7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

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Title How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters
Episode # Season 7, Episode 9
First aired November 18, 2011
Directed by Guy Bee
Written by Ben Edlund
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995124/
Outline
Monster Leviathans
Timeline
Location(s) Wharton State Forest, The Pine Barrens

Hammonton, New Jersey

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Synopsis

Something kills and eats a camper in the Wharton State Forest, and Dean, Sam, and Bobby squat in an abandoned house while they investigate that and a number of missing persons reports. Dean complains about their living conditions over the last few weeks, but Bobby is insistent that they need to follow Frank Devereaux's advice and stay off the grid while the Leviathans are after them. Dean, though, is fed up and points out that the world is always on the verge of ending—maybe it wants to end. Bobby tells him not to think about it.

Sam's research uncovers conflicting reports about a creature dubbed the Jersey Devil hiding in the forest, so their first stop is to interview a park ranger. Chief Ranger Rick Evans meets them at a Biggerson's Restaurant, and they question him about the state police's conclusion that a bear is behind the camper's death. As he eats a Turducken sandwich, he tells them that a bear wasn't behind it. Also, he and his assistant, Phil, have been finding partially eaten animal remains in the woods for a while now. When Rick mentions that he hasn't seen or heard from Phil in a while, Sam asks Rick if Phil could be missing. Rick is strangely unconcerned—just says that he should probably report it and continues eating his sandwich.

Characters

Definitions

Music

Quotes

Dean: This is stupid. Our quality of life is crap. We've got Purgatory's least wanted everywhere and we're on our third "the world is screwed" issue in what, three years? And we've steered the bus away from the cliff twice already!

Sam: Someone's got to do it.

Dean: What if the bus wants to go over the cliff?
Dean: We'll make sure this is not just some backwoods crackhead who likes to roll glampers.

Bobby: What the hell's a glamper?
Dean: Sam?

Sam: A high-end camper. TV, A/C, Wifi. Back to nature—zero inconvenience.
Dean: It's funny, I couldn't give two shakes of a rat's ass. Is that right? Do rats shake their asses or is it something else?
Dean: I think you pissed off my sandwich.

Trivia & References

The episode title is a play on the famous book How to Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie first published in 1936.
Bob Singer did the voice over on the Soothing Nature Sounds recording Source.
Sam: Motel 6 just ain't leaving the light on anymore.
Motel 6 is a major chain of budget motels with more than 1,000 locations in the United States and Canada. Its tagline "We'll leave the light on for you" has been a part of its advertising campaign since 1988.
The beer Dean drinks is called MargieKugel Beer. Made by the Art department it is named after Jerry Wanek's mother combined with a local Wisconsin beer Linenkugel. Source
A Turducken is a dish in which a chicken is stuffed inside a duck which is stuffed inside a turkey. Each bird is first boned, and then the entire thing is roasted.
Ranger Evans: You can call me Rick. Ranger Rick.
Ranger Rick is a children’s nature magazine that is published by the National Wildlife Federation for 7–12-year-olds, as well as the title character of the magazine.
Bobby: You don't shoot Bambi, jackass. You shoot Bambi's mother.
Bambi is a 1942 animated Disney movie about a young fawn called Bambi, whose mother is killed by hunters.
* Live tweets from Jim Michaels during airing.

Minutiae

The author of second article on Jersey Devils that Sam shows to Bobby is Dr. Kara Schwandt. Kara Schwandt was the set decoration office coordinator for Season 1 and one episode of Season 2.
According to Sam, Mitchell Rayburn's wife is missing, but she's quoted in the Camping High Season Harshed by Human Burrito newspaper article as saying "I'll never get over it. We were so excited to camp in the outdoors together, enjoying nature. And then nature ate my husband."
The red points on the map on Roman's desk appear to be marking Madison, WI and Cleveland, OH.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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