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Revision as of 05:58, 28 April 2012


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Title The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo
Episode # Season 7, Episode 20
First aired April 27, 2012
Directed by Johnny MacCarthy
Written by Robbie Thompson
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995114/
Outline
Monster Leviathans
Timeline April 2012
Location(s) Chicago, Illinois
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine - while Charlie is in the elevator

Quotes

'Charlie: If you can't score at a reproductive rights function, then you simply cannot score.
Dick: You're kind of completing me right now Charlie. You have that thing, that spark that makes humans so special. Not everyone has it you know. Most people can be replaced, but people like you are impossible to copy.

Trivia & References

The episode title "The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo" is a play on the title of the popular book which was also made into a film in both Sweden and the US called The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, that also features a female hacker. Dungeons and Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) , which has come to be used as the generic name for similar fantasy RPGs.
Felicia Day who plays Charlie, is herself an avid gamer. She is the creator and stars in the comedy webseries The Guild about a group of online gamers. Felicia is also known for her roles in Joss Whedon's Buffy, Dollhouse and Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog.
This episode was directed by Johnny MacCarthy. Johnny Mac is the first assistant director on Supernatural. He works on the "odd"-numbered episodes of Supernatural, while Kevin Parks works on the odd-numbered ones. He also worked with Jensen on Dark Angel. He is the second crew member, along with Production designer Jerry Wanek, to make his directorial debut on Supernatural this season.
Charlene reveals that her name is an alias. Her surname Bradbury is a reference to acclaimed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.
Bobby: Dick is about to get into the Soylent green business

In the 1973 dystopian sci-fi movie Soylent Green, Charlton Heston uncovers the fact that the food the population is subsisting on is not made of plankton, but is actually processed from human corpses.
Bobby: I got a glimpse at Dick's big plan, right before he Lincoln'ed me.

This is a reference to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, who was shot in the head, as was Bobby.
Bobby: This is about those Levi's living here one percenter style

The concept of the one percenter is used to refer to inequity of wealth distribution in the U.S. where 1% of the population control the most of the power structures and wealth. It became a concept widely used during the Occupy movement which started in 2011.
Charlie enters work listening Katrina and the Waves singing "Walking On Sunshine" through headphones. This recreates an early scene in the movie American Psycho where amoral psychopathic business man Patrick Bateman, played by Christian Bale, does the same thing. Dick Roman bears a close resemblance in his demeanour, style and evil insanity to Patrick Bateman.
Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Veronica Mars and Wonder Woman are all owned by Warner Brothers which also produces Supernatural.
Charlie's desk at Richard Roman Enterprises is decorated with bobblehead Darth Vader, C3P0 and a stormtrooper dolls, a Yoda Pez dispenser, and at least one Star Wars Comic, Wonder Woman figure, set of Lord of the Rings Pez dispensers, two Harry Potter and a Dumbledore figurine. In pride of place is her Hermione figure which Charlie refers to as "H"".
Computer: How about a nice game of chess?

Charlie: Seriously? Wargames?

Wargames is a 1983 movie starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy, about a young hacker called David who accidentally starts playing games with a defence computer and nearly causes a nuclear war.
As with Charlie's computer as she tries to hack frank's hard drive, David finds a list of games, starting with games like chess, checkers, backgammon, and poker and then progressing finally to Global Thermonuclear War. In the movies the creator is Stephen Falken who names the computer after his dead son Joshua.
Charlie tries "Joshua" as the password on Frank's hard drive, and it responds with "Greetings Professor Falken". Just as she thinks she has broken the password, Frank's voice taunts her with "Nice try Zero Charisma." Zero Charisma is a Dungeons and Dragons reference. When all charisma points are lost - it means that the character is withdrawn into a catatonic, helpless state.
The episode abounds in Star Wars references:
  • Dean: Perfect, it's in the middle of the Death Star.
  • Charlie is wearing a Pricess Leia t-shirt with the slogan "Rebel" on it
  • On her desk, Charlie has bobblehead Darth Vader, C3P0 and a stormtrooper dolls, a Yoda Pez dispenser, and at least one Star Wars Comic
The episode also packs in references to Harry Potter:
  • On her desk Charlie has two Harry Potter and a Dumbledore figurine. In pride of place is her Hermione figure which Charlie refers to as "H"".
The episode also has Lord Of The Rings references:
  • Charlie: Dick Roman gave me an assignment

Co-worker: Is that good? Charlie: It means the Eye of Sauron is on me.

Co-worker: Well, if you need anything I'll be back in the Shire.
Charlie is seen hacking into a website called theusconservatives.org (which doesn't exist). She transfers funds of $10,000 from there to a group called "Animal Lovers & Lovers of the Planet".



On the front page the Republican Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates are given as Johnny MacCarthy and Gabe Correa respectively. John Macarthy is actually the first assistant director on Supernatural (and also directed the episode) and Gabe Correa is the third A.D. on Supernatural. Neither bear any resemblance to the photos on the website.
Bobby: What? I'm suppsoed to just ride the pine.


To ride the pine means to not be involved in the action. It comes from the sporting world where a player may be made to sit out a game on the (pine) bench.
Dick: Bruce Springsteen, Eli manning and our own little Charlie? You know what they are? Irreplaceable. You're more of a Tim Tebow, Joe Biden type. You got no spark. In fact there's nothing in you. Except Harold's dinner.
Bruce Springsteen is a rock musician and Eli Manning is a quarterback for the New York Giants football team. Tim Tebow is a quarterback for the New York Jets and Joe Biden was the Vice president of the US when the episode aired.
In her apartment Charlie has a similar collection of figurines to those on her desk at work. There is a balckboard which is covered in notes including "Comic Con San Fran Book Hotel", "Order book on the language of Star Wars", "La Roux tix" adn ""New collection craigslist". It has a grocery list of : veggies, granola, cereal, arugula, yoghurt and pop tarts. (which is a stereotypical lesbian shoppping list).
During the episode a fake ad aired for the corporation "Sucrocorp". Presumably a subsidiary of Richard Roman Enterprises, the name and images of corn int he ad are a reference to high fructose corn syrup, a commonly used sweetener in the U.S. which is suspected of being an increased source of weight gain and also to contain source of mercury, a neurotoxin. Both obseisty and altered brain functions which are similar to the effects of the food additive being trialled int he Turducken sandwiches at Biggersons in 7.09 How to Win Friends And Influence Monsters.
Charlie reveals she has a Tattoo is of Princess Leia in her slave girl outfit astride a 20-sided dice (which are used in RPGs). In a scenario familiar to many fans, she claims she got it while drunk at Comic Con.



During the airing of the episode, the phrase #DandDtattoo trended on twitter source.
After Sam gives Charlie the "What would Hermoine Do?" pep speech, Charlie uses the phrase Kick It In The Ass!, which was [Kim Manners]] catchphrase. The line was originally Kick Ass, but Felicia changed it on suggestion of director Johnny MacCarthy source.

Minutiae

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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