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|imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032133/ Ghostfacers] | |imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032133/ Ghostfacers] | ||
|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/ghostfacers!/id265096577?i=279496051 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018CO294 Amazon.com] | |download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/ghostfacers!/id265096577?i=279496051 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018CO294 Amazon.com] | ||
| − | |outline= Sam and Dean find themselves on a reality TV show | + | |outline= Sam and Dean find themselves on a reality TV show ''Ghostfacers'' – and in real danger. |
|motw= [[Ghost]] | |motw= [[Ghost]] | ||
|timeline= February 28-29, 2008 <br />Two months before Dean’s deal is up. | |timeline= February 28-29, 2008 <br />Two months before Dean’s deal is up. | ||
| − | |location= Appleton, Wisconsin | + | |location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton,_Wisconsin Appleton, Wisconsin] |
| − | |Synopsis= Sam and Dean work a case at the same place where the boys from Hell Hound's Lair, [[Ed Zeddmore]] and [[Harry Spangler]], are shooting the pilot for their reality show | + | |Synopsis= Sam and Dean work a case at the same place where the boys from Hell Hound's Lair, [[Ed Zeddmore]] and [[Harry Spangler]], are shooting the pilot for their reality show ''Ghostfacers''. Every leap year, beginning at midnight, a ghost who used to be a janitor at a local hospital kills people and keeps their corpses at the [[Morton House]] for company. Their spirits remain trapped in the house as well as any living person in the house at midnight. Sam and Dean become trapped in the house with the Ghostfacers crew and must figure out how to kill the ghost as it hunts them one by one. |
| − | Harry Spengler and Ed Zeddmore of | + | Harry Spengler and Ed Zeddmore of [[1.17 Hell House]] fame are dressed up, sitting in front of a fireplace in chairs a la ''Masterpiece Theatre'', touting their new pilot as the bold new future of "reality TV". Cue the ''Ghostfacers'' intro, showing Ed, Harry, Spruce, Maggie, Corbett, Sam and Dean (whose shadowed out middle finger is priceless) through shaky camera work in what looks like a haunted house setting. |
| − | Phase I: Homework. Ed and Harry pull up in their vintage AMC Gremlin doing the fake slo-mo. They reveal they can start ghost hunting at six o’clock thanks to the flexibility of their jobs at the Kinkos, and they hold their strategy meeting with the team a la | + | Phase I: Homework. Ed and Harry pull up in their vintage AMC Gremlin doing the fake slo-mo. They reveal they can start ghost hunting at six o’clock thanks to the flexibility of their jobs at the Kinkos, and they hold their strategy meeting with the team a la ''Ghost Hunters'' in Ed’s parents' garage. Corbett is the Intern/Cook and very gay, Maggie is Ed’s adopted sister, and Spruce is 15/16 Jewish and 1/16 Cherokee, thus making him a “Shamanologist”. They review a legend in which every four years on February 29th, Morton House becomes the most haunted place in America. |
| − | Phase II: Infiltration. The Ghostfacers break into the Morton House, hearing the roar of the Impala and Grand | + | Phase II: Infiltration. The Ghostfacers break into the Morton House, hearing the roar of the [[Impala]] and Grand Funk's "We're An American Band" in the background. They see Sam and Dean roll by, scoping out the place. The Ghostfacers set up "Command Center One: Eagle's Nest" in the main room and start rolling the cameras, which never stop the entire episode, no matter what horrors happen, much to the ire of Sam and Dean. |
| − | Phase III: Face Time. The Ghostfacers search the house with their instruments, taking readings and run into Sam and Dean, who are impersonating cops. Ed recognizes them from their earlier encounter in Texas. Sam and Dean try to get them out of the house by showing them the missing persons reports, but Team 2 records a ghost reliving his horrible death. Sam and Dean figure out | + | Phase III: Face Time. The Ghostfacers search the house with their instruments, taking readings and run into Sam and Dean, who are impersonating cops. Ed recognizes them from their earlier encounter in Texas. Sam and Dean try to get them out of the house by showing them the missing persons reports, but Team 2 records a ghost reliving his horrible death. Sam and Dean figure out they're dealing with a death echo, which isn't the real threat. Corbett then disappears and they don’t make it out before midnight, trapping them in the house for the evening. |
| − | They search the house for Corbett and try to figure out why the death echoes are there, considering | + | They search the house for Corbett and try to figure out why the death echoes are there, considering that the victims in the death echos didn't die there. They find the office of the home's owner, [[Freeman Daggett]], who was a janitor at the hospital before he died in 1964. He was a survivalist, and took corpses from the morgue to "play" with. They go into another room where Maggie wandered off, and after another EMF surge, Sam disappears. |
| − | After some fake reality show drama involving Maggie and Harry in a compromising position, we see Corbett and Sam tied to chairs at a table with a birthday cake and | + | After some fake reality show drama involving Maggie and Harry in a compromising position, we see Corbett and Sam tied to chairs at a table with a birthday cake and "It’s My Party" playing in the background. A big creepy guy kills Corbett with a spike through the neck, and then slaps a party hat on Sam. |
| − | Dean figures out that a survivalist usually keeps a bomb shelter and heads for the basement, but the basement door locks behind him, separating him and Spruce from the others. The others meanwhile put themselves in a salt circle and see the ghost of Corbett reliving his death. Dean finds the bomb shelter just before Sam gets his own spike through the neck. Sam reveals Daggett was the | + | Dean figures out that a survivalist usually keeps a bomb shelter and heads for the basement, but the basement door locks behind him, separating him and Spruce from the others. The others meanwhile put themselves in a salt circle and see the ghost of Corbett reliving his death. Dean finds the bomb shelter just before Sam gets his own spike through the neck. Sam reveals Daggett was the "Norman Bates"-type of lonely and killed himself after stealing the bodies, and each February 29th, he takes people for his "party". Ed talks to Corbett to get him out of his death echo and manages to get through just in time for Corbett to take on Daggett, who is tossing around Sam, Dean, and Spruce in the basement. |
| − | Everyone (minus Corbett) leaves alive the next morning, taking Ed and Harry back to the fireplace to lament over the loss of their friend in a completely exploitative way, even showing the typical reality confessional moment. They show their pilot to Sam and Dean, who warn them that revealing such ghostly secrets usually | + | Everyone (minus Corbett) leaves alive the next morning, taking Ed and Harry back to the fireplace to lament over the loss of their friend in a completely exploitative way, even showing the typical reality confessional moment. They show their pilot to Sam and Dean, who warn them that revealing such ghostly secrets usually lands them in straight jackets or gets them a punch in the face or both. Sam and Dean go, but leave a bag behind; Ed pulls out a large electromagnet, which proceeds to erase all the hard drives, including the ''Ghostfacers'' pilot. Sam and Dean peel off in the Impala, confessing they didn’t think the show was half bad. |
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'''Dean:''' Sam, I don't wanna hear it.<br> | '''Dean:''' Sam, I don't wanna hear it.<br> | ||
'''Sam:''' You got two months left. Instead we're gonna die tonight.}} | '''Sam:''' You got two months left. Instead we're gonna die tonight.}} | ||
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'''Sam:''' I mean, it's bizarre how y'all able to, to honor Corbett's memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his death. Well done.}} | '''Sam:''' I mean, it's bizarre how y'all able to, to honor Corbett's memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his death. Well done.}} | ||
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'''Harry:''' Ed, you’ve got to go be gay for that poor dead Intern. You got to send him into the light.}} | '''Harry:''' Ed, you’ve got to go be gay for that poor dead Intern. You got to send him into the light.}} | ||
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| − | '''Ed:''' Yeah. Heh heh. And here we were thinking that, you know, we were teaching you and all this time you were teaching us; about heart, about dedication, and about how gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day. Thank you, Alan J. Corbett. }} | + | '''Ed:''' Yeah. Heh heh. And here we were thinking that, you know, we were teaching you, and all this time you were teaching us; about heart, about dedication, and about how gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day. Thank you, Alan J. Corbett.}} |
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| − | This was the first episode filmed after the [[Writers Guild of America Strike]] ended. There is a [[Meta Episodes|meta]] element to the episode, which, as an unscripted show, is the type of programming that was predicted to replace scripted dramas like Supernatural if the strike had continued.}} | + | This was the first episode filmed after the [[Writers Guild of America Strike]] ended. There is a [[Meta Episodes|meta]] element to the episode, which, as an unscripted show, is the type of programming that was predicted to replace scripted dramas like ''Supernatural'' if the strike had continued.}} |
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Ed and Harry first appeared in [[1.17 Hell House]].}} | Ed and Harry first appeared in [[1.17 Hell House]].}} | ||
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| − | The hand held camera style of the episode references the horror movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185937/ The Blair Witch Project], in which a group of college kids are making a documentary about a witch.}} | + | The hand held camera style of the episode references the horror movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185937/ ''The Blair Witch Project''], in which a group of college kids are making a documentary about a witch.}} |
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| − | Not dissimilar in format to Ghostfacers, there is a TV show called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_hunters Ghost Hunters], a docu-soap following a group of paranormal investigators. }} | + | Not dissimilar in format to ''Ghostfacers'', there is a TV show called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_hunters ''Ghost Hunters''], a docu-soap following a group of paranormal investigators. }} |
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| − | The "corpse birthday party" scenario is reminiscent of the climax of the 1980 Canadian slasher movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_Me Happy Birthday to Me]. This film was produced by the same team that made My Bloody Valentine. Jensen filmed a [[My Bloody Valentine 3D|remake]] of it during the 2008 summer hiatus. It may also be a reference to the 1987 movie | + | The "corpse birthday party" scenario is reminiscent of the climax of the 1980 Canadian slasher movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_Me ''Happy Birthday to Me'']. This film was produced by the same team that made ''My Bloody Valentine''. Jensen filmed a [[My Bloody Valentine 3D|remake]] of it during the 2008 summer hiatus. It may also be a reference to the 1987 movie ''American Gothic'', in which a deranged back-woods family welcomes stranded city folk into their house and then proceeds to murder and preserve/stuff them in order to make dolls to occupy an over-grown and over-aged "little girl" named Fanny. |
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'''Harry:''' Hey! Aren't they those assholes from Texas?<br> | '''Harry:''' Hey! Aren't they those assholes from Texas?<br> | ||
| − | :''A reference not only to when Ed and Harry first met the Winchesters, but to the fact that Jared and Jensen are both from Texas.'' | + | :''A reference not only to when Ed and Harry first met the Winchesters in [[1.17 Hell House]], but to the fact that Jared and Jensen are both from Texas.'' |
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'''Harry:''' I don't really like rats. They're gross. Rats are like the rats of the world.<br> | '''Harry:''' I don't really like rats. They're gross. Rats are like the rats of the world.<br> | ||
| − | :''In [[1.17 Hell House]] Dean also says "I hate rats".'' | + | :''In [[1.17 Hell House]]. Dean also says "I hate rats".'' |
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| − | '''Spruce:''' What's this guy Daggett's problem, anyway? <br> | + | '''Spruce:''' What's this guy Daggett's problem, anyway?<br> |
'''Sam:''' Loneliness.<br> | '''Sam:''' Loneliness.<br> | ||
'''Dean:''' What, he's never heard of a RealDoll?<br> | '''Dean:''' What, he's never heard of a RealDoll?<br> | ||
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'''Sam:''' Daggett was the Norman Bates stuff-your-mother kind of lonely.<br> | '''Sam:''' Daggett was the Norman Bates stuff-your-mother kind of lonely.<br> | ||
| − | :''Norman Bates was the main character in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/ Psycho], who kept the preserved corpse of his mother.'' | + | :''Norman Bates was the main character in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/ ''Psycho''], who kept the preserved corpse of his mother.'' |
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| − | The | + | The ''Ghostfacers'' theme song is very reminiscent of the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332 ''Ghostbusters''] theme, also having a line about "who you're going to call". Furthermore, the Ghostfacers have a huddle cheer similar to the one used by the Ghostbusters.}} |
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| − | The framing mechanism of the episode of Ghostfacers - Ed and Harry suited and sitting in front of a fire - is reminiscent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Theatre Masterpiece Theatre], which would be introduced by the host who would be sitting in a great chair by an open fire. | + | The framing mechanism of the episode of ''Ghostfacers'' - Ed and Harry suited and sitting in front of a fire - is reminiscent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Theatre ''Masterpiece Theatre''], which would be introduced by the host who would be sitting in a great chair by an open fire.}} |
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'''Ed:''' We'll set up camp right here. This is command center one.<br> | '''Ed:''' We'll set up camp right here. This is command center one.<br> | ||
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| − | The [[Deer's Head]], a regular of Supernatural sets, appears on the wall of the Morton House. | + | The [[Deer's Head]], a regular of ''Supernatural'' sets, appears on the wall of the Morton House. |
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| − | This episode is presented as a pilot episode of Ghostfacers, so for the first time the Supernatural credits occur at the end of the episode. | + | This episode is presented as a pilot episode of ''Ghostfacers'', so for the first time the ''Supernatural'' credits occur at the end of the episode. |
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This episode takes place somewhere in Wisconsin. Ed and Harry's car has Wisconsin plates.}} | This episode takes place somewhere in Wisconsin. Ed and Harry's car has Wisconsin plates.}} | ||
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| − | A poster for the indie horror movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven_%28film%29 Coven] is seen at the Ghostfacers' base. This poster is also seen, framed, at [[Charlie Bradbury]]'s apartment in [[7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo]]}} | + | A poster for the indie horror movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven_%28film%29 ''Coven''] is seen at the Ghostfacers' base. This poster is also seen, framed, at [[Charlie Bradbury]]'s apartment in [[7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo]].}} |
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Revision as of 07:07, 6 August 2013
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| Title | Ghostfacers |
| Episode # | Season 3, Episode 13 |
| First aired | April 24, 2008 |
| Directed by | Philip Sgriccia |
| Written by | Ben Edlund |
| On IMDB | Ghostfacers |
| Outline | Sam and Dean find themselves on a reality TV show Ghostfacers – and in real danger. |
| Monster | Ghost |
| Timeline | February 28-29, 2008 Two months before Dean’s deal is up. |
| Location(s) | Appleton, Wisconsin |
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