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Title Adventures In Babysitting
Episode # Season 7, Episode 11
First aired January 6, 2012
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Written by Adam Glass
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995104/
Outline While still dealing with their grief over Bobby's death, Dean turns to Frank Devereaux to help decipher Bobby's numbers, while Sam helps the daughter of a hunter look for her father.
Monster Vetala
Timeline Three weeks after Bobby's death, around the end of February 2012.
Location(s) Whitefish, Montana; Colby, Kansas; Gleason, Wisconsin
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Synopsis

After Bobby's death in 7.10 Death's Door, Dean and Sam are overcome by grief. They don't do anything for a week, and then two weeks pass in which Dean does nothing but focus on deciphering the numbers that Bobby wrote on Sam's hand just before he died, 45489. He covers the walls in Rufus's cabin with notes and stories about Dick Roman, the leader of the Leviathans. After three weeks, Sam, who has found Bobby's contact book, asks Dean if they should let any of Bobby's friends know what happened to him, but Dean won't even consider it. Just as they're arguing about it, Bobby's phone rings and Dean refuses to answer it. Sam answers Bobby's phone and hears the voice of a young girl, who says that her dad told her to call Bobby Singer specifically. When Sam says that he's not available, she hangs up.

Sam tells Dean that the girl sounded scared, and that she might be a hunter's kid. He thinks they should find and check on her, but Dean is more worried about Frank Devereaux, who he hasn't heard from in weeks. Frank is supposed to be looking into Bobby's numbers, as well, and Dean thinks they should focus on what Bobby spent his last moments trying to tell them.

Characters

Definitions

Music

Ridin' the Storm Out by REO Speedwagon (heard during the previouslies)

Dear Mr. Fantasy by Traffic (Plays as Dean drives at the end)

Quotes

Frank: Sure you're not a leviathan. Dick Roman's not a leviathan. Gwyneth Paltrow's not a leviathan...
Frank: You think it's this easy to see inside what's real, and also be bi-polar with delusional ideation. There's no pill for my situation sweety-pop, so yeah the big mouths are on to me. Next question!
Dean: What she doing?

Frank: Being a naughty, bossy little girl.

Dean: I'd hate to ask for that in the non-porno version.
Dean: I'm not going to quit. It's not even an option. I am not going to walk out on my brother.

Frank: Okay then fine. Do what I did.
Dean: What - go native? Stock up on C-rations?
Frank: No cupcake. What i did when I was 26 and came home to find my wife and two kids gutted on the floor. Decide to be fine til the end of the week. Make yourself smile because you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week.
Dean: So fake it?

Frank: I call it being professional. Do it right. With a smile. or don't do it.
Dean: You could too you know. Go to college. Be a hunter slash pediatrician.
Krissy: What century is this? No-one fist bumps anymore.

Dean: C'mon. Give it up!

Krissy: You're a dweeb.
Lee: Ever know anyone who left the life?
Dean: No - they all get killed first.

Trivia & References

Adventures In Babysitting was a 1987 comedy movie.
Writer Adam Glass said that the movie True Grit was an inspiration for the episode. [1]
Meghan Ory who plays Sally appeared with Jensen in Dark Angel, in the episode The Berrisford Agenda.
Click here to read Madison McLaughlin's tweets from the set and during the airing of the episode]. Also Video of Jensen and the crew singing Happy Birthday to Madison
The numbers Bobby was trying to tell Sam and Dean were 454895, but he only wrote 45489. Frank investigated the possibility of a missing digit and used 454893 to generate the coordinates latitude (45.4) and longitude (-89.3) for a field in Gleason Wisconsin. Coincidentally, it is not far from Beavers Lake.
Dean: No, Bobby didn't give us coordinates to some patch of weeds in Cheeseville.
Frank Devereaux gives Dean a variety of nicknames; Sweetie pops; Buster Brown; My Little Lamb; Tarzan; Grasshopper; Cupcake. Frank also compares the two of them to Cheech and Ed from Ma Bell while they are costumed as electricians while undertaking surveillance.

Due to Wisconsin's long history of cheesemaking, epithets related to the dairy product are often associated with the state and its inhabitants (aka Cheeseheads).

Minutiae

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

Frank: Patience, grasshopper.


In the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, Kwai Chang Caine is a Shaolin monk, whose teacher Master Po would refer to him as 'grassshopper'.
Dean: maybe because you're one tinfoil hat away from a rubber room.


Tinfoil or tin hats is a term that originated from people wearing tinfoil hats to keep out the "alien signals" and is generally used to describe the super paranoid or conspiracy freaks. Source. For the fandom meaning see Tin hat.
Frank: Did I mention you look awful?

Dean: Yes, maybe because someone I cared about just got shot in the head. And this is like shoving a rock up a hill. And...screw you.


In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a man who defied the gods, and chained death. As punishment, he was condemned to perform the endless task of pushing a boulder up a hill, only to see it roll down again, and to do this forever. In philosophy, Albert Camus write a book called The Myth of Sisyphus, where he talked about the struggle to find meaning in a world devoid of it, and how the absurd hero found happiness when he embraced the hopelessness of his situation.
Frank: you cool your heels Buster Brown.

Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902. he was a very pretty boy who was always causing trouble.
Dean (referring to Bobby's coordinates): Relax, it's a field not the Death Star. Dick's at a TED conference, it's all over the Huffington Post.

  • TED conferences are run by a non-profit organization with the mission of promoting "ideas worth spreading" from the areas of technology, entertainment and design (i.e. TED). The conference Dick is attending is most likely the one held in Long Beach from Feb 27 – Mar 2, 2012. In 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters, one of the folders Bobby took out of Dick's suitcase was labelled "TED Conference".

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At the beginning of the episode Sam is drinking El Sol beer.
The car this week is an Buick Skylark.
There a number of references to strange things occurring with time in the episode. Dean finds his beer empty when it was full a moment ago; Frank swears Dean gave him Bobby's numbers four days and not four weeks ago, and Dean sleeps for 36 hours.

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