Supernatural“Jump The Shark”
Original Air Date: April 23, 2009
Jenny D- TwoCents Staff Writer
jennyd@thetwocentscorp.com
It is great to be back! Thanks to Kara for covering while I was gone. And what an episode to come back on. Jump the Shark. It is when a TV show does something ridiculous to boost ratings. For Supernatural, it was a way to make fun of that concept, and what a way they did it.
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Original Air Date: March 26, 2009
Jenny D- TwoCents Staff Writer
jennyd@thetwocentscorp.com
It is great to be back! Thanks to Kara for covering while I was gone. And what an episode to come back on. Jump the Shark. It is when a TV show does something ridiculous to boost ratings. For Supernatural, it was a way to make fun of that concept, and what a way they did it.
We see a woman running from something. She locks herself in her room, just to be sucked under her bed and disappears. We then see a picture on her nightstand of herself and John Winchester.
Flash to the Sam and Dean after good nights sleep in the Impala. John’s phone rings. It is a young man who needs his help and claims to be his son, Adam. Dean is instantly skeptical. Sam manages to keep an open mind, especially since there are many references to Minnesota and pages missing from his book right around the time he would have been born. They decide to go to Minnesota to check it out.
Oddly enough, the restaurant that they meet him at is caller Cousin Oliver’s (great reference to when the Brady Bunch “Jumped the Shark” by adding Cousin Oliver to the show). Dean came in, weapons ready: Holy water, silver and even his gun. When they begin talking to him, they find out that his father spent a lot of time with him. And the
their relationship was just normal. Adam explains that he found out John was their father later in life, and John began visiting frequently. Dean becomes angry, explaining that they are John’s sons. Adam is surprised to find out he has brothers, and explains that he can prove that John was his father.
Back at his mom’s house, there are pictures all over of Adam, John and his mom. You can tell Dean is jealous that Adam got to have a normal life with their father, unlike sam and Dean. They find out that John was involved in a grave robbing case many years before, and that the sheriff involved also disappeared.
When they looked into his mother’s disappearance more, they found that there was blood and hair on the vent beneath her bed. Adam wants answers and goes to Sam and Dean for what may have happened to his mom. Sam explains that they are hunters. Dean wants Adam to have nothing to do with it, assuming that is why John kept Adam a secret. Dean leaves to look into the grave robbing. He finds embalming fluid, You know what that means……. the bodies were not just stolen, they were cut into. EEEWWW. He goes and talks to the wife of the man whose body was missing, and happened to work on the grave robbing case. He realizes that John was friends and helped him
Back at the hotel, Sam tells Adam more about their lives and how their father died. As they are talking, the lights flash and turn off and they hear something in the heating ducts. Sam and Adam go to the parking lot where Sam is pulled under a truck as Dean pulls up and saves him. Score another for the Winchester brothers! But, what is doing this? After this, Dean heads back to the mausoleum to get some answers.
The only problem with Dean going on his own is when he is trapped in a secret tunnel with no cell phone receptions, he is out of luck! And Sam is back with Adam, who we find out quickly from both brother’s points of view is not the “real” Adam. At the house, Adam’s mom shows up and he is quick to want to protect her. What we find out? They are ghouls. After the grave robbing case that John was involved in, they started went into hiding. Later to emerge and go after live flesh instead of dead. Yuck! It is sad to hear and see from both brother’s perspectives that Adam is really dead, and taken form by the ghoul. And that he really was their brother. The ghouls take Sam as their next meal, but not if Dean can help it. He arrives in time to stop them, blowing their heads off.
Since Adam was their brother, they give him the send off of a hunter, burning his body. Sam admits that he is more like their Dad than he would have admitted and that is why they butted heads.
What did YOU think about this episode? Did you catch any “Jump the Shark” moments? Leave your TwoCents in the comments. See you next week.