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Supernatural :: The Benders (01x15)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | The Benders |
| Episode #: | 01x15 |
| Production Number: | 2T6914 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday February 14th, 2006 |
*Also Known As: - Os Benders (
 Portugal [AXN]) - Les chasseurs (
 France [TF6]) - Menschenjäger (
 Germany [ProSieben])
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| PT (AXN) |
Jan 15, 2007 |
| FR (TF6) |
Jan 15, 2007 |
 BE (VT4) |
Jul 11, 2007 |
| DE (ProSieben) |
Feb 18, 2008 |
 NL (Net 5) |
Oct 12, 2008 |
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Episode Summary |
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Sam and Dean head to Minnesota where a young boy witnesses a man vanish into thin air. Upon searching for clues, Sam is abducted by what he assumes is a supernatural being, and Dean is left to search frantically for his brother. However, both are stunned when they realize the kidnappers are human, and using the captives as human prey for a twisted hunting expedition.
| Summary Available In: English | Swedish
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Episode Notes |
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Ratings: 4.0 million viewers
| This is the first episode in which the villians are not supernatural and the first episode in which no supernatural events take place.
| The computer printout reads that Sam was born May 2, 1983, in Lawrence, Kansas. He is 6’4”, 180-190 lbs., brown hair, brown eyes. Dean's printout reads that he was born January 24, 1979 and "died" March 7, 2006.
| In Germany, this episode couldn't air to the regular time (8.15 pm), because of the storyline. The network ProSieben aired this episode a week after 1x16 "Shadow" on a special time at 10.15 pm.
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •George Gershwin | Sweet and Low Down | Papa Bender butchers something in the kitchen | | •Joe Walsh | Rocky Mountain Way | |
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Officer Kathleen: Says here your badge was stolen and there's a picture of you. (shows Dean a picture of a large black man)
Dean: I lost some weight. And I got that Michael Jackson skin disease...
| Sam: So you got sidelined by a 13-year old girl?
Dean: Shut up.
Sam: I'm just saying, getting a little rusty there aren't you, kiddo?
| Officer Kathleen: Your, uh… your cousin's looking for you.
Sam: Thank god. Where is he?
Officer Kathleen: I, uh… I cuffed him to my car.
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Dean: I gotta start carrying paperclips.
| Pa Bender: Tell me, any other cops gonna come lookin' for you?
Dean: Oh, eat me! No, no, no...wait, wait. You actually might.
| Sam: I was looking for you.
Jenkins: Oh yeah?
Sam: Yeah.
Jenkins: Well, no offense, but this is a piss-poor rescue.
| Dean: I'll say it again. Demons I get, people are crazy!
| Pa Bender: We never been that sloppy.
Dean: Yeah, well... don’t sell yourself short – you’re plenty sloppy.
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Episode Goofs |
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The police database shows that both Sam and Dean are 6'4" tall. However, it is obvious that Sam is several inches taller than Dean.
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Cultural References |
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Kid: Godzilla vs. Mothra.
Dean: That's my favorite Godzilla! So much better than the original, right?
Dean and the young boy are referencing the Godzilla movie series including 1954's Godzilla, 1962's Godzilla vs. Mothra , and the remakes: 1992's Godzilla vs. Mothra and 1998's Godzilla.
| Jenkins: Ned Beatty time, man.
This is a reference to the movie Deliverance which starred Ned Beatty, Voight, Burt Reynolds, and Ronny Cox. The four men play city men who decide to go canoeing and run into dangerous mountain men.
| Dean: If I tell you, will you promise not to make me into an ashtray?
Serial killer Ed Gein often used body parts from his victims to make furnature or decorations, including skulls turned into ashtrays.
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When the computer shows the details about Dean's death, it's refering to the episode "Skin" in which one of the shapeshifters died while in Dean's form.
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Analysis |
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The Benders
The story of the Bender family is very similar to that of the 1974 horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in which a family of cannibals in Texas abduct, torture then kill customers at their gas station. Though the family in this episode is given a seemingly mystical element, their use of humans as hunting targets and prey ties in closely to the story in the film.
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