Supernatural

Mystery Spot

Season 3, Episode 11, Aired 2/14/08

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Dean is killed after looking into a case about the disappearance of a man with Sam. The next morning, Sam is shocked to find Dean alive and is hit with the realization that he is reliving the day before.

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Jensen Ackles

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Jared Padalecki

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groundhog day, supernatural style. sam lives through the same tuesday over and over. he watches his brother die time and time again, the same day but a different death. funniest ep ever.moreless

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By buffyangel4evr_, Dec 08, 2011 Report Abuse

this is definately my favorite supenatural episode of all time. i can watch it over and over again, hint, hint. sam and dean visit a town to investigate the disappearance of a scientist investigating the town's "mystery spot". they plan on visiting the landmark and dean dies tragically in an accident. sam wakes up the next morning, to the tune of asia'a "heat of the moment" and is shocked to see is brother still alive! sam is going through a kind of "groundhog day", reliving the same day over and over again, and each time dean dies a different death. how can he stop it and save dean? we find out it's the trickster and he wants to see how far sam will go to save dean from fullfilling his deal with the crossroad demon. although this ep doesn't have the usual dark tone the series is known for, it's a great change of pace and funny as hell, no pun intended. as someone who grew up in the 80's, hearing heat of the moment played about a dozen or so times was awesome. and even though i don't want to see dean die, some of his deaths in this ep were just outright hilarious. getting squashed by the piano and sam accidentally killing him. once the hilarity ends, we realize the lengths sam will go to save his brother. this is one you can't miss.moreless

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An unusual episode that is, first and foremost, incredibly funny (and, near the finale, heart-breaking)

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By Snape83, Jun 20, 2011 Report Abuse

I must admit that the first time I saw this episode, I didn't quite like it. At least not as much as I do now. Back then, I loved the first part (until the meeting with the Trickster, the always awesome Richard Speight Jr.) but felt that the last one - set six months after the previously recounted facts - was pretty weak and off. Nevertheless, after seeing Season Four, I couldn't help but to come back to this episode and enjoy how faithful to Sam is his after-Dean depiction in this episode. The first half of "Mystery Spot" is hilarious: Dean is being killed off in many creative ways, and each and everyone of them is undeniably fun. The acting is really top-notch, both from Jensen (as usual) and Jared: the scene where they speak in unison is without a single doubt one of the most accomplished scenes this season. But it is what happens after the encounter with the Trickster that it's really important for Supernatural own mythology, because it shows how Sam will become after Dean's death: obsessed, revenge-driven, capable of anything to get his vengeance. This will be of pivotal importance in Season Four arc and it's incredible to have an episode in Season Three that so incredibly and strikingly well anticipated what was in store next.moreless

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Supernatural with a dose of Groundhog Day!

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By windwaker06, Jun 19, 2011 Report Abuse

(*SPOILERS WARNING*)

The allusions are everywhere. In Groundhog Day, the kid wakes up to the same song over and over again, just like Sam. But even if you've never seen that movie? You can still love this episode for all that it is- hilarious and shockingly intense!

At first we get a blast of confusion when Dean dies at the beginning of the episode. No pact needed here because, magically, Sam wakes up and Dean is okay! Sam realizes once Dean dies again that he is reliving the same day over and over. And Dean HAS to die, each time.

The way they killed Dean each time was hilarious. You could guess what was coming. My favorite was Sam trying to prevent Dean from getting killed by going out for tacos instead of to the diner for breakfast, and then Dean asks Sam if the tacos taste funny... and then Sam is waking up again. Killed by a taco! And a piano, and a car. And a shower.

The episode turns mighty serious when everybody's favorite trickster is found to be behind the time loop, to teach Sam a lesson. Eventually, Sam goes insane with the number of times he has to see Sam die, and he pleas with the trickster to let the next day (Wednesday) come. And when it does? Dean dies... and there is no longer any reviving him.

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Time-loop episode. Fun, but somewhat disappointing.

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By 3ifbyair, Mar 29, 2011 Report Abuse

There isn't a single episode of Supernatural that I didn't like, but some episodes were worse than others and I think that Mystery Spot in particular really didn't live up to its potential.

The drama and the humour got in each other's way. Making an episode in which Sam has to watch Dean die over and over and over again at all comic was a bad move on the writers' part, in my opinion. This could have been one of the biggest tearjerkers of the series, but the comedy took most of the emotional impact out of it. At the same time, while there was enough comedy to mellow out the drama, there wasn't enough to make the episode especially funny overall.

There were also some major pacing issues. Much of the beginning felt too repetitive and drawn out to me, while the ending - the part where Sam spends a few months without Dean - was way, way too hurried.

So while it wasn't a bad episode by any means, it did leave me feeling somewhat disappointed and frustrated.moreless

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This one was an extremely good episode. Excellent approach to show "Groundhog's day" in Supernatural style.

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By mobilehead, Feb 03, 2011 Report Abuse

This one was an extremely good episode. Excellent approach to show "Groundhog's day" in Supernatural style. We have humour, we have drama and we have trickster guy! All together it gives us the great mix of a really awesome episode. I also noticed that the third season of the series is far way intriguing and builds the complexity of the show. Except for "Bedtime Stories" there were no episodes that I could consider as boring or not having the influence on the whole show's story. I am looking forward to seeing what's going to be next and how the brothers are going to get away with their lives in front of the evil surrounding them more and more.moreless

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Trivia
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- When we first see Dean having a shower and we see his hair, it is all flat, and then the second time we see him, it has been pulled into a mohawk. Edit
- The first time around when Sam and Dean come out of the Diner, a heavyset lady in red and her partner leave from a store next door. She can still be viewed in the background up to the time Dean bumps the blond. This couple does not show up in any of the subsequent loops. Even though the other loops don't show the couple coming out of the store, they should still be seen in the background. Edit
- During the second Tuesday discussion, after the blond bumps Dean there is a couple that walks across the screen from right to left, twice. Edit
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- International Airdates: Denmark: March 2, 2008 on TV3 Australia: March 3, 2008 on Network 10 UK: April 6, 2008 on ITV2 Latin America: May 7, 2008 on Warner Channel Norway: August 17, 2008 on TVNorge Spain: November 2, 2008 on AXN Sweden: November 16, 2008 on Kanal 5 Portugal: January 15, 2009 on RTP2 Germany: March 9, 2009 on Premiere Film Finland: July 2, 2009 on Sub New Zealand: September 11, 2009 on TV2 Czech Republic: April 2, 2010 on Prima COOL Slovakia: September 29, 2010 on Markiza Edit
- Injoke: The song that plays when Sam wakes up on each new Tuesday was sung by Eric Cartman in the South Park episode "Kenny Dies," in which Kenny (a character who dies and returns each episode) died for "real" and stayed that way for some time. Edit
- Music: Heat of the Moment (Asia), Back in Time (Huey Lewis and the News) Edit
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- Sam: You don't remember any of this? Dean: Any of what? Sam: This. Like it's happened before? Dean: You mean like deja vu? Sam: No, like it's...like it's really happened before. Dean: Yeah, like deja vu. Sam: Forget about deja vu! I'm asking you if it feels like we're living yesterday all over again? Dean: Okay, how is that not...? Sam: Don't say it! Edit
- Dean: Rise and shine, Sammy! (Sam, realizing it's Wednesday, gets up and hugs Dean) Dean: How many Tuesdays did you have? Sam: Enough. Edit
- Dean: All right, all right. We'll go tonight after closing, get us a nice long look. Sam: Wait… what? No! Dean: Why not? Sam: Uhhh…. Let's just go now – right now. Business hours! Nice and crowded. Dean: My god, you're a freak. Edit
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- Trickster: Holy Full Metal Jacket! Referencing the 1987 movie starring Matthew Modine and R. Lee Ermey, and chronicling new Marine recruits during the Vietnam war, and the stress they are exposed to that causes them to sometimes snap. Edit
- Trickster: You're Travis Bickle in a skirt, pal. Referencing the character played by Robert De Niro in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver. De Niro plays a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran who decides to "protect" a teenage prostitute. Edit
- Dean: Like Groundhog Day? Referencing the 1993 movie featuring Bill Murray as a weatherman who finds himself reliving the same day over... and over... and over again. Edit