#scoobynatural in a nutshell

[rystiel]

scoobynatural, season 13 episode 16:

[violetganache42]

And now, a compilation of highlights celebrating our favorite trouble making triplets (so troublesome that they would not stop causing technical difficulties throughout the stream):

Pre-stream

The first highlight before we began the watch party proper

Lottie doing pre-stream entertainment until WriteBackAtYa's laptop was working again… not realizing that it was working again all this time.

"Donald's Nephews"

Dumbella

Dewey wearing an orange shirt

quiltedmushroom: Donald is almost unintelligble Me: "I'll show you unintelligible!"

CANNIBALISM

Me realizing why my "I'll have the duck" comment was considered as "spoilers"

WriteBackAtYa: Why does Studio Ghibli food always look so good?

"Allowance Day"

The return of whitewashed Daffy

"SCROOGE"

GASLIGHTING????

The music when the triplets were pretending to be a radio station

WriteBackAtYa: *suggests Bubba Night* puffywuffy8904: uh oh

WriteBackAtYa: Can't get whiter than 87 Fenton talking amirite!??!

Jeepers

Tokuvivor and I quoting one of the best moments from Scoobynatural (I was HOPING he would reply with "Son of a bitch" and I was not disappointed. XD)

Remembering the triplets broke the economy during Scrooge Night earlier this year

Scrooge making deals with a Banana Republic

Launchpad appearance!

Scrooge attacking a dictator. Why? Because he can.

The entire episode in a nutshell:

Caro pointing how this episode feels like a premise for a Regular Show episode

Uno and "Dead Duck" mentions???

"NOOOOOOOOO"

The expectation of Scrooge saying "Come back here, you little shits." (After what happened, he deserves it. lol)

"The Split Sword of Swanstantine!"

Scrooge failing a spot check and noticing Lena and Violet had tagged along

Speaking of which, Sabrewing sisters appearance!

Scrooge getting suplexed by a woman after mistaking her for Black Heron

Violet: "Should I change out of my pyjamas first or—" Me: "NO TIME! CUE THEME SONG!"

「Meh…」

Just. Dewey it!

All the constant Dewey puns lol

Scrooge and Black Heron getting trapped by societal convention (It was SO awkward for them. lmao)

DO NOT ACCEPT CHECKS FROM THIS MAN

Background buff wolf girl!

Missy: smash rockerduck

Sky pirates cameo!

The Spice Baron saying all cheetahs are cheaters

The Duck-McDuck family revealed to be a global legend thanks to their ongoing adventures

Violet's scream after eating all the spices (I fucking love how her character was fleshed out throughout season 3. lol)

Praising the writers for giving us the three children duos in this episode

Steelbeak appearance!

"And I… I love you?"

(Play dumb!) "What sword?" (Not that dumb!)

THE DUKE OF MAKING A MESS

Lena being a big sister to Huey

Huey unleashing the Duke/McDuck temper on Steelbeak:

puffywuffy8904 pointing out the similarities between Huey and K.O. accepting the Duke and T.K.O. as the respective parts of them

"Your bazaar adventure is over."

"Um… BAIL!"

AFTER HE THAWWWS

"Can't Take a Yolk"

QUACK PACK

Donald suddenly having a six pack

The salesman reminding me of Wes Weasley from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Everyone freaking out about the humans

Us getting secondhand embarrassment from Huey trying to flirt with the blonde twin girls

Donald's OG design appearance

"THOSE ARE CHILDREN, DONALD."

Uncle Doofus (I'm scared. ><)

Praising the fact that Quack Pack gave us one of the best versions of Daisy

Hair color inconsistencies for the twin girls

Remembering Donald was in the Navy

Missy: the fearsome five can split me limb by limb

Palookas

Llewella (Don't deadname Louie like that!)

The Discord lag making this episode an experience™

This episode reminding us of a Darkwing Duck episode

Elvira Coot mention?

LITTLE DONALD! Also…

Me seeing Donald holding and going after a red balloon:

The irony in Dewey trying not to let Donald's egg fall

The episode ending with Donald becoming a giant

All of us needing to process what the fuck happened

Us concluding that this episode singlehandedly caused Discord to break

"The Fight for Castle McDuck!"

Dewey and the viewers learning why Scrooge says "Bless me bagpipes" (thus leading to the implications of a cursed kilt)

"No! Bad nerd!"

WriteBackAtYa commenting how something always ruins Webby's trip to Castle McDuck

MATILDA!

Missy fucking thirsting for Matilda

Huey and Louie walking away grumpily after Dewey hits the former, causing the latter to fall off the chair

The noise Scrooge makes while being put in a headlock

Learning that the art book says Hortense and Quackmore are both alive and living at Elvira's farm (I honestly thought they were dead because of Disney's mandate of the Sensational Six's parents not appearing/having major roles!)

PEPPER!

Phantom Blot Naruto running

This shot of Webby

"If one of these bagpipes kills me, I'm gonna be so mad at you."

Scrooge rubbing Webby's back to comfort her! 💖

"MAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

D O W N W I T H M E

This episode showcasing how it accurately portrays sibling dynamics

Pepper's sneeze

The entire scene of the McDucks struggling to flip the table (My assistance didn't make a difference.)

Us spamming the DedDewd emoji during the BEST scene in the entire episode

"I'MYOURFAVORITE?"

Everyone inserting McScrooge in the family's surnames

Nathan: Does this family do anything other than fight?

Titus, aka Dirty Dingus, biting Fergus

Webby's anxiety about the family splitting up and guilt for causing so many arguments and fights 😢

Scrooge, Webby, and Matilda all sharing a hug!

EMUTILDA

Puffy and Missy fighting more than Clan McDuck

SCENES ANIMATED BY KHION YOHANN

"Music Day"

Mortimer jumpscare

Horace mention!

Clara Cluck and Clarabelle Cow appearances!

Pete jumpscare

Imagining a House of Mouse reboot with the DT17 triplets as a boy band (Jet, Turbo, and Rebel are their band names)

puffywuffy8904: I don't know what's hapoening anymore and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

The return of Squirrels in my Pants

Quack Pack jumpscare

LAUNCHPAD MENTION

LUDWIG VON DRAKE APPEARANCE!

Kid HDL being voiced by Tony Anselmo instead of Russi Taylor for some reason

Story Blossom: Louie eats hot dogs in it Me: DT17 Louie is gagging

"DONALD NO"

Us saying DT17 Donald would beat the shit out of the short's version of him

Godfrey: "You're alive?" Me: "You're alive! *faints*" Godfrey: "You forgot to tell Donald?" Me: "Whoops. 😅"

EllaKai: tbf Donald had it coming Godfrey: *singing "Cell Block Tango"*

"Day of the Only Child!"

Us looking forward to this episode!

Dewppleganger

Dewey picking up Webby and spinning her around (Don't you fucking tag this as ship, you sickos.)

"And this is why we need Only Child Day." *smack!*

Another Launchpad appearance!

Jamie and Tokuvivor fanfic shoutouts!

Huey bonding with Bouncer and Burger

Missy: cumin CUMin

(Not during Huey time!)

Learning that the art book also says there were plans for a Bouncer redemption arc and him becoming Scrooge's personal chef, but it unfortunately got scrapped (I remember @real-life-pine-tree and I talking about that idea a few years ago, long before the art book was a thing!)

Doofus' debut in general (I don't blame Louie for spamming the elevator button. ><)

Duckworth mention

"We're dead inside."

Guhmeemama…

"RUN LOUIE RUNNNN"

"What is he gonna do with the umbrella and walnuts?!"

Dewey Dew-Night!

Monseuir Saucy

The severe Discord lag making the stream a funnier experience

Dewey's Louie voice sounding like Miss Piggy

Me: "Webby, you can come out." Everyone: Webby having lesbian thoughts about Lena (I love it! XD)

"'She knows.' Shut up, Louie."

"Brothers again? Brothers again. Triple threat!"

WHATEVER MAKES YOU NOT HURT ME

Dewey looking back at Webby as she was singing the Dewey Dew-Night theme

[dimples-of-discontent]

So here’s some negative space...

I just want to draw everyone’s attention to the fact that this is the only season of Supernatural* in which:

Cas did not say “Hello, Dean”

Dean did not have a single one night stand

I’m not saying those things are connected, but those things are connected. They are a couple more significant pieces of negative space. Those are both basically character trademarks, so much so that Misha said in an interview at the outset of this season (one of the EW BTS videos) that “Hello, Dean” was the phrase he had said the most in all his time on the show. It also kind of stood in for their relationship: Cas the guardian angel who didn’t understand human social relationships but repeated this phrase that he had learned (in a kind of alien way with that otherworldly rumble) to signify that he was there for Dean. 

That line was Destiel in a nutshell to a lot of fans, almost as much as “I’ll just wait here then” (which is actually my pick for the line that best represents where we are now with their story...and I know I’m not alone because @elizabethrobertajones has been brilliant about it already). That’s why a lot of people were upset when Cas made that call in 13x05 but we didn’t hear what he said. I wrote this about it at the time:

But, guys, that “Hello, Dean” was left out intentionally. I mean, we have all the negative Cas-shaped space from last week to underscore for us that so much about their relationship is in things that are unsaid. IF we’d gotten our expected “Hello, Dean” (and I wanted it too–I actually yelled at the screen for it) it would have been just that: expected, familiar, the same. Totally *not* appropriate to a scene that was shot as a lovers’ reunion while the music tells us that “it’s never too late to start all over again.” It’s a NEW START for Dean and Cas and it’s distinctly *not* going to begin with this one, most familiar old pattern. We don’t know what Cas said when Dean picked up the phone or what Dean said to him or to Sam about it. And we can’t guess. Because things are CHANGING and it’s BEAUTIFUL! 

And then the one time that we did hear “Hello, Dean”, coming from Casmodeus, it came out all wrong thanks to Misha’s decision to put the emphasis in the wrong place. The only time we heard it it was totally out of place...because that���s not their relationship any longer, even if it isn’t totally clear yet what it’s been replaced by.

(I also want to shout out @sactownbrowns3 for saying that maybe “the reason we didn’t hear the “Hello Dean” is because they’re saving a heart wrenching sentiment for the inevitable, “Goodbye Dean…” at the end of this season. Well, we didn’t hear it, but that was ABSOLUTELY the sentiment conveyed by that last scene. And I think we may still hear it in the season opener.)

As for Dean’s lack of hookups....that’s unprecedented. I might be wrong, but I am pretty sure every other season has contained at least one episode that confirmed that Dean had gotten busy with someone. This season? Well...he probably cried with some strippers at a lesbian club (the Clam Diver) in 13x05 for some My Coping Behaviors Don’t Work Any More exposition. And he flirted outrageously in “Scoobynatural” with a representation of his childhood ideal of a woman (who also happened to be literally two dimensional) in ways we have analyzed at length. And he did get interrupted flirting in the diner in 13x15, but not before we got to see that the woman was reading an erotic interspecies romance novel. And then there was whatever the heck was up with the Ketch sexual tension (oh hey, toxic masculinity symbol that mirrors both part of me AND my dad, you are pretty attractive but you just aren’t my type). And that was....kind of it. Unless you want to add in the porn star fantasy that had our favorite Cas doppelganger doing the Cockles face-stroke in it. Or nearly being assaulted by a tentacle monster.

It seems small, maybe, but it matters because it’s such a clear departure from previous seasons and from a trait that was established early on about Dean’s character. My read is that he finds comfort through the moments of intimacy that come with sex (since he’s a physical/tactile person and since he’s not able to have a traditional relationship) though I know people have varying opinions on this topic. And maybe this was just a season where Dean didn’t get to have any comfort at all. But the lack of hookups appears so clearly as an absence where previous seasons made such an effort to include it. (And by the way, kudos to Gabriel and Rowen  for making it past this cockblock of a season!! They were the only ones who did!) 

Like “Hello, Dean”, casually hooking up doesn’t fit any more. It would come out sounding wrong and hollow. It’s not clear yet what it will be replaced with, as Dean and Cas awkwardly try to redefine their relationship in a way that is unbearably slow and at times maddening. But just like how the ongoing phallic symbolism of this season was not for nothing (even when it was a running joke) these conspicuous absences are meaningful too. I hope that next season will show the characters figuring out what to put in their place.

Obviously thoughts welcome! @naruhearts @tinkdw @sactownbrowns3 @thetwistedwillow @amwritingmeta and anyone else

*Obviously when I say “the only season of Supernatural” the Cas part only applies after S4; the Dean one applies to all seasons.

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The Scoobynatural episode in a nutshell