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Supernatural Season 9, Episode 13, The Purge recap 🍮 Sam teaches yoga in a tank top, Dean steals pudding, and Sheriff Donna Hanscum (Briana Buckmaster) makes her debut, on Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast.

People in Minnesota are dying with a hundred pounds sucked right out of them, and every victim spent time at Canyon Valley, a suspiciously effective weight loss retreat. So Sam and Dean go undercover. Sam lands the yoga instructor job, and Dean ends up in a hairnet in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Sheriff Donna Hanscum is at the spa on vacation, and she immediately becomes Berly and LA’s new favorite character.

Episode Highlights:

• A hot dog eating contest, a hot dog stashed in a back pocket, and a deflation straight out of Stephen King’s Thinner
• Dean’s scruff continues, and he swears he was up all night because Rudy and Unforgiven were on (sure, Jan)
• Briana Buckmaster’s Donna, introduced with powdered sugar all over her face (and Dean’s)
• Slim Jim eats lettuce to stretch his stomach, and Dean declares that’s another reason never to eat lettuce
• A woman on a gym scale watches the numbers drop in real time
• “Is that a birthmark?” Sam is having an off day
• Dean is a little too passionate in his fitness trainer interview
• Sam teaches yoga in a tank top (five minutes of downward dog, apparently)
• A cupping session with meaty results
• Dean sneaks pudding into a basement corner and eats it like a raccoon

Both hosts loved Donna and the spa itself, and Berly would happily book a stay at Canyon Valley. Berly does have frustrations. The good monster vs. bad monster debate is back again, after Amy, Lenore, Benny, and plenty of others, and the “we’re not brothers” melodrama feels like a rerun. Both hosts also note some fatphobic jokes that haven’t aged well. The gore: a couple of very bloody neck wounds, and no splooges.

In the lore segment, LA covers the pishtaco, the Andean boogeyman who hunts travelers for their fat. The legend is rooted in documented 16th-century colonial violence, and it has attached itself to every new exploiter since. That includes a 2009 Peruvian case that got nicknamed the Pishtaco Affair.

“You’re not the only one who’s ever dated somebody bendy.” – Sam

Your turn, hunters: Should the boys have let Canyon Valley stay open? And how many more times does this show need to have the “good monster” debate? 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.

Sources:

• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/The_Purge
• https://przekroj.org/en/art-stories/the-pishtaco-emerges-from-the-andes/
• https://www.fertur-travel.com/blog/2017/spooky-folklore-monsters-and-myths-of-highland-peru/7814/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pishtaco

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