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'''Jack:''' Don't tell Sam.
:''Jack says this while eating cookie themed cereal. This scene is reminiscent of a scene in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda Kung Fu Panda]. While Po eats a jar of Monkey's almond cookies and notices that Master Shifu was watching, he says "Don't tell Monkey."''
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'''Jack:''' Cas. The deal you made... why can't Sam and Dean know?<br>
'''Castiel:''' They can. I... I just don't... I don't want them to. They don't need that burden. You don't need that burden.<br>
'''Jack:''' Of course I do. You did that for me.<br>
'''Castiel:''' You know, the Empty said that it wouldn't come for me until I had finally given myself permission to be happy, but with everything we have going on, with -- with Michael still out there, I don't see that happening anytime soon. This life may be a lot of things, but it's rarely happy.
'''Sam:''' What?<br>
'''Garth:''' Used to work on my Mom.<br>
'''Sam:'''Garth--<br>
'''Garth:''' Well, most of the time.
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'''Michael:''' When I gave up Dean, you didn't think to question it, to ask why? Dean was... resisting me. He was too attached to you, to all of you. He wouldn't stop squirming -- to get out, to get back. So I left.. but not without leaving the door open... just a crack.<br>
'''Castiel:''' Why wait?<br>
'''Michael:''' To break him, to crush and disappoint him so completely that, this time, he'll be nice and quiet for a change -- buried. And he is. He's gone. And now... I have a whole army out there, waiting, ready for my command, ready... Ready for this.
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The central plot of the episode has many elements that parallel the action movie ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard Die Hard]''. In the movie, the villain and their henchman seize an office tower called the Nakatomi Plaza (named Hitomi Plaza in the episode), with the villain taking up residence in the penthouse, and it is up to the hero to stop their evil plan. "Ode to Joy," which plays as Cas, Sam, Dean, and Jack do their "heroes' walk" as they go off to meet Michael, also features prominently on the ''Die Hard'' soundtrack. Both the movie and the episode feature popular Christmas songs as well. Like the movie, the episode is set around Christmas and ''Die Hard'' is [https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/10-reasons-why-die-hard-is-the-greatest-christmas-film-of-all-time-479242 considered a popular Christmas movie.] Dean is also a fan of the movie, quoting from or referencing it on a number of occasions including in [[2.18 Hollywood Babylon]], [[6.18 Frontierland]], and [[13.06 Tombstone]].
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'''Jack:''' Did you take the decoder ring out of the box?<br>
'''Castiel:''' Maybe. The secret password is 'cookie-tacular.'
:''In America, breakfast cereal manufacturers sometimes include toys as part of their marketing to children. A decoder ring usually implements a simple cipher that maps letters to numbers, with a spinning wheel containing the letters and an outer ring containing the numbers (or vice versa). The word or phrase decoded is usually related to the product. In [[Jack]]'s case he is eating "Krunch Cookie Crunch" and the code word is "Cookie-tacular."''
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Michael snapping his fingers, presumably to call his monster army, could be seen as a reference to [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snapture "the Snapture"] from ''Avengers: Infinity War'', in which the antagonist, Thanos, snapped his fingers, causing half of all living creatures in the universe to be killed. This proved to be a misdirect, as at the beginning of [[14.10 Nihilism]] we find out the finger click was used by Michael to change his clothes from Dean's plaid back to his suit.
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Original score by [[Jay Gruska]].
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[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5437111/ Alex Rose], who played Brett the Vampire, previously played Crowley's Demon in [[8.17 Goodbye Stranger]].
