1.10 Asylum
| Promotional image from Asylum | |
| Title | Asylum |
| Episode # | Season 1, Episode 10 |
| First aired | 22 November, 2005 |
| Directed by | Guy Bee |
| Written by | Richard Hatem |
| On IMDB | http://imdb.com/title/tt0713610/ |
| Outline | Sam and Dean are trapped in an abandoned Asylum with a ghost who causes extreme rage in its victims. |
| Monster | Ghost |
| Timeline | 6-8 April, 2006 (speculation) |
| Location(s) | Rockford, Illinois |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Music
See the Music page also.
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Hey You
Pad of Definitions
Additional definitions provided by fans
Quotes
Kat (to Gavin): If we make it out of here alive…we are so breaking up.
Kat: So, how do you guys know about all this ghost stuff?
Sam: It’s kind of our job.
Kat: Why would anyone want a job like that?
Sam: I had a crappy guidance counselor.
Dean: You’re not gonna try to kill me, are you?
Sam: No.
Dean: Good. Because that would be awkward.
Trivia & References
- Filming Location: Riverview Hospital; The Old Terminal Pub
- Dean: I'm Nigel Tufnel, from the Chicago Tribune.
- Spinal Tap: This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 mocumentary, directed by Rob Reiner about heavy-metal glam rock band Spinal Tap.
Dean: [to Sam about John] I love the guy, but I swear he writes like friggin' Yoda.
- Yoda is a character in the Star Wars universe (not like anyone wouldn't know this). Yoda speaks in an unusual manner by placing verbs (and more frequently, auxiliary verbs) after the object and subject. In linguistic typology this is the "Object Subject Verb" format. A typical example of Yoda's speech pattern is from Return of the Jedi: "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not."
Dean: [to Sam] Let me know if you see any dead people, Haley Joel.
- Haley Joel Osment starred in The Sixth Sense, in which he played 9-year old Cole Sear. Cole has psychic abilities; he "sees dead people," and is rather emotionally scarred by this ability.
Dean: Hey, Sam, who do you think is a hotter psychic: Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt, or you?
- Arquette plays psychic Allison DuBois in the TV series Medium; Hewitt plays psychic Melinda Gordon in the TV series Ghost Whisperer.
Dean: Man, electroshock, lobotomies, they did some twisted stuff to these people. Kind of like my man Jack in Cuckoo's Nest.
- Jack Nicholson played Randle McMurphy in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (based on the novel by Ken Kesey). McMurphy, a serial petty criminal who has been sentenced to a fairly short prison term, decides to have himself declared insane so he'll be transferred to a mental institution, where he expects to serve the rest of his time in (comparative) comfort and luxury. Of course, the institution is a very bad place, and very bad things happen (all completely "Natural"), but I don't want to spoil anything. :)
Dean: Spirits driving them insane. Kind of like my man Jack in The Shining.
- Another reference to The Shining, a film in which Dean's Man Jack (Nicholson) plays a writer driven insane and homicidal by a haunted hotel.
Sam: No, Dean, I mean it was weird that she didn't attack me.
Dean: Looked pretty aggro from where I was standing.
- Possible reference to computer gaming: the term "aggro" is used as a measure of how much hate/aggression a computer-generated foe holds for a player. The more aggro something has for you, the more likely it is to attack you. Whether Dean would be familiar with gaming terms is questionable.
Dean: All work and no play makes Doctor Ellicot a very dull boy.
- Yet another reference to The Shining. This is possibly Dean's favorite movie. This line refers to a scene in the movie where Jack Nicholson's character, Jack, has been supposedly writing for months. His wife has heard him, day after day, pounding away on his typewriter. Finally, when he is elsewhere, curiosity get the better of her. She walks to the typewriter, and sees the sheet in place. Written on it are endless repetitions of the single sentence "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." She looks through the stack of papers neatly placed to the side with increasing horror; the book Jack was working on consists of only the repetitions and permutations of layout of that same sentence. Over and over, through hundreds of pages.
Dean: Doctor Feelgood was working on some sort of, like, extreme rage therapy.
- Most likely a reference to the Mötley Crüe album because, well, it's Dean.
The background story of this episode is similar to the 1999 film House on Haunted Hill starring Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen. Both involve ghosts of professors at abondoned mental asylums who carried out twisted procedures on their subjects.
