This episode won't win any awards but at least this time there was some snappy dialogue, especially in the beginning. I adored the trooper and his instance that zombies are real. Supernatural has been doing a great job of making the police extra funny this season. I'm thinking we need to do a poll on our favorite law enforcement quotes in SPN, although since great law lines came right from the pilot it might be a massive undertaking. What were your favorite lines by police figures in Supernatural? Sound off in the comments below.
Funny/Snarky quotes:
12. Trooper: "Since when have the feds started tracking zombie activity." Dean: "We don't track zombie activity because there's no such thing as zombies." Trooper: "Unh huh."11. Sam: "So you know who this is Dean, walking us to our deaths?" Dean: "Don't know. Don't care."
10. Trooper: "People don't walk away from that. Zombies do."
9. Dean: " Alright, you're not welching on that deal. Not on my watch. If you die, it's going to be because of something normal." Sam: "Heart attack?" Dean: "Exactly. Yeah eat your burger."
8. Dean: "Balls!"
7. Sam: "Whatcha got?" Dean: "Dragon penis." Sam: "What?" Dean: "Ancient Greek hunter by the name of uh Dracopolis. Uh near as I can tell he was a bada**, whose name incidentally in Greek…" Sam: "No, no, no. I…I…I…I got that. Thanks Ace."
6. Dean: "Really Sam? Trash talking a god. Seriously?"
5. Dean: "That's the dead guy?" Trooper: "Dead my a**. That's a zombie boys."
4. Hailey: "So we're hanging our lives on the writings of a dead man, who's named after genitalia." Dean: "It's a loose translation."
3. Dean: "Ah I've got to say I am a little disappointed." Sam: "Yeah because you wanted to shoot zombies." Dean: "Damn straight I wanted to shoot some zombies."
2. Sam: "Do we call 911?" Dean: "And tell them what? That the…the dead guy we stole from the morgue is alive and having a coronary."
1. Sam: "Um we need to think Dean. Wha…what do we know of that has uh Jason Bourne fighting skills, dies a lot, and has a history with violent women?" Dean: "I don't know. You."
Story-moving quotes:
9. Dean: "Alright so the way we usually handle this is we summon the b** and we work him over until he undoes whatever it is he did." Hailey: "Summon Zeus."
8. Zeus: "Oh come now. Can't we do this civilized?" Dean: "Well it depends on you. All we need is to break a curse you put on a little kid. So how about you say yes and we all go home?"
7. Hailey: "My friends were gone and when I found him, his clothes were torn off, his eyes were frozen solid, but he was still alive. I just knew there was something off about him. The way that he would…" Dean: "Die every day?"
6. Sam: "All you do is die. What's that supposed to mean?" Prometheus: "Once a day for as long as I can remember. After a few hours, I'm back." Dean: "What? You're like a real life Kenny?"
5. Dean: "Yeah and if things go all Dawn of the Dead on us you'll be our first call." Trooper: "Boys, aim for the head."
4. Sam: "So full powered, really? Then why'd it take you 7 years to track down Prometheus." Artemis: "He was hiding." Sam: "Hiding from you? So the god of hunters couldn't find a shack in Montana."
3. Dean: "You better start talking. What are you and if you say zombie, I swear…" Prometheus: "What? No I'm not anything." Dean: "Look 2 minutes ago you were room temperature. You're something."
2. Sam: "The best I can tell Prometheus." Dean: "Seriously?" Sam: "Yeah." Dean: "But didn't he…he steal fire or something?" Sam: "Yep, he uh Ocean's 11'd Mount Olympus and stole the flames of Olympia."
1. Dean: "So no word from Cas, Kevin's taking his sweet little time and you're acting cagey. We need to leave before I start climbing these walls." Sam: "Well uh, in that case I can give you zombies."
Emotional quotes:
8. Prometheus: "Look I don't know what I am okay. I don't know who I am. All I know is all I do is die. So if you want to shoot me, shoot me. Just promise me you'll finish the job because I can't take this anymore." 7. Prometheus: "Yeah I guess but none of that…none of that means anything unless I can save my son."
6. Hailey: "Look at me. I'm sorry that I ran out on you all those years ago. I was scared. I didn't understand what was going on but we have a child and whatever you have, he has. I need to know how to stop it. What curse?"
5. Sam: "How do you know Dean? Bobby, Rufus, now Prometheus. You think any of them chose death? No. The life chose for them."
4. Dean: "Wait. I'm sorry. You…you…you just discovered that you have a 7 year old son and you want to walk away?"
3. Sam: "You know, I'm starting to think maybe I was being naïve." Dean: "What are you talking about?" Sam: "When I said that I could just will myself into coming out of these trials unscathed." Dean: "No, no, no. Stop with the sullen emo cr**. Alright that's…you're not going to die like Prometheus."
2. Dean: "Listen you can run and hide and die for all eternity. It's your choice but Sam and I are going to go after Zeus with or without you." Prometheus: "I'm in."
1. Dean: "We are going into this deal blind and I don’t know what's ahead or what it's going to bring for Sam. Now he's covering pretty good but I know that he is hurting and this one was supposed to be on me so for all that we've been through, I'm asking you. You keep a lookout for my little brother okay."
Eye-Rollingly Bad Dialogue:
Trooper: "Article said it all. Dead as dog poop."
Artemis: "Now…I'm your worst enemy."
Quote Awards
Let's Hear It for Self-Preservation Award -
Trooper: "That's grizzly country. You couldn't pay me enough to hike those woods. Not without a bazooka."
Rufus Actually Said it but it's still Golden Award -
Dean: "Whatever it was, guy's dead now. Alright. Remember what Bobby said. Hmm, wood chipper beats everything. Yeah well, so does grizzly bear."
I Feel Your Pain Dean (aka The Most Overused Trope in Genre TV Right Now) Award -
Dean: "Wait so now you have amnesia."
I've Watched This Show 8 Years and I Just Don't Buy It Award -
Dean: "Well uh, here's to that crazy little wildcard called love. How did you know Artemis had the hots for Prometheus anyway?" Sam: "Intuition. Uh luck."
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My favorite cop by far as far as funny goes was the one from Bloodlust. Every time he says, "Because that's what gravity does," I laugh so hard I can't breath. It's something about his delivery of the line. The cop in LARP and the Real Girl is rapidly climbing my favorite list too. "These kids with their texting and murder." Bwah! Got to love the law enforcement on SPN.
ReplyDeleteWhile there's no law enforcement, Abandon All Hope had some intense lines. Let's just agree now that the most powerful dialogue was all Ellen and Jo's. It was a small segment of the episode but it was the heart and soul of it. Almost all the best lines come from them. Of course the snark came from Crowley.
12. Lucifer: "Oh hello Death."
11. Bobby: "I do not like the sound of that." Dean: "Nobody likes the sound of that Bobby but wha…what does that sound like?" Bobby: "It sounds like Death son. I think Satan's in town to work a ritual. I think he's planning to unleash Death." Dean: "You mean like as in this dude and taxes are the only sure thing?"
10. Dean: "Look, I go against Satan and screw the pooch, okay. I mean we've lost a game piece. That we can take. But if you're there, then we are handing the devil's vessel right over to him. That's not smart." Sam: "Since when have we ever done anything smart?"
9. Dean: "Unleash? I mean uh hasn't Death been tromping all over the place. I mean hell, I've died several times myself." Bobby: "Not this guy. This is…this is the angel of Death. Big daddy reaper. They keep this guy chained in a box 600 feet under. Last time they hauled him up, Noah was building a boat. That's why the place is crawling with reapers. They're waiting on the big boss to show." Dean: "You have any other good news?"
8. Crowley: "To him we're just servants, cannon fodder. If Lucifer manages to exterminate humankind, we're next. So help me, heh? Let's all go back to simpler, better times. Back to when we could all follow our natures. I'm in sales damn it. So what do you say? What if I give you this thing and you go kill the devil?"
7. Dean: "Ah, excuse me for asking, but aren't you kind of signing your own death warrant. I mean what happens to you if we go up against the devil and lose?" Crowley: "Number 1, he's going to wipe us all out anyway. 2. After you leave here, I go on an extended vacation to all points nowhere and 3. How about you don't miss! Okay! Morons!"
6. Ellen: "I said go. And Dean, kick it in the a**. Don't miss."
5. Dean: "Okay this is it. I'll see you on the other side. Probably sooner than later." (Jo pushes the sawed off into Dean's hand.) Jo: "Make it later."
4. Jo: "Mom, I can't fight. I can't walk but I could do something. We've got propane, wiring, rock salt, iron nails…everything we need." Sam: "Everything we need?" Jo: "To build a bomb Sam." Dean: "No. Jo, no."
3. Jo: "Mom, this might literally be your last chance to treat me like an adult. You might want to take it."
2. Jo: "Oh no." Ellen: "Somebody's got to let them in and like you said, you're not moving. You got me Jo and you're right. This is important, but I will not leave you here alone."
1. Ellen: "You can go straight back to hell you ugly b**."
Unlike most episodes, it was hard for me to pick the 10 best lines for The Real Ghostbusters. I simply do not like the writing or concept of this one. Except for learning about Crowley, they could have passed on the whole episode and nothing would have been missing.
ReplyDelete10. Chuck: "The way I look at it, it…it's really not jumping the shark if you never come back down."
9. Chuck: "I said no one leaves damn it. Now somebody salt this door."
8. Dean: "No. No, I am not a fan okay. Not fans. In fact I think that the Dean and Sam story sucks. It is not fun. It's not entertaining. It's a river of cr** that would send most people howling to the nut house, so you listen to me. Their pain is not for your amusement. I mean do you think they enjoy being treated like…like circus freaks?" Damian: "Uh, I don't think they care because their fictional characters." Dean: "Oh they care. Believe me, they care a lot."
7. Dean: "What? They're freaking annoying."
6. Dean: "You know maybe that guy was right. Maybe we should put these things on a bungee."
5. Hook Man: "Yeah how original? Supernatural bringing you more creepy children. Sigh."
4. Damian: "Alright look, in real life he sells stereo equipment. I fix copiers. Our lives suck but to be Sam and Dean, to wake up every morning and save the world, to have a brother who…who would die for you, well who wouldn't want that." Dean: "Maybe you've got a point."
3. Dean: "Just give her the puppy dog thing okay."
2. Dean: "Hey Chuck, good luck with uh Supernatural books and screw you very much." Organizer: "Fans of yours?" Chuck: "Hmm, I'd say no."
1. Sam: "Oh hey Chuck look, if you really want to publish more books I guess that's okay with us." Chuck: "Wow. Really?" Sam: "No not really. We have guns and we'll find you."
Went with asking Cas to watch out for little brother & Sam asking who do we know with Jason Bourne fighting skills, dies a lot, and has a history with violent women?" Dean: "I don't know. You."
ReplyDeleteNext would have been the dying of natural causes, eat your burger.
Not voting in Ghostbusters.
ReplyDeleteWent with Jo telling her mom might be last chance to treat her like an adult.
2. Dean tell Jo he would see her on the other side. If Dean had just let that kiss on the forehead I was going to be pissed, so glad he gave her a kiss. I liked those two together and hated to see her go.
1. Sam: "Oh hey Chuck look, if you really want to publish more books I
ReplyDeleteguess that's okay with us." Chuck: "Wow. Really?" Sam: "No not
really. We have guns and we'll find you."
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4. Damian: "Alright look, in real life he sells stereo equipment. I
fix copiers. Our lives suck but to be Sam and Dean, to wake up every
morning and save the world, to have a brother who…who would die for you,
well who wouldn't want that." Dean: "Maybe you've got a point."
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To be a rather sucky episode it has some good quotes.
Loved the " give her the puppy dog thing" too. :)
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This was once my least favourite episode but it has now risen miraculously from the ultimate position to make room for a whole crop of episodes from season eight.
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At least this ep still had the boys sharing the caring brotherly bond that made SPN so wonderful.
10. Dean: "Look, I go against Satan and screw the pooch, okay. I mean
ReplyDeletewe've lost a game piece. That we can take. But if you're there, then
we are handing the devil's vessel right over to him. That's not smart."
Sam: "Since when have we ever done anything smart?"
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Yeah, when have they ever done anything smart? Good question Dean!
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. Dean: "Ah, excuse me for asking, but aren't you kind of signing your
own death warrant. I mean what happens to you if we go up against the
devil and lose?" Crowley: "Number 1, he's going to wipe us all out
anyway. 2. After you leave here, I go on an extended vacation to all
points nowhere and 3. How about you don't miss! Okay! Morons!"
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Vintage Crowley. What's not to love. :)
I just re-watched this the other night, poor Jo and Ellen!
1. Sam: "Um we need to think Dean. Wha…what do we know of that has
ReplyDeleteuh Jason Bourne fighting skills, dies a lot, and has a history with
violent women?" Dean: "I don't know. You."
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9. Dean: " Alright, you're not welching on that deal. Not on my
watch. If you die, it's going to be because of something normal." Sam:
"Heart attack?" Dean: "Exactly. Yeah eat your burger."
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Brother moments are ever rarer so I'll take anything, although the Jason Bourne one was funny and well delivered. Then I loved big brother Dean telling Sam to eat his burger.:)
I wasn't into Dean and Jo but I did think that moment was one of the most poignant of the series. This was my favorite Jo episode, so of course she had to die. I think she could have been a great character if they had presented her as a bit more grown up in the beginning.
ReplyDeleteThis is still one of my very least favorite episodes, even throwing in season 8. It combines too many things I dislike (meta, Chuck, Becky, meta, annoying one-shot characters, meta...) for me to like it. However the first line you chose is one of my favorite quotes from season 5. I like when Sam gets the zinger sometimes.
ReplyDeleteIt was your second choice that cemented my love for Crowley. He's one of the few characters on TV that I instantly felt enamored of. The fact that he's a demon gave me pause for awhile but in the end I decided you just can't not like someone with such exquisite snark.
ReplyDeleteI thought both quotes were awesome too. That dying of a heart attack comment and then "eat your burger" made me chortle. I am not a fan of Impala chats like most people so to be able to laugh in one was a welcomed change. The first quote is classic, early Supernatural. Exactly what we need more of.
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