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Dean: I told him you were a dumbass pledge and that we were hazing you.

Sam: What about the shotgun?

Dean: I said that you were hunting ghosts, and spirits were repelled by rock salt. You know, typical Hell Week prank.

Sam: And he believed you?

Dean: Well, you look like a dumbass pledge.

Tropes

• Abnormal Ammo: Rock salt loaded in shotguns.
• Anyone Can Die:
  • Body count this episode = 2 humans and 1 ghost.
  • Body count for the series so far = At least 111 humans; 5 ghosts; 1 shapeshifter; and 1 wendigo.
• Bare Your Midriff: Lori's roommate's recommendation in the opening scene.
• Beauty Equals Goodness:
  Dean: So you believe her?
  Sam: I do.
  Dean: Yeah, I think she’s hot, too.
  Sam: No, man, there’s something in her eyes.
• The Bechdel Test: Passed. The 2nd time for this series.
• Body Paint: Sam helps Murph paint his back purple.
• Couldn't Find a Pen: The Rustproof Blood used to draw a Jerusalem Cross and write, "AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU DIDN'T TURN ON THE LIGHT?"
• Disposable Sex Worker: The 13 prostitutes Jacob Karns killed.
• Deggans Rule: Failed, although the only black character was not killed off first. She was second.
• Doom Magnet: Lori.
• Dramatic Necklace Removal
• Due to the Dead: Ghosts can be put to rest by purifying the body with salt and burning it, but first the bodies must be unearthed.
• Empty Cop Threat: Headed off by Dean, who just nonchalantly agrees to leave town.
• Evil Smells Bad: The smell of ozone at the sorority house causes Sam and Dean to conclude a spirit is behind the murders.
• The Fundamentalist: Jacob Karns who started murdering prostitutes because he was so offended by the red light district.
• Girl of the Week: Lori for Sam.
• Hook Hand
• Informed Attractiveness: Lori, to a certain extent.
• I Wished You Were Dead
• Kill It with Fire: Our first body salted and burned on Supernatural. Though, the ghost is not stopped until the last of the silver from his hook is burnt.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: Guy dates married woman, hookman goes for the guy.
  • Justified. The man was the father of the Doom Magnet, who'd disappointed her.
• Moment Killer: Lori's father calling on the cell phone.
• No Peripheral Vision
• Porn Stash: Dean learns Murph's name (the purple painted frat boy) by reading it off the address label on a copy of Backside, and Dean then starts leafing through the magazine.
• Preacher's Kid: Lori is just starting to explore Forbidden Fruit at college.
• Product Placement: Sam has a Dell Inspiron laptop, which is sporting the logo for Cove Bikes.
• Red Herring: Lori's dad being overprotective.
• Sarcastic Confession: "I told him you were hunting ghosts."
• Screaming Woman: Lori
• Sex Is Evil: Discussed and played with, appropriately enough for the urban legend the episode's based on.
  • Lori's date gets a bit too fresh with her, doesn't take no for an answer and winds up sliced up and slung off a bridge by his ankles.
  • Lori's roommate Taylor is heavily implied to be sexually promiscuous and encourages Lori to party, to her Moral Guardian father's disapproval. The Hook Man comes after her, too.
  • Ironicaly, Lori's dad, who's a vicar, have an affair with a married woman. Then Hook try to kill him. In a deleted scene, Lori finds a condom in his trousers while doing the laundry.
• Shout Out:
  • Eastern Iowa University was created by Stephen Bury in The Cobweb.
  • Lori's roommate invites her to do tequila shots while watching Reality Bites, which seems like something that would have been a lot cooler in the 90's.
  • Dean calls Sam Dr. Venkman.
  • Dean refers to himself as Matlock after he talks the Sheriff into only giving them a fine.
  • When they sneak into the sorority house Dean asks Sam if he thinks they will see a naked Pillow Fight referencing the scene from Animal House.
• Sinister Minister: Jacob Carns, the first Hook Man.
• Sinister Scraping Sound
• Soul Jar: For most ghosts this is their bones or remains, but for Jacob Karns it is his hook.
• Terror At Make Out Point
• Urban Legends: Two classics: Hook Man and "Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights?".
• The Vicar: Lori's father serves this role.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Our first use of salt to counteract the supernatural in Supernatural.
• Your Cheating Heart: Lori's father is having an affair with a married woman