OK episode, but I think Sam should have seen multiple Lucifers chasing him. Did it have to be childhood fears?
Great title!
But if you are freaked out by scary clowns, as Sam is, you may not enjoy this one.
My DVR had a brainfart and failed to record. Anyone care to spoil? Was this the rumored Castiel episode?
Definitely not the rumored Castiel episode. The closest we got to that was when the boys were trying to figure out what they were dealing with this week, and Dean mentioned angels, which was quickly (and correctly) dismissed.
It was a standalone episode (no advancement of the story arc), and, if you have to miss an episode, this one was probably a good one to miss. Dean got off some good lines, but, Sam’s phobia notwithstanding, the clowns just weren’t that scary.
The basic plot: people in a town are getting killed be weird monsters (a giant octopus, a unicorn). Turns out that they were parents of kids who had recently been to a Chuck E. Cheese-type restaurant, where the kids are encouraged to draw pictures of their worst fears so Plucky Pennywhistle could make them disappear. Unfortunately, one of the employees of the restaurant, pissed off because he didn’t get a promotion and haunted by memories of a dead brother, knew just enough dark magic to figure out a way to make these fears come to life and attack the parents he felt were being jerks to their kids. Dean goes after the guy while killer clowns go after Sam, and Dean manages to save the day at the last minute, by conjuring up the guy’s aforementioned dead brother (or something that looked like him) who brings about the guy’s death. Actually, that scene was kind of effective, come to think of it.
They think it was the ball washer.
The what?
The ball washer.
The what?
The ball washer.
The what?
The ball… Dammit.
Merged duplicate threads.
Sam Winchester has faced demons, angels, vampires, the Devil and a God-like Castiel, all of which could legitimately end his existence, but he’s afraid of clowns?
I sort of thought the ending was a cop-out. Yes, let me leave my one weakness pinned to the wall, literally.
Also, I would have like to have seen the killer robot with blazing eye beams, but it probably wasn’t in the budget. 
The budget was clearly showing on that restaurant. Shots showing the ceiling made it look totally fake, like it was just a set built in a warehouse type building, and a SINGLE ski-ball machine? Not an entire row of them? Okayyyyyyy… They did have an incredibly huge ball pit though. Yes, this show certainly has balls.
Nitpicks aside, a nice breather ep, Sam spazzing out over even the non-evil clowns was pretty damn funny. And YAY, one of those interesting motels, been a while since we saw one of those.
This show might have seen better days, but it still has moments that make it one of the best shows on tv for me - like when the scary clowns went “POOF!” and glittered up Sam, he puffs out a breath of glitter.
And the brother dynamic (when they’re not having homo-erotic heartfelt pillow talks).
This is maybe the first episode this entire season that felt like “Supernatural Classic” to me. I just can’t get into the Leviathan thing no matter how much I try. I mean, they just have no personality as villains. We go from the very charismatic demons like Azazel and Alistair and then the angels like Cas and Uriel and of course the very charismatic Lucifer and Crowley, and now Dick Roman? It just seems like a letdown. I’d rather have more standalone episodes like this, to be frank.
Those are all good points, Cuckoorex. They need Castiel back, and they need to do something with the Leviathan storyline.
Oh, and they need to reclaim the Most Important Object In The Entire Universe, too.
Agreement. No Castiel, no Bobby, no Metallicar? The boys are truly adrift.
I missed a few episodes. What’s up with the car? I miss the Impala.
They had to ditch the Impala because the Leviathans had all the authorities looking for Sam and Dean with all their known aliases and their known vehicle (if I recall correctly).
Well this will not do. I love that impala!! I’ve asked my SO is he thought I could use one as an every day car but I’m thinking if I had one I’d also need Dean to work on it every week. And Sam to lean on it, drinking a beer and smiling at me.
I am assuming as all right-thinking people would that the boys would not be wearing shirts as they work and lean. 
I think I saw a glimpse of Castiel in a preview for an upcoming ep. But it was for Ringer, not Supernatural.
This isn’t the first time they have not had the Impala for a bit. They will get it back.