13.23 Let the Good Times Roll

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Title Let the Good Times Roll
Episode # Season 13, Episode 23
First aired May 17, 2018
Directed by Robert Singer
Written by Andrew Dabb
On IMDB Let the Good Times Roll
Outline After escaping Apocalypse World, the Winchesters, Jack, and Castiel are confronted by Lucifer and Michael, forcing Dean to make a dire decision.
Monster Lucifer
Michael
Timeline
Location(s) Lebanon, Kansas
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

(plays during "The Road So Far" recap of events; also played in 1.21 Salvation, 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two, 3.16 No Rest for the Wicked, 4.22 Lucifer Rising, 5.22 Swan Song, 6.22 The Man Who Knew Too Much, 7.23 Survival of the Fittest, 8.23 Sacrifice, 9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?, 10.23 Brother's Keeper, 11.23 Alpha and Omega and 12.23 All Along the Watchtower)
  • "As Long as It's Real" by Raphael Lake, Aaron Levy, Dumi Maraire and Ambrose Arnold (Extreme Music)
(playing on Nate's headphones as Jack visits him at the convenience store)

Quotes

Mary: So what are you gonna do now?

Bobby: Honestly, I got no clue. Everyone seems to be settling in okay in town. Ketch is out doing Ketch things. Rowena and Charlie are road tripping it through the Southwest.
Mary: That's trouble.

Bobby: Ginger trouble -- the worst kind. Anyways without an archangel, it's not like we can go back home. And I'm not sure I'd want to. I-I like it here.
Jack: Sam said you're dead. He said Michael killed you.
Lucifer: Yeah, I don't like to speak ill of people, but Sam is a big fat liar and he's a bad person and like, freakishly tall, so...
Jack: Tell me the truth.

Lucifer: She saw me when I was scouting out the Bunker. She saw me and she screamed, and then so I crushed her skull with my bare hands. And it was warm and wet, and I liked it.

Jack: You're not my father. You're a monster.
Castiel: How do we stop him?

Michael: You don't. After consuming the Nephilim's grace, Lucifer's juiced up. He's super-charged. He'll kill the boy, your brother. Hell, he could end the whole universe if he put his mind to it. And you thought I was bad.
Dean: No. No you beat him. I saw you.
Lucifer: When he was weaker, and I was stronger. Believe me, I'd love to rip my brother apart. But now in this banged up meatsuit not happening. This is the end, of everything.

Dean: No. What if -- what if you had your sword?
Lucifer: Wow. Daddy Sammy coming to the rescue. But your little Jackie, the nougat-loving boy that you had before, he's killed people. He's got lots of blood on his hands.

Sam: I don't care. He's family.

Lucifer: Ha! What's family done for anybody? My Dad left me, my brothers have tried to kill me. A lot. I'm gonna prove it to you.
Castiel: Dean, you can't.
Dean: Lucifer has Sam. He has Jack. Cas, I don't have a choice! If we do this, it's a onetime deal. I'm in charge. You're the engine, but I'm behind the wheel.
Lucifer: Now I could -- I probably should -- execute you. I mean, really, really use my imagination. But I'm feeling generous today. So one of you is gonna walk out that door, and the other one will be laying dead on the ground. You choose.

Sam: No.
Lucifer: Or you could do that, and I can murder you both and end all life in the universe. Remake it in my image, better than Dad ever could. I'm thinkin' mm fire-breathing dragons, sassy talking robots. I might give humans another chance if they know their place and worship me, 'cause I've earned it.

But hey, it'll probably take a few days to unravel the universe, Maybe, uh, 7, 10 days tops. So maybe, just maybe, one of you could stop me. Maybe. Well, let's see. Clock's ticking, guys.
Lucifer: You let my brother in.
Dean: Well, turns out, he and I have something in common. We both wanna gut your ass.
Jack: Is he?

Sam: He's dead.
Dean: Holy crap.
Sam: You did it.

Dean: No, no, we did it. We did it.
Sam: Michael.
Michael: Thanks for the suit.

Trivia & References

"Let the Good Times Roll" may be a reference to the jump blues song same name, or to the chorus to the 1978 single "Good Times Roll" by The Cars.
Sam: The ice caps are melting. People marching. A little bit of, uh, craziness in the movie world. Businessman billionaire mogul turned President, embroiled in yet another controversy. And that is pretty much the world -- uh, our world -- right now.

Bobby: Let me get this right -- the ice caps are melting, a movie where a girl goes all the way with a fish wins Best Picture, and that damn fool idjit from The Apprentice, is President.
Sam: Yeah.
Bobby: And you call where we come from 'Apocalypse World'.

The "Businessman billionaire mogul turned president" aka the "damn fool idjit from The Apprentice" is Donald Trump. These comments indicate that Donald Trump also existed in Apocalypse World. The "movie where a girl goes all the way with a fish" refers to Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, which won Best Picture at the 2018 Academy Awards. Jim Beaver previously appeared in del Toro's 2015 film Crimson Peak.
Sam: How many are inside?

Castiel: I can hear three. Wait, maybe -- maybe four. They're talking about whether Kylie Jenner would make a good mother. The consensus is no.
Dean: Yeah, well, that's why I'm a Khloé man.

This conversation refers to the celebrity Kardashian family. Kylie is a half-sister to Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé Kardashian.
Castiel: We're FBI. I'm Agent Rowland. This Agent Knowles and Agent Williams.
The aliases refer to the members of pop group Destiny's Child from the '90s and early '00s. The members are Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams.
Lucifer: I'm here for you, Jack. Because, you know, even though the Three Amigos -- Sam, Dean, and the other one -- won't admit it, you need me. You do, 'cause we're blood. And we're not human, no matter how much we pretend to be. See, humans are [ Inhales deeply ] limited and fragile. And I'll admit, they bring out the worst in me, I gotta say. It seems like, you know, no matter how much you try to do right around them, something always goes wrong. Follow?
Three Amigos is a 1986 comedy starring Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short as three movie stars mistaken for real life heroes. Rowena referred to Sam, Dean, and Cas as the "Three Amigos" in 13.21 Beat The Devil.
Jack: What do we do?

Lucifer: Leave. I mean there's a whole universe out there, buddy. Planets. Stars. Galaxies. Why should we stay here on Earth when we can go anywhere else? Heck, everywhere else.
Jack: Like, um, like Star Wars?
Lucifer: Exactly like Star Wars. You want a lightsaber? I can make you a lightsaber. Heck, I can make you a Wookiee.

The lightsaber is the weapon of the Jedi knights in the Star Wars universe. Wookiees are a species of giant hairy humanoids from the planet Kashyyyk. The most famous Wookiee is the smuggler-turned-resistance-fighter Chewbacca. Jack previously showed an affinity for Star Wars in 13.04 The Big Empty.
Michael: I'm not perfect. Yes, I made mistakes. But second time's the charm. And you Dean Winchester, will be the first life that I take in this world, first soul I save. Some would consider that an honor.

Dean: Well, as Shakespeare once said, eat me, dickbag.

There is no record of Shakespeare using the the phrase "Eat me, dickbag", but he did have an extensive repertoire of insults.
Jack: It's all right, okay? He's here to help.

Bobby: He is?
Lucifer: You know it, Longmire.

Walt Longmire is a character in a series of novels by Craig Johnson, and a TV series. Longmire is a sheriff, and dresses in a manner not dissimilar to Bobby.
The episode ending on the freeze frame of Dean/Michael's glowing angelic eyes is a reference to the end of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video.

Minutiae

Lucifer: Yeah, uh, Jack, about this, uh, resurrection stuff, it's not always a great idea because, uh, you know people come back... different.

Jack: Well, Sam didn't.
Lucifer: Right, well Sam's always been different. Some would say 'special.' No offense.

In 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two Azazel questions Dean if the newly-resurrected Sam was 100% Sam. In the episode and subsequent season 3, Sam occasionally exhibits a more brutal mentality when it came to hunting. This possible plot line was seemingly dropped due to the season 3 writer's strike shortening the season.
Dean: I am your sword. Your perfect vessel. With me you'd be stronger than you've ever been.
According to Zachariah, Dean is the "Sword of Michael," meaning that Dean is Michael's true vessel. When Lucifer is first released from the Cage, Michael pursues Dean to be his vessel so that he can defeat Lucifer. Dean agrees to be Michael's vessel in 5.18 Point of No Return; as Michael begins to appear, Dean reneges and kills Zachariah. He tells Sam that he changed his mind because he didn't want to let him down. Their half-brother Adam Milligan is taken as the vessel instead, and ends up being dragged into the cage by Sam when he is possessed by Lucifer.
This episode is the first to show angel's wings actually burning into the ground as seen when Lucifer dies.

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