- Dean and Sam are at a Supernatural convention where they meet lots of fans of the Supernatural Books. After a while they get the impression that something is not right at the location of the convention.
- Sam and Dean are tricked into attending a Supernatural convention by their super-fan Becky Rosen where the brothers are are in for a shock when many of the fans are dressed up like them. But things turn serious when they are forced to look for and destroy a ghost who haunts the very country hotel they are at with the help of their creator Chuck Shurley.—matt-282
- Dean and Sam receive a text message from Chuck asking them to come asap in the Pinewood Hotel. Once there, they discover that they had been lured by the number 1 fan, Becky Rosen that uses Chuck's cell phone to bring the Winchester brothers to a Supernatural Convention. Dean and Sam realize that their fans are dressed just like them and driving Chevy Impalas 1967. During a RPG, Dean and Sam discovers that the hotel is haunted by the ghost of Leticia Gore, the director of an orphanage that killed four children including her own son. Dean and Sam seek out her bones with two other fans, and when she is destroyed, they discover that the legend was not correct and now everybody is trapped in the hotel and threatened by the real menace.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- After receiving an urgent message from Chuck, the Winchester brothers drive as quickly as they can to the Pinewood Hotel. They get there only to realize that the one who sent the message was their number one super-fan Becky Rosen, who had stolen Chuck's phone. They walk inside to see the Hotel and see numerous monsters that they had defeated. There were Impala's and people dressed like them everywhere. They were talking to Chuck when a scream rang through the corridor. Racing up there, the two boys began asking her questions and realized later, that she was role-playing. They stuck around, having nothing better to do to find out that the stories of the mean old Leticia Gore wasn't just some story for a game. She was a woman who ran an orphanage before slaughtering four boys, including her son. The Winchesters, and two fans they ran into, dug up her body and burned the remains. Having saved everyone they relaxed until they realized, they didn't help the guests, they only made the problem worse. Now the Winchesters and two fans have to save everyone from the real trouble brewing now that Leticia Gore was gone.—Nico di'angelo
- THEN! Remember when the boys met Chuck Shurley, a.k.a. Carver Edlund, author of the "Supernatural" graphic novels? Which chronicled their lives right down to the burgers Dean consumed? And remember Sam's obsessive superfan, Becky? Lastly, remember the Colt? Stick around...
NOW!
The boys are tearing toward the Pineview Hotel in the Metallicar, roar into its parking lot upon arrival. Springing from the car with determination, Dean pauses for a moment when he notices a row of Impalas, just like the Metallicar, parked next to each other in the lot. But Sam reminds him to keep moving. They head to the front door where the Prophet Chuck, better known as Chuck Shurley, who pens the "Supernatural" graphic novels as Carver Edlund, is pacing back and forth nervously. Sam greets him, telling him they got there as fast as they could, but Chuck seems unpleasantly surprised to see them. "What are you guys doing here?" he asks.
Which is odd, considering he texted them, saying it was an emergency. Chuck looks even more confused, then he suddenly realizes what happened and cursed to himself.
On cue, a squealing girl comes running outside -- it's Becky, the superfan! Chuck asks her if she stole his phone and Becky corrects him, saying she only borrowed it... from his pants. Anyway, she explains, shouldn't Sam and Dean see it? (What is "it," you ask?) Becky squeals her way back into the hotel as a man comes outside and tells Chuck that it's time.
Chuck, eyes to the ground, turns to Sam and Dean and haltingly says, "Guys I'm sorry...for everything." Then he heads inside as well.
Confused, the guys follow Chuck into the hotel to find a bunch of nerdy dudes dressed exactly like them. In fact, one portly guy wearing Dean's jacket greets him at the door.
"Hahaha! Hey Dean, looking good!"
Dean asks who the hell he is. "I'm Dean, too," the guys says, punctuating it with a, "Duuuuh." Another guy wearing a monster mask shakes his hook hand at Sam and Dean, playfully saying, "I'm in trouble now!" Becky giggles as she walks up to them again, and the boys survey a motley crew of Dean and Sam imitators, along with a creepy clown or two, a kid dressed like Bobby, and an idiot sporting yellow contacts. Dean asks Becky what this is.
"IIIIIt's AWESOME!" she chirps. "A 'Supernatural' convention. The first ever."
Bring on the bloody credits...along with the sensation that yes, this really is what would happen were the world actually ending.
Sam and Dean stand in the back of the main convention room, arms crossed, as the convention host announces a couple of fabulous panels (including "Frightened Little Boy: The Secret Life of Dean" and one on the homoerotic subtext of the series) and telling the crowd that the hunt will begin around 7 p.m.., before welcoming "Carver Edlund" to the stage. The Prophet Chuck nervously walks on, stammers a few words into the microphone before mumbling something about dry mouth and, grabbing a nearby bottle of water, gulping down half of it. He then opens it up to questions. Everyone in the room shoots up a hand. One of the participants asks how he came up with Sam and Dean. The boys listen intently as "Carver" explains that it just came to him. Not exactly a lie.
Then he calls on "hook man," and an obsessive German guy stands up.
"Ya. Vy in every fight scene, Sam and Dean are having their knife or their gun knocked avay by ze bad guy? Vy don't they keep it on some kind of bungee?"
"Carver's" stumped by this until the follow up, where the fan asks why nobody just tells Sam that Ruby is evil? Because she clearly is...Becky storms up and yells at him:
"If you don't like the books then don't read 'em, Fritz!"
Carver breaks them up and takes the next question: What happens after Dean goes to Hell in the final book? That when "Carver" makes an announcement: They're going to find out. Thanks to a wealthy Scandinavian investor, he's going to start publishing again. The room erupts into hooting and cheers, except for Sam and Dean, who are horrified.
Later at the bar, Chuck shares a "Yellow-Eyed Cooler" with Becky and tries to ask her out, but is c-blocked by Sam and Dean, who storm up and demand to know why Chuck is publishing more books. "Um, for food and shelter?" Chuck peeps. Dean asks who gave him the rights to their life story. "An archangel," Chuck replies. "And I didn't want it!"
Dean tells him the deal's off. Chuck excuses Becky and tells the guys that the Supernatural books are all he's got to make a living -- but he's interrupted by a woman screaming from upstairs. They dash up the stairs to find a terrified maid, who says she saw a ghost. More Sams and Deans gather around them, and the real Winchesters try to shoo them away so they can get to work. The maid continues with her description: The ghost was a woman in an old fashioned dress, like a school marm. The fake Sams and Deans keep pressing at her so she breaks character and smiles, telling everyone to gather close "for a terrifying tale...of terror!"
The real Winchesters are not amused, and walk off as the maid continues to tell the tale of Leticia Gore, the ghost in question. Becky runs up. "Ooh, the LARPing's started!" (That's live-action role playing, by the way.) She hands Sam and Dean a piece of paper from the game, allegedly a page from their dad's journal. The objective is to hunt down the ghost. First person to find the bones wins a $50 gift card to Sizzler.
Downstairs, various Sams and Deans have changed into their agent suits and flash fake badges. The "hotel manager," addressing the group as Agents Lennon and McCartney, tells the group that the hotel is indeed haunted. It used to be an orphanage run by Leticia Gore, who went insane 100 years ago, "this very night!" and butchered four little boys before killing herself. Now the ghosts of the boys are trapped there, and Ms. Gore continues to punish them to this very day.
"Well, that's just about all the community theater I can take," Dean quips. "Yeah," Sam says, "this cannot get any weirder." Oh yes it can. Portly Dean and nerdy Sam walk up and recreate the moment at which Dean tells Sam that their father told Dean that he may have to kill Sam.
"Kill me?" fake Sam says in a gravelly voice, "What the hell does that mean?"
"I don't know," fake Dean growls, and they walk off.
"I need a drink," real Dean concludes, and the boys head to the hotel bar.
Elsewhere, another geeky version of Sam is tiptoeing down a hall with a makeshift fake EMF (a box with a drawing on it), whispering to himself that it's "going nuts." From around the corner pops an actress, campily booing and saying she's mean old Leticia Gore and that she's buried in the basement. The geek shoots her with a Nerf weapon and is disappointed when she doesn't vanish.
As he's walking off and chatting away on a cell phone with his partner, he encounters what looks like a real ghost in another hallway -- a child with wide, haunted eyes who will only say, "Help us! Miss Gore won't let us have any fun!" The geek balks for a moment until the kid vanishes before his eyes. The geek runs away, scared out of his wits, until he find himself in a study and smiles. "That...was...awe --'' he starts, but is interrupted when an unseen force yanks him off the ground, turns him upside down and hurtles him against the study walls, breaking mirrors and smashing furniture. Then the real Leticia Gore appears: "Die! Die! Die!" She phases through him and vanishes.
At the bar, Dean tosses back some whiskey and tries to hit on the actress playing Leticia Gore, who is busily texting. She brushes him off, saying she's heard the exact same line from guys who are all dressed like him...but then when she looks at Dean she softens. "But you seem different," she says.
"How so?" Dean coos.
"Well, for one thing, you don't seem scared of women." Behind the actress, the bleeding geek is yelling that upstairs is a real live dead ghost. His partner tries to calm him down by telling him it wasn't real, but the geek counters that fake ghosts don't assault you. Dean realizes flirtation will have to wait, and excuses himself.
Dean goes over and asks the guy what he saw, but the vic calls Dean a jerk for acting like what happened was part of the game. The geek says he's leaving and advises his friend to do the same. Dean and Sam realize the guy's not acting. It's a real case!
While the fake hotel manager is recounting the building's sordid history to another group of Sams and Deans (or Agents Jagger and Richards) the real Winchesters head over to the real hotel manager and, slipping him some cash to talk, find out that the story about Leticia Gore is real, and that night really is the anniversary. And yes, there have been sightings. They pass him another $50 to find out where the kids were butchered: The attic, of course.
Heading up to the attic, Sam uses his real EMF (yes, it's going nuts) and try to find the angry ghosts. Meanwhile, Portly Sam and Nerdy Dean, who eavesdropped on the Winchesters' conversation with the manager, follow the boys upstairs, LARPing away and encounter one of the real ghosts.
"Help us! Miss Gore won't let us have any fun!" The geeks, growling in Sam and Dean's voices, ask the kid to help them find her body. The ghost kid points at a painting at the end of the hallway, and vanishes. The nerds head over to the painting, see a small bloody handprint, and remove the painting from the wall to find many tiny bloody handprints on the back of the painting. Examining it further, they realize the paper backing is false, and peel it away to discover a hidden map. "OK, this is the coolest game ever!" nerd Sam exclaims, breaking character.
Up in the attic, the guys aren't having much luck until they encounter a little ghost holding his hands on his head. "My mommy loves me," the ghost tells them.
Sam reassures the ghost that they believe him. "I said, my mommy loves me," the kid insists. "She loves me THIS MUCH!" He pulls aside his hands to reveal a massive, bleeding wound where a large patch of skin has been cut away from his skull. He, too, vanishes.
In the lobby bar, Becky is staring at Sam, who is on the phone. She blows him a lick from her palm (ew) and he politely waves. Chuck, who is sitting next to her, looks crushed.
Turns out Sam was on the phone with the county historical society, who corroborates the story and tosses in an extra detail: The kid who was scalped was Leticia Gore's son. Dean decides he's going to deep-fry her bones, extra crispy. But, where's the grave? They overhear a conversation at a nearby table: Nerd Dean and Nerd Sam are poring over the map, trying to figure out what it means. Sam strides up to them and feels the paper, determining it's authentic. He tries to take the map from the nerds, but they're neither having it, nor believing that Sam and Dean are the real Sam and Dean. (In a funny scene, Portly Dean flashes a plastic gun in his waistband, which prompts Dean to pull out his real one. Both Sams calm down their Deans.)
So the boys compromise: The nerds will let them use the map to find the bones, and in exchange, the real Sam and Dean will a) allow them to collect the $50 Sizzler gift card, and b) call the nerds Sam and Dean. The real Sam and Dean are now Bobby and Rufus.
Out to the graveyard they go, the fake Dean and Sam LARP-ing all the way. Dean stops them and angrily informs them that they're not the real Sam and Dean, and why the Hell would they want to be those two guys anyway? The Sam and Dean story sucks, Dean concludes. "It is not fun. It's not entertaining. It is a river of crap that would send most people howling to the nuthouse. So you listen to me: Their pain is not for your amusement. Do you think that they enjoy being treated like circus freaks?"
Portly Dean: "Uh, I don't think they care...because they're FICTIONAL CHARACTERS."
Real Dean: "Oh, they care. Believe me. They care a lot." Dean trudges angrily to the cemetery. Sam defuses the situation by way of apology, saying that Dean takes the story very seriously.
At the cemetery, they finally stumble on Leticia Gore's headstone. The Winchester pulls out shovels, which creeps out the nerds, who had no intention of digging up a grave. They're even more creeped out when Dean opens Leticia Gore's casket and finds the actual bones, prompting a creepy wind to kick up. Then Leticia Gore's ghost appears and knocks Sam out cold. The nerds try to run off, but Leticia attacks them, trying to reach into their chests. Dean salts the bones and sets them on fire, and the ghost explodes into hot ash and sulphur. Dean stands up and asks, "Is that real enough for you?"
After Sam comes to, he and Dean find the the nerds tossing back whiskey in the bar and buy them a round. The nerds ask Sam and Dean how they knew what to do with Miss Gore's bones, and the boys cover their asses by saying they read the books. Saying goodbye, they head to the front door, passing Chuck on the way so that Dean can wish him luck with the books along with a bonus, "Screw you very much." They go to open the doors...which won't budge. Not even the windows will open. Something is definitely keeping everyone in.
Sam: "This bad."
Dean: "Gee, you think, Sammy?"
Commence the screaming: It's the Gore actress. There's something horrible in the study. Dean sends her downstairs, and the boys walk into to encounter the scalped boy ghost. He asks them why they sent his mommy away, explaining that she wasn't the one who scalped him. Then who did? Sam asks. The boy vanishes.
Uh-oh.
Elsewhere, Fritz Zee Nitpicky German Guy is walking down a hallway, when suddenly three very sinister-looking boy ghosts appear in front of him. He rolls his eyes, carping about "Supernatural's" over-reliance on creepy children. Sigh!
The first boy repeats. "Miss Gore wouldn't let us have any fun." German guy informs him that they don't even look like real ghosts. The boy continues, "But now Miss Gore is gone..." The boys all smile in unison, pulling long blades from behind their backs..."and we can have all kinds of fun."
The German is suddenly scared. Dean and Sam hear him scream, "Gott in Himmel!" but arrive too late -- Fritz is dead, and scalped.
Chuck is heading up another panel, when Sam interrupts him onstage and whispers the news in his ear, telling Chuck to keep everyone in the room. While he's doing that, Dean rounds up the hotel staff and brings them into the room as well. The boys salt the exit to keep the evil boys at bay, and the real hunt begins.
So, let's review: The guys followed the legend of Leticia Gore, murderous matron of the orphanage. What they didn't account for was that the legend got it wrong -- Leticia didn't kill her child, the Homicidal Youth Trio did. Leticia flipped out, offed the three killers, offed herself, and until now her spirit was the only thing keeping the Three Evil Amigos in check. OK so... they head back to the graveyard and torch the kids' bones. But how? They're locked in and all their stuff is in the car. The trio is only afraid of one thing: Leticia Gore.
Fortunately, there's an actress dressed as Leticia Gore right there in the building. She's not exactly elated to help, explaining that she's just a Hooters waitress. That's when nerdy Sam and Dean walk up, saying they want to help. Dean tries to brush them off, saying it's not pretend. The nerds insist they understand and explain that if everyone there is in serious trouble, they need to do something.
"Why?" Dean asks.
"Because," Portly Dean replies, "that's what Sam and Dean would do." Dean considers that for a moment, while Chuck explains to someone in the audience that there's no such thing as a Croatoan virus for "down there,' and the man should see a doctor.
Dean and Hooters Leticia Gore put their plan in action, although the actress is terrified. She walks into the study and calls for the boys as Dean waits around the corner in the hallway with an iron poker. The boys appear and the actress scolds them for being naughty, telling them to open the doors immediately. While she does that, Sam and the nerds are pushing on the front doors with all their might. For a moment the spell weakens. The doors open slightly and Portly Dean gets out. They push more and nerdy Sam gets through.
The actress continues scolding the boys for being naughty, and they're almost buying it -- until her cell phone rings, betraying the ruse. Dean pulls her out of the room and confront the three very pissed off dead children with the poker. The door blocks Sam inside, and Dean batters up.
Outside, the geeks furiously dig up the graves of the little boys, complaining about how easy "Supernatural" makes digging graves look. The ghosts knock the poker out of Dean's hand (hah!) and close on him with their knives, but Sam comes up from behind and swings, making them disappear. The guys get a second of relief until the ghosts attack again.
Meanwhile in the main hall, Chuck is losing steam, reduced to telling stories about the first time he lost his virginity. The real hotel manager is not amused, and gets up to leave. Chuck pleads with him to say, commanding him to not open the door. Of course the manager does, breaking the salt barrier. One of the little ghosts immediately appears, knife brandished, and drifts toward the man ready to stabbity-stab-stab. But Chuck runs up and swings an iron coat rack through the kid, zapping him away. He closes the door again and demands that someone re-salt the entry. Everyone in the room sees this, including superfan Becky, who is incredibly turned on.
Chuck has found love. That's nice, but upstairs, the boys are fighting for their lives -- and the other two ghosts have the upper hand. Worse, the nerds are having problems lighting the Zippo (one kvetches about Dean being able to do it the first time). Just when it looks like the guys are about to lose their fabulously full heads of hair, Zippo flame is achieved, and the nerds light up the bones. The remaining ghosts flame out...and the hotel returns to normal, or as normal as it can be with a full house of geeks.
Before they go, Dean picks up the poker and says, "You know, maybe that guy was right. Maybe we should put these things on a bungee."
Outside, Dean thanks his portly double and Sam II, and asks for their real names. Sam II is Barnes, and Dean is really named Damian. Dean tries to share a moment of honesty with them and introduces himself as "Dean...the real Dean." They pause for a moment, then break into laughter. "Yeah right! Get the hell outta here, Dean."
Dean thanks them again, then Damian stops him, saying that Dean's wrong about "Supernatural," telling him that he doesn't quite get what the story's about. Damian explains that in real life, Barnes sells stereo equipment and he fixes copiers.
"Our lives suck," Damian says. "But to be Sam and Dean, to wake up every morning and save the world, to have a brother who would die for you...well, who wouldn't want that?"
Dean considers that for a moment, and concedes that Damian has a point. He tells the guys that they don't make a bad team themselves, and asks how they know each other. In response, Barnes says they met online in a "Supernatural" chartroom. Then Barnes takes Damian's hand. They're partners in real life. Ah yes, that homoerotic subtext.
Dean growls, "Howdy, partners," nods tersely and ambles off.
Elsewhere, Becky breaks the news to Sam that, in spite of their undeniable chemistry, "like a monkey on the sun, it was too hot to live." So she's "dumping" him for Chuck, "my yin to his proud yang, and well, the heart wants what the heart wants." Becky asks Sam if he'll be alright and, getting a look from Chuck, Sam calls upon his acting skills and takes a deep sigh, saying he doesn't know, but he'll just have to go on living. Becky smiles.
Then Sam tells Chuck that if he really wants to publish more books, it's OK with them. "Wow. Really?" Chuck asks brightly.
"No. Not really," Sam says. "We have guns, and we'll find you." Chuck agrees, no more books.
As Sam walks off, Becky stops him and references a scene in "Supernatural" that Sam was not familiar with: In Chapter 33, when Bella stole The Colt from Sam and told him she gave it to Lilith..."You know, she lied right?"
Apparently, Bella gave the gun to Crowley, Lilith's right hand. Sam perks up. "Becky, tell me everything."
Dean is grinning to himself at the car, where Sam meets him and breaks the unbelievable news that he has a lead on The Colt. Dean tells his brother to fill him in on the road, and they're off.
The episode ends with outtakes of Chuck vamping onstage, telling the crowd that he was inspired to write by his massive crush on Nancy McKeon from "The Facts of Life" ("I must have written her 40 to 50 letters, she never wrote back"); opining that the Benders probably didn't make flesh suits out of all their victims -- some probably became scarves; that his favorite film was "Beaches"; and the priceless line:
"The way I look at it, it's not really jumping the shark if you never come back down. You know?"
And...end credits.
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