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Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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|prevep= 5.14 My Bloody Valentine
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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.
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[[Dean]] and [[Sam]] use the aliases Agents Dorfman and Neidermeyer , a reference the characters of Kent Dorfman and Douglas Neidermeyer from the 1978 John Belushi movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/ ''National Lampoon's Animal House''.]
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'''Dean:''' Awesome. Another Horseman. Must be Thursday.
:''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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:''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket/ Full Metal Jacket] is a 1987 war film directed by Stanley Kubrick. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_metal_jacket_bullet Full metal jacket] is 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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinola_(shoe_polish) Shinola] was a twentieth century shoe polish company, that went out of business in 1960. The brand name was acquired by Shinola Detroit in 2011. [https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/know_shit_from_Shinola Don't know shit from Shinola] was a colloquialism which 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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[[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 the 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.
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* [[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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* [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/03/supernatural-jim-beavers-reallife-experience-informs-his-performance.html Jim Beaver Interview]
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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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