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|outline= [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] get cranky with each other as the they try to work out what is going on during a case that involves alien abductions, giant alligators , and deaths in a college town.

Unable to make headway, Sam and Dean call [[Bobby]], who comes to the town to help them out. Bobby listens to Dean and Sam's stories about the case, and their irritations with each other, and works out that a [[Trickster]] is at work. They track down the most likely culprit - a janitor in the campus building where the deaths occur. The Trickster attempts to bargain with Dean in order to escape, but the three hunters manage to trap the Trickster him and a fight ensues before Dean stakes the [[Trickster]] in the heart. After the three leave the building, the body Dean staked disappears and the real Trickster appears; seemingly, it has used its ability to manifest things out of thin air to deceive the hunters into thinking they were killing it, as opposed to a solid apparition. As they leave town, Sam and Dean reconcile in a touching scene - much to Bobby's disgust.

* [[Talking in UnisonTable of Death]]

:''(plays when the fratboy frat boy is slow dancing with the alien)''

'''Bobby:''' You got a trickster Trickster on your hands.<br>

The boys relating their mutually contradictory accounts of events shown in flashback to [[Bobby]], who then determines the truth, is a take on the 1950 movie ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_%28film%29 Rashomon]'', in which four people tell mutually contradictory versions of events shown in flashback and the final account is assumed to be the truth. The method This narrative device was also used in an ''X-Files'' episode, "Bad Blood", on which [[John Shiban]] (the writer of this episode) was a co-producer.

The use of the [[Trickster]] character, in particular the names [[Loki]] and [[Anansi]], is a reference to the work of [[Neil Gaiman]], the novelist and graphic novel author of which [[Eric Kripke]] has admitted being a fan. Gaiman frequently uses Tricksters in his fiction, and his recent novel was concerned primarily with [[Anansi]]. Other tricksters in folklore mentioned by Sandy (S.E. Schlosser), Folklorist, in the [[Season 2 DVD and Blu-ray]] special feature, "The Devil's Roadmap" include Shakespeare's Puck, Coyote, Raven/Crow, and Br'er Rabbit.

A [[purple nurple]] is an actual drink containing coconut rum, triple sec, blue curacao , and cranberry juice.

'''Dean:''' You mean between the angry spirit and the sexed-Up up E.T.? What could the connection possibly be?:''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/ E.T.:] Huge schmaltzy 1982 Spielberg movie featuring a stranded cute alien and an even cuter seven -year -old Drew Barrymore. The alien had a long finger that glowed.''

The [[Trickster]] reads a ''[[Weekly World News]]'' about a cannibal wielding a chainsaw, and later creates this cannibal to fight [[Sam]], [[Dean]] , and [[Bobby]]. This could be a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherface Leatherface] from ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]'', except the cannibal shown in the WWN is said to have killed his family, where Leatherface and his family are cannibals working together.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Trickster:''' I don't mean to cast aspersions on a dead guy but, uh, 'Mr. Morality' here? He brought a lot of girls up here. Got more ass than a toilet seat.:''To [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=get%20more%20ass%20than%20a%20toilet%20seat "get more ass than a toilet seat"] means to have the ability to "pull" the ladies.''

The show was actually advertised in the ''[[Weekly World News]]'', via an interview with [[Dean]] and [[Sam]] in two issues of the paper. ''Weekly World News'' is a tabloid paper best known for its stories involving alien abductions, strange mutations , and Elvis sightings.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Hl0WGe7X4 Episode Promo: 2.15 Tall Tales]

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