Episode 3.11 Mystery Spot

Aah, the one where Doris the average human waitress kills Dean Winchester at least twice! A pig in a poke. Yet another mirror for Chuck's Process encapsulated in a single episode... A message appropriately delivered by God's own little messenger, Gabriel. Heck, there’s just too much in this episode to tidily sum it up in one little blurb paragraph, yes?

So many memes have come from this one little episode, too. Clowns or midgets? Yesterday was Tuesday, but today is Tuesday, too! Heat of the Moment (I still feel like checking the calendar every time I hear this song, just in case). Do these tacos taste funny to you? You mean we can’t even go out for breakfast? Sam Winchester cries his way through sex, etc. You think you’re being funny but you’re being really, really childish. Dingo ate my baby crazy. What do you want, a Pulitzer?

I think my main takeaway is that the fandom lore states that Tuesday is Sam’s least favorite day after this, but I’m nominating Wednesday for Worst Day for him... that was the day he didn’t get a do-over for, you know? At least not until suffering through six months of Robo Sam hunting the Trickster in scary Travis Bickle fashion...

This week’s supplemental reading:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode

With a special focus on these posts:

s12 meta rewatch from April 2017
Lizbob’s thoughts on Dean’s role in this episode
s15 meta rewatch from October 2019
a small cabbage sums up why the series finale is so unsatisfying after reflecting on this episode and its message
since I mention it in the podcast, my Sam vs Reality tag
a brief homage to Doris
a brief visual demonstration of the color washing out of Sam’s world 

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