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5	'''[[Recap/{{Supernatural}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''''\
6	'''Season 4, Episode 19'''
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8	!Jump The Shark
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10	->'''Dean:''' You know, I finally get why you and Dad butted heads so much. You two were practically the same person. I mean, I worshipped the guy, you know? I dressed like him, I acted like him, I listen to the same music. But you were more like him than I will ever be. And I see that now.
11	->'''Sam:''' I'll take that as a compliment.
12	->'''Dean:''' You take it any way you want.
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14	Written by Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin.
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16	Directed by Phil Sgriccia.
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18	Air Date: April 23, 2009.
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20	Sam and Dean receive a call on their dad's phone--it's Adam. Adam Milligan, John's other son, the one they didn't have a clue existed. His mother has gone missing and his town, Windom, Minnesota, is suffering from a ghoulish mystery: who is stealing bodies from graves?
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22	!!Body count
23	For this episode = 3 humans and 2 ghouls.
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25	For the series so far = At least 307 humans (of which 5 were witches), 28 ghosts, 22 demons, 10 vampires, 6 changelings, 3 gods, 3 shapeshifters, 3 zombies, 2 angels, 2 ghouls, 2 werewolves, 2 dogs, 1 crocotta, 1 djinn, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 reaper, 1 rugaru, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, and 1 wendigo.
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27	!Tropes
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30	* AvengingTheVillain: The ghouls are after [[RevengeByProxy Sam and Dean]] because John killed their parent.
31	* BigBad: The ghouls posing as Adam and Kate Milligan, who both want revenge on John Winchester for killing their father, and decided to settle on Sam and Dean when they find out John is dead.
32	* BodyHorror: Adam was eaten alive by the ghouls, who attempt to do the same thing to Sam.
33	* ContinuityNod: Dean still picks scissors.
34	-->'''Dean:''' Why didn't I pick paper?
35	* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: Up to this point, Sam and Dean had been using John's journal as their hunting bible, referring to it whenever they were stumped. But when they go to check it about the one thing it should '''definitely''' include, a third son John never mentioned, the pages that chronologically should have recorded those dates have been ripped out, presumably by John.
36	* DeadAllAlong: Poor Adam and Kate were killed before the episode began.
37	* DecapitationRequired: Blowing a ghoul's brains out also works.
38	* FantasticSlur: The ghouls take offense to being called ghouls.
39	-->'''Sam:''' Silver. No wonder none of the tests worked. You're not shapeshifters. You're ghouls.
40	-->'''Ghoul Kate:''' You know, I find that term racist.
41	* InsultBackfire: While "insult" might not be the correct word, Sam takes Dean's comparison of him to their late father John as a compliment to which Dean replies that he can take it any way he wants, implying the comparison was meant to be anything but a compliment.
42	* KillAndReplace: The ghouls take the form of the last person they ate and retain their memories.
43	* LongLostSibling: Adam turns out to have been Sam and Dean's brother, but they never got to meet the real Adam.
44	* NotSoDifferentRemark:
45	--> '''Dean:''' ''[to Sam]'' Y'know, I finally get why you and Dad butted heads so much. You two are practically the same person.
46	* ParentalSexualitySquick: Dean and Sam don't like thinking about their dad hooking up with Kate on a job.
47	* SailorEarth: Adam is a deconstruction of the "third Winchester" plot.
48	* SecretOtherFamily: According to the ghoul, John would periodically go visit Adam and his mother while Sam and Dean, oblivious, waited in a motel for John to return from his "hunting trip."
49	* SelfDeprecation: The title refers to JumpingTheShark; adding a new "long-lost family member" to a TV series is usually considered by its fans as one way a show has jumped the shark, but, in this case, [[AvertedTrope it isn't, partly because this family member is going to stay lost]].
50	* ShoutOut: The diner where Sam and Dean meet Adam is called CousinOliver's, a reference to ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' and a TropeNamer.
51	* SpotTheImposter: Dean and Sam test Adam using salt, silver, and holy water. Unfortunately, ghouls aren't susceptible to any of these things.
52	* TooMuchAlike: By the episode ends, Dean comes to think this is why Sam and John never got along. And considering just how stubborn and eager to pursue the chance for vengeance against supernatural beings and creatures they [[ItsPersonal have personal grievances against]] they both turned out to be, Dean isn't entirely wrong to make this claim.
53	* ToServeMan: Ghouls eat human flesh and the ones in this episode ate Adam and his mother Kate alive. They earn a reputation for graverobbing to sate their appetite.
54	* UnusualEuphemism: "Maybe he slipped one past the goalie."
55	* WorstAid: Sam's wrists are sliced to ribbons. Dean wraps a towel around them and that's apparently good enough.
56	* YouAreWhoYouEat: The ghouls eat humans (usually ones that are already dead) and take on the form of the last person they ate.

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