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Krissy:
Hello and welcome to
Both:
Gank That Drank! A Supernatural Drinking Game.
Krissy:
It’s the podcast where we make up drinking game rules for our favorite episodes of our favorite show, Supernatural. We let you know how the rules play out as we recap the episode for you. And then we rank our drinking game, and then we tell you what’s up for the next episode. So you can gank and drank along with your Gank That Drank team. But who is on the Gank That Drank team?
Nate:
Oh, what a question. Well, I’ll introduce myself this week. I’m Nate McWhortor, a performer and a teacher at the Neighborhood Comedy Theatre in downtown Mesa, Arizona. Yes, that’s what I do.
Krissy:
Yeah, that’s what you do. And I’m Krissy Lenz, one of the directors, and also a performer at the Neighborhood Comedy Theatre in downtown Mesa, Arizona. And we are here to have some Gank That Drank fun. With a very special episode.
Nate:
It’s a very special episode of both Supernatural and Gank That Drank. Mostly of Supernatural, though. We’re talking season 14, episode 13.
Krissy:
Lebanon. This is the 300th episode of Supernatural.
Krissy:
[inaudible] It aired February 7th, 2019.
Nate:
Which is kind of crazy. To think that the show is airing in 2019 still. And it was like, oh wow, it really didn’t end that long ago, did it?
But then you’re like, oh wow, 2019 was like a long time ago. They actually… fun fact, I was reading through some of the trivia of this episode, of which there is a lot, because they shove a lot of, you know, fun little Easter eggs and things into this episode. They actually took a month-long break, there was a hiatus of a month after this episode aired back in February of 2019. This episode was directed by Robert Singer and written by Andrew Dabb and Meredith Glynn. It features two delightful guest stars and a special guest star. The delightful guest star, Samantha Smith is Mary Winchester, Kurt Fuller will show up as Zachariah, and of course the special guest star is Jeffrey Dean Morgan as John Winchester.
Krissy:
Yeah, getting John back into the picture.
Nate:
Yeah, and we’ll get all into that with the episode recap, but first we need our rules.
Krissy:
Rules, baby. We all gotta live by ’em.
Nate:
That’s right. Especially if you’re ganking drinks, you gotta live by ’em. Here are the rules. Take a drink anytime we say or see some dragon’s breath. Love it. Take a drink when we see a poster for Hell Hazers or All Saints Day. Time to slice and dice.
Krissy:
Time to slice and dice.
Nate:
Take a drink for Dean the Charmer. I love Dean the Charmer. It’s so good. Especially against Sam the Not Charmer. Take a shot, finish your drink, waterfall, whatever your multiplier is when we see John or Cas. I’m gonna go ahead and call it, this episode might have the most of this rule of any episode in all of Supernatural. We’re always playing the Sammy rule.
Krissy:
Oh, I must have missed a lot then, because I only got one. Woo!
Nate:
Yeah, no, it’s said quite a few times. Mostly by John.
Krissy:
Okay, yeah, he was the one I caught, but I only caught one. Yeah.
Nate:
Yeah, there, I was like, holy cow, this again, I think… I don’t think we’ve ever had as many as I counted, at least. Again, because it’s a 300th episode, we’re bringing all the classic rules back, or at least some of the classic rules back. Drink when they drink. Mm-hmm. Any time we get some smooching or some hugs. Take a drink. This is not a classic one. Just take a drink for when they mention the casserole, or I guess Winchester Surprise is what it is really called. Right. Take a drink for some back to classic rules, pop culture references. Mm-hmm. And take a drink anytime we see some broken furniture.
Krissy:
Break that furniture, boys. Woo!
Nate:
Krissy, are you ready to get into season 14, episode 13? Why even bother saying that? Episode 300 of Supernatural.
Krissy:
Lebanon. I am ready. Tell me this episode, Nate.
Nate:
Alright, then basically… well, first of all, we cut all the way back to the pilot. It’s been a long time since we started a [inaudible] with dad’s on a hunt.
Krissy:
Dad’s on a hunting trip. Haven’t heard from him in a few days.
Nate:
It was so long where that was like the start of every [inaudible]. Yep. And here, episode 300. It’s been quite some time since we last started a [inaudible] like that. So that felt good. Right out the gate. It’s like, hell yeah. Alright, now we’re really getting nostalgic here. So the rest of the [inaudible] is, I guess it’s kind of about John, it’s kind of about Mary, but then it’s about Dean has Michael trapped in his head, and that’s kind of like where we’re at, season 14, is alternate, dark… was it dark universe? Michael. Yeah.
Michael is locked inside Dean’s noggin behind like a fake door or whatever. There’s a whole episode about it. Or probably a couple episodes about it. But basically the boys, like their whole goal now is like how to get Michael out of Dean’s head and defeat Michael. That’s, or like throw him in a cage, whatever. I don’t know. That’s not really the whole… it’s kind of what sets up this episode, but once this episode gets going, that part’s not really that important. Yeah, that’s the [inaudible]. We actually start with the boys on this one, and they walk into a pawn shop, and they tell the… I guess this could be considered Dean the Charmer, huh? When he flashes the wad of money.
Krissy:
Oh yeah, I suppose it could.
Nate:
I guess it could. I didn’t count it, but I guess it could be counted as Dean the Charmer when he’s like, we’re here for the good stuff, the really good stuff, and just flashes this fat wad of cash, which, how are the boys getting the cash these days? Like, they obviously… the credit card for all that stuff. I guess I’d just go to an ATM with someone’s… but like the Men of Letters had the hookup on a lot of that stuff too.
Krissy:
Yeah, and Charlie gave them those credit cards that never get busted,
Nate:
so you can’t get that much cash with a credit card. You need a debit card to get cash. Would he rob a bank? I don’t know.
Krissy:
The [inaudible] would have their ways. Maybe they’ve been looting the corpses of all the vampires they’ve been slaying.
Nate:
Probably just found it in Baby somewhere. Because Chuck put it there. Anyway. They go to the back for the good stuff. Our fellow… I don’t think we ever caught this guy’s name. I don’t think so either.
Krissy:
He’s just a guy.
Nate:
Whoever this guy is playing the pawn shop, the occult pawn shop owner is really good. I’m like, dang, this guy would have been a fun, like, I would have loved to have seen us come back to this guy a bunch of times with his like back room of occult things.
Krissy:
Like hands of glory, he’s got purified dove’s blood, he’s got dragon’s breath, obviously.
Nate:
I think it’s anointed dove’s blood, yeah, and then dragon’s breath. There’s also some sort of bag. I like how he’s like, everything in here is one of a kind, but then immediately starts with, you got your run of the mill things.
Krissy:
Your hand of glory, your whatever bag. Two matching goblets right there. It’s like, well, those aren’t one of a kind right off the get-go.
Nate:
So he says dragon’s breath, and then he spritzes the dragon’s breath in this fancy, nice looking perfume bottle, but then of course when he spritzes it, it’s fire. Which is cool. Enjoyed that quite a bit. We don’t see that yet, though. He just says it, take a drink. But the boys, they’re here for the skull of Sarah Good. No E.
Just put that out there. And she was obviously killed during the Salem Witch trials. And then he’s like, oh yeah, I got that. And lucky for you, I got it for a song, and Dean’s like, no, you didn’t. You murdered our hunter friend and stole it. We know you did. We know you murdered our hunter friend and stole it. And so now we’re just gonna take it from you. And he,
of course, our shop owner, this is where he uses the dragon’s breath to try to… he gets the boys taken up, and then he picks up this big sharp blade and he’s got Sammy on the ground. He’s like, your friend, I was able to slice through easily, but you, you’re a big boy. You’re gonna take some work. And then Dean shoots him. Yep.
Krissy:
They talk too much. They always talk too much.
Nate:
Why do they always talk so much? Which is actually a line I thought he said in our previous episode, in your episode last week. I definitely thought that line was said in that episode because I think there’s also a talking too much situation that happened there. I’m like, yeah, they do talk too much, don’t they? Everyone does
their Bond villain speech. So Sam is like, wait a minute, though, Dean. I mean, good job killing that guy. I guess we’ll figure out how to get rid of this body at some point. But first, look at this list of all this occult stuff. Like, this would be really useful to have, as if we didn’t already live in a giant palace full of occult stuff. But if you’re gonna take all the occult stuff somewhere, you might as well take it to the bunker. Which is where the boys should have gone immediately. But no, that’s not where they go.
Krissy:
They’re feeling like they need to go to the little liquor store.
Nate:
Liquor store slash bar. Right. It looked like a top situation. Shout out top, taste of tops. Where it was like a bar and a liquor store.
Krissy:
Yeah, it was hard to tell. They never drank in there. No.
Nate:
But we only got… also I love that they use Campbell as their aliases. It’s the… Campbell brothers, the man at the liquor store says, of course, Dean is best friends with him because he’s there like all the time. So Sam has still got his nose in this catalog book. He’s like, look at this, John Wayne Gacy’s cigar box. And then lists off a bunch of other cool stuff, but that’s the thing that drew Sam’s attention. And he’s like, oh, well, when Mom and Cas get back, and we can have everyone help us catalog the stuff, and Dean’s being a real jerk and is like, oh, cataloging, that sounds like fun. Ugh. And then Sam is like, wait a minute, there’s this Chinese pearl that makes your heart’s desires come true. Whatever your
heart’s desire. And Dean’s like, so freaking Michael out of my head. And he’s like, sounds like it. They’re like, okay, well, let’s get back to the bunker and do this. And I
love it. You can see Baby being driven away in the back. Because I totally missed the whole conversation with… outside of this liquor store is a bunch of local youth who I think actually get introduced in the previous episode. Either get introduced in the previous episode or they’re brought back in the next episode. I can’t remember which. But they kind of become like running characters.
Krissy:
The kids, the Lebanon teens, yeah, the Lebanon crews.
Nate:
Max, Stacy, Eliot, and Terry. Max played by Skylar Radzion, Stacy played by Zenia Marshall, Eliot played by Cory Gruter-Andrew, and Terry played by Donny Lucas. Anyway, they’re talking about, one of the kids is talking about how he’s seen these two guys, seen the two guys, and he heard like someone banging from the inside of their trunk, and then the boys pull up and they’re like, oh, they hear them like over talking, or over here and talking about the things they found at the pawn shop, and Max, the new girl in town, walks by the car, or the other girl walks by the car and is like, they do have a cool ride, and Max, the new girl, looks at it like, well, I steal rides. Like, I’m new in town. Let me
get myself into trouble immediately. Apparently, in a deleted scene, I’m kind of glad they deleted it. Her mom is like a… military person. Well, we do meet her mom. We do meet her mom, so they had to delete this scene. But basically said, like, her mom is like a… she’s a military brat, and so she moves around a lot. And Dean and Sam both had their different reactions to it, apparently, but it also would not… like I feel like you’d have better behavior if you were a military brat. You wouldn’t
go around just boosting cars. Dean sees that Baby has been… is being driven off, and they then go and interrogate the kid who’s like, please don’t kill me. And, I’m also… but I’m not a narc. And he’s like, well, you don’t have a choice.
Krissy:
Narc kid, narc. He doesn’t narc though.
Nate:
They… he says her name is Max and she’s new in town. I don’t even know where she lives. So Sam… why we sent Sam in in the first place, I don’t know. Dean seems to be the one who has the real relationship with the post office lady, but Sam goes into the post office and very blatantly asks for the address of where a young teenage girl lives and makes up a lie about… paid her to wash his car, but she drove away without him maybe able to tip her, and then the post office lady very correctly so is like, you just want me to hand you the address of an underage girl. You, a
stranger. So Dean comes in again, not sure where Dean was or why Sam got sent in first to do this task. Dean comes in and he’s like, oh, hey, oh shoot, I forgot what her name was. Marta. Hey,
Marta. How’s that grandson of yours? She’s like, oh, spoiled rotten, but I love him. He’s like, I bet you do. He’s like, hey, look, me, my brother, we really just need to find this girl and talk to her. She’s like, I can’t. I took
a vow. But I could tell you… who her mom is. So the boys go and visit the mom who works at like the Italian. I’m assuming
it’s the Italian restaurant in Lebanon. Right. Yep. And
she’s like, I’m gonna kill her for stealing your car, so sorry. She should be at school. The guy working at the back of the restaurant’s like, it’s skip day. All the kids, February 7th.
Krissy:
February 7th, which is fun. The day the episode aired. So everything in this episode takes place on the day it aired. It’s skip day. All the kids go out to this same abandoned house that’s barely been abandoned since this guy was in school and throw a party. And all the kids is literally like seven kids.
Krissy:
Yeah. It’s a small town.
Nate:
It’s a small town. A real quick tangent on abandoned houses, Krissy. Mm-hmm. Let’s hear it. Abby and I just watched all of the… It. It’s from the Tim Curry. We spent a whole night watching that. And then we last night watched the… the remake, which is of course two movies. Yes.
And you watched them both. And we watched them both. I was gonna go to bed. Abby’s like, well, we have to watch the second one. I’m like, but you know the story. Like, whatever.
Krissy:
Also, they’re each three hours long.
Nate:
They’re both two and a half hours long. Yes, they turned a three-hour movie into two two-and-a-half-hour movies. Anyway, you have this in the remake where they go to fight Pennywise, where they go to fight it, is inside or underneath this like abandoned house that is abandoned in both 1989 and then 27 years later when they go back to it in the second chapter, it’s still abandoned. And I’m like, the town of Derry. And I get that, I mean, they established like this is was the well house back in the 18… And I’m just like, no one’s fixed this place up. Nobody… the
city hasn’t razed it, the city hasn’t like… how many people have to go miss it, like… but again, I guess that’s the point of Derry is that people just look the other way. That’s like… Right.
Krissy:
They sort of have… it’s sort of an open secret that, you know, the… it lives there. Did you watch any of the Welcome to Derry?
Nate:
I haven’t yet. That’s next on the list to do. Which I’m excited to do because the one thing I feel like the Tim Curry… it really drives home that the remake does not drive home is the fact that the town, the people in the town of Derry are all not in on it, but they all turn the blind eye. They all, like, they allude to that in the remake, but it’s not as overt as a theme as it is in the original one. I was kind of like, oh man, I think… but they had so much going on in the remake. I don’t
know if you could have, but anyway. I just like, it’s been bugging me since we watched that last night. I was like, why wouldn’t they just ever fix this house or demolish it or something? Turn it into a park.
Krissy:
Send the Property Brothers in. Jeez.
Nate:
All right, back to Supernatural. That was our tangent. Done now. The boys find the teen party, and they’re gonna go in and break it up. But in… we see inside the teen party. Well, the pizza’s here. Oh my god, pizza, I haven’t eaten all morning. I thought was a very funny line for some reason. I haven’t eaten all morning. Yay, pizza.
They have all the occult stuff that the boys found at the pawn shop, is like lying about the living room, including the John Wayne Gacy cigar box, which of course the ghost of John Wayne Gacy. We see the hand pop out. Kabam! One
of the party goers is in the bathroom. This would be Ethan, I want to say was the kid’s name. He sees the John Wayne Gacy ghost, and like almost gets taken by it, cut to the boys outside the house, Ethan is running away. One of the girls that we saw earlier is chasing after him, and is like, no, I wanted to kiss that boy. I wanted to kiss your face. But he’s like… she’s like, he says he saw a ghost. The boys storm and they say FBI, FBI, they kick all the kids out.
Krissy:
Don’t tell them why. The kids would just go stand on the lawn.
Nate:
Yeah, they just stand outside and are like, well, I guess we’re gonna hang out out here now. So much of this is weird. So we get a good… I love the back and forth between Sam and Dean on this as they’re like, okay, look for anything clowns. Oh, cigar box. Oh yeah. And Dean’s like, this must be weird for you, because like you love serial killers, but also you hate clowns. Yeah, and this is a second time we’ve dealt with John Wayne Gacy in Supernatural. Of course, have the episode where we’re in his house, right? Is the… because we don’t ever actually see John Wayne Gacy in that episode. It just takes… it’s just takes place in his house. I don’t remember. I know we did that episode, and I can’t remember. It
was so long ago. Got nothing. Anyway, the boys get into a little… there’s no broken furniture. I was really hoping we get some broken furniture in this one, but it’s really kind of like the lamest shot of Dean just like flumping himself onto the couch of Jensen, just like… like we really skimped on the John Wayne Gacy ghost fight scene in this episode because it’s not much of a fight scene, the boys burn the box. Do love that Sam can’t get the lighter at first.
Krissy:
I love that he’s struggling with the lighter, classic, and also that’s one of the ones Dean says real quickly, he says, Sammy today.
Nate:
So he says Sammy really quick in that one.
Krissy:
Okay, I totally missed it.
Nate:
Yeah, I think I missed it the first time we watched it, and then I was like, oh shoot, he says Sammy there. He’s like, Sammy today. John Wayne Gacy ghost explodes right in front, of course, the teens who decided to go back in and challenge the FBI, or who they thought were the FBI, this time. And they see the ghost ghost out and sizzle up, and then the boys have to kind of give them the talk. The boys
give them the talk, and they say, this is gonna stay our secret. Capish, capish. Alright. Boys are
back to the bunker. There we are. There’s the pearl that Sam had referenced earlier, and pretty much he’s like, I think all you have to do is like hold it and wish for your heart’s desire, which, and Dean’s like, that’s… that’s Michael out of my head, right? And it’s like, boys. How many rodeos you’ve been to? At this point. Like, you know. Even if that’s what your head wants,
you know that’s probably not what your heart wants.
Krissy:
Yep, the heart wants what it wants.
Nate:
And if there’s any chance one of these objects can do an ironic goddamn twist on you, it’s gonna be [inaudible]. It’s gonna do it.
But they throw caution to the wind. Dean tries to focus real hard that he wants Michael out of his head, but that’s not of course what he wants. What he wants is his family back. The thing
he’s wanted since he was four years old. And the bunker starts freaking out. It goes red light, which only happens a few times throughout the show. The
show’s run, not this episode. Means there’s like an intruder, something’s wrong. Obviously, time is being messed with. That’s what’s
happening here, we find out. The boys are attacked by some sort of intruder who then has a gun, trains it on them, and then the lights come back on, and that’s when it’s dad. Dad. It’s John. Jeffrey Dean Morgan in his… and all his Negan-ness.
Krissy:
Yeah, he’s very Negan.
Nate:
In all his Neganosity. Which we’ll get to the end of the episode. So he looks so good. He looks so, so good. And it’s so good to see him in an episode again. And it made me happy when he popped up on the screen, even though I knew he was going to.
Krissy:
Right, yeah. When they advertised this episode, it was like special, very special secret guests. We were all like, we can tell it’s John. Who’s gonna be?
Nate:
I guess it could have been Bob, but Bobby’s been… they’ve had Jim Beaver back as alternate reality, Jim Beaver, as Dark World Bobby. Right, exactly. So they’ve had plenty of Jim Beaver since Bobby’s death, like, yeah, you knew who it was gonna be. And it’s John. Oh my
gosh. Take your… take your drink, take your shot, finish your drink, because it’s John. The boys, they kind of fill him in real quick on the last 16 years, because he’s like, they’re like, what year do you think it is? He’s like, 2003, and they’re like, no, it’s 2019. He’s like, yeah, Sammy, shouldn’t you be at Palo Alto? Shouldn’t you
be in Palo Alto? That’s when they’re like, they start clueing in, they’re like, something’s up here. So they kind of sit him down, they’re like, yeah, so, you know, you die. Spoiler. Fighting Yellow Eyes. We had to watch that happen, and then we, like, go on to save the world several times, and now Dean has like an archangel in his head, and we’ve fought God and his sister, and… John does a much… the recap that he does is actually pretty… oh yeah, he says, now you… you live in a bunker with your mom and an angel. Or no, I don’t think he says your mom yet. And Lucifer’s son. Lucifer’s son,
that’s what it is, an angel and Lucifer’s son. I was like, they chose kind of like a little perfect summation of it all. I thought that writing was really good. Yeah, when they cut to that. And then like it hasn’t even dawned on the boys yet. Like, what are we gonna do when Mom gets home? And that’s when she walks in the door, and they’re like, oh, it’s like as they’re realizing it, they’re like, oh, Mom, that’s right. She’s back,
right. She’s like, oh, and we get this wonderful moment between John and Mary, hugs and kisses, take a couple of drinks. And yeah, the boys have a little… I thought about doing our usual BM scene, boy melodrama scene, for this episode, except the whole episode
Krissy:
is a bit of a big one. Kind of… there’s so many. Yeah, basically the whole, like, John is just weeping openly the whole time.
Nate:
Once we’re back at the bunker, everything is a BM scene. So for the most part. So it’s like, I didn’t feel… I was like, you just… yeah, we’d be sitting here drinking the whole episode if we did that. So that’s why that rule is not in this week’s rules, is because it would have been a very heavy hitter. Yeah, so we get this… the… but the BM scene that I’m about to launch to talk about is the Dean and Sam kind of not really BM scene, just being like, Sam being like, when is this ever worked out for us? Something is definitely… there’s another side to this coin. There’s gonna be… the shoe is gonna drop. Like, pick
your expression. We are gonna feel the wrath of this decision at some point in the near or distant future. And Dean’s like, I don’t freaking care, dude. I just want to have my family back, and I’m excited, and like this like… he says where he says I’ve wanted this since I was four. Like, I
really, I could care less what the rest of the world says. Like, I just want this. And Sam does eventually come to him and say, like, you’re right. He comes to him after he and John have a great BM scene where John is like, Sammy, I treated you terribly. I am so sorry. And Sam’s trying to be like, nah, shucks, it’s fine, but he can’t do that. And he’s
like, no, yeah. The things you did sucked. But you have to understand, I’ve lived a whole life since then. So
at this point, I’m gonna bring up the wonderful folks at the Wikipedia did do this. This is about 35 and a half years after John and Mary, for John, or sorry, 35 and a half years of timeline since Mary died. Okay, so that’s how long it’s been for the boys since… since the pilot was the last time they were all together. 20 years from John’s perspective. So for John, it’s been 20, but for Mary, it’s only been two and a half years since she came back. But she, again, this is Dark World Mary. So like,
I don’t know how all that works out because I don’t remember a lot of the finer details about Dark World memories and things and who did what. Anyway. For the boys, first time seeing John in 12 years. So that’s kinda… that’s kind of where we’re at years-wise with where everyone… I’m like, because I think everyone does, I think Samantha Smith does a really great job at kind of like all her emotions throughout this episode. She’s like, God, could you just even imagine like getting… you died, but now you’re back to life, or but you’re again Dark World, whatever. Your… what you thought was dead husband is that he comes back, but only for a day. And then you have to
Krissy:
say… not even a whole day, not even a whole day, afternoon, just for dinner.
Nate:
John does say that she’s going out to get… or she’s writing up ingredient or a list of items for Dean to get for the casserole, take a drink.
Krissy:
Yep, that would be Winchester Surprise.
Nate:
The Winchester Surprise, of course. Yeah, so that’s where the boys then go. They’re like, okay, well, we’re gonna go out. Sam says to Dean, like, you’re right, like we should just enjoy this while we have it. I’m gonna give you some company to go get these ingredients. We drive back to Lebanon. The boys, Dean says, I’ll get the booze, you get the food. Dean goes
into our lovely liquor store and he says, hey, whatever the bartender’s name was. Right. It’s celebration time. Give me
the good stuff. And he’s like, who are you? He’s like, it’s me, Dean Campbell. You know, you know me from like all the time. And he’s
like, oh sure. And it was weird, really weird interaction. We cut to Sam who’s got his arm full of groceries and is standing outside the post office where the woman, Marta, is in there again, and she shuts the blinds on him because she’s like, oh, he’s strange. Also Max walks by and Sam says, hey Max, she’s like, weirdo. So Sam has a couple of interactions, but he’s like, whatever. That’s kind
of how people treat me around here anyway. But then he sees the wanted sign in the post office window for Dean. Dean’s wanted, $100,000 reward. And apparently Dean’s the only wanted person.
Krissy:
Right, because Sam never left school in this
Nate:
No, I just mean like in the war in America.
Krissy:
Oh okay.
Nate:
I hear you. It’s like not up there with like a… but you know, if like you go to the store or whatever, and you go to the one of the back, they always got like pictures of wanted people up sometimes on bulletin boards or whatever. I guess not, I don’t see that so much here. I see
that in other states a lot. And yeah, that but like this was like just Dean. No one else is wanted. Just Dean. And Dean says it’s [inaudible] real casually, yeah, apparently a bunch of beheadings. So yeah, Sam’s like, Dean, something’s really wrong. He’s like,
no, I know, look at this. And I, this, I don’t know why it bugged me so much. I mean, I do know why it bugged me so much. Dean has a smartphone, but it makes an old school dumb phone beeping sound. They like insert a sound effect in there that’s like beep. To like
have like as him like playing the video or whatever. Oh, I didn’t even notice. Yeah, it just only because I have the subtitles on and it literally says beep, but also I heard it, and I was like, that’s not… the new phones don’t make that sound. You don’t have that sound anymore. It should have been like a… if you’ve done like a click or like a [inaudible] or something, but not a like… it is like a phone dial number beeping sound. Like when you dial a phone, it’s like boop. Anyway.
All these little weird things that they threw in there. I was like, this is such a strange YouTube. I don’t think it… I don’t think it was necessary. Anyway, Sam
is on video giving like some lame TED talk. Basically saying that like you… if you have… if you want to be successful, you can’t have a family. You can’t have friends, you can’t have hobbies, you just have to like devote all your mental energy to being successful and also have a raw food diet. God bless kale or whatever he says.
Krissy:
God bless kale, he says. Yeah, thank God for… thank God for kale.
Nate:
So Dean is like, dude, like, what the hell? And Sam is like, yeah, I just saw your wanted poster. He’s like, oh, I Googled myself too. Yeah,
a lot of the headings. He’s like, I’m still cool, but you… oh, we gotta fix this. What? So there’s two of us? What’s going on? And Sam, of course, has just got the answer. It’s a temporal.
Krissy:
Sam always got the answer, yeah.
Nate:
It’s a temporal paradox. Eventually we’ll just become them. Well, definitely can’t have that. So we gotta figure out how to fix it, and what else has changed? And the boys are like, huh? And then, yeah. We get some thunder. And I think this might have happened right before it, but either way, it’s Zachariah, Kurt Fuller is Zachariah.
Krissy:
Kurt Fuller is back, and then he’s joined by Castiel.
Nate:
Take a drink, Cas.
Krissy:
Cas, but it’s old school Cas. It’s Angel of the Lord Cas.
Nate:
That’s right. And Zachariah gives us a great pop culture reference where he says, come on, Constantine.
Krissy:
They all come from him, yeah.
Nate:
Yeah, he has like all of most of the pop culture references. I did count one with the kids earlier where they say that the boys are like trapping Bigfoot, or say they mentioned Bigfoot. I counted
that as one. But yeah, we don’t really get many of them until then Kurt Fuller comes in, and yes, he calls Cas Constantine. Cas literally goes, I don’t understand that reference. He’s like, yeah, I know you wouldn’t. It’s so
fun. The two of them enter the Italian, again, the Italian restaurant. And Zachariah says, someone in here has been messing with time, and we in heaven, we don’t like when people do that. This town’s always been a little muddy for us. So who’s been playing Back to the Future? Take a
drink. He also has another one in there. It’s Back to the Future and something else that he says in this little rant. Or, I’m gonna have this guy… what’s the word? Murder you.
Nate:
I am Castiel, an angel of the Lord.
Nate:
Smashes out the lights, broken furniture, take a drink. Nice, yeah. Yeah, I almost missed that one. And the boys, oh yeah, Cas flashes his wings, and that’s what draws the attention of the boys from outside is Castiel flashing his wings, making it all bright. And the boys go in and they’re like, Zachariah, Cas. What? Get out of here, everyone. We’re gonna fight them. Fight scene ensues, all sorts of broken furniture.
Krissy:
Yeah, the whole restaurant. All sorts of broken furniture. All over the tables, shelves, chairs, all sorts of broken furniture. And what was a pretty good fight scene?
Krissy:
Yeah, Cas is kicking ass.
Nate:
Cas is kicking ass. Why Dean would try to… again, why… why try to fight an angel? Also surprised that Cas didn’t just straight smite him, and he’s like trying to choke him out like a normal person. It’s like, wouldn’t you just smite him or like make his insides jello or something? Like, can’t you do that?
Krissy:
Somehow deep inside Cas knew he was in love. He knew.
Nate:
So yeah, good, good little fight scene. Sam gets Zachariah with an angel blade, then is able to, in blood, draw out a sigil to send Cas… to zap Cas back to wherever angels get zapped to when they get zapped. Yeah, so the boys are like, what the hell? Clearly, we cannot… like, they’re starting to realize the ramifications of what they’ve done. And they’re
like, okay, we should probably put everything back because, well, this world sucks. Like, we can’t… the world sucks without us having saved it, and without us being together, and without us being good brothers, and we just can’t have that world. So we have to break the news to Dad. And Sam’s like, how are we gonna break the news to Mom? Ugh. Cut to that scene of Dean telling John, so yeah, we’re gonna have to destroy the pearl because all the work we’ve done for the last year.
Krissy:
Last six years.
Nate:
Just like gone down the drain. Like… we could really, you could really dig into the butterfly effect of like… I mean, does this mean the apocalypse? I guess the boys never would have let the demons out of the… out of the demon gate way back when. So you wouldn’t have had that mess. That then maybe you wouldn’t have had like Lilith. Like, I guess maybe some of the apocalypsey things then wouldn’t have happened because the boys didn’t start triggering them. Anyway. I was
like, man, you could really do a whole thing about like all the things that would be different if the boys had never got into hunting. Yeah, so Jeffrey Dean Morgan slash John is like, well, that’s an easy choice. Me or your mom. I get
it. I’ll go back to my sad dead life. I didn’t expect to be here anyway. I guess neither did your mom, but I got way more time with you as kids. He doesn’t say any of this, but I was thinking it. He’s like, I got way more time with you when you were kids. It’s her time now. Like, to
get to be with you. So if we had to make that choice, that is the right choice. I think we’re all in grief. Because basically the… the ramification, one of the ramifications would be that Mary would just fade away, would disappear, like straight up. Right, exactly. If they let John continue being there. So, but the Winchesters, they’re gonna have their dinner. Gosh darn it. Mary’s making.
Krissy:
Going to eat that goddamn casserole if it’s the last thing they do.
Nate:
That’s right. And they do, and they’re sitting there. Take drinks for when they drink. Also, John was drinking earlier when he first… the boys sat him down and told him stuff. So take drinks there. Dean was drinking when they got back from the bunker. I missed all the drinks when they drink.
Krissy:
There weren’t that many. There weren’t that many, but I missed talking about him in the recap.
Nate:
So John then gives this delightful little pre-dinner speech toast thing where he says, we have two choices. We can either sit here thinking about what is gonna happen, or we can be grateful for the time we have. I choose to be grateful. Everyone says
amen. We all start drinking our wine or whiskey, and then eating some good dinner that looked… it looked tasty. And then we get the scene where they all have to say goodbye. It’s real
emotional. John and Mary hug and smooch. John hugs the boys, says, I’m proud of you. And I love you, and I love you, and only Dean says I love you back. What, Sammy!
Get in there! What are you doing? Huh? I just… I don’t know, man. This is like some straight Dorothy and Wizard of Oz. I’ve always
loved you most of all scarecrow bullshit. Yep. They smashed the pearl. Is that how you destroy pearls? Can you just smash them? Yeah, I think so. Really, they’re that brittle. I would have assumed pearls would be pretty robust. I would have thought they would have to burn it or something.
Krissy:
Well, maybe not a magical pearl.
Nate:
True. It was a magical Chinese pearl. John fades away. And yeah, then Cas shows back. Cas shows up. Cas. He says, what happened? And Dean’s like, well, there’s a story. And that’s the end of the episode, pretty sure. Did I miss anything?
Krissy:
No, I don’t think so. That’s a little Lebanon. Episode 300, baby. I did. Oh, the kids, the kids come back at the end and they’re like, monsters are real.
Nate:
Yeah, they’re excited. The kids are excited about monsters, and I also missed John back in 2003 waking up in Baby.
Krissy:
He just had the best dream. He just had the best dream.
Nate:
Looking not like Jeffrey Dean Morgan of 2003, though, looking exactly the same. As he did in the episode. As the rest of the episode, like, I do wish they would… it wasn’t that long ago. I think we had the technology. We probably could have like AI’d up some 2000s or mid-2000s looking Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I don’t know.
Krissy:
I’m kind of glad they didn’t. Just, you know, let him be what he is, and we’ll all suspend our disbelief.
Nate:
Yeah, I can suspend disbelief. Their dad.
Nate:
But like, I wanted chunky Jeffrey D. Morgan from the mid-2000s. I wanted full-faced, not JLP one, Jeffrey D. Morgan.
Krissy:
J L P one.
Nate:
G L P, G L P one. Yeah, John.
Krissy:
JPEG Jeffrey Morgan.
Nate:
John LP one. Yeah. But yeah, I like this episode a lot. I think when you’re doing a fan service episode, which is obviously what this is, there’s no bones about that. I think they really walked that tightrope very finely and nailed it. I think like there were enough callbacks, references, jokes, things to like old Supernatural stuff. But at the end, it was a… not a lot happens, and it was all about just the characters, and it was a very sweet episode, and it was very sweet episode to get to see all of them together for the first and only time. Yeah, I
agree. That to me, I was… I was a little surprised watching it… watching it obviously again, but for the first time for this, like I was like, man, for 300, like there’s not a lot going on in this episode.
Krissy:
Other, but like, I kind of like that it was a combination of like a monster of the week and a myth arc episode. I kind of liked that juxtaposition of like half of the episode as we’re fighting these one-off monsters, and the other half is we’re dealing with more bad.
Nate:
I don’t even think they were fighting the monster. They just found this pawn shop and that kind of like set it up. They used it as like… I think the setup was great. Because I wouldn’t consider this a monster of the week at all. Obviously, you have to like know a little bit about the show to understand anything that’s going on, but I don’t… you don’t need like deep extensive knowledge. You just kind of have to have known kind of what the premise of the show is, I guess. I guess to explain how Mary’s back in their lives, you really have to, but yeah, I just think like it was… it was subtle in all the right ways. I don’t
think they went too big. I don’t think the… man, oh. Kurt Fuller and Cas were both in the 100th episode, by the way. I read that also in the trivia. So they were in both the 300th and the 100th. And Jensen
and Jared are the only two people who were in all 300 episodes, or at this point, all 300 episodes, and but Sam Winchester is the only character that was in every episode of Supernatural because there’s an episode where Dean is Michael. And… Oh, yes.
Krissy:
Yes.
Nate:
Oh, Sammy. Sam is the only character that’s in every episode of Supernatural. I’m trying to skim through the trivia. Although also there were no international titles on this episode.
Krissy:
No, there weren’t. It was just Lebanon.
Nate:
Yeah. We took our drinks. I didn’t mention it, but we definitely took our drinks at the beginning. Did I say that part? That rule. Yeah, for Hell Hazers and All Saints Day, the
Krissy:
the marquee outside the movie theater and the posters, yeah.
Nate:
Also Beetlejuice. This theater was showing three movies.
Krissy:
Beetlejuice. All vintage Halloween. All vintage Halloween stuff, but it was February 7th. So I don’t… I don’t… I was a little confused by that. I was like, oh. It’s a small town. It’s a small town. They don’t… they can’t afford new. It’s Halloween all year round. Yeah.
Nate:
Yeah, I don’t… I don’t think there’s anything super else, like, major interesting in the trivia that I forgot to mention, but Krissy, let’s talk about how the rules played out.
Krissy:
Okay, I think I missed a bunch because I was just caught up in the episode as usual, and so I’m… if my numbers are low, I apologize. Well, it happens, definitely.
Nate:
Dragon’s Breath, said or seen, I got 3 times. I got 3 times. Hell Hazers slash All Saints Day, I did 2 for each. I got 2, yep. Dean the Charmer happens once, but as we talked about it, you could count it a second time for when he flashes the lot of money.
Krissy:
Third time for when he tries to charm the liquor store guy. Oh, yeah, you totally could.
Nate:
John and Cas appear on screen each of the times, and Cas twice. I guess we count the second time too. Sammy, Krissy, you said you only got once. We only got one. I got 4 Sammies.
Krissy:
Oh, okay. Well, I just missed them. That’s a tough one to watch out for because it doesn’t bounce off my head, you know. I hear Sammy and I
Nate:
think because John says it 3 times is why I was like, oh man. And I think it’s because John is in the episode why it happens so much. Drink when they drink, I got 4. Got 4. Smooching or some hugs, I got 5. I got 3. Were you counting hugs and smooches together? Like I was counting… so like you have John and Mary at the beginning, and then John and Mary at the end, both a hug and a smooch, so that’s 2.
Krissy:
And then John with the boys, John with the boys for 1. Right.
Nate:
But I counted… I counted hugs and kisses separately.
Krissy:
Oh, I see. So that’s how you got 2 more.
Nate:
That’s how I got 2 more than you. So we’re on the same number, but I counted a hug and a kiss as separate… as separate things. Okay, fair enough. Casserole or Winchester Surprise. Casserole said once, but then they mentioned Winchester Surprise another time, so I counted it twice. I got 3. Oh shit. Oh, then they eat it, yeah. How many pop culture references did you get, Krissy? 4. I got 9.
Krissy:
You got 9?
Nate:
Oh wow, I missed a bunch. 9.
Krissy:
I didn’t count John Wayne Gacy as a pop culture reference because he was a real person.
Nate:
I’m not… I think I did count John Wayne Gacy because I think knowing about John Wayne Gacy is a pop culture thing, I guess. Like, and I disagree. The way we would consider like knowing about presidents a pop culture thing. Like, I don’t know. I guess it’s not pop, but isn’t it popcorn? Like he’s like a famous serial killer. You wouldn’t consider like Ted Bundy or Charles Manson pop culture.
Krissy:
No, I consider them historical. Yeah. Okay.
Nate:
But yeah, then obviously the Zachariah has a bunch, and then I think when we get back to the bunker after the angel dust up, I think they have… there’s a couple there too. I didn’t write them all down, but I marked 9. And then how many broken furniture did you get? I only got 3. I got 5. Oh.
Krissy:
See, I told you I was gonna be low on all these.
Nate:
Yeah, they all pretty much… they all happen in the restaurant fight scene, but I was like counting each individual, like, oh, that’s a piece of furniture, okay.
Krissy:
The lights, a table, the shelving, the shelving unit that gets smashed, I think there’s been something else I saw earlier in the episode, but I don’t remember. I didn’t write it down, but I got 5. So that’s how it played out. I thought it was… I would give this game probably three and a half out of five Winchester Surprises.
Krissy:
Okay, I’d go ahead and give it 3 Winchester Surprises, because I think this falls into the trap of like it’s an episode we have to do, but it does not lend itself well to a drinking game.
Nate:
Right. The only other rule I would have put in, but it would have only hit once, would have been classic rock song plays. And actually, I probably would have said double it because it’s a Bob Seger song. They specifically love Bob Seger in the show. “Till It Shines” by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band was the song?
Krissy:
I would have added man tears.
Nate:
That I did think about, man tears, during the second watch. I was like, ah, yeah, I should have definitely done man tears. That would have been a solid add to this game. So if you haven’t watched it yet, add some man tears.
Nate:
But Krissy, what’s coming up next?
Krissy:
Okay, so we’re only going two episodes away. We’re going to season 14, episode 15, “Peace of Mind.” Here are your rules. If we see wings, take a drink. If we see or hear about milkshakes, take a drink. If we hear Sammy referred to as tall or the Tall Fella, take a drink. And also, this is not one of the rules, but Casty always still says hair. He has beautiful hair. If heads pop, take a drink. If we say Charming Acres or see the Charming Acres sign, take a drink.
Nate:
Oh, I’m just remembering what episode this is. Yeah.
Krissy:
Take a drink anytime someone says it’s a small town. Take your shot, double your drink, waterfall, finish your drink if Sammy goes rar. And then finally, take a drink when someone says WWWD. What would the Winchesters do?
Nate:
Oh, we’re gonna have to sit and watch this episode again, huh?
Krissy:
Yep, I had to watch it today. You’ve got to watch it a bit too.
Nate:
For those who don’t know, we did this for Phoenix Fan Fusion as our mashup this past year. So it has been watched thoroughly recently by the both of us. But without sound. But without sound, well, one time with sound, but yes, the rest of it without sound. So yeah. I’m excited. I always love this one for mashup. Yeah, we know this one.
Krissy:
We know it like the back of our hands. Sure do. So that’s what’s up. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here with us at the end. If you’re here with us at the end, it’s because you want more Gank That Drank. And you can support the podcast a number of ways. You can like, rate, review, subscribe, tell a friend, tell a neighbor, tell your dad who pops back from the year 2003 to let you know he’s proud of you and he’s always loved you, even though he really made a case for the opposite. Do you think John is like… I really live?
Nate:
I’m really excited to hear how President Howard Dean did in his time in office or something like. Is that.
Krissy:
Is the… is the war in Afghanistan over, boy.
Krissy:
Well. [inaudible]. Yes. And do all that for our podcast. It makes a big deal. It makes a big difference, and we appreciate it. If you want even more, if you want to get episodes a week early and ad-free, become a member at TruStory.fm. Just click on our little podcast. Click on our little join link, and you can join up that way. We appreciate you. We love you. 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 in downtown Mesa, Arizona. We do shows on Thursday through Saturday. Occasionally there are Sunday shows. But mostly Thursday through Saturday at times at either 7 or 7:30, depending on the day that you’re going. If you want to look at what times those might be, or tickets, go to nctphoenix.com. That’s N as in neighborhood, C as in comedy, T as in theater, Phoenix.com. And if you come to a show and Krissy and/or I are there and tell us that you listen to Gank That Drank, we will buy you a beer or a beverage of your choice from the Sacred Pipe, the bar that exists in the front of our establishment.
Krissy:
So gank a drink with you.
Nate:
Yeah, come on out, come see a show. It’s very fun. We just had a showcase, student showcase on Sunday, and they did a great job. And yeah, we always have fun. We always have a good time.
Krissy:
Heck yeah, we do. And you can listen to me on The Most Excellent 80s Movies podcast. It’s a 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. And Nate is gonna be a guest soon on an episode about Fast Times at Ridgemont High. So check that episode out. And while you’re out there in the world saving people and hunting things, you know, the family business. Please keep the Gank That Drank motto in mind. Be excellent to each other, and
Both:
Party on, dudes!
