History Recap / SupernaturalS08E13EveryoneHatesHitler

* YouLookFamiliar: John De Santis, who plays the golem, earlier appeared as Freeman Dagget in [[Recap/SupernaturalS03E13Ghostfacers "Ghostfacers" (S03, E13)]].

* StockShticks
-->'''Eckart:''' That reminds me of a story. A Jew, two gentiles and a golem walk into a bar. And it doesn't end with them walking out.

* CaptainObvious: ''The title''. Except for those with dubious political orientation, of course.

* GratuitousGerman[=/=][[AltumVidetur Gratuitous Latin]]: In the teaser.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Rabbi Bass, knowing he's being tailed by a Nazi necromancer, calls him out and dares him to kill him. When the Nazi does so, he dies laughing in the Nazi's face. [[ArtisticLicenseReligion As a religious Jew, he probably should have been saying]] [[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/shema.html the Shema]]. Still awesome, though.

* PostMortemOneLiner
-->'''Neccromancer:''' Long live the Thule!
-->''[Golem breaks his neck]''
-->'''Dean:''' Or not.

-->'''Dean:''' ''[lifting a scimitar from a display stand.]'' This stuff is awesome, and it looks like they ran a real tight outfit here, but I'm just saying, you know, don't, uh, don't think that they knew some big secrets that we don't know.

-->'''Golem:''' The boy ''[[SurroundedByIdiots smoked]]'' the pages...
* StockSchtiks
-->'''Eckart:''' That reminds me of a story. A jew, two gentiles and a golem walk into a bar. And it doesn't end with them walking out.

** He does it again [[BookEnds at the end of the episode]]. Given that the Winchesters immediately BoomHeadshot him and burn the body, at least they won't be seeing that particular necromancer again, we hope. But the Thule Society is still out there, so Aaron takes up the sword.

-->'''Aaron:''' I keep telling you, [[BaconAddiction everyone loves bacon!]]

** Eckart says this isn't over as he uses magic to escape the golem in WW2.

** He does it again [[BookEnds at the end of the episode]]. Given that the Winchesters immediately BoomHeadshot him and burn the body, at least they won't be seeing that particular necromancer again, we hope.

-->'''Eckart:''' That reminds me of a joke. A jew, two gentiles and a golem walk into a bar. And none of them walk out.

-->'''Aaron:''' I keep telling you, everyone loves bacon!

** Amusingly, Sam and Dean burned the Nazi necromancer's corpse ''before'' they learned that it was required to permanently keep him dead, apparently just because they believe in covering their bases. Given that a corpse provides a conduit for a vengeful spirit, they probably wanted to avoid a potential pissed off ghost.

-->'''Dean:''' [He lifts a scimitar from a display stand.] This stuff is awesome, and it looks like they ran a real tight outfit here, but I'm just saying, you know, don't, uh, don't think that they knew some big secrets that we don't know.

-->'''Dean:''' Which means that they made crap up and wore fezzes and sashes and swung around scimitars. They probably didn't even sharp-- [DEAN runs his finger along the blade and cuts himself] That's very sharp.

* TakingUpTheMantle: Aaron accepts responsibility for the golem, helps the Winchesters fight the Thule, and takes up the cause of the Initiative, finally earning the golem's approval.

* WeWillMeetAgain: Eckart at the [[BookEnds start and end]] of the episode. Given that the Winchesters BoomHeadshot him and burn the body, at least they won't be seeing that particular necromancer again, we hope.

-->'''Dean:''' Well, our dad wanted us to have a career to fall back on if this Hunting thing didn't work out.

* SecretSocietyOfSecrets

* OpenSaysMe: The golem smashes through the door of the office at the Nazi base.

** Amusingly, Sam and Dean burned the Nazi necromancer's corpse ''before'' they learned that it was required to permanently keep him dead, apparently just because they believe in covering their bases.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BarneyMiller Hal Linden]] as a very [[LargeHam non-kosher]] Rabbi Bass.

The boys investigate the spontaneous combustion of a Rabbi who was a part of the Judah Initiative, one of the groups the Men of Letters were affiliated with. He turns out to have been researching [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Nazi necromancers]]. Then they're attacked by an out-of-control golem, and have to help the Rabbi's grandson stop it.

* WorldWarII: The episode opens in German-occupied Eastern Europe, specifically Vitsyebsk, Belarus, in 1944.

* ContinuityNod:
** Dean is almost as excited about the water pressure in the bunker's shower as he was about the steam shower in [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E08Bugs "Bugs" (S01, E08)]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: Rabbi Bass, knowing he's being tailed by a Nazi necromancer, calls him out and dares him to kill him. When the Nazi does so, he dies laughing in the Nazi's face.
** [[ArtisticLicenseReligion As a religious Jew, he probably should have been saying]] [[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/shema.html the Shema]]. Still awesome, though.

* KidWithTheLeash: Aaron with his golem, much to his displeasure.
** The Golem's not too happy about it either.
--->'''Aaron:''' Why can't you just ''tell'' me what I don't know?
--->'''Golem:''' ''[slams table]'' It is not my place to guide the Rabbi, to teach the teacher. It's not my place! ''Yifalchunbee''!

* ProperlyParanoid: Amusingly, Sam and Dean burned the Nazi necromancer's corpse ''before'' they learned that it was required to permanently keep him dead, apparently just because they believe in covering their bases.

-->'''Dean:''' The water pressure in the Letters' shower room is ''marvelous''.

** Presumably there's some kind of magic at work since, despite being locked up for the better part of 70 years, the place doesn't have a single cobweb or speck of dust ''anywhere''.

* ShoutOut:
** When they turn on the lights in the headquarters for the Men of Letters, Dean says, "Sammy, I think we found the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} bat cave]]."

* BorrowedCatchphrase: After revealing the library in the Men of Letter's headquarters, Sam says Dean's "son of a bitch."

-->"A Jew, two Gentiles and a golem walk into a bar. And it doesn't end with them coming out."
--->'''--Commandant Eckart to Aaron, Sam, Dean, and the golem'''

** Dean is almost as excited about the water pressure in the Letter's shower as he was about the steam shower in [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E08Bugs "Bugs" (S01, E08)]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: Rabbi Bass, knowing he's being tailed by a Nazi necromancer, finally calls him out and dares him to kill him. When the Nazi does so, he dies laughing in the Nazi's face.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: After being asked by a (supposedly) gay guy if they were "having a moment," Dean feels the need to mention to Sam that the women he was talking with prior to that were "very hot".

--->'''Aaron''': Why can't you just ''tell'' me what I don't know?
--->'''Golem''': ''[slams table]'' It is not my place to guide the Rabbi, to teach the teacher. It's not my place! ''Yifalchunbee''!

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* FinalSolution: The plan to close all Hell Gates permanently, trapping all demons in Hell, the hunter tendency to kill anything supernatural, such as the golem itself, and the fact that hunters have nearly exterminated certain types of supernatural beings, take on UnfortunateImplications in this episode, which features Nazis and a Holocaust survivor.
* GenocideBackfire: The rabbis of Vitsyebsk, Belarus, ended up creating a golem that devastated the Nazi base.

--->'''Aaron''': Why can't you just tell me what I don't know?
--->'''Golem''': ''[slams table]'' It is not my place to guide the Rabbi, to teach the teacher. It's not my place! Yifalchunbee!