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Supernatural Season 8 Episode 4

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AIRED: Oct 24, 2012

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The Winchesters track down a killer and the investigation leads them to found footage of three college students investigating mysterious animal attacks.

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Supernatural "Bitten" Review: Motion Sickness Masterpiece Theater

I suspect there will be mixed reactions to “Bitten,” somewhere along the divisive lines drawn by Season 3's “Ghostfacers.” Personally, I dug it.

By MaryAnn Sleasman, Oct 25, 2012

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Not your typical episode

9.0

By CompGirl68, May 16, 2013

I loved this episode! I tend to like art house type movies and the movie here is the type I would like to watch.

The ending was great with Sam and Dean having to do some reframing in what really is a monster. We know from past experience Dean would just see monster but after watching the movie he had to do some deeper thinking on that.

Not much of Sam and Dean in the episode so I can see why some did not like it but it gave Sam and Dean some of the best opportunities for growth in the least amount of time.moreless
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Scary Movie

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By dea300, Mar 26, 2013

This episode reminded me of a really bad scary movie - the horrible acting, the actors "filming" the action as it happens around them, and the one actor living at the end with the knowledge of what happened.

The episode looks just like a youtube video. A really bad youtube video that I turned off after five minutes because it was so boring, and horribly put together. It was just like a Ghostfacers ripoff, but at least we had the prank war and actual scenes with Sam and Dean.

It had so little to do with anything that I should have just skipped it.

Basically, I've seen much better episodes of Supernatural.moreless
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Bad, bad Ghostfacers ripoff

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By vampman87, Feb 10, 2013

I'm not a big fan of the season so far, but I can say that this is by far the worst episode. It basically involves a love triangle between three aspiring documentary flmmakers, one of whom gets bitten by a werewolf. It's shot in 1st person camera just like the Ghostfacers episode, but Sam and Dean only have about 5 minutes of screentime in this ep and the whole episode focuses on three young adults whining about things. The pacing is super slow, the characters are one dimensional , and an idea which might have been awesome if shot normally (a werewolf elder that can change at will without the need of the moon) is just wasted. And the main filmmaker is just annoying. He doesn't have the charm that the Ghostfacers had. Definitely an episode to skip.moreless
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By lamesore, Feb 08, 2013

its not a great episode, maybe its one of those episode when it just descended down to but its not that bad, its really crafty though, like that one episode where Sam and Dean met the Ghostfacers the one is I guess, I liked the part where they almost all die and the blood splashing thing and everything in a "mehh' episode....
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A SuperNatural not about Sam and Dean.... Oh no! No Wincest this episode....

7.0

By DreamSlayer, Jan 12, 2013

So, just like every other decent Sci-Fi Fantasy show, Supernatural experiments with certain episodes (still waiting for that musical episode to come . The series decides to do a 'found footage' episode.

Someone commented that it was the love child of Blair Witch and Chronicle (which was meant to be However Blair Witch is one of the top grossing independent movies of all time, and Chronicle was smart and gets about 85% on Rotten Tomatoes....

This episode was (I hate to say it) a little refreshing. Taking a break from Sam and Dean isn't bad. And if the reason you are watching this series (after 8 seasons) is to still hear the 'Dammit Sam, just leave!", "Fine, I will "Good!", "There I did", "Come back now", "Sorry I left, but I had to!" story.... well, I'm sorry your brain is mush, and you just want the same garbage recycled over and over.

This episode wasn't good. But few have been for a while. Hopefully with Amanda Tapping in the picture things should become very interesting.

Was this the worst episode of the season? Only if you hate found footage stories. Which, after being beaten over the head with them.... most people should.

However this found footage episode was pretty good compared to some of the... stuff... out there.

Not Good, Not Bad. Had to be done, and now that its done..... never do it again.

Now about that Musical Episode.... if this show is going to be 10 seasons... you know it's coming....moreless
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Jared Padalecki	Sam Winchester
Jensen Ackles	Dean Winchester

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Leigh Parker	Brian Wilcox	Guest Star
Britni Sheridan	Kate	Guest Star
Brandon W. Jones	Mike Wheeler	Guest Star

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- Kate: Look, I mean, there's got to be an explanation for this.
  Brian: Really?
  Kate: It... was self-defense.
  Brian: Eating a heart is self-defense?
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- Sam: Dude, two burgers?
  Dean: Hey, I didn't eat at Big P's for at least a year, okay? Clear eyes and clogged arteries--can't lose.
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- Kate: (about Sam and Dean) First things first, those guys... those guys aren't FBI, all right? I'm pretty sure that FBI agents don't say "awesome" that much. You know? And--and they definitely don't hunt and kill college kids.
  Mike: Did--did they say anything else?
  Brian: Dude, they just sat and talked about how they've been apart for a year. You were probably right about that whole office-romance thing.
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- Dean: Hey, Sam?
  Sam: Yeah?
  Dean: Do I really say "awesome" a lot?
  Sam: No. No, no, no.
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- Music: What's the Matter (Milo Green Meanings)
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- After the opening title card, the episode airs without commercials or credits for the next 20 minutes. At the end, the leading crew are listed, then the stars, then the guest stars, then the end credits.
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- International Airdates:
  Canada: October 28, 2012 on SPACE
  Australia: November 5, 2012 on Eleven
  Norway: December 6, 2012 on FEM
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- Kate: But of the two, I prefer Last Year at Marienbad.
  Referencing the 1961 French movie in which an unnamed man and woman meet at a chateau. The man believe that they met at Marienbad, the woman says that they didn't, enigmatic conversations ensue. Another unnamed man may or not be the woman's husband. They walk through corridors and the first man provides voiceovers such as, "Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps. Steps, one after the other. Glass objects, objects still intact, empty glasses. A glass that falls, three, two, one, zero. Glass partition, letters."
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- Brian: Look look look. Starsky and Hutch.
  Referencing the '70s TV series starring Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul, respectively, as two hip plainclothes detectives. The show was later revived as a movie in 2004, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the title roles.
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- Michael: Rizzoli and Isles
  Referencing the TNT series of the same name, which features a police detective (Rizzoli) and a medical examiner (Isles) teaming up to solve crimes. The series is based on the crime novels of Tess Gerritsen. The main story arc deals with their attempts to bring an infamous serial killer, Hoyt, to justice and to keep him from perpetuating his crimes through his apprentices.
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- Sam: Special Agent Rose, and this is Special Agent Hudson.
  Referencing Axl Rose and Saul Hudson (aka Slash), who both performed with the rock band Guns N' Roses.
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- Kate: I know you two idiots are gonna go shoot cut scenes for Jackass.
  Referencing the MTV series (2000-02) and big-screen adaptations that involve a bunch of guys playing pranks and pulling dangerous stunts in the name of entertainment. One stunt led to a teenager injuring himself trying to recreate it, drawing the wrath of Congress.
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- Michael: It's like Dumber & Dumber 3.
  Referencing the 1994 comedy movie featuring two moronic friends who go on a cross-country trip to settle in Aspen and return a briefcase to a woman who one of them has fallen in love with. The movie inspired a prequel and a TV series, and a sequel in production as of the time this episode aired.
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- Brian: Are you an X-File?
  Referencing the long-running Fox series The X-Files (1993-2002) starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, FBI agents who investigate various alien and supernatural phenomena.
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- Dean: Not unless you want to put an APB out on Rocky Raccoon.
  Referencing the song of the same name from The Beatles' White Album (1968). The song, a folk ballad, has nothing to do with raccoons. It describes a love triangle when a boy, Rocky Raccoon, goes after the man who ran off with Rocky's girlfriend.
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