1.08 Bugs

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Title	Bugs
Episode #	Season 1, Episode 8
First aired	8 November, 2005
Directed by	Kim Manners
Written by	Rachel Nave Bill Coakley
On IMDB	http://imdb.com/title/tt0713612/
Outline	Sam and Dean head to Oklahoma to investigate a recent spate of insect-related deaths around a new housing development.
Monster	Curse
Timeline	20-26 March, 2006
Location(s)	Oasis Plains, Oklahoma Utoka Valley Sapulpa, Oklahoma
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Production

• Filming Location: Chemistry Building, UBC

Music

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• Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
• Bob Reynolds - Medusa
• The Scorpions - No One Like You

Pad of Definitions

• Bowhunting
• Elementals
• Telepath

References

Dean: Mad cow? Wasn't that on Oprah?
Sam: You watch Oprah?

In reference to the "Mad Cow" issue: Winfrey's influence reaches far beyond pop-culture and into unrelated industries where many believe she has the power to cause enormous market swings and radical price changes with a single comment. During a show about mad cow disease with Howard Lyman (aired on April 16, 1996), Winfrey exclaimed, "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Texas cattlemen sued her and Lyman in early 1998 for "false defamation of perishable food" and "business disparagement," claiming that WillarWinfrey's remarks subsequently sent cattle prices tumbling, costing beef producers some USD$12 million. On February 26, after a trial spanning over two months in an Amarillo, Texas court in the thick of cattle country, a jury found Winfrey and Lyman were not liable for damages. (After the trial, she received a postcard from Rosanne Barr reading, "Congratulations, you beat the meat!")

Dean: Maybe they're being controlled somehow, you know, by something or someone.
Sam: You mean, like Willard?
Dean: Yeah, bugs instead of rats.
Sam: There are cases of psychic connections between people and animals. Elementals, telepaths...
Dean: Yeah, that whole Timmy-Lassie thing... Larry's kid, bugs for pets.

• Willard was a 1971 horror movie about a social misfit named Willard, who has a strange affinity/link with rats. He controls the rats to attack and kill people who have been cruel to him.
• Lassie, a television series (1954-1974), revolved around a collie named Lassie and her boy owner, Timmy, a farm boy frequently helped out of scrapes by his super-intelligent dog.

Dean: [to Sam] You were kind of like the blonde chick in The Munsters.

The Munsters was a 1960's tv show about a family of... monsters - vampires, a "Frankenstein" type monster, and various other ghouls. "The blonde chick," niece Marilyn Munster, is the only member of the family who is completely normal. The family is vaguely ashamed of their relationship to such an "ugly" person, and even Marilyn is aware of her "plain-ness". She bemoans that she keeps scaring off potential boyfriends, having no idea that the youths are in fact frightened away by her family.

Scripts, Sides & Transcripts

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