Episode Quotes
Dean: Well, lucky for you, I'm a doctor. I've got joe, grub, and... (holds up pills)
Sam: What are they?
Dean: Effective.
Sam: Dean, I might have done... God knows what. And you want me to just forget about it?
Dean: You shove it down, and you let it come out in spurts of violence and alcoholism.
Sam: That sounds healthy.
Dean: Well, it works for me.
Sam: Great. Where to?
Dean: Paterson, New Jersey. Hey, maybe we'll have a Snooki sighting.
Sam: What's a "snooki"?
Dean: That's a good question.
Dean: So what'd you find out from the mop jockey's girlfriend?
Sam: Nothing. Just how great he was. Went to church. Donated to charity. Rubbed her feet during Glee.
Dean: I just threw up in my mouth.
Sam: Sorry.
Sam: Wait. That anatomy dummy you were molesting at the lab.
Dean: Excuse me?
Sam: What if that's what this is about?
Dean: What exactly are you accusing me of?
Dean: Look, one day--you'll get this when you're older.
Ben Braeden: Don't talk to me like I'm 6.
Dean: Okay, fine. It's like this, then. Just cause you love someone doesn't mean you should stick around and screw up their life. So I can't be here.
Ben Braeden: You think something will follow you home?
Dean: No. No, I don't. But I think my job turns me into someone who can't sit at your dinner table. And if I stayed, you'd end up just like me.
Ben Braeden: Why do you say it like you're so... bad?
Dean: Trust me, I'm not someone you want to aim to be.
Dean: I'm sorry, Ben, but this way you got a shot at living whatever life you want. You know, pick one, pick five. Because with me, there's just the one road.
Ben Braeden: You're a liar, Dean.
Dean: Excuse me?
Ben Braeden: You say family's so important, but, but what do you call people who care for you, who love you even when you're a dick? You know, you're walking out on your family, right?
Dean: So is that the girl with the haunted kidney?
Sam: Yeah.
Dean: Huh, just when you think you've seen it all.
Cultural References
Title:
Mannequin was a 1987 movie that chronicled the adventures of an ancient Egyptian girl cursed to become a mannequin unless her love, a window display designer, is with her alone. It spawned a single sequel in 1991.
Dean: Thanks, Dr. Laura, that's very insightful.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio talk show host that hands out her personal advice and conservative views to callers.
Dean: Big Brother's watching.
Big Brother refers to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the omnipresent surveillance system that keeps the citizens under control.
Sam: Rubbed her feet during Glee.
Glee is an award-winning Fox series about a high school musical glee club.
Dean: Bigger than Kermit, they use an iPad.
Kermit is the frog muppet who first appeared on Sesame Street and went on to star in The Muppet Show and numerous movies and TV specials.
Dean: Like Chucky?
Chucky is the killer doll in the Chucky movie franchise.
Dean: But riddle me this, Bat-Boy.
In the 1960s
Batman series, the Riddler would often taunt his nemesis with a riddle using a similar phrase.
Dean: I don't like the way Kim Cattrall's looking at me.
Kim Cattrall was the star of the first
Mannequin movie (see above).
Dean: We've been Parent Trapped.
The Parent Trap is a 1961 movie about two twins who try to reunite their divorced parents. It has been remade several times since then.
Dean: Plants could never kill a zombie.
Plants vs. Zombies is a 2010 video game where a homeowner uses quick-growing plants to defend his house against a horde of zombies.
Dean: Well, given she got carjacked by Poltergeist, could be worse.
Poltergeist is a 1982 horror movie by Tobe Hooper, where the spirits of an Indian burial ground torment a family.