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Supernatural 7x14 "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie"

Screencap courtesy of Home of the Nutty.  They're the best for Supernatural screencaps - check them out!

Opening Thoughts: Holy shit, evil clowns.  Also, unicorns.  My roommate and someone else are playing guitar, so I might miss some dialogue (which I am NOT happy about)

Open on Sammy running form something.  Oh dear lord, it's a clown.  A rather homicidal looking clown.  The scary clown chases Sam into a warehouse.  And he brought friends.  Oooh, they're getting creative with the title card!

A while back, Dean answers a call at a payphone.  I have no idea what he's saying thanks to the fucking guitar playing.  This is a serious problem.  Did Dean just say "creeping my cheese"?  Looks like the boys are in Kansas.  Dean, who's still shaken up from the whole Emma thing, insists on "no bars, no booze, no hot chicks".

The boys check out a guy in the morgue with mystery sucker-wound-things and a neck bite.  "Those are not the fun kind of hickeys," Dean comments, much to my amusement.

They talk to the widow, and I miss all the dialogue because of all the fucking guitar.  Oh thank God, they're going in the other room.  But I still have no idea what just happened, something about someone named Stacey.  Upstairs, a creepy child watches.  The boys split up to interview the nanny and someone else (missed that also).

Dean talks to the nanny, Stacey.  She tells him the daughter, Kelly, was upset.  They went to Plucky's for the girl's birthday, which is clearly a Chuck-E-Cheese rip-off.  Apparently Kelly's parents blew off the party.  Dean asks if Stacey noticed anything weird.  She says Kelly doesn't like closets; she thinks there's a monster in hers.  Dean calls Sam and asks him to talk to the girl.

Sam approaches Kelly, and she says she knows who she is: the guy who talked to her mom.  Mom calls Kelly inside, but she manages to tell Sam that she tried to warn her father about the monster.  Mom angrily calls Kelly back inside.  Sam sees what Kelly drew with sidewalk chalk: an octopus.

Cut to a guy being chased by a white horse.  He climbs over a wall, seeming to escape it.  Only then he gets impaled on a horn.  Wait, that's no horse, that's a unicorn!  And it's farting rainbows!

Sidenote: Honda's Ferris Bueller rip-off commercial is shameful.

Back to the present: Sam in the warehouse with the killer clowns.  He shoots one, but it just sprays glitter.  The clowns start beating on Sam, and I feel very bad for him.  I too hate clowns.

36 hours earlier, the boys investigate the unicorn mauling.  Turns out this victim had a young kid too.  Dean asks the widow if it was her son's birthday.  She says no, but Billy did go to a party the day before.  I'm willing to bet it was at Plucky's...

Dean calls Sam and asks if he remembers Plucky's.  Sam says he hated it.  Dean makes the connection and asks Sam to check it out.  Sam desperately doesn't want to, because we all know he's terrified of clowns.  Dean makes fun of him a little before saying, "Just know that 99.9999% of clowns can't hurt you, and if it bleeds, you can kill it."

Sam reluctantly pulls into Plucky's, looking like he's close to a panic attack.  He flashes his ID to the guy at the front and asks for a manager.  Wow that animatronic clown is creepy as hell.  Sam looks on as a woman who works there tries to get her kid to stay calm.  Then he finds a creepy wall of drawings, all of kids' worst fears.  The manager tells him it's supposed to help kids, making an off-hand comment about fears running rampant and messing them up later.  Sam knows what that's like.  A clown walks by and he nearly dies of fright.  He asks the manager about Billy, whose dad was being a huge douchebag before he died.  A janitor flags Sam down and tells him to come back after closing so he can tell him something.

At the motel, Dean's brought Chinese food.  That sounds really good right now.  Sam tells him about the bad parents and the nightmare drawings.  They realize the drawings are somehow coming to life and killing less-than-awesome parents.

Back at Plucky's, the janitor's about to clock out before he finds out he has to clean puke out of the ball pit.  That sucks, dude.  And he's totally going to die.  Yup, the plastic balls are moving, and something just bit his leg.  The janitor freaks, trying to get out, but whatever's swimming in the pit drags him down.  He fights his way back up, frantic.  He's sucked down again and doesn't come up.  Cue the indiscriminate blood spatter.  Sam and Dean arrive just as the body's being wheeled out.  Sam tells him the manager found the body.  The cops' theory is the "ball washer", which Dean makes Sam say at least three times.  He then tells Sam it looks like the janitor was killed by a shark.  They go inside to investigate, and lo and behold, there's another drawing missing.  Somebody killed the janitor to shut him up.

The next morning, the same Plucky's employee from before tells her kid he has to take the bus to school.  He gets out of the car, leaving behind a sketchpad with a giant evil robot on it...great.

Haha nice!  This Jason Wu for Target ad has a drawing coming to life!  Except this one was an adorable kitty that didn't kill anyone and just hopped nicely onto a t-shirt.

Back to the warehouse where the creepy clowns are still kicking Sam's ass.  He manages to land a few blows, but it doesn't look like it's going to end well...

4 hours earlier, the boys try to figure out what it could be.  Tulpa?  Nah.  Angel?  Nah.  Well at least they know where ground zero is: Plucky's.  Sam says he'll go back and try to figure it out.

Sam returns to the dreaded Plucky's to speak with the manager.  All they seem to have done is rope off the ball pit.  Sam starts conducting an investigation while Dean awkwardly hangs out at a table, alone, not at all looking like a creep.  He tries to get a slinky from the prize counter, but they only take tickets.  Oh lord, is Dean actually going to play skee ball?  I hope so!

Sammy interrogates the manager about the janitor's death.  He finds out she's newly promoted, and asked if there's a lot of competition for the job.  She says she wouldn't do anything illegal, which Sam doesn't seem to believe.

Meanwhile, Dean plays skee ball, not very well I might add.  He follows the manager out back, where she lights up a joint.  It's not her.  Next up for interrogation is the counter guy.

Outside, the employee's son Tyler yells at a kid for cheating.  The kid doesn't listen until Dean joins in.  Tyler's mom gives him some pizza, which he complains about.  Dean tells Tyler to cut her some slack.  Tyler says the pizza tastes like butt.  Dean says it can't be that bad and tries it; it is that bad.  He sees the robot that Tyler's drawing.  On another note, it looks like it's not counter guy either.

Sam starts to interrogate the guy dressed like a lion, but the guy gets nervous and bolts.  Sam and Dean give chase, and Dean finally tackles him.  We almost get a little Ackles-ass-shot, which I would've enjoyed immensely.  They realize the kid was nervous about a meth lab, not killing people.  But it turns out something weird's going down in the sub-basement.  He says he and Saul (the janitor) would hear spooky noises coming from the boiler room.

As Sam and Dean bring Cliff the lion back, they see Tyler's mom trying to get him to leave.  He says someone stole his nightmare placemat.  Oh shit, look out for killer robots!  Dean thinks Tyler's mom is next.  Sam goes to tell them, and Dean goes to check the boiler room.  Down in what has to be the creepiest boiler room ever, Dean finds some sort of alter-looking-thing with a fire burning.  There are drawings hung up on the walls and a picture of two kids.  There's also a book of occult looking things and Tyler's placemat.  Oh shit, it is the counter guy!  He pulls a gun on Dean and disarms him.  He explains that there's power in fear, and some of the power gets into the kids' drawings.  He also says he's doing what he needs to.  Dean throws something at him and rips up Tyler's placemat.  The guy says he burned Sam's business card and another drawing.  Oh damn, that's where the clowns came from!

Sam's staking out where Tyler and his mom live.  Then the clown shows up...

"Right friggin' now", we're back to Sam shooting at the clowns.  Dean continues his stand-off with the counter guy, who says he just wanted to help kids.  Turns out he's mad because he didn't get promoted.  Dean steals a Plucky doll.  Then he confronts counter guy about how he's actually hurting the kids.  He realizes something happened to the guy's brother.  Looks like he drowned.  Howard says his parents didn't listen when he screamed for help.  Meanwhile, Sam appears to be getting some good hits in on the clowns.  Dean uses Howard's fear of water against him, ripping a drawing off the wall and tossing it into the fire with the Plucky doll.  Howard's brother appears and dry-drowns Howard, much like in "Red Sky at Morning".  As the Plucky doll burns, the clowns beating Sam down disappear in puffs of glitter.

Sam drives back to Plucky's to meet Dean.  He's still covered in glitter and invites Dean to insult him.  The other brother gladly obliges, saying "You look like you got attacked by some PCP-crazed strippers" LOL.  Dean then apologizes for psychologically scarring Sammy.  Sam admits that getting his ass kicked by the clowns was therapeutic.  He got Dean a giant rainbow slinky!  How cute!  Oh, and Dean got him a clown doll, what a dick move...When the boys drive off, the clown doll is left in the road.  We finish out with a really creepy clown laugh.  Nice.

Final Thoughts: Awesome!  Granted the monster aspect of things was a bit thin, I still really enjoyed it!  I loved watching Sam confront his coulrophobia.

Next Time: A guy who likes being possessed!  And uh-oh, Lucifer's back!

Supernatural 7x13 "The Slice Girls"

Screencap courtesy of Home of the Nutty.  They're the best for Supernatural screencaps - check them out!

Opening Thoughts: Just when you thought it was never going to, Dean's promiscuity finally gets him in trouble.  Can't decide if this will be amusing or infuriating...

For the love of God, please stop showing Bobby's death!  I'm hormonal, and this is not helping!  Okay, onto the actual recap...

Open on a guy inside a rather nice-looking apartment.  It's raining out.  Somebody opens the door, looks like men's shoes.  The guy thinks it's Barb.  Sorry to disappoint, buddy.  Oh shit, he's got a knife!  The guy goes back to his laptop.  All of a sudden he's thrown across the room and then hacked into a bloody mess.  The killer carves a symbol in his chest.  When the camera pans out, we can see the guy is now missing his hands and feet...yikes.

Cut to the boys in a car, still not the Impala.  Sam's driving, Dean's sleeping (how adorable!).  Apparently Dean's carrying (and drinking out of) Bobby's flask now.  He also thinks their latest case isn't a case.  Sam seems to think otherwise, and he also seems to be right.

The boys go to the morgue to check out the latest body.  The medical examiner says he was dismembered while he was still alive, which we already knew.  They also have DNA from the murders, but it isn't human DNA.  Dean's started to be convinced, but he's all grief-addled and being a pain in the ass.  Sam wants to go back to the motel and do research, but Dean has other ideas.  He's going to a bar.

In a classier place than usual, Dean has drinks with a blonde woman.  They talk about dating.  She compliments his suit.  He tells her he's an investment banker.  Something about ridiculous hours.  Dean keeps up the BS.  Um, did Dean just say "arigato"?  I thought the only one who spoke Japanese was Bobby...

Anyway, Dean and the chick go back to her place (I presume) and get it on.  Finally they use AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long" for a sex scene!  Meanwhile, some guy is getting murdered.  Oh my God, oh my God, oh my GOD.  Dean is taking his clothes off!  I'd almost forgotten about that tattoo...

The next morning, the boys investigate the murder we just saw taking place.  Dean feels like crap.  Well Dean, maybe if you didn't drink so much and weren't such a man-whore, you might feel better.  They check out the crime scene and meet the lead detective.  Sam talks to one of the dead guy's friends from down the hall.  Apparently the guy's wife caught him cheating.  As they leave, Dean realizes he left Bobby's flask at Lydia's - he actually knows her name?  He calls her up, but she really doesn't seem interested.  She says she hasn't seen the flask, but she'll call if she does.  She tells Dean she's busy and hangs up.  Ouch!  Bet Dean's not used to rejection.  Holy shit!  Lydia appears to be about nine months pregnant.  Can you say hell spawn?

Oh baby, Lydia's having a baby!  Dean's baby, no less.  Some freaky lady stands watch and says strange things.  She names the baby Emma.

At the department of anthropology at a local college, the boys have a professor analyze the symbol.  The prof wants to know if there's an award.  I totally missed what he just said because I was checking in on Get Glue haha.  Dean's pissed that they don't have Bobby to help them anymore.  I miss some more dialogue because I'm opening cookies.  Dean decides to go to Lydia's for the flask.

She's surprised to see him, calling him "Don".  She says she's been very busy.  Dean follows her inside, and is very surprised to see a baby in a crib.  Dean walks over to Emma's crib and proceeds to be utterly adorable. He makes a comment about kids "growing like weeds", to which Lydia replies "you have no idea".  Sam calls Dean, telling him to come back.  Oh holy crap, that baby was talking!  And not baby-talking, talking almost like an adult!

Sam and the lead detective go to the morgue to look at the most recent body.  This female "dick" is quite the ice queen.  Sam finds something from a bar.  The ME tells him all the guys had busted marriages or flings with other women shortly before dying.

Meanwhile, Dean's creeping outside Lydia's house in another Impostor.  The freaky lady from the birth and someone else show up at the door, asking if Emma's ready.  Sam calls Dean and asks if he's obsessed.  Sam also has some intel on some cold cases, and tells Dean he dodged a bullet because some of the other victims had been to the same bar he was at.  When Lydia leaves the house, a 5- or 6-year-old Emma follows her.  The freaky lady takes her away.  Dean tails them.  What is he driving?!  Down a sketchy alley, the women and Emma get out of the car and go into a building.

Dean goes back to the motel, and Sam is skeptical.  Dean says there was no child when he hooked up with Lydia - which there wasn't.  Sam is being a bit of a dick and refusing to believe his brother.  Really?  Really?  Dean  just said "Hannah Montana".  I kind of want to die right now.  The professor calls Sam.

Back at the sketchy building, the freaky lady is doing some kind of ritual with a group of girls, including Emma - who is now 9 or 10.  The girls eat something, there's talk of blood and killing and "the one who created us". Weird...

Ironic sidenote: Both "Planned Parenthood" and #Supernatural #SliceGirls are trending on twitter right now.  I thought it was funny.

The professor has identified the symbol.  Apparently it's a variation of a symbol for the Greek goddess Harmonia, a symbol used in homage by the Amazons.  Oh holy shit, Lydia's an Amazon!  "Like Wonder Woman?" Dean asks.  No Dean, not quite.

Oh shit, the ice queen cop is an Amazon too!  She calls the freaky lady to tell her that Sam and Dean aren't FBI.  The freaky lady says one is scheduled to be taken care of, and to add the other one to the list.

Back at the house where they're squatting, the boys try to dig up some lore on Amazons, specifically how to kill them.  Unfortunately, there's nothing.  They realize that Dean's next on the hit list, and that Dean is Emma's father.  Seriously Dean, it's called a condom!

At the sketchy building, the girls are now teenagers.  The freaky lady brands them with the symbol that was carved in all the victims.

The boys continue to go through Bobby's files, compiling information on the Amazons.  They figure out that Dean's a dumbass for saying he was an investment banker.  Whoa, some of the papers just moved!  I think Bobby's spirit is about!  Sam pulls out the EMF detector, which immediately starts going nuts.  He discounts it as power lines and a breeze.  Dean seems to think it's Bobby.  Sam gets mad and says it's not him because they want it to be him.  Dean says maybe the moving paper is useful, but it's in Greek.  Sam takes it to the professor and tells Dean to lock the doors and not move.

Dude, I think this college is the same as the one in "Tall Tales"!  Sam pulls some fake fed crap to get the prof to translate.

Back with Dean, somebody knocks on the door.  Don't answer, dammit!  But of course, he does.  Oh look, it's Emma.  She tells Dena that she needs his help.  She's in trouble, and he's the only person she can trust.  He's her father.  Oh great...

Dean asks Emma how he found her.  She tells him the Amazons found him.  She escaped the "training camp" or whatever to seek him out.  She shows him the burn and says she doesn't want to be like the rest of the Amazons.  Does anyone else think this is a huge trick?  Dean sits Emma down and asks what she wants him to do.  She wants him to help her get away, promising to leave him alone.  She says she knows Dean doesn't want her.  Awkward.  Emma says "father", and Dean nearly flinches.

At the college, the prof is taking forever with the translation.  The document references Amazons, but it says the daughters kill the fathers.  Hey, guess who called that?  Me.

Emma asks Dean if she'll help him; he says he will.

The Amazon cop catches up with Sam as he's about to call Dean.  He sees the symbol on her wrist.  She flips out and tosses him across the room, pulling out a golden knife.  Sam shoots her in the chest.  Somehow I don't think that's going to do the job...

Emma and Dean talk for a little bit before she pulls a knife of her own.  Dean's just as quick with his gun.  I'm not sure he'll be able to shoot her though.  While Emma discusses her "mission", Sam drives like a crazy person to get back and help Dean.  Emma starts playing the daddy card.  Sam listens from outside the door.  Emma says she has no choice but to kill Dean.  Sam busts the door in and trains his gun on her.  She tears up and begs Dean not to let Sam hurt her.  Yeah right, bitch.  Sam puts one in Emma's chest, killing her.  So I guess guns do work...

The boys head to the sketchy building to take out the rest of the Amazons, only - oh shit - THEY'RE GONE.

Sam and Dean take off.  Sam's pissed.  Dean says he wanted to kill them as much as Sam.  Sam doesn't believe him.  He calls Dean on his bullshit, especially what he said about Amy.  Sam says Emma wasn't his, not really.  Dean says she was.  They get pissy and chew each other out about how they're grieving.  Sam tells Dean not to get killed; I'm not so sure that's not Dean's plan...oh boy.

Final Thoughts: Not bad, not bad at all.  Along with the boys, I am still reeling from the loss of Bobby, so forgive me if I'm less than enthusiastic.  I really want to see the guys work through this together (and maybe hug?)

Next Time: Plucky's (not at all a Chuck-E-Cheese rip-off), unicorns, and killer clowns - oh my!  I hate clowns, I really do...