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|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/tall-tales/id207595116?i=216090088 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NK9NBE/ref=atv_dp_se_2_15/102-6268956-3507308 Amazon.com] | |download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/tall-tales/id207595116?i=216090088 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NK9NBE/ref=atv_dp_se_2_15/102-6268956-3507308 Amazon.com] | ||
− | |outline= [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] get cranky with each other as | + | |outline= [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] get cranky with each other as they try to work out what is going on during a case that involves alien abductions, giant alligators, and deaths in a college town. |
|motw= [[Trickster]] | |motw= [[Trickster]] | ||
|location= Springfield, Ohio (Springfield University) | |location= Springfield, Ohio (Springfield University) | ||
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39.924389, -83.806711, Springfield, OH, USA | 39.924389, -83.806711, Springfield, OH, USA | ||
</googlemap> | </googlemap> | ||
+ | |prevep= 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign | ||
+ | |nextep= 2.16 Roadkill | ||
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[[Dean]] and [[Sam]] investigate the apparent suicide of an adulterous professor on a university campus. The local urban legend that seems most likely the culprit turns out to be a bust. Then a frat boy is humiliated when he reports being abducted by an alien. Puzzled, and increasingly antagonistic with each other, Sam and Dean fail to find any answers when again another urban legend appears to come to life - a scientist who used animals in his experiments is killed by an alligator in the sewers. | [[Dean]] and [[Sam]] investigate the apparent suicide of an adulterous professor on a university campus. The local urban legend that seems most likely the culprit turns out to be a bust. Then a frat boy is humiliated when he reports being abducted by an alien. Puzzled, and increasingly antagonistic with each other, Sam and Dean fail to find any answers when again another urban legend appears to come to life - a scientist who used animals in his experiments is killed by an alligator in the sewers. | ||
− | Unable to make headway, Sam and Dean call [[Bobby]], who comes to the town to help them out. Bobby listens 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 | + | 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 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 they leave town, Sam and Dean reconcile in a touching scene - much to Bobby's disgust. |
|Characters= | |Characters= | ||
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+ | * [[Acting in Unison]] | ||
* [[Alcohol]] | * [[Alcohol]] | ||
+ | * [[Aliases]] | ||
* [[Anansi]] | * [[Anansi]] | ||
+ | * [[Bobby's Hats]] | ||
* [[Busty Asian Beauties]] | * [[Busty Asian Beauties]] | ||
* [[Costumes & Disguises]] | * [[Costumes & Disguises]] | ||
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* [[EMF]] | * [[EMF]] | ||
* [[Fights]] | * [[Fights]] | ||
+ | * [[Gank]] | ||
* [[Hugs]] | * [[Hugs]] | ||
* [[Impala]] | * [[Impala]] | ||
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* [[Porn]] | * [[Porn]] | ||
* [[Purple Nurple]] | * [[Purple Nurple]] | ||
− | * [[ | + | * [[Table of Death]] |
* [[Trickster]] | * [[Trickster]] | ||
* [[Weekly World News]] | * [[Weekly World News]] | ||
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* "Walk Away" by The James Gang | * "Walk Away" by The James Gang | ||
:''(plays at the beginning of the episode; also played in [[1.13 Route 666 (episode)|1.13 Route 666]])'' | :''(plays at the beginning of the episode; also played in [[1.13 Route 666 (episode)|1.13 Route 666]])'' | ||
− | * "Next to You" by | + | * "Next to You" by JunkFood |
:''(plays during Sam's versions of events at the bar)'' | :''(plays during Sam's versions of events at the bar)'' | ||
* "Brenda and Me" by The Rhythm Machine | * "Brenda and Me" by The Rhythm Machine | ||
: ''(plays during Dean's versions of events at the bar)'' | : ''(plays during Dean's versions of events at the bar)'' | ||
− | * "Lady in Red" by Chris | + | * "The Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh |
− | :''(plays when the | + | :''(plays when the frat boy is slow dancing with the alien)'' |
* "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" by Barry White | * "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" by Barry White | ||
:''(plays when Dean enters the hall with the two girls on the red bed)'' | :''(plays when Dean enters the hall with the two girls on the red bed)'' | ||
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'''Dean:''' Come on, dude, that's not how it happened.<br> | '''Dean:''' Come on, dude, that's not how it happened.<br> | ||
'''Sam:''' No? So you never drank a purple nurple?<br> | '''Sam:''' No? So you never drank a purple nurple?<br> | ||
− | '''Dean:''' Yeah, maybe that, but I don't say things like | + | '''Dean:''' Yeah, maybe that, but I don't say things like 'feisty little wildcat.' And her name wasn't Starla.<br> |
'''Sam:''' Then what was it?<br> | '''Sam:''' Then what was it?<br> | ||
'''Dean:''' I don't know. But she was a classy chick. She was a grad student, anthropology and folklore. We were talking about local ghost stories. | '''Dean:''' I don't know. But she was a classy chick. She was a grad student, anthropology and folklore. We were talking about local ghost stories. | ||
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− | '''Bobby:''' You got a | + | '''Bobby:''' You got a Trickster on your hands.<br> |
'''Dean:''' That's what I thought.<br> | '''Dean:''' That's what I thought.<br> | ||
'''Sam:''' What?! No, you didn't. | '''Sam:''' What?! No, you didn't. | ||
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− | '''Trickster:''' Sorry I'm dragging a little ass today, boys. Had quite the night last night. Lots of sex, if you catch my drift. | + | '''Trickster:''' Sorry I'm dragging a little ass today, boys. Had quite the night last night. Lots of sex, if you catch my drift.<br> |
− | ''' | + | '''Dean:''' Yeah, hard not to. Listen, we won't be long. We just need to check a couple offices up on three. |
}} | }} | ||
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− | + | '''Professor Cox:''' How's the Anscombe paper coming? | |
+ | :''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._M._Anscombe G.E.M. Anscombe] was a British philosopher who notably studied ethics and moral philosophy. She wrote an article in 1958 titled [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Moral_Philosophy "Modern Moral Philosophy"] which is possibly the inspiration for the title of Professor Cox's book "Modern Morality". | ||
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− | The | + | 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. 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. |
}} | }} | ||
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− | A [[purple nurple]] is an actual drink containing coconut rum, triple sec, blue curacao and cranberry juice. | + | 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. |
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{TriviaQuote |Text= | ||
+ | A [[purple nurple]] is an actual drink containing coconut rum, triple sec, blue curacao, and cranberry juice. | ||
}} | }} | ||
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'''Dean:''' Starla! Starla, hey. This is my shuttle co-pilot Major Tom. Major Tom, Starla. | '''Dean:''' Starla! Starla, hey. This is my shuttle co-pilot Major Tom. Major Tom, Starla. | ||
:''[[Dean]] refers to [[Sam]] as "Major Tom." This is a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity_%28song%29 the David Bowie song, "Space Oddity."] The song later plays during [[6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe...]]. The name "Starla" for the blonde barfly (in Sam's version of events) is a possible reference to ''[[The Simpsons]]'', which featured a trashy, bleached-blonde barfly of that name (her most famous line is, "Can I have the keys to the car, lover? I feel like changing wigs.")'' | :''[[Dean]] refers to [[Sam]] as "Major Tom." This is a reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Oddity_%28song%29 the David Bowie song, "Space Oddity."] The song later plays during [[6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe...]]. The name "Starla" for the blonde barfly (in Sam's version of events) is a possible reference to ''[[The Simpsons]]'', which featured a trashy, bleached-blonde barfly of that name (her most famous line is, "Can I have the keys to the car, lover? I feel like changing wigs.")'' | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | '''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.'' | ||
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− | '''Dean:''' You mean between the angry spirit and the sexed- | + | '''Dean:''' You mean between the angry spirit and the sexed-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.'' | + | :''[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.'' |
+ | }} | ||
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+ | '''Dean:''' Looks like you lost it, Poindexter. | ||
+ | :''First introduced as a character in the Felix the Cat television cartoon series in 1958, the term "Poindexter" is now applied to people who are overly nerdy, geeky, or bookish.'' | ||
}} | }} | ||
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− | 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. | + | 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. |
+ | }} | ||
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+ | '''Sam:''' Well, I didn't find any candy bars or sugar. Not even Equal. | ||
+ | :''[https://equal.com/ Equal] is an artificial sweetener.'' | ||
}} | }} | ||
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− | ''' | + | '''Trickster:''' Those people got what was coming to them. Hoisted on their own petards. |
− | :'' | + | :''A proverbial phrase used to denote poetic justice. A "petard" is a small explosive device. Meaning the bomb-maker was blown into the air by their own bomb. The phrase originated in the play [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet Hamlet] by William Shakespeare.'' |
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− | 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. | + | '''Filming Locations:''' [https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=15ng38__7kgHtb-yR_txyAkEXYDDlGSqW&usp=sharing Map of known filming locations.] |
+ | }} | ||
+ | {{TriviaQuote |Text= | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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The boys are staying in a hotel called "Kings Lair" in room 12. | The boys are staying in a hotel called "Kings Lair" in room 12. | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1880647/ Matreya Fedor], who played the Alien, previously played [[Tyler Thompson]] in [[2.11 Playthings]]. | ||
+ | }} | ||
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+ | [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393953/ Barclay Hope], who played Professor Arthur Cox, also played Russell Wellington in [[10.11 There's No Place Like Home]]. | ||
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|Sides_Scripts_Transcripts= | |Sides_Scripts_Transcripts= | ||
* [[2.15 Tall Tales (transcript)]] | * [[2.15 Tall Tales (transcript)]] | ||
+ | * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sYMJjogDn9BXpmvWT7cQSqJoqwi8bIAw/view Casting Sides for Frat Boy] | ||
+ | * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1afK1rOvhsPwa38HBekHVqPd7UlUndov9/view Casting Sides for the janitor] aka the [[Trickster]] | ||
|Promotion= | |Promotion= | ||
− | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Hl0WGe7X4 | + | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Hl0WGe7X4 Promo] |
}} | }} | ||
+ | ==Episode Meta== | ||
+ | *[[SPN Heavy Meta]] Season Two Meta Index | ||
+ | *[https://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/9650.html 2.15 Tall Tales: Limerick Justice] by bardicvoice (February 2007); [https://web.archive.org/web/20190816011142/http://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/9650.html archive link] | ||
+ | *Bond, Silvia. 2008. Your Basic Haunting, Alien Abduction, Alligator-in-the-Sewer Gig: "Tall Tales" Season 2, Episode 15. ''Pink Raygun'', August 26; [https://web.archive.org/web/20120326112136/http://www.pinkraygun.com/2008/08/26/supernatural-tall-tales/ archive link] | ||
− | [[Category:Canon]][[Category:Episodes]][[Category:Season 2]] | + | [[Category:Canon]][[Category:Episodes|0215]][[Category:Season 2]] |
Latest revision as of 23:25, 25 November 2022
Title | Tall Tales |
Episode # | Season 2, Episode 15 |
First aired | February 15, 2007 |
Directed by | Bradford May |
Written by | John Shiban |
On IMDB | Tall Tales |
Outline | Sam and Dean get cranky with each other as they try to work out what is going on during a case that involves alien abductions, giant alligators, and deaths in a college town. |
Monster | Trickster |
Timeline | |
Location(s) | Springfield, Ohio (Springfield University) |
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Contents
Synopsis
Dean and Sam investigate the apparent suicide of an adulterous professor on a university campus. The local urban legend that seems most likely the culprit turns out to be a bust. Then a frat boy is humiliated when he reports being abducted by an alien. Puzzled, and increasingly antagonistic with each other, Sam and Dean fail to find any answers when again another urban legend appears to come to life - a scientist who used animals in his experiments is killed by an alligator in the sewers.
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 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 they leave town, Sam and Dean reconcile in a touching scene - much to Bobby's disgust.
Characters
Definitions
- Acting in Unison
- Alcohol
- Aliases
- Anansi
- Bobby's Hats
- Busty Asian Beauties
- Costumes & Disguises
- Dean's Amulet
- EMF
- Fights
- Gank
- Hugs
- Impala
- Loki
- Porn
- Purple Nurple
- Table of Death
- Trickster
- Weekly World News
Music
- "Walk Away" by The James Gang
- (plays at the beginning of the episode; also played in 1.13 Route 666)
- "Next to You" by JunkFood
- (plays during Sam's versions of events at the bar)
- "Brenda and Me" by The Rhythm Machine
- (plays during Dean's versions of events at the bar)
- "The Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh
- (plays when the frat boy is slow dancing with the alien)
- "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" by Barry White
- (plays when Dean enters the hall with the two girls on the red bed)
Quotes
Dean: I don't know, man, I think they're called purple nurples?
Sam: Okay, well listen. I think maybe we should go check out the professor's office.
Sam: No? So you never drank a purple nurple?
Dean: Yeah, maybe that, but I don't say things like 'feisty little wildcat.' And her name wasn't Starla.
Sam: Then what was it?
Dean: Thanks. But no time for that now. You need to tell me about this urban legend. Please. Lives are at stake.
Dean: Sam, please. If you wouldn't mind, give me five minutes here.
Dean: No, see married couples can get divorced. Me and him, we're like, uh, Siamese twins.
Sam: It's conjoined twins!
Dean: They probed you?
Curtis: Yeah, they probed me. Again and a...again and -- And again.[takes a shot] And again and again and again... And then one more time.
Dean: Yikes.
Curtis: And that's not even the worst of it.
Dean: How could it get any worse? Some alien made you his bitch.
Dean: That's what I thought.
Bobby: Well, more like demigods, really. There's Loki in Scandinavia. There's Anansi in West Africa. Dozens of them. They're immortal, and they can create things out of thin air. Things as real as you and me. Make them vanish just as quick.
Dean: Yeah, hard not to. Listen, we won't be long. We just need to check a couple offices up on three.
Dean: Wha... You know, I'm a -- I'm a sucker for a happy ending. Really, I am, but... I-I'm gonna have to pass.
Trickster: They're a peace offering. I know what you and your brother do. I've been around a while. Run into your kind before.
Dean: Well, then you know that I... can't let you just keep hurting people.
Trivia & References
- G.E.M. Anscombe was a British philosopher who notably studied ethics and moral philosophy. She wrote an article in 1958 titled "Modern Moral Philosophy" which is possibly the inspiration for the title of Professor Cox's book "Modern Morality".
- Dean refers to Sam as "Major Tom." This is a reference to the David Bowie song, "Space Oddity." The song later plays during 6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe.... The name "Starla" for the blonde barfly (in Sam's version of events) is a possible reference to The Simpsons, which featured a trashy, bleached-blonde barfly of that name (her most famous line is, "Can I have the keys to the car, lover? I feel like changing wigs.")
- To "get more ass than a toilet seat" means to have the ability to "pull" the ladies.
- OCD stands for Obsessive-Complusive Disorder, a psychiatric disorder.
- 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.
- First introduced as a character in the Felix the Cat television cartoon series in 1958, the term "Poindexter" is now applied to people who are overly nerdy, geeky, or bookish.
- A close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses a UFO. This could also be a reference Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another Spielberg movie about aliens who come to Earth.
- Equal is an artificial sweetener.
- A proverbial phrase used to denote poetic justice. A "petard" is a small explosive device. Meaning the bomb-maker was blown into the air by their own bomb. The phrase originated in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
- Dodge City, Kansas was the temporary home to Wyatt Earp and was known for several famous shoot-outs.
Minutiae
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
- 2.15 Tall Tales (transcript)
- Casting Sides for Frat Boy
- Casting Sides for the janitor aka the Trickster
Promotion
Episode Meta
- SPN Heavy Meta Season Two Meta Index
- 2.15 Tall Tales: Limerick Justice by bardicvoice (February 2007); archive link
- Bond, Silvia. 2008. Your Basic Haunting, Alien Abduction, Alligator-in-the-Sewer Gig: "Tall Tales" Season 2, Episode 15. Pink Raygun, August 26; archive link