9.05, or, "Man's Best Friend" the way it should have been the first time around!

[brightly_lit]

I liked this episode. It wasn't quite as tight and every-line-better-than-the-last as some of SPN's finest comedic moments, but it was right up there.

Speaking of SPN's finest comedic moments, that "previously on" was EPIC. I was rolling by the time the giant teddy bear made his appearance. I love SPN comedy, and it was like being strafed with the funniest moments of the funniest episodes in thirty seconds flat. It was worth the price of admission right there.

Taxidermy: So ... I house- and cat-sat for someone who had WAY MORE TAXIDERMY THAN THAT, including zebras, big cats, and *gulp* an elephant foot.

There's just not a whole lot of actors who can pull off acting like a dog, and Jackles turned it into an art form. Utterly priceless.

I like my crack (and my porn) to have a point, so it was EXTRA satisfying that they managed to use this ridiculous premise to illuminate some important themes, foreshadowing, and to develop character. THEY FOLLOWED UP ON THE YOU-ARE-WHAT-YOU-KILL theme I was so hoping they would get into!!! AND ... they used the MoW as a metaphor! Huzzah!

I see that a lot of you didn't like Dean giving the "how you doin'" to the poodle, but as long as he doesn't get down and start humping the thing, I thought it was awesome, because it was ALL DEAN, and ALL DOG.

I felt like the animal voices could have been less cartoony, and the first fifteen minutes or so could have been way tighter and funnier. Editing is of vital importance in making comedy work, and I felt like a few scenes would have been infinitely funnier if they'd been cut a second or two earlier.

Did anyone else have the thought that this is a deliberate attempt to redeem "Man's Best Friend"?

Just mentioning here for my own sake: for the longest time, I felt like I only saw mentions of Jackles's beauty and acting genius and Jarpad's almost never came up, and just lately, I'm seeing Jarpad's acting skill and OTHERWORLDLY BEAUTY get lots of mentions, and it's making me happy!! Truly, our cup runneth over with both of these guys. All three of these guys. OKAY, JUST BASICALLY ALL THE GUYS EVER ON THE SHOW.

Comments

[toratio.livejournal.com]

I'm totally curious to see it!

I read something on Super-Wiki about a 'gay yorkie'. Explain please?


Heh, last week's I watched with a friend who has seen only one other ep of Supernatural but is a massive Wizard of Oz fan. She thinks the guys are totally hot (although she does not approve of Sam's plaid). Also, the Men of Letters at the beginning, she was like "OMG they're so gonna make out!" I love her. <3

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

I burst out laughing at the 'gay yorkie' thing. I can see where they got it, but that was not my first take on the yorkie character. He has a Southern drawl that is a little ... flamboyant, and he likes to have Sam rub his belly, but sometimes Southern guys are just like that.

Ah, I'm glad your friend came and watched it with you!!

Sam's plaid is an acquired taste. ;-)

"OMG they're so gonna make out!"

She's already a prime audience for this show!!

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, so he's not necessarily made to be gay.

Also, what is it with Dean and yorkies? He's got a real thing about them - he makes up one in one of the eps and he almost shoots one in season 6.

Sometimes Southern guys just want their bellies rubbed?

Yeah, she wasn't so sure about the ep. It wasn't as gory as the last one I made her watch - she loves fairy tales so I made her watch the fairy tale ep. She can't stand the gore, otherwise I think she would watch the show.

She has a thing against checked shirts. It's to do with an ex of hers.

We love to slash guys. We have had to watch Aussie rules football with a male friend, and he gets annoyed because we just sit there and go on about the guys in tiny shorts all hugging each other. :D

I bet Jared adored doing the dog ep. He was probably all gooey through the taping!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Dean and yorkies, I know! Apparently it was the same dog actor as in "Yellow Fever."

Sometimes Southern guys just want their bellies rubbed?

Well ... you know, in the South, you really never know what you're going to get, so ... probably. ;-) But I meant there are some Southern guys who are just flamboyant. Maybe closeted; who knows, but it's treated as simply an eccentricity.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Awww, and that dog is so cute! I forgot about the yorkie in Yellow Fever. Is it a Yorkie he was going to shoot in the beginning of season 6 when he's poisoned by the Djinn?

If there is a hot Southern guy who wants his belly rubbed, I'm so there!

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a yorkie, too! (I forgot about that one--I had to look it up.) Which one did he make up?

If there is a hot Southern guy who wants his belly rubbed, I'm so there!

Ehhh ... probably not in the deep South. People can get REALLY weird there in backwater areas. Maybe you're thinking of J2 and Texas? My sister has lived in the South for a long time--and in Texas! (where I lived with her for a time). Texas is a WHOOOLE different animal. I'd rub a hot Texan belly, myself ... especially if his last name began with the letters Padalec ... or Ack ....

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Ahh, there's an ep where he's trying to get into a building and he says he has to go in because he has a Yorkie who pees when he's nervous - it was a fireman or something, I think it was a shifter ep.

I don't know much about the South, but yeah I was mostly thinking of Texas. Definitely want to rub a hot Padamoose belly...

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

OH RIGHT! He DOES have a thing about yorkies!

Texas has some hot 'uns.

Oh, and apparently I was wrong; everyone thinks the yorkie IS gay, and I came around to the same viewpoint.

[toratio.livejournal.com]

LOL, ah well, at least you weren't passing judgment on the Yorkie. :D

That puts Sam giving it a good old belly scratch into a different light then…

Also - hot icon is hot. <3

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

That's right, I AM OPEN-MINDED ABOUT YORKIES.



HERE, a little Sam-slash-yorkie for you!

Sharin' my Sam-icon love. Hey, whatever I can do to help out a Sam-girl ...

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Awww, I love how incredibly bored Sam looks! Like "I'm so sick of doing this. Finish interrogating him already!"

Now that Dean is an honorary dog, they have to own one! I think they should go and steal Riot back - there's a character that needs to return!

*high fives the fellow Sam-girl*

[toratio.livejournal.com]

Turns out someone has the same idea:

http://kamidiox.deviantart.com/art/Good-boy-412055115

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

BWAHA!

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

The yorkie was voiced by Leslie Jordan, a prominent "out" character actor. So, yes, the yorkie was gay. "I want the big one," hee. And those erotic moans...Jordan was first-billed as a special guest. The Colonel was voiced by Al Rodrigo, a voice-over artist.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Cool that you know the voice actors and everything! (I suspected most of the animal voices were done by voice-over actors--in fact, it sounded like one guy did a lot of them.) I'm glad to have the gay yorkie question settled once and for all.

"I want the big one," hee.

I can't get over this. Dean wasn't pretty enough for him?? :-D

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else have the thought that this is a deliberate attempt to redeem "Man's Best Friend"?

Then all is forgiven!

Personally, I did read the Yorkie as gay. I don't know anyone (southern or otherwise) who would talk like that who isn't gay. Or female.

And yes, they are bringing the pretty this season and I love it. The makeup artists did I great job making Jared look like hell (heh) last season but I need me some gorgeous Sam and I'm so glad he's back.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Yeeeahhh ... he did call the bad guy a "closet case," and then my friend I watched it with said she thought he was gay. (I also thought it might have been female!) My friend also pointed out the kinds of things he was saying as Sam rubbed his belly, and I chose to read that differently, because if he was enjoying it like THAT, that makes the poodle thing look like Disney! (Wait, Disney would do and has done stuff exactly like that countless times, so ... something actually innocent, then. ;-] ) I think you guys are probably right. (My sister had a gay dog, so I know it's possible!)

*melts* Sam DID look like hell last season, but ... somehow he looked absolutely just as hot to me as ever, even so. When it comes to Sam's looks, there can be no wrong as far as I'm concerned, apparently. (Actually, that SUPER-ripped scene with the pull-ups was so buffed and perfected it took it too far, to my taste; I'd rather he looked less inhumanly perfect. Still, it's not like I'm complaining!!)

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, did you say something? I was distracted by your icon.

Yeah, I like my Sammy a little more subtle. The grey v-neck t-shirt is just about perfect.

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

OH! I am so glad to see someone mention THAT SHIRT. *droooool*...

LOL about "distracted by the icon". Yeeeeah, baby...

I'm with brightly-lit here-- sick!Sam was a big turn-on for me. I can't count the number of times in S8 when I clutched my bosom and cried "Oh, SAM!" *sigh* I must take him home and give him many cuddles and feed him soup. Then more cuddles. Um, and then...

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

And don't forget the PORN MUSIC in the pull-ups scene? What was with THAT? :-P I really, really don't ever mind looking at Sam with his shirt off, but that scene was kind of hard to watch.

Mmmm, one of my favorites is f-ed up, sleep-deprived Sam in white scrubs in S7, The Born Again Identity... pretty much every moment of that ep was PURE DROOL TIME.

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, one of my favorites is f-ed up, sleep-deprived Sam in white scrubs in S7, The Born Again Identity... pretty much every moment of that ep was PURE DROOL TIME.

OH DEAR GOD YES. Another ep i can watch until my eyes bleed. I love any form of damaged Sam, especially this one. But we haven't seen good old healthy Sam in a while and I missed him!

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

ME TOO. It hovers near #1 on my list of favorite eps of all time. Every moment it perfect. I loved it so much I wrote a Sassy fic about it. :-) In fact, it never occurred to me to write fanfic before that episode inspired me. Here it is if you're interested. http://septembers-coda.livejournal.com/727.html

(I always fail to create links the way I want them to look in comments; hopefully this at least works). :-)

I know what you mean, though; I am very glad to see healthy Sam again, for both emotional and visual reasons.

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the "how YOU doin'" look Dean gave to the poodle, just enjoyed it for what it was. Dean had dog instincts in his mind. That's all it was. And it was played perfectly (lol, I typed pervectly the first time).

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

I agree. Why are people so uptight about Dean getting hot over a poodle?

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Why ARE they? I stay far away from places where wank lives, but I'd like to know.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one! It seemed perfectly in character, and just some silly/fun humor. And yes, Jensen couldn't have done it better!

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

I've seen the guy gets possessed by dog thing before and I'm pretty sure it's standard for a poodle to be the object of his comedic attentions. Not like this was breaking new ground or something.

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

Yeah-- why is it always a poodle? Why are they the only sexy dog? I guess that was set early on, in old cartoons, and people just see them as the "feminine" dog. I liked the scene, though. And it's easier to use the poodle, as a symbol everyone recognizes; that makes people less likely to think Dean REALLY wants to have sex with a dog.