11.07 Plush

{{Episode |Infobox=

Title	Plush
Episode #	Season 11, Episode 7
First aired	November 18, 2015
Directed by	Tim Andrew
Written by	Eric Charmelo Nicole Snyder
On IMDB	Plush
Outline	Sheriff Donna calls on Sam and Dean to help on a case involving people driven to murder after donning costumes.
Monster	Vengeful Spirit
Timeline
Location(s)	Cottage Grove, Minnesota Lebanon, Kansas
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|Synopsis=

|Characters=

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Sheriff Donna Hanscum
• Officer Doug Stover
• Chester Johnson

|Pad_of_Definitions=

• Aliases
• Alcohol
• Clowns
• EMF
• Ghost
• Holy Water
• Hugs
• Hunters
• Iron
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Possession
• Salt
• Table of Death
• Unconscious
• Vengeful Spirit

|Music=

• "Hell to Pay" by Five Finger Death Punch

(playing on Brock Buckner's iPod)

|Quotes=

Sam: So um, on the off chance You're actually listening. I gotta be real honest, the visions aren't making a whole lot of real sense to me. Truth is, I don't know what's what. Please, what are You trying to say?

Dean: I thought we talked about this.

Sam: Yeah, we did, Dean. But why's it so hard to believe God could be sending me visions about the Darkness?

Dean: You kidding me? He didn't feel the need to show up for the Apocalypse, why would He give a crap now?

Dean: I'm saying don't count on God, count on us.

Donna: For the most part been tater tots and lemon drops, except for this doozy. I mean, when you get a call about a killer Easter Bunny, you don't know what to think.

Donna: My guess? Copycat killer.
Dean: Damn social media.

Sam: Yeah, so, Ghosts 101: somebody's spirit can attach itself to an object or a bunch of objects left behind. In this case, masks.

Dean: Right. So, whoever possesses the object...

Sam: ...Gets possessed.

Sam: Everything has a weakness, even ghosts.
Dean: They hate iron and salt, so all we gotta do is spook the spook with a little salt and, uh, maybe we could pry it off.

Dean: Killer clown? You're serious?
Sam: No Dean, I'm joking. Because clowns are really funny to me.

Donna: I don't know how you two do this. Day in day out, figuring out who's possessed, who isn't. Your life's one big poop storm isn't it?
Dean: Spoken like a true hunter.

Sam: I keep praying to God because if it is God, and I know you think it isn't, but if it is, He's showing me something I don't know what to do with.

Dean: What?
Sam: The Cage.
Dean: Lucifer's Cage?
Sam: Yeah. What if He's telling me I have to go back, what if He's saying that's where the answer is to defeating the Darkness?

Dean: Sam, no. No, okay? I don't know if these visions are coming from God or PBS or what. But we been down that road. Anything having to do with that cage is-it's suicide, you of all people know that. So no. Just... not gonna happen.

|Trivia_References=

Merriam-Webster defines plush as "a thick, soft fabric." Urban Dictionary defines a plushie as a stuffed animal, a person who collects stuffed animals, or a person who has a sexual fetish for stuffed animals. Finally, Plush is also the name of a song by Stone Temple Pilots.

Dean: Yeah maybe. I'm just still not 100% sure this is our kind of a case, but if you got a wild hare... See what I did there?

"Wild hare" is a pun on the term "wild hair," which refers to a person who does something sudden or unexpected. It is derived from the expression "to have a wild hair up one’s ass" or various variations of the phrase.

Sam and Dean use the aliases Elliot and Savage. Joe Elliott is the lead singer and Rick Savage is the bass player for English rock band Def Leppard.

Sam: What's the deal? He seems nice.

Donna: He is! But he's a cop... named Doug. I mean, clearly, I have a type, but no, thank you, ma'am. Won't be once bitten, twice Doug'd.

A reference to the idom, "once bitten, twice shy."

Dean: Alright, where's the wascally wabbit?

"Wascally wabbit" is a catchphrase used by Elmer Fudd.

Dean: What's up, Doc? Be easier all around if you just talk to us.

"What's up, Doc?" is a catchphrase used by Bugs Bunny.

Dean: So what happened pal? Hmm, what you drop too much Molly, superglue your mask to your head, get paranoid, stab a guy? I been there.

"Molly" is a slang term for MDMA or ecstasy.

Sam: Let me guess Rog, you were framed.

A reference to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Donna: Hurt myself? I do CrossFit. Just gotta engage the core, and lift with the knees. Watch and learn.

CrossFit is an exercise program that combines aerobics, calisthenics, and weight lifting.

Dean: Okay, other than the mask not coming off and the jester Hulking out, did you notice anything else unusual?

Donna: You get a story out of Bozo?

Bozo the Clown was a popular TV clown during the 1960s.

Donna: Here's hoping something less murderous brings you back to Minnesota, like Prince or Cheese Curd Fest.

Multi-instrumentalist singer-song writer Prince is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cheese curds are a regional delicacy in the midwestern US.