This is the first episode to feature the title on-screen.

Sam: So, Dad is sending us to Indiana to go hunting for something before another couple vanishes?
Dean: Yahtzee. Can you imagine putting together a pattern like this? All the different obits Dad had to go through? The man’s a master.

Dean: All right, look, I know how you feel.
Sam: Do you? How old were you when Mom died? Four? Jess died six months ago. How the hell would you know how I feel?
Dean: Dad said it wasn't safe for any of us. But he obviously knows something that we don't. So he says to stay away, we stay away.
Sam: I don't understand the blind faith you have in that man. I mean, it's like you didn't even question him.
Dean: Yeah, it's called being a good son! You’re a selfish bastard, you know that? You just do whatever you want. Don’t care what anybody thinks.
Sam: That’s what you really think?
Dean: Yes, it is.
Sam: Well, this selfish bastard is going to California.

Dean: Scotty, you got a smile that lights up a room. Anyone tell you that? (Scotty stares) Ah, never mind.

Sam: You trust shady van guy and not me?
Meg: Definitely.

Dean: (looking at scarecrow) Dude, you're fugly.

Bus Station Clerk: Sorry, but the Sacramento bus doesn't run again til tomorrow, 5:05 p.m.
Sam: Tomorrow? There's got to be another way.
Bus Station Clerk: Well, there is. Buy a car.

Meg: Here's to us. The food might be bad and the beds might be hard, but at least we're living our own lives and nobody else's.

Sam: The scarecrow climbed off its cross?
Dean: Yeah, I’m telling you, Burkitsville, Indiana--fun town.

Dean: I'm actually on my way to a local community college. I got an appointment with a professor.. you know, since I don't have my trusty sidekick geek boy to do all the research.

Dean: Sam, you were right, you gotta do your own thing, you gotta live your own life.
Sam: Are you serious?
Dean: You've always known what you want and you go after it. You stand up to Dad, and you always have. I wish... Anyway, I admire that about you. I'm proud of you, Sammy.
Sam: I don't even know what to say.
Dean: Say you'll take care of yourself.
Sam: I will.

Emily: They're gonna kill us?
Dean: Sacrifice us. Which is... I dunno, classier, I guess.

Dean: I hope your apple pie is freakin' worth it!

Emily: So what’s the plan?
Dean: I’m working on it.
(a few hours later, they're still tied up)
Emily: You don’t have a plan, do you?
Dean: I’m working on it.

Dean: How’d you get here?
Sam: I, uh... stole a car.
Dean: That’s my boy!

Dean: Hold me, Sam. That was beautiful.
Sam: You should be kissing my ass--you were dead meat, dude.
Dean: Yeah right. I had a plan--I'd have gotten out.

At the end of the previous episode, "Asylum," Sam has two fluffed-up pillows beneath his head. However, when that scene is recapped here, he only has either one pillow, or two very flat pillows.

When Dean turns to leave the professor's office, a camera can be seen moving near the left side of the frame.

When the townspeople capture Dean, Sam, and Emily, Harley is holding the gun to his chest and pointing it at them. However, when the scarecrow stabs him through the chest, the gun instantly disappears and the actor's arms drop to his side so that the camera can get a clear shot of the blade.

When Emily tosses the torch to the base of the tree, she's clearly very close. The next shot when she steps back with Dean and Sam further establishes that they are only a few feet away. But when the camera immediately cuts to a rear shot, they've jumped back several more feet.

When Meg cuts the driver's throat, she holds the edge of the chalice right up to the wound to capture the blood. But in all subsequent shots, the edge of the chalice is clean of any blood.

The Wizard Of Oz

The episode contains many references to the movie including the scarecrow; Emily being referred to as Em, which was Dorothy's aunt's name; Emily living with her aunt and uncle, similar to Dorothy; and an "If you had brains" quote.

Mary-Ann Liu

The name Mary-Ann Liu appears on Sam's cell phone listing. This is a possible shout-out to Vancouver production designer and graphic artist, Mary-Ann Liu, though it's never been confirmed.

Foreshadowing:

At the station, Meg comments that the "shady van driver" was all hands, and cut him loose. Given what happens at the end of the episode when she slits another shady van driver's throat, she's probably being literal.

Scarecrows in Literature

Though often portrayed as harmless in stories such as The Wizard of Oz, Scarecrows have also been portrayed as evil beings. In the Russell Thorndike series of novels, "The Scarecrow" was the pseudonym of Doctor Syn, who took to the streets as a villian by night. In comics, The Scarecrow is a supervillian in the Batman series of DC comic books. Lastly, in the horror fable The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane takes a scarecrow-like form as he rides through the forest on his horse.