2.15 Tall Tales
Title | Tall Tales |
Episode # | Season 2, Episode 15 |
First aired | February 15, 2007 |
Directed by | Bradford May |
Written by | John Shiban |
On IMDB | Tall Tales |
Outline | Sam and Dean get cranky with each other as the try to work out what is going on with alien abductions, giant alligators and deaths in a college town. |
Monster | Trickster |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Springfield University, Springfield, Ohio |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean and Sam investigate the apparent suicide of an adulterous professor on a university campus. The local urban legend that seems most likely the culprit turns out to be a bust. Then a frat boy is humiliated when he reports being abducted by an alien. Puzzled, and increasingly antagonistic with each other, Sam and Dean fail to find any answers when again another urban legend appears to come to life - a scientist who used animals in his experiments is killed by an alligator in the sewers.
Unable to make headway, Sam and Dean call Bobby, who comes to the town to help them out. Bobby listens Dean and Sam's stories about the case, and their irritations with each other, and works out that a Trickster is at work. They track down the most likely culprit - a janitor in the campus building where the deaths occur. The Trickster attempts to bargain with Dean in order to escape, but the three hunters manage to trap the Trickster and a fight ensues before Dean stakes the Trickster in the heart. After the three leave the building, the body Dean staked disappears and the real Trickster appears; seemingly, it has used its ability to manifest things out of thin air to deceive the hunters into thinking they were killing it, as opposed to a solid apparition. As they leave town, Sam and Dean reconcile in a touching scene - much to Bobby's disgust.
Characters
Definitions
Music
- "Walk Away" by The James Gang
- (plays on the radio at the beginning; also played in Route 666)
- "Next to You" by Junk Food
- (plays during Sam's versions of events at the bar; The band Junk Food won a CW competition on MySpace to have their song "Next To You" included in the show)
- "Lady in Red" by Chris DeBurgh
- (played during the alien slow dance scene)
- "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe" by Barry White
- (played when Dean walks into the auditorium with the lava lamp, canopy bed, girls, etc.)
Quotes
Dean: How could it get any worse? Some alien made you his bitch.
Dean: What's wrong with my food?
Dean: No, see, married couples can get divorced. Me and him? We're like, Siamese twins.
Sam: It's conjoined twins.
Trivia & References
- Dean refers to Sam as "Major Tom" of "Star Command." This is a reference to the David Bowie song, "Space Oddity." The song later plays during 6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe....
- OCD stands for Obsessive-Complusive Disorder, a psychiatric disorder.
- First introduced as a character in the Felix the Cat television cartoon series in 1958, the term "Poindexter" is now applied to people who are overly nerdy, geeky, or bookish.
- Dodge City, Kansas was the temporary home to Wyatt Earp and was known for several famous shoot-outs.
- E.T.: Huge schmaltzy 1982 Spielberg movie featuring a stranded cute alien and an even cuter seven year old Drew Barrymore. The alien had a long finger that glowed.
- A close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses a UFO. This could also be a reference Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another Spielberg movie about aliens who come to Earth.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Episode Stills
- Episode Promo: 2.15 Tall Tales
- This episode was promoted prior to its airing in the Weekly World News itself, which ran an interview with Sam and Dean (as in, the characters themselves). You can read the article here.