![]() When the cops got there, though, the body was gone. Sam gives Dean the run down on the house that’s haunted by that apparently misogynistic spirit. Meanwhile, they’re working in between pranks. There’s an edge of cruelty that’s often there between siblings, a jockeying for position of who’s going to get the upper hand, but it’s also a way of finding things to laugh about in the midst of a frightening and stressful time – even if it’s sometimes at your brother’s expense! It evokes their childhood, when they only had each other to get through long car rides and lonely motel rooms and nobody to play a game of catch with. Sam shakes his head, warning Dean to remember that he started it.Īs ridiculous as their little prank war is (and as quickly as it’s abandoned), I love it for the part it plays in getting Sam and Dean back to being brothers again. Man, we’re not kids anymore Dean, we’re not gonna start that prank stuff up again.ĭean: Afraid you’re gonna get a little Nair in your shampoo again, huh? He turns the music up loud and starts singing to wake poor Sam up, and as he spits out the spoon, Dean slaps the steering wheel happily. This is the episode where Sam and Dean are having an escalating prank war, so Dean slips a plastic spoon in Sam’s mouth, pulls out his flip phone and takes a picture, grinning happily after. ![]() Scream!Ĭut to the Winchesters on the road, rock music playing, Sam asleep in the passenger seat. Right behind him, in perfect horror movie style, is a young woman strung up. There’s a ghost that is said to go after girls and string them up in the root cellar, which is of course exactly where they go.Ĭocky guy: I don’t see anything scary, do you? She slaps him, but for some reason she also goes in. Teenagers with flashlights dare each other to go in, the one young woman saying she’s not going, but caving when one of the guys offers to hold her hand – or any other part of her. The episode starts, as so many horror movies do, at an abandoned allegedly haunted old house – in Richardson, Texas, which I think is where Jensen Ackles grew up, so nice little shout out in the seventeenth episode of Season 1. It’s also notable – for me at least – for how many times Sam and Dean get to laugh and smile and have fun, which warms my heart. Hell House is notable for its introduction of the duo who would eventually become the Ghostfacers, and the comedy chops that guest stars Travis Wester and A.J.
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