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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 4, Slumber Party recap đź‘ Dorothy Gale is a hunter, the Wicked Witch is loose in the bunker, and Charlie (Felicia Day) has a very big day on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.
The episode opens in black and white in 1935, when two Men of Letters move into the bunker and a hunter (Kaniehtiio Horn) drags in a body bag with the Wicked Witch of the West inside. Back in the present, the boys call Charlie to rig the bunker’s ancient computer to track angels. Then Dean knocks a jar off a shelf, and things go off the rails from there. Plus, a congrats to Charlyne Styles, winner of the Season 8 giveaway.
Episode Highlights:
- 1935 in black and white, with two Men of Letters, Henry’s box, and a hunter who isn’t here to make friends
- A tongueless Wicked Witch who still causes a whole lot of chaos
- Charlie rolls in wearing her bright, cheery version of hunter flannel, plus a touchscreen product placement moment the hosts want back
- Fuzzy cocoons crawling up the wall, and Dean cuts one open barehanded
- Crowley, a crayon, and “let Daddy help”
- Dean’s porn is meticulously cataloged, but the magic key is just mixed in with it
- “That’s my girl”
- A secret garage full of vintage cars, Dorothy’s badass motorcycle, and a tin man’s head in her saddlebag
- Some underwhelming ruby slippers, and a Wicked Witch out of breath at the top of the stairs (same, girl)
- Written by Robbie Thompson and directed by Robert Singer, with dissolve transitions that might be a nod to 1930s film
Berly called it: this one is going to be one of LA’s favorites. LA adored getting to see the Men of Letters, the Oz mashup, and Charlie. Berly loved Dorothy as a believable feminist hunter who never turns into a caricature, plus getting to see so much more of the bunker. Sam’s talk about never feeling safe broke her heart. Her only complaints are the ruby slippers and a slow-motion yellow brick road walk that drags. The episode also adds at least three new ideas to the revival list. There’s no gore, even with a heel to the back of someone’s head.
In the lore segment, LA digs into the real inspirations behind L. Frank Baum’s Oz. Baum was a dreamer and salesman who once edited a trade journal on luring customers with elaborate window displays, which is basically the Wizard’s job description. The Wizard may be partly based on Washington Harrison Donaldson, a P.T. Barnum balloonist and magician who vanished during a balloon ascent near Chicago in 1875, and partly on Thomas Edison, the “Wizard of Menlo Park.” Dorothy owes a lot to Baum’s wife Maud and his mother-in-law Matilda, a suffragist who worked with Susan B. Anthony and argued that many so-called witches were simply free-thinking women.
“Their screen name was BeckyWinchester167. Ring a bell?” – Charlie
Your turn, hunters: Do fairy tale crossovers belong in Supernatural? And were those ruby slippers a letdown? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it’s how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed.
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