15.14 Last Holiday

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Title Last Holiday
Episode # Season 15, Episode 14
First aired October 8, 2020
Directed by Eduardo Sanchez
Written by Jeremy Adams
On IMDB Last Holiday
Outline Sam and Dean free a wood nymph that had been trapped in the Men of Letters Bunker since 1958, and she makes life in the Bunker much easier for them. But the boys must soon contend with Mrs. Butters's overprotective nature when she becomes determined to protect them at any cost.
Monster Vampires
Mrs. Butters
Timeline
Location(s) Lebanon, Kansas
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" by The Toreador Brass
(playing as Sam and Dean return to the Bunker to find it decorated for Christmas)
  • "Cleanin' Up the Town" by The BusBoys
(plays over the montage of Sam and Dean going on hunts and celebrating various holidays)

Quotes

Mrs. Butters: When the lads left for the ceremony, I was told to stay behind, guard the Bunker. But they never returned. So, to keep the Bunker safe, I placed it and myself in standby mode.
Mrs. Butters: I never dreamed... it would take this long to be reactivated.

Sam: Yeah, we don't totally know everything about this place yet.

Dean: It's kinda been one apocalypse after the other.
Mrs. Butters: I know how busy your work can be. If you're anything like the others, then it has been an age since you had a home-cooked meal or celebrated the holidays or -- oh -- ahem -- washed your clothes.
Sam: Yeah, we're not really holiday people.
Dean: He'll be fine. I mean, I've been through worse. Look at me. I'm the picture of health.

Sam: Ignoring your trauma doesn't make you healthy.

Dean: Sure it does.
Dean: Whoo! Well, that's gotta be a record. I mean no investigation, no dead ends. Just -- ding! Bloodsuckers. That monster radar rules.
Sam: Why didn't you call me?

Dean: Well. I mean, I, you know, figured you were... "practicing your sign language."
Sam: And that's more important than coming to save you? Dean?

Dean: It's been a while for you, man, you know?
Dean: Dang it. Dang -- Damn it. Damn it! "Language," my ass.
Mrs. Butters: It -- Oh. Dean. Eat your vegetables. And, Sam... cut your hair. And, Jack... go save the world. Well. Goodbye, boys.

Trivia & References

Dean: Oh, yeah -- "uh, hey, Mario Brothers? Yeah, could you come the most secretive, secure supernatural hideout in the world? Great. Thanks. Go, Luigi!"
The Mario Brothers - Mario and Luigi - are two Italian-American bothers who are plumbers and the stars of the video game franchise named after them.
One of the sigils that Mrs. Butters absorbs herself into when she puts the Bunker in standby mode is that of a Twanas symbol, which is best known as the stick man charm from The Blair Witch Project, which was co-directed by "Last Holiday" director, Eduardo Sanchez.
Sam: Even if she is what she says she is, some kind of --

Dean: Magic Roomba?

A roomba is an automated, self-propelling vacuum cleaner.
The vampires are watching an episode of the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows before Sam and Dean burst through the door.
Mrs. Butters: What are you?

Dean: He's a millennial. Don't let that throw you.

A millennial is someone born between 1981 and 1996. Given he was born in 2017, strictly speaking Jack belongs to Generation Alpha.
Mrs. Butters: Samuel, the radar says its a lamia. I put blessed knives in the trunk.
In 6.04 Weekend at Bobby's, the Winchesters also faced a lamia which they at first tried to kill with a knife which they tried to have blessed by a priest. However, they had to improvise after the priest was killed before they could get the blessing.
The montage set to "Cleanin' Up the Town" by The BusBoys, and Dean's earlier proclamation of "Any bloodsuckers in here?" after entering a vampire nest, are a reference to this scene from Ghost Busters.
Dean: Oh, wow. Somebody's shopping at Abercrombie & Bitch.
Abercrombie & Fitch is a clothing designer often associated with the "preppy" look.
Dean: Yeah, we had a good thing going, and, of course -- of course -- you had to go full Nurse Ratched.
Nurse Ratched is the main antagonist in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which was later made into a play and then a 1975 Academy-Award-winning movie. She is a nurse in a psychiatric institution who enjoys tormenting and humiliating the patients. In 2020, Sarah Paulson starred as Nurse Ratched in a series by Ryan Murphy called "Ratched".
Dean: Now, I was angry with you... for a while. And maybe I still am a little bit, okay? But I'm not gonna let some Evil Mary Poppins take you out. Do you understand?
Dean: Alright, now, remember -- pain is just weakness leaving the body, mm? On three. Here we go.

Minutiae

During the broadcast of the episode, Misha organized a livestream to promote voting with Supernatural cast members past and present, and politicians including Cory Booker and M.J. Hegar. They were also going to discuss the episode as they watched it but the livestream just became a big group chat. The highlight was that Jensen and Danneel were watching from the backseat of the Impala in their garage.
We learn in this episode that Dean owns a pair of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! boxers.
Dean: Dude, we fought the Devil, okay? I've killed Hitler. I think we can handle a few old pipes.
Dean is referencing when he shot the newly-resurrected Adolf Hitler in the head in 12.05 The One You've Been Waiting For.
Dean: Now... burger time. Meat man! Comin' to town!
Dean previously referred to himself as a "meat man" in 15.04 Atomic Monsters. It is still uncertain if he knows what the term actually means.
Mrs. Butters mentions she got her name from "Mr. Ganem". Larry Ganem was one of the last surviving Men of Letters that Sam and Dean met, who was killed in 2013 by Abaddon. She also makes mention of "Markham" and "Ackers," two of the Men of Letters who were killed at the initiation of Henry Winchester and Josie Sands in 1958. Markham was also the man responsible for banishing Magnus in 10.19 The Werther Project.
Mrs. Butters can take on a green incorporeal smoke form, much like the Wicked Witch of the West did.
The Men of Letters Bunker radar system designates vampires with the color red.
Dean: Oh. Dude, you gotta see this thing. It's like I'm wrapped in hugs.
Dean had previously noted his enjoyment of wearing a sleeping robe (and nightcap) in 13.16 Scoobynatural, where he also told Sam it felt like he was "wrapped in hugs."
"Last Holiday" marks the third time Sam has seen Dean's penis in an episode, after 3.01 The Magnificent Seven and 5.11 Sam, Interrupted.
The holidays that Mrs. Butters has Sam, Dean, and Jack celebrate are Christmas, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Halloween. There is also apparently a Boxing Day breakfast which is mentioned, but which we do not get to see. Sam's birthday is celebrated as is Jack's though the latter appears to be a spontaneous action on Dean's part. The number of holidays suggests that this episode happens over the course of several months.
It is revealed that Billie has confirmed that Jack must kill both God and the Darkness. In 11.23 Alpha and Omega it was discovered that only killing one would bring about the end of everything and in 15.12 Galaxy Brain the Winchesters had expressed concern about this fact.
Dean gets to use the grenade launcher for the first time since 12.22 Who We Are, though he did attempt to equip himself with it in 15.10 The Heroes' Journey.
It is revealed that Mjölnir has been in Sam and Dean's possession since 8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
Sam goes on a date with Eileen Leahy and returns quite late. Dean makes lewd suggestions about why before and after Sam returns, but Sam doesn't explain what happened on the date.
Mrs. Butters repairs the TV that Dean had gotten for his Dean Cave and then later broke in 13.16 Scoobynatural.
This episode is the second time that Sam has had an onscreen birthday celebration since his birthday picnic with Amelia Richardson and Riot in 8.03 Heartache. We previously saw the boys celebrate Christmas in 3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas, and Fourth of July in a relived memory in 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon. Halloween is celebrated in the Pilot when Sam reluctantly joins Jess and their friends for Halloween, and the episode 4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester takes place at Halloween. In 14.04 Mint Condition, Sam revealed that the reason he hated celebrating the holiday is because he threw up on a girl he had a crush on at a Halloween party when he was a kid.
Cuthbert: Cuthbert Sinclair, Men of Letters, File 5150. As you know, Henshaw was successful in retrieving a wood nymph from the Thule's laboratories.
Henshaw is a reference to Clifford Henshaw, who was the mentor of Delphine Seydoux.
This is the second holiday-themed episode in which Sam has his fingernails ripped off, the first time being in 3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas.
We finally learn that the telescope in the Bunker is actually an "interdimensional geoscope." When Dean says he did not see anything when he looked into it earlier, Mrs. Butters tells them that that is "not good." As we saw in 15.12 Galaxy Brain, Chuck has been destroying the other universes, which explains why Dean did not see anything through the scope.

In 12.18 The Memory Remains, Ketch looked through the geoscope and remarked that he couldn't see a "damn thing." Though, as we learned in this episode, the Bunker was only running on half-power, which would explain why he did not see anything when he looked through it. The geoscope is only shown to be powered up when the Bunker is at full power.

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