Supernatural 4x06: Yellow Fever

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This is when I believe Dean's memories of Hell came flooding back. Up until this point he'd just had the occasional nightmare or flashback, but he seemed genuinely confused when his Lilith hallucination was talking about "all the fun you had down there" and the reason why he'd been affected by the ghost sickness. She awakened all those memories he'd been suppressing. NOW we start to see him really falling apart. Because for a while there I thought Lilith's comment about "fun" had been sarcasm. Soon after this we find out that she meant it literally. Oh Dean. :(

I love that Sam, while worried about Dean's impending demise and doing anything he could to prevent it, still took the time to mock Dean for being the right "personality type" to catch the ghost sickness, heh. After a lifetime of being called soft, girly, and a pansy, you can't really blame him. ;)

He was a cute mother hen, though. He was taking care of Dean, but was frustrated with him at the same time, I love it. His "quit pickin' at that" and "stop scratching" remarks cracked me up, LOL. And the "dude, don't touch me" looks he kept giving Dean every time he went to grab his arm, hahaha! I think to some it comes across as insensitive, but it's been part of Sam's character right from the start, IMO. Look back on eps like Phantom Traveller and Everybody Loves a Clown - when Dean's scared, he can't seem to think straight, while when Sam's scared he tends to face it and act all the tougher. He has no patience for panic or crumbling under fear. Tough love was what he was raised on, so that's what he gave Dean. Kind of a "suck it up, soldier" attitude. He even sounded kinda like John when Dean refused to go into the factory, with his firm, "You're going in, Dean." No question about it. I loved it.

The cat scene - instant classic. Also, Dean's speech - another instant classic. And "Awww" "He's adorable" will never ever ever get old. This ep was so hilarious!

But my favourite scene - YES (yellow-eyed Sam), woohoo!! I thought for a while that Dean knew something we didn't about Sam, that he'd learned something in Hell about Sam becoming the YED reincarnated or something. Guess it was just his own fears and suspicions, but still, I LOVE the YES hallucination. Jared does creepy/nasty/evil SO WELL. Love it. But I always wonder what Sam really said in response to Dean's "I'm gonna die" comment.

Sam's laugh when Luther threw him down... *points to icon* Oh maaaaan, I was obsessed with that moment for WEEKS! I took it as proof of how cracked he was since Dean's death. You don't get over something like that, even if the person you'd been mourning for months comes back to life. There were just certain moments in season 4 that gave me a double-take and seemed to show how screwed-up his mind had become. I mean, the dude was getting pounded on like whoa. You don't laugh in the middle of that unless you have some serious problems. ;)

Loved that Dean hallucinated hellhounds more than once. Has that become his biggest fear? And clinging to the Bible like that... that moment broke my heart. It's just so un-Dean for him to do that, so it really showed how terrified he was without having to go over-the-top with it.

Need I even point this out - Dean's heart again! Sam is always being almost-strangled, and Dean is always having almost-heart-attacks. Seriously, what gives?

I kinda felt bad for Luther. That's gotta be a horrible way to die... twice. :(

Those dogs really are kinda scary, you know, with their creepy little bows and everything. ;)

And finally, the big question this episode raised - is Dean really afraid of howler monkeys? ;)


Randomness -
*This was Dabb and Loflin's first writing credit. I've come to really love those guys.
*Jared was totally freaked out by the snake, LOL. I love those bloopers. What they didn't show, though, was that apparently after a while Jared took off running. That's why there was no wide shot of both boys when it came over the couch. ;)
*Jim Beaver really does speak Japanese, and I think Bobby's Japanese line was an ad lib. I believe he said something like, "I've been reading Japanese since before you were born."
*Bobby refused a beer. Because he was about to drive, or because he was trying not to drink at all?

I'm sure we all know the story behind the Eye of the Tiger gag by now, but just in case - basically Jared decided to miss his cue in the scene to see what Jensen would do. Jensen was lying there thinking "Wasn't he supposed to bang on the roof by now? Wait, the first words of the song are 'rising up'..." And hilarity ensued. And since two cameras were running the whole time, the director decided to edit it properly and give the fans a nice little treat. ;)

Eye of the Tiger clip is here. I love that you can hear Jared giggling his butt off in the background, LOL!

Quotes -

Pathologist: Everybody drops dead sooner or later. It's why I got job security.

Al: Me and Frank... we were friends. Hell, we were Game Cocks.
Dean: *laughs*
Al: That's our softball team's name.
Dean: Mm. *nods*
Al: They're majestic animals.

Mark: Tyler and Perry. Just like Aerosmith!
Sam: Yeah, small world.

Dean: Do you know, uh... do you know what scared him?
Mark: Well, yeah, witches.
Sam: Witches? Like...?
Mark: Well, Wizard of Oz was on TV the other night, right? And he said that green bitch was totally out to get him.
Sam: Anything else scare him?
Mark: Everything else scared him. Al Qaeda, ferrets, artificial sweetener, those Pez dispensers with their dead little eyes... lots of stuff.

Mark: He probably taped half the town's butt cheeks together. Mine included.

Sam: Dude, you're going 20.
Dean: And?
Sam: That's the speed limit.
Dean: What, safety's a crime now?
*they pass the hotel*
Sam: Dude, where are you going? That was our hotel.
Dean: Sam, I'm not gonna make a left-hand turn into oncoming traffic. I'm not suicidal!
*pause*
Dean: Did I just say that? That was kinda weird.

Dean: Am I haunted? Am I haunted?!?!

Sam: It's ghost sickness.
Dean: Ghost sickness?
Sam: Yeah.
Dean: God, no.
Sam: Yeah.
Dean: I don't even know what that is.

Dean: Our very own outbreak monkey.

Sam: Turns out all three victims share a certain, um... personality type. Frank was a bully. The other two victims, one was a vice principal, the other was a bouncer.
Dean: Okay.
Sam: Basically, they were all dicks.

Dean: I don't scare people.
Sam: Dean, all we do is scare people.
Dean: Okay, well, then you're a dick, too.
Sam: Apparently I'm not.

Dean: Our room's on the fourth floor. It's... it's high.

Dean's hallucination: You're dying... Again. Loser. You gonna cry? Baby gonna cry?

Sam: *kicks Dean's feet* Hey. Quit pickin' at that. How you feeling?
Dean: Awesome. It's nice to have my head on the chopping block again. I almost forgot what that feels like.
Sam: Yeah.
Dean: It's frickin' delightful.

Dean: I don't wanna be a clue!

Dean: It's a little spooky, isn't it?

Sam: *hands Dean his gun*
Dean: Oh, I'm not carrying that. It could go off! I'll man the flashlight.
Sam: You do that.

Dean: That was scary!

Sam: The plot thickens.
Dean: Yeah, but into what?

Dean: This isn't gonna work. I mean, come on, these badges are fake. What if we get busted? We could go to jail!

Dean: Those are real. Obviously.
Sam: *clears throat*
Dean: I mean, who would pretend to be an FBI agent, huh? That's just nutty.
Sam: *stamps on his foot*

Dean: Come on, Sam. What are we doing?!
Sam: We're hunting a ghost.
Dean: A ghost! Exactly! Who does that?!
Sam: Us.
Dean: Us! Right. And that, Sam, that is exactly why our lives suck. I mean, come on, we hunt monsters! What the hell?! I mean, normal people, they see a monster, and they run, but not us, no no no, we... *laughs* we search out things that want to kill us. Yeah? Huh? Or eat us! You know who does that? Crazy people! We are insane! You know, and then there's the bad diner food, and then the skeevy motel rooms, and then the truck-stop waitress with the bizarre rash... I mean, who wants this life, Sam? Huh? Seriously! I mean, do you actually like being stuck in the car with me 8 hours a day every single day? I don't think so! I mean, I drive too fast, and I listen to the same five albums over and over and over again, and-and I sing along, I'm annoying, I know that, and you... you're gassy! You eat half a burrito and you get toxic! I mean, you know what? You can forget it. *tosses Sam the car keys*
Sam: Whoa, Dean, where are you going?
Dean: Stay away from me, Sam. Okay? 'Cause I am done with it. I'm done with the monsters and, and, and the hellhounds, and the ghost sickness, and the freakin' apocalypse! I'm out. I'm done. I quit.

Sam: I looked everywhere for you, Dean. How the hell'd you get here?
Dean: Ran?

Sam: Wonderful. Uh, is there a plan B?

Sam: So, uh, just ride out the trip, okay? You're gonna be fine. We got a plan.
Dean: What is it?
Sam: Just a... good plan, alright? Hang in there. *hangs up*
Bobby: This is a terrible plan.
Sam: Yeah, tell me about it.

Sam: How you feeling, by the way?
Dean: Fine.
Bobby: You sure, Dean? 'Cause this line of work can get awful scary.
Dean: I'm fine. What, you wanna go huntin'? I'll hunt. I'll kill anything.
Sam: Awww.
Bobby: He's adorable.

Sam: So, uh... so, what did you see? Near the end, I mean?
Dean: Oh, besides a cop beatin' my ass?
Sam: Seriously.
Dean: *sees Sam's eyes flash yellow*
*pause*
Dean: Howler monkeys. Whole room full of them. Those things creep the hell out of me.
Sam: *sighs, rolls eyes* Right.
Dean: Nah. Just the usual stuff, Sammy. Nothing I couldn't handle.

Comments

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The Eye of the Tiger thing is so great. It's one of my default cheerup things now - I laugh every time. And, the fact that you can hear Jared laughing makes it that much better.

As for the episode... again with the humorous and the serious mixed so well! Poor Dean, and poor Sam. Really, seasons 4 and 5 do such a good job tackling the serious damage that has been wreaked on their psyches. Sam is just increasingly reckless and angry and broken - and it's not that hard to track the source of it, and Dean just breaks down further and further. They act it so well, too!

And, evil!Sam, even in hallucinations is always awesome.

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Really, seasons 4 and 5 do such a good job tackling the serious damage that has been wreaked on their psyches. Sam is just increasingly reckless and angry and broken - and it's not that hard to track the source of it, and Dean just breaks down further and further. They act it so well, too!

And that, in a nutshell, is why season 4 is my favourite season. :D

It's amazing that this show is so consistent with mixing their comedy with their angst, isn't it? It blows me away every single time.