8.17 Goodbye Stranger

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Title Goodbye Stranger
Episode # Season 8, Episode 17
First aired March 20, 2013
Directed by Thomas J. Wright
Written by Robbie Thompson
On IMDB Goodbye Stranger
Outline
Monster Demons
Crowley
Naomi
Timeline
Location(s) Lebannon, Kansas
Lincoln Springs, Missouri
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Synopsis

Characters

Definitions

Music

  • "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp
plays during the closing montage

Quotes

Meg: Do I look like Google to you?
Castiel: You know, I can hear you both. I am a celestial being.
Meg: (to Sam) You know, I get why Crowley calls you Moose, now.
Meg: I miss the simplicity — I was bad, you were good, life was easier. Now it’s all so messy. I’m kinda good, which sucks. You’re kind of bad, which is kind of all manner of hot. We survive this, I’m gonna order some pizza and we’re gonna move some furniture around. You understand?
Meg: You hit a dog and stopped. Why?

Sam: That whole story, and that's your takeaway?

Meg: Oh, I heard the rest. You fell in love with a unicorn. It was beautiful, then sad, then sadder. I laughed, I cried, I puked in my mouth a little. And honestly, I kind of get it.
Dean: This isn’t you. Cas, I know you’re in there. I know you can hear me. Cas, it’s me. We’re family. We need you; I need you.
Meg: Hi, I'm Meg. I'm a demon.

Trivia & References

Goodbye Stranger is a reference to the song of the same name by British rock band Supertramp
Dean: Hey Doc Holliday, you alright over there.


Dean says this to Sam after he coughs up blood. Doc Holliday a gunfighter from the Old West and friend of Wyatt Earp, suffered from tuberculosis.
Dean: Wait, are we talking a Maximum Overdrive situation here?


Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror movie written and directed by Stephen King in which machines become animate and try to kill people.
Dean and Sam use the aliases Special Agent Lynne and Tandy, a reference to Richard Tandy and Jeff Lynne who were members of the band ELO.
Meg: Aren't you a little short for a storm trooper?


In Star Wars, Leia says this line to Luke Skywalker when he comes to rescue her. In the episode the shot of Meg is framed as a mirror image of the shot of Leia in the movie.
Dean: So I have to ask — what’s up with the hair?

Meg: Crowley’s idea. Just another reason I want to stab him in the face.

Meg, in her current vessel, has always been brunette until she appears as blonde in this episode.
Meg (about the crypts): And I did visit them all during my time with Yellow-Eyes


Yellow Eyes is a nickname for Azazel
Meg (to Sam): "You know, I get why Crowley calls you Moose, now."


This a a reference to Invader Zim's, "Dumb like a moose,[1]" i.e. Meg is calling Sam dumb but not in the conventional sense.
Meg: But don't worry I haven't exactly been giving them the Glengarry leads


In the play (and later movie by David Mamet called Glengarry Glen Ross about a group of real estate agents. Named after a housing development, Glengarry leads were the contact details of potential clients with expensive properties.
Castiel: I still don’t know who Clarence is.


The demon Meg refers to Castiel as Clarence in a reference to the angel in the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
Meg: “You remember everything?

Cas: “If you’re referring to the pizza man, yes I remember the pizza man. And it’s a good memory.

In 6.10 Caged Heat Castiel watches a porn movie featuring the classic porn trope commonly known as Pizza Boy Special Delivery. He later kisses Meg, claiming he "learned it from the pizza man".
Dean: You really think we can trust Megstiel?


Megstiel is the fandom mashup name to describe fanworks featuring Meg and Castiel in a romantic and/or sexual relationship.
Meg: Every crypt has been one Al Capone vault after another.


In 1986, a TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera, centred around the opening of a secret vault once owned by gangster Al Capone. While it was expected to contain hidden stolen goods, or even bodies, but it was totally empty.
Dean: I saw you Zero Dark Thirty that demon.


Dean is referring to the 2012 movie of the same name, about the search for Osama Bin Laden, which featured explicit scenes of CIA torture of detainees.
Dean: Cas and I will go in and get our Indiana Jones on.


Indian Jones was the hero in a series of movies. He is an archaeologist, who often has wild adventures as he tries to retrieve valuable artifacts and relics.
Sam and Dean's chorus of "Shut Up Meg" may be a shout out to the animated series Family Guy, where Peter Griffin often uses the phrase against his daughter Meg.
Dean: Okay, bottom-line it for me, Bill Nye.


Bill Nye is a science educator best know for his TV show: Bill Nye The Science Guy
Crowley: Did Timon and Pumbaa tell you their big plan?


Timon and Pumbaa are a cartoon meerkat and warthog duo who first appeared in Disney's 1994 animated film The Lion King.
Naomi: How's the shoulder?

Crowley: Just a flesh wound.

In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Black Knight says the same thing after getting all of his limbs but one leg chopped off by King Arthur.
Dean: Listen, I may not be able to carry the burden that comes with these trials, but I can carry you.

Sam: You realise you just kinda quoted "Lord of the Rings" right?
Dean: C'mon man, it's the Rudy-hobbit. Rudy hobbit always gets a pass!

In Lord of the Rings third movie "The Return of the King" Sam Gamgee (played by Sean Astin) says to Frodo " I cannot carry the ring, but I can carry you Mr. Frodo." Sean Astin played the eponymous hero in the movie Rudy, about a young man who overcomes obstacles to become a football hero. Basically a guy version of a chick flick.

Minutiae

Details from Naomi's office: Production designer Jerry Wanek pointed out the crucifix design that is in the glass wall. Some fans thought the colors of pink and purple outside this wall in the final scene in Naomi's office represented the Bisexual Pride flag, but Jerry confirmed that the lighting by Serge Ladouceur reflected emotion and the passage of time source.
The music in the Promo video for the episode is "Satan's Foot on My Neck" by Brett Detar. A song by Brett also played in episode 7.13 The Slice Girls.
Crowley says to Naomi "If you remember our time in Mesopotamia the way I do, you know I'm a lover, not a fighter." That line would imply that they spent time together in ancient Mesopotamia, but in 6.04 Weekend at Bobby's, based on information from a demon, Rufus discovers Crowley to be "17th century Scottish tailor named Fergus MacLeod from Canisbay" and it was supposedly the ghost of his son who leads Bobby and the Winchesters to locate his burial site and bones in Scotland. However that area of the Middle East was known as Mesopotamia by the west up until the 1920 Iraqi Revolt, at which point it became known as the Kingdom of Iraq.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

Promotion

Misha talks about Castiel's return:

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