HEE!

Always love a good dose of META on this show. The hilariousity was brought to us by none other than Ben Edlund, which is awesome, because he gets to write a  particularly pompous character close to his heart, “Eric Kripke”, who gets shot multiple times soon after his snotty, self-centered self shows up on set. The whole episode was a laugh riot.

But first! The two previous episodes, “Unforgiven” and “Mannequin 3: The Reckoning”, which were okay story wise, were important to me mostly because of the continuing healing of the relationship between Sammy and his big brother Dean. Creepy mannequins and Slutty Sammy just weren’t all that compelling to me, but those two boys working together and trusting each other more and more? That warms this gal’s heart.

So now we get to what is usually a favorite every season, the wild shenanigans of a Edlund episode! This week starts out with the beautiful boys at Bobby’s when Balthazar, of the angel contingent, shows up all ranty and ripping apart Bobby’s den for ingredients for a spell of some immediately needed magical-ness. I am momentarily confused as I thought Balthazar was left dead or was a ‘bad’ angel of some sort the last time we saw him but I soldier on, because sometimes the angels confuse me and I have a hard time keeping straight who is with whom. Balthazar spouts on about how the boys need to help hide the key to the room of angel weapons from Raphael, who has recouped from his salting and is pretty pissed about gettin’ played. Amidst the chaos of his sudden appearance and urgent task for the brothers, Balthazar is preparing a sigil on the window to send the wonderful Winchesters on a little journey…

…to the set of a little, low-rated television show called ‘Supernatural’ that is filmed, in all places, Canada! Hee! Our boys have been on a movie set before, back in season two’s “Hollywood Babylon”, so they aren’t completely out of their element, until they are confronted with a make-up woman and an entertainment reporter who call them ‘Jared’ and ‘Jensen’, much to their mutual confusion.

My favorite thing about episodes like this is the joy of knowing almost exactly what is going on, while our beloved characters become more and more befuddled trying to comprehend what-the-hay is going on. We as fans of the show are treated to a myriad of inside jokes regarding the uneven state of season 6, the trappings of wealth and fame, and the vanity that runs wild in Hollywood (“What kind of douchebag names a character after himself??”). I found every joke about as brilliant and cunning as you can get.

So our lovely boys stumble around the world of the pampered TV stars, only to figure out that this is a world with no magic, no demons, no angels. No supernatural at all, which leads them in quite a pickle as to how to get back to their unfamous, thankless lives of Saving the Damn World!

After several amusing encounters with “Misha”, the tweeting, fawning co-star of the show (and enjoying the sound of his actual, non-Castiel voice), poor, poor, screams-like-a-girl, innocent “Misha” gets killed by one of Raphael’s thugs who has also been sent over, in pursuit of the boys and their precious key cargo. He too doesn’t have access to his angelic magic, so he goes on a Terminator-style rampage of this alternate universe looking for Sam and Dean and then a way out of there.

It all culminates in Raphael’s thug, Sam and Dean ending up in the right place at the right time as Raphael pulls our beautiful brothers back to their world instead of his thug, and we are faced with a new-faced Raphael. His new meatsuit is a woman, and she is fierce! Balthazar and Castiel flutter in on their manly wings to save the boys from her wrath, and let them in on the fact that being sent to the alt. world was just a ploy to keep Raphael busy while they stashed all the weapons of Heaven somewhere safe.

Soooo, most of that episode didn’t take us anywhere except for the hilarity of it. Basically a time filler, with a little more information regarding the war in Heaven, and where we seem to be headed on that front. Fine with me. This show sometimes gets so mired in its own dreariness, especially in the last couple of seasons, I am happy to have some hi-jinks with my boys. Plus, as in the previous two episodes, they were working together and being all brotherly and stuff. Even Sammy said the worst thing about the alt. universe was that they weren’t real brothers there. Aww!! Love that guy.