Dean’s Secret Past Gets the Drinking Game Treatment in Supernatural’s “Bad Boys”
Welcome to this episode of Gank That Drank: A Supernatural Drinking Game. Hosts Krissy Lenz and Nate McWhortor are covering Season 9, Episode 7, “Bad Boys”—building a drinking game companion to the Supernatural episode where a mysterious call pulls Dean back to a boys’ ranch in upstate New York, a place Sam never knew existed, forcing some long-buried secrets about Dean’s teenage years into the light. If you’ve ever wanted to watch Supernatural with a drink in hand and a reason to take one every time someone says “boys” (23 times, per the actual script—you’ve been warned) or every time Dean doles out heartfelt advice while pretending he’s not, this is the episode for you.
Nate and Krissy dig into what makes “Bad Boys” such a fan-favorite bottle episode—the flashback structure, the quietly devastating young Dean performance, and how the ghost-of-the-week almost feels secondary to the brotherly emotional gut-punch at the end. Ghost mom gets her moment in the spotlight for a solid 90 seconds before the episode moves on, and Krissy and Nate have thoughts. They also debate how many hugs and kisses Dean racks up (the counts do not agree) and crown Abbey’s custom rule set a strong four-and-a-half out of five monster-slaying action figures.
These notes are premise-level, but the audio discussion contains spoilers—watch first if you want to go in fresh.
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If you were building a drinking game for this episode, what cue would you have added that Krissy, Nate, and Abbey missed?
