I typed the tagline for the title card for this one several weeks ago, before I came to a hard decision. Quoting the Animals song from the beginning of the episode, We gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do... it kinda feels on the nose now. Since everyone can probably already guess what I mostly have to say about this one, …

Garth! That's really all we need to know to enjoy this one, right? Good! LINKS! The Superwiki page My tag My rewatch notes from July 2019 A bit of Set Dec Appreciation via the Angry Pig sign Rewatch notes from May 2017 (i.e. garth is Doing His Best and you can too!) Amy Pond vs Benny (more tied into 8.09 than here, but also tangentially relevant) W…

no, really, how does benny know how this portal works? how is he the only being in the universe that seems to know about it, and exactly how it works? how does he know it’s only for humans to pass through? why does cas so easily believe it’s truly only for humans to pass through? i have always believed that it’s because it suits their respective ag…

I forgot to mention the cut scene on the dvd for this one, or maybe I just blanked it out of my mind, but Sam tries to call someone from a phone booth and then hangs up. When she calls back, he hangs up again. After Sam and Dean leave, Kate runs over, calls the last number dialed, and gets Dr. Amelia Richardson, veterinarian, who is very confused a…

why is dean always the target of heartache, heartbreak, heart attacks, and other various and sundry attempts to stab, poke, crush, fold, spindle, mutilate and impale his heart? it is a mystery! but we're gonna wail about it for a bit today... LINKS! The Superwiki page My tag oh look a destiel mirror down the bunny hole… My tag for this one is short…

We all remember the origin of the tagline, “the destiels will never have that now,” right? When Sam hugs Cas in 9.11, folks cheered that Cas hugged Sam before he hugged Dean, as proof that Dean doesn’t like Cas or some nonsense. And then everyone else just laughed at them, because the destiels had already had the destiel reunion hug in this episode…

Welcome to Carver Era! Sam hit a dog, and Dean spent a year in Purgatory. Wait, where's Cas, and why is Dean resurrecting and then hugging a vampire? Now you're all caught up! Kinda... :'D Sometimes I think we need to talk about Kevin so we won't have to talk about any of THAT ^^ yet. But since we're here to talk about all of it, that's what we're …

As we bid farewell to the Gamble Era and usher in Carver era, Kevin goes from having leviathan troubles to demon troubles, Cas chooses to take responsibility for himself and he and Dean are destined for Purgatory, and poor Sam is left standing all alone in the aftermath... at least the leviathans are effectively washed from the earth... Gosh that m…

I just realized how threatening the subheading on that graphic looks... I am not actually out for blood over Dabb's nonsense car things... >.> For those unfamiliar with our longstanding feud with Andrew Dabb over car and driving continuity issues, there’s some pretty glaring examples in this episode. Obviously the Supernatural Universe is not OUR u…

KEVIN! This poor kid... just add him to the list of Terrible Things Chuck Did. We have a Leviathan Tablet and a new prophet to read it, which wakes Cas into a state of abject denial and depression of what he did, brings the angels back into play, and sets Sam and Dean on a big scavenger hunt for parts for a weapon powerful enough to end the leviath…

CHARLIE! That's all I need to say, right? Oh, we also get the plot set in place for the rest of the season, with the awesome heist they pull on Dick's Brick. Dean gets to be both a lil geeky AND a lil queer. And Bobby goes terrifyingly close to vengeful. So much happening, and we're at least now pointing directly toward the season finale, so borax …

It's another one of those episodes I always used to forget existed until it came back around on the loop again. Yeah, we get some weird Bucklemming-flavored ghost lore, but it proves at least interesting in context with Bobby's ghost. Because we also finally get to see Bobby's ghost again, right along with Sam and Dean, with the reminder of the myt…

We officially have a Gross of SpnGeorg! wheee! I sincerely appreciate Garth as a person, and as a friend to Sam and Dean. If anyone could've made them feel even a little bit better about the universe after last week, it was Mr. Fizzles Garth. I also appreciate the expansion of the supernatural universe, especially through the medium of Beer Brands.…

Do I need to introduce this one? Really? We're all here for the return of Cas, and a massive turning point in the structure and narrative of the series. There's just so much good here, even if Cas gets shoved back in a box at the end of the episode. At least he's ~there~ again. So much changes after this point, but first and foremost, Dean reclaims…

Yes, things locked in boxes unwittingly released to wreak havoc and ruin lives. Again. Still kinda shocked at how many times Sam and Dean still attempt to lock things up to solve their problems after all the escaped things they've had to round up and deal with over the years. We also get a lot of innuendo and queercoding for Dean, and Sam's decompe…

Does this make Dean the dog again? Also, a very good reminder that antipossession symbol tattoos are a thing in this universe, and maybe it would've been a good thing for them to have shared with a heck of a lot more people than they did, you know? Also, some very interesting parallels through the MotW, a guy who went to extraordinary measures to b…

I love this episode. After half a season of beating on Dean emotionally, while all of Sam's crazy fit under the Hallucifer umbrella he could control with the button on his hand, Sam finally gets some horror from the outside. From clowns. I mean, Dean has to face some baggage from his childhood, as well, but it's not as dramatic as Sam getting pound…

Oh, bucklemming with their fast-growing monster babies... only they foisted this one off on Dean. To me, this one has always felt like a ham-fisted attempt to balance out the Amy Pond storyline from earlier this season, that just makes it all the more unbalanced. Sam might think the scales are balanced now, but mostly because he's not exactly in to…

Time travel, and Dean gets to meet a personal hero in the flesh, while Sam and Jody have to save his ass from 1944. I love watching them all work at the same problem from opposite directions, and are able to make everything come together in the end. Plus who can resist Dean in that suit? Or resist just how much Dean loves that suit? Plus he's absol…

Sam and Dean each try to cope with Bobby's death and honor him in their own way-- Sam by helping a young girl asking for Bobby's assistance, and Dean by obsessively trying to decode the numbers Bobby died to give them. It's all not particularly healthy, but they all learn something by the end. Sam learns that Vetalas usually hunt in pairs, and Dean…

Welcome to another episode, it's time to feel Sad and Angry... sangry? That's right, Bobby dies. Sam is sad, but struggling hard to maintain his grip on reality, and it hurts him deeply that he can't fully mourn Bobby. I mean, we can't see it here, but just imagine how horrible the Hallucifer in his head could be in this situation. His beloved fath…

Can you guess when I joined GISHWHES for the first time? Aah, nostalgia for Team AngrySandwich! So clearly I enjoy this episode (at least until the last two minutes...) :'D Dean finally gets a little respite from his feelings via the aforementioned sandwich, only for realty to crash back down on him ten times as hard. And he and Sam each have a hea…

And here we finally get an episode that gets right to the heart of Dean's fears. He's just trying so hard to be a Good Brother. To respect Sam's wishes, to let him make his own decisions about his life, and not only does Sam STILL think Dean is being judgmental and controlling when he tries to save Sam from what is very obviously a terrible situati…

I do really enjoy this one, even if a lot of the fandom doesn't. I do enjoy Dean finally getting to feel at least a little relief, justifying his actions and turning at least a little of that back around on Sam. It's a bit of an unconventional case, and I always enjoy those. And the character growth is incredibly on point considering this is the on…

Welcome to the show, Robbie Thompson! Do... do we need more hype than that for this week's episode? If so, we get more Jody Mills! We get Sam, Dean, and Bobby having to confront their gooey leviathan duplicates, we meet Frank, we get a little trip down memory lane to some early s1 cases, Baby goes into her s7 lockdown and we begin the journey of PO…

Bucklemming is back, and for them this one is actually pretty enjoyable, so I'll take it. Plus you can't be mad about Spike and Cordelia as feuding witches. Dean's guilt is still getting the better of them, and Sam is pushing way too hard trying to make Dean talk about his feelings. I'm sure that won't lead to a catastrophic personal situation for …

This episode is here seemingly only to flog us with the fact that Dean Is Not Doing Well. Sam may have bounced back guilt-free and performatively coping with his hallucifering, but when Dean gets a second to breathe he just dives head-first into feeling trauma, guilt, and loss. And that's a super terrible combo platter on a good day. And this is no…

The trick to this one is to see everyone's perspective, or you end up hating someone in short order, and that is not what we're here for... >.> While I like to stick to the watsonian perspective when I talk about the show, and I do in the episode, I want to mention the doylist perspective here for just a second. This one really feels like the assig…

And boy is it ever cruel! The subtitle there refers to the plot climax of this one, but also to season seven as a whole. The entire thing is built on pain being the key to reality, and doesn't that just suck! Like, massively! It sucks for Sam, it sucks for Dean, and it sucks for all of us! But we shall endure. :'D We lose Cas right at the start, an…

Same as the old boss... (won't get fooled again... *screaming*) Welcome to season seven, where they could've done something truly great but instead did this... We could've had a season of Godstiel, trying to save Cas from himself and Leviathan Possession, but no. Though the specific *way* they screwed this up becomes the foundation for the relation…

A season finale that really runs as part one of a two-parter. I had to firmly sort the events of this one out of the events of 7.01, and mostly succeeded, I hope. Poor Sam has to put himself back together after Cas breaks his wall in a desperate last-ditch attempt to go through with his awful plan. Somewhere along the line, this power grab stopped …

Things really start falling apart... Cas's plans are breaking down, Bobby's chasing leads from H.P. Lovecraft, and Dean's chasing the demons who went after Lisa and Ben, and makes terrible choices as a result. It's just Bad Decisions Day all around! LINKS! The Superwiki Page My Tag Filming locations map Sera introduces 6.21 and 6.22 Extended promo …

This week: Studies in new levels of crippling emotional pain! That's right, we've arrived at The Agonies! I really don't believe I have to work hard to introduce this one, so I'll yammer about the caption i put on the graphic this week: big plans for that fish. Yes, Cas is the fish. Way down the line, he's just got so much fish and fishing imagery …

Hello everyone, this is your captain speaking. If you look out the left side of the plane, you can watch Castiel's carefully constructed plans begin to unravel in catastrophic fashion! Because by the end of this episode, he's reaching the point of no return. He's got maybe one more chance to take it all back after the events of this episode, but we…

We get yet another peek at the undercurrent of season 6, the bigger picture of what's really going on with Cas. And again, it's one of those things you can't notice until you know the full trick of the season. But on rewatch, it's so much more heartbreaking when you know what's coming. I also really do think this is where Dean's fascination with co…

For an episode that feels very much like a throwaway MotW romp of silliness on a first watch of the series, this one sure does have some much stronger implications buried in it when you know what's coming three episodes down the road... By the time we learn Crowley loaned 50k souls to smack down Raphael before the events of s6 that we've witnessed …

Yes, the title is Agatha Christie, and the themes are kind of similar in a general sense... a bunch of people all enticed to the same location and everyone ends up dead. Well..., not entirely everyone. Their true "host" for these events is still walking around (Eve) and Sam, Dean, and Bobby all live to fight another day. But everyone else? Eh... no…

I realized after i finished editing this one that I didn’t even talk about the title of this one. It’s a reference to a very specific fourth wall break in cinema history. From my second favorite movie released the year I was born, Blazing Saddles. I’ll link to a post with the video clip from the end of the film below though. For anyone who doesn’t …

Do I have to describe this one? >.> Haunted kidney, Baby is a sex doll, and this is about as far from a win as the Winchesters ever get. Dean's relationship with Lisa is firmly and officially over. Sam Sams, and pretty much everyone else dies, so... wheee? >.> In better news, this is officially the shortest episode of the SPN Georg podcast to date,…

Yes, I had to watch it again, despite Sam's specific struggles in this episode being a source of... let's call it personal emotional distress for me. So I'm gonna talk lightly about it as much as possible. I also am super creeped by the concept of the spider people, so... winning all around for me I guess. >.> In far better news, this episode has o…

No I will never be over the fact this is the only episode we actually hear dragons exist, and they're basically... dudes. I mean, par for the course, but still disappointing just a little bit. Dean gets to experience having wealth, Sam gets told the truth about his soulless year, Cas is the dingdong who breaks the news (and gosh is he looking ragge…

This is in my top three favorite episodes of the entire series! Enough said! Okay, fine, I'll say more. This one asks us several Big Questions and is as vague as Death about the answers. What is a soul even? Who is Sam without his and was existing without his soul *really* living? Or really *Sam*? And what's the larger point of season 6 as a whole?…

There's just a lot going on in this one. So much. We get the return of Meg, in an enemy-of-my-enemy situation, we get Samuel and learn the depths to which he's willing to sink to get what he wants, the horror of his current situation, and we learn that Crowley was never able to get Sam's soul out of the cage making all their work for him bringing i…

I love this one. Even if it ruined Space Oddity for me forever. :'D It's like nine different crimes against Dean Winchester in a glittery glue bomb. Plus it's also the absolute best Soulless!Sam episode. I do thoroughly enjoy every minute of this episode, though, so I'll just let everyone else go about enjoying it, too and stop yammering in the not…

(except these dogs, because they're actually monsters, but purgatory probably needs doggos too so...) I am not gonna sugar coat this one. It's... not good lol. Like it's one of the episodes I'd repeatedly forget existed at all until it came back up on the rewatch. Unfortunately I've rewatched the series so many times now that I'm incapable of forge…

The Campbells are up to some shady shit. The Alpha Vampire gets to break some delightfully terrible news. And oh yeah, Sam popped outta hell wrong! I think I covered pretty much everything I wanted to in this one, so I’m gonna lay out some puzzling conundrums in this space for everyone to ponder instead: The Alpha Vampire could tell Sam had no soul…

aka truth coming out of her well to punch humanity in the nuts... Welcome to the brutal, painful truth. Let’s start this week with a trigger warning for suicide and implied offscreen rape of a minor, because even if this show will gloss over stuff like that, I try to give a heads up about it. Because yikes… Poor Dean has been desperate for the trut…

Dean gets to be a vampire for just long enough to have some awkward homoerotic tension and blow up his relationship with Lisa. We all get clobbered with just how Not Right Sam is behaving, and if seeing it from Dean’s pov isn’t enough, Samuel explains it in complete sentences for us. There’s just nothing subtle about this one, folks... But gosh is …

Welcome to our favorite director, Jensen Ackles! There’s just so much that happens in this episode, and he did a great job with it. Like a lot of season six, it looks like a fairly straightforward MotW case (or series of cases), but rewatching s6 is so much more interesting when you know where everything is headed. The monsters are all acting “weir…

CAS! IS BACK! FINALLY. And also unfortunately just in time to set him up to take the big fall for basically all of s6.... >.> So much of season six makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE on a rewatch, which is one of the reasons I was so excited to get to this point in the podcast. For folks who’ve never rewatched the series, or maybe only rewatched favorite epi…