8.06 Southern Comfort

Title	Southern Comfort
Episode #	Season 8, Episode 6
First aired	November 7, 2012
Directed by	Tim Andrew
Written by	Adam Glass
On IMDB	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372414/
Outline	With still no trace of Kevin, Sam and Dean investigate a decapitation only to find Garth is already on the case.
Monster	Spectre
Timeline
Location(s)
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Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Garth Fitzgerald IV
• Amelia Richardson
• Mary Lew
• Chester Lew
• Sara Alcott Brown
• Officer Karl Henry
• Deputy Doug
• Vance Collins

Definitions

• Spectre
• Ghosts
• Bobby's Hats
• Tooth Fairy
• Ectoplasm
• EMF
• Possession
• Idjit

Music

Fell On Black Days by Soundgarden (Plays during the penny montage; also played in 2.05 Simon Said)
The ringtones on Garth's phones were:

• Jump by Kriss Kross
• Wild Wild West by Kool Moe Dee
• Hammer Time by M.C. Hammer

Quotes

Garth: Bobby belonged to all of us Dean, not just you and Sam. I'm just taking what he showed me and trying to do something with it. That's all.

Dean: You never even wanted this life. Always blamed me for pulling you back into it. ... Everything you've ever done since you climbed into my ride has been to deceive me.

Sam: What do you want me to say? That I've made mistkaes? I've made mistakes Dean.
Garth: That's not Dean, Sam.
Dean: Mistakes? Well, let's go through some of Sammy's greatest hits. Drinking demon blood? Check. Being in cahoots with Ruby? Not telling me that you lost your soul? Or how about running around with Samuel for a whole year, letting me think that you were dead while you were doing all kinds of crazy. Those aren't mistakes, Sam. Those are choices!
Sam: Alright, you said, we've both played a little fast and loose.

Dean: Yeah, I might have lied. But I never once betrayed you. I never once left you to die. And for what? A girl? You left me to die for a girl?

Amelia: You want to talk about it?

Sam: About last night?

Amelia: No dean, you pervert.

Sam: Own up to your crap, Dean. I told you from the jump where I was coming from, why I didn't look for you. But you, you had secrets. You had Benny! And you got on your high and mighty and you've been kicking me ever since you got back. But that's over. So move on, or I will!

Trivia & References

Southern Comfort is also a type of liquor.

Garth: Even if there was any sulfur, Barney Fife and his crew probably contaminated the whole crime scene and any evidence that was here with it.

Barney Fife was the not particularly competent Deputy in the sleepy town of Mayberry on 1960s The Andy Griffiths Show.

Dean: I was in Purgatory.

Garth: Like the Purgatory Purgatory?
Dean: No, the one in Miami.
Garth: Man, that's balls
Dean: That's now how you say "balls."

There is actually a gay and lesbian bar in Fort Lauderdale, Floria called Purgatory.

Balls was one of Bobby's favorite expressions of frustration. Garth also (mis)uses Idjit, another catchphrase of Bobby's.

Dean: So first the mom goes Natural Born Killer, and now the son? Well, what do we got--a ghost with an Oedipus complex?... I don't know what that means.

Natural Born Killers was a 1994 Oliver Stone movie about two spree killers. Oedipus Complex refers to a Freduian construct that posits that children desire their mother and wish to kill their father.

Dean: Yeah, but not before Casper had a chance to make a run for it.

Casper The Friendly Ghost is a cartoon ghost created in the 1930s.

Tweets from DJ Qualls about the episode.

Minutiae

At the beginning Sam and Dean eat at Fat Mack's BBQ Shack.

The Deer's Head appears in the bar where the boys and Garth have lunch.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• 8.06 Southern Comfort (transcript)

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