Deanisms
*Note - All Deanisms are now completed in advance, and will be posted each and every week, to finish Season 6. Season 7 Deanisms will begin in October.
“Frontierland”
06x18
While searching for a way to defeat Eve, Dean stumbles upon Samuel Colt's journal in the Campbell library. Realizing Samuel might have the answer to their problems, Sam and Dean ask Castiel to send them back in time so they can meet the man himself. While Sam is a bit reluctant to time travel, Dean is beside himself with excitement to return to the Wild, Wild West. - CW Publicity
QUOTES
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Sam: (takes a step right into a pile of horse manure) Oh, damn it. Come on.
Dean: You know what that is?
Sam: Yeah, it's horse sh...
Dean: Authenticity!
Dean: I’ll stay here and hook-up with the posse. Because you know me, I’m a posse magnet. I mean I love posse. I’m gonna make that into a t-shirt.
Dean: You know what this means?
Bobby: Yeah, I didn't get a soul-onoscopy for nothing.
Dean: Yes, and... means we take the fight to her.
Dean: We'll Star Trek IV this bitch.
Bobby: I only watched Deep Space Nine.
Dean: It's like I don't even know you guys anymore. Star Trek IV, save the whales.
Sam: Look, just because you're obsessed with all that Wild West stuff.
Dean: No, I'm not.
Sam: You have a fetish.
Dean: Shut up. I like old movies.
Sam: You can recite every Clint Eastwood movie ever made, line-for-line.
Bobby: Even the monkey movies?
Sam: Yeah. Especially the monkey movies.
Dean: His name is Clyde.
Elkins: What'll you have?
Dean: Well, okay, great. I'll have your top-shelf whiskey.
Elkins: Only have the one shelf.
TRIVIA
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Bobby (Jim Beaver) mentions that the only Star Trek incarnation he is familiar with is Deep Space Nine. Beaver's late wife, Cecily Adams, played the recurring character Ishka on DS9. Additionally, Beaver played Adm. Leonard in the first episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
The title and the line "Good you got less than an hour before you have to pick the kids up from Frontierland" are based on the Disneyland and Disney World American Old West themed areas.
The title card was altered for this episode, resembling the flaming map title from Bonanza TV series.
Movies and Shows Connected to this Episode: High Noon (1952) (gun fight), I Dream of Jeannie (1965) (TV Series) Dean tells Cas to 'I Dream of Jeannie your ass down here', asks the female angel if she's Jeannie, Blazing Saddles (1974) Dean uses the "Candygram for Mongo" line from Blazing Saddles, Every Which Way But Loose (1978) Dean and Bobby talk about Clyde, Any Which Way You Can (1980) Dean and Bobby mention Clint Eastwood's "monkey movies", Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Dean compares his time-travel plan to the plot of Star Trek IV, Die Hard (1988) Dean says "yippe ki-aye motherf.....", Back to the Future Part II (1989) The delivery from Samuel Colt echoes the Western Union letter from Doc Brown, Back to the Future Part III (1990) Dean introduces himsef as "Clint Eastwood" like Marty McFly, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) (TV Series) Bobby admits to having watched DS9, Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) (TV Series) Dean introduces Sam as "Walker. He's a Texas Ranger.", Deadwood (2004) (TV Series) Bobby tells Cas they can't strand the boys in Deadwood, The Hangover (2009) Dean calls himself a 'one man wolf pack'.
A Western episode has been discussed in relation to Supernatural for years. Jensen has often talked about the Western genre being his favourite and that he’d love to appear in a Western movies Source. After this episode Jensen said "I sent a picture to my father [from this episode], and he wrote back, ‘You’ve been rehearsing this scene since you were six.’" At Comic Con 2008, both Jensen and Jared said they’d love to do a Western episode, and Jensen pointed out that the show already is a modern version of a Western, with Sam and Dean as cowboys. Jared mentioned that he couldn't see the boys in spurs and cowboy hats. "Assless chaps?" Kripke asked. "Yes, please," Jensen responded. At the beginning of Season 4, Jensen again said in an interview he’d like to see a Western episode.
This is the seventh episode ever in which the Impala is not seen. The other episodes are 2x07 The Usual Suspects, 2x18 Hollywood Babylon, 4x12 Criss Angel Is A Douchebag, 4x17 It's A Terrible Life, 4x22 Lucifer Rising and 5x18 Point of No Return.
Bobby: Anything that'll put a run in the Octomom's stockings. A reference to Nadya Suleman, dubbed "Octomom" in the media after giving birth to octuplets.
Bobby: Either of you jokers ever heard anything about a phoenix?
Dean: River, Joaquin or the giant flaming bird?
Dean is referring to actors and brothers, Joaquin Phoenix and the late River Phoenix, as well as the mythological bird of fire and symbol of rebirth, the Phoenix.
Dean: C’mon Cas, I Dream of Jeannie your ass down here pronto
In the classic 60s comedy "I Dream Of Jeannie" the genie, called Jeannie, had to appear when her master, Major Nelson, summoned her.
Dean: (to Rachel) So we get stuck with Miss Monneypenny.
In the James Bond novels and movies, Jane Moneypenny is the secretary to M, Bond's boss.
Sam: (to Dean) You can recite every Clint Eastwood movie ever made, line for line.
Bobby: Even the monkey movies?
Sam: Yeah, especially the monkey movies.
Dean: His name is Clyde.
The ‘monkey movies’ refer to an under appreciated part of Eastwood’s filmography which is part of the human/animal buddy genre of movies. He made two of these movies, the 1978 Every Which Way but Loose and the 1980 sequel Any Which Way You Can, which featured Eastwood with an orang-utan sidekick called Clyde.
Castiel: Is it customary to wear a blanket?
Dean: It’s called a serape, and yes…oh never mind.
The serape is a traditional Mexican Poncho. It was worn by the iconic character “The Man With No Name” that Eastwood played in Sergio Leone’s movies.
Dean: Hey, we should try the Saloon first, uh, see what we get from the locals.
Sam: Sure. (chuckles) Whatever, Sundance.
Sam is teasingly referring to Dean as 'Sundance' in reference to the Sundance Kid who was a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. Their story was immortalized in the classic 60's bromantic Western Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, where Sundance was played by Robert Redford.
It's worth noting that the real Sundance was called Harry Longabuagh, and he gained his nickname from the town in which he was first imprisoned - Sundance, Wyoming. This episode is set in Sunrise, Wyoming.
Dean: Marshall Eastwood. Clint Eastwood. This here is Walker. He’s a Texas Ranger.
Clint Eastwood came to fame through his role in Sergio Lenone’s 1960’s Dollars trilogy - A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Eastwood went onto make other Westerns, as well as the hard-assed Dirty Harry cop movies.
In 1992 Eastwood returned to the Western, directing and producing Unforgiven, the tale of a retired gunfighter reluctantly returning for one last job. Often referred to as a noir Western due to its dark tone and unsentimental take on the genre, it won four Academy Awards. 6.13 Unforgiven, where Sam is drawn back to face his violent soulless past, is named for this film.
Walker, Texas Ranger was a 1990s action series starring Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger named Cordell Walker, who believes in the code of the Old West and is a martial arts expert.
The end of the episode, where Sam receives a package from Samuel Colt, is a direct reference to the end of Back to The Future Part 2. At the end of the movie, a courier from Western Union arrives minutes after Doc Brown has disappeared in the DeLorean after being struck by lightening. The courier gives Marty a letter, sent 70 years ago, with instructions for it to be delivered at that exact day and time. It is from Doc, who has been trapped in 1885 after the lightning strike caused the DeLorean to malfunction. It is also possibly an homage to Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, in which a witch receives a package from her ancestor several centuries after her death.
The scene of Sam stepping in horse manure may be a shoutout to Back to the Future III, where Marty McFly also accidentally steps in horse manure. This episode also parallels Back to the Future III in that it centers around traveling back in time to the Old West. Marty uses Clint Eastwood as a name, just like Dean, and also wears an Eastwood-esque serape.
The actor who played Elias Finch, Matthew John Armstrong, also played Ted Sprague, "The Radioactive Man" on Heroes where he also set a lot of things on fire.
Cas: Are you sure?
Bobby: Well we can't just strand those idjits in Deadwood can we?
Deadwood was a TV series in which Jim Beaver played a prospector called Ellsworth.
Dean: Candygram for Mongo!
This is a quote from Blazing Saddles. Mongo was a character played by Alex Karras in the movie.
Dean: Yippie Ki Yay, motherf...
"Yippie Ki Yay, motherfuckers" is a catchphrase of Bruce Willis' John McClane in the Die Hard movies.
The prostitute who hits on Dean at the bar has a sore on her lip, a symptom of oral herpes.
Sam: Guess it's good to be judge.
A possible reference to the much-repeated catchphrase "It's good to be the king," from Mel Brooks's History of the World Part I.
Dean: Missed you at the posse this morning. I was a one-man wolfpack.
A reference to The Hangover.
Samuel Colt: You go put on a few more miles, then come back and we'll talk.
Sam: Trust me, I've got plenty of mileage.
This may be an indirect reference to a famous line from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones says "It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."
This episode was shot before, and originally planned to air before 6x17 My Heart Will Go On but the order was switched due to the amount of post-production worked required on this episode. This explains why Sam and Dean are unconcerned about the ramifications of traveling back in time following the events with the Titanic.
The bag of gold jewelery the boys take back in time is the loot they took from the Dragons in 6x12 Like A Virgin
The name of the Saloon owner is Elkins, and he is said to know Samuel Colt. He may be an ancestor of hunter Daniel Elkins, who is the owner of the Colt when it first appears in 1973 in 4x03 In The Beginning.
The uniform of the courier who delivers Samuel Colt's package to Sam in 2011 has the same name and logo as the postal service in Sunrise, WY in 1860: Western Courier, with a courier riding a horse.
In a podcast director Guy Norman Bee describes a scene in the director's cut that was removed for time. Dean and Sam are walking from the sheriff's office to the saloon and while Dean removes his bolo tie they discuss the name Elkins and wonder if he is a relative of the hunter their Dad knew.
EPISODE SOUNDTRACK
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Much of the music in the episode is inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone in Leone's Dollars trilogy. See here for examples. The music played over during the credits is somewhat similar to Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold," a piece he wrote for the Clint Eastwood movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." The Musical Pocket Watch theme which is similar to what plays once the boys return home empty-handed.
Three music pieces by the group Federale were included in the episode.