History Recap / SupernaturalS06E18Frontierland

* OverlySterotypicalDisguise: Dean's idea of western clothing derives solely from Western movies. He dresses just like his heroes, but modern Hollywood's idea of cowboy clothing stands out glaringly in the actual Old West, making Dean the butt of many jokes. Sam, who simply adds a cowboy hat and boots to what he would typically wear, blends in much better.

* MonsterSobStory

When Dean explains that he still has to kill him, Finch grabs a gun and runs out of the prison. Dean follows, grabbing Colt's gun from Sam as he goes, and confronts Finch in the middle of town. They have a shootout. Finch is killed and collapses into a pile of ashes. Just as the Winchesters are about to scoop those ashes up, they are zapped back to their own time.

Back on the frontier, Sam finds Colt and tells him that he is a hunter from 2011, handing over his cell phone as proof. Colt, not terribly impressed, asks what Sam wants. Sam explains and asks Colt to come to town with him, but Colt refuses, insisting that he's retired and doesn't care anymore. So Sam asks if Colt will at least give him the gun. Meanwhile, in town, the sheriff has been burned to death just like the judge. The badge is pinned to Dean, who promptly arrests the third and final man involved in Finch's execution. He locks the man in the prison and waits for Finch to take the bait. Sure enough, Finch appears. Unable to touch the iron prison bars, he appeals to Dean, explaining that he was framed for his wife's murder.

* [[YouHave48Hours You Have 24 Hours]]

* PublicExectution: Elias Finch is publicly hanged.

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: In the episode, Samuel Colt's journal says that there is a phoenix in Sunrise, Wyoming in 1861. If Samuel Colt's journal from 1861 really said that, it would be considered a forgery since;
a) The mining town of Sunrise wasn't built until 1898, when the Colorado Fuel and Iron company started to sell the mining rights for the area,
b) The Wyoming Terrritory didn't exist until 1868. (Before that is was known as Idaho, and in 1861 it was known as Nebraska),
and
c) Samuel Colt could not have known of those things since he died of gout in 1862.

-->'''Dean:''' You know what that is?
-->'''Sam:''' Yeah. Horse-
-->'''Dean:''' Authenticity!

-->'''Sam:''' We're looking for a man.
-->'''Judge:''' ''[eyeing their fancy clothes]'' I'll bet.

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Samuel Colt's journal says that the phoenix in Sunrise, Wyoming in 1861. Now, there was a mining town called Sunrise that existed in the Wyoming area in 1861, but the fact is that Wyoming didn't become a state until 1890. There's also no way Samuel Colt could've known what Wyoming was since he died in 1862.

* Artistic Licence - History: Samuel Colt's journal says that the phoenix in Sunrise, Wyoming in 1861. Now, there was a mining town called Sunrise that existed in the Wyoming area in 1861, but the fact is that Wyoming didn't become a state until 1890. There's also no way Samuel Colt could've known what Wyoming was since he died in 1862.

* FridgeBrilliance: Castiel has to reach into Bobby's chest to touch his soul; at the end Bobby calls it a "soulonoscopy" (a play on colonoscopy). In Japanese legend, which Bobby is very familiar with, the soul is contained in a ''shirikodama'', a small ball inside the anus.

* OneSteveLimit: Samuel Colt, Samuel ("Sam") Winchester, and Samuel Campbell have all been important characters and two have been onscreen together multiple times.

* FridgeBrilliance: Castiel has to reach into Bobby's chest to touch his soul; at the end Bobby calls it a "soulonoscopy" (a play on colonoscopy). In Japanese legend, which Bobby is very familiar with, the soul is contained in a ''shirikodama'', a small ball inside the...anus.

** "[[Film/BlazingSaddles Candygram for Mongo]]"
** Dean adopts the alias of Creator/ClintEastwood as Marty did in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and Sam is [[WalkerTexasRanger Walker, a Texas Ranger]].
** [[Film/DieHard "Yippe-ki-yay, mother-"]]
** Dean suggests doing a ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'' to get the phoenix ash. Bobby doesn't understand as he's more of a ''DeepSpaceNine'' fan.

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

* IncrediblyLamePun: Dean says he'll go with the sheriff's posse because he's a [[ChickMagnet posse magnet]]. He just loves posse.
-->'''Dean:''' Make that into a T-shirt.

--> Dean: "You know what that is?"
--> Sam: "Yeah. Horse-"
--> Dean: "Authenticity!"

'''Season 6, Episode 18''':

With Castiel's help, Sam and Dean travel back to Samuel Colt's time so that they can retrieve the ashes of a phoenix -- the only thing Eve is vulnerable to. Thanks to Colt's journal, they know where and when the phoenix will be. It's just a matter of finding the thing and shooting it within twenty-four hours, which is the maximum amount of time they can stay before Castiel must bring them back or risk losing them forever.

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* CouldntFindAPen: A wounded Castiel paints an Angel warding sign on the wall with his own blood, to protect himself while he recovers.
* CurseCutShort: [[Film/DieHard "Yippe-ki-yay, mother-"]]

* 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.

* FantasticallyIndifferent: Samuel Colt, who barely grunts when handed a mobile phone as proof of Sam's story. Sam is bemused at this underreaction.
-->'''Colt:''' When you've done this job as long as I have, a giant from the future with some magic brick doesn't exactly give you the vapours.
* FridgeBrilliance: Castiel has to reach into Bobby's chest to touch his soul; at the end Bobby calls it a soulonoscopy (a play on colonoscopy). In Japanese legend, which Bobby is very familiar with, the soul is contained in a shirikodama, a small ball inside the... anus.

-->'''Judge:''' ''(eyeing their fancy clothes)'' I'll bet.

* NothingUpMySleeve: Castiel's angelblade.

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

* 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.

** "[[BlazingSaddles Candygram for Mongo]]"
** Dean adopts the alias of Creator/ClintEastwood as Marty did in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', and Sam is [[WalkerTexasRanger Walker, a Texas Ranger.]]

** Dean suggests doing a ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek 4]]'' to get the phoenix ash. Bobby doesn't understand as he's more of a ''DeepSpaceNine'' fan.

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

* UnreliableNarrator: Samuel Colt warns Sam not to believe everything he reads in his diary. Sure enough it's Dean who kills the phoenix. The diary said Colt's gun was used, but not who wielded it.

* YouHave48Hours

** Dean adopts the alias of Creator/ClintEastwood as Marty did in ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part III'', and Sam is [[WalkerTexasRanger Walker, a Texas Ranger.]]

** The exchange with the courier at the end is almost verbatim from BackToTheFuture Part II

* BrickJoke: Dean has to explain to Castiel that his ClintEastwood serape is not a blanket. When he's actually back in the West...

** Dean adopts the alias of ClintEastwood as Marty did in ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part III'', and Sam is [[WalkerTexasRanger Walker, a Texas Ranger.]]

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

* NothingUpMySleeve: Castiel

* UnreliableNarrator: Samuel Colt warns Sam not to believe everything he reads in his diary. Sure enough it's Dean who kills the phoenix.

* InterruptedIntimacy