#Supernatural 7.14 synopsis (Feb. 10) “Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie”
CLOWNS, UNICORNS AND SHARKS, OH MY! — Sam (Jared Padalecki) is forced to confront a childhood fear when a case takes him and Dean (Jensen Ackles) to Kansas to investigate Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie, a local pizza chain that hosts children’s birthday parties. Sam and Dean discover that the victims’ children had recently been to the restaurant and drawn a picture of their worst fear, which then came to life to kill their parent. While Dean confronts the man behind the magic, Sam is left to deal with some very angry clowns. Mike Rohl directed the episode written by Andrew Dabb & Daniel Loflin.
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Supernatural - Episode 7.14 - Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie - Press Release
Jan 19, 2012
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LOL, poor Sam.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for this!
Can't wait!!! from episode 14 till the season finale is going to be a hell of a ride!
ReplyDeletelol sounds cool
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good episode! But am I the only one who keeps seeing the word, Menageatois instead of Menagerie? LOL I know, I know, dirty, but what do you expect?? I am a guy after all! And I know it's spelled Menage-a-tois! lol
ReplyDeleteI always thought Chuck E. Cheese was creepy. Glad to know Supernatural is going to verify that for me. I don't have clown fear so I'm good with this premise, but I know a lot of people who are going to be incredibly freaked out. I am surprised that the child's worst fear kills their parents though. I was expecting the kids to be confronted by their fears. Of course, their parents will probably be killed in front of them to make it all the more traumatic.
ReplyDeleteLOL actually it's menage-a-trois but hey that's just my OCD. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat kids greatest fear is a unicorn?
ReplyDeleteNOW the unicorn pic makes perfect sense! I don't have a fear of clowns, or unicorns but I am absolutely s**t-scared of sharks. Can NOT go more than knee deep in the ocean. EVER.
ReplyDeleteSo much anti-clown bigotry on TV these days. LOL
ReplyDeleteLOL Whoops!
ReplyDeleteSharks? I hear you on that! I used to have this jar with a dead shark in it and I tried to give it to y grandfather as a gift but he refused it. In the early 90's he went fishing and a big shark swam right past him, so close that my grandfather hated sharks ever since! After seeing such movies with sharks, piranhas, and crocodiles in lakes, I get a little terrified to go in one!
ReplyDeleteI was actually excited about this...then I saw "Dabb & Loflin".... Balls.
ReplyDeleteAlso, those sharks better not have anything to do with Dean jumping over a shark...That's not funny!
They have sharp horns. Go Figure lol
ReplyDeleteWhy, they've written more good episodes than bad.
ReplyDeleteInitial raw thoughts
ReplyDelete- The basic plot sounds incredibly close to the plot of Everybody Loves A Clown. - I'm a little bummed the ep title isn't "CLOWNS, UNICORNS AND SHARKS, OH MY!" I love that!
- I wonder if the writers had to visit a Chucky Cheese for research. If so, my heart goes out to them...especially if they're childless. :-D
Sounds like a really fun ep!
Back in the early 80s--before I had kids and when video parlours were fairly new--I was addicted to Chuck E. Cheese...as in, four or five times a week I'd go in, order a large supreme pizza and a pitcher of Coca-Cola, watch the weird musical puppets, and spend twenty or thirty dollars for video games (at a quarter a shot). I friggin' LIVED at Chuck E. Cheese.
ReplyDeleteAnd I still miss that place.
FYI, Misha Collins was on Tonight's episode of The Soup to plug an ad for Supernatural. It was funny. He beat up Joel McHale :(
ReplyDeleteWhich episodes do you like that they wrote?
ReplyDeleteAt this point you'd think that Sammy could handle clowns. He could at least shoot or burn them. lol
ReplyDeleteAfterschool Special, Weekend At Bobbys, Frontierland, Dark Side of the Moon, Family Matters, and The Girl Next Door
ReplyDeleteIn my state, they would have to have a child with them. Anyone older than 14 has to be accompanied by a child. Strange but it cuts down on the creep factor I remember from my youth when there was always that one old dude there by himself. Much scarier than the animated mouse.
ReplyDeleteI've always thought that was a chain rule. I've never thought it was a strange rule at all. Which probably says ore about the world we live in.
ReplyDeleteSo same old same old :P I sometimes think that they copy paste some sentences from previous press releases. It does have the potential to be great though so kinda looking forward to it
ReplyDeleteOh having 'Clowns, Unicorns and Sharks, Oh My!' as the title would be a dead give away re: plot but who cares!? that would have been AWESOME!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good 'monster of the week' episode.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for this! Finally, some decent Sam POV and plot! Assuming that Sam getting beaten by clowns isn't an excuse to just get him out of the way of Dean's plot (like Sam's "plot" in "Adventures in Babysitting" LOL). But I'm hopeful that we'll get some great Sam moments in this one. And poor Sam - I agree, clowns are creepy! All I can think of is him saying "And apparently, clowns kill," in ELAC. LOL
ReplyDeleteI would assume that the parents being killed is due to the fact that having the monsters kill a bunch of children would be too dark for the show. They'll still be traumatized, but alive - I think Supernatural tends to avoid killing children for the most part. Most of the dead kids on the show are already dead when the brothers encounter them, and all of the children in peril in other eps pull through (except for off-screen kids only mentioned, never shown). Unless I'm forgetting something - it's 3am and I'm sore and on pain meds, so who knows LOL.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I want to see more of Sam, too! While Dean is funnier and an awesome character, I like Sam better. I guess I like Sam a lot more than Dean because the odds have always been stacked against him even before he was born, and while he may have slipped up here and there, demon blood for example, he always did find a way to move on from the crap that has happened to him, both with help and without it. And because I can relate to some of the stuff he has been through and I don't know, I really like the way his character was written!
ReplyDeleteThanks 4 that sounds gr8 cant w8 for that and i wanna know Dean's Childish fear too :)
ReplyDeleteYellow Fever.
ReplyDeleteI hate to tell you, but some sharks can still get you at that depth.
ReplyDeleteYikes.. poor, poor Sam
ReplyDeleteSharks are my absolute greatest fear.. I fell off one of those banana boats in the ocean one time, and was so completely terrified that a shark was going to come chomp my legs off
ReplyDeletemine, too - except for us it's anyone over 18.
ReplyDeletethe episode description sounds really good. I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteGood list. I'd add to it Sam Interrupted, Unforgiven, and Hammer of the Gods (not sure if they get credit on that one). I'd subtract GND from that list and put it with just-OK episodes such as Jump the Shark, Children Are Our Future, and Yellow Fever.
ReplyDeleteSounds like it could be a great episode - quirky, and we're finally getting some forward movement to Sam's storyline. I'm more intrigued with the unicorn than the clowns. Can't wait to see how it fits in.
ReplyDeleteYeah I know - but I'm a kiwi and we're supposed to be totally at home in, on, and around the water, so I have to at least try to make it look good ;) I'm a complete wuss. :)
ReplyDeleteI thought we might see Dean's too but according to JP we wont be.
ReplyDeletePoor Sam..."left to deal with some very angry clowns".
ReplyDeleteThe Girl Next door should not be on that list lol...
ReplyDeleteBut alright, Weekend At Bobby's is a favorite of mine... I'll let 'em slide.
It's gonna be interseting to see a huge guy like Sammy, who has had over a century in Hell under torture, still being afraid of clowns, but if you do have one of these phobias I don't suppose they would disappear but just remain on your fear list.
ReplyDeleteThe first time we saw the clowns, Sam was still in "little college brother mode" but this time we will get to see his reactions as an adult. Certainly the show doesn't cut him a break-- Lucifer and clowns. :-)
That's so funny, I was thinking the same thing...
ReplyDeleteCan't wait!!!
ReplyDeletemaybe Lucifer used Sam's fear of clowns to torture him? Off course getting beat up by them wouldnt help cure that fear would it?! Its a shame they arent going to delve into the reasoning behind Sam's fear.
ReplyDeletethis could certainly push Sam closer to the nut house, so far he's had a measure of control over his broken head, fear may be the catalyst that has him loose that control and thus start the breaking process?
ReplyDelete10 points if Dabb & Loflin actually connect Sam's fear/encounter with his main arc instead of making this just a MOTW episode.
I'm sure Lucifer didn't leave any stone unturned with his torture of Sam. I can imagine him being very inventive, clowns included.
ReplyDeleteYes, I would be curious to know how the phobia came into being, even if it was just a short explanation, because it is an unusual phobia, at least I think.
Dean's fear of flying is probably more wide-spread.
The clown episode and poor Sam! I love the title!
ReplyDeleteI've been waiting for them to mention his fear of clowns since Season 2,about time(:
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for this one.. Clowns scare the living sh*t out of me too, so I'm in for a treat.
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