11.19 The Chitters

Title	The Chitters
Episode #	Season 11, Episode 19
First aired	April 27, 2016
Directed by	Eduardo Sanchez
Written by	Nancy Won
On IMDB	The Chitters
Outline	Sam and Dean team up with a pair of married hunters on the hunt for bisaans that have been attacking the people of a small town in Colorado every twenty-seven years.
Monster	Bisaan
Timeline
Location(s)	Gunnison, Colorado Lebanon, Kansas
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Cesar Cuevas
• Jesse Cuevas
• Sheriff Tyson

Definitions

• Aliases
• Alcohol
• Bisaan
• Drugs
• Hunters
• Hunter's Funeral Pyre
• Impala
• Men of Letters Bunker
• Monsters
• Table of Death

Music

• "Things Have Changed" by Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets Featuring Sam Myers

(playing in the bar where Sam and Dean meet with Cesar and Jesse)

Quotes

Dean: I've been with Amara. Her beef is with the big guys -- with God, with Lucifer. The small fries, even an angel like Cas, doesn't even register. And if it meant hurting Lucifer, killing Cas would mean nothing to her.

Sam: So we get back out there. We get back to work. We keep moving. We keep working. We'll catch a break on Cas. We have to. It's -- it's karma.
Dean: You know, karma's been kicking us in the teeth lately.

Dean: Green eyes, buzzing. Weed alone doesn't conjure up that kind of scenario. Isn't that right, Sam?

Sam: Dude, I was 18.
Dean: Sinner.
Sam: It was college. It was probably oregano anyways.
Dean: Rebel!

Sam: You're an idiot.

Dean: So we think Junkless turned Libby?

Sam: Hold up. We're not actually gonna go with 'Junkless' on this, are we?
Dean: Eh.

Sam: Dude, that's a new low, even for us.

Etta: Well... when Pete went missing, and we found out about the women, my grandma said that he 'got the chitters.' According to her, once a generation around the spring equinox, people in town start going nuts, having orgies, copulating in the woods. And then they disappear, never to be heard from again. Well, that's certainly one explanation for Pete. I never really, um, believed what she said, but... now people are disappearing again. She always said burn sage to protect yourself.

Jesse: Bisaan can't reproduce on their own, so they take over a human body to do the deed. They enter through the mouth, like a hermit crab climbing into a shell.

Cesar: Only they don't care that the shell's not empty.

Dean: Well, that explains Junkless.

Dean: Ah, you guys fight just like brothers. Almost as bad as us.

Cesar: Well... it's more like an old married couple.
Dean: That's... Oh. So... Yeah. Okay. That's... What's it like settling down with a hunter?

Cesar: Smelly, dirty. Twice the worrying about getting ganked.

Sam: You know... whenever you and Dad used to leave me to go hunting and I -- and I wouldn't hear from y'all for a while, I, um, I was always sure that some vamp or rugaru or take your pick... I always figured one of them finally got ya. I tried to think of what to do, you know, the next step to take. I was just lost.
Dean: We came back, though, every time.

Dean: And look at Jesse. I mean, he turned out all right.

Sam: They're a good team.
Dean: They are. I was thinking, maybe they could give us a hand with Amara, you know, with Cas.

Sam: Fresh eyes. Could use the extra muscle, too.

Sam: Couldn't do it, huh?

Dean: No, didn't feel right.
Sam: Yeah. I know what you mean. Two hunters who make it to the finish line?

Dean: Yeah, you leave that alone.

Trivia & References

Sam: Dude, you even move since last night?

Dean: Sleeping is the new smoking.
Sam: What? No it's not. It's sitting. Sitting is the new smoking.

In 2015, research suggested that prolonged periods of siting had detrimental effects on cardiovascular health, in some cases commensurate with smoking.

Sheriff Tyson: What is this? Spanish Fly gone bad?

Spanish Fly is a compound secreted by blister beetles, which can be used as an aphrodisiac, and particularly can cause prolonged erections.

Dean uses the alias "Agent Lewis," which may be a reference to original Warrant guitarist Josh Lewis.

Minutiae

Director Eduardo Sanchez is best known for co-directing and co-writing the iconic 1999 horror movie The Blair Witch Project with Daniel Myrick.

Kuma Blu, a white Samoyed belonging to First Assistant Director Kevin Parks, appears in this episode.

Kandyse McClure, who played Sheriff Tyson, previously worked with Jensen Ackles on two episodes of Dark Angel.

Connor Stanhope, who played Matty, previously played Little Boy #1 in 5.09 The Real Ghostbusters.

April Telek, who played Etta Day, previously played Darla in 6.18 Frontierland.

Lisa Chandler, who played Mrs. Limoski, previously played a Nurse in 8.08 Hunteri Heroici.

Dean thinking Cesar and Jesse are brothers could be seen as an inverse of the running joke that people would usually think Sam and Dean are a couple.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 11.19 The Chitters (transcript)

Promotion

• Synopsis via KSiteTV
• Promo
• Photos via KSiteTV
• Sneak Peek
• Sneak Peek #2 via EW
• BTS Pics by Eduardo Sanchez, Day One, Day Two, Day Four (1), Day Four (2), Day Five, Day Six, Day Seven, Final Day (1), Final Day (2)
• BTS Pic by Lauren Overholt
• BTS Pic by April Telek (1)
• BTS Pic by April Telek (2)
• BTS Pic by Lee Rumohr (1)
• BTS Pic by Lee Rumohr (2)
• BTS Pic by Lee Rumohr (3)