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| Dean answers a ringing pay phone with the code phrase "I am the egg man." It is [[Frank Devereaux]], and he reports that he doesn't have any leads on [[Dick Roman]] or what he's doing in the field in Wisconsin. Dean hangs up and asks Sam if they have anything on the [[Amazons]] who escaped them in the last episode. Sam says no, then tells Dean that he has a new case in Kansas. Dean agrees to take it and they head to Wichita in two separate cars. | | Dean answers a ringing pay phone with the code phrase "I am the egg man." It is [[Frank Devereaux]], and he reports that he doesn't have any leads on [[Dick Roman]] or what he's doing in the field in Wisconsin. Dean hangs up and asks Sam if they have anything on the [[Amazons]] who escaped them in the last episode. Sam says no, then tells Dean that he has a new case in Kansas. Dean agrees to take it and they head to Wichita in two separate cars. |
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Title
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Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie
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Episode #
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Season 7, Episode 14
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First aired
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February 10, 2012
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Directed by
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Mike Rohl
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Written by
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Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin
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On IMDB
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995107/
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Outline
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Sam is forced to confront his childhood fear of clowns when he and Dean investigate a rash of strange murders centered around Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie.
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Monster
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Timeline
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Location(s)
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Wichita, Kansas
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Synopsis
Sam is running from a deranged clown with red eyes when he finds an auto shop to hide in. He barricades the door, but the clown busts through and advances on him. He turns to run, but is stopped short by a second red-eyed clown grinning at him.
60 hours earlier
Dean answers a ringing pay phone with the code phrase "I am the egg man." It is Frank Devereaux, and he reports that he doesn't have any leads on Dick Roman or what he's doing in the field in Wisconsin. Dean hangs up and asks Sam if they have anything on the Amazons who escaped them in the last episode. Sam says no, then tells Dean that he has a new case in Kansas. Dean agrees to take it and they head to Wichita in two separate cars.
At the morgue in Wichita, they examine the body of a man who appears to have been killed by a 30-foot giant Pacific octopus with vampire teeth.
Quotes
Sam: So, we got dick on Dick?
Dean: Hey you spawn a monster baby and see how quick you want to dive back in the pool.
Dean: So what are we looking for? Octovamp? Vamptopuss?
Cliff: If this is about the meth lab that fireballed up in Butte, it wasn't me. Okay, it was my brother, but, um, we got the same fingerprints.
Dean: I'm sorry, you look like you got attacked by some PCP crazed strippers.
Trivia & References
The title refers to the chain fast food place in the episode "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie", which is similar to the real life chain
Chuck E. Cheese, which combines kids arcade games, entertainment and fast food. The name "Pennywhistle" may be a parody of Pennywise, the evil fanged clown in Stephen King's novel (and subsequent movie)
It.
The opening sequence of Sam running from the clowns recalls the opening sequence of
4.06 Yellow Fever, where Dean, infected with
Ghost Sickness which amplifies fear, is running in terror from a Yorkshire Terrier. That episode also featured a countdown clock.
Dean: I am the Eggman
Dean's code phrase to Frank is a quote from the Beatles song
"I am the Walrus", from their Magical Mystery Tour album, which ties in with the fantastical theme of the episode.
Following the scene with Sam's fight with the clowns at the beginning of the episode, the episode returns to sixty hours earlier, with a digital clock on the screen, reminiscent of the noughties spy TV show
24. Throughout the episode it counts down the events leading to the fight, until the fight occurs and the timestamp reads RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW - apprently an addition by
Bob Singer
Dean: Fred Savage. Really? Yeah I know big mouths are everywhere.
Fred Savage is an actor, best known for his role as a child in the late eighties series The Wonder Years. He is the second actor Frank has said is a
Leviathan. The other was Gwenyth Paltrow.
Dean: You got anything on Wonder Woman?
Dean is referring to the
Amazons. One famous queen of the Amazons was Hippolyta. In DC Comics'
Wonder Woman, Hippolyta is the mother of Diana, also known as the superhero Wonder Woman.
Dean: So what are we looking for? Octovamp? Vamptopuss?
In
6.15 The French Mistake, Kripke was said to be writing the movie Octocobra - a shoutout to the SyFy monster mashup movies like
Sharktopus.
Dean: Mom, Dad, nanny. man that is a love triangle straight out of Casa Erotica.
Casa Erotica is one of Sam and Dean's favorite
Porn series.
Dean: Close, but no Seabiscuit.
Seabiscuit was a famous racehorse in the US in the 1930s and 1940s.
In
2.13 Houses of the Holy, when Dean is disputing the existence of
angels, he acknowledges to Sam that there is a lot of lore on them, as there also is on unicorns: "In fact, I hear that they, they ride on silver moonbeams, and they shoot rainbows out of their ass." In this episode as the unicorn canters away, it is seen to shoot rainbows out of its ass, thus confirming Dean's "lore".
The scene where
Saul the janitor gets attacked by a shark in the ball pit recreates the iconic first attack in
Jaws.
Dean: Shark week man. How do you not watch that? Whole week of sharks!
Both Jensen and his wife Danneel have spoken of their fascination with sharks. Danneel has tweeted her
excitement over watching Shark Week, which airs on
the Discovery Channel and Jensen has also admitted he loves watching it
source.
Dean: You mainlined the koolaid, huh?
To "drink the koolaid" means to be brainwashed, a phrase that came into popular usage after 918 followers of cult leader Jim Jones drank koolaid laced with cyanide on his command and died at
Jonestown in 1978.
Dean: We don't care if you broke bad or whatever.
Dean is referring to
Breaking Bad a series on AMC about a high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed with cancer, starts producing methamphetamines in order to make money.
Cliff: You ever 'shroom in a ballpit?
Cliff is referring to taking what are commonly known as magic mushroom, which have an hallucinogenic effect.
Sam: Getting my ass kicked by those juggalos tonight was...therapeutic.
Juggalo is a slang term for followers of the band
Insane Clown Posse.
Sam: If it bleeds, you can kill it.
This is a line from the movie
Predator.
Dean: No can do, Hermano.
Hermano is Spanish for brother.
Dean: The one guy who was gonna rat, he got Bruced.
The mechanical shark used the movie 'Jaws' was named Bruce.
Dean: Seriously - dracupus, Seabiscuit the Impalaer, Landshark...what's next?.
Landshark was a recurring character in Saturday Night Live sketches.
Minutiae
Sam and Dean are staying at a
tiki themed motel called the Tiki Motel.
Sam and Dean use the aliases Agent Johnson and Jones, respectively, in this episode.
With hoodoo, Dean summons an apparition of Howard's drowned brother, who causes Howard to drown on land. Similar deaths occurred previously in
3.06 Red Sky At Morning, caused by a ghost.
From
Jim Michaels - The basement scene in Plucky's for last night's episode was shot underneath the Stages that housed Smallville's sets for 10 years!
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