History Recap / SupernaturalS03E03BadDayAtBlackRock

* EvilBrit: More like ChaoticNeutral Brit, but Bela mostly applies.

* {{Expy}}: Bella has a cat, is a cat burglar and the writers admit she was heavily inspired by Catwoman.

* CurseRelay: The rabbit's foot will cause it's owner good luck, until it is removed from their possession (which is inevitable). It then causes bad luck which will eventually kill the previous owner. The foot will continue killing its owners until it's destroyed.

* {{Slapstick}}

* YouWouldntShootMe: Dean tries this on Bela, claiming that she's a thief, but not a murderer. It doesn't work, as Bella is the type of person who would knowingly sell an ArtifactOfDeath to the highest bidder.

* CounterpartComparison: Bela to [[Series/{{Angel}} Gwen Raiden]], a ClassyCatBurglar who is part of TheMasquerade and is hired to steal mystical objects for large sums of money.

* YouWouldntShootMe: Dean tries this on Bela, claiming that she's a thief, but not a murderer. It doesn't work, as Bella is the type of person who would knowingly sell an ArtifactOfDeath to the highest bidder.

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->'''Dean:''' I'm Batman...
->'''Sam:''' (beat) Yeah, you're Batman...

** To ''The Bellboy'': "It was like watching JerryLewis try to stack chairs."

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When the now-cursed guy slips on the bottle, he falls back and his head lands on a fork, much like ''Film/FinalDestination''.

* MacGuffin

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/MichaelMassee is Gordon's fellow hunter.

For the series so far = At least 202 humans, 15 ghosts, 6 changelings, 5 vampires, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 9 demons, 1 djinn, 1 god, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, and 1 zombie.

* HeyItsThatGuy: MichaelMassee is Gordon's fellow hunter.

* BornUnlucky: What happens once you ''lose'' the rabbit's foot. Both effects are [[GenreSavvy weaponized]] by Dean, once he realizes exactly what the foot does and how it works.

For this episode = [[spoiler:1 human.]]

* YouWouldntShootMe: Dean tries this on Bella, claiming that she's a thief, but not a murderer. It doesn't work, as Bella is the type of person who would knowingly sell an ArtifactOfDeath to the highest bidder.

* TroublingUnChildlikeBehavior: Dean made his first sawed-off shotgun in sixth grade.

Gordon Walker is visited in prison by another hunter, whom he convinces that Sam is a monster, possibly an AntiChrist. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam are investigating a theft from one of their father's storage lockers at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rock%2C_Buffalo%2C_New_York Black Rock, outside of Buffalo, New York]]. What was stolen? Oh, just a rabbit's foot.

Gordon Walker is visited in prison by another hunter, whom he convinces that Sam is a monster, possibly an AntiChrist. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam are investigating a theft from one of their father's storage lockers. What was stolen? Oh, just a rabbit's foot.

* BornUnlucky: What happens once you ''lose'' the rabbit's foot. Both effects are [[GenreSavvy weaponized]] by Dean, once he realizes what the foot does.
* ButtMonkey[=/=]CosmicPlaything: Sam trips and falls, gets tracked by hunters, set on fire and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking loses his shoe]].

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Bela hunts down valuable occult objects for wealthy people who know of the [[TheMasquerade Masquerade]].

* EvilBrit: More like [[ChaoticNeutral Chaotic Neutral]] Brit, but Bela mostly applies.
* ExpositionCut: The first scene of Sam and Dean cuts right in after Sam has told Dean that the blonde is a demon, thus neatly cutting out the part the audience already knows so that they can watch Sam and Dean argue over this piece of information instead. Interestingly, the audience learns something they ''didn't'' know before (if they didn't look information on her up yet) that the blonde told Sam off-screen: her name, Ruby. It also appears that Sam left out information the audience ''did'' know from his exposition--that the people connected to their mom were all killed by the yellow-eyed demon and that it is connected to him (Sam).
* GoodLuckCharm[=/=]BadLuckCharm

* LuckyRabbitsFoot: Played With. The foot does grant good luck but take it away...

* NeverWinTheLottery: Dean uses the rabbit's foot to win money from scratch tickets only to have Bela steal them all.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney / NotInThisForYourRevolution: Bela encounters the supernatural and the occult and instead of using her knowledge to help people she steals valuable items and sells them for money (to the scorn of Sam and Dean). The only way Bela and the Winchesters end up working together is when Bela's life is in danger.

* ShoutOut: To ''The Bellboy''. "It was like watching JerryLewis try to stack chairs".
** Bela's alias is [[Creator/BelaLugosi "Lugosi".]]

* SuperstitionEpisode: Sam accidentally invokes (by touching) a cursed rabbit's foot. He has incredibly good luck for a while until he inevitably loses it (as Bobby puts it "Everyone loses it"), and then Sam's luck goes extremely bad. Not a straight example perhaps, because the rabbit's foot is a cursed object, so it isn't just superstition - though how it works is based on superstition - because touching the rabbit's foot really IS good and then bad luck.

'''Season 3, Episode 3''':

Gordon Walker is visited in prison by another hunter, whom he convinces that Sam is a monster, possibly an AntiChrist. Meanwhile, Dean and Sam are investigating a theft from one of their father's storage lockers. What was stolen - oh, just a rabbit's foot.

* ArtifactOfDeath: According to Bobby, most people who own and subsequently loose a rabbit's foot die within a week.