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|title= Monster Movie
 
|title= Monster Movie
 
|episode= Season 4, Episode 5
 
|episode= Season 4, Episode 5
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|imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1222610/ Monster Movie]
 
|imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1222610/ Monster Movie]
 
|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?i=293953730&id=291088594&s=143441 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IL4ZVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&s=digital-video&qid=1224337433&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
 
|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?i=293953730&id=291088594&s=143441 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IL4ZVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&s=digital-video&qid=1224337433&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
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|outline= A good old-fashioned vampire hunt becomes something much more bizarre as classic film monsters terrorize a town during Oktoberfest.
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|outline= A good old-fashioned [[vampire]] hunt becomes something much more bizarre as classic film monsters terrorize a town during Oktoberfest.
 
|motw= [[Shapeshifters|Shapeshifter]]
 
|motw= [[Shapeshifters|Shapeshifter]]
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|timeline= October 3rd-6th, 2008
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|timeline= October 2008
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|location= Canonsburg, Pennsylvania<br />
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|location= Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
 
|map=<googlemap lat="40.280573" lon="-80.178223" zoom="11" width="300" height="300" overview="yes" controls="small">
 
|map=<googlemap lat="40.280573" lon="-80.178223" zoom="11" width="300" height="300" overview="yes" controls="small">
 
40.268817, -80.182317, Canonsburg, PA, USA
 
40.268817, -80.182317, Canonsburg, PA, USA
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|prevep= 4.04 Metamorphosis
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|nextep= 4.06 Yellow Fever
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It's a dark and stormy night. The [[Impala]] crosses the border into Pennsylvania. [[Dean]] is excited about a weird but straightforward [[vampire]] hunt. [[Sam]] is a little hung up on the approaching [[Apocalypse]]. Dean reminds him that they can't save the world by themselves, at least not today, so it's better to hunt what they can until then.
 
It's a dark and stormy night. The [[Impala]] crosses the border into Pennsylvania. [[Dean]] is excited about a weird but straightforward [[vampire]] hunt. [[Sam]] is a little hung up on the approaching [[Apocalypse]]. Dean reminds him that they can't save the world by themselves, at least not today, so it's better to hunt what they can until then.
  
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Enter Oktoberfest in Canonsburg, replete with polka bands, very big pretzels and attractive barmaids. Sam and Dean pose as FBI to get Sheriff Dietrich to show them the body of the victim, 26-year-old Marissa Wright, who had come up from Larkin for the fest. The victim has two clean fang bites on her neck, a far cry from the damage inflicted by other [[Vampires|vampires]].
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Enter Oktoberfest in Canonsburg, replete with polka bands, very big pretzels, and attractive barmaids. Sam and Dean pose as FBI to get Sheriff Dietrich to show them the body of the victim, 26-year-old Marissa Wright, who had come up from Larkin for the fest. The victim has two clean fang bites on her neck, a far cry from the damage inflicted by other [[Vampires|vampires]].
  
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The boys head to the local beer garden to find the sole witness to the crime, [[Ed Brewer]], who is notoriously unreliable but who insisted on being named a witness. Sam and Dean approach [[Jamie]], dressed in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl dirndl], who is skeptical of their FBI cred but who points them in Ed's direction. They find him nursing an enormous skein of beer. After some coaxing, he describes the crime and the assailant, insisting that a vampire "with the fangs and the slicked-back hair and the fancy cape and the little medallion thing on the ribbon" did it. Dean identifies the get-up as "like a Dracula," and Ed confirms this, "right down to the accent." The boys conclude that this is not their kind of case, but decide to stick around, since the hotel has already been paid for.
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The boys head to the local beer garden to find the sole witness to the crime, [[Ed Brewer]], who is notoriously unreliable but who insisted on being named a witness. Sam and Dean approach [[Jamie]], dressed in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl dirndl], who is skeptical of their FBI cred but who points them in Ed's direction. They find him nursing an enormous stein of beer. After some coaxing, he describes the crime and the assailant, insisting that a vampire "with the fangs and the slicked-back hair and the fancy cape and the little medallion thing on the ribbon" did it. Dean identifies the get-up as "like a Dracula," and Ed confirms this, "right down to the accent." The boys conclude that this is not their kind of case, but decide to stick around since the hotel has already been paid for.
  
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Dean, meanwhile, is trying extra-hard to pick up Jamie, who laughs him off. Sam asks Dean why he needs to "right some wrongs," and Dean reveals that when [[Castiel]] resurrected him, all his scars and dis-figuration from years of hunting vanished, leading him to conclude that he is once again a virgin and wants to get rid of it while Sam is skeptical that an angel could make a person a virgin again.
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Dean, meanwhile, is trying extra-hard to pick up Jamie, who laughs him off. Sam asks Dean why he needs to "right some wrongs," and Dean reveals that when [[Castiel]] resurrected him, all his scars and dis-figuration from years of hunting vanished, leading him to conclude that he is once again a virgin, and he wants to change that. Sam is skeptical that an angel could make a person a virgin again.
  
 
Later that night, Rick Deacon and Anna-Marie are making out in the back seat of his car. The girl hears howling and is worried about wolves. Rick is worried about other matters and insists there aren't any wolves in Pennsylvania -- at which point two hairy arms break through the window and snatch Rick away into the gloom.
 
Later that night, Rick Deacon and Anna-Marie are making out in the back seat of his car. The girl hears howling and is worried about wolves. Rick is worried about other matters and insists there aren't any wolves in Pennsylvania -- at which point two hairy arms break through the window and snatch Rick away into the gloom.
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Anna-Marie describes their assailant to Sam and Dean as a classic Wolf Man-style werewolf, "with the furry face and the black nose and the claws and the torn-up pants and shirt." The state of Rick's body disgusts even the boys, who are impressed that something pulled a healthy man limb from limb, but puzzled by the intact heart, which other [[Werewolves|werewolves]] never leave behind. Sheriff Dietrich arrives to throw in another piece of confounding evidence: wolf hairs were found on the body. Sam and Dean decide the case has just gotten weird enough for them.
 
Anna-Marie describes their assailant to Sam and Dean as a classic Wolf Man-style werewolf, "with the furry face and the black nose and the claws and the torn-up pants and shirt." The state of Rick's body disgusts even the boys, who are impressed that something pulled a healthy man limb from limb, but puzzled by the intact heart, which other [[Werewolves|werewolves]] never leave behind. Sheriff Dietrich arrives to throw in another piece of confounding evidence: wolf hairs were found on the body. Sam and Dean decide the case has just gotten weird enough for them.
  
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At the beer garden, [[Jamie]] tells Dean that she gets off at midnight, and that tonight doesn't have to be a girls' night out with Lucy, her fellow "bar wench." Meanwhile, a night watchman at the Canonsburg Museum of Natural History calls in to find out why someone left an Egyptian sarcophagus on the museum loading dock. While he's talking, the cover slides back, and a mummy rises from the tomb and kills the night watchman.
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At the beer garden, [[Jamie]] tells Dean that she gets off at midnight, and that tonight doesn't have to be a girls' night out with Lucy, her fellow "bar wench." Meanwhile, a night watchman at the Canonsburg Museum of Natural History calls in to find out why someone left an Egyptian sarcophagus on the museum loading dock. While he's talking, the cover slides back, and a mummy rises from the tomb and kills him.
  
 
While investigating the museum, Sam discovers that the sarcophagus comes from a prop house in Philadelphia, while Dean reveals buckets of dry ice in the bottom. Dean realizes what time it is and hurries back to the beer garden to meet up with Jamie. Jamie, however, finds herself confronted with none other than the Dracula, who pursues her through the alleyways and declares his passionate love for her, calling her "Mina" and insisting she be his bride. Jamie sprays him with mace, just in time for Dean to show up to fight the Dracula, who calls Dean "Mr. Harker." Dean tears an ear off the Dracula, which is just as odd as the Dracula making his getaway on a scooter.
 
While investigating the museum, Sam discovers that the sarcophagus comes from a prop house in Philadelphia, while Dean reveals buckets of dry ice in the bottom. Dean realizes what time it is and hurries back to the beer garden to meet up with Jamie. Jamie, however, finds herself confronted with none other than the Dracula, who pursues her through the alleyways and declares his passionate love for her, calling her "Mina" and insisting she be his bride. Jamie sprays him with mace, just in time for Dean to show up to fight the Dracula, who calls Dean "Mr. Harker." Dean tears an ear off the Dracula, which is just as odd as the Dracula making his getaway on a scooter.
  
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Sam joins Jamie and Dean at the beer garden, where Dean reveals that they've got a [[Shapeshifters|shapeshifter]] on their hands. Sam deduces that it must be someone Jamie knows, since the shapeshifter is fixating on her and assigning her a role from a classic film. Jamie wonders if maybe Ed is the suspect: Sam goes off to investigate Ed, while Dean stays behind to take care of Jamie.
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Sam joins Jamie and Dean at the beer garden, where Dean reveals that they've got a [[Shapeshifters|shapeshifter]] on their hands. Sam deduces that it must be someone Jamie knows, since the shapeshifter is fixating on her and assigning her a role from a classic film. Jamie wonders if maybe Ed is the suspect; Sam goes off to investigate, while Dean stays behind to take care of Jamie.
  
 
Jamie and Dean talk about how monsters are real, and not at all like the movies. Jamie asks him if the life sucks, and Dean says that he used to think so, but since a recent "very near death experience," he's beginning to see it as more of a mission, and that saving people is pretty awesome. Just as Dean and Jamie begin kissing, Lucy walks in, and Jamie, to Dean's frustration, invites her to stick around for a drink. Over the course of the conversation, Dean and Jamie realize they've been drugged, and Dean figures out that Lucy is the shapeshifter. He collapses before he can fight back.
 
Jamie and Dean talk about how monsters are real, and not at all like the movies. Jamie asks him if the life sucks, and Dean says that he used to think so, but since a recent "very near death experience," he's beginning to see it as more of a mission, and that saving people is pretty awesome. Just as Dean and Jamie begin kissing, Lucy walks in, and Jamie, to Dean's frustration, invites her to stick around for a drink. Over the course of the conversation, Dean and Jamie realize they've been drugged, and Dean figures out that Lucy is the shapeshifter. He collapses before he can fight back.
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Sam, at the Goethe Theatre, discovers Ed playing the enormous Casio pipe organ. When he corners Ed and tries to rip off his "new" ear, he realizes that Ed is not their guy, and heads back to the beer garden, where he too figures out that Lucy is the shapeshifter.
 
Sam, at the Goethe Theatre, discovers Ed playing the enormous Casio pipe organ. When he corners Ed and tries to rip off his "new" ear, he realizes that Ed is not their guy, and heads back to the beer garden, where he too figures out that Lucy is the shapeshifter.
  
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Dean comes to in a mad scientist's basement, strapped to a generator and dressed in lederhosen. The Dracula reveals himself, tells Dean that his monster movie is going to end with the monster victorious and getting the girl, and then pauses Dean's imminent electrocution to pay for the pizza delivery. The Dracula then attempts to romance Jamie, in another room, by presenting her with a white gown and insisting that his terrible experiences growing up a freak have forced him to become like the great monsters of yore in self-defense.
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Dean comes to in a mad scientist's basement, strapped to a generator and dressed in lederhosen. The Dracula reveals himself, tells Dean that his monster movie is going to end with the monster victorious and getting the girl, and then pauses Dean's imminent electrocution to pay for a pizza delivery. The Dracula then attempts to romance Jamie, in another room, by presenting her with a white gown and insisting that his terrible experiences growing up a freak have forced him to become like the great monsters of yore in self-defense.
  
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While he is talking to Jamie, Sam finds the house and breaks in. He rescues Dean, and the two of them go to find Jamie, whom the Dracula has knocked out in a fit of rage. The Dracula calls Sam "Van Helsing," and fights both Winchesters. Yet in the ensuing scuffle, it is Jamie who fires Sam's gun, loaded with silver bullets, and at whose hand the Dracula concedes to die.
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While he is talking to Jamie, Sam finds the house and breaks in. He rescues Dean, and the two of them go to find Jamie, whom the Dracula has knocked out in a fit of rage. The Dracula calls Sam "Van Helsing," and fights both Winchesters. Yet in the ensuing scuffle, it is Jamie who fires Sam's gun, loaded with silver bullets, and at whose hand the Dracula dies.
  
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The next morning, Dean and Jamie take their time saying goodbye. Sam and Dean talk about how if they were going to live the movies, they'd choose something better than classic horror films. Dean says that Sam has no idea what movie he'd pick; Sam shocks him by guessing correctly: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086129/ ''Porky's II'']. Dean grudgingly allows that it was a lucky guess.
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The next morning, Dean and Jamie take their time saying goodbye. Sam and Dean talk about how if they were going to live the movies, they'd choose something better than classic horror films. Dean says that Sam has no idea what movie he'd pick; Sam shocks him by guessing correctly: ''Porky's II''. Dean grudgingly allows that it was a lucky guess.
  
 
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* [[Dean Winchester]]
 
* [[Dean Winchester]]
 
* [[Jamie]]
 
* [[Jamie]]
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* [[Lucy/Dracula/Shapeshifter]]
 
* [[Ed Brewer]]
 
* [[Ed Brewer]]
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* [[Lucy/Dracula/Shapeshifter]]
 
  
 
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* [[Alcohol]]
 
* [[Alcohol]]
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* [[Aliases]]
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* [[Costumes & Disguises]]
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* [[Dean's Amulet]]
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* [[Gank]]
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* [[Impala]]
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* [[Law Enforcement Officers]]
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* [[Monsters]]
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* [[Shapeshifters]]
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* [[Silver]]
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* [[Silver Bullets]]
 
* [[Title Card]]
 
* [[Title Card]]
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* [[Shapeshifters]]
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* [[Unconscious]]
 
* [[Vampires]]
 
* [[Vampires]]
 
* [[Werewolves]]
 
* [[Werewolves]]
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* [[Silver Bullets]]
 
 
* [[The X-Files]]
 
* [[The X-Files]]
  
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* "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach
 
* "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach
 
:''(the piece Ed Brewer plays on the organ in the movie house)''
 
:''(the piece Ed Brewer plays on the organ in the movie house)''
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Live music at the Oktoberfest festivities by the [http://my.execpc.com/~sjkrautk/schnapps.html Happy Schnapps Combo].
 
  
 
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'''Dean:''' Come on, man, it's like the good old days! An honest-to-goodness monster hunt! It's about time the Winchesters got back to tackling a straightforward, black-and-white case.
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'''Dean:''' Yeah, well, we can't save the world, not today anyway. But what we can do is chop off some vamps' heads. Come on, man, it's like the good old days, an honest-to-goodness monster hunt. It's about time the Winchesters got back to tackling a straightforward, black and white case.
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'''Jaime:''' Wait a minute. You're a fed? Wow, you don't come on like a fed. Seriously?<br>
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'''Dean:''' I'm a maverick, ma'am. A rebel with a badge. One thing I don’t play by: the rules.<br>
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'''Sam:''' Okay, maverick. Um, so where can we find Mr. Brewer?
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'''Dean:''' So, what do you think? Goth, psycho, vampire wannabe, right?<br>
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'''Sam:''' Definitely not our kind of case.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Agreed. But who cares? Room's paid for, and it's Oktoberfest. Come on, brother. Beer and bar wenches.
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'''Sam:''' Pretty sure women today don't react well to the whole 'wench' thing, Dean.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Hey, bar wench, where's that beer?<br>
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'''Jaime:''' Coming up, good sir!<br>
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'''Dean:''' Dude, Oktoberfest.
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'''Dean:''' Look at me. I mean, I came back from the furnace without any of my old scars, right? No bullet wounds, knife cuts, none of the off-angled fingers from all the breaks. I mean, my hide is as smooth as a baby's bottom. Which leads me to conclude, sadly... that my virginity is intact.<br>
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'''Sam:''' What?<br>
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'''Dean:''' I have been re-hymenated.
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'''Dean:''' Hey, you think this Dracula could turn into a bat? That would be cool.
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'''Jaime:''' So, this is what you do? You and your partner just tramp across the country on your own dime until you find some horrible nightmare to fight?<br>
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'''Dean:''' Some people paint.<br>
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'''Jaime:''' Wow.<br>
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'''Dean:''' What?<br>
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'''Jaime:''' That must suck. I mean, you're giving up your life for this terrible... I don't know, responsibility.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Last few years, I started thinking that way, and, uh, it started sort of weighing on me. Of course, that was before... A little while ago, I had this – let’s call it a near-death experience. Very near. And, uh, when I came to... things were different. My life's been different. I realize that I help people. Not just help them, though. I save them. I guess it's -- it's awesome. It's kind of like a gift... like a mission. Kind of like a... a mission from God.<br>
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'''Jaime:''' So, does that make you... some kind of monk or something? You know, celibate?<br>
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'''Dean:''' Man, I hope not.
 
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'''Jamie:''' No self-respecting bar wench lets herself get picked up by a customer on the first try.
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'''Dracula:''' Tell me...<br>
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'''Delivery Boy:''' Yeah?<br>
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'''Dracula:''' ...is there garlic on this pizza?<br>
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'''Delivery Boy:''' I don't know. Did you order garlic?<br>
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'''Dracula:''' No!<br>
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'''Delivery Boy:''' Then no. Look, mister, I got four other deliveries to make. You want to just pay me the money so I can go?<br>
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'''Dracula:''' Of course, yes, but I have a coupon.
 
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'''Dracula:''' ''(to the pizza boy)'' Ah, you have brought a repast. Excellent. Continue to be of such service, and your life will be spared! }}
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'''Dracula:''' I-I scared you. You’re the only one I don’t want to scare. I used to love the movies.<br>
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'''Jaime:''' They aren't real. You can’t make them real.<br>
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'''Dracula:''' 'Real' is being born this way. Different. 'Real' is having your dad call you 'monster' -- it's the first time you hear the word. And he tries to beat you to death with a shovel. Everywhere I ran, everywhere I tried to hide, people found me, dragged me out, attacked me. Called me 'freak,' called me 'monster.' Then I found them. The great monsters. In their movies, they were strong. They were feared. They were beautiful. And now I am like them. Commanding. Terrifying.
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'''Dracula:''' Everywhere I ran, everywhere I tried to hide, people found me, dragged me out, attacked me. Called me "freak," called me "monster." Then I found... them. The great monsters. In their movies, they were strong, they were feared. They were beautiful. And now I am like them. Commanding. Terrifying.<br>
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'''Dean:''' The hero gets the girl, monster gets the gank. All in all, happy ending -- with a happy ending, no less.<br>
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'''Jamie:''' Lonely.
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'''Sam:''' Real classy, Dean.
 
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Sam and Dean's FBI aliases, Agent Angus and Agent Young, refer to AC/DC lead guitarist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Young Angus Young].
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[[Sam]] and [[Dean]]'s FBI aliases, "Agents Angus and Young," refer to AC/DC lead guitarist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Young Angus Young.]
 
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Live music at the Oktoberfest festivities by the [http://my.execpc.com/~sjkrautk/schnapps.html Happy Schnapps Combo.] The Happy Schnapps Combo is a polka band from Manitowoc, WI.
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'''Dean:''' I have been re-hymenated.<br>
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It may not have been intentional, but the music from the episode is very reminiscent of the music used to soothe the Monster in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein Young Frankenstein.]''
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'''Sam:''' Please. Dean, maybe angels can pull you out of Hell but ''no one'' can do that.<br>
 
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'''Dean:''' Brother, I have been re-hymenated. And the Dude does not abide.<br>
 
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:''"The Dude" is Jeffrey Lebowski, anti-hero of the 1998 Coen Brothers cult hit [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/ The Big Lebowski]. "The Dude abides" is a popular catchphrase from the film.''
 
 
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'''Jamie:''' So, you guys are like Mulder and Scully or something, and the X-Files are real?<br>
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'''Dean:''' What the hell?<br>
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'''Dean:''' No, ''The X-Files'' is a TV show. This is real.  
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'''Sheriff Deitrich:''' Yeah, you got me -- I mean this killer's some kind of grade-A wacko, right? I mean, some Satan worshiping, Anne Rice-reading, gothic, psycho vampire wannabe.
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:''A reference to the sci-fi show [[The X-Files]].''
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:''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_rice Anne Rice] is a gothic author who is most known for her series [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Chronicles The Vampire Chronicles].''
 
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The Goethe Theatre, where Ed Brewer is a projectionist, refers to the German writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe], author of, among other works, the two-part tragedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust ''Faust''], which recalls Dean's deal.
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The portrayal of the Dracula character in the episode refers in looks and gestures to famous horror movie actor Bela Lugosi's iconic portrayal of Dracula [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_film) in the classic movie of the same name from 1931]. Among other things, the cloak, Lugosi's speech pattern, and the way he holds his cloak to disguise his face are gestures used by Lugosi. This also might be a reference to the Ed Wood movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space ''Plan 9 From Outer Space''] - sometimes called "The Worst Movie Of All Time" and somewhat of a cult hit amongst fans. The movie was to have starred Lugosi, but Lugosi died before the movie could be filmed and Ed Wood hired his wife's chiropractor, who barely looked like Lugosi, as a replacement. Wood intercut silent scenes from Lugosi with scenes filmed with the other man, who had to raise his cloak to conceal his face and the fact that he wasn't Lugosi.
 
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'''Dracula''': It was beauty killed the beast.<br>
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[[Dracula]] uses the name Lucy when he transforms into Jamie's friend at the bar, which is also the name of Mina Murray's best friend from Bram Stroker's novel ''Dracula''
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:''This is the last line spoken in the 1933 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong King Kong].''
 
 
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The shapeshifter refers to Dean as Mr. (Jonathan) Harker, Jamie as Mina, and when Sam arrives at the scene, he calls him Van Helsing, all characters from the most popular Gothic novel of all times, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'']. In the novel, Dracula peruses Mina, the soon-to-be-bride of young Jonathan Harker, who meets vampire hunter Van Helsing.
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'''Dean:''' I have been re-hymenated.<br>
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'''Sam:''' Please. Dean, maybe angels can pull you out of Hell but ''no one'' can do that.<br>
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'''Dean:''' Brother, I have been re-hymenated. And the Dude does not abide.<br>
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:''"The Dude" is Jeffrey Lebowski, anti-hero of the 1998 Coen Brothers cult hit [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/ The Big Lebowski]. "The Dude abides" is a popular catchphrase from the film.''
 
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The portrayal of the Dracula character in the episode highly refers in looks and gestures to famous horror movie actor Bela Lugosi's iconic portrayal of Dracula [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_film) in the classic movie of the same name from 1931]. Among other things, the cloak, Lugosi's speech pattern, and the way he holds his cloak to disguise his face are gestures used by Lugosi in ''Dracula'' and  ''Abott & Costello Meet Frankenstein''. This also might be a reference to the Ed Wood movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space ''Plan 9 From Outer Space''] - sometimes called "The Worst Movie Of All Time" and somewhat of a cult hit amongst fans - which should have starred Lugosi. But Lugosi died before the movie could be filmed, and Ed Wood hired an actor who barely looked like him. He intercut silent scenes from Lugosi with scenes filmed with the new actor, who had to raise his cloak to conceal his face and the fact that he wasn't Lugosi.
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The episode heavily references other classic horror movies besides ''Dracula'': The character Anna Marie describes ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_(1941_film) the Wolf Man]'' as attacking her boyfriend. The Goethe Theatre plays ''The Phantom of the Opera'', and when we see Ed Brewer bent maniacally over his organ, a reference [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1925_film) to the 1925 movie.] When we see Dean chained to a torture device in "Dracula's" cellar, it's actually a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(1931_film) ''Frankenstein'']. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1932_film) ''The Mummy'' ] with Boris Karloff also referenced. (Karloff also played Frankenstein's Monster in the aforementioned 1931 movie).
 
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The episode heavily references other classic horror movies besides ''Dracula'': The Goethe Theatre plays ''The Phantom of the Opera'', and when we see Ed Brewer bent manically over his piano, this is a reference [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1925_film) to the 1925 movie.] When we see Dean chained to a torture device in "Dracula"'s cellar, it's actually a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(1931_film) ''Frankenstein'']. Other movies referenced are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1932_film) ''The Mummy'' ] with Boris Karloff (who also played Frankenstein's Monster in the aforementioned 1931 movie).
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The name of the Goethe Theatre, where Ed Brewer is a projectionist, refers to the German writer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe], author of, among other works, the two-part tragedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust ''Faust''], which recalls Dean's deal.
 
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The shapeshifter refers to Dean as Mr. (Jonathan) Harker, Jamie as Mina, and when Sam arrives at the scene, he calls him Van Helsing, all characters from the most popular Gothic novel of all times, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''.] In the novel, Dracula peruses Mina, the soon-to-be-bride of young Jonathan Harker, who meets vampire hunter Van Helsing.
 
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*[https://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/45396.html 4.5 Monster Movie: Tackling A Straightforward, Black-And-White Case] by bardicvoice (October 2008); [https://web.archive.org/web/20190816011142/http://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/45396.html archive link], [https://spn-heavymeta.livejournal.com/176283.html spn-heavymeta]
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*Bond, Silvia. 2008. Late October Monster Ghetto: "Monster Mash" Season 4, Episode 5. ''Pink Raygun'', October 21; [https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112136/http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/10/21/supernatural-monster-mash/ archive link]
  
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4-05 Monster Movie Promo Pic.jpg
Title Monster Movie
Episode # Season 4, Episode 5
First aired October 16, 2008
Directed by Robert Singer
Written by Ben Edlund
On IMDB Monster Movie
Outline A good old-fashioned vampire hunt becomes something much more bizarre as classic film monsters terrorize a town during Oktoberfest.
Monster Shapeshifter
Timeline October 2008
Location(s) Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
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Synopsis

It's a dark and stormy night. The Impala crosses the border into Pennsylvania. Dean is excited about a weird but straightforward vampire hunt. Sam is a little hung up on the approaching Apocalypse. Dean reminds him that they can't save the world by themselves, at least not today, so it's better to hunt what they can until then.

Enter Oktoberfest in Canonsburg, replete with polka bands, very big pretzels, and attractive barmaids. Sam and Dean pose as FBI to get Sheriff Dietrich to show them the body of the victim, 26-year-old Marissa Wright, who had come up from Larkin for the fest. The victim has two clean fang bites on her neck, a far cry from the damage inflicted by other vampires.

The boys head to the local beer garden to find the sole witness to the crime, Ed Brewer, who is notoriously unreliable but who insisted on being named a witness. Sam and Dean approach Jamie, dressed in a dirndl, who is skeptical of their FBI cred but who points them in Ed's direction. They find him nursing an enormous stein of beer. After some coaxing, he describes the crime and the assailant, insisting that a vampire "with the fangs and the slicked-back hair and the fancy cape and the little medallion thing on the ribbon" did it. Dean identifies the get-up as "like a Dracula," and Ed confirms this, "right down to the accent." The boys conclude that this is not their kind of case, but decide to stick around since the hotel has already been paid for.

Dean, meanwhile, is trying extra-hard to pick up Jamie, who laughs him off. Sam asks Dean why he needs to "right some wrongs," and Dean reveals that when Castiel resurrected him, all his scars and dis-figuration from years of hunting vanished, leading him to conclude that he is once again a virgin, and he wants to change that. Sam is skeptical that an angel could make a person a virgin again.

Later that night, Rick Deacon and Anna-Marie are making out in the back seat of his car. The girl hears howling and is worried about wolves. Rick is worried about other matters and insists there aren't any wolves in Pennsylvania -- at which point two hairy arms break through the window and snatch Rick away into the gloom.

Anna-Marie describes their assailant to Sam and Dean as a classic Wolf Man-style werewolf, "with the furry face and the black nose and the claws and the torn-up pants and shirt." The state of Rick's body disgusts even the boys, who are impressed that something pulled a healthy man limb from limb, but puzzled by the intact heart, which other werewolves never leave behind. Sheriff Dietrich arrives to throw in another piece of confounding evidence: wolf hairs were found on the body. Sam and Dean decide the case has just gotten weird enough for them.

At the beer garden, Jamie tells Dean that she gets off at midnight, and that tonight doesn't have to be a girls' night out with Lucy, her fellow "bar wench." Meanwhile, a night watchman at the Canonsburg Museum of Natural History calls in to find out why someone left an Egyptian sarcophagus on the museum loading dock. While he's talking, the cover slides back, and a mummy rises from the tomb and kills him.

While investigating the museum, Sam discovers that the sarcophagus comes from a prop house in Philadelphia, while Dean reveals buckets of dry ice in the bottom. Dean realizes what time it is and hurries back to the beer garden to meet up with Jamie. Jamie, however, finds herself confronted with none other than the Dracula, who pursues her through the alleyways and declares his passionate love for her, calling her "Mina" and insisting she be his bride. Jamie sprays him with mace, just in time for Dean to show up to fight the Dracula, who calls Dean "Mr. Harker." Dean tears an ear off the Dracula, which is just as odd as the Dracula making his getaway on a scooter.

Sam joins Jamie and Dean at the beer garden, where Dean reveals that they've got a shapeshifter on their hands. Sam deduces that it must be someone Jamie knows, since the shapeshifter is fixating on her and assigning her a role from a classic film. Jamie wonders if maybe Ed is the suspect; Sam goes off to investigate, while Dean stays behind to take care of Jamie.

Jamie and Dean talk about how monsters are real, and not at all like the movies. Jamie asks him if the life sucks, and Dean says that he used to think so, but since a recent "very near death experience," he's beginning to see it as more of a mission, and that saving people is pretty awesome. Just as Dean and Jamie begin kissing, Lucy walks in, and Jamie, to Dean's frustration, invites her to stick around for a drink. Over the course of the conversation, Dean and Jamie realize they've been drugged, and Dean figures out that Lucy is the shapeshifter. He collapses before he can fight back.

Sam, at the Goethe Theatre, discovers Ed playing the enormous Casio pipe organ. When he corners Ed and tries to rip off his "new" ear, he realizes that Ed is not their guy, and heads back to the beer garden, where he too figures out that Lucy is the shapeshifter.

Dean comes to in a mad scientist's basement, strapped to a generator and dressed in lederhosen. The Dracula reveals himself, tells Dean that his monster movie is going to end with the monster victorious and getting the girl, and then pauses Dean's imminent electrocution to pay for a pizza delivery. The Dracula then attempts to romance Jamie, in another room, by presenting her with a white gown and insisting that his terrible experiences growing up a freak have forced him to become like the great monsters of yore in self-defense.

While he is talking to Jamie, Sam finds the house and breaks in. He rescues Dean, and the two of them go to find Jamie, whom the Dracula has knocked out in a fit of rage. The Dracula calls Sam "Van Helsing," and fights both Winchesters. Yet in the ensuing scuffle, it is Jamie who fires Sam's gun, loaded with silver bullets, and at whose hand the Dracula dies.

The next morning, Dean and Jamie take their time saying goodbye. Sam and Dean talk about how if they were going to live the movies, they'd choose something better than classic horror films. Dean says that Sam has no idea what movie he'd pick; Sam shocks him by guessing correctly: Porky's II. Dean grudgingly allows that it was a lucky guess.

Characters

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Music

  • "Bratwurst Polka A" by Lars Kurz (Sonton)
(plays when Sam and Dean arrive at Oktoberfest)
  • "Hofkirchner Polka" by Mühlviertler Musikanten & Werner Brüggemann (Sonoton)
(plays while Sam and Dean talk to Ed Brewer; Dean has a beer while he and Sam talk)
  • "Alpine Polka" by Gerhard Narholz (Sonoton)
(plays while Sam and Dean talk about the case and then Jamie lets Dean know she's free that night)
  • "Münchener Bierfest (a)" by Matthias Seuffert (KPM Music)
(plays while Dean first asks Jamie out)
  • "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach
(the piece Ed Brewer plays on the organ in the movie house)

Quotes

Dean: Yeah, well, we can't save the world, not today anyway. But what we can do is chop off some vamps' heads. Come on, man, it's like the good old days, an honest-to-goodness monster hunt. It's about time the Winchesters got back to tackling a straightforward, black and white case.
Jaime: Wait a minute. You're a fed? Wow, you don't come on like a fed. Seriously?

Dean: I'm a maverick, ma'am. A rebel with a badge. One thing I don’t play by: the rules.

Sam: Okay, maverick. Um, so where can we find Mr. Brewer?
Dean: So, what do you think? Goth, psycho, vampire wannabe, right?

Sam: Definitely not our kind of case.

Dean: Agreed. But who cares? Room's paid for, and it's Oktoberfest. Come on, brother. Beer and bar wenches.
Sam: Pretty sure women today don't react well to the whole 'wench' thing, Dean.

Dean: Hey, bar wench, where's that beer?
Jaime: Coming up, good sir!

Dean: Dude, Oktoberfest.
Dean: Look at me. I mean, I came back from the furnace without any of my old scars, right? No bullet wounds, knife cuts, none of the off-angled fingers from all the breaks. I mean, my hide is as smooth as a baby's bottom. Which leads me to conclude, sadly... that my virginity is intact.

Sam: What?

Dean: I have been re-hymenated.
Dean: Hey, you think this Dracula could turn into a bat? That would be cool.
Jaime: So, this is what you do? You and your partner just tramp across the country on your own dime until you find some horrible nightmare to fight?

Dean: Some people paint.
Jaime: Wow.
Dean: What?
Jaime: That must suck. I mean, you're giving up your life for this terrible... I don't know, responsibility.
Dean: Last few years, I started thinking that way, and, uh, it started sort of weighing on me. Of course, that was before... A little while ago, I had this – let’s call it a near-death experience. Very near. And, uh, when I came to... things were different. My life's been different. I realize that I help people. Not just help them, though. I save them. I guess it's -- it's awesome. It's kind of like a gift... like a mission. Kind of like a... a mission from God.
Jaime: So, does that make you... some kind of monk or something? You know, celibate?

Dean: Man, I hope not.
Dracula: Tell me...

Delivery Boy: Yeah?
Dracula: ...is there garlic on this pizza?
Delivery Boy: I don't know. Did you order garlic?
Dracula: No!
Delivery Boy: Then no. Look, mister, I got four other deliveries to make. You want to just pay me the money so I can go?

Dracula: Of course, yes, but I have a coupon.
Dracula: I-I scared you. You’re the only one I don’t want to scare. I used to love the movies.

Jaime: They aren't real. You can’t make them real.

Dracula: 'Real' is being born this way. Different. 'Real' is having your dad call you 'monster' -- it's the first time you hear the word. And he tries to beat you to death with a shovel. Everywhere I ran, everywhere I tried to hide, people found me, dragged me out, attacked me. Called me 'freak,' called me 'monster.' Then I found them. The great monsters. In their movies, they were strong. They were feared. They were beautiful. And now I am like them. Commanding. Terrifying.
Dean: The hero gets the girl, monster gets the gank. All in all, happy ending -- with a happy ending, no less.
Sam: Real classy, Dean.

Trivia & References

Sam and Dean's FBI aliases, "Agents Angus and Young," refer to AC/DC lead guitarist Angus Young.
Live music at the Oktoberfest festivities by the Happy Schnapps Combo. The Happy Schnapps Combo is a polka band from Manitowoc, WI.
It may not have been intentional, but the music from the episode is very reminiscent of the music used to soothe the Monster in Young Frankenstein.
Dean: What the hell?

Sheriff Deitrich: Yeah, you got me -- I mean this killer's some kind of grade-A wacko, right? I mean, some Satan worshiping, Anne Rice-reading, gothic, psycho vampire wannabe.

Anne Rice is a gothic author who is most known for her series The Vampire Chronicles.
The portrayal of the Dracula character in the episode refers in looks and gestures to famous horror movie actor Bela Lugosi's iconic portrayal of Dracula in the classic movie of the same name from 1931. Among other things, the cloak, Lugosi's speech pattern, and the way he holds his cloak to disguise his face are gestures used by Lugosi. This also might be a reference to the Ed Wood movie Plan 9 From Outer Space - sometimes called "The Worst Movie Of All Time" and somewhat of a cult hit amongst fans. The movie was to have starred Lugosi, but Lugosi died before the movie could be filmed and Ed Wood hired his wife's chiropractor, who barely looked like Lugosi, as a replacement. Wood intercut silent scenes from Lugosi with scenes filmed with the other man, who had to raise his cloak to conceal his face and the fact that he wasn't Lugosi.
Dracula uses the name Lucy when he transforms into Jamie's friend at the bar, which is also the name of Mina Murray's best friend from Bram Stroker's novel Dracula
Dean: I have been re-hymenated.

Sam: Please. Dean, maybe angels can pull you out of Hell but no one can do that.
Dean: Brother, I have been re-hymenated. And the Dude does not abide.

"The Dude" is Jeffrey Lebowski, anti-hero of the 1998 Coen Brothers cult hit The Big Lebowski. "The Dude abides" is a popular catchphrase from the film.
The episode heavily references other classic horror movies besides Dracula: The character Anna Marie describes the Wolf Man as attacking her boyfriend. The Goethe Theatre plays The Phantom of the Opera, and when we see Ed Brewer bent maniacally over his organ, a reference to the 1925 movie. When we see Dean chained to a torture device in "Dracula's" cellar, it's actually a reference to Frankenstein. The Mummy with Boris Karloff also referenced. (Karloff also played Frankenstein's Monster in the aforementioned 1931 movie).
Dean: So, what? We've got a vampire and a werewolf monster mashing this town?
"Monster Mash" was a 1962 novelty song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett about a monster dance party.
Jamie: So, you guys are like Mulder and Scully or something, and the X-Files are real?

Dean: No, The X-Files is a TV show. This is real.

A reference to the sci-fi show The X-Files.
The name of the Goethe Theatre, where Ed Brewer is a projectionist, refers to the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author of, among other works, the two-part tragedy Faust, which recalls Dean's deal.
When Sam approaches the stairs in the movie theater, a poster for the 1953 film House of Wax can be seen in the foreground. Jared Padalecki co-starred in the 2005 remake of this film.
The shapeshifter refers to Dean as Mr. (Jonathan) Harker, Jamie as Mina, and when Sam arrives at the scene, he calls him Van Helsing, all characters from the most popular Gothic novel of all times, Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the novel, Dracula peruses Mina, the soon-to-be-bride of young Jonathan Harker, who meets vampire hunter Van Helsing.
Dracula: It was beauty killed the beast.
This is the last line spoken in the 1933 film King Kong.

Minutiae

This episode was originally scheduled as the third episode in this season.
The episode has an old-movie-like opening sequence with all the credits in a roll, as well as an "Intermission" screen with music, and a classical movie fade out (with a black circle closing in) at the end.
The whole episode was broadcast in black and white - in the beginning, Dean calls their current hunt a "black and white case."
Oktoberfest was sponsored by 97.2 Rock FM, "Classic Rock That Really Rocks!" and MG Premium Brew, a possible reference to executive producer McG.
Dracula's line "Do not use such language in the presence of my bride!" is probably a nod to the fact that, until the 1970's, actors were not allowed to swear in films.
Despite Dean's assertion in 1.02 Wendigo that he didn't "do shorts," we see him here in lederhosen, albeit non-consensually. He also wears very tight shorts (described by Jensen as "nut huggers") in 4.13 After School Special.
Jamie is named after fan called Jamie who wrote to Eric Kripke telling him how much she appreciated the show, and how it had helped her deal with her on-going illness.

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Episode Meta

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