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Revision as of 01:54, 29 May 2014
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| Title | Slumber Party |
| Episode # | Season 9, Episode 4 |
| First aired | October 29, 2013 |
| Directed by | Robert Singer |
| Written by | Robbie Thompson |
| On IMDB | Slumber Party |
| Outline | A newly freed Dorothy seeks the help of the Winchesters and Charlie Bradbury in finally defeating the Wicked Witch of the West. |
| Monster | The Wicked Witch of the West |
| Timeline | June - November 1935 (flashback) June 4, 2013 |
| Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas |
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Contents
Synopsis
In 1935, two men named James Haggerty and Peter Jenkins enter the Men of Letters newly built Bunker, quickly finding themselves bored with the uneventful lifestyle over the next few months. At long last, a famed girl named Dorothy arrives looking for help to kill a witch, while back in the present, Sam presses Crowley to deliver the names of more demons. Dean brings back a Game of Thrones DVD for him and Sam to watch together, while Sam busies himself with rigging the ancient Men of Letters computer to help track angels.
After knocking over a mysterious bottle in the process of trying to fix the computer, Dean calls on Charlie for her expertise in decoding the ancient machine. Charlie reveals that she has experimented with hunting on her own, but finds the experience less magical and filled with the fantasy she’d prefer. While the group watches Game of Thrones and awaits the files to transfer to Charlie’s computer, Dean notes how Sam has yet to come to consider the base a home, and the mysterious bottle downstairs uncorks itself and begins forming a webbing on the wall behind it.
Back in the past, Dorothy presents a captive Wicked Witch of the West that she’s been unable to kill, though the witch soon breaks free and possesses Jenkins, forcing Haggerty to kill him, while Dorothy flees to create a spell against the witch. Meanwhile in the present, the trio returns downstairs to find the bottle created a hole in the wall, out from which tumbles Dorothy. Once Dorothy acclimates to her present situation, revealing herself to indeed be the Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz books, the time-traveler explains how she trapped the witch in the bottle with her for years, though both have now clearly escaped.
Dorothy explains that the witch has been seeking something within the Men of Letters base, for which Sam and Dean leave to find the wicked witch. While Charlie fan-girls, Dorothy admits her father, L. Frank Baum, got the mythology all wrong in writing his books, though Charlie reasons she could at least rig up some poppy field bullets that would stun the witch. Upstairs, Sam and Dean find that the witch visited with Crowley, revealing that she intends to find a key hidden somewhere within the base.
Sam and Dean find Charlie and Dorothy in the kitchen, while Dorothy explains that the key would open the portal to Oz (here part of the fairy realm), returning the witch to her armies. Dean remembers that he found the key during an earlier inventory of the base, and kept it in his room. Sam and Dorothy explore the base looking for the witch, while Charlie and Dean search his bedroom. Dean finds the key, though the witch appears and lobs a blast at Dean that Charlie jumps in front of.
Dean finds the blast to have killed Charlie, though when Sam enters the room, Dean quickly urges Ezekiel to take over and return Charlie to life. Ezekiel warns that fighting the witch would prove a better use of his power than reviving the girl, though he ultimately acquiesces and brings Charlie back to life. Sam regains consciousness, swearing he heard Dean call him “Zeke,” while Dorothy reveals to Charlie that she actually died, rather than lose consciousness as Dean had told her. Sam and Dean continue to search the base, Dean taking the opportunity to remind Sam he should consider the base a home.
Dorothy explains to Charlie how her father created the stories as a revisionist history of sorts, though Charlie quickly points out that they seem to provide clues for Dorothy, giving the latter an idea. Meanwhile, the witch gets the drop on Sam and Dean, possessing them both as she sets about opening a portal to Oz. Charlie and Dorothy arrive to the Men of Letters garage, retrieving the two ruby slippers from Dorothy’s old motorcycle with intent to use the heels to kill the witch, before the possessed Sam and Dean appear. Both boys manage to overpower the girls, but Charlie manages to incapacitate Dean by kicking his groin. Dorothy tries to take on both the guys, but fails.
Charlie finds the witch in the midst of her spell, stabbing with the shoes to finally kill the wicked woman and seal the portal before any flying monkeys get through. With the threat abated and the key in possession, Dorothy opts to return to Oz, inviting Charlie along with her for the adventure. Charlie accepts and says her goodbyes, promising to keep Dean’s secret about resurrecting her, and the boys watch the two head off down the yellow brick road.
Characters
- Sam Winchester
- Dean Winchester
- Crowley
- Ezekiel
- Charlie Bradbury
- Dorothy Baum
- The Wicked Witch of the West
- James Haggerty
- Peter Jenkins
- L. Frank Baum
- Becky Rosen
Definitions
- The Bunker
- Busty Asian Beauties
- Deals and Pacts
- Devil's Trap
- Fairies
- Hunters
- Impala
- Key to Oz
- Men of Letters
- Oz
- Porn
- Spells
- The Supernatural Books
- Title Card
- Witches
Music
- "Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland
- (whistled by Crowley)
- "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)" by AC/DC
- (plays as Charlie and Dorothy enter Oz)
Quotes
Dean: Alone.
Charlie: I know. Not a good idea, according to the "Supernatural" books.
Dean: You really can't delete those from the Internet?
Charlie: Not even I can do that. Come on.
Dean: Where do you even find them?
Charlie: A top-secret place I call Amazon. And someone uploaded all the unpublished works. I thought it was fanfic at first, but it was clearly Edlund's work.
Sam: Who uploaded it?
Dean: We're hunters.
Charlie: And who are you calling a secretary?
Dean: Yeah, but a lifetime of abandoned buildings and crappy motel rooms? I mean, this is about as close to home as we're gonna get, and it's ours.
[kicks Dean in the crotch]
[stabs her in the face with the heel of the ruby slippers]
[Sam gives Dorothy a copy of The Wonderful World of Oz]
Dorothy: You have no idea how odd it is having a series of books written about you.
Sam: Of course. There's no place like home.
Trivia & References
- In the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Conversation, Harrison Ford plays Martin Stett, assistant to the man who hires Harry Gaul (Gene Hackman), who is a surveillance expert. Ford always answers the phone saying "Extension 756." The movie is a favorite of writer Robbie Thompson.
- The is a reference to a line from Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs when he says "I've been in this room for eight years now, Clarice. I know they will never ever let me out while I'm alive. What I want is a view. I want a window where I can see a tree, or even water."
Dean: Oh, that little nerd is in a lovely warded hotel room in Branson. He's got about 48 hours of pay-per-porn and Kenny Rogers ahead of him.
- Kenny Rogers is a country singer-songwriter. Branson, Missouri is famous for its many entertainment theaters, that typically exclusively deal with country.
- Game of Thrones is a popular HBO series based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin.
And, yeah. It's cool, though. It's given me more time to focus on my hobbies... like LARPing, macrame, and hunting.
- Wikileaks is an online organization known for leaking classified/secret information and news leaks.
- YA refers to young adult, novels specifically targeted towards adolescents.
- The Commodore 64 was an 8-bit home computer that was released in August 1982. It remains one of the biggest selling computers of all time. It had 64kb of RAM.
- Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and writer who lived from 1815 to 1852. She was best known for her work on the Analytical Engine, and is often described as the world's first computer programmer.
Dan: So, what, our home's not good enough for the "Hang in there, kitty" poster?
- Reference to the popular Hang in, there Baby poster, which has a small kitten, hanging on to a tree branch.
Charlie: Saving people, hunting things, the family business? I am down. But... I was raised on Tolkien, man.I mean, where is all this?. Where are my White Walkers and my volcano and magic ring to throw in the damn thing?
- "Saving people, hunting things, the family business" was how Dean summed up the Winchester mission back in 1.02 Wendigo - and Charlie had obviously read this in the Supernatural books. White Walkers are a mysterious race of beings featured in the series of books A Song of Ice and Fire and the TV show based on them, Game of Thrones. The ring and the volcano Charlie refers to are the One Ring and Mount Doom from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series. In 8.20 Pac-Man Fever, Charlie revealed that her mother used to read Tolkien's The Hobbit to her.
[Sam and Dean both have a blank look]
Crowley: Neither of you saw Wicked?
and
Crowley: Really, after all I did with Ms. Defying Gravity?
- Wicked is a 2008 musical based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. The Wicked Witch is portrayed as a much more sympathetic character in it. "Defying Gravity" is a song from the show.
[Sam and Dean growl]
Charlie: That's definitely not your Batman voice.
- Possibly a reference to Christian Bale's Batman voice in The Dark Knight trilogy, which is famous for being a low almost growl sounding voice.
- A play on "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead," which is a song that was sung in The Wizard of Oz.
Minutiae
The day before the episode aired, Jared tweeted an alternative title card for the episode. In the bottom left it features the message:
- "This is for the SPNFamily whose dedication and love drive us to continue creating this wonderful world. Keeping up the Family Business."
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Jensen and Jared discuss the episode
- Promo
- Sneek peek
- Title and plot synopsis by EOnline
- Tweetpic from returning actor
- Pic from Tech survey by Jim Michaels
- Promo pics
- Winchester Radio podcast w/ guest Felicia Day from WinchesterBros
- Interview with Gildart Jackson by The Examiner
