna have a point?”  “No.  She’s . . . Glenn Close.”
•  “I don’t understand that reference.”  I’d forgotten Cas's delivery of that line, even though I love that line.
• Poor coughing up blood Cas L
• “He’s tough for a little nerdy dude with wings.”
•  Still crazy to me that John and Mary were this young in an episode that took place only four years before the pilot . . .
• Sam not letting go of John’s hand in the handshake
• And Sam’s look of fascination with his parents
• And John wanting the boys to stay 
• Anyone else find it weird that John would leave a note instead of telling them he was running out when they were in the NEXT ROOM OVER
• Seriously, Mary’s so awesome, would love to see an SPN spinoff about young Mary.  But wouldn’t it be kind of boring if it was about young Mary and young John?  Since John didn’t even know that Mary was a hunter?  They couldn't do Mary/John together, they'd have to either do young Mary, or young John post-Mary's death.  And at that point, wouldn't he have to be played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan?  haha
• I love John showing his willingness to do what needed to be done to help, and Dean being the one to help him.  “All of a sudden, you really remind me of my dad.”
• Sam's conversation with John - heartbreaking
• Calling on Uriel . . . Anna's nothing if not smart
• Dean telling Mary he’s her son . . . this scene is making me cry.
• “There’s a big difference between dying and never being born and we’re okay with that, trust me.”
• Sam dying.  Again.
• Michael possessing John
• What a way for Anna to go
• When Michael tells them that there's a bloodline stretching back to Cain and Abel . . . was that intended then that Dean would eventually take the Mark of Cain?  Was that part of his destiny too??
• If Michael put Dean and Sam back in the present, he couldn't send Cas back with them?
• "This is it.  Team Free Will.  One ex blood junkie, one drop out with six bucks to his name, and Mr. Comatose over there."
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 5, Episode 12: Swap Meat

"All that apple-pie, family crap?  It's stressful.  Trust me - we didn't miss a damn thing."

• JarPad playing a high school kid in Sam's body is hilarious to me.  Wish we saw more of that, even though I kind of liked how this episode showed Sam and Gary from their own points of view, instead of everybody else's
• A banana daiquiri sounds amazing
• "Thank you for asking, Crystal, this is like the best night ever."
• The ghost carved something into Katie's stomach - that is terrifying.  Meanest ghost ever.
• I love Sam shaking his salad
• The way Gary stared at Sam was kind of creepy.
• I do think it's kind of funny that Sam thought Dean called the police when he didn't come home
• "I think I'm in the wrong body . . . I think I've got asthma.  Call me back."
• Sam was so judgmental with the Star Wars tees!  "Virgin."  "Frustrated virgin."
• Totally didn't realize the first time around that Nora was April Kepner.  I knew she looked familiar, but she was playing a friggin high school kid and she's actually older than Jared Padalecki, so can you really blame me?

to be fair, she looks like a baby

• "That was a nice thing to say."  "I totally lied.  Kid's life sucked ass."
• The look on Dean's face when Sam told him to turn the music down . . . haha.  Fun little episode.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 5, Episode 11: Sam, Interrupted

"It's the end of the world, okay?  I mean, it's a damn Biblical apocalypse, and if I don't stop it and save everyone, then no one will, and we all die."  . . . "Apocalypse or no apocalypse . . . monsters or no monsters, that's a crushing weight to have on your shoulders.  To feel like six billion lives depend on you . . . God . . . how do you get up in the morning?"  "That's a good question." 

Then:

"Holy crap, the next time I get caught doing something I shouldn't, I'm totally pulling my pants down and shouting 'PUDDING!' #Supernatural"
- Twitter, September 6, 2013

Now:

• How terrifying would it be to have a monster in your walls and to know it was coming and have nobody believe you because you’re schizophrenic?
• Name: “Edward Van Halen” – Dr. Babar raises flags but Edward Van Halen does not?
• “I don’t know, I don’t have any elephant books.”
• I love that they just tell the truth to get admitted to the hospital.  So good.  "I'm fine.  I mean, okay, a little depressed, I guess."  "Okay. Any idea why?"  "Probably because I started the apocalypse."
• The nurse said “okidoki”, does that mean Dean likes her?
• Sam and Dean are dangerously co-dependent
• “You know what else isn’t good for group?  A monster eating all our faces off.”
• Wouldn’t mind being in a psych ward so I’d have an excuse to kiss Sam and Dean and have nobody think anything of it except that I’m crazy.  But wouldn’t want to be killed by the monster in there so I suppose you win some, you lose some
• How would pscyh patients even have access to the morgue???  Like seriously, they'd keep the morgue on site?
• THIS.

"Crazy works."

• "Is there a quota?  How many people do you have to save?"  "All of them."
• I love Sam with lots of meds
• Another reference to the GED and give 'em hell attitude!
• "Do you really think this is going to end well for you kiddo?"  "No, but I'm crazy, so what the hell."
• So . . . the boys killed a nurse (albeit, a wraith, but still) and then ran from the mental institution, leaving the dead nurse there.  And leaving Martin there.  Now I know we see Martin again, so screw him, and I know that the authorities were never going to be able to track down Eddie Van Halen, but still.  Seems a little brazen.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 2

Season 5, Episode 10: Abandon All Hope . . .

"I was a son.  A brother, like you, a younger brother, and I had an older brother who I loved.  Idolized, in fact.  And one day I went to him and I begged him to stand with me, and Michael - Michael turned on me.  Called me a freak.  A monster.  And then he beat me down.  All because I was different.  Because I had a mind of my own.  Tell me something, Sam.  Any of this sound familiar?

Then:

"I forgot you two, at best, are functioning morons."  "YOU'RE functioning morons!"  Haha . . . that's a me response.  #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 5, 2013

Now:

• As far as mid-season finales go, this one must have been a big one.  Not as shocking as Season 9, and not as gut-wrenching as Season 7, the worst one, but this one was rough, and it must have been rough for those watching it when it first aired and having to wait a month for the second half of the season.
• CROWLEY.  From his very first scene I loved him.  Didn't think after that first episode that we'd see him more than just that episode, but so glad that five seasons later he's a regular.
• I love Cas spying on Crowley.  "It's going down."  (I'm yelling timber!)
• I think I love this episode because EVERYONE is in it.  Dean, Sam, Cas, Crowley, Bobby, Jo, Ellen, Meg . . . it's pretty much the full magilla of the cast to that point
• Alona Tal looks seriously skeletal in that opening scene
• Love that Crowley's opening line to the Winchesters is "So.  The Hardy Boys finally found me.  Took you long enough."
• I still love Dean and Crowley's exchange: "I forgot you two at best are functioning moron--"  "You're functioning morons!"
• Crowley's so awesome.  Seriously, could I possibly love him more?  "How about you don't miss, okay?!  Morons!"

loved him from the start

• I love Cas drinking with Ellen.  "I think I'm starting to feel something."
• Good on Jo.  "I'm going to spend it with a little I call self-respect."
• The poor family picture.

they all look so miserable.  Thanks for that "This is our last night on earth", Cas.

• Was Tessa the only female reaper?  At least until April, all the others seemed to be men.
• "I'm told you came here in an automobile.  What was that like?"  "Slow.  Confining"  Aww, Cas.  If only you knew that you'd be driving your own pimpmobile around in a couple years.
• "Almost all of heaven wants to see me dead, and if they succeed, guess what?  You're their new public enemy number one."  Well Lucifer was right about that.  It took some time but it happened.
• Jo's organs hanging out - pretty horrible
• And Ellen!  So calm!
• When Bobby says "angel of death, big daddy reaper" . . . at least it's some sort of acknowledgment that a reaper is an angel? (Still trying to explain April...)
• How did they know how to build a bomb so quickly and easily?
• The first time I watched this, I thought it was really sweet that Dean just kissed Jo's head before they left - I wish that they'd left it with that, as a big brotherly thing, instead of the kiss on the lips too.
• Poor Ellen and Jo =(
• I love Lucifer's "Owwwwwww" after he was shot with the Colt
• So if there's only five things in all of creation that the Colt can't kill . . . what are the other four?
• I think this is the first episode where Meg calls Cas "Clarence."
• Never really understood why Bobby burned the picture - was it his way of giving Ellen and Jo a hunters funeral?
• "Son of a bitch" count - 1

Season 5, Episode 9: The Real Ghostbusters

"I am not a fan, ok.  Not fans.  In fact, I think that the Dean and Sam story sucks.  It is not fun.  It is not entertaining.  It is a river of crap that would send most people howling to the nut house.  So you listen to me.  Their pain is not for your amusement."

• I forgot about the frantic music at the beginning of the episode as the boys are rushing to get to the hotel
• The row of Impalas is pretty hilarious
• "I just borrowed it from your pants."  Becky is so crazy.  And yet so awesome.
• I watched Home Alone this past winter . . . once you know it's Buzz in this episode, it's totally obvious

totally the same guy

• It's funny that Becky is wearing plaid . . . totally in character
• Also I love that most of the fans of the book who are at the Convention are men . . . I have not yet been to a Supernatural Convention, but I think it's safe to say most of the people at them are going to be women...
• "Who gave you the rights to our life story?"  "An archangel!"
• Wouldn't Chuck have had a vision that this place was actually haunted?
• "You're the chuckles, Chuckles."
• I really like the name Leticia Gore
• “How original.  Supernatural bringing us more creepy children.  Sigh.”  Have a point there, Hookman.
•  “LARPing as cowboys and Indians.”  Love Dean’s delivery of that line.
• “Just give her the puppy dog thing, okay?”  I never caught that line until this time around, but too funny.
• I really love that Damian and Barnes wanted to help
• "Supernatural makes digging graves seem so easy.  It's not though."
• Chuck is pretty hot when he yells "I said nobody leaves, damn it!"
• "Maybe we should put these things on a bungee."  Seriously!  It's a good idea!
• "You're wrong, you know. . . about Supernatural.  No offense but I'm not sure you get what the story's about. . . . To be Sam and Dean, to wake up every morning and save the world.  To have a brother who would die for you.  Well who wouldn't want that?"
• "Like a monkey on the sun, it was too hot to live."  That line is so great.
• FIRST CROWLEY MENTION!  Wish he'd actually been mentioned in Time is On My Side, but I guess he couldn't have been
• Love that Beaches gets another mention in this episode.  Two references in the series - so obscure but awesome.

Season 5, Episode 8: Changing Channels

"Why do you think you two are the vessels?  Think about it.  Michael, the big brother, loyal to an absent father, and Lucifer, the little brother, rebellious of Daddy's plan.  You were born to this, boys.  It's your destiny!  It was always you!  As it is in heaven, so it must be on earth.  One brother has to kill the other."

Okay, seriously, I can't even with this episode.  I can't.  The sitcom theme song is one of my favorite things ever.  The Grey's Anatomy parody is one of my favorite things ever.  Everything about this episode is one of my favorite things ever.

Then:

"Yay!!!  I love Trickster episodes!!!!! #supernatural #season5 #livestudioaudience"
"Ahhhh I love the #Supernatural sitcom theme song!  With the Full House font!  Hahaha #Season5"
"Sam and Dean are on Grey's Anatomy!!!! #supernatural #season5 #tricksterepisodesarethebest #nomaryis"
"I love them mocking Denny Douquette #supernatural #season5"
"'Oh my god it's him.  It's Dr. Sexy.' #Supernatural #season5"
"Misha Collins was in the Full House credits, he'd better be in this episode! #Supernatural #Season5"
"Yay!!! There he is!  But Mr. Trickster does not like pretty boy angels :( #Supernatural #Sseason5"
"Sam has genital herpes.  #Supernatural #Season5"
"Castiel is back!  And he's all beat up and has duct tape on his mouth! #Supernatural #Season5"
"Ok, #season5 is definitely my favorite season of #Supernatural so far."
- Twitter, September 5, 2013

Now:

• I love the bright colors of the sitcom scene - how the motel is the same set used in the "real world" scenes but it looks totally different because of the colors
• I also love Dean's fridge full of condiments
• Amazing.  This is one of my favorite Supernatural things ever.

• I love that Dr. Sexy M.D. becomes an actual thing in this episode - when it was just a passing reference in The Monster at the End of this Book
• "Would there be any reason that Lou Ferrigno, the Incredible Hulk, would have a grudge against your husband?"  I love how seriously that line is said.
• So we find out in this episode that the "Trickster" isn't actually a trickster at all, but really Gabriel.  But until that point, every time we saw a "trickster" it was the same one - were there ever any other tricksters?
• Dean didn't know about MySpace, but at least he knew Facebook
• Why would the boys just assume that there had been a murder?  Was that the police code on the scanner?
• "The Trickster trapped us in TV Land."  "That's your theory.  That's stupid."  Dean was so quick to shoot it down, and yet that's exactly what happened!
• "This show has ghosts?  Why?"  "I don't know.  It is compelling."  I will never not laugh at them making fun of Denny Douquette being a ghost, especially since Jeffrey Dean Morgan was in both shows.
• Dean geeking out at Dr. Sexy is so funny to me.
• "I swore part of what makes Dr. Sexy sexy is the fact that he wears cowboy boots.  Not tennis shoes."  "Yeah.  You're not a fan."  "It's a guilty pleasure."
• I love the music in the Dr. Sexy scenes.
• Sam's face after the surgery, when Ellen Piccolo mouths "I love you" - so funny.
• How did Cas even manage to get into TV Land?  I never quite understood that.  Since obviously Gabriel didn't want him there.
• The genital herpes commercial is so good.

at least all your girlfriends die before they can catch it, Sam!

• I love the dialogue in the CSI scene.  
• Plus any excuse to hear Dean make fun of people wearing sunglasses at night douchebags (just like people who wear them inside in Dog Dean Afternoon)
• I love that Sam was able to feel Dean going through the trunk of the car
• "Should I honk?"
• "Where'd you get the holy oil?"  "Well, you might say we pulled it out of Sam's ass.
• "Son of a bitch" count - 6 

Season 5, Episode 7: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester

"You don't stop being a soldier 'cause you got wounded in battle.  Okay?  No matter what shape you're in, bottom line is, you're family.  I don't know if you've noticed, but me and Sam, we don't have much left.  I can't do this without you.  I can't.  So don't you dare think about checking out.  I don't want to hear that again."

Then:

"Ok, Dean as an old guy is awesome, but I don't get to look at Jensen Ackles for the rest of the episode?  Boooo. #Supernatural #Season5"
- Twitter, September 5, 2014

Now:

• I like the doctor not believing the boys were CDC because they showed up early.  "New administration.  A change you can believe in."
• At least the first old guy looked like the first young guy . . . the one thing I really hate about this episode is that Old Dean looked NOTHING like Jensen Ackles

come on . . . NOT EVEN CLOSE

• "You look GREAT, Cliff.  Did you get work done?"  I love Dean's wink at the girls.
• "I see you've met John McCain over here . . ."
• "It's like Grumpy Old Men."  "Shut up, Sam."
• Old Dean with acid reflux - kinda funny.
• "Sammy, when you get to be our age . . . "  "You're THIRTY, Dean."
• "For a witch, you're so nice it's actually kind of creepy."
• I love Dean's little dance and heel click.