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|image= [[File:DMDP.jpg|300px350px]]
|title= Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
|episode= Season 5, Episode 15
|firstaired= March 25, 2010
|director= [[John F. Showalter]]
|writer= [[Jeremy Carver]]
|imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588682/ Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]
|download= [http://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/dead-men-dont-wear-plaid/id329061978?i=364458761 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003E45K9U Amazon.com]
|outline= People in [[Bobby]]'s town are coming back from the dead, but Bobby insists nothing is wrong.
|motw= [[Death]]<br>[[Zombie]]s
|timeline= February 2010
|location= Sioux Falls, South Dakota
|map=
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Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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|prevep= 5.14 My Bloody Valentine
|nextep= 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon
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[[Sam]] and [[Dean]] show up in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, five miles from [[Bobby]]'s home, to find that the dead are coming back to life. Bobby tries to convince them that it's nothing, that all of the omens are coincidence, but Dean doesn't fully believe him. One of the dead that has risen, Clay, gets revenge on his killer and then goes home to his family. When Sam and Dean track him down they find that he seems to be a regular guy, and that the local sheriff is in on it.
Bobby shows the boys why he doesn't want them working the case: his dead wife, [[Karen Singer|Karen]], has come back. As Sam and Dean investigate, Sam finds out after being attacked by one of the dead, that about 5 days after rising, the dead begin to turn, starting with a fever, hunger, and then the killing and eating of anyone around them. They set out to find everyone who's come back and kill them by shooting them in the head, along with includng Bobby's wife, and Bobby kicks them out of his house.
Sam goes to talk with the sheriff, and finds that her son, who has come back to life, has already killed her husband. Sam and [[Sheriff Jody Mills]] gather the townspeople in the local jail and prepare them to fight off the dead who've turned. At Bobby's house, Karen begins to turn, and Bobby has no choice but to shoot her. All of the dead arrive at the Singer house and trap Dean and Bobby in the closet, but Sam and the Sheriff arrive and stop them.
* [[Sam Winchester]]
* [[Dean Winchester]]
* [[BobbySinger]]* [[Sheriff Jody Mills]]
* [[Karen Singer]]
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* [[Singer Salvage YardAliases]]* [[Bobby's Hats]]* [[Costumes & Disguises]]* [[Dean's Police Record]]
* [[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]
* [[ZombieHunter's Funeral Pyre]]s
* [[Pie]]
* [[The Meaning of Episode TitlesRevenant]]* [[HunterSam & Dean's Funeral PyreArrests]]* [[Dead...or are they?Sam's Police Record]]* [[Singer Salvage Yard]]* [[Undead]]* [[Zombie]]
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'''Dean:''' Mr. Wells, why don't you tell us what you saw in your own words.<br>'''Digger:''' Call me Digger.<br>'''Dean:''' Digger? Who gave you that name?<br>'''Digger:''' I did.<br>'''Dean:''' You gave yourself your own nickname? You can’t can't do that.<br>
'''Digger:''' Who died and made you queen?
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'''SamDean:''' So who killed Remember the guy?<br>'''Bobby:''' Take your pick. This Benny Sutton guy you said that was a Grade A son of a bitch. There's a list of the living a year long who wouldndead and couldn't mind putting a cap in his ass.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Dean:''' You're a zombie.<br>'''Clay:''' I'm a taxpayer.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Dean:''' Who possibly commit murder? There he is that?<br>'''Bobby:''' Karen, my wife.<br> '''DeanSheriff Mills:''' Your new wifeAnd?<br> '''Bobby:''' My dead wife.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Dean:''' 'And'[eating pie]? And you'' This is incredible, Mrs. Singer.<br>'''Karen:''' Thank you, Deanre welcome – for catching the undead killer zombie.<br> '''SamSheriff Mills:''' ''[frowns]''<br> '''Dean:''' What? It Whatever he is.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text=or isn't that don''Dean:''' Are t give you crazy? What the hell?<br>'''Bobby:''' Dean, I can explain.<br> '''Dean:''' Explain what? Lying right to us, or shoot him in the middle of the American Girl zombie making cupcakes in your kitchen?street.
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'''BobbyClay:''' I can''[quoting from the Bible]'' "And through the fire stood before t believe you were gonna kill me a Pale Horse, and he that sat atop him carried a Scythe. And I saw since he had risen, they too shall rise, and from him and through him."<br>'''Dean:''' So what, Death is behind this?<br>'You''Sam:''' Death, Death? Like Grim Reaper, Death?re a zombie!<br> '''BobbyClay:''' Yeah.<br>I'''Dean:''' Awesome. Another Horseman. Must be Thursday.m a taxpayer!
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'''SamBobby:''' So what do you You thinkI'm an idiot, boy?<br>'''Dean:''' There's nothing to think about. My dead wife shows up on my doorstep, I'm not going to leave Bobby at home with the Bride of Frankenstein.gonna test her every way I ever learned?<br> '''SamDean:''' So what do you want to do, just walk in there in front of Bobby and blow her skull offis it? Zombies? Revenant?<br>'''DeanBobby:''' If she decides that BobbyHell if I can tell. She's face is a Blue Plate Specialgot no scars, no wounds, I'd like no reaction to be theresalt, silver, holy water...
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'''DeanBobby:''' Who's Old Lady Jones?<br>'''Bobby:''' The first one to come upAnd through the fire stood before me a pale horse. And he that sat atop him carried a scythe, and I saw since he had risen, they, too, shall rise, and from him and through him.<br>'''Sam:''' The first one to go bad.<br>'''BobbyDean:''' AhSo, she was always a nutty broad.what, Death is behind this?<br>'''DeanSam:''' Nutty howDeath, nutty like the way she ate her husbandDeath? Like 'Grim Reaper's stomach? Was that the little nutty she was in lifedeath?
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'''KarenBobby:''' When I came backNo, no, there was a man.<br>'don't 'Bobby:''' What do you meanme. Just... just listen, okay?<br>'''Karen:She hums when she cooks. She always... used to hum when she cooked. Tone deaf as all hell, but... And I never thought I would hear it again. Look, just read Revelation. The dead rise during the apocalypse. There's nothing in there that says that's bad! Hell, maybe it' At s the grave. He was so thin, like a skeleton. He told me to give you a messageone good thing that comes out of this whole bloody mess.
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'''Dean:''' What about the sheriff?<br>'''Sam:''' The Uh, last time I checked, the sheriff was pretty pro-zombie.<br>'''Dean:''' Well, I guess you'll just have to convince her.
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'''DeanSam:''' You got anymore ammo? All right, if I hand you a gun and you see a dead person, Idon'm low.t care if it's your friend, your neighbor, or your wife, you shoot for the head.That's the only way we survive. <br>'''BobbyMan:''' YeahUh, we got plenty. Just run back past you mind telling us who the zombies, ithell you are?<br>'''Sam:''' Friend of Bobby Singer's in .<br>'''Man:''' Town drunk.<br>'''Sam:''' No, I – I thought... he was the van where we left ittown drunk.<br>'''DeanMan:''' A simple no would have been fineWho told you that?<br>'''Sam:''' Bobby Singer... Stay sharp. I'll watch the front door.
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'''Bobby:''' Kind of a tight fit, don't you think?<br>
'''Dean:''' It's all right, they. They're idiots. They can't pick a lock. ''[the zombies stop banging on the door and we start to see the door handle move]''<br>
'''Bobby:''' Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?<br>
'''Dean:''' I'm making this stuff up as I go. Sue me.
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'''Bobby:''' Death came for me. He brought Karen back to send me a message.<br>
'''Dean:''' And youYou? Why you?<br>
'''Bobby:''' Because I've been helping you, you sons of bitches. I'm one of the reasons you're still saying no to Lucifer, Sam.<br>
'''Dean:''' So this was like a hit on your life?<br>
'''Bobby:''' I don't know if they wanted to take my life or ... my spirit. Either way, they wanted me out of the way.<br>'''Sam:''' But you're gonna be all right. Right, Bobby?
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The episode title "Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid" is a reference to the 1982 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083798/ movie of the same name]. In this film, Steve Martin interacts with (now dead) stars of '40s and '50s noir movies through use of clips from their movies.
Interestingly, this technique was used in [http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/tunedin/archive/2009/08/03/press-tour-journal-medium-inserts-star-in-night-of-the-living-dead.aspx a 2009 episode of the television show ''Medium''], in which Alison DuBois interacts with characters from the classic 1968 zombie movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/ ''Night of the Living Dead''].
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''' Digger:''' Heads up: . ''Fargo''.<br>
:''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/ Fargo] was a 1996 Coen Brothers movie. The reference here is to the character of Sheriff Marge Gunderson, played by Frances McDormand.''
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The name of the sheriff, [[Sheriff Mills]], may be a shout out to [[Jim Beaver]]'s character on ''Dean: ''' Where have you been?<br>'''Bobby:''' Playing murderball.<br>:''Murderball is the nickname for a type of extreme wheelchair rugby. It featured in an Oscar nominated documentary [http://wwwen.imdbwikipedia.comorg/titlewiki/tt0436613/ MurderballHarper%27s_Island Harper's Island].''', also named Sheriff Mills.
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'''Dean:''' Awesome. Another Horseman. Must be Thursday.<br>
:''This is a reference to the day of the week that Supernatural aired on in the U.S. at the time this episode aired.
This may also be a reference to the quote spoken by Arthur Dent in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "This must be Thursday," said Arthur musing to himself, sinking low over his beer, "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."This could be a reference to the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' musical episode ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533466/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu Season 6 Episode 7]) in which Buffy says , in reference to her sister being kidnapped yet again , ''So, Dawn's in trouble... must be Tuesday''. Probably -- a play on the repeated tropes of a long -running TV series.''
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'''Dean:''' There's nothing to think about. I'm not going to gonna leave Bobby at home with the Bride of Frankenstein.<br>
:''A reference to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_frankenstein the classic horror movie of the same name] in which the scientist creates a mate for the monster, made from a reanimated female corpse.''
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'''Dean:''' If she decides that Bobby's face is the blue-plate special, I'd like to be there.<br>
:''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-plate_special Blue-plate special] is a term used in the United States by restaurants to refer to a specially low-priced meal, usually changing daily and often presented on a divided plate.''
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'''Dean:''' He's crazy.<br>'''Sam says the zombies can be killed with head shots, and this is how he:''' It's his wife, Dean, Bobby, and the sheriff kill the zombies. However, when <br>'''Dean suggests this method in [[2.04 Children Shouldn:''' So he goes ''Full Metal Jacket'' on us? We't Play with Dead Things]]re his family, Sam seems to dismiss the idea and responds, "Dude, you.:''ve been watching way too many Romero flicks[http://en." Later in the episode, Sam shoots the zombie in the head to no effect other than making her angry, seemingly proving his view that head shots didn't work on zombieswikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket/ Full Metal Jacket] is a 1987 war film directed by Stanley Kubrick. See the [[Zombiehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_metal_jacket_bullet Full metal jacket]] entry for more informationis also a type of bullet.''
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'''Dean:''' Hey, look, I don't know squat from Shinola about love, but at least you got to spend five days with her, right?
:''[https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/know_shit_from_Shinola Don't know shit from Shinola] was a colloquialism dating back to the early 1940s in the United States, which sometimes ended with "that's why your shoes don't shine". [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinola_(shoe_polish) Shinola] was a popular brand of shoe polish, which had a color and texture not unlike feces. The word shit was probably changed here due to broadcast television rules against profane language.
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This was the first episode of ''Supernatural'' to be directed by [[John Showalter]].
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[[Jim Beaver]] [http://twitter.com/jumblejim/status/6453686263 confirmed on his Twitter] it was being filmed before [[5.14 My Bloody Valentine]]. It started filming on [http://twitter.com/jumblejim/status/6322878481 3 December], 2009. At [[Salute to Supernatural L.A. 2010]], Jim confirmed the airing order of the episodes was changed because of the extended hiatus due to the 2010 Winter Olympics.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text= [http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=197281483874&id=254377915494 On his Facebook], Jim Beaver said "Just finished two days of filming the two most difficult, saddest scenes I have ever shot. Thank goodness tomorrow we can relax and just kill monsters." He also made a short video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMIuz3CFKV0 behind the scenes.]}}{{TriviaQuote |Text=[[Sam]] says the [[zombie]]s can be killed with head shots, and this is how he, [[Dean]], [[Bobby]], and [[Sheriff Mills]] kill the zombies. However, when Dean suggests this method in [[2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]], Sam seems to dismiss the idea and responds, "Dude, you've been watching way too many Romero flicks." Later in that episode, Sam shoots the zombie in the head to no effect other than making her angry, seemingly proving his view that head shots didn't work on zombies. See the [[Zombie]] entry for more information.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text=Total zombie count in this episode, based on how many are shown killed onscreen: 20 ([[KarenSinger]], the sheriff's sonSean Mills, and Old Lady Ezra Jones are killed individually by Bobby and Sam. Dean and Bobby kill six in the junkyard and two more inside the house. Sam and the sheriff kill the remaining nine outside the closet.) However, this might not have been all of them. In a later scene Dean says, "If there's any zombies left out there, we can't find them."
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|Sides_Scripts_Transcripts=
* [[5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Transcript)]]
* [https://www.slideshare.net/JulesWilkinson/supernatural-515-dead-men-dont-wear-plaid-network-draftDead Men Don't Wear Plaid Script]
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==Episode Meta==
*[https://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/64452.html 5.15 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid: My Job Is To Bring Him Peace, Not Pain] by bardicvoice (April 2010); [https://web.archive.org/web/20190816011142/http://bardicvoice.livejournal.com/64452.html archive link], [https://spn-heavymeta.livejournal.com/322061.html spn-heavymeta]
*Bond, Silvia. 2010. Zombies Should Be More Fun Than This: "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid " Season 5, Episode 15. ''Pink Raygun'', March 30; [https://web.archive.org/web/20100406002829/http://www.pinkraygun.com/2010/03/30/supernatural-dead-men-dont-wear-plaid/ archive link], [https://spn-heavymeta.livejournal.com/316647.html spn-heavymeta]
*Chan, Suzette. 2010. [http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=1700 Supernatural Talk: Tarts talk about SPN 5.15: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]. ''Sequential Tart'', May 10; [https://web.archive.org/web/20190421005848/http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=1700 archive link], [https://spn-heavymeta.livejournal.com/339435.html spn-heavymeta]
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