Episode 5.12 Swap Meat

That one where Sam was Gary! A true MotW that has Dean mostly tiptoeing around Sam in the aftermath of his confession at the end of the previous episode. Even when “Sam” is behaving in incredibly un-Sam-like ways, Dean’s still hesitant to poke too hard at it. I’m not sure this episode could’ve worked under other circumstances (Dean would’ve twigged to it sooner if he wasn’t trying so hard to be agreeable with Sam), or otherwise would’ve just been sad (like if the reason the other didn’t twig to it was due to them being on the outs... it really wouldn’t have been as humorous). Small favors, I guess?

Anyway, what more can we really say about this one. Have some (hopefully) fun extras to go along with it:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My (incredibly sparse) tag for this episode

The glorious Sam Samming post

My rewatch notes from June 2019 and from April 2017

Filming locations map

Casting call for Gary and Nora

The CW promo video

The SpaceTV promo video

A bit of shameless self-promotion, please enjoy a link to my six-way body swap fic, since the show never took this concept to its full wackadoo potential, but I really tried to...  Until I Know This Sure Uncertainty, I'll Entertain The Offered Fallacy (rated T, canon case fic, ~13k words, set near the end of s12, very comedy of errors)

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