Recap of Supernatural
Season 3, Episode 5:
Bedtime Stories
Dean: I'm gonna go stop the Big Bad Wolf. Which is the weirdest thing I've ever said.
Written by Cathryn Humphris.
Directed by Mike Rohl.
Airdate: November 1, 2007
Sam and Dean investigate a series of fairy-tale-themed murders in Maple Springs, New York
. A little girl with dark hair has been seen at the scenes of the crimes, and the brothers figure out that it's the projected spirit of a girl who was poisoned and put into a coma by her wicked stepmother.
Body count
For this episode = 6 humans and 1 demon.For the series so far = At least 222 humans, 15 ghosts, 8 demons, 6 changelings, 5 vampires, 2 shapeshifters, 2 werewolves, 1 djinn, 1 god, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shtriga, 1 wendigo, and 1 zombie.
Tropes
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Dean briefly dismisses Sam's "fairy tales coming to life" theory as "a little crazy." Sam counters thusly:Sam: What, crazier than every day of our lives?
Dean: Touché. - At the Crossroads: Sam this time. Though he doesn't actually make a deal.
- Because I Said So: Dean, although, according to Sam, their dad is the only one for whom this is a valid argument.
- The Big Bad Wolf: A young man with a Wile E. Coyote tattoo gets hypnotized into being this.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Sam disposes of the crossroads demon with the modified Colt.
- The Brothers Grimm
- Chekhov's Gunman: The crossroads demon mentions that her boss is the one who holds power over Dean's soul. We eventually meet him in Season 5, and he will go on to become a major rival and occasional ally of the Winchesters all the way until the end of Season 12.
- Comatose Canary: While comatose, Callie's spirit somehow makes the people in her town reenact the fairy tales read to her by her father, including making a man act as the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs and an old woman act as the cannibal witch from Hansel and Gretel.
- Creepy Child: Callie's spirit.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette:
- The crossroads demon's vessel, again.
- Callie.
- Meaningful Name: The Snow White equivalent is named "Callie", which means "beautiful" in Greek.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Callie, in keeping with her Snow White theme.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The crossroads demon.
- Red Riding Hood Replica: In this episode, a little girl in a red jacket loses her grandmother and is abducted by a man with a Wile E. Coyote tattoo as a result of a ghost forcing a town's inhabitants re-enact fairy tales. She survives due to the intervention of Dean Winchester, a career monster hunter who takes on the role of the huntsman who saves Red Riding Hood in the fairy tale. Also counts as Little Dead Riding Hood since the girl is marked for death and only lives because of Dean.
- Terrible Artist: Sam, when pretending to be a police sketch artist.
- Title Drop:Dean: Oh, wait, I thought all those things ended with everybody living happily ever after.Sam: No, no, not the originals. See, the Grimm brothers' stuff was kinda like the folklore of its day, full of sex, violence, cannibalism...it got sanitized over the years, turned into Disney flicks and bedtime stories.
- Too Dumb to Live: When you're a crossroads demon, and a truly desperate man armed with a demon-killing Colt revolver comes to see you in order to try and save his brother, dismissing him outright probably isn't a good idea. Pouring salt into the wound and rubbing it in by insulting his brother and laughing about how he's going to Hell doesn't help. Refusing to make a deal and telling the desperate man that the contract for his brother's soul is in the hands of another, far more powerful demon and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it at all is the final nail in the coffin. The scene ends with one of the two getting a Boom, Headshot!, and it's not the desperate brother holding the demon-killing Colt.
