Those Tiny Trifles: 2x02, Everybody Loves A Clown
This is the world without John.
Not a picspam.
2x02: Everybody Loves A Clown
The banners seen throughout the episode in the Carnival:
"Cooper Carnival Proudly Presents
Ten-In-One Sideshow
Amazing & Curious Wonders
A Real Chupacabra"
"The World's Smallest Fire Eater"
"The Amazing Papazian
Blind Knife Thrower"
The trailer the Clown stands in front of when Nora sees him has Wisconsin plates with 9I4 LM(?).
Nora's family has a car which's plates seem to feature 28I/1 QTW.
During the Pyre, Sam is wearing different clothes than at the end of IMToD.
Also, his injuries have healed a bit. Not as much as between the Pyre and the Junkyard, but his bruises are paler, the scrapes and scratches smaller.
The wound on Dean's forehead seems to have healed rather well in a week. During the Pyre, it's still relatively red.
One week passes between the Pyre and the Junkyard.
The boys have been at Bobby's "for over a week now."
The plaque behind Dean as Sam's talking to him says:
"Singer's Auto
Self Service Salvage Yard
Towing and Salvaging Parts for all makes and models National Parts Locator.
Dean wears his amulet, watch and ring. Even when fixing the Car. No sign of bracelets, though.
Sam says the phone he hands to Dean is "one of (John's) old phones."
Ellen's message is: "John, it's Ellen. Again. Look, don't be stubborn. You know I can help you. Call me."
Sam claims that message is 4 months old.
There apparently isn't anything about Ellen in John's journal.
Harvelle's Roadhouse has a payphone several yards from its front door.
Sam's reaching for his breast-pocket even before Dean opens his mouth to ask for the lockpicks.
There's a rather old looking phone mounted on the wall beside the door inside the Roadhouse.
Above the jukebox, there's a framed picture that looks like a sunset with the silhouette of a man. (And that bothers me for some inexplicable reason...)
Other details in decoration/furniture include: a deer-shooting arcade game, a deer's head mounted on the wall, a framed picture of a (Black Dog?) behind the pool table, a dartboard and a monkey on the bar. There's also an owl perching on a stick mounted to one of the supporting beams and a relative of a piano.
The monkey on the bar has a yellow jacket, a red bow and a blue box.
The rifle Jo points at Dean is a Winchester.
There's an inverted pentagram on the beer tap of the Harvelle's Roadhouse.
Dean says that the papers he gives to Ash "is about a year's worth of (John's) research."
They inclurde, according to Ash, "nonparametric statistical overviews" and "cross-spectrum correlations." ("The man's a master", like Dean said back in Scarecrow, 1x11.)
Ash claims he can start tracking the YED with John's research if the boys give him 51 hours. That's 2 days and 3 hours.
Ellen's police scanner is set to 16.
There's an advert for "Big Georges's Guns & Ammo - We've got you covered"
The newspaper-clipping about the murders is titled "Husband and wife brutally murdered". The story begins with Medford, WI. September (13th?) 1981.
There's (Co)uple murdered, (ch)ild left alive, Medford, Wisc. written with a red marker, in block letters, on the folder.
In 1981, when the Bunker Brothers Circus was in Medford, similar slayings happened 3 different times, in 3 different places.
The yellow banner when the boys arrive to the carnival proclaims "This (carnival?) is sponsored by Mishicot Wisconsin Children's Charities".
The trailer the cops are questioning the two clowns in front of has a banner (Amusements) and the number 805295063 in the lower right corner.
The cops are talking with the two clowns seen at the beginning, entertaining Nora. The boys pass them by also after chatting with Mr Cooper.
The Cooper Carnival is run by J. Cooper.
The Amazing Papazian goes by the name 'Barry' among the carnies.
Sam tries to claim they worked "last year through Texas and Arkansas."
The Cooper Carnival-jackets are red with the graphic/text of "Cooper Carnival On-The-Go" on the back in white.
The second girl's family lives in a house number 8783.
They're well off enough to, besides having a nice house, have two cars.
Sam still has the camouflage-backpack.
Dean carries two duffel bags, one of them containing the minivan's plates (and supposedly, the shotgun, EMF-meters, any other weaponry they may have with them)
The minivan had Missouri plates with 5R7 BCO.
According to the show, the Rakshasas have to eat 'a few times every 20-30 years'.
Papazian has a poster on his door that reads "Cooper Carnival Proudly Presents The Amazing Papazian Blind Knife Thrower July 6th-10th Manitowoc Fairgrounds."
There's also a poster that says "Welcome to the Cooper Carnival" on his room's wall.
Dean hits the trunk of the Impala 17 times.
Thoughts and Shtuff
If there's a point to that combination, I'm saying it's the presence of something abnormal.
How appropriate that the camera's eyeing at Dean and Sam during that last sentence. Because that's what they are, even if they might claim otherwise. Even if they tried the 'apple pie life', I'm afraid the boys would not just fit in. Especially Dean.
As was made clear in S2, Dean's at home with the people who aren't like everyone else. And alone he's lost.
*sighs* DEEEEEAN!!! Just... *splinters herself trying to hug the broken glass that's Dean*
I wonder if Dean's thinking about Faith (1x12) and Roy Le Grange...*ponders*
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to either cry my eyes out or punch my fist through a wall. And think how bloody damn ridiculously attached to these two characters I've gotten...*snif*