Bad Boys
- Episode aired Nov 19, 2013
- TV-14
- 42m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
4.1K
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Dean and Sam visit Dean's old boy's home that's now being haunted by a ghost.Dean and Sam visit Dean's old boy's home that's now being haunted by a ghost.Dean and Sam visit Dean's old boy's home that's now being haunted by a ghost.
Jennifer Oleksiuk
- Timmy's Mom
- (as Jen Oleksiuk)
Steven Merk
- Bruce the Monster Smasher
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
James Stratton
- Ghost
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaErin Karpluk who plays Robin in this episode also appeared in Season 1 episode 21 as Monica the mother of the 6 month old baby.
- GoofsWhen Dean is telling Sam about Sonny, he says "You remember when we were kids, that spring in Upstate New York? Dad was on a rugaru hunt." Yet in season 4 episode 4 "Metamorphosis", when the hunter Travis tells them that Jack Montgomery is a rugaru, Dean replies with "Is that made up? That sounds made up."
- Quotes
Sam Winchester: Sonny's an ex-con, huh?
Dean Winchester: [Scoffs] What, and we're such angels?
- ConnectionsReferences The Omen (1976)
- SoundtracksAve Maria, Ellens Gesang III, D. 839, Op. 52: No. 6,
Composed by Franz Schubert
Featured review
Doesn't work in continuity-sloppy writing, the crew needed to re-watch After School Special
On its own this is a episode well within typical Supernatural quality. The kid actors are all pretty good-Timmy especially is engaging. The ghost story is believable and the red herring worked fairly well. The Dean stuff works as long as you don't think too much about it. But there's a couple of big issues for this episode in continuity .
First, the resolution of the ghost story is among the lamest in the show's run. There is a stiffness to the writing that is noticeable and I *hate* when the show has a blunt moral to an episode. I am also not sure if the ghost moving on works within the rules the series has laid out as the only other episode that does this sort of ending is Roadkill and there the ghost was calm. Second, Young Dean-and the whole flashback scenes-do not really fit with prior text. Young Dean is 16 in this episode and it is heavily implied that Robin was his first kiss. He is also soulful, and more introspective than Dean usually is. But in After School Special Dean is 18 years old and is shown to be a fully formed play boy and as cocky as adult Dean is (or was in season 1). The two years between the flashbacks are not believable for the time allocated for the change to happen. Moreover, the trajectory that this episode sets Dean on does not lead to Dean at 18 but instead to Dean as he is in season 9. Add in that Young Dean at 16 and Young Dean at 18 don't both work as the younger Ackles and the flashbacks largely fail.
First, the resolution of the ghost story is among the lamest in the show's run. There is a stiffness to the writing that is noticeable and I *hate* when the show has a blunt moral to an episode. I am also not sure if the ghost moving on works within the rules the series has laid out as the only other episode that does this sort of ending is Roadkill and there the ghost was calm. Second, Young Dean-and the whole flashback scenes-do not really fit with prior text. Young Dean is 16 in this episode and it is heavily implied that Robin was his first kiss. He is also soulful, and more introspective than Dean usually is. But in After School Special Dean is 18 years old and is shown to be a fully formed play boy and as cocky as adult Dean is (or was in season 1). The two years between the flashbacks are not believable for the time allocated for the change to happen. Moreover, the trajectory that this episode sets Dean on does not lead to Dean at 18 but instead to Dean as he is in season 9. Add in that Young Dean at 16 and Young Dean at 18 don't both work as the younger Ackles and the flashbacks largely fail.
- CubsandCulture
- Sep 13, 2020
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