10.12 About a Boy

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Title About a Boy
Episode # Season 10, Episode 12
First aired February 3, 2015
Directed by Serge Ladouceur
Written by Adam Glass
On IMDB About a Boy
Outline
Monster Witches
Hansel
Timeline
Location(s) Pendleton, Oregon
Lebanon, Kansas
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Ashes, the Rain and I" by James Gang
(plays while Dean is researching the Mark of Cain)
  • "Only a Matter of Time" by Headwater
(playing in the bar when Dean goes to question the bartender about JP)
  • "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift
(plays as Sam and Dean drive off)

Quotes

Bum: Look we all know whats going here, okay.

Dean: Don't say it.
Bum: Aliens.
Dean: He said it.
Sam: Yeah, he did.

Bum: Dude was abducted believe me I know. May 2003 those suckers they grabbed me, and they probed me everywhere, and I'm talking everywhere.
Dean: How we looking?

Sam: Not great. Turns out JP was about three days from getting evicted. His landlord said the guy blasted Neil Diamond 24/7, and that his bathroom was quote 'like staring into the Devil's butt.'
Dean: That's... vivid.
Sam: And accurate, I saw it.
Dean: You saw the john or-

Sam: Don't.
Tina: You know before, I thought you were just another drunk.
Dean: I prefer functioning alcoholic.
Dean: Really Sam, now? I got no grass on the infield and a girl's gonna to die. Sorry if I'm not in a chatty mood, look you wanted me back in the game, I'm back in the damn game. Come on.
Dean: What?

Sam: Nothing. Okay not nothing This is bizarre, even for us. Dean This is insane, You're like 14, how does it even feel.
Dean: Well, I'm me. I'm old me, but a kid. It's freakin' weird dude, and...
Sam: What
Dean: There was a Taylor Swift song on the bus that I hopped to the motel, and uh, I liked it Sam. I liked it a lot.
Sam: Okay.
Dean: And my voice is weird, and I've got like nine zits, and I have zero control over this; I mean it's up, it's down, it's up for no reason.
Sam: That's enough yeah, no thanks. That's just called puberty.

Dean: Yeah, which sucks, again.
Dean: Some good news though, virgin liver. So, what do you say when we're done doing our hero thing, we take it out for a test drive?

Sam: Yeah sure. I mean you can drink again in what like, seven years?

Dean: That's not funny.
Dean: Okay, we get to barbecue a celebrity, cool.
Dean: Help? What's in it for you?
Hansel: Because if you're going to fry that candy coated bitch, I want in.
Tina: That was crazy. Like psycho crazy, and you do this all the time?

Dean: All the freakin' time.

Sam: Not all the time.
Dean: I'm back baby.

Trivia & References

About a Boy is the title of a coming of age novel, which was later adapted into a film and TV series.
Tina: JP wasn't that bad.

Dean: You knew him?
Tina: This isn't exactly Cheers, but yeah. And Don't get me wrong I would not buy a used car from the guy. But he was harmless.
Dean: So what was his problem?
Tina: What wasn't? You're in here getting stunned until the sun comes up, your life is a regular Charlie Foxtrot.

Cheers was the eponymopus bar in the 80/90s sitcom of the same name where, as the theme song said, "everybody knows your name."
Charlie Foxtrot is an abbreviation for Cluster Fuck expressed using the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Tina: Stay calm? I'm a friggin' tween, and you look like some One Direction reject, and were in some freaky serial killer basement, I can't-
One Direction is a famous Irish/English boy band formed during the 2010 series of The X-Factor.
Sam: How?

Dean: No clue, some Scarface looking dude, bright light. Next thing I know, I wake up looking like Beiber.

Justin Beiber was a child pop star who, in a replay of a familiar trope, has grown into a young man whose life is beset with issues related to drugs, alcohol and violence.
Dean: Okay. We still got some of that witch killing crap in the trunk?

Sam: Hell yeah. So we'll get you changed back and light Sabrina's ass up.

Sabrina was the name of the witch in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_the_Teenage_Witch a comic book series] and later a 1990s TV series.
Sam: Dean I'm way to big to fit in that.

Dean: First time you ever had to say that, huh?
Sam: Big talk from the guy wearing Underoos.

Underoos are a brand of underwear for children featuring designs based on pop culture chacrters].
Sam: Hansel, and then and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel, like the fable? Like Brothers Grimm?
Gretel: In the olden days, if a child went missing... the young died all the time. Now though with all your amber alerts and your milk cartons, a person fillets one rugrat and people gets o angry.

Dean: Yeah, I blame Obama.

Dean: And then Kentucky fry them.
Sam: Look, man do I wish the Mark was gone? Yes of course, absolutely I do. But I wanted you back, and here you are and you didn't Hulk out, I'll take the win.

Minutiae

Nels Lennarson, who played the Bartender, previously played Walt in 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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