Title Tall Tales
Episode # Season 2, Episode 15
First aired February 15, 2007
Directed by Bradford May
Written by John Shiban
Outline This episode was never ment to be too serious. Sam & Dean investigate a series of far-fetched claims
Monster Various
Location(s) Springfield University, Springfield, Ohio.
The Winchester brothers seek the help of their family friend Bobby while investigating a series of unexplained happenings on a local college campus.
Music
* The
James Gang - Walk Away
* Junk Food - Next To You
* Chris DeBurgh - Lady In Red
* Barry White - Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe
Trivia
* his
episode was promoted prior to its airing in the Weekly
World News
itself, which ran an interview with Sam and Dean (as in, the characters
themselves). You can read the article here.
Quotes
Trickster:
Mr. Morality here, he brought a lot of girls up here. Got more
ass than a toilet seat.
Jen: So now she haunts the building, and anyone who sees her doesn’t
live to tell the tale.
Curtis: Well, if no one lives to tell the tale, then how does
the tale get told?
Dean: These punishments, they’re almost poetic. Well, actually
they’d be more like a limerick, but still…
Bobby: If you two had bothered to pull your heads out of your
asses, it all would’ve been pretty clear.
Dean: What?
Bobby: What you’re dealing with.
Dean: I got nothing.
Sam: Me neither.
Bobby: You got a trickster on your hands.
Dean: That’s what I thought!
Sam: No you didn't!
Janitor: Sorry I’m dragging a little ass today, boys. Had
quite the night last night. Lots of sex, if you catch my drift.
Dean: Yeah, hard not to.
Dean: Look man, I gotta tell you, I dig your style, you know.
I mean, (gestures to scantily clad women) I do. I mean… phew!
And the slow dancing alien...(both laugh)
Janitor: One of my personal favorites.
(Dean continues on telling his version of the story)
Sam: So you and this guy, Curtis, you were in the same house?
Frat Guy: Yeah.
Dean: You heard of what happened to him right?
Frat Guy: Yeah, he said it was aliens... but you know, whatever.
Sam: Look man, I know this all has to be so hard...
Frat Guy: Not so much.
Sam: But I want you to know...I'm here for you. (pause) You brave
little soldier. I acknowledge your pain. Come here. (hugs him)
Too precious for this world.
(cuts back to actual time)
Sam: I never said that!
Dean: You're always saying pansy stuff like that.
Starla: My God, you are attractive!
Dean: Thanks. But no time for that now. You need to tell me about
this urban legend. Please? Lives are at stake.
Starla: Sorry, I can't even concentrate. It's like staring into
the sun.
Bobby: You're bickering like an old married couple.
Dean: No, see, married couples can get divorced. Me and him? We're
like, Siamese twins,
Sam: It's conjoined twins.
Dean: See what I mean?
Sam: Dean. this is a very serious investigation. We don't have
time for any of your blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah.
Blah... blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah. Blah!
Sam: Maybe we should get some help. I'll call Bobby, maybe he's
run into something like this before.
Dean: Oh, I'm sure he has. Just your typical haunted campus, alien
abduction, alligator in the sewer gig. Yeah, simple. (edit)
Dean: You have to give those purple nurples a shot... phew!
Sam: I'm telling you, Dean, this is made by some kind of jet engine.
Dean: Oh... what do you mean? Like some saucer-shaped jet engine?
Sam: Well, what else can it be?
Dean: What the hell?!
Sam: I don't know.
Dean: Well seriously dude, what the hell?!
Sam: (yells) I don't know!! I mean first The Haunting, now this?
The timing alone. There's gotta be some sort of connection here.
Dean: What? You mean between the angry spirit and uh... the sexed
up ET? What could the connection possibly be?
Dean: Woah, woah, woah, woah... hold on a minute!!
Sam: What?
Dean: C'mon dude, that's not how it happened!
Sam: No? So you never drank a purple nurple?
Dean: Yeah maybe that, but i don't say things like fiesty little
wildcat and her name wasn't Starla.
Sam: Then what was it?
Dean: (pauses) I don't know... but she was a classy chick. She
was a grad student. Anthropology and folklore. We were talking
about ghost stories.
Sam: Dude... were you on my computer?
Dean: Uh...no...
Sam: Oh really? Cuz it's frozen now, on bustyasianbeauties.com?
(Dean walks away)
Sam: Dean!! Would you, just... don't touch my stuff anymore, okay!?!
Dean: Why don't you control your OCD?
Curtis: They did tests on me then uh.. (drinks shot) they probed
me
Dean: They probed you?
Curtis: Yeah, they probed me... again and again and again and...
(drinks shot again) ...and again and again and again and then
one more time.
Dean: Yikes
Curtis: That's not even the worst of it.
Dean: How can that not be the worst part? Some alien made you
his bitch?
(long pause)
Curtis: They... they made me slow dance...
Sam: Dean, I... I'm...
Dean: Hey, me too.
Bobby: You guys are breaking my heart. Can we please just leave?
Sam: (yelling) Your dirty socks in the sink! Your food in the
fridge!
Dean: What's wrong with my food?
Sam: It's not food anymore, Dean! It's Darwinism!
Dean: I like it.
References
Dean: I don’t
know, man. I think they’re called Purple Nurples.
A Purple Nurple is a type of alcoholic cocktail drink that is
made by putting coconut rum, triple sec, Blue Curacao, cranberry
juice, and ice in a cocktail shaker. The ingredients are then
shaken up and strained into a glass for serving.
Chainsaw-Wielding Cannibal
This character references Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre series of films from 1974, starring Gunnar Hansen.
Dean: This is my shuttle co-pilot, Major Tom.
Referencing to the main character of two famous David Bowie songs.
For the first time, Major Tom appears in the 1969 hit Space Oddity,
on the album of the same name ("Ground Control to Major Tom...").
In 1980, Major Tom returns in the song Ashes to Ashes, on the
album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) ("Do you remember
a guy that's been in such an early song? I've heard a rumor from
Ground Control...").
Magazine
Weekly World News (WWN) is a mock tabloid newspaper published
by American Media Inc. Its editor in chief is Jeff Rovin. It combines
wire reports of strange news with in-house writings and columns,
all fictional.
Dean: What? You mean between the angry spirit and uh... the
sexxed up ET?
ET refers to the Academy award winning movie E.T. the Extra Terrestrial,
which was directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie was about a
boy named Elliot who becomes friends with an alien whom he names
E.T.
The cinematography
in the scenes depicting the alien abduction of the frat boy are
highly reminiscent of The X-Files. John Shiban, the writer of
this episode, also wrote for The X-Files.
The structure
of the episode is based on another X-Files episode, "Bad
Blood".
The use of
the Trickster character
in particular the names Loki and Anansi, is a reference to the
work of Neil Gaiman, the novelist and graphic novel author of
which Eric Kripke has admitted being a fan. Gaiman frequently
uses Tricksters in his fiction, and his recent novel was concerned
primarily with Anansi.