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Rewatching Scarecrow

Welcome to “Apple Pies and Fugly Guys: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!

 Up today, s1e11: Scarecrow

  Sam and Dean take on a Norse myth/Jeepers Creepers mash-up in one of SPN's best and spookiest early episodes. A small town of a-holes charm a young couple every year and then feed them to the local apple orchard scarecrow god in exchange for general prosperity for the residents. Sam and Dean have a fight over John and his orders (shocking), and they break up for the first time, Sammy walking off in a huff toward California and John and Dean driving off in a tizzy toward Creepy Town. Dean saves this year's couple, but brings down the wrath of the townspeople on his own head and gets himself and a local young woman tied to a couple of apple trees instead. Meanwhile Sammy meets Meg for the first time (sigh) and almost follows her to California, but he gets the Brotherly Worries when Dean won't answer his phone and heads back to save Dean's butt. The locals get theirs in the end, the scarecrow gets his sacred tree charred, and the Cigarette Smoking Man gets away scot free, as per usual.

 Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here.  Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

 [and we begin:]

 Mace:

Oooh, I love this one. It's one of the scariest for me, but it really feels like an old-school horror movie and I LOVE that.

 Lor:

YES

 Mace:

(and by old-school I mean 80s horror movies)

 Lor:

this was a VERY behind-the-couch one the first time. I handle it a little better now, but

 Mace:

I still get a little watch-through-my-fingers when the scarecrow is around

very Jeepers Creepers

Lor:

so the moral of SPN is that when your idiot boyfriend tries to get you to go somewhere freaky, you SHOULD FOLLOW YOUR INITIAL INSTINCT NOT TO

 Mace:

YEP

tl;dr: boyfriends are dumb

 Lor:

LOL

ug it is SO CREEPY

 Mace:

SO CREEPY

 Lor:

is the grainy picture on purpose, or just 2005?

because it is EFFECTIVE

 Mace:

(I'm on my laptop and I've made the window smallish, so I can't tell)

 Lor:

(ah)

 Mace:

and the orchard setting feels so remote and enclosed

 Lor:

YEP

aaaaaah, the shot of the empty stand for the scarecrow

  Mace:

Ugh, fuck you, John

 Lor:

UG

 Mace:

"are you hurt?" read: because if you're not FUCK YOU, DAD

 Lor:

YOU SON OF A BITCH

RIGHT?

 Mace:

Dean is UNHAPPY that he's not the one on the phone call

 Lor:

RIGHT?

Dean's "gimme the phone" and the hand

HIS FACE

 Mace:

Dean, put your hand down, buddy

DEAN

don't be grab-handsy

 Lor:

yeah, the grabby thing is annoying but god the CHARACTERIZATION

 Lor:

the "yes, sir" omg. SOMEONE GIVE THAT BOY SOME LOVE

 Mace:

YES and someone punch John in the throat pls

 Lor:

I nominate Cas

to throat punch John

 Mace:

well, I would argue that this obsessive hero worship of John is, in fact, super annoying

 Lor:

yeah, it is. but my "hold him" instinct overrides it. because I am DUMB

 Mace:

well, he's also HOT, so you get a pass

 Lor:

SNORK

oh good

 Lor:

oooo, Sam does NOT want to hear about how John is a master right now

 Mace:

YES

"he's given us an order" "I DON'T CARE" BOYS

(also, Team Sammy)

 Mace:

"it's called being a good son" oh, whoa, back that shit up, Dean

 Lor:

yeeeeah, they are doing the fraught dance again

 Mace:

oh right, this is when they break up for the first time

 Lor:

yep

 Mace:

Ooof, Sam telling him that's what he wants him to do and the look Dean gives him because Dean wants to be wanted

 Lor:

oooof, these two knuckleheads

 Mace:

YEP

 Lor:

YEEEEES

can't say they don't know how to hurt each other

 Mace:

exactly

history of cell phones, part 48795

 Lor:

haaaahahahahaha

I need a fanfic that explores who all of those contacts are

 Mace:

ha!

omg he gets called out on the stupid fake name!

 Lor:

YES

he should know better than to do that with a man of that generation, come on

 Mace:

snork

omg the snark

 Lor:

oh DEAN

I love him

 Mace:

oh UGH

 Lor:

oh it's MEG

... great

 Mace:

I forgot Meg was in this one

so Sammy clearly has nothing in that satchel

 Lor:

LOLOLOL

nice camo backpack, Sammy

 Mace:

what backpack

HAHAHAHA I'M HILARIOUS

 Lor:

lolololololol

 Mace:

Dean, you leave that meter on all the time, your batteries aren't gonna last long

 Lor:

SNORK

is okay, he shoplifted a new pack from that store

 Mace:

snork

 Lor:

how did that town not just adopt poor, adorable little Dean? I mean, creepy pagan god shit aside

 Mace:

well, that girl is gonna want to see more of him

 Lor:

of course she is

 Mace:

Dean, get away from the clearly evil scarecrow

 Lor:

"dude, you fugly"

 Mace:

AND DON'T CALL HIM FUGLY TO HIS FACE

Cripes

 Lor:

LOLOLOLOL

 Mace:

YOU PUT THAT LADDER BACK RIGHT NOW, MISTER

STOOOOOPPPP

 Lor:

man, now I want an apple

 Mace:

and I want an apple pie

 Mace:

gotta think bigger, Lor

 Lor:

LOL

 Lor:

STEAL HIS HAT

 Mace:

Dude, don't egg him on!

 Lor:

LOLOLOLOL

I enjoy our differing reactions to this

 Mace:

HA! YES

 Lor:

SHE KNOWS WHERE THE GAS TANK IS ON A 67 IMPALA

 Mace:

HA!

"oh there is - buy a car" THE SASS

 Lor:

"buy a car" YAAAAAS

"Jerry (pager)"

tell me this episode is 15 years old without telling me this episode is 15 years old

 Mace:

HAHAHAHA

yeah, no one's named Jerry anymore

 Lor:

LOLOLOLOLOLOL MACE

PIE

 Mace:

snork

YAS

omg Dean's face smile is SO GOOFY I LOVE IT

 Lor:

HE IS SO BRIGHT AND CUTE it's nonsense

 Mace:

YES

 Lor:

the way he's gathering this info and just going "yeeeeeah, this is bad"

 Mace:

right?

 Lor:

he's trying to caretake them into saving their lives. adorable

 Mace:

omg and the mention of Sammy, who WOULD in fact be better at this

 Lor:

awww, the comment about Sam

YES

oh, Dean

he knows EXACTLY why the sheriff is there

 Mace:

YEP

 Lor:

poor baby outsider

 Mace:

Yeah

double so since he's the wrong kind of outsider here - the one who knows what the shakedown is - they only want normal people as outsiders in the weird town

 Lor:

oooo YES

Sammy. You are smarter than this

 Mace:

he's vulnerable right now!

 Lor:

yeah

maybe you all should have listened to the sunshine boy in the diner

 Mace:

snork!

hm, the scarecrow would actually be scarier if he didn't grunt

 Lor:

HA! yep

 Lor:

see, now sunshine boy has to run off the scarecrow with his shotgun

Dean gets to be the smarty!

 Mace:

oh come on, he called Bobby we both know it

 Lor:

you MALIGN smarty!Dean? you question his ability to research the lore?

 Mace:

oh he can but he prefers not to

oh DEAN, spit it out

 Lor:

yeah

that was a nice little speech

 Mace:

Yeah

 Lor:

I have slept on a bus station floor. top 5 things I never want to do again

(there was NOT a Sam Winchester to hang out with)

 Mace:

(snork)

  Mace:

"who's that?" "what'd he say?" Bitch, you don't know him well enough for that

 Lor:

RIGHT?

 Mace:

omg Cigarette Smoking Man! I forget he's in here every time

 Lor:

LOL

mrrrg the ring and the bracelet

 Mace:

Yeah

 Lor:

jeez. don't sucker punch our Dean with a rifle butt like that!

 Mace:

HA!

 Lor:

the way he refers to Dean as "the boy" jeez

 Mace:

Yeah

 Lor:

oh, see, now you've pissed Dean off

ya don't mistreat women and you don't betray your family

 Mace:

Yep

 Lor:

shut up, Meg

 Mace:

oh, honey, he won't choose you over Dean

 Lor:

right?

"which is, I dunno, classier, I guess?"

 Mace:

snork!

 Lor:

this aunt and uncle are SO DISTURBING

 Mace:

they are, and quoting Spock like that? Out of bounds, lady

 Lor:

and they clearly haven't watched Star Trek IV enough

HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 Mace:

"I'm working on it" HAHAHA

 Lor:

"I'm working on it"

oh Dean

 Mace:

"that's my boy" DEAN

 Lor:

YES

I've been wondering why he didn't just do that to get to CA

is it because he cares about Dean more than John? I'm gonna go with yes

 Mace:

well his moral threshold is higher than that

Dean means more to him than John by, like, a lot

 Lor:

yeah

 Mace:

"what scarecrow?" EEEEK

 Lor:

YES

serves you right Uncle Harvey or whatever

 Mace:

yep

I have about as much sympathy for the aunt and uncle here as I do for Umbridge with the centaurs

 Lor:

yeah

go Emily!

 Mace:

Yeah

 Lor:

the little wave

 Mace:

yeah

"and you're still a pain in the ass"

 Lor:

YES

 Lor:

"hold me, Sam. that was beautiful" you little jerk, deflecting emotions (I love you)

 Mace:

healthy, Dean, very healthy

way to show your emotions

 Lor:

LOL

this little bit here was the moment the first time through where I was like "oh shit this is getting like dark and yikes"

and now I'm like "oh, sweet summer child"

 Mace:

Ooof, yeah, me too, and it's hard to remember that now

 Lor:

yep