supernatural s6e9 clap your hands if you believe (w. ben edlund)
oh no. a cheeky and obvious knockoff of xfiles, my expectations are subterranean. even the titles. oh lord. (the fake xfiles music is awful. and the knockoff version of the titles. ack. watching this show does make me appreciate mark snow, the xf composer, even more)
(i watched xfiles while it was airing back in the 90s and it was my favorite show, very formative. i have many squishy feelings about the xfiles and my otp. and! my first impression of sam and dean, season 1, without really knowing much about the show, was s4-5ish mulder and scully)
okay, probably mostly everyone would say star trek voyager for robert picardo, but he was also in china beach! which came up back in s2e19 folsom prison blues with jeff kober.
china beach (1988-1991) rober picardo as dr dick richard
picardo was also in the wonder years AND he was the johnnycab voice (and the "robot" was modeled after him too) in total recall. resident actor of my childhood.
total recall (1990) robert picardo (voice and likeness) as johnnycab
(really pretty natural lighting, and pleasantly populated feeling street)
DEAN
Hey, you wanna be a real boy, Pinnochio, you gotta act the part.
SAM
I was faking it Dean! Ever since we got back on the road together, I was picking every freaking word. It’s exhausting.
DEAN
Okay. All Right. But until we get you back on the soul train, I’ll be your conscience, okay?
SAM
So you’re saying you’ll be my… Jiminy Cricket.
DEAN
Shut up. But yeah, you freaking puppet. That’s exactly what I’m saying.
again, the soulless banter and bickering we were missing! thank you
another nice little detail. sam is itching to push this guy and dean has to nudge him out and they made him like. audibly grumble a little, it's very loud and clear for such a likely quiet sound. but it was a cute touch. him being visibly different is fun
SAM
Close encounter! What kind? First? Second?
DEAN
They’re after me!
SAM
Third kind already? You better run, man. I think the fourth kind is a butt thing.
DEAN
Empathy, Sam! Empathy!
again, cute
good grumpy dean content
DEAN
Our reality’s collapsing around us, and you’re trying to pick up our waitress?
SAM
Yeah. Okay. Look. Brings up a question. So, say you got a soul and you’re on a case, and your brother gets abducted by aliens—
DEAN
Yeah, then you do everything you can to get him back.
SAM
Right! You do, but, what about when there are no more leads for the night? Are you supposed to just sit there in the dark and suffer, even when there’s nothing that can be done at that moment?
DEAN
YES!
SAM
What?
DEAN
Yes, you sit in the dark and feel the loss.
SAM
Absolutely! But couldn’t I just do all that and have sex with the hippie chick?
DEAN
No!
SAM
It’d be in the dark.
makes a good case!
breaking news, we're back to the black desktop background
MARION
Mmm. There is much theory and little fact. We know they only take firstborn sons, just like Rumplestiltskin did. Personally, I think they’re taken to Avalon to service Oberon, the King of the Faery.
SAM
Dean? Did you service Oberon, King of the Fairies?
all right they'd been hitting with the humor for me so it's only fair they take a bit way too far with this whole tackling the rando guy and having dean call him a fairy repeatedly, obviously so people can think he's doing a hate crime. oh, great. and you know it's going to be some ableist joke because it's a little person too.
also the effects for the watchmaking elves is... not great lol
nice end of episode scenic chat,
SAM
Dude, I do still have all my brain cells. If anything, my brain works better now.
DEAN
Just making sure that’s where your head’s at. That you’re not having second thoughts about getting your soul back.
of course not!!!
considering it started out so painfully, it was overall a fun episode! kind of cracky but still dealing with the main plot. and not pushing the awkward humor buttons nearly as much as they did in the earlier seasons
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