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Episode Commentary: “The Real Ghostbusters”

Remember the prophet Chuck who writes about the lives of Sam and Dean? And remember Becky, their number one fan? Well she’s set up a convention with panels discussing Dean’s lonely boyhood and the “homo-erotic subtext of supernatural.”

In this exceedingly creepy and funny episode directed by Jim Conway, Sam and Dean are a little busy “hunting the colt and finding the devil.” Yet they have to endure “Larping (Live Action Role Playing)” in which a murderous school mistress killed several boys. One problem, the ghosts are real and in a place full of fake Sams and Deans it’s going to take the Winchester boys all of their patience to solve this one.

Things get intense as a set of fake brothers see the real Sam and Dean at work. It becomes all too real for these two as they experience what the real deal has to deal with all the time. One more problem, the Winchester boys off the wrong ghost and unleash the scariest entities known to man – bratty ghost children.

As these boys who go around terrorizing the inn where the convention is being held, it’s up to the fake Sam and Dean and Chuck to rescue the Winchester boys.

At the end of the episode Becky has a newfound respect for Chuck, the fake Winchester brothers (Barnes and Damian) have a healthy appreciation for the supernatural and Dean gets schooled on why his life doesn’t “suck.” “To wake up and save the world and have a brother die for you” that’s a reason to get up in the morning.

Will the brothers find the colt and what does Crowley have to do with it? Find out as the “one shot heard around the netherworld” reverberates throughout next week’s episode.