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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!
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