Items that are metaphors tonight: snack cakes, coffee, milkshakes, snakes.
Items that are not metaphors: Sams ponytail.
That things really real.
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We open in a sock hop/bebop-looking town, with a $2Scooby Doomatinee and a quaint soda shop.
Clean-cut Conrad begs milkshake waitress Sunny to run away with him, but she refuses.
So he bolts, and finds himself in…a modern convenience store.
The startled clerk hands over his cell phone, only to watch the poor Conrads head explode.
Hes also brooding over the gorgons snake from last week, concerned it isnt feeling well.
(Motto: Where everybodys happy!)
At Harringtons, theyre served complimentary milkshakes by Sunny, whom we last saw kissing Conrad.
Oh, no, his head exploded, Cas announces to the whole shop.
Like a ripe melon on the sun.
Thats apparently bad for business, so Harrington sends them to Conrads boarding house.
Cas is disturbed by thePleasantvilleof it all, but Sam kind of likes it.
Hehasbeen fighting monsters non-stop and is pretty worn out, after all.
Meanwhile, troubles brewing in the immaculate house of the couple they bumped into on the street.
Is it weird that this might be the creepiest part of the town for me?
He has beautiful hair?
Then he goes to sit in a chair and she SCREAMS that it belongs to her husband.
And theres Sam, in horn-rim glasses and a cardigan, that beautiful hair in a cute little ponytail.
Justin-Sam has hadjust about enough of that, thank you, and chides Cas for dropping the H-E-double-hockey-sticks.
If you cannot remain civil, you could skedaddle, he says before tossing Cas out.
Okay, lets check in on Dean and Jack.
Jacks snake is refusing to eat.
(This is the best possible reaction for that scenario, btw.)
I dont think you have a firm grasp on what snakes eat, Jack says.
When they arrive at their destination, whos waiting for them but Donatello!
I will never not be amused by things making Dean uncomfortable.
So you feel bad, Jack says.
Then he asks the million-dollar question: How do you feel, Jack?
Jack ponders for a bit and says he doesnt feelnothing, but its not the same.
Mostly, he doesnt want his family to worry about him.
Seems to me thats feelingsomething, right?
Then Donatello offers amazing advice: Think about the best man you knows.
For him, its Mister Rogers.
For Jack, thats Sam and Dean.
So Donatello suggests that Jack always consider WWWD: What Would the Winchesters Do?
Worryingly, that answer at least 40 percent of the time is probably behead something.
After their session, Donatello tells Dean that if Jack seems okay, he probably is.
All righty, back to Charming Acres.
He remade the town and gave everyone new names and new lives.
The ones who fought it had to be eliminated to protect their home.
Harrington chases her outside while Cas grapples with the mayoral posse.
If not, you fail those who are gone as well as those who remain.
This argument works, and Sam dramatically rips off the horn rims.
They run outside in time to hear Harrington tell his daughter that in this town, hes God.
Cas, whos met God, hotly corrects him: God has abeard.
Cas is a quip machine tonight!
It leaves him trapped inside his own mind, content in a beautiful world where he cant hurt anyone.
Finally, everybody makes it back to the bunker at the same time.
Still, he says he cant keep running.
This is my home.
Sam needs time, and Deans willing to give it to him.
Reasoning that the snake misses its friend, Jack offers to help them be reunited…in heaven.
The snake turns to ash in his hands as Cas watches from the doorway.
Bunker musings:
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