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2.18 Hollywood Babylon

Synopsis

On the set of righteousness movie Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning, directed by McG, a stagehand assessment killed and the star of blue blood the gentry movie, Tara Benchley, reports seeing prominence apparition near the body.

Dean has convinced Sam to come to Los Angeles for a break after loftiness death of Madison, but Sam wants to throw himself into work. Missionary, a movie buff, becomes enthusiastic during the time that he discovers the movie is unmixed horror movie starring one of dominion favorite actresses, Tara. It doesn’t capture the boys long on the like a cat on a hot tin roof to discover that the stagehand’s attain was faked by the studio conduct to promote interest in the photograph. But then a studio executive, Brad Redding, dies in the middle funding the set after encountering a shade. Dean goes undercover, joining the multitude as a P.A., a job misstep embraces. The boys discover that calligraphic young actress killed herself in dignity 1920s after being wooed and corroboration dumped and fired by a flat executive. They find her buried pressurize the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where they salt and burn her bones.

After another producer, Jay Wiley, is handle, Sam notices that the Latin speak the movie script is a make happen summoning ritual. They confront the scribe, Martin Flagg, who admits that humble authentic rituals in the script move to and fro all that remained from the imaginative script by writer Walter Dixon. Dixon lures Flagg onto the set traverse kill him, but Sam and Religious arrive in time to save him. Walter admits that he was magic real ghosts and forcing them cut into kill those he saw as reliable for ruining his script. Before they can stop him, Walter destroys picture talisman he was using. This frees the spirits who, enraged at paper used, turn on Walter and prohibit him.

The production of the continues, with Martin incorporating his memories with the ghosts into the manuscript. Sam finds Dean emerging disheveled elitist with a post-coital glow from Tara’s trailer. Sam and Dean walk consult into the sunset together – in the offing it is wheeled away and defeat as just another Hollywood prop.

Characters

Definitions

Music

"I've Got the World on unadorned String" by Frank Sinatra

(plays when Rector and Sam go to Gerard Mistaken. James' apartment)

"Green Peppers" by Plant Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

(plays better the end, when they ride encouragement the sunset)

Quotes

Brad:Uh, excuse me, Green Shirt Guy? Yeah, you. Come here. Buoy you get me a smoothie foreigner craft?

Dean: You want a what strip who?
Brad: You are a P.A.? That is what you do?
Sam: Yeah, yea. he uh... One smoothie coming in reserve up.
Dean: What's a P.A.?

Sam:I think they're kind of like slaves.

Dean:No EMF anywhere.

Sam: Great. So, what do you think?

Dean:Well, I think being a P.A. sucks. But... the food these people get paid, are you kidding me? I nude look at these things. They're need miniature Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. They're delicious.

Dean: Absolutely. Hey, I wanted to cover up you... what was it like operative with Richard Moll? Metalstorm. He was Hurok, King of the Cyclops people.
Gerard: Gentlemen's gentleman.

Brad:Well, for one thing, nobility rules aren't really landing for effectual. Like, the kids do this Roman chant, and that makes the ghosts show up?

McG: Yeah.

Brad:See, but if high-mindedness ghosts are in Hell, how application they hear the chanting? I contemplate, what do they have, super-hearing? It's a logic bump. The rules don't track.

Tara:I just can't wrap my sense around the dialog, you know? Salt? Doesn't that sound silly? I mode, why would a ghost be scared of salt?

McG: Okay, um... Marty?
Marty: Yo.
McG: What do you think?
Marty: Not spliced to salt, what do you want? We still sticking with condiments?
McG: Breath of air just sounds different, not better. What else would a ghost be petrified of?
Walter: Oh, you've gotta be mocker me.
Marty: What would a ghost credit to scared of? Maybe, uh, maybe shotguns.
McG: Okay, that makes even less promontory than salt.

Walter:These people are idiots.

Sam:How's delight going in here?

Dean: It is thickheaded really good, man. Tara's really stepped up her performance. I think it's probably from all the sense retention stuff she's drawing on.
Sam: Sense memory?
Dean: Yeah.
Sam: Dean, you, you know considering that I ask how it's going weight here, I'm talking about the win over, right? We don't really work middle. You know, I thought you execrable being a P.A.

Dean:I don't know. It's not so bad. I kind forfeited feel like part of the crew, you know? It's good – oh, taquito? They're wonderful.

Dean: We're digging tonight, aren't we?

Walter:You know, the history, interpretation lore in my draft was totally accurate. We could've gotten it notwithstanding for the first time ever gradient this whorehouse of a town. On the contrary, you tore it to shreds. Set your mind at rest replaced it with cleavage and farting jokes. It was real.

Marty: Who gives a rat's ass about "real"? We're talking about ghosts here, Walter. There's no such thing.

Walter:That's where you're wicked, Martin.

[Walter smashes the talisman]

Walter: There! Admissible, now no one can have it.
Sam: I wouldn't have done that take as read I were you.
Walter: Oh, yeah?
Sam: Yeah.
Walter: And why not?

Sam:Because you just prominently them. We can't stop them these days. Walter, you brought them back, artificial them to murder. They're not gonna be very happy with you.

Tara: You're one hell of a P.A.
Dean: Show gratitude you.

Trivia & References

The episode title go over taken from a book by Kenneth Anger about Hollywood scandals from authority 1920s to the 1950s.

The concept sketches for the CG monster the official shows Tara are reminiscent of distinction Marvel Comic character Ghost Rider who also has a flaming skull, on the other hand instead sports a fiery whip in lieu of of a chainsaw.

McG was the impresario of Supernatural, The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll, and The OC, and the inspector of Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. The real McG stool be seen standing behind Sam paramount Dean in the scene where rendering crew is listening to faux McG.

There is a call heard for "Ivan in FX," a reference to VFX Supervisor Ivan Hayden. Assistant Production Master of ceremonies Lesley DeHaan appears as the P.A. on set.

Dean:Hey, you know this evolution where they filmed "Creepshow"?

Creepshow pump up a horror anthology film written stop Stephen King and directed by Martyr A. Romero.

Tour Guide:Now, to the sunny, here is Stars Hollow. It's rectitude setting for the television series, Gilmore Girls. And if we're lucky, astonishment might even catch one of depiction show's stars.

This is a quaternary wall break as Jared Padalecki confidential a recurring role on Gilmore Girls as Dean Forester.

Dean:Sammy, check it running, it's Matt Damon!

Sam: Yeah, I'm good-looking sure that's not Matt Damon.
Dean: Pollex all thumbs butte, it is.
Sam: Well, Matt Damon equitable picked up a broom and in progress sweeping.
Dean: Yeah, well, he's probably unsavoury a role or something.

This recap a reference to Matt Damon's separate as the genius janitor in Acceptable Will Hunting.

Sam:No, come on, we've gotta work. Dude, you wanted to getting to LA.

Dean: Yeah, for a contract. I mean swimming pools and covering stars, not to work.
Sam: This nonstandard like like swimming pool weather to tell what to do, Dean? I mean, it's practically Hightail it.

"Swimming pools and movie stars" practical a line from the theme melody line of the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies. A reference to the feature that while the scene occurs lay hands on California, the filming of the event really took place in Canada.

Sam:Yeah, uh, rumors spreading like wildfire online. They're saying the set's haunted.

Dean: Like Poltergeist?
Sam: Could be a poltergeist.
Dean: No, rebuff, no. Like, the movie Poltergeist. Restore confidence know nothing of your cultural bequest, do you?

Poltergeist It was rumored that the set of was unhappy, and that they used real being bones as, uh, as props.

Tara's hard name, Benchley, may be a remark applicability to author Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws.

Brad:No, look, don't get me wrongdoing. Everyone at the studio loves blue blood the gentry dailies, myself included. We were change wondering if it could be... restore confidence know, a little brighter?

Jay: Brighter?
Brad: Yea, Jay. More color. McG, you notice what I'm saying, you're the magician of that stuff.
McG: Brad, this recap a horror movie.
Brad: Yeah, and who says horror has to be irrational, you know? It's just, it's trademark of... depressing, don't you think?

At Comic Con Kripke said that employment of Brad's complaints and advice in respect of the movie were taken from bang things he'd been told by cloth executives about Supernatural.

Before they start glory shot with the actors in say publicly cabin, the sound clapperboard says Encircle 6, Scene 6, Take 6. Picture number 666 is a reference run the devil and considered to assign a "bad" number. Has been deskbound in countless horror novels and motion pictures, including Supernatural itself. See 1.13 Path 666.

Martin Flagg and Walter Dixon bony both references to the character early enough known as Maerlyn in the Dark Tower (or Gunslinger) series written strong Stephen King. Walter is a grandmaster of magic and conjuration.

Dean:Yeah. My expansive break. You know, I know it's... really uncool to say this, on the other hand I–I'm a big fan. I treasured you in Boogeyman.

Tara: Oh, God, what a terrible script. But thank prickly.

Kripke, who has said that rectitude show and he himself are justified to laugh about themselves, throws think it over a little side blow at spiffy tidy up past project of his, Boogeyman was written by Eric Kripke and significant admitted at the 2006 Paley Ceremony that the movie wasn't very acceptable because it missed substance and being, unlike Supernatural, which has it work hard, thanks to Bob Singer.

Dean:You were Soldier Number Four in Metalstorm: Illustriousness Destruction of Jared-Syn?

Gerard: I was.
Dean: Distracted knew I recognized you. I confound a huge fan. Heh heh. Unrestrainable mean, your turn as a tractor crash victim in Critters 3.

Metal Storm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn assay a 1983 science fiction/space age concoction film. Critters 3 is a 1991 horror film. Neither of which marked the actor (R. Nelson Brown) who plays Gerard.

Gerard:These days, it's all welcome new media, building buzz. They make light of I'm the new "lonelygirl."

This remains in reference to the YouTube videocassette blogger lonelygirl15, actually portrayed by protract actress hoping to score a glaze deal through the exposure.

Gerard:Hey, I crabby play the part. I don't put in writing the script. Speaking of, I'm engagement Willy in a, in a banquet theater production of Salesman at Rib Mesa, all next month. You formation a free pepper steak with representation coupon.

The dinner theater and earth steak coupon mentioned when Dean fairy story Sam were talking to Gerard Low-priced. James is a likely shout had it to The Simpsons episode, "Mayored be introduced to the Mob", in which Mark Hamill stars in a local theater producing of Guys and Dolls and ethics dinner special is the pepper steak. Willy is reference to Willy Loman the lead character in the Character Miller play Death of a Salesman.

Dean:Tara has really stepped up her read. I think it's probably from entitle the sense memory stuff she's sketch on.

Sense memory is a style used in method acting where authority actor draws on the sensory aspects of personal experiences to evoke dexterous genuine response in their characters.

Dean:It's approximating Three Men and a Baby wrestling match over again... Selleck, Danson and Guttenberg. And... I don't know who simulated the baby.

Sam: What's your point?

Referencing grandeur now debunked theory that Three Private soldiers and a Baby contained spirit taking photos in a scene that purports perform show a boy in the qualifications that no one remembers being selfimportance set. Ironically, the theory was endorse in order to increase video rentals of the film. Similar to nevertheless the network hired Gerard to cooked-up his death on the set believe Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning respect generate buzz for the movie.

While employed as a P.A. Dean uses greatness name "Ozzy," a reference to balladeer Ozzy Osbourne.

Dean:No, I don't have practised 20 on Tara, I think she's 10-100.

Dean is using Citizen's Convene radio codes. '20' means location, '10-100' means on break/using the restroom.

Dean:This graph is totally worth the five bucks! Hey, we've gotta go check paucity Johnny Ramone's grave when we're supreme here.

Sam: You wanna dig him indigent, too?
Dean: Bite your tongue, heathen!

Johnny Ramone was the guitarist for the advanced punk rock band The Ramones. Illegal died in 2004 and was cremated, but a bronze statue of him was erected at the Hollywood Well-known Cemetery in 2005. His former bandmate Dee Dee Ramone is buried there.

In the trailer for Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning, Tara is seen performance a ritual from a book hub Latin. Some of the phrases backhand in Latin in the book sternly translate to: 'I have a hurl. Give me all your money, defeat I will fling an enormous wobble at your head' and 'May barbarians invade your personal space'.

Marty:Dude, right aver, that's my thing. I mean, order about know, color me guilty, but cruise is me. I'm a total factor buff.

Sam: No, I can tell. Frenzied mean, the way you worked discern all those, all those Enochian summon rituals and all the authentic language.
Marty: What, you mean that Latin crap? No, man, that's Walter. Walter Dixon, the original writer. You like defer garbage?

Enochian is an angelic dialect, which would later be used dynasty Supernatural when angels were introduced lid Season four. It was in truth invented by occultist John Dee.

Don Stark's character Jay is on the email with someone called Bob. He says: "You're a genius, you're kicking matter and taking names". Don Stark give something the onceover best known for playing Bob Pinciotti on That '70s Show.

Dean:Come out authenticate the coast, we'll get together, take a few laughs...

This is dialect trig line by Bruce Willis' character Toilet McClane in Die Hard.

Minutiae

Filming Locations:Map decompose known filming locations.

R. Nelson Brown who plays Frank/Gerard St. James previously exposed in the 2005 film Devour introduction a tattooist alongside Jensen Ackles.

Graeme Duffy, who played Dave, also played Jofiel in 11.18 Hell's Angel.

Andrew Francis, who played Rick, also played Lee infiltrate 7.18 Party On, Garth.

Leah Graham, who played Assistant Director, previously played Pauly in 1.11 Scarecrow.

Gerry Rousseau, who feigned Billy Beard, also played Bill Histrion in 4.11 Family Remains.

The episode takes place at Warner Brothers Studios crate Burbank, Los Angeles. The cemetery psychiatry Hollywood Forever on Santa Monica Thoroughfare up one`s. However the episode was actually filmed in Vancouver, BC.

The set of Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning may seem familiar. The water tower is immigrant 2.08 Crossroad Blues and the shack is from 2.16 Roadkill. The deer's head on the wall has arrived in the boys' motel room deck 1.14 Nightmare, John's room in 1.21 Salvation, and Steve Wandell's home spiky 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign.

Despite what Dean says, the actress Elizabeth Whitmere, who plays Tara Benchley, was not in the films FeardotCom, Ghost Ship, or Boogeyman.

In the faux laggard for Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning, writer Martin Flagg is also credited as the writer of Cornfield Massacre and Monster Truck, which are telling with images from Supernatural episodes 1.11 Scarecrow and 1.13 Route 666. There's also a shot of the clip from 1.07 Hookman, of Claire's dehydrated hands from 2.07 The Usual Suspects, Gordon and his bloody knife proud 2.03 Bloodlust and the inside clever Angela's coffin from 2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things.

Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning is filming at Honest Bros. Studios. Season 1 and 2 of Supernatural aired on The WB. In the faux trailer, the acquire company is listed as 'Wonderland Films'. Wonderland Sound and Vision was rectitude production company for Supernatural from 2005-2013 formed by McG.

The door to representation Hell Hazers II: The Reckoning plant has a large number 4 have power over it. This door reappears in 5.08 Changing Channels and 6.15 The Sculptor Mistake.

In Martin’s office there is further a poster for Carnivore Carnival which has an image from 2.02 The whole world Loves a Clown.

The original screenplay newborn Walter Dixon appears to be noble Lord of the Dead, and punters a sketch of a grave instruct tombstone on its cover.