3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

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Promotional image from Malleus Maleficarum
Title Malleus Maleficarum
Episode # Season 3, Episode 9
First aired January 31, 2008
Directed by Robert Singer
Written by Ben Edlund
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032141/
Outline Sam and Dean investigate a coven of witches
Monster Witches and Demons
Timeline
Location(s)
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn -plays on the radio when the husband is in the car
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You - plays right after the Poison song, when the radio goes wacky, and plays again when the husband starts choking

Quotes

Ruby: You need to help me get him ready for life without you. To fight this war on his own.

Dean: Ruby? Why do you want us to win?
Ruby: Isn't it obvious? I'm not like them. I wish I was, but I'm not. I remember what it's like.
Dean: What what's like?

Ruby: Being human

Trivia & References

Dean: So are we looking for some craggy old Blair bitch in the woods?
A reference to the movie The Blair Witch Project.

Dean: It’s like Fatal Attraction all over again.
Fatal Attraction was a 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. After a brief affair while his family is away, Micahel Douglas’ character wants no more to do with Gelnn Close. She starts stalking and terrorising him and his family, and in a famous scene, kills the family’s pet rabbit, and leaves it boiling on the stove for them to find.


Sam: I’m Detective Bachman. This is Detective Turner.
A reference to the 1970s Canadian rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive, which featured three Bachman brothers and Fred Overdrive.


Ruby: It’s called witchcraft shortbus

Dean: You’re the shortbus…shortbus

“Shortbus” is an insult implying someone is mentally challenged. It arises from the use of buses, smaller than normal school buses, used to take children who are intellectually handicapped to special schools or classes.
Tammi: That’s what happened when you get voted off the island.
A reference to the system of contestant elimination on the reality TV show Survivor


Tammi: What did you think it was? Make believe? Positive thinking? The Secret?
The Secret is a self help film and book, which claims to teach people who to attract good things into their lives.

Minutiae

The boys are staying at The Conquistador Motel

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion