6.15 The French Mistake

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Title The French Mistake
Episode # Season 6, Episode 14
First aired February 25, 2011
Directed by Charles Beeson
Written by Ben Edlund
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627712/
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Sam: Should we be killing anybody?

Dean: I don't think so.
Sam: Running?

Dean: Where?
Kevin: We can clean up, reset the window, takes about 95 minutes basically. So we'd have to blow off the scene where they sit on the Impala and talk about their feelings.
Bob: Ha! Right! You answer the hate mail.
Dean: Oh crap. I'm a painted whore.
Dean: Seriously, why would anyone want to watch a show about our lives?
Sam: Well according to the interviewer not many people do.
Sam: I am just saying we landed in some dimension where you're Jensen Ackles and I'm something called a Jared Padalecki
Dean: So what? Now you're Polish?
Dean: I want to go home. I feel like this whole place is bad touching me.
Dean: Misha? Jensen? What's up with the names around here?

Trivia & References

The episode title The French Mistake refers to a famous sequence in Mel Brook’s movie Blazing Saddles. At the end of the movie, the action from the movie which is set in the Old West, crashes through a wall (literally breaking the Fourth Wall) onto the set of a musical on the Warner Brothers lot. The song being performed in the musical is called The French Mistake. The term "French Mistake" purportedly refers to a straight guy having a gay sexual encounter he later regrets Source.
The other major meta episodes in the series have been: See Meta Episodes for a discussion of metafiction in Supernatural, and a list of meta references.
Other episodes set in alternate universes are:
Balthazar makes reference to the 1972 movie The Godfather.
In the episode real members of the cast and crew of Supernatural are featured – some played by actors while others play themselves:
In his spell to send Sam and Dean into the alternate universe, Balthazar uses Dead Sea brine, lamb's blood and the bones of a lesser saint, which he uses to draw a sigil.
Kevin: We can clean up, reset the window, takes about 95 minutes basically. So we'd have to blow off the scene where they sit on the Impala and talk about their feelings.

Bob: Ha! Right! You answer the hate mail.

When references are made to events in real life like this it is referred to as Lampshade Hanging. Another example is Sam mentioning that not many people watch the show, and of course Misha's tweeting.
Dean: Like bizarro Earth? But instead of bizarro Superman, we get this clown factory?
Bizarro World is a planet from the DC comics universe, where everything is the oppostie of how things are on Earth, and it is inhabited by "bizarro"versions of characters including Superman.
When Misha first meets Sam and Dean, thinking they are Jared and Jensen, he recites lines from his script, in the chacrter of Castiel. The lines we recites describe the plot of the meta episode.
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Dean: Look at these male modelling sons of bitches - nice Blue Steel Sam! Dean is holding up a copy of the Supernatural: Official Magazine - Issue #11 from August 2009. Blue Steel is a signature modelling pose of Derek Zoolander, first referenced by Dean in 2.19 Folsom Prison Blues, and demonstrated by Jared and Jensen on every gag reel, and at numerous conventions.
Sam finds a clip of Jensen when he played Eric Brady in Days Of Our Lives. The clip used in this epsiode starts at 6.33 in this clip
The studio in the episode is called "KM Motion Picture Studios". At the Salute to Supernatural San Francisco 2011 in January 2011, Clif Kosterman reported that the Supernatural Studios in Burnaby Vancouver had officially be named in honour of late director and producer Kim Manners. Source.
Dean: Due, we're not even in America.
Supernatural is filmed in Vancouver Canada. (Except for the Pilot which was filmed in L.A.]]
Jared and Genevieve married in real life on February 27, 2010 in Sun Valley, Idaho. The photo on the mantle (next to the alpaca) is an actual wedding photo taken by Kirsten Schultz and featured in an artiucle in Sun Valley magazine].
Mashing up fact and fiction: Jared is an animal lover who has two dogs Harely and Sadie. He has given support to the animal rights group PETA, and A Dog's Life rescue. Jared and Genevieve support the charity 5GYRES which combats ocean pollution, and money raised from auctions at Salute to Supernatural San Francisco 2011 went to it. It is not known whether they have adopted any otters or own a llama.
The blue sweater Misha is wearing is also one he wore in his Rhino Puzzle missive here.
Dean: No hell below us, above us only sky.
Dean is quoting the John Lennon song "Imagine."
Dean: Dude looks like a lady.
A reference to the Aerosmith song of the same name.
The character of Misha in the episode spent a lot of time on Twitter and at one point he tweets "Ola mishamigos! J2 got me good. Really starting to feel like one of the guys." Just to really mess with our mind, when the epsidoe began airing, Misha actually sent that tweet Source The words: #Misha, #metamadness and #kripke all made it into the top ten Trending Topics as the episode went to air.
Bob Singer: I'd like to think that over these years we've grown closer, that you don't think of me as "director Bob"or executive producer "Bob Singer", but as Uncle Bob.

Sam: You're kidding? So the character in the show - Bobby Singer...
Dean: What kind of a douchebag names a character after himself?
Sam: Oh that's not right!

The character of Bobby was named after producer Bob Singer, although the culprit was Kripke. You can see Bob Singer talk about it here.

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