Originally aired: Thursday November 5, 2009 on the CW.
Teleplay: Jeremy Carver
Director: Charles Beeson
Show Stars: Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester), Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester), Misha Collins (Castiel)
All Guest Stars: Richard Speight Jr. (The Trickster)


The Trickster throws Sam and Dean into an alternate universe where they are characters in different television series, including a sexy medical show, a Japanese game show, a forensics show and a sitcom. The brothers realize the only way to get out of this world is to play along and become the characters in the shows. However, Castiel appears and warns them this universe is dangerous and they must get out before they become trapped.

Source: The CW and TV.com.

Still at work (6:15pm), just letting y'all know I'll be here later tonight for eppie chattie!

Vin said she'd be here too. I'm more interested in her live reaction than anything, I might just listen because I'm pretty sure the events in this episode have been burned into my brain well enough (I've watched it enough)

Checking in

Let's get this show in the ROAD!!!! {hee! second pun for me today}

Are we already on ep 8???

Scanning in forensics homework and paying kinda attention (I'm quoting it back to myserlf and catching the TV out of my eye line)

Yay, sitcom! Hehehe.

Oh! The themesong music is more slower. The montage is cracking me up.

OMG *FLAILS* They kept Anya Marina in *squeak*

Suernatural is filmed before a live studio audience.

OH. MY. GOD!!!! I can't even breath I'm laughing so hard.

Ok the 'Supernatural' credits has already made this one of my favorite eppies ever! Dean and Sammy riding a double bike is all kind of crazy fun.

Oh yeah, Ladies!!!

I might have to watch the Intro about a million times.

OH GOD, I LOVE KRIPKE. He's using one of my favorite singer/songwriters for all the Grey's -ish songs so far. That's two Anya Marina songs. *flail* I want a third, just fill all the music slots for this with her pleaseeee? lol

I just...I like watching with the captions on. *nod*

Also? I would like more of them as doctors, yes.

Val

Hi Vin and Val!


Aren't the opening credits the most awesome ever?? I could have just watched them on a loop for an hour. It just kills me when they both just fall down after throwing the football! And when Sam opens the closet door and the "ghost" scares him.


And I gotta agree with Sam about at least talking to the Trickster, not that you can trust him, he's out for himself, but he's right, it's the Apocalypse, they have to try.

NO NO NO! NO calling me during SPN upon pain of death! Do I have to change my phone message?

Oh MY GOD!

Is this a play on Jenson's Soap days?

Nope, it's a Grey's thing

Also Cowboy boots

Oh my god!!!

Izzy's Ghost even I know that one

Also? I wonder if Sam's character in here is supposed to be Dr. McSteamy because I don't see him anywhere in here and Sexy is supposed to be McDreamy and...

I have thought about this too much.



*covers eyes* Anything but the game show

Ok the open credits is up there with the one Buffy did when Danny Strong's character Jonathan had cast a spell or something over Sunnydale and they did a whole new open credit just for that eppy with Danny Strong as a suave and sexy spy . This one was better though!!

You know they can never trust the Trickster. Oh lord a Japanse game show !!

That's still not funny.

Also? The sound effects are making me laugh.

*facepalm* Herpexia

Oh this is just so made of awesome!!

I knew you'd like it so far....hehehhe.

PQ, did someone different do the herpes ad side effects commercial?? It's Jensen in this version, but didn't they sound different before?


Oh, poor Sam! I wonder who Jared po'd in the writers' room to lose on Nutcracker and have to do the herpes commercial?


Vin, I hope you answered the phone "There'd better be blood involved!"


This ep is so awesome...

Pretty boy angels!!

The girl is dressed in a devil suit.

I love that and I agree this is better.

OMG I almost FF thru the show thinking it was a commercial.

Duct tape

I just went back and listened and it sounds a bit like Jensen so maybe he had to go back and re-do it? It sounds more sped up than it did tonight so hmmm.. *ponder* Maybe they slowed it down like they did the theme music. Although maybe someone did, but it sounds like Jensen in both.

CSI:Miami *squeak*!!!!!!!!!!

huh-oh going bad now.

Aw man, they sped up the who BUT, it is PERFECTLY colored like CSI:Miami so there's that.

"Jackpot.. Tums. Gutterball"

Jared really has Miami down pat!

Can they really kill the Tricksters?

Jared just nails Horatio Caine


Aw, man, The Who was so much better in the other version. Bah.


The guys are so hilarous in the sitcom, their expressions on spot on.

Commercial break. Damn! I don't want to like Avitar but it does look amazing.

OH. MY. GOD!!! OH MY GOD!! Sammy is the car.

He does, he does! It's happy

Tel me about it, they change alot but they shoulda left that ALONE.

"Should I honk?" I love that. I noticed it when I rewatched this morning.

OH That looks so much better with the VFX back in

*zips mouth and quietly flails*

Please don't let .....yay

I really love this actor. Oh My God! The Trickster really is Gabriel???? Oh My God!

This is so awesome. This is so awesome!

I was so waiting for your reaction. Because you know, I'm curious. Eee, it's really awesome. I think I flipped out for a good hour when I found out.

I wish this were a TV show. Good lord this show is just so tight.

Oh my god! This is so amazing. I'm breathless. How can a TV show be this good?

Eeeee! Vin! *twirls PQ and Vin and Val*


And Sam as KITT? I thought I was going to DIE laughing! "Dean...that's uncomfortable..." "Should I honk?" And Dean: "You might say we pulled it out of Sam's a$$" There's going to be so many Dean "riding" Sam jokes, oy.


Richard Speight is wonderful.


Hey, you guys, whatever happened to free will? None of this 'destiny' crap. The *boys* will decide how to do this their own way.

I have no idea but this made my mouth drop so I can imagine just how you feel. But I wish all TV was sort of like this.

Also. AHAHAHA. My TV doesn't caption him as "Trickster" anymore. Says "Gabriel" now. The VFX are pretty

WOW! I wish you guys were in the room with me. I need a hug and I'm just so in awe of this story!

My God, Dean's turned into this amazing man of power and weary grace--the way he tells Gabriel that it's not about destiny, but about being afraid to stand up to your family. Wow, Gabriel just stares. Jensen is so great.


One thing bugs me, though, how did Cas find Sam and Dean at all on the game show?? He has to call them, they're hidden from him. Or did Gabriel do it to mess with him? Hmm...


Homg, Dr. Sexy was played by Steve Bacic! I was just digging through my autograph stuff and saw his pic I got at Megacon when I met him--he wrote "how about a hug?" on it. Anyway, he's hot! And nice.


Anyway, glad you thought it was awesome, too, Vin, yeah, 5 years and going strong!


And the preview is a hoot, 'community theatre!'

Going to get dinner now...

I'm watching the intro again. The song the song!!! Then they use crappy anemic CW music for the first scene.

I can't wait to see the out takes from this ep.

Honestly I can't beleive what this show has turned into. It just gets better and better. How can they not take a wrong step?

Oh wow that was a great twist that the Trickster is actually Gabriel and wow Dick Speight really hit it out of the park tonight (sniffle, I still miss Jericho). The look between Gabriel and Cas at the end just made me sad.

Lord that was a riot when they did CSI Miami and Jared had Caruso down pat. Just too funny, I'm sure Caruso would be insulted since he really does think he is god's gift to acting.

*teleports PQ and me to Vin's house*

Aww Group hugs all around gals :hugs:

Val~ Does Carruso really think he can act?? Surely he realizes he's a Caricature. I still think the only reason Miami Vice was popular in other countries is they like to see how stupid we are.

Jared really did have HC down pat. It was pretty amazing. On that one he left Jared in the dust.

Well Carruso was arrogant enough to leave NYPD Blue after the first season because he thought he deserved more money, which is fine by me since Jimmy Smits replaced him and I love Jimmy. Seriously though, I remember reading this article when it first came out and was able to find it when I did a search under DC's name on Entertainment Weekly. This is just a portion of an article about him leaving the show:

David Caruso had made his own dramatic exit from NYPD Blue. After a tumultuous summer of contract disputes, producers let the movie star wannabe leave the show after this season's first four episodes, even though he had earned an Emmy nomination and had helped make NYPD a hit.

At the end of a stressful five weeks of work, Caruso shot his final scene, in which his Det. John Kelly, having resigned from the force under the pressure of an internal-affairs investigation, says goodbye to his squad-room colleagues.

With cameras rolling, Caruso delivered his last lines of dialogue. And then ''he walked out of the door, off the set, and off the lot,'' reports Dennis Franz, who won an Emmy this year as Kelly's partner, soft-shell crab Andy Sipowicz. ''It made a lot of people feel foolish. A lot of the crew had gathered around the set to applaud him and give him an adequate farewell. They were left with egg on their face when he did what he did. But that's David.''

Seriously what an arrogant pr*** (excuse my French) and that's why I loved it when ever project he did after that bombed (until CSI Miami). So yeah I do think DC think's he is God's gift to acting.

Oh and I agree Jared had him down perfectly, Jensen's was good but not as good.

Hey nobody mentioned the little shout out to Jeffrey Dean Morgan in this eppy during the Dr. Sexy part of the show.

No, I mentioned it. "That's the dead guy who is a ghost" There are ghost on this show?

This show was just so win all around.

Sorry Vin, I didn't see your post.

Ok thank you to cuttoothom over on youtube for posting the words to the theme song.


Town to town, two-lane roads
Family biz, two hunting bros -
Living the lie, just to get by.
As long as we're movin' forward
There's nothing we can't do
Together we'll face the day
You and I won't run away
When demons come out to play
Together we'll face the day!

Never saw that coming. The Trickster is Archangel Gabriel. They're just brining everyone back this season: Hunters, a mention of Ruby (and the answer Dean got right!), The Trickster. I wonder if we'll get to see the Ghostfacers. Maybe Bela?

And if we'll see Michael. Or will he have to be Dean?

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Source: TV.com.