Clap Your Hands If You Believe (19 Nov. 2010)

When a fourth person vanishes in Elwood, Indiana, and the witnesses claim that they have been abducted by aliens, Dean and Sam head to the town to investigate the UFO sightings. They ... See full summary »

Director:

John F. Showalter

Writers:

Eric Kripke (creator), Ben Edlund

Stars:

Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Jared Padalecki	...	Sam Winchester
Jensen Ackles	...	Dean Winchester
Misha Collins	...	Castiel (credit only)
Robert Picardo	...	Wayne Whittaker Jr. / Leprechaun
Linden Banks	...	Mr. Brennan
Trish Allen	...	Marion
Devon Weigel	...	Sparrow Jennings
Rob Morton	...	Sheriff
Stefan Arngrim	...	Redcap
Joel Semande	...	Patrick Brennan (as Joel Hayes)
MacKenzie Porter	...	Kim (as Mackenzie Porter)
Sienna Bohn	...	Attractive Waitress
Joe Allard	...	Elf #1
Jameson Trenholm	...	Elf #2
Rick McLean	...	Elf #3

Storyline

When a fourth person vanishes in Elwood, Indiana, and the witnesses claim that they have been abducted by aliens, Dean and Sam head to the town to investigate the UFO sightings. They contact the father of the last victim, Mr. Brennan, who is a traditional watchmaker, and the Winchester brothers suspect that the man is hiding something. Dean and Sam interview people on the streets expecting to find a clue. Among the interviewees, they talk to UFO expert Wayne Whittaker Jr. and the apparently crazy Marion, who is an expert in fairies. While investigating the cornfield where the victims had disappeared, Dean is abducted by a bright light. Sam continues to investigate and forces Brennan to disclose that he had used a spell to summon fairies to help him in his store. Dean returns and now the only chance of the brothers is are the advices of Marion about the fairies.

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Plot Keywords:

fairy | leprechaun | crop circle | incantation | abduction | 

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 November 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Kripke Enterprises, Wonderland Sound and Vision

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The high school jacket Patrick is wearing in the opening, looks exactly the same in every detail (ex: same exact colors, same exact patterns) with Smallville Crows jacket from Smallville. The only difference is that the letter on the chest is a capital C this time but is an capital S in Smallville.

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Goofs

(at around 31 mins) In the alien followers camp, there's a woman looking through a telescope. This is a Newton telescope, which is a hollow tube with a concave mirror at one end. The eyepiece is located close to the open end of the tube, so the telescope shown is actually pointing downwards towards the ground. The six screws that can be seen in the "opening" of the tube that is pointing towards the sky are in fact the concave mirror mount and adjustment screws.

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Quotes

Dean Winchester: God is it on me? I feel like I got the crazy on me!

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Crazy Credits

The Title Card for this episode was altered, closely resembles the title sequence for The X-Files series. Down to it ending with "created by: Eric Kripke" credit at the lower right when an eye appears and having "The Truth Is In There" as the tag-line.

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Connections

Spoofs The X-Files (1993)

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Soundtracks

"Smoke On the Water"
Performed by Deep Purple

User Reviews

Could have been better, could have been worse

It was interesting to see Supernatural tackle fairy lore, which actually has a lot more horror potential than most people realize. If you look at old-school, traditional fairy lore, it's actually pretty dark, and includes some pretty nightmarish creatures. It was the Victorians who began to romanticize them, and then Disney made the cutesy image of the little sprite with wings universally known to the point where that's the only image of fairies that most people have these days. But if you read some of the older tales, or listen to still-current ones in rural Ireland or Scotland, fairies are anything but cute and harmless.

I liked that they touched on a little of that, with the presence of the Redcap who was stalking Dean (Redcaps are a particularly nasty sort of fairy from Scottish folklore, who are known for eating lost travellers, and dye their caps red with human blood), but I was a bit disappointed that they couldn't resist throwing in the Disney version of fairies as well - though I have to admit the fight scene with that one was hilarious, as was the way it was resolved.

The parallels between UFO and fairy abductions have actually been pointed out by quite a lot of people before this - I've seen that topic dealt with by everyone from folklorists to science fiction authors.

Overall, a pretty entertaining episode, though not one with a lot of substance. But someday I'd love to see a show that took full advantage of the horror-potential of traditional fairy lore, without feeling the need to include the stereotypical Disney image.