4.08 Wishful Thinking

Title	Wishful Thinking
Episode #	Season 4, Episode 8
First aired	November 6, 2008
Directed by	Robert Singer
Written by	Ben Edlund and Lou Bollo
On IMDB	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1222615/
Outline	Sam and Dean come to a town where wishes come true and no one is careful about what they ask for.
Monster	Wishing Well
Timeline	immediately after events of 4.07 It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
Location(s)	Concrete, Washington
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Synopsis

This isn't how Psycho ended: when an invisible being encounters Candance Armstrong in the showers of the Cascade Women's Fitness Center, it apologizes nervously.

Elsewhere, over shots, Dean rebuffs Sam's questions about remembering Hell, and denies flat-out that he can. He is, however, eager to investigate the shower-spirit case. At #1 Lucky Chin's, a restaurant in Concrete, Wa., Candance tells Sam about her ghostly encounter (for his book, tentatively titled Supernatural).

Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Wes Mondale
• Hope Lynn Casey
• Audrey Elmer
• Todd
• Naked Invisible Boy
• Candace Armstrong

Definitions

• Wishing Well
• bustyasianbeauties.com

Quotes

Dean: I got to tell you, I'm pretty disappointed.

Sam: You wanted to save naked women.

Dean: Darn right I wanted to save some naked women.

Wesley: Aren't you the guys from the Health Department?

Sam: Yeah. And florists on the side.

Dean: Plus FBI. And on Thursdays, we're teddy bear doctors.

Dean: The things that I saw. There aren't words. There is no forgetting. there's no making it better. Because it is right here… forever. You wouldn't understand. and I could never make you understand. So I am sorry.

Trivia & References

Dean: Or it's a Bigfoot. You know, and he's some kind of alcoholo-porno addict. Kind of like a deep-woods Duchovny.
A reference to the extracurricular activities of actor and X-Files star David Duchovny.

The annoyingly cheerful waiter at the beginning of the episode is a reference to Brian from the movie Office Space, a waiter who has a very similar personality and also wears many "pieces of flair"

Dean: What's this, like a Harry and the Hendersons deal?
Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 movie about a family who hits Bigfoot with their car, and how he ("Harry') comes to live with them.

Dean: Run, Forrest, run!
A reference to the character Forrest Gump in the movie of the same name, who at one point runs across America.

Dean: You see, with great power comes great responsi...
Dean is quoting a line from Spiderman: With great power comes great responsibility.
In the comic Amazing Fantasy #15, the phrase appears in a caption in the comic's last panel, not as spoken dialogue. In the [2002 movie] it is spoken by Peter Parker's Uncle Ben just before he dies. Ted Riami who played Wes in this episode appeared in the movie "Spiderman" which was directed by his brother Sam Raimi.

Minutiae

The porn magazine Sam sees left behind in the store is called "Backside." It is the same magazine Dean gave him as a present in 3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas. Audrey also drops a copy of Busty Asian Beauties

The name of the lottery winner seen in the last newspaper headline, George Neuman, is a reference to series set decorator George Neuman.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 4.08 Wishful Thinking (transcript)

Promotion

• Preview clips at Buddy TV.