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Revision as of 11:38, 29 January 2013


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Title LARP and the Real Girl
Episode # Season 8, Episode 11
First aired January 23, 2013
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Written by Robbie Thompson
On IMDB LARP and the Real Girl
Outline
Monster Fairy
Human
Timeline January 23rd, 2013
Location(s) Farmington Hills, Michigan.
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "China Grove" by The Doobie Brothers
(plays in the beginning when Sam and Dean talk in the car)

Quotes

Dean: Maybe we ought to take the night off – go see a flick, hit a bar or two, have some fun. You remember fun, don't you Sammy?
Sam: Look, it's bad enough that you're tracking us, but it's even worse when you say we've been "Garthed."
Sheriff: These kids today with their texting and murder.
Lance: Those texts weren’t from me. They were from me, but they weren’t from me me.
Dean: Did you really think that sentence was gonna clear things up?
Charlie (referring to Dean): This is my new handmaiden.
Sam: Nice outfit.
Dean: You love it.
Charlie: Apart from the fact that you blocked me from banging a fairy and I’m about to go lose my crown in battle thanks to my army being decimated, yeah, totally good.

Trivia & References

The episode title “LARP and the Real Girl” is a reference to the 2007 movie Lars and the Real Girl starring Ryan Gosling, about a guy who develops a relationship a doll.
LARPing previously featured in the episode 5.09 The Real Ghostbusters.
Charlie destroying the spellbook by stabbing it is a reference to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in which Harry Potter destroys Tom Riddle's diary in a similar manner using a basilisk's fang. Harry Potter is one of Charlie's favorite series.
Dean and Sam use the aliases Agent Rosewood and Taggart, which are characters in the 1984 Eddie Murphy comedy Beverley Hills Cop.
When Sam asks Dean if he recognises the tree-shaped mark that appears on Ed and Lance's bodies, Dean says "A Tim Burton movie?” referring to the iconic image from the posters for the movie Big Fish.
When Charlie takes off her helmet and shakes out her hair it recalls the image of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings movie The Two Towers.
Sam: But the medical examiner said his body showed clear signs that he was killed by belladonna.

Charlie and Dean: The porn star?
Sam: The poison.

Belladonna is a porn star actor and producer. Amongst her films is "My Ass Is Haunted".
According to writer Robbie Thompson, Charlie's aliases are made up of the name of a Stephen King character for her first name and the surname of a famous science fiction writer. Source Carrie Heinlein refers to Carrie, the eponymous hero of Carrie and Heinlein refers to writer Robert A. Heinlein.
Dean: I’m noticing a lot of these maidens checking you out.

Charlie: What? I can’t shut this down. It’s good to be queen.

This is a riff on the line "It's good to be the King" from the Mel Brooks movie History of the World Part 1.
Charlie: Great costume bee tee dubs.


"Bee tee dubs" stands for by the way (btw).
Dean: You saw the chainmail. This could be "Fifty Shades of Greyfox" for all we know.


Dean is making a reference to the BDSM romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. The book had its origins in Twilight fanfiction.
Charlie: Oh blerg!
This saying indicating annoyance or frustration was popularized by Tina Fey's character of Liz Lemon on the TV series 30 Rock.
Charlie: Why do I have such bad luck? What am I, some kind of monster magnet? Is there such a thing as a monster magnet?
Monster Magnet is the name of a band.
Charlie: Have fun storming the castle.


This is a quote from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride.
Charlie: I’m gonna need the full wiki on where you guys have been.


A wiki, such as the Supernatural Wiki, is a comprehensive, multi-authored source of information presented in a readable and often entertaining way. Totally a shoutout.
Star Wars quotes:

LARPer: I love you.
Charlie: I know.

The lines are spoken between Leia and Han Solo as he is about to be frozen in carbonite at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Watch it here. It is also said between Charlie and one of her co-workers in 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo.

Also

Charlie: My name's Charlie. I'm here to rescue you.

This line was originally spoken by Luke to Leia in Star Wars "I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue you." Watch it here.
Charlie: For role-play, I prefer a tabletop. D&D, Gamma World, Car Wars. That's why Cthulhu invented multi-sided dice, right?


Charlie is referring to a number of tabletop role-playing games, which are played with a multi-sided dice. In 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo, Charlie revealed that she had a Princess Leia in her slave girl bikini astride a 20-sided die, which she got at Comic Con.

Cthulhu is a supernatural tentacled deity created by H.P. Lovecraft.
Dean's speech to Charlie's army is taken from the speech given by 13th century Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace, played by Mel Gibson, in the movie Braveheart.
Dean: There’s no laptops in Moondoor. There’s no Geneva Convention, either.


The Geneva Conventions outline humanitarian conditions that should apply during war, first ratified in 1949 signed by a number, but not all, countries.
The call of "Kuh-Kaah!" that the Orc LARPers do in the woods, is a shoutout to the call used by Dignan (played by Owen Wilson) in the 1996 Wes Anderson comedy Bottle Rocket.
Charlie (to Gilda): I’m just an I.T. girl, standing in front of a monster, asking it not to kill her.


This is a twist on the quote "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" spoken by the Julia Roberts character in the romantic comedy Notting Hill.
Charlie: Call me...maybe?


"Call Me Maybe" was the title of a song by Carly Rae Jepsen which was a smash hit in 2012.
As she did in 7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo, Charlie makes the Vulcan salute popularized by Spock in Star Trek when she farewells Sam and Dean.
Andrea Brooks who played Maria/Gholandria also played Katie Burns in 2.06 No Exit.

Minutiae

Ed was killed on the night of January 23rd, the night the episode aired. Dean's birthday is on January 24th as was Jessica Moore's.
The shot of Ed's phone, with a message from Lance, was actually a shot of VFX Coordinator Ryan Curtis's phone with a text from colleague Adam Williams after he changed his name (and the date) in his phone. It was then shopped onto the phone the Sheriff is examining Source.
When Sam is in the technical tent - which has the sign "Beware, this is a gateway to the future" on the outside - some of the LARPers can be seen to be playing Dragon Age 2: Mark of the Assassin, a fantasy action role-playing video game. Also seen is the character of Tallis, an elven assassin based on the appearance of, and voiced by, Felicia Day who plays Charlie. The character originated in a web series called Dragon Age: Redemption written by and starring Felicia Day.
Over a freeze frame of the Battle of the Kingdoms at the end of the episode, a title crawl reads in a cursive script: "This episode is dedicated to the men, women, elves, demigods, magi, druids and chamber pot servants who gave their lives fighting and winning for the Queen of Moons in the Battle of the Kingdoms. Go bravely into the next world, fallen soldiers." They are read by Bob Singer. The script is also used on the credits for Bob Singer and Jeremy Carver.
Over recent seasons, as the length of Sam's hair has increased, many fans had speculated (wished?) that he may eventually end up wearing his hair in a ponytail. In the final scene, during the Battle of the Kingdoms, this finally happened. See Sam's Hair for a pictorial map of the evolution of Sam's hair.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

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