How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters
- Episode aired Nov 18, 2011
- TV-14
- 41m
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8.3/10
3.7K
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Something is turning all of the people of a small town in New Jersey into cannibals.Something is turning all of the people of a small town in New Jersey into cannibals.Something is turning all of the people of a small town in New Jersey into cannibals.
Melanie O'Donnell
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Did you know
- TriviaBobby asks Sam, "Aren't you just full up playing Snuffleupagus with the devil all the live long?" In the early years of "Sesame Street", Big Bird was the only one who could see Snuffleupagus.
- GoofsThe New Jersey Pine Barrens forests are very unique, due to the very sandy soil (being very near the shoreline of a coastal state) and frequent forest fires, the pine trees are very young. They are densely populated, tall, slim, and very little else grows there. Thus the name "Pine Barrens." Too bad they couldn't film the outdoor scenes "on location," because the actual ambiance can be very, very spooky. The (probably) Canadian forest they chose for filming didn't appear to have a single pine tree in it! and the ground was covered in lush grass.
- Quotes
Bobby Singer: I never could get you little grubs to pull a trigger on a single deer.
Dean Winchester: Talking about Bambi, man.
Bobby Singer: You don't shoot Bambi, jackass. You shoot Bambi's mother.
- ConnectionsReferences Bambi (1942)
- SoundtracksEnd Credits Theme
Composed by Jay Gruska
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Intense chewing sounds throughout. Unwatchable.
I will preface that I have no problem with gore and I am not complaining about bad manners, I am specifically talking about painful audio triggers. Misophonia. Nails on a chalkboard but *more*. Short circuit your brain, lock up your muscles more.
Yes I realise that Supernatural started out as a horror show. Again, not the issue. Kripke era is without doubt my favourite. I understand the difference between a fun "ew that's gross lol" cringe (which I enjoy for the record) and a physically painful neural response to sound. You can do horror and gore without hitting painful sound frequencies. There was no reason to include them apart from, I assume, some push the boundaries edgelord sound engineer wanting to leave his mark on the industry by going beyond atmosphere and into disgust. It's not disgusting though, not really, at least not first and foremost. It just hurts.
This episode is one of a handful from Supernatural that I can. Not. Watch. At least not without mute and subtitles. Unfortunately it's also a mythology arc episode. The series on the whole had a nasty (and infuriatingly unnecessary) habit of throwing in random painful chomping slurpy mouth sounds with no warning, but at least most were in skippable/monster of the week episodes, or even just over with quickly enough that you could grit your teeth and clench your fists til they were over (not as if that makes it ok). Not this one though. Putting these sounds so prominently in such an important episode is ableist to people with neuro divergences that cause sounds sensitivity, and it's unacceptable and unforgivable tbh. I still like Supernatural for more reasons than I dislike it, but seriously this one is such a big mark for the dislike column. Complaining about it now can't fix what's done, but it still needs to be said. Hopefully one day someone with power will listen and this will stop being a thing that people *need* to complain about.
Yes I realise that Supernatural started out as a horror show. Again, not the issue. Kripke era is without doubt my favourite. I understand the difference between a fun "ew that's gross lol" cringe (which I enjoy for the record) and a physically painful neural response to sound. You can do horror and gore without hitting painful sound frequencies. There was no reason to include them apart from, I assume, some push the boundaries edgelord sound engineer wanting to leave his mark on the industry by going beyond atmosphere and into disgust. It's not disgusting though, not really, at least not first and foremost. It just hurts.
This episode is one of a handful from Supernatural that I can. Not. Watch. At least not without mute and subtitles. Unfortunately it's also a mythology arc episode. The series on the whole had a nasty (and infuriatingly unnecessary) habit of throwing in random painful chomping slurpy mouth sounds with no warning, but at least most were in skippable/monster of the week episodes, or even just over with quickly enough that you could grit your teeth and clench your fists til they were over (not as if that makes it ok). Not this one though. Putting these sounds so prominently in such an important episode is ableist to people with neuro divergences that cause sounds sensitivity, and it's unacceptable and unforgivable tbh. I still like Supernatural for more reasons than I dislike it, but seriously this one is such a big mark for the dislike column. Complaining about it now can't fix what's done, but it still needs to be said. Hopefully one day someone with power will listen and this will stop being a thing that people *need* to complain about.
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- mraajdar
- Feb 23, 2023
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