It's a Terrible Life

Episode aired Mar 26, 2009
TV-14TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

8.6/10

4.9K

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Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki in Supernatural (2005)

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At Sandover Bridge & Iron Inc., Dean is Dean Smith, the buttoned-down director of Sales & Marketing. Sam is Sam Wesson, a cubicle-dwelling tech support guy. What the heck is going on? Or is ... Read allAt Sandover Bridge & Iron Inc., Dean is Dean Smith, the buttoned-down director of Sales & Marketing. Sam is Sam Wesson, a cubicle-dwelling tech support guy. What the heck is going on? Or is it what the Hell?At Sandover Bridge & Iron Inc., Dean is Dean Smith, the buttoned-down director of Sales & Marketing. Sam is Sam Wesson, a cubicle-dwelling tech support guy. What the heck is going on? Or is it what the Hell?

IMDb RATING

8.6/10

4.9K

YOUR RATING

Director
- James L. Conway
Writers
- Eric Kripke
- Sera Gamble
- Jeremy Carver(executive story editor)
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Trivia
In this episode, Dean and Sam have the surnames Smith and Wesson, respectively. Like the characters' actual surname, Winchester, the name Smith & Wesson is the name of a famous gun manufacturing company.

Goofs
When Dean starts his Prius, he first inverts keys. That model of Prius uses a key-less fob. There is no place on the steering column to invert keys.

Quotes
Dean Winchester: Angel or not, I will stab you in your face.

Connections
References Dracula (1931)

Soundtracks
Well Respected Man
Written by Ray Davies
Performed by The Kinks

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10/10

Funny and offbeat

There is one of the most topical episodes the show has done. As much as the show's format and the restraints of network TV allowed this episode is a rebuke late capitalism. On that front it is a nice social satire piece and it puts to use Sam and Dean's class status to good use. It's not revolutionary or anything but this is one of the more politically overt episodes.

Setting that aspect to the side this is a really funny episode of Jensen and Jared playing against their characters. The show every now and then does stuff like this and it nearly always the highlight of the season. The mythical stuff mostly works and Zachariah is a good heavy.

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