We're back. The second round of the Supernatural Ultimate Episode contest begins now. I hope you are as excited about it as I am. I've missed conversing about SPN with everyone. The rules remain the same. It is one vote per IP address and voting ends for each round at 7:00 pm CST. The episode with the most votes at the end moves on to the next round. We are also nominating for our favorite quotes each episode. We will finish off season 3 doing 2 episodes a day but then start doing only one episode per day for season 4, mostly so I can keep up. If you missed nominating for any episode, you can go to the nominations form below. Also below are a rank-order list of episodes in the contest, blank bracket if you want to play along, and contest results so far.
Don't forget to leave a comment about how you voted and your favorite lines from Ghostfacers and Long-Distance Call. Play nice and happy voting!
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12. Dean: "It's a supernatural lock-down okay. Whatever took Corbett, doesn't want us to leave and it's no death echo. This is a bad mother and it wants us scared." Maggie: "Or it just wants us."
ReplyDelete11. Maggie: "Wait. Didn't you guys get like a permit or something?" Ed: "A permit?" Harry: "That's a good idea for next time." Ed: "Yeah."
10. Ed: "We know you were hit hard during the crippling writers' strike." Harry: "Lazy fat cats." Ed: "Who needs writers when you've got guys like us."
9. Dean: "Okay so Dagett was a Cold War nut okay. He was…he was an amateur taxidermist. He liked to slow dance with cadavers and all he had was C-rations. So what the hell are we looking for?"
8. Harry: "Ed, you've got to go be gay for that poor dead intern. You've got to send him into the light."
7. Harry: "Good morning Ghostfacers." Spruce: "It's 7 PM dude." Harry: "It's morning to a Ghostfacer."
6. Sam: "Huh, survival under atomic attack. An optimist."
5. Harry: "I..I don't really like rats. They're gross. Rats are like the rats of the world."
4. Sam: "No, no, no. Dagett was the Norman Bates, stuff your mother kind of lonely."
3. Sam: "Let's go hunt the Morton House you said. It's our Grand Canyon." Dean: "Sam, I don't want to hear it." Sam: "You've got 2 months left Dean. Instead we're going to die tonight."
2. Sam: "Yeah I mean it's…it's bizarre how you all are able to..uh..to honor Corbett's memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his death. Well done." Dean: "Yeah uh it's a real tightrope you guys are walking there."
1. Dean: "Listen to me. There's some salt in my duffle. Make a circle and get inside." Ed: "Inside your duffle bag?" Dean: "In the salt you idiot."
Death's Door and Home.
ReplyDeleteAnother episode I did not like at all
ReplyDeleteLong-Distance Call Quotes:
16. Sam: "What the hell else have we been doing lately other than trying to break your deal?" Dean: "Chasing our tails, that's what. Sam we've talked to every professor, witch, soothsayer, and two-bit carnie act in the lower 48. Nobody knows squat. And we can't find Bela, we can't find the Colt. So until we actually find something, I'd like to do my job." 15. Dean: "I can't. I wanted to believe so badly that there was a way out of this. I mean I'm um staring down the barrel at this thing. You know, hell - for real, forever and…and I'm just..." Sam: "Yeah." Dean: "I'm scared Sam. I'm really scared." Sam: "I know." 14. Sam: "I..I don’t remember any lightning storms." Dean: "Well I don't remember you studying meteorology as a kid either…"13. Dean: "Ms. Waters, withholding information from the police is a capital offense….in some parts of the world I'm sure."12. Sam: "Well what did he sound like?" Dean: "Like Oprah. It's Dad. He sounded like dad. What do you think?" 11. Stewie: "Yeah, that's what happens when you mess with the phone company dillweed."10. Dean: "What's with the quotey fingers?" 9. Dean: "I just talked to an 83 year old grandmother who's having phone sex with her husband who died in Korea." Sam: "Yulhh." Dean: "Completely rocked my understanding of the word necrophilia." 8. Dean: "I don't know, but as long as the moldy are calling the freshies around here, it's the best reason we've got."7. Sam: "So you two were talking a case?" Dean: "No, we were uh…we were actually talking about our feelings and then our favorite boy bands. Yeah we were talking a case."6. Dean: "What do I say?" Sam: "Hello." Dean: "Hello. That's what you come back with. Hello."5. Dean: "Ah, you know you'd think a Stanford education and a high school hook up rate of 0.0 would produce better results than that." 4. Sam: "Dean, it's not dad." Dean: "Then what is it?" Sam: "A crocotta." Dean: "Is that a sandwich?" 3. Dean: "Wow man a couple of civvies are freaked out by some ghosts. News flash Sam - People are supposed to be freaked out by ghosts." 2. Tour Guide: " And we're walking. We are walking. We're walking…and we're not touching that…and we're walking. And stop."1. Stewie: "Okay, wait, wait. If we're overcharging you for the call waiting or something, I..I can fix that. I'm your friend. Just, just don't kill me. Don't kill me please."
Death's Door (one of my favorites) and Home (cause I hated Frontierland).
ReplyDeleteThere were parts of Frontierland that I enjoyed but that hideous Back to the Future ending is tied with InstaDawn from Bugs as the worst ending ever. I didn't like anything in Frontierland enough to be able to excuse that ending.
ReplyDeleteDeath's Door was a pivotal episode and one of the best character studies in Supernatural. I consider this episode more than any other as Sara Gamble's Swan Song. Simply awesome.
ReplyDeleteDeath's Door - We thought Heart was emotional because we hadn't seen Death's Door yet. Heart is a good episode but I still find Sam's reaction a little extreme.And I refuse to believe that he fell in love with a woman he knew for two whole days.Death's Door on the other hand is one of the show's finest hours.
ReplyDeleteFrontierland - Home started out great but disappointed me a little at the end.Frontierland is a very cool episode.Awesome opening card,time travel,Samuel Colt,angel on angel violence,it had a lot of stuff.
Ghostfacers:
- Dean: "Ed,listen to me.There's some salt in my duffel. Make a circle
and get inside."
Ed: "Inside your duffel bag?"
Dean: "In the salt,you idiot."
- Sam: "I mean,it's bizarre how you all are able to
honor Corbett's memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his death.Well done."
Long-Distance Call:
- Dean: "And the only one who can get me out of this thing is me."
Sam: "And me."
Dean: "And me? Deep revelation, having a deep moment here.And that's what you come back with?And me?"
Sam: "Do you want a poem?"
Dean: "Moment's gone."
- Tour Guide: " And we're walking. We are walking. We're walking…and we're not touching that…and we're walking. And stop."
Dahne,I had totally forgotten about this one,thanks for reminding me.The tour guide was awesome.
The tour guide is actually my favorite part of Long-Distance Call. The actress was perfect. I loved how we got a reminder of this scene in The Mentalists this year when that tourist guide also said, "And we're walking..."
ReplyDeleteHeart and Frontierland. Both Heart and Death's Door were very emotional episodes. I went with Heart because it didn't overreach. Sam had a very intense relationship with someone over the course of a few days, and at the end discovered he had to kill her. The emotional reaction made sense (it would have made sense even it it had just been an intense afternoon, given Sam's reasons to identify with her). The first time I watched it it floored me. I wasn't expecting such a powerful ending and had to stop there for a while before watching the new episode. Death's Door was also very emotional, but it's strengths lied in a few areas: 1) this seemed to be the final goodbye between Bobby and Sam and Dean, 2) Bobby had a father relationship with Sam and Dean throughout their lives, 3) we learned a lot more about Bobby's life. The problems are that: 1) this wasn't their final goodbye, Bobby was back as a ghost a few months later, and 2) contrary to what was said in the episode, Bobby did not raise Sam and Dean (per season 1), and rewriting their history just cheapens the series. Number 3 still stands. Learning more about Bobby's childhood, his history with his wife, and his start with Rufus was great and was, IMO, the strength of the episode.
ReplyDeleteFrontierland because it just had a lot more great moments than Home.
Not to nitpick, but I think it was closer to five days. First night we they learned she was a warewolf when she killed her ex and attacked Dean. Second night Sam had her locked up and she discovered she was a warewolf when she clawed up her room. Third night they were waiting to see if she was cured. Fourth night she spent with Sam. I think an emotional reaction would be expected since Sam seemed to really like her, and it can never be easy discovering that you have to kill someone you've come to really care about. I can't imagine that it's easy discovering that you have to kill someone you don't care about. Plus, there was the Sam identifying with the her monster aspect, and there was Dean feeling sad about Sam feeling sad. Tears all around.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I loved Heart, Death's Door was better. Home was good, but oh my...Frontierland was so much fun.
ReplyDeleteGhostfacers
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Sam: "Let's go hunt the Morton House you said. It's our Grand Canyon." Dean: "Sam, I don't want to hear it." Sam: "You've got 2 months left Dean. Instead we're going to die tonight."
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Dean: "Listen to me. There's some salt in my duffle. Make a circle and get inside." Ed: "Inside your duffle bag?" Dean: "In the salt you idiot."
Long Distance Call had several I liked.
1. Dean: "I can't. I wanted to believe so badly that there was a way out of this. I mean I'm um staring down the barrel at this thing. You know, hell - for real, forever and…and I'm just..." Sam: "Yeah." Dean: "I'm scared Sam. I'm really scared." Sam: "I know." 2. Dean: "I just talked to an 83 year old grandmother who's having phone sex with her husband who died in Korea." Sam: "Yulhh." Dean: "Completely rocked my understanding of the word necrophilia."
"Both Death's Door and Heart are all-out, tug at your heart strings episodes, but if I'm going to get emoangsty about a character, it's going to be the one who has been important to the brothers their whole lives and not a 3-night stand."
ReplyDeleteWith Heart, I think the character we're supposed to feel emoangsty about is Sam. I don't think we're supposed to be mourning the loss of Madison at the end. We're supposed to be feeling Sam's pain (as Dean is).
Death's Door because it's a freaking journey inside Bobby's head. It doesn't get any better than this. Incredibly emotional too. Heart's ending was extremely sad (kudos to Jared, can this guy cry !) but the rest of the episode had nothing special.
ReplyDeleteFrontierland is a classic in every way for me. Home juste can't compete.
Tough one for the quotes as I am not a fan of either episode.
I hear you on the quotes. The only saving grace for me is that I can always find at least a couple quotes that are good in a sucky episode. Makes it seem slightly less sucky. Death's Door was amazing.
ReplyDeleteThe salt in the duffle bag was the only moment that I still laugh out loud at during Ghostfacers. It's brilliant and classic.
ReplyDeleteI had a hard time choosing between the first two, since they're easily in my top 10 episodes. However, I ultimately chose Death's door. It was a very meaningful and heart wrenching episode, and easily kept me on the edge of my seat. I love Bobby so much... I tear up just thinking about his death.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a huge fan of Frontierland, which might be why I chose Home. I do have some other reasons, but I will keep my cake hole shut about those. ;)
I voted for Heart and Home.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I think what upsets me most is how Dean is feeling about his brother's pain at that moment.
ReplyDeleteFeel free to share whatever you think. I hate Missouri. She ruined Home for me so I will never vote for that episode. Unfortunately I can't vote for Frontierland either because of a similar situation where I hate the ending with a passion. I think this is the only poll in which I cannot vote at all. At least in the others there is a lesser of two evils for me.
ReplyDeleteDeath's Door for the first- Because...well, it's hard to put into words. I was upset over Bobby being killed and will always be, but it was a great episode. Heartbreaking, a great Bobby episode, and probably Sera's best writing. I also loved Rufus being back, even though he was just in Bobby's head.
ReplyDeleteHeart was another heartbreaker, but it wasn't as important and lost meaning after seeing Sam being fine in the next episode.
Frontierland for my second vote- I love time travel, I love the west, I love horses, I loved how Dean knew a few things about horses, and that Sam rode one (that was too small for him...poor horse! lol ) It was great meeting Samuel Colt and the episode was very entertaining.
Home was a great episode too, one of my favs from Season 1, but not as entertaining. I did really like the scene where ghost Mary appears, and unlike some people, I don't mind Missouri- though I think she was a bit tough on Dean, she really spoke my mind to John at the end (who despite his faults, I love and I could argue in his defense for quite a while).
I would have voted for Death's Door too had it not been followed up by the Bobby ghost arc. Now when I think of the Bobby episode of season 7, I think of Of Grave Importance, which was a mediocre episode at best. It's a shame because Death's Door really was heartbreaking - until Bobby came back.
ReplyDeleteI agree about Missouri. I don't have strong opinions one way or another, but what people tend to forget is that Dean was a bit of a punk in season 1. He had every intention of putting his feet up on Missouri's coffee table and Missouri knew it. Her reaction didn't mean that she didn't see value in Dean - it just means that she knew how to talk to him.
Oh the coffee table thing he deserved lol.
ReplyDeleteI loved Bobby so much I was happy with the ghost thing until he possessed that lady. I still don't think the ghost thing took away from the Death's Door ending because it was left too open not to have the rest happen (for me anyways, I hate the tiniest of open ends with fav characters).
deaths door: just an all round incredible episode. i like heart but deaths door was just amazing
ReplyDeletefrontierland: i really enjoyed this episode, i thought it was awesome, except for the ridiculous ending which i like to just pretend doesnt exist so that the whole episode can seem better
and one of my favourite quotes is from ghostfacers: dean: there's salt in my duffle bag. make a ring and get inside it. Ed: inside your duffle? dean: in the salt!
I agree. It puzzles me that people think Missouri was being horrible to Dean. I didn't sense any meanness or hostility behind her harping on him. On the contrary, I think that it was her way of displaying affection. I have an aunt whose kind of the same way. If she doesn't harp on you and get super sarcastic with you, that's when you know you're truly on her sh** list, lol.
ReplyDeleteDeath's Door -- it wasn't just the last few moments of the ep. It was the glimpse of answer we'd got to the tidbits we'd seen of Bobbie's life and it was the performances of pretty much everyone involved.
ReplyDeleteHome -- I liked a lot about this ep.
The number I used was the first I thought of,sorry.. :p I haven't seen the episode in a while,so I didn't really remember.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't get me wrong,it was a really sad episode and I liked Madison.I just find it hard to believe that he fell in love with her so fast.But that's just me.
I totally agree that he related with her predicament and there were definitely tears all around.
But I still think that when it comes to tears Death's Door is on a whole different level.
You couldn't be more right.
ReplyDeletethis quotes competition where exactly began
ReplyDeletethe second poll frontier and home both are one of my top favorites in each season but i choose home because explore a soft side of the brothers that transport them to remember there childhood & uncovers the most deepest and scary fears dean hidden in his heart..I REALLY LOVE THE EPISODE
ReplyDeleteDeath's Door, I cried so much, not because Bobby died, but just the looks on Sam and Dean's faces and Jensen can get me with that sad puppy look every time.
ReplyDeleteHome for my other pick, I loved Missouri and she had Dean down pat and loved her "talk" with John. Frontierland was OK, but since I am not much into westerns can't pick it, figure it will win though.
Well not raised as such, but he did keep them a lot, taught them to hunt even though he could never get them to shoot a deer. John used to drop them off and go, this has been said several times in the series.
ReplyDeleteHa, I always feel Dean's pain more than Sam's, maybe it is just that look that Jensen can get with the almost tears..dang he is good.
ReplyDeleteWe all have moments on the show that strain credulity for us. For me it was Lisa letting Dean live with them at the end of season 5. Here is a guy who she knew as a love-em-and-leave-em type from her younger, wilder days, who shows up on her doorstep about ten years later looking for a hookup. After a few days of becoming reaquainted, she discovers he travels around the country killing monsters with his brother. He shows up on her doorstep about two years later saying his brother was sucked into Hell after becoming Lucifer's vessel, and her reaction is, "Why don't you come in and live with me so that I can expose you to my son? You sound like perfect father material."
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's not so much that the ghost thing took away from Death Door's ending, as that Death's Door ending took away from main part of the episode.
ReplyDeleteThe message throughout the episode was consistent - you can't fight death, and it was Bobby's time to let go of his life and of Sam and Dean. He delayed, he did what he needed to do to get a message to them about the Leviathans, and then it was time to let go. There was no where else for him to run. The scene with the fading memories was so poignant. And then suddenly it appears he has a choice and he may succeed in defying death because he's Bobby. In the end we were left to remember him as an annoying subplot of the season rather than from such a beautiful goodbye.
LMAO, this is perfect and almost the same thing I had said to a friend.
ReplyDeleteI never really thought about it, as I didn't care for Lisa one way or another, but yeah, it was strange of her to let him in when she doesn't know him that well and she has a son to look out for.
ReplyDeleteI feel both their pain, but I'm a little more softer about Dean. In that scene, it was about equal though. Poor Sam really cried hard. And Dean's flinch really hit me because the guy never flinches at a gun-shot.
ReplyDeleteAnd dont you think that was the problem? People feel more for Dean in that moment than Sam .Sam's pain gets lost in that single tear .I felt sorry for Dean that he couldnt protect Sam from it all but never more than for the brother thinking that what he was about to do could not only be his fate one day but that he couldnt save Madisons from hers.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Heart / Home. I need more time before post-season-5 episodes can become my all time favorites:)
ReplyDeleteHeart wasnt about Sam falling for Madison in record timing it was about Sam's belief that he could be saved. In Playthings Sam makes Dean promise to put him down if he cant save him, in Heart Madison does the exact same thing to Sam. The reason Sam is crushed at the end of the episode is that he had to put Madison down because he couldnt save her, he was loosing hope in being able to be saved himself. If he couldnt save her then what hope did he have of being saved. For Dean it was the same thing, he feared not being able to save Sam and having to end him. The episode wasnt about Sam and Madison falling for each other and overreacting to her dying, it was about his own fate. It was about Sam and Dean and it was one of the best examples of how a monster of the week could intertwine with the brothers story and the mythology of the season.
ReplyDeleteI voted Death's Door, and Home.
ReplyDeleteI love Heart, admittedly though I wasn't impressed the first time I saw it. It was only upon subsequent viewings that I realized how great it was. It does a lot to reflect upon Sam's precarious frame of mind, and his desperation to save everyone. I never for once thought Sam actually loved Madison, but I do think he cared about her deeply, if only because she harbored a "monster" within her that she was unaware of. But I digress!
I voted Death's Door because even if what came after regarding Bobby was less than stellar, Death's Door was still one of the most poignant episodes Supernatural has done. The character of Bobby was always elusive in his emotions, and I think I can count on one hand the number of times he showed emotion to the boys. This episode showed just how much those two boys were a part of his life, and I was really affected by that.
I voted Home over Frontierland because what the former was fun (mostly) and Jensen looks like a friggin' movie star in western gear (seriously, that man should do a western feature film...get on that, Hollywood!), Home actually progressed the myth-arc of Season One and we finally got some forward momentum with regards to the mysterious story of Ma and Pa Winchester. I really liked the character Missouri, and I only say that because she appears to be the deciding factor the most people mention when they talk about this episode, like it or hate it. I also thought the family living in the home were all really great, especially the kids. Supernatural has a real talent for casting wonderful child actors. Anyway. Home is my vote.
Same here: Heart and Home. Frontierland isn't one of my favourite AT ALL, and Death's door is just soooo sad that i can't bear watching it XD, though Heart is as sad as it is XD.
ReplyDeleteIt is very rare for me to cry with Sam, but in Death's Door he just looked so lost, both of them just broke my heart in that ep. I do like your thinking on the Heart ep.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the ending, it was lame. But honestly, the whole episode kinda was. There were great moments in it, as most episodes, but overall Frontierland doesn't do it for me.
ReplyDeleteI never felt the same way about Missouri, but maybe because I love the actress. But now that you mention it, there are things that didn't sit well with me.
Couldn't agree more about Rufus in Death's Door! The worst death in season six, for me, was Rufus. Ugh, I really, really love that character, and I really love Stephen Williams, too.
ReplyDeleteDeath's Door and Home
ReplyDeleteSorry,
ReplyDeleteI misplaced my finger and gave you an unintended dislike.
I do enjoy that ending, every time
ReplyDeleteI find it quite fun. Dean was so immersed in the typical western duel that he forgot about the ashes and the solution ist just perfect.
Well he had saved her son and
ReplyDeleteI would say more than a few women would find
Dean a really worthy partner.