Welcome back, superfans! After last week’s big reveal that Sam came back from Hell short one soul, this week explores precisely what that means for his character. And by “explore,” I mean highlight his hilarious new lack of empathy by way of a Pinocchio-themed X-files parody. This. This is precisely why the show deserves to continue (even if the natural storyline would have been better served by ending at Season 5). Shizz is B-A-N-A-N-A-S, darlings, and I’m here for every surreal second of it.
THE OFFICIAL FYA SUPERNATURAL DRINKING GAME:
Take a drink every time:
• There’s a corpse
• A demon possesses/de-possesses and/or makes a deal with some hapless schmuck
• Someone on the show takes a drink
• Dean crams his face full of junk food
• Anyone is tied up
• Either brother picks a lock
• Someone employs a Titan of Classic Rock as an alias
• The Glorious and Faithful Impala is damaged in the line of duty
6x9: Clap Your Hands if You Believe
Monster of the Week: Leprechaun
Strange things are happening in a small Midwestern town—crop circles, missing teens, fairy sightings, seemingly sentient timepieces. The Winchesters roll into town to check it out. Dean gets promptly gets abducted by aliens. He’s mysteriously released only hours later and finds his brother in flagrante with a UFO enthusiast instead of out trying to find him. Not cool, bro.
Dean’s abduction story is pretty par for the course, except for the fact that he was armed with a revolver and fired it wildly into the crowd of aliens before they could probe him. Later, he’s attacked by a Tinkerbell-shaped ball of light to Bowie’s “Major Tom,” before he traps her in a microwave and nukes her until she explodes. Did I mention that this episode is delightful?
Sam theorizes that fairies are behind the attacks! Dean seemingly confirms this when he stumbles across a bunch of tiny little elves running the town watchmaker’s business for him! Sam confronts the guy and learns that he has Parkinson’s, leaving him without the fine motor skills his business requires. After he used a summoning spell, a leprechaun appeared and made him a deal—industrious elves that would do all his work in exchange for the “fruit and fat of the land. Which turned out to be the town’s first-born children. Tricksy leprechaun!
When Dean gets arrested for attacking a little person he thinks might be a fairy, Sam has to face the creature alone. The leprechaun tells him he could get his soul back for him for a price. Sam thinks about it for precisely a half second before shooting him with iron and sending him back to fairyland.
Heaven and Hell of it All: Sam’s lack of a soul/empathy manifests itself pretty hilariously this week, for example, when he remains blithely unconcerned when Dean’s abducted, advising him to watch out for the “fourth encounter,” i.e. “butt stuff,” while simultaneously checking out a pretty waitress. Later, Dean tries to convince Sam that he should have felt torn up when he went missing, leading our ginormous friend to the conclusion that having a soul = suffering, which also = totes lame.
Drink Count: 4, for dranks drunk onscreen.
The Quotable Winchesters: “If you want to add glitter to that glue you’re sniffing, that’s fine, but don’t dump your wackadoo all over us. We’d rather not step in it.” –Sam, once again proving soulless Sam is way more fun than standard Sam.
Most GIF-able moment:
So many contenders this week (seriously, watch this episode), but Dean's crazy-eyed rant against fairies while being arrested pulls ahead by a nose.
Notable Cameos: None
6x10: Caged Heat
Monster of the Week: Crowley
The Winchsters are ambused! By who you might ask. Sigh. I’m sorry to have to tell you this, darlings. Meg. It was Meg. Meg is back. Give me a moment.
*curses a few times* *sighs* *gathers self*
Pressing on!
The demon who will not stay dead no matter how much we wish it (and who is also still loyal to Lucifer) agrees to Sam’s proposal of an alliance against Crowley. Sam plans on double-crossing her of course, and also calls Castiel for backup, promising to hunt him down if he doesn’t deliver. Damn, Moose. Take it down a notch.
Crowley has built himself a Guantanamo for alpha monsters and is torturing them to find the location of Purgatory. The boys try to get the location out of Grandpa Samuel, but he won’t help because Crowley promised to bring Mary back if he plays the good little lackey. Dean has harsh words for him that appear to mean something because he later shows up and tells the boys where the prison is.
After Sam recovers Ruby’s demon-slaying knife from Meg, she, her demons, Castiel and the boys head out to storm Crowley’s hideout. Too bad Grandpa Samuel told Crowley to expect them. For inexplicable reasons, Meg and Cas share a steamy kiss and then she throws herself to hellhounds so the Winchesters can get a shot at Crowley. They are, of course, almost immediately captured. After a little torture and a few stray vampires, everyone gets free and they manage to capture Crowley in a demon’s trap. Meg, being the worst, allows him to get escape. Luckily, Cas shows up with Crowley’s bones and sets them aflame, seemingly killing him. Meg disappears before anyone gets any ideas and Cas heads off to clean out the monster prison.
Heaven and Hell of it All: Dean is starting to think Sam doesn’t even want his soul back. Castiel tells Dean he’s not sure it’s even a good idea. Sam’s soul has been locked up with two very angry angels for a long time—he thinks putting it back into his body will result in Sam turning into at best, a catatonic mess and at worst, a monster. Before he gets torched, Crowley says that he can’t bring Sam’s soul out. Cas promises to find another way. But Sam prefers to keep whatever life he has to the chance of losing it entirely.
Drink Count: 9 for corpses, people tied, and a demon deal.
The Quotable Winchesters: “If this pizza man truly loves this babysitter, why does he keep slapping her rear?” –Castiel, watching porn in the motel du Winchester and not really understanding how it works.
Most GIF-able moment:
He learned that from the pizza man.
Notable Cameos: None
Next Week: Death is back!