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Krissy:
Hello and welcome to…
Both:
Gank That Drank!
Krissy:
A Supernatural Drinking Game. It’s the podcast where we make up drinking rules for our favorite episodes of our favorite show, Supernatural. We recap the episode for you and tell you how those rules played out, then we rate our drinking game, and then we tell you what’s up for next week. So you can gank and drank along with us.
Nate:
Gank those drinks, play along, do the thing — that’s what we do here. Hopefully you’re doing it with us. But who are we?
Krissy:
Well, that sultry voice you’re hearing is the magnificent Nate McWhortor, a performer and teacher at the Neighborhood Comedy Theatre.
Nate:
And an even sultrier voice — sultrier? More sultry, probably is the right term. That’s the sultrier voice. And doing our wonderful intro, as always, until it’s equally ruined by me, is Krissy Lenz — the director, owner, proprietor, doer of things, teacher, performer, all of the things.
Krissy:
I’m so excited to be here with you. I’m so excited for this episode. We all love Donna. We all love Donna. And I’m so excited to talk about it. And it’s a wonderful episode, and I’m happy you chose it, and I can’t wait to dig into it.
Krissy:
Yeah, this episode really stayed with me. I remember exactly where I was when I watched it, because I was on the treadmill — this was back when it would come out the day after on Hulu. So I was watching it in the morning on the treadmill, and I was just like, this episode is creepy as all get-out.
Nate:
Yeah, it is. It’s definitely got some super X-Files-y vibes — that’s also one of the things we love, Supernatural or X-Files. Sometimes that trope or theme of — sometimes humans are the real monsters. Yeah.
Nate:
They sure are. But it’s a great Donna episode — just for the boys, it’s a good episode, a great monster-of-the-week. I like it a lot.
Krissy:
And we are, of course, talking about Season 13, Episode 11, “Breakdown.”
Nate:
Breakdown. This works on two Supernatural naming mechanics, because it’s both a rock song and a film. So it works on multiple levels, which—
Krissy:
—always works, and it works on multiple levels for the episode, too.
Nate:
Yeah, it really does. There are so many different types of breakdowns that happen — bodies are broken down, emotions are broken down, veils of security are broken down. So many things. How the world works is broken down. It is creepy — super duper creepy. And I enjoyed your game as well.
Krissy:
Oh, thank you. I’m not super proud of my game, so we’ll see how it plays out. This originally aired on January 25th, 2018.
Nate:
Krissy, do you know what that sound is? We’ve never had that sound before, I don’t believe, in all our years of Gank That Drank. That’s the birthday sound! This episode aired on my birthday, Krissy. Let’s see — this would have been my… 27th? No, 28th. That can’t be right. No wait, that checks out — 27th birthday? I forget what year I was born. Anyway — this aired on my birthday, so, by the way, that’s one of the Law & Order drinking game rules: if the date pops up at the bottom and it’s your birthday, you’ve gotta take a drink. So for your game, I doubled every drink since this aired on my birthday.
Krissy:
Oh wow, okay.
Nate:
I was like, I’m gonna go ahead and do this — since it aired on my birthday, I’m gonna double-drink.
Krissy:
Wow. Well, listeners, you don’t have to double-drink unless it’s also your birthday.
Nate:
In which case, shout-out birthday twins! What’s up, birthday twins?
Krissy:
It was written by Davy Perez and directed by Amyn Kaderali.
Nate:
Kaderali. And it has no alternate international titles. Disappointing.
Krissy:
No international titles whatsoever — nothing fun. But here are the rules. Are we ready to hear the rules? Okay. Rule number one: Donna does Donna — take a drink whenever we’re like, “Oh, that’s so Donna.” When Donna does not Donna — she does something out of character, something that makes us think, “That’s not what Donna would say or do” — take a drink. Take a drink if someone says “butterfly.” Take a drink if someone says “Midnight Rider.” I wrote down “runner” — it’s “Rider.” Okay, oops.
Nate:
Midnight Rider. I was like, I’m pretty sure. Yeah.
Krissy:
Take a drink if someone says “tinker’s damn,” which is a term I love. Take a drink whenever anyone gets “the talk” — but this time, take a drink whenever Doug gets the monsters-are-real talk. And finally, take a drink when someone says “Hungry Hungry Hippos.” All right, here we go. We meet Donna and Doug, and learn about vampires — there’s a cure for vampirism, vampire infection, as long as you take the cure before you feed for the first time. Very convenient for a lot of stories here in Supernatural Town. Now we’re in a gross room — while ’50s music plays, there are jars, missing posters, body parts all around. There’s a creepy [inaudible] vibe. And we can hear people struggling. Dun, dun, dun. We cut to Manny’s Truck Stop. A young girl stops for gas, but the card reader isn’t working, so she has to go in and see the cashier. It’s really creepy inside this truck stop. There’s a preacher preaching to a trucker. The cashier is super skeevy, and he tells her she should smile more — which is always gross. If you do that, you deserve to be killed by Donna.
Nate:
Cut up and sold in pieces. Yep.
Krissy:
We get a jump scare when someone comes up to her and says, “Can I wash your windows?” And she’s like, “No, thank you,” and drives off. But just a few miles down the road, her car breaks down — she’s got a spike in her tire. A truck drives by without stopping for her, and the masked guy we saw earlier grabs her and drags her up the road. And then we get the Supernatural title card. We’re in the bunker — it’s 6 a.m. and Sammy is awake; it’s 8:22 and he’s asleep, and Dean is making pancakes. At 10 a.m. he gets a call from Donna — he’s still in bed. He finally gets up, and we learn that her niece has gone missing. She says, “I know this isn’t normally what you do,” and they’re like, “Yep, just give us the address.” “We’re on our way.” They go meet Donna and learn that her niece Wendy was taking a gap year and exploring, just like Donna did when she was young. Dean looks over the car and gets confronted by Agent Clegg — he tells Clegg that Sam and Dean are both related to Donna, and therefore to Wendy, so they’re taking a personal interest in the case. Clegg is standoffish and rude to them at first — “Sure, I can respect that.”
Nate:
Doug — I missed something in my notes, I don’t know if you noticed. I did mark this as a Donna Does Donna — did you happen to notice the license plate on Donna’s truck? No? D-Train.
Krissy:
No, really?
Nate:
Here’s the thing — is it Donna or Doug’s truck? Whose truck is it? I bet it’s Doug’s. You think Doug would have a license plate that says D-Train? I think it’s funnier to think Donna got the license plate that says D-Train. Wow.
Krissy:
Eagle-eyes Nate. Great detail.
Nate:
I loved it so much. It cracked me up.
Krissy:
So Doug is immediately suspicious — well, not suspicious, he just has questions. He’s like, “So you were at the big reunion in Sioux Falls?” And Dean’s like, “Yep, we were there. Donna said it got crazy.” Yep. It was super crazy. Apparently the troopers got a tip that they could find the car. Agent Clegg explains he calls the person he’s been chasing for twelve years “the Butterfly” — take a drink, times two, because he migrates.
Nate:
Yep, and his victims are never found. Back in their hotel room, Dean’s on the CB radio — this is the “Midnight Rider.” I wrote it as “Rider” this time, so I got it wrong in the rules earlier. He says it twice. Take two drinks. “Nobody uses the CB anymore, Dean.” “Dad used it all the time.” Sam wants to dip out on this — he’s like, “We should leave it to the real FBI,” and Dean’s like, “Are you kidding me?” They have a little BM scene — boy melodrama scene — and he’s like, “You got up at 10 a.m. and turned down pancakes. You’re in a dark place, I get it. We lost Jack, we lost Mom, but we’re gonna get them back, and I’m here for you. We’ll find Jack and we’ll save Mom.” I love that.
Nate:
On the CB radio — oh, go ahead.
Nate:
I love that Dean’s idea of someone being in a real funk is “you slept till 10 and turned down pancakes.” What is wrong with you?
Krissy:
He’s mainly focused on the pancakes, if we’re being honest.
Nate:
Right, yeah — he’s really upset, like, “I made pancakes, you didn’t want to eat them.” But he’s also like, “You’re normally Mr. Rise-and-Shine, face the day” — he does have a point. It’s so funny how they switch — each one of them will have moments of just being pessimistic, and then moments where each one is the most optimistic. It’s so funny how they’ll flip that on a whim, based on how they want to play it throughout a season. Yeah — but most often, Dean’s the one who’s just like, “Hey, keep going, work, my lunch, doesn’t matter, nothing affects me” — even though it really does. And then Sam’s usually the one who’s like, the cost of everything, the weight, woe is me. But like I said, they’ll roll-reverse that so often. And yeah, I just love that Dean’s idea of someone being depressed and needing real consolation is that they turned down pancakes.
Krissy:
Yeah, that’s his bellwether for whether Sammy’s okay — is he eating the pancakes? Dean gets a call on the CB radio. They say “Midnight Rider” again, times two. He’s going to go meet with Felix the Cat and get some news. Sam says, “Of course I want to help. I want to help Donna.” And Dean says, “I know you do.” We cut to Wendy — she’s in a creepy room, being taunted by the masked guy, who sets up a camera to film her. It’s so creepy. He looks like something out of a Saw movie.
Nate:
Or like an A24 movie.
Krissy:
Yeah, exactly. He’s mocking her, being exceedingly creepy in a way we don’t see that often in Supernatural — there’s monsters, there’s scheming, but there’s not usually senseless brutality like this. So they find the truck stop. They say “butterfly” again, times two. Agent Clegg is like, “There’s a guy I like — Pastor Diamond Don, he’s a road preacher.” And get this — when they found him at the truck stop that night, he had her bloody shirt in his van. Bum-bum-bum.
Nate:
That should’ve been the boys’ first clue, by the way, that maybe Clegg wasn’t on the up-and-up — how easily that shirt got into Diamond Don’s van. They interviewed him that night and found the shirt just like that. That should’ve been the first clue that maybe Clegg wasn’t on the up-and-up.
Krissy:
Yeah, they really let a lot slide, but I think they’re just so focused on Donna being so out of her element, and trying to help her. So Dean is with this trucker — it’s the woman we saw at the beginning with the preacher — and she tells Dean she saw Wendy twice and didn’t stop for her because she was behind schedule. We’re like, okay, well, that’s not very cool.
Nate:
Like, you’re a woman—
Krissy:
Yeah, don’t stop for just anyone — but a young girl? Bad move. So Dean, on his own, also finds Manny’s Truck Stop. We’re in the interrogation, and Pastor Diamond Don immediately says, “Lawyer.” I love how in TV shows, someone asking for a lawyer is treated as an invitation to talk them out of getting a lawyer, when really — nope, everything stops when they say lawyer. Those are the magic words.
Nate:
I’ve watched plenty of things.
Krissy:
I know, but it’s supposed to be — they ask for a lawyer, and then they just keep getting interrogated and coerced into talking anyway, and it happens. But that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.
Nate:
Well, there’s a lot of things about the justice system that don’t work the way it’s supposed to.
Krissy:
I know, and it’ll never stop making me upset. So Clegg says, “I don’t give a tinker’s damn what your rights are.” And then Donna comes in — Donna is not being very Donna, she’s being a hard-ass, questioning him ruthlessly. So — take a drink, Donna is being not-Donna. Meanwhile, Doug and Dean are at the truck stop, and Doug’s like, “Hey, I’ve got a question about Donna.” “Is she gonna be okay? I don’t know — we always talk about the Vikes, about this and that. I just get the feeling she’s hiding something from me.” Oh yeah, that’s right.
Nate:
Housewives, I believe, is something he says they talk about. Or is it Desperate Housewives? I think it’s Real Housewives — because Desperate Housewives is scripted too.
Krissy:
I think he just says “the Housewives.”
Nate:
Oh, maybe he just says “the house.” Oh, I thought — yeah.
Krissy:
So it’s open to our interpretation — that was a funny line. And Dean’s like, “Well, she’s going through a lot, just trust her,” which is a great response, Dean. Back into the interrogation. He’s still insisting on getting a lawyer, and Donna’s like, “The Bible doesn’t like lawyers much. This is a small town on a Friday night — you’ll be here all weekend.” “Or you could answer some questions, and I’ll get you out of here right away.” Back at the truck stop, Dean and Doug question the window-washer guy, and he reveals that Marlon — the desk clerk — liked her as soon as she left. He closed up and went out after her, and didn’t come back until dawn. Back in interrogation. Donna asks him how long he’s been traveling — about twelve years. “Does your family know you’re gross?” And he’s like, “God knows I’m a sinner.” She asks about the T-shirt, and—
Nate:
—shouts at him, “Don’t lie to me.”
Krissy:
“Don’t lie to God.” And he’s like, “I’m not, I’ve never—” and he breaks down crying. Donna believes him — she figures out immediately that someone must have planted the shirt on him, but no eyes turn to Agent Clegg. At the truck stop, Doug and Dean confront Marlon, and he shows them the website. The website. It’s the other guy Clegg asked about, who’s missing recently, and they’re selling him off piece by piece — it’s like eBay, but for body parts. Which is so shocking and gross. They really just gloss over the fact that they’re in an open truck stop, and he’s like, “Yeah, I’ll show you” — didn’t take much convincing. Pastor Diamond Don is like, “Lawyer, lawyer, lawyer,” and Marlon, the truck stop clerk, is just like, “Yeah, I’ll show you this website.” Easy peasy, no problem. If he just hadn’t shown them, none of the rest of this episode would’ve happened.
Nate:
And I guess — if I were the boys, maybe I would’ve waited around for Clegg to show up and arrest the clerk who’s been sending these people to their deaths. It seems like a guy the boys probably shouldn’t have just let go.
Krissy:
Oh, I know — and they’re remarkably cavalier about it. When he reveals that if he sees someone he thinks won’t be missed, he calls a number and gets paid, they ask, “You feel good about that?” And he’s like, “No, but don’t pretend like you don’t have bills.” They’re just really cavalier about it.
Nate:
Yeah, it’s very strange again that the boys aren’t like, “Okay, we’re gonna call that FBI guy now to come get you, he can deal with you, weirdo” — obviously they’d have gotten to the point faster if they’d just done that.
Krissy:
Yeah, there’s a lot that’s weird about this episode — it’s written by someone who came in around Season 12, who doesn’t write a ton of episodes, so I think that’s why the tone’s a little different than what we usually get. Donna sees the website, they see Wendy, and realize this is like DoorDash for monsters. Doug’s like, “For what now?” and Donna’s like, “Don’t worry about it.” Then Doug gets the talk — take a drink. Dean asks Sam if he can hack it, and Sam’s like, “No, it’ll take forever — this is dark-web stuff, I can’t hack this.”
Nate:
And Dean’s like, “Well, who can? We’ve got 45 minutes.”
Krissy:
And they’re like, “The real FBI.” So Clegg immediately finds the video feed, and off they go. They decide to split up, because that’s always a great plan.
Nate:
Clegg finding that feed so fast should’ve been clue number two that maybe he was in on it — he got it within twenty minutes.
Krissy:
Yeah, but they’re racing against the clock, so they didn’t have much time to burn. Doug hangs back to watch Marlon — his worldview is rocked, he’s not doing very well, he’s in shock. And Donna had told him, “We’ll talk about it when we get back to Sioux Falls,” and he’s like, “Oh, okay.”
Nate:
Stillwater — they live in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Krissy:
Oh, why did she say Sioux Falls? She says Stillwater. Well, then why did I write down Sioux Falls?
Nate:
I don’t know — I remember thinking, oh, that’s right, they live in a place I’ve been to, Stillwater, Oklahoma. And I remember from “Plush” that it’s Stillwater, because we watched that one too.
Krissy:
Way to keep me honest.
Nate:
Sioux Falls is where Jody lives, and Bobby lives sort of nearby. This episode, by the way, takes place in Oshkosh, Nebraska, which is a teeny-tiny little town in the mini panhandle of Nebraska — a little bit north of Colorado and a little bit east of Cheyenne. And by “a little bit,” that’s by Western standards, so, you know, several hours.
Krissy:
So while Sam’s lurking around, he bumps into Agent Clegg, and he’s like, “What are you doing here?” And Clegg’s like, “You called me.” “I called you for an address, not for backup.” “I’ve been chasing the Butterfly for twelve years — did you think I wasn’t gonna show up?” Which — yeah, did you think he wasn’t gonna show up?
Nate:
They say “butterfly” — take a drink.
Krissy:
Marlon is taunting Doug. Meanwhile, the masked guy sharpens a knife, and Wendy is screaming and crying. Dean and Donna follow the music, but it’s a trap — Marlon is a vampire, and he turns Doug immediately. He’s like, “You know how she told you there are monsters? Well, I am one — I’m a vampire.” “Let’s have some fun.” And he immediately breaks out of his handcuffs and bleeds into Doug’s mouth — which is like, okay, that’s your plan? Why not just kill him and escape?
Nate:
Because they’re all Bond villains.
Krissy:
Yeah. Clegg gets the drop on Sammy — we all saw it coming, we’re not shocked. From the top of this episode we were like, something’s up with this Clegg guy. Only Sam and Dean were surprised. Dean doses Doug with dead man’s blood. It’s a really great scene where Donna comes in and she’s like, “Are you hurt?” And he goes, “No, but I don’t think I’m okay.” His eyes go all weird and his teeth go all bloody. It’s a great performance by a wonderful actor — I’ll now name our guest cast: Brendan Taylor as Doug Stover, Briana Buckmaster as Donna Hanscum, Steven Yaffee as Marlon, Sarah Dugdale as Wendy the niece, Troy Skog as Pastor “Diamond” Don Hankey, and Christopher William Martin as Agent Clegg. So a whole lot of guest stars in this episode.
Nate:
Yeah, I liked them all. I think everyone does a good job — everyone’s pretty [inaudible].
Krissy:
Yeah, yeah — I particularly liked Doug in this episode, he was great. Dean’s like, “Don’t worry, there’s a cure, we just need—” and Marlon’s like, “The blood of the vamp who turned him? Clegg’s got you. Ha ha ha ha.” “And he’s got your bro. Sorry, but I hold a grudge — you shouldn’t have been so rough with me.” And Dean says, “Bring it, Twilight.” Meanwhile, Donna takes the initiative and shoots him in the leg — she goes, “Tell me where they are,” and he’s like, “You’ll kill me if I do,” and she goes, “Oh, I’m killing you either way.” “It’s up to you whether you want it fast or slow.” So — Donna Does Not Donna, take a drink. Clegg knows all about Sam and Dean — he’s like, “I had you pegged for hunters the moment you drove up in that car, I knew exactly who you were.” He sees it as his job to feed the monsters. “How many monsters do you think are out there? Add a zero — add ten zeros. And they all gotta eat. The ones you hunters chase are the ones who can’t pass — they’re too stupid or too evil. The rest of them are your next-door neighbor, they’re bank clerks, they’re out there doing the work, and they gotta eat.” So he created the Butterfly — take a drink — “to save lives. If my customers didn’t have me, all those hungry, hungry hippos would be out there killing.” Take a drink. And then Agent Clegg is like, “It’s showtime” — he puts on a mask, sets up a camera, the creepy guy is there. Dean’s hurrying to catch up with him. Doug’s sitting in the backseat with Donna — they give Doug the cure. And here’s what’s annoyed me every time since they cured Dean: when they give someone the vampire cure, Dean puked his guts out.
Nate:
Right, he had a bad time — a real bad time.
Krissy:
Terrible time. I don’t know if they’re just like, “Oh, we added cinnamon, it makes the sickness much simpler” — or throw in an explainer line or something. Because he should’ve been super worried that Doug was gonna spew all over the inside of Baby.
Nate:
Way more worried. I thought that was gonna happen — I was waiting for it.
Krissy:
Yeah, me too.
Krissy:
Nope. It’s like there’s an unwritten rule on Supernatural — if they do a potion once, it’s just easy for them to do every time after that.
Nate:
This is like — no consequences. Like when you’re playing some story-based, skill-acquiring video game, and you have to go through all these trials to be able to do this move, and it’s so hard — but once you do it, it becomes the easiest thing possible. That’s kind of how it goes here.
Krissy:
And it’s fine, it is what it is, I get it — they can’t always have people puking their guts out. But I don’t know, I’d appreciate it if he just rolled down the window, didn’t let him spew all over Baby.
Nate:
Yeah, because then at least it’s like, oh, it’s about to be messy — we’re holding true to what’s been established in the world.
Krissy:
So they’re auctioning off Sam’s liver, and then his heart. They leave Doug in the back of Baby and go to search — Donna finds Wendy and fights the big creepy guy. She kills him right off the bat and saves Wendy. The auction’s going on — a hundred thousand dollars for Sam Winchester’s heart, five hundred thousand, sold. And then Clegg’s like, “Normally we like to take our time with this part and make you feel it,” which kind of torpedoes his good-guy routine, because—
Nate:
—son of a bitch. Well, his good-guy routine is undercut by literally one of the first shots of the episode, where they hang all the missing posters of the victims. So clearly these are not people who won’t be missed — these are people who were missed enough that they had missing posters up, which you, like a psychopath, collected and hung in the room where you’re murdering them.
Krissy:
Marlon’s not doing his job — he’s not sending them people no one will miss, he’s sending people who are very missed. Okay, so Clegg’s about to shoot Sammy in the head — we hear a gunshot, but it’s not Clegg shooting Sammy, it’s Dean shooting Clegg, which is a risky move when he’s got a gun to your brother’s head.
Nate:
Well, you’d think the muscle-jerk of being shot dead would make him pull the trigger and blow Sam’s head off. Right — and you never know how a bullet could ricochet after going through someone. Could’ve got Sam too.
Krissy:
Yeah, it makes me think of [inaudible] — where the shotgun goes off and doesn’t hit Sammy, and it’s just like Chuck intervention that he doesn’t get shot. I love this episode. I don’t mean to complain about it so much. Show’s over — Dean says dramatically, back at the motel, Doug wakes up. “I was a vampire,” he says, and Donna says, “For a couple hours.”
Nate:
That’s a great Donna Does Donna. Yeah, that’s a great Donna Does Donna.
Krissy:
Dean says, “Listen, Doug — you know what’s out there, it’d be nice to have another good guy on the team.” And Doug says, “No, I can’t. I can’t live this life. That’s not me.” And Donna says, “Well, I can’t give up this hunt.” And Doug says, “You’re a hero. But that’s not me. I’m sorry.” Sammy says, “Let him go — people get hurt when they’re close to us. Let him go. He’ll be safer that way.” And it’s very, very sad. We end with a BM scene — boy melodrama scene — in Baby, and Dean says, “You were a little tough on Donna back there. We save people, Sam.” And Sam says, “We also get people killed. I’m not in a dark place, I’m just in a real place. We can’t help anyone. We can’t help anyone. You know how this ends — it ends one way, it ends bloody, it ends bad.” And that is Season 13, Episode 11, “Breakdown.” Bum-bum-bum-bum. A good episode.
Nate:
Yes, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Like I said, pretty much a monster-of-the-week — nothing mythology-wise you really need to know. They’re not trying to carry a storyline through it. Just a good, solid guest-star episode with Donna, and I liked it a lot.
Krissy:
Yeah, this would be a great one for an 18-plus mashup at Comic-Con.
Nate:
Because there’s not too many extra characters, there’s not a lot of talky-talky stuff, it’s pretty action-filled, it’s gross — yeah, this would be a good one to do. Let’s keep that in mind. Earmark it.
Krissy:
All right, how’d the rules play out? How many times did you get Donna Does Donna?
Nate:
I got four times.
Krissy:
Okay, I only got three, but I didn’t catch that license plate.
Nate:
You didn’t count the license plate? Even if it’s not technically a Donna moment, the fact that she’s driving Doug’s truck is also just kind of Donna. I like it — she drives a truck that says D-Train.
Krissy:
I love it. How many times did you get Donna Does Not Donna?
Nate:
I only marked down three, but I feel like through most of this episode, she does not Donna.
Krissy:
Yeah, I marked down seven.
Nate:
I don’t remember which ones I specifically marked, but I was like, this whole episode, she’s just on a rampage.
Krissy:
Yeah. How many times did they say “butterfly”? I got six times. I got six as well. How many times did they say “Midnight Rider”? Twice. Four times. Four times. Ah—
Nate:
Oh, because Dean says it twice, and then Felix the Cat says it twice. Yeah. They say “tinker’s damn” once, Doug gets the talk once, and they say “Hungry Hungry Hippos” once. He gets this confirmation, like — are you?
Krissy:
Oh, you’re counting it as two?
Nate:
I didn’t count it as two, but I started to — I was like, I guess it’s not really “the talk,” it’s more like a red-pill-blue-pill moment for Doug.
Krissy:
I guess you could count that as twice — you should count it as twice, because unless you’re Nate doubling your drinks, there were only 23 drinks in this episode.
Nate:
So, to all the other January 25th birthday people out there—
Krissy:
Yeah — which is about ten less than we usually have.
Nate:
Hey, it’s not the easiest episode — like you said, it’s pretty gross. What would you take drinks for — machete sharpening? Actually, that would’ve been a good one. Or anytime we see them pull out a machete, machete-brandishing. Anytime we see the auction — that might’ve worked too, since you see the auction screen, the online auction screen, a couple times. There’s just not a lot of things that happen multiple times in here.
Krissy:
It’s also occurring to me now, the logistics of the shipping they’d need to do — arms and legs and heads are heavy.
Nate:
Right — is there a UPS Store in their town? You’ve gotta keep it — I mean, you’ve gotta keep it somewhat cool so it doesn’t start getting rank. The money spent on coolers — the overhead for this has to be insane. This is not a good business model.
Krissy:
No, it’s surely not. I have a lot of questions.
Nate:
So many [inaudible].
Krissy:
But — sorry, going back into the episode. Was it an FBI agent?
Nate:
An FBI agent — or was he just pretending to be one as well?
Krissy:
I’m pretty sure he really was.
Nate:
You think he really was? So my question for him in this would be — when you realized it was the Winchesters, why wouldn’t you just call your actual FBI friends to come get them, rather than — I know he obviously wanted to sell their body parts, because he knows all the monsters would want it — but I guess that’s hubris getting you in that moment, because the easiest thing to do to get rid of the Winchesters snooping around your business would’ve been to just call the actual FBI and have them come get them.
Krissy:
I see your point, but his hubris got the best of him. Yeah.
Nate:
Him and Odysseus.
Krissy:
Yep, that’s how it works — you listen to those sirens, and all of a sudden you’re a weirdo.
Nate:
He tied himself to the — I don’t know.
Krissy:
Back into your disguises, back into your disguises. Okay — I’ll only give this drinking game two out of five Sam Winchester hearts.
Nate:
Oh, well — I mean, that’s a hundred, that’s a million dollars, crazy.
Krissy:
Yeah, but it could’ve been so much more — it could’ve been a lot more. I’ll give it three out of five machetes. I don’t know, machetes — there’s nothing. Also — if they could hack the website and get Clegg’s client list, they’d have every monster’s home address.
Nate:
This guy should’ve been a treasure trove — I mean, I know you had to shoot him in the moment, but if you’d been able to not, you could’ve really done some stuff. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. But they didn’t do it.
Krissy:
They didn’t do it. What’s up next, Nate?
Nate:
All right, Krissy. Coming up next — it’s a big one, it’s a special one. It’s Season 14, Episode 13, the 300th episode of Supernatural. It’s entitled “Lebanon.”
Krissy:
Yes, it is.
Nate:
Oh my gosh, I’m so excited. All right, are you ready for your rules?
Krissy:
I am ready. Lay them upon me.
Nate:
There’s a bunch of them, because much like your episode just now, “Breakdown,” there’s not a lot of things that happen multiple times. So — anytime we see some dragon’s breath, take a drink. Take a drink when we see a marquee or poster for “Hell Hazers” or “All Saints Day.”
Krissy:
Okay, hold on — “Hell Hazers”?
Nate:
Yep, “Hell Hazers.” Or “All Saints Day.” Yes, “All Saints Day” — which, of course, are fake movies that exist in the Supernatural universe. Okay, perfect. Time to slice and dice, yes — and “Hell Hazers” is the movie from, oh my gosh, the episode where they’re on the set — “Hollywood Babylon.” That’s the movie series from “Hollywood Babylon.” Take a drink when we get Dean the Charmer — Dean puts on the old Dean charm, I love it. We’re taking a shot — two shots in this episode — or finish your drink, or waterfall, whatever. And these are both with exclamation marks: “John!” Or “Cass!” Okay, perfect. As always on Gank That Drank, we’re playing the Sammy Rule — drink whenever someone calls Sammy “Sammy.” Perfect. Because this is the 300th episode, Krissy — not to spoil too much ahead of time, but they bring back beloved characters from the past. Well, maybe not beloved, but characters from the past. They pull out some old-school tropes and things, so we’re breaking out some of the classic rules. Take a drink when they drink.
Krissy:
Okay, drink when they drink.
Nate:
Take a drink when we get some smooches or hugs. Take a drink for a pop-culture reference. Take a drink for broken furniture — I love that one. And take a drink anytime someone says “casserole.” Casserole. Yeah, casserole. Okay, perfect, I love it.
Krissy:
I can’t wait to do this episode. You know, we’re closing things out here on Gank That Drank, so we’re getting to the truly big ones we haven’t done. We’ve done all the biggest big ones — now we’re doing all the big ones that, up till now, we’ve been putting off.
Nate:
Yeah, but we’re doing them, and it’s exciting, and I’m ready for it, and it’s gonna be fun. Yes, it is. Hell yeah.
Krissy:
Yeah, hell yeah, dude. Okay — so, wonderful. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for being with us here at the end, on Gank That Drank: A Supernatural Drinking Game. We love you. We appreciate you. If you want to support the show, there’s a couple ways to do it — rate, review, subscribe, tell a friend, tell a neighbor, tell the creepy guy at the truck stop who tells you to smile to listen to the show, and maybe he won’t come after you and sell you on a website. If you want even more Gank That Drank, go to TruStory.fm, find our little show, click the join button, and become a member — you get every episode a week early and ad-free. Nate, tell the people where they can find us in the real world.
Nate:
In the real world, you can find us at the Neighborhood Comedy Theatre, downtown Mesa, Arizona. We’re an improv theater — we do shows Thursday through Sunday, usually the sketch show. Go to nctphoenix.com for tickets, details, and information. And if Krissy or I are there and you come up to us before or after the show, or whenever — just don’t do it during the show. Don’t do it — before or after, we’ll be plenty fine, we’ll be busy during the show. But come up before or after, let us know you listen to Gank That Drank, and we’ll buy you a pint from the Sacred Pint, the bar in the front of our theater.
Krissy:
Yes, we will — heck yes, we will. And if you want to listen to me on another show, check out The Most Excellent 80s Movies, also a product of TruStory FM. It’s the podcast where a filmmaker, a comedian, and their fabulous guests revisit the 80s movies we think we love, or might have missed, with grown-up eyes, to see how they hold up. Nate’s an upcoming guest — we’re doing Fast Times at Ridgemont. Hi!
Nate:
One of my all-time favorite movies. Absolutely one of my all-time favorite movies.
Krissy:
Well, I am looking forward to that. We’re gonna have a great time. Make sure you listen to it. And while you’re out there in the world, saving people and hunting things — you know, the family business — keep the Gank That Drank motto in mind. Be excellent to each other, and…
Both:
Party on, dudes!
