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

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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 ....

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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...

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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.

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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

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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 ...

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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*

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Turns out someone has the same idea:

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

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BWAHA!