8.21 The Great Escapist
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| Title | The Great Escapist |
| Episode # | Season 8, Episode 21 |
| First aired | May 1, 2013 |
| Directed by | Robert Duncan McNeill |
| Written by | Ben Edlund |
| On IMDB | The Great Escapist |
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| Monster | Crowley Naomi |
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| Location(s) | Lebanon, Kansas Colorado |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
Music
- "Whipped Cream" by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
- (plays when the demons call Crowley from the hunters trap; also known as the theme to The Dating Game)
Quotes
Crowley: Remember I want to distinct, authentic characterizations....I was born to direct!
Ion: It's as if we're in every Biggerson's at once, trapped in a quantum super postion.
Naomi: You're the famous spanner in the works. Honestly you came of the line with a crack in your chassis. You have never done what you were told. Not completely. You don't even die right, do you?
Sam: You rode a farty donkey.
Sam: You really haven't heard of us? What kind of angel are you? We're the frigging Winchesters!
Metatron: When you create stories, you become gods, of tiny intricate dimensions unto themselves. So many worlds.
Trivia & References
The title of the epsiode is based on the 1963 movie The Great Escape about Allied POWs escaping a German prison camp in World War 2.
Maomi: There was that day back in Egypt...not that long ago, when we slew every firstborn infant whose door wasn't splashed with lamb's blood. And that was just PR
- Naomi is referring to the story in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an, of when Moses freed the Israelites who were enslaved by the Egyptians. He tried to make a deal with the Pharoah, and each time he refused to release the Israelites, God sent a plague. The ninth plague was the murder of all first born sons in Egypt by angels. The angels spared the Isarelites child, who they knew by the sign of the door lintel being marked with lamb's blood. the events are commemorated as the Jewish holiday of "Passover".
Sam:Hey you remember when Dad took us to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on that pack mule ride and you mule kept farting, just letting go like gale force?
Dean: Due you were like four years old. I barely remember that.
- Dean had obviously forgotten years previously when in 2.09 Croatoan Dean said "Yeah, you know, all this driving back and forth across country, you know I've never been to the Grand Canyon?
Fake Demon Dean: Okay, whats the 10-20?
- 10-20 is police radio code for "what is the location?"
Sam: you used to read to me when I was little, i mean really little, from that old Classics Illustrated comic book...Knights of the Round Table.
- Classics Illustrated was a series which adapted literary classics into comic books. It was published from 1931 to 1971. Issue 108 was Knights of the Round Table.
