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|director= [[John F. Showalter]]|writer= [[Jeremy Carver]]|imdb= [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588682/Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]|download= [http://wwwitunes.apple.com/itunesus/tv-season/storedead-men-dont-wear-plaid/tvshows.html id329061978?i=364458761 iTunes], [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0024OG3F6 B003E45K9U Amazon.com]|outline= People in Bobby’s [[Bobby]]'s town are coming back from the dead, but Bobby insists nothing is wrong.|motw= [[DeathZombie]]s|timeline= February 2010 |location= Sioux Falls, South Dakota.|map= <googlemap lat{{EpisodeMap|Locations="43.606748" lon="-96.734619" zoom="11" width="300" height="300">43.549975, -96.700327, Sioux Falls, SD, USA</googlemap>}}|prevep= 5.14 My Bloody Valentine|nextep= 5.16 Dark Side of the Moon

[[Sam]] & and [[Dean]] show up in the town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 5 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. Bobby also tells them that the rising is a product of the horseman [[Death]] and the upcoming apocalypse. 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 Jodie 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 beings begins to turn, and Bobby has no choice but to shoot her, a head-shot. All of the dead arrive at the Singer house and trap Dean and Bobby in the closet, but the Sam and the Sheriff arrive and stop them.

* [[BobbySinger]]* [[Sheriff Jody Mills]]

* [[ZombiesHunter's Funeral Pyre]]

* [[The Meaning of Episode TitlesRevenant]]* [[HunterSam & Dean's Funeral PyreArrests]]* [[Dead...or are they?Sam's Police Record]]* [[Singer Salvage Yard]]* [[Undead]]* [[Zombie]]

* "You're One of a Kind" by Moot Davis:''(plays when Digger tells Dean & Sam about the zombie killing Benny Thompson)''* "Lovin' the Sin I'm In" by Terry Campbell:''(plays while Sam and Dean discuss Bobby and Karen in the diner)'' 

'''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>

'''SamDean:''' So who killed Remember the guyyou said that was dead and couldn't possibly commit murder?There he is.<br>'''BobbySheriff Mills:''' Take your pickAnd?<br>'''Dean:''' 'And'? And you're welcome – for catching the undead killer zombie. This Benny Sutton guy was a Grade A son of a bitch. There<br>'''Sheriff Mills:''' Whatever he is or isn's a list of the living a year long who wouldnt that don't mind putting a cap give you the right to shoot him in his assthe middle of the street.

'''Clay:''' I can't believe you were gonna kill me.<br>'''Dean:''' You’re You're a zombie.!<br>'''Clay:''' I’m I'm a taxpayer.!

'''DeanBobby:''' Who is that?<br>'''Bobby:''You think I' Karenm an idiot, boy? My dead wife shows up on my wife.doorstep, I'm not gonna test her every way I ever learned?<br> '''Dean:''' Your new wifeSo what is it? Zombies? Revenant?<br> '''Bobby:''' My dead wifeHell if I can tell. She's got no scars, no wounds, no reaction to salt, silver, holy water...

'''DeanBobby:''' [eating pie] This is incredible'And 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, Mrs. Singerand from him and through him.'<br>'''KarenDean:''' Thank youSo, Dean.what, Death is behind this?<br> '''Sam:''' [frowns]<br> Death, Death? Like 'Grim Reaper''Dean:''' Whatdeath? It is.

'''DeanBobby:''' Are you crazy? What the hell?<br>'No, no, don't 'Bobby:''' Deanme. Just... just listen, okay? She hums when she cooks. She always... used to hum when she cooked. Tone deaf as all hell, but... And I can explainnever thought I would hear it again.<br> Look, just read Revelation. The dead rise during the apocalypse. There's nothing in there that says that's bad! Hell, maybe it'Dean:''' Explain what? Lying to us, or s the American Girl zombie making cupcakes in your kitchen?one good thing that comes out of this whole bloody mess.

'''BobbyDean:''' [quoting from What about the Bible] "And through sheriff?<br>'''Sam:''' Uh, last time I checked, the fire stood before me sheriff was pretty pro-zombie.<br>'''Dean:''' Well, I guess you'll just have to convince her.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Sam:''' All right, if I hand you a Pale Horse, gun and he that sat atop him carried you see a Sycthe. And dead person, I saw since he had risendon't care if it's your friend, your neighbor, they too shall riseor your wife, and from him and through himyou shoot for the head. That's the only way we survive."<br>'''DeanMan:''' So whatUh, Death is behind thisyou mind telling us who the hell you are?<br>'''Sam:''' DeathFriend of Bobby Singer's.<br>'''Man:''' Town drunk.<br>'''Sam:''' No, Death? Like Grim Reaper, Death?I – I thought... he was the town drunk.<br> '''BobbyMan:''' Yeah.Who told you that?<br>'''DeanSam:''' AwesomeBobby Singer.. Another Horseman. Must be ThursdayStay sharp. I'll watch the front door.

'''SamBobby:''' So what do Kind of a tight fit, don't you think?<br>'''Dean:''' ThereIt's nothing to think aboutall right. They're idiots. IThey can'm not going to leave Bobby at home with the Bride of Frankensteint pick a lock.<br> '''SamBobby:''' So what do Don't you want to do, just walk in there in front ever get tired of Bobby and blow her skull offbeing wrong?<br>'''Dean:''' If she decides that BobbyI's face is a Blue Plate Special, m making this stuff up as I'd like to be therego. Sue me.

'''Bobby:''' Death came for me. He brought Karen back to send me a message.<br>'''Dean:''' Who's Old Lady JonesYou? Why you?<br>'''Bobby:''' The first Because I've been helping you, you sons of bitches. I'm one of the reasons you're still saying no to come upLucifer, Sam.<br>'''SamDean:''' The first one to go bad.So this was like a hit on your life?<br>'''Bobby:''' AhI don't know if they wanted to take my life or... my spirit. Either way, she was always a nutty broadthey wanted me out of the way.<br>'''DeanSam:''' Nutty howBut you're gonna be all right. Right, nutty like the way she ate her husband's stomach? Was that the little nutty she was in lifeBobby?

'''KarenThe 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 '' When I came back50s noir movies through use of clips from their movies.Interestingly, there 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 man.<br>2009 episode of the television show ''Medium''Bobby], in which Alison DuBois interacts with characters from the classic 1968 zombie movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/ ''Night of the Living Dead' What do you mean?<br>'''Karen:''' At the grave. He was so thin, like a skeleton. He told me to give you a message].

'''Sam:''' The last time I checked, opening image of the sheriff was pretty pro-hand rising from the grave is a reference to the popular zombietrope.<br>

'''DeanDigger:''' You got anymore ammo? IHeads up. 'm low... <br>'Fargo''Bobby.:''' Yeah, we got plenty[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/ Fargo] was a 1996 Coen Brothers movie. Just run back past The reference here is to the zombiescharacter of Sheriff Marge Gunderson, it's in the van where we left itplayed by Frances McDormand.<br>'''Dean:''' A simple no would have been fine.

'''Bobby:''' The name of the sheriff, [[in the closet after Dean locks the door as zombies are banging on the doorSheriff Mills]] Kind of a tight fit, don't you think?<br>'''Dean:''' It's alright, they're idiots. They can't pick may be a lock. shout out to [[the zombies stop banging on the door and we start to see the door handle moveJim Beaver]]<br>'s character on ''Bobby[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Island Harper's Island]'' Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?<br>'''Dean:''' I'm making this stuff up as I go. Sue me, also named Sheriff Mills.

[[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'Bobby:s Animal House''' She was the love of my life. How many times do I gotta kill her?<br>]

'''BobbyDean:''' You boys should know, Karen told me why Death was here.<br>'''Sam:''' What do how many times we called? Where have you meanbeen?<br> '''Bobby:''' I know why he took a stroll through a cemetery in the sticks of South Dakota. He came for mePlaying murderball.<br>'''Dean:''' What do you mean you?<br>'''Bobby:''' Death came Murderball is the nickname for me. He brought Karen back to send me a messagetype of extreme wheelchair rugby.<br>'''DeanIt featured in an Oscar nominated documentary [http:''' And you? Why you?<br>'''Bobby:''' Because I've been helping you, you sons of bitches//www.imdb. I'm one of the reasons you're still saying no to Lucifer, Samcom/title/tt0436613/ Murderball.<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.

The episode title “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” is a reference to the 1982 [http'''Bobby://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083798/ movie of the same name]. In this film''' Dean, Steve Martin interacts with (now dead) stars of 40s and 50s noir movies through use of clips from their moviesI can explain.Interestingly, this technique was used '''Dean:''' Explain what? Lying to us? Or the American Girl zombie making cupcakes in your kitchen?!:''[http://communityen.post-gazettewikipedia.comorg/blogswiki/tunedin/archive/2009/08/03/press-tour-journal-medium-inserts-star-in-night-of-the-living-dead.aspx American_Girl American Girl] is a 2009 episode line of the television show Medium]dolls, first released in which Alison DuBois interacts with characters from the classic 1968 zombie movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/ Night of the Living Dead]1986. ''

'''Dean and Sam use :''' Awesome. Another Horseman. Must be Thursday.:''This is a reference to the aliases 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." Agents Dorfman and Neidermeyer” This could be a reference to the characters of Kent Dorfman and Douglas Neidermeyer from ''Buffy the 1978 John Belushi movie Vampire Slayer'' musical episode ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975tt0533466/ National Lampoontrivia?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 Animal House]in trouble... must be Tuesday'' -- a play on the repeated tropes of a long-running TV series. ''}}

The opening image '''Dean:''' There's nothing to think about. I'm not gonna leave Bobby at home with the Bride of the hand rising from the grave recalls an image from Frankenstein.:''A reference to [http://wwwen.imdbwikipedia.comorg/titlewiki/tt0063350/ Night Bride_of_frankenstein the classic horror movie of the Living Deadsame name]in which the scientist creates a mate for the monster, made from a reanimated female corpse. ''}}

''' DiggerDean:''' heads upIf she decides that Bobby's face is the blue plate special, FargoI'd like to be there. <br>:''[http://wwwen.imdbwikipedia.comorg/titlewiki/tt0116282/ FargoBlue-plate_special Blue-plate special] was is a 1996 Coen Brothers movie. The reference here is term used in the United States by restaurants to refer to the character of Sheriff Marge Gundersona specially low-priced meal, played by Frances McDormandusually changing daily and often presented on a divided plate.''

'''Dean: ''' Where have you been? He's crazy.<br>'''BobbySam:''' Playing murder ballIt's his wife, Dean.<br>Murderball '''Dean:''' So he goes ''Full Metal Jacket'' on us? We're his family, Sam.:''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket/ Full Metal Jacket] is the nickname for 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 extreme wheelchair rugbybullet.''}}{{TriviaQuote|Text='''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. It featured wiktionary.org/wiki/know_shit_from_Shinola Don't know shit from Shinola] was a colloquialism dating back to the early 1940s in an Oscar nominated documentary the United States, which sometimes ended with "that's why your shoes don't shine". [httphttps://wwwen.imdbm.comwikipedia.org/titlewiki/tt0436613/ MurderballShinola_(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.

He also made a short video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v|Minutiae=VMIuz3CFKV0 behind the scenes].}}

This was the first episode of ''Supernatural '' to be directed by [[John Showalter]].

The name of the sheriff, Sheriff Mills, may be a shout out to Jim Beaver's character on Harper's Island, also named Sheriff Mills.}}{{TriviaQuote |Text=[[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='''Dean:''' Awesome. Another Horseman. Must be Thursday.<br>This is a reference to the airing day of Supernatural, Thursday.

{{TriviaQuote |Text='''Dean[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'm not going to leave Bobby at home with the Bride of Frankensteinhave ever shot. Thank goodness tomorrow we can relax and just kill monsters.<br> " A reference to He also made a short video [http://enwww.wikipediayoutube.org/wikicom/Bride_of_frankenstein watch?v=VMIuz3CFKV0 behind the classic horror movie of the same namescenes.] in which the scientist creates a mate for the monster, made from a reanimated female corpse.

[[Sam ]] says the zombies [[zombie]]s can be killed with head shots, and this is how he, [[Dean]], [[Bobby]], and the sheriff [[Sheriff Mills]] kill the zombies. However, when Dean suggests this method in [[2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With 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.

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."

  * [http://www.spoilertv.com/2009/11/supernatural-episode-514-dead-men-dont.html Casting spoiler] from spoilertv* [http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/supernatural/sam-and-deans-freaky-february-3774.html Comments from Sera Gamble] on this episode (spoilers thru to 5.17 in interview)* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv4NxO_Z82o Teaser clip]* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMIuz3CFKV0 aL8RsXOSzXM Behind the scenes videoScenes] by [[Jim Beaver* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6ejRFB09I Preview clip 1]* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6f1-XSldZg Preview clip 2]* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZEK4WVIAok Preview clip 3]* [http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEPbUQPUVvOXUV Jim BeaverInterview] talks about the episode, and rest of the season with movieweb* [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/03/supernatural-jim-beavers-reallife-experience-informs-his-performance.html Jim BeaverInterview] talks about the episode, and rest of the season with the LA times 

==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); [Categoryhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190816011142/http:Canon//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], [Categoryhttps:Episodes//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], [Categoryhttps:Season 5]//spn-heavymeta.livejournal.com/339435.html spn-heavymeta]    

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