History Recap / SupernaturalS06E18Frontierland

* MeaningfulName: Elias **Finch**. A finch is a type of bird, hinting that he's the phoenix Sam and Dean are looking for.

* MeaningfulName: Elias ***Finch***. A finch is a type of bird, hinting that he's the phoenix Sam and Dean are looking for.

%% * TimeTravel

* ExactWords: "You're gonna burn for this." It sounds like Finch is telling the Judge, Sheriff and Deputy that they'll face damnation for hanging an innocent man, but in fact he means he'll soon be back to burn them to death.

%% * ExactWords: "You're gonna burn for this."

%% * HowWeGotHere

%% * PlayingWithFire

%% * RapeAndRevenge

%% * WriteBackToTheFuture

* HumiliationConga: Dean suffers a minor one for about half the episode once they go back in time and he learns that everything he knows about the Old West [[TaughtByTelevision (that he learned through movies)]] is [[RealityEnsues horribly, hilariously wrong.]]

* BadassLongcoat
* TheBartender
* BreakingTheBonds: Averted with the shackles, which gives Dean the clue that the phoenix shares the vulnerability to iron.

* ChangedMyJumper: Subverted; the clothes are HollywoodHistory version and (more importantly) are too clean.
* CluelessDeputy: Subverted; the deputy actually set events in motion by raping and murdering Finch's wife.

* DramaticThunder: However the BattleInTheRain is a barely noticeable drizzle.

* ExactWords: "You're gonna burn for this."
* FanDisservice: Dean is looking forward to spending time with the saloon girls...until he sees them.

* HangingJudge
* HowWeGotHere

* NothingUpMySleeve: Castiel's angel blade.

* {{Outlaw}}

* PlayingWithFire
* {{Posse}}: Averted; after the sheriff is killed, no one was interested.

* QuickDraw
* RapeAndRevenge
* RealityEnsues: Dean's "authenticity", which turns out to be a bit more than he likes when the saloon is boring and girls are too homely with overt signs of TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed.
* RetiredGunslinger: Samuel Colt. And he's determined to stay that way.
* RightOnTheTick: Naturally, there's a showdown at high noon.

* TheSheriff

* SoiledDove
* SpecialEditionTitle: Copying the burning map credits from ''Series/{{Bonanza}}''.
* TimeTravel
* TheWildWest

* WriteBackToTheFuture
* WrongGenreSavvy: Loads of this from Dean.

-->'''Bobby:''' I've only watched ''Deep Space Nine''

* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: When Dean suggests going back in time to take the ashes of the phoenix, he describes it as "[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV'ing]] this bitch." Neither Bobby nor Sam have any idea what he's talking about.

* TheExpyWithNoName: {{Parodied}} Dean uses Clint Eastwood as an alias, unsuccessfully tries to replicate his look and finds himself continuously disappointed in how un-movielike the real Wild West is.

* MonsterSobStory: The Phoenix goes on a killing spree against three local police officers once they arrive, only for Dean to find out it was a painful [[RapeAndRevenge love and loss]] revelation against a duplicitous sheriff's deputy with his [[DirtyCop cowardly superior]] and the decadent judge taking his word over the persecuted and ended up burning for it.

* SpecialEditionTitle: Copying the burning map credits from ''Series/{{Bonanza}}''.

* WesternCharacters: Let's see: the RetiredGunfighter, TheSheriff, the HangingJudge, the {{Outlaw}}, TheBartender, and the SoiledDove.

* DrinkOrder: Dean orders whiskey from the top shelf (only to be told there's only one shelf) and sarsaparilla for his little brother, much to Sam's annoyance--until Dean [[GargleBlaster gags on his shot]]. Sam smirks and says his sarsaparilla is just fine.

** The exchange with the courier at the end is almost verbatim from ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''