Dean Winchester was a Well-Respected Man in the Supernatural episode “It’s a Terrible Life”
Posted by Jessica Rae on March 30, 2009
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Those of you who saw the most recent episode of Supernatural ‘It’s a Terrible Life‘ were treated to something very special. Callbacks to old episodes (like, majorly old)! I love when a show references something of the past that I miss. In this case, it was people. Three, specifically (Ellen and Jo Harvelle, and Madison the Werewolf). The ‘Bob’ mentioned could be ‘Bobby’ or it could be ‘William’, as in William Harvelle. I don’t know for sure. But I really miss Jo (Alona Tal), so I was so glad they mentioned her! Of course…in Dean’s ‘memory’ she was his sister!! AHH.
It was not made clear in this episode if the boys own subconscious minds decided their memories, or if the angels arranged them. The last names of ‘Smith’ and ‘Wesson’ (as in, the firearms) make me think it was the boys. But then when you realize that Sam mentions Madison as his fiance, and not his current sorta-kinda love interest, Ruby (who the Angels hate), maybe they did decide things. It’s not made clear.
This is a gist of what the references were:
Sam: “Think about it for just one second. What if we think this is our life? But it’s not?”
Dean: “I’m Dean Smith. Director of sales and marketing. I went to Stanford. My father’s name is Bob, my mother’s name is Ellen, and my sister’s name is Jo.”
Sam: “I only moved here because I just broke up with my fiance, Madison. But I called her number and I got a damn animal hospital!”
The one thing that bugged me about the episode was that I don’t think we, or Dean, needed an entire episode to get him ‘back on track’. I would have liked to see more of something new – not the same old ‘burn the DNA!’ stuff. Granted, there was a new approach…and I certainly liked seeing the Ghostfacers…but even so. It almost seemed like we needed more ‘big plot’ stuff than we got.
(The ‘Well-Respected Man’ reference is to The Kinks song that opens this episode of Supernatural.)
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Well, I can’t read the post because I haven’t seen it yet. But I have to say that pic is really hot of Jensen.
Ah, you will love it
I can’t wait until you see it. What pic of Jensen isn’t hot? *Ponders* 
You are right…Jensen looks hot any time!
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