#Montage mountain pa

[earlycuntsets]

mcr shows on youtube pt. 1 (2002 - 2005)

-> pt. 2 (2005 - 2007)

-> pt. 3 (2007 - 2011)

-> pt. 4 (2011 - 2023)

02/16/2002 american legion garfield nj – sarah lewitinn

03/01/2002 loop lounge passaic nj – ATØMIC JĒY

06/14/2002 club krome south amboy nj – spaceyrayrun

06/29/2002 harmony grange hall no. 12 wilmington de us – spaceyraygun

07/05/2002 american legion – camp merritt post 21 cresskill nj usa – spaceyraygun

07/19/2002 loop lounge passaic park nj – spaceyraygun

08/03/2002 rexplex elizabeth nj – spaceyraygun

08/16/2002 maxwell’s hoboken nj – george koroneos

08/17/2002 alissas basement kinnelon nj – spaceyraygun

09/14/2002 electric factory philadelphia pa – spaceyraygun

12/02/2002 fireside bowl chicago il – brad nolan video on plentyoflegs

12/18/2002 trocadero theater philadelphia pa – spaceyraygun

12/23/2002 factory 324 roanoake va – panterathrashfan13

1/11/2003 fireside bowl chicago il – brad nolan videography

02/20/2003 mississippi nights st louis mo – brad nolan videography

02/21/2003 beaumont club kansas city mo – brad nolan videography

02/28/2003 boonton elks lodge boonton nj – user: random stuff

03/23/2003 club krome south amboy nj – douglas carl

05/14/2003 north star bar philadelphia pa – deadhoarse

05/23/2003 imusicast oakland ca – skyline studios – oakland

06/08/2003 bloomfield avenue cafe montclair nj – spaceyraygun

06/26/2003 the knitting factory nyc ny – luxlillian

07/26/2003 the chameleon club lancaster pa – spaceyraygun

08/18/2003 9:30 club washington dc – TEPMIHATOP_HvH

08/19/2003 trocadero theater philadelphia pa – spaceyraygun

10/23/2003 downtime nyc ny – spaceyraygun

10/31/2003 south amboy nj halloween show – user: MCR stuff and things

11/14/2003 university of connecticut-stamford stamford ct – user: random stuff

12/14/2003 irving plaza nyc ny – spaceyraygun

05/17/2004 des moines iowa house of bricks – 515 archive

06/02/2004 manchester university manchester uk – TEMIHATOP-HvH

06/08/2004 vintage vinyl fords nj – spaceyraygun

06/09/2004 newbury comics shrewsbury ma us – punkstermann

06/10/2004 north star bar philadelphia pa – spaceyraygun

08/08/2004 summer sonic festival tokyo japan – dusted out on route guano

11/08/2004 hard rock live orlando fl – ryanninja

11/13/2004 unknown venue orange ca – TEPMIHATOP_HvH

12/12/2004 universal amphitheatre universal city ca – andrea amador

01/17/2005 trl nyc ny – patty8239

02/03/2005 la boule noire paris – the academy is my beautiful romance

03/04/2005 arrow hall mississauga ontario ca – the academy is my beautiful romance

03/05/2005 john labatt centre london ontario ca – the academy is my beautiful romance

03/29/2005 arco arena sacramento ca – moranestes

05/21/2005 kroq weenie roast irvine ca – the academy is my beautiful romance

05/27/2005 wxdx summer kick off chevrolet amphitheater pittsburgh pa – neeeeonafterglow

06/06/2005 le trabendo paris france – the academy is my beautiful romance

06/10/2005 download festival donington park castle donington uk (interview) – TEPMIHATOP_HvH

06/25/2005 warped tour reliant park houston tx – ibanez27

06/27/2005 hard rock live orlando fl – ATØMIC JĒY

07/02/2005 32/20 warped tour pier san francisco ca – the academy is my beautiful romance

07/12/2005 warped tour thunderbird stadium vancouver ca – kristi haubrick

07/30/2005 warped tour molson park barrie ontanio ca – loveorsympathy

07/31/2005 warped tour silverdome pontiac mi – nightrain5565

08/01/2005 warped tour post gazette pavilion burgettstown pa – price family homestead

08/05/2005 warped tour vinoy park st. petersburg fl – rogo117

08/10/2005 warped tour nissan pavilion bristol va – the academy is my beautiful romance

08/11/2005 warped tour ford pavilion montage mountain scranton pa – the academy is my beautiful romance

08/12/2005 warped tour tweeter center camden nj – katemcilwaine

08/13/2005 warped tour randall’s island park randalls island nyc ny – the academy is my beautiful romance

08/14/2005 raceway park englishtown nj – readydeady

08/23/2005 the underworld london england – leila vardar

08/31/2005 melkweg the max amsterdam netherlands – user: random stuff

09/01/2005 abart zurich switzerland – mychemrock1

09/03/2005 idroscalo segrate italy – nacho en tour

09/15/2005 promowest pavilion columbus west ohio – andreaflowers

09/17/2005 eastern michigan university convocation center ypsilanti mi – amanda

09/27.2005 mesa amphitheatre mesa arizona – mark zeta

10/02/2005 event center arena san jose ca – jason is lost in japan

10/08/2005 gwinnett center duluth ga – living with ghosts

10/10/2005 revolution live ft lauderdale fl – natnizzle

10/14/2005 tweeter center camden nj – decoemergency

-> pt. 2 (2005 - 2007)

-> pt. 3 (2007 - 2011)

-> pt. 4 (2011 - 2023)

[angeliagro]

Jeff ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Lollapalooza, Montage Mountain (PA)

15/8/1992

📸 Ebet Roberts

[vodkaandsnakes]

On this day, July 14, in Type O Negative history:

As Repulsion, the band who will one day adopt the moniker Type O Negative play The Ritz with Flotsam & Jetsam, Leeway, and Prong in New York, NY (1990)

Type O Negative play The Pavilion at Montage Mountain with Queensryche in Scranton, PA (1995)

[skateboardmarketing]

HEAVY METAL ICONS PANTERA ANNOUNCE 2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR LAMB OF GOD TO JOIN RUN AS SPECIAL GUESTS Tickets On Sale Starting Friday, Jan. 27 at 10 AM Local Time on LiveNation.com

WHO: Pantera with special guest Lamb of God

WHAT: 2023 PANTERA TOUR 

Pantera, one of the most successful and influential bands in heavy metal history, have announced their long awaited return to the stage. They will be touring North America this summer with Lamb of God as special guests.One of the most anticipated tours of 2023, this celebration tour includes original members Philip Anselmo and Rex Brown joined by Zakk Wylde (guitar) and Charlie Benante (drums). In December 2022, they kicked off the highly anticipated return in Mexico City to incredible reviews.Produced by Live Nation, the 20-city tour kicks off on Tuesday, July 28th in Burgettstown, PA at The Pavilion at Star Lake making stops in Milwaukee, Toronto, Austin, Denver, and more before wrapping up in Bristow, VA on September 15th at Jiffy Lube Live.Fans can also see Pantera at their recently announced support dates during Metallica’s North America Stadium tour dates in 2023 & 2024 and headlining major rock festivals in 2023 including Rockfest, Inkcarceration, and more.TICKETS: Tickets go on sale starting Friday, January 27th starting at 10 AM Local Time on LiveNation.com.PRESALE: Citi is the official card of the Pantera tour. 

Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, January 24th at 10 AM local time until Thursday, January 26 at 10 PM local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

TOUR DATES:*Festival Date | #Support Act TBD | ^Pantera Support for Metallica Dates|2023 Dates

Fri May 20 – Daytona, FL – Welcome to Rockville

Thu Jul 13 – Cadott, WI – Rockfest

Sat Jul 15 – Mansfield, OH – Inkcarceration 

Jul 28 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake 

Jul 29 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center 

Jul 31 – Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater 

Aug 02 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion

Fri Aug 04 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium

Aug 05 – Hershey, PA – Hersheypark StadiumSun 

Aug 06 – Scranton, PA – The Pavilion at Montage Mountain 

Aug 08 – Syracuse, NY – St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview

 Aug 09 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater

Aug 11 – Montreal, QC – Olympique Stadium 

Aug 12 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage 

Aug 15 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP

Aug 17 – Woodlands, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Aug 18 – Arlington, TX – AT&T Stadium 

Aug 20 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater

Aug 23 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena 

Aug 25 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium

Sat Aug 26 – Chula Vista, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

Aug 29 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre

Aug 31 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater

Sep 01 – Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium

Sep 03 - Pryor, OK - Rocklahoma

Sep 07 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheater

Sep 08 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion

Sep 10 – Alton, VA – Blue Ridge Rock Festival

Sep 12 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre

Sep 14 – Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater

Sep 15 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live

Sep 23 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life

Oct 07 - Sacramento, CA - Aftershock

Nov 03 – St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Center

Nov 10 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field^2024 Dates

Aug 02 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium

Aug 09 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field

Aug 16 – Minneapolis, MN – U.S. Bank Stadium

Aug 23 – Edmonton, AB – Commonwealth Stadium

 Aug 30 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field

MORE INFO:Pantera got its start in Arlington, TX with its best-known lineup, consisting of founding members drummer Vinnie Paul and guitarist Dimebag Darrell, along with bassist Rex Brown and vocalist Philip Anselmo. Pantera is credited with the development and popularization of the groove metal subgenre. To date, the group has sold 20 million records worldwide and has received four Grammy nominations. www.pantera.com

[hannahjae27]

DrP Game - Week 1

This past summer, I went to my first rock concert, up in Scranton, PA, at Montage Mountain. It was the bands Godsmack and Staind. It was the best concert I've been to so far!

I also want to mention something fun I did this winter, too. I got two great books that I highly recommend reading. Although, I haven't finished reading either of them yet (but they're just that great so far)! "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros is for those who like fantasy fiction novels. "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara is for those who like fiction novels that include real-life aspects and stories.

[sonrolli]

Montage mountain pa

With 26 trails, 1,000 vertical feet, and. This Land property is available for sale. The mountain transforms into a snow-filled landscape and offers the best and most diverse terrain in Pennsylvania. The festival site includes The Pavilion at Montage Mountain which is one of the most beautiful concert venues in the country. No matter the season the ZipRider® is the main attraction in the middle of the action at Montage Mountain. Montage Mountain Rd I-81, Moosic, PA 18507. Montage Mountain Camp Bisco Montage Mountain Montage Mountain is truly a special place and we can’t wait to share 3 days of music, camping, waterpark fun & so much more with you this summer. Our crew often encountered black bears around the top tower while installing the ZipRider®! In the wintertime customers will ride directly over the Main Line ski run, Loki’s terrain park, and just skier’s left of Montage Mountain’s Superpipe at speeds up to 50 mph! During the summer season riders will be flying directly above the Sno Cove Water Park near the base area. Atop the 50 foot tower customers have a panoramic view of Scranton/Wilkes Barre and the surrounding wilderness. ZipRider® customers first ride up the Shuttle Lift located to the right of Montage Mountain’s Base Lodge. Montage Mountain takes a little over 2 hours to reach by car from New York City. Turn left onto Shoppes Blvd, and uBreakiFix will be on the right. Use the left 2 lanes to turn left onto Fieldling Dr. Montage Mountain is located on the outskirts of Scranton, Pennsylvania, just past the Toyota Pavilion concert amphitheater at the end of Montage Mountain Road. If you’re heading southwest on I-81 S, take exit 182A toward Montage Mountain Rd. Bobrovy Log Fun Park, Krasnoyarsk, Russiaįor days/hours of operation and pricing please call Montage Mountain directly at: 855-ski-swim or visit their website.Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort, New Mexico Montage Mountain Waterpark features a wave pool you can jam in while listening to music, wild water rides, slides, a lazy river, a regulation sized volleyball.Catamount Mountain Resort, NY (ZipTour).SNOW KING MOUNTAIN RESORT, WY (ZIPTOUR).

[cosmicglowboy]

Liquid Stranger 💧❔ B2B Space Jesus 🌌👽🛐- Above the Waves @ Camp Bisco 2018

[motionlussyinwhussy]

Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA. 🤙🏻🤙🏻

👀👀👀

[emergingsentiments]

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha: Episodes 1 and 2 (Repost)

"Life is not easy for all of us. Some spend their whole lives on unpaved words, while some run at full speed only to reach the edge of a cliff."

What is home? And is home a place or a feeling? These are the questions the premiere episodes of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha pose.

Yoon Hye-jin (Shin Min-a) seems to have it all in Seoul — a nice apartment, a stable job as a dentist, and her online orders. But perhaps the most important thing she owns is her principle. Ambitious as she may be, she isn’t keen on ripping off patients to earn or to pay for her shopping indulgences. Her chief dentist at the clinic, however, thinks otherwise. So despite her materialistic tendencies, Hye-jin stands up to her greedy and disingenuous boss in a spur-of-the-moment defiance, one which predictably has its professional and financial repercussions.

Now jobless and possibly in debt, a childhood memory draws her from the confines of her sleek domicile to the quaint seaside town of Gongjin, not only to seek a reprieve from her city miseries but also to remember.

Gongjin, however, is the home of Hong Du-sik (Kim Seon-ho) — a charismatic jack-of-all-trades who is as ubiquitous as the scent of ocean air in the town. He is everywhere it seems — on the boat, by the sea, at a coffee shop, or the fish market. If Hyejin’s ambitious and near solitary exterior represented the cutthroat urban soul, then Dusik’s endless list of side hustle captures the untiring enterprise needed to survive and sustain a life in the province. It’s a life that demands diligence and street smarts, as well empathy and community. Perfectly helpful to everyone in town, especially to Kim Gam-ri (Kim Young-ok), and capable of almost every form of labor, he is as popular as the dried squid Gongjin is known for.

The two meet on the beach — though not for the first time, we find out later on. It’s the perfect location for the world of opposites to collide: sand and the sea. Hyejin — the fish out of water — symbolically loses a shoe from a much-prized pair. Dusik — amphibious and with the ability to move around in any environment — finds the other heel. He returns it to her partly annoyed.

Though grateful, Hyejin seeks to find the other shoe, attached not only to its value but also because she cannot see herself walking barefoot. Dusik is not impressed. He nonetheless pities the out-of-place Seoulite and throws her his pair of slippers — oversized, overused, possibly acquired for free from one of the seaside restaurants. Walk my paths, Dusik seems to say. They are Hyejin’s welcome gifts to a town she will have to understand because it will become her home. Or will it?

Plucked from the metropolis and driven by both impulse and circumstance, the good dentist will have to figure out not just Dusik’s deal but Gongjin’s townsfolk, too. Left with no choice, she leaves behind the comforts and conveniences of the city. However, the small-town outlook and habits of Gongjin's people are unfamiliar and even repulsive to her. As hopeful as she is for new beginnings, an awkward and very public faux pas means she is also off to a rocky start. This and a series of other missteps finds her alienated from the community. Almost like learning the Cha-Cha-Cha, Hyejin’s footwork is a mess.

Dusik, who witnesses and hears Hyejin’s judgemental tirade, comes to her aid but only subtly and as a gentle nudge. He isn’t pretending to be a savior who could fix the unpleasant cracks between Hyejin and Gongjin’s people. Instead, he reminds her to meet the community halfway. For instance, he doesn’t chastise her for wearing tight-fitting running wear that scandalized the elderly women of the town. He knows its purpose; he even explained it to the elderly women. But Dusik also sheds light on the motivations behind this conservative view of his town’s people.

When Hyejin attempts to win the community’s trust by doling out rice cakes while inviting them to her clinic’s opening, Dusik senses the insincerity. Material gifts are meaningless. As the saying goes, it’s the thought that counts. Remorse has to be personal. She’s the new girl in town, after all. Hyejin cannot expect Gongjin to adjust to her whims. Dusik does what he can — secretly, too. But the city girl will have to take the initiative in building meaningful relations with the town’s people.

In both cases, we get a timely commentary on the need to understand other people. After all, we live in world increasingly adversarial, quick to respond to and mob those we disagree with. We're fast to label those who stand our way as enemies instead as partners for truth-seeking. If Homcha follows its current tracks, I'm curious to see if this wisdom of seeing both sides is further emphasized.

Despite Hyejin’s multiple setbacks, she moves forward. It helps that her inimitable best friend, Pyo Mi-seon (Gong Min-jeung), follow her to town. Mi-seon brings comic relief and relentless energy to our dentist’s new life. So through small and careful steps — and with Dusik just watching over her ever so carefully — she settles in and slowly makes amends with Gongjin’s men and women.

And what a community Gongjin is. Homcha masterfully paints a town brimming with life and populated by every character and role we know and relate to. The seaside commune is scenic and vibrant, almost too idyllic even. Its port is bustling and its homes are welcoming. From the mountains, the horizon glistens with every break of dawn. What we know from Dusik and Hyejin, however, is that the surface isn’t all there is to it.

In a telling short montage at the start of Episode 2, we get a glimpse of the townsfolk's quiet sorrows. Hwa-jung (Lee Bong-ryun), the assertive landlady, is a divorcee still hurting about her marriage’s breakdown. The owner of the town’s cafe and pub, Cheon-jae (Jo Han-chul), is a forgotten singer and one-hit wonder struggling with his confidence and purpose. Nam-sook (Cha Chung-hwa), the quirky and chatty owner of the Chinese restaurant, appears to grieve the loss of a child. Even Dusik — who seems faultless — hides a wound. Behind the closed doors of the homes of Gongjin are unspoken aches and regrets.

Home is where the heart is, they say. But often, home is also where the hurts are.

Life wounds can only be remedied by love. Homcha makes no qualms about it. It’s a love story at its core but one that explores love’s healing effects in a place closest to us, a space that has to be the safest for us. Dusik is clearly smitten by the new resident of Gongjin. He sees her in a different light. It’s easy to tell, however, he has some baggage—a suit to be specific. Hyejin carries with her a spirit of grief as well. What of her mother? What of her childhood? How their respective hurts have shaped them and will continue to define their characters will be an interesting exploration by the series. With the first two episodes out, I’m hopeful we become privy to the furnishings of Dusik’s and Hyejin’s “homes”.

Where the first two episodes succeed is not just in juxtaposing the clashing views of urban and rural. Instead, we see more of what is common between the two. Hyejin’s uncharitable remarks over the narrow-minded views of Gongjin’s people are easy to associate with the condescension typical of city dwellers. But one can say the same with the trio of halmeoni who were so quickly appalled by Hyejin’s workout clothes. Judgments, after all, know no place or time. We think of those in the province as being insular and yet we also meet a chief dentist with a small-town outlook, ready to ruin the reputation of another in a similarly tight-knit dentist’s community.

Perhaps we are more the same than different?

What makes Homcha stand out, however, is that it doesn’t try too hard. The characters — and the actors — are unpretentious. As such, we get a light-hearted and heartwarming journey as our main characters and the Gongjin community settle, work, and live. You feel as if you're part of the community, too.

From its warm colors to its penchant for nostalgic songs, Homcha lives up to its title. It evokes that familiar place we grew up in and stirs memories of the spaces and faces that have shaped our persona. Sometimes we choose to stay there—or find ourselves stuck. Sometimes we outgrow it, too, and we move on to greener pastures. But that part of our lives connected to our youth never really disappears. To survive we need to accept and love the parts of our history we are least proud of, right? Once we do, how ready are we to show them to other eyes, to let them be held by other hands?

Round my hometown Ooh the people I've met Are the wonders of my world

PS

If I had a gripe with the show, it’s the fact that Hyejin apparently has no idea how to use the forgot password feature of websites. That's all.

[eventscommingsoon]

Jason Aldean & Kane Brown at Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain

Jason Aldean & Kane Brown to perform live in concert at Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain, Scranton, PA on Thursday 19 September, 2019

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[festylyfe]

🍑 takes over Montage Mountain! What's stands out on this to you guys? How about Lettuce featuring Chaka Khan? That's going to be a sight to see for sure. peachmusicfest.com

[fuckyeahroadtrippin]

Jour 50: Vermont

On a fait une entrée pluvieuse dans les Green Mountains, la chaîne de montagnes qui a donné son nom à l'état (Verts Monts en Français). On s'était pas mangés un tel déluge sur la tronche depuis la Louisiane.

Premier arrêt dans le petit village de Manchester, et belle entrée en matière dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre: tout un tas de vieilles maisons coloniales du XIXè, plus énormes les unes que les autres, flanquées de gros arbres et avec la montagne nuageuse en arrière-plan.

Puis on a traversé l'état vers le nord, tandis que le temps s'éclaircissait petit à petit. La route était sublime, toute en forêts, relief, rivières, petites fermes et villages tranquilles aux airs de campagne britannique huppée, avec des cimetières biscornus ambiance Sleepy Hollow.

On a fini à Burlington, une petite ville au bord du lac Champlain, avec un vrai centre-ville piéton à l'européenne (à l'anglaise vraiment), tout plein de bars, restos, galeries et murales. On a bu une pinte en discutant avec un couple de retraités du Connecticut avant d'aller prendre nos quartiers au camping de North Beach, près du lac. Premier montage de tente sous la pluie, resto indien (d'Inde), tentative d'allumage de feu, Babylon Berlin sur l'ipad et dodo.

[hippychick006]

4.17 - It’s a terrible life

or the one where sexy times wincest almost becomes canon (though technically it would be sexy times Swesson).  Yet another episode I love. Kripke, I miss you. Yet again so much happens in 40 minutes so under the cut we go.

We know something is up from the get go in this one, Dean is wearing a business suit and hair slicked back.  As an aside, his apartment view is almost the same as mine so I know which building this is filmed in.  We could assume he’s just working a case if not for the fact he gets into a prius and switches off the rock music.  This is not our Dean.  As an another aside, Prius are nippy little cars until you try to get them to go up a hill.

Dean enters a sky scraper for the Sandover Bridge & Iron company.  His office tells us he’s Dean Smith - Director, Sales & Marketing.  Montage follows of Dean working through the day, typing, putting on his little office golf set, bemoaning there aren’t more shows like Project Runway, eating salad and we get this gem from Dean’s own mouth: “Net profitability aside, it’s the client-retention rate that concerns me vis-a-vis maximising returns on sales...”  And I’m having flash backs to my former working life. 

We meet his boss, Mr Adler, (who we’ll find out later is actually the angel Zachariah).  Back to Dean and he’s now bemoaning the sedentary lifestyle of office work and notes down a juice plan to try later - lemon, ceyenne and maple syrup.  I think this is or was a real diet.

We finally see Sam in the elevator when Dean finishes work for the day.  Sam is wearing a yellow polo top so obviously not doing the same type of work as Dean.  Dean thinks Sam is hitting on him and tells him to “save it for the health club, pal.”  Sam looks confused - possibly wondering where Dean’s health club is so he can hit on him there.

Shot of pages being printed and pencil being sharpened, and we see that Sam works in a cubicle, and I feel claustrophobic just looking at it.  Sam Wesson, as we find out, works Tech Support at Sandover.  He has an adorable dracula bobble head that he taps while giving out the sage advice of “Have you tried turning it off and then on.”  The caller is obviously a newbie because the rest of us know to do this before we even call Tech Support.  The only unrealistic thing in the episode so far is that Tech Support appear to have windows.  Not in my experience, they are always hidden in the basement somewhere.

Sam has a friend in tech support which is cute.  The guy appears to be a rebel and not wearing the uniform.  They go for a coffee break and try to get their third friend, Paul, to join them.  Paul has no time and appears stressed, which seems to not be his usual behaviour if the look on Sam’s face is anything to go by.  His friend explains that Paul got busted the day before for surfing for porn and was sent up to HR.

We find out Sam’s new buddy is called Ian, when Sam catches him raiding the stationery cupboard.  And I don’t want to tell the company how to do things, but having the stationery cupboard in the employee room, probably isn’t the best way to avoid stationery getting nicked.  My suggestion is to put it behind the desk of that one PA everyone is terrified of.  Moving on, Sam’s been telling Ian that he has dreams like saving a grim reaper named Tessa from demons.  Ian laughs and Sam calls him a dick.

Shot of pages being printed and pencil being sharpened again, and Sam’s still in the cubicle.  He’s tired and falls asleep and we see a montage of him and Dean killing things.  He wakes up abruptly.

Sam gets in the elevator, Dean’s in there again but they are not alone this time. I’m remembering the gag reel where Jared keeps screwing this scene up because he’s confused that the button he wants is already pressed. Dean and Sam give each other glances which only gets more awkward when everyone else leaves on the same floor, and Sam and Dean are the only ones left.  There follows this conversation - which given they are in an elevator and Dean can’t escape - is awkward to say the least:

SAM: Can I ask you a question?

DEAN: Look, man, I told you, I'm not into the, uh...

SAM: Oh dude, come on, I'm not either. I just wanna ask you one question.

DEAN (reluctantly and looking for an escape route): Sure.

SAM: What do you think about ghosts?

I think Dean would have preferred being flirted with.  Seriously Sam?

Sam then asks about vampires (since the last part of his dream was Dean using a saw to cut the head off one).  He tells Dean he’s been having some weird dreams recently, and asks Dean if he knows what he means.  Dean answers, “no, not really.” Sam persists and ask, “So... you’ve never had any... weird dreams.”  Dean is visibly uncomfortable now and starts jamming the elevator buttons desperately and tells Sam that he overshares.

Printer/pencil being sharpened.  Sam’s back in his cubicle, he searches the web for vampires while saying into his headset  “Did you turn it off, then on...”  

Ian asks him if he got an email from HR.  Sam says no.  Ian says it’s just him then and heads off hoping to be spanked. I’m hoping Ian doesn’t meet Dean in the elevator and tell him this same thing because if he thinks Sam overshares, then he’s going to have serious problems with Ian.  Meanwhile Paul has a melt down because he’s just lost a full days work.  Sam tries to calm him down, but we see Paul working really late trying to get the file back.  He fails and kills himself via microwave.

The whole office watch the next morning as Paul is body bagged out.  I’m not saying Sam and Dean have a moment as they glance at each other... but they have a moment as they glance at each other.  Can I also just say, Dean looks stunning as a businessman and I’ve just realised that hot on the heels of giving us mob!boss Dean last week, the show have gifted us rich businessman!Dean this week.  The only thing that would have made this episode better would have been PersonalAssistant!Sam, but we can’t have everything we want and I feel greedy just thinking of it.

Dean’s back in his office, and looks up Paul’s file to see that he was 2 weeks from retirement.  Sam’s obviously done the same thing as we see him wheel himself over to Ian’s cubicle to ask Ian why Paul would off himself with only 2 weeks to go to freedom.

Ian - who is now wearing the yellow uniform - does not have time for this Sam,  he’s working!  Sam asks what’s going on, but Ian’s called up to a manager’s office and doesn’t answer any of Sam’s questions.   The manager turns out to be Dean and needs Ian to fix a 445T form he filled out the day before that has some errors in it.  Ian melts down that he’s wasted company profits and runs away.  Dean gives chase and finds him in the executive bathroom where strange things start happening and Ian stabs himself in the neck with one of the pencils he stole the day before. Dean goes to help and sees an old man’s face in the mirror.

Sam and Dean share another moment as Ian is body bagged away, though Sam’s is slightly more bitchface this time.

Printer/pencil being sharpened.  Sam’s back in his cubicle and receives a phone call.  I’m bolding this next important piece of dialogue:

Dean: I need to see you in my office.  Now!

The next shot is of Dean doing his shirt up and I can’t even...

Sadly though, we discover that Sam has only just arrived so no sexy times were had on Dean’s desk.  Oh show.  Stop with the teasing.  Anyway, they talk (while Dean drinks that lemon juice/ceyenne/maple syrup concoction.  They have a long conversation about Sam dreaming about ghosts and them being real.  

Dean: So you’re telling me that your dreams are special visions and you’re some kind of psychic?

Sam: No, I mean... that would be nuts.

Heh.  

Sam then brings out research he’s been doing on what connects the victims.  Dean realises Sam must have broken into their email accounts to get this information.  Sam says, “I used some skills that I happen to have to satisfy my curiosity.”  I love pre Charlie days, when Sam had the skills to hack into systems and didn’t have to rely on the smartest person in the room..  

Sam explains that the emails said to report to HR, room 1444.  Dean responds, HR’s on 7.  They both go to check it out and arrive in time to rescue yet another yellow shirted employee who’s been summoned to that room.  Sam kicks the locked door down and Dean tries not to whimper.  They see the ghost attacking the worker who is pinned under a shelf.  Dean grabs a wrench and swings it and the old man disappears.

Back at Dean’s apartment, and as yet another unwanted aside, but I’m giving them to you anyway, those twinkling lights in the background are Grouse Mountain.  That is one very nice apartment, but not sure I’d have put the fireplace right in front of floor to ceiling windows.  Anyway, both are hyped up from their run in with the ghost.  Sam asks, “Hey, How the hell did you know that ghosts are scared of wrenches?”  Heh!  Dean compliments Sam on kicking down the door.  He seems fixated on that detail.

Sam starts saying he doesn’t believe they belong there.  He should be doing something more than sit in a cubicle.  Dean responds, “I think most people who work in a cubicle feel that same way.”

Sam persists that he feels he was destined for something different.  Dean says he doesn’t believe in destiny, but in dealing with what’s right in front of them.  Sam asks what they should do now and Dean answers “We do what I do best, Sammy, research.”  

Sam: Did you just call me Sammy?”

Dean: Did I?”

Sam: I think you did... yeah... don’t.

I can’t believe we’re only half way through the episode at this point!  What?!

They both do research, but it’s Dean that hits the jackpot when he comes across Ghostfacers website.  Yes, Ed and Harry are back, who Dean declares to be genius.  They’ve produced instructional videos, which Sam and Dean use to figure out what they are dealing with and how to get rid of it.  You either like the ghostfacers or don’t, but the clips were funny and here has the extended version of them in all their glory: https://moderateinthemiddle.wordpress.com/tag/ghost-facers/

So many good moments going between the videos and Sam and Dean preparing, but my favourites are that they discover the wrench worked, not because ghosts are afraid of them, but because it was made out of iron. They have no idea where to get guns from.  Also this bit;

Harry: Okay, this next part gets a little gross. Sometimes you might have to dig up the body... Sorry.

Ed: It’s illegal in some states.

Harry: All states

Ed: Possibly all states.

I’m laughing.

Armed with condiments and fire pokers, they had back to the office.  Dean suggests they set their phones to walkie talkie and... wait, you can do this?  How?

They search Sandovers office (room 1444) for some remains to burn (since the man was cremated).  Sam gets caught by security and dragged out.  They go into the elevator which starts acting strangely stopping suddenly.  The security guard opens the door and finds they are between floors.  This is not going to end well. 

The guard awkwardly climbs out and... oh, thankfully he’s fine.  False alarm.

Back to Dean who finds the clue about what they need to burn.

Back to the security guard who reaches back in to the elevator to get Sam and the elevator drops decapitating him, and spraying Sam with blood. (Jared getting sprayed is a running prank on the set, I’m telling you).

Sam and Dean work together to kill the ghost and we get some winsync moments as they look like they’ve been working together for years.

Sam suggests they quit their jobs and hit the road.  Dean wants to know how they would live. “with stolen credit cards?  Eating diner food drenched in saturated fats?  Sharing a crap motel room every night?”  Sam says those are just details.  Dean responds “Details are everything!  You don’t want to be fighting ghosts without any health insurance.”

Sam confesses that he thinks this is not who they are.  He thinks his dreams are their real life, that they are hunters, friends, brothers even.

Dean responds that he knows who he is, his father’s name is Bob, mother Ellen and sister is called Jo.

Sam asks when the last time Dean talked to them, because he just broke up with his fiancee Madison and when he called her number, he got an animal hospital.  Heh.  

SAM: All I know is, I got this feeling in my gut. And I know—I know that deep down, you gotta be feeling it too. We're supposed to be something else. You're not just some corporate douchebag. This isn't you. I know you.

DEAN: Know me? You don't know me, pal. You should go.

Printer/pencil being sharpened and Sam’s back in his cubicle and in a scene that I’m sure everyone who has ever worked in a cubicle wishes they could do, he takes a poker to his ringing phone and smashes it to pieces.  Sam: “I quit.”  

Entire office stands up and claps, crying “Way to go, Sammy, way to go!”   

Not really.  That was just me.

Switch back to Dean’s office. Mr Adler is back.  He’s pleased with Dean’s work and writes down a figure on a piece of paper, I think it’s $50,000 which he tells Dean is a bonus to make sure he’s not going anywhere.  Mr Adler sees big things in Dean’s future, “Maybe even senior VP, Eastern Great Lakes Division”

In a much less dramatic way than Sammy, Dean quietly says he’s giving his notice. “It’s not who I’m supposed to be.”

Much to Dean’s surprise, Mr Adler grins and says “Finally.”  He reaches over and zaps Dean and the bright colours vanish.  Dean looks around wondering why he’s in an office, wearing a tie and he’s starving.

Zachariah explains who he is - Castiel’s boss - and that after the situation with Uriel, felt it was necessary to visit to get all of his ducks in a row.  Dean: “I am not one of your ducks!”  Zachariah explains that he wanted to show Dean that hunting is what he was born to do.  That it was nothing to do with John.  That he’d find his way to it, even in the dark. 

Zachariah:“...Save people, maybe even the world. All the while you drive a classic car and fornicate with women. This isn't a curse. It's a gift. So for God's sakes, Dean, quit whining about it. Look around. There are plenty of fates worse than yours. So are you with me? You wanna go steam yourself another latte? Or are you ready to stand up and be who you really are?”

An important episode to get Dean out of his funk of the previous week and realising that hunting is what he was born to do.  Nice continuity between episodes here.  

Up next The Monster at the end of This book.  Damn it, another favourite!

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