Supernatural Review: When Turducken Goes Bad
November 19, 2011 by Nicole C.
Filed under Television
There is something special about Dick Roman. He’s a billionaire, best-selling author, and potential candidate for the presidency. What if one of our current presidential candidates was secretly the head Leviathan? Or possibly all of them. That would make for some interesting debates.
This week the stakes get higher as we are reunited with Edgar and Dr. Sexy, the later running experiments in New Jersey. The project is in it’s human testing phase as the hunters take notice through a story called the ‘Human Burrito’. Earlier, we see two glampers (glam campers) who are asleep cozily in their room like tent on a bed in their sleeping bags when they are attacked by an unseen creature. One of the glampers wakes up inside his sleeping back hanging upside down from a tree when the monster begins to eat him.
Bobby and the Winchesters meanwhile have been struggling to stay off the grid as much as possible but go into town to investigate. They talk to a local ranger at a fast food joint where they notice that Ranger Rick appears to be incredibly stoned. Missing heated food, the hunters decide to stay and have lunch when they are greeted with the most angry fast food server ever. Dean ends up eating the turducken sandwich which slowly begins to transform him into a stoned, I don’t care about anything idiot.
At first the hunters believe that it could be some kind of New Jersey Devil, turns out to be the cross between a zombie and an alien from the way it looks. After going to dinner at Biggersons again, Sam and Bobby figure out that there is something seriously wrong with the turducken sandwich. They take it back to their abandoned house where the meat begins to expel goo that was found in the insides of the zombie-alien thing that had been killing all the campers in the forest.
They track the source of the meat down to a secure factory where Edgar shows up with the angry Biggersons server. I wonder why the server didn’t try to eat Edgar, did he recognize that Edgar wasn’t really human anymore? Inside the factory, Dr. Sexy appears and we learn that he has been putting the weird goo into the meat as a part of Dick’s mastermind plan.
Dick turns up the next day and Dr. Sexy shows him a positive result of the experiment where a family eating the turducken sandwich has been so stoned out that they are glued to the TV and don’t notice that the grandmother has died. The turducken sandwich has also been engineered so that people will crave for more every few hours.
Dick asks Dr. Sexy about his failures and points to a story on the human burrito. He has Dr. Sexy bib himself (eat his own body) as punishment and as an example to all his other underlings not to mess up. He doesn’t want any of their activities to reach the papers because humans cannot believe that there are such things as monsters. I actually like him because he’s smart and is taking world domination on a different level. The angels and demons for the most part have remained somewhat separate from human society, but the Leviathans are conquering from within. With the apocalypse you did see a little bit of this via Brady the demon as an executive of Niveus Pharmaceuticals to distribute the Croatoan virus. But Dick hints at a grander scale as his intentions could potentially be the capturing presidency.
Bobby gets captured and manages to steal documents from Dick showing what some of their major plans are. Dick goes to see what the ruckus is all about as Sam and Dean are spraying Leviathans with weed killer that probably contains borax. When the boys try it on him though, Dick heals much faster than his underlings and doesn’t even appear to feel any pain from it.
They manage to just get away with Dick shooting at them. Then we find out that Bobby has been shot, in his head through a bullet hole in his baseball cap. BALLS! Bobby better not be freaking dead. I can handle Cas being gone but not Bobby. It just won’t be the same without him calling the Winchesters idiots. They can’t kill him off! I will be praying to the Supernatural gods until the next episode airing on December 2.
Season 7, Episode 9: How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters (originally aired November 18, 2011).
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