Scarecrow

Season 1, Episode 11, Aired
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Sam and Dean's father sends them to a small town where the citizens sacrifice couples to a pagan god which manifests through a scarecrow.
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  • such a really good ep

    8.5
    "Great"
    By cube2k8, Oct 20, 2011 Report Abuse
    in this ep of supernatural that has sam and dean going to a old town that is haunted by a scarecrow and young couples that come through the town and they break down out side the town and they come in to get it repaired and they get fed alot and then they leave thinking there repaired and they get killed after breaking down again dean sam investigate and it turns out the town does it on purpose to worship the scarecrow the harvest that makes them have a good harvest every year i think it was a really cool ep .moreless

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  • After a fight, Sam and Dean split up, and Dean must face a towns ritual sacrifices to a Pagan god alone.

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    By MinKattMossy, Oct 20, 2011 Report Abuse
    This was one of the high-lights of season one. First of all, the supernatural part of the story was very good. The people in this small, cosy town turn out to be evil, and sacrifice innocent couples to "save their town". They believe that if they do not make these annual sacrifices, the town will fall prey to same fate that has befallen many surrounding cities; its crops and businesses will go down, leading to the demise of the town. There was something very creepy about the nice, elderly people cruelly giving up people to be torn apart by this "god". Even when we have found out that they are in fact bad guys, they still justify what they are doing, truly believing it to be the only right thing.

    And the relationship between the brothers in this episode is incredible. The fight in the beginning really open up our eyes about how it must have been growing up the way they did, always following orders, and never being able to do your own thing. We begin to understand more clearly why Sam left for Stanford in the first place, and that helps us understand more clearly why they act they way they do. Truly a beautiful episode, and it was nice to see Sam come through in the end, and both of them putting their differences aside, and keep doing what they do best!moreless

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  • Good return from hiatus, enjoyed this one a lot. (Even with the standard nitpicks that you have come to expect from me - lol)

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    By IlyanaRVS, May 30, 2011 Report Abuse
    Excuse me, I'm supposed to believe that a 2006 Mustang just dies on the road? Please explain that to me, since anyone who would get one would be an absolute nut about their car and keep it in as tip-top shape as humanly possible. I can buy that the cell phone dies, but the car? Yes, I know, obviously it was tampered with, but still - I don't want to go into a show assuming it's a set-up, I prefer to be surprised. And by the way, if that was supposed to be a year ago, was that car even available at that time?

    Does anyone else think the Scarecrow looks like the bad guy from Jeepers Creepers?

    I do like this show, it's been getting better as the season goes along - it has managed to avoid falling completely into the "monster of the week" trap so far, and the some of the monsters they have had have been pretty neat.

    Wondering about the girl that Sam hooks up with on the road - yes, again, reviews on the fly - watching while writing this. She seems a little too weird, and I wish she would just let her accent out of the bag, cause the very vague hints of it are just annoying.

    Aw, look, the townsfolk have finally gotten a conscience - or one of them has, at least. Somebody should have explained to Emily that blabbing to outsiders wasn't a good idea.

    The goodbye scene between Sam and Dean was well done, but you knew for sure (even if you didn't read the quotes section before watching the show) that they wouldn't split up and go separate ways. Meg's reaction though seems a little over the top, though - she only just met Sam the day before, why would she be so surprised that Sam would go back to meet his brother?

    Hehehe - somebody's quoting Star Trek - "The good of the many outweighs the good of the one." Considering, though, that that was said by Spock as he sacrificed himself, it has a whole different meaning here - self serving justification instead of the true meaning of sacrifice.

    Who, or what is Meg, and who or what is her father? Could be fun finding out :)


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  • Sam and Dean's father sends them to a small Indiana town to investigate a killer scarecrow. Sam and Dean go their separate ways early on by meeting up again in the end while Sam realizes that him and Dean only have each other for what's left of their fammoreless

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    By jensen-ackles, Feb 12, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode so reminded me of the beginning of Jeepers Creepers 2 when the creeper pretended to be a scarecrow and you saw the creeper suddenly move his head just like the scarecrow did in the beginning of this episode. It was kind of nice that Sam and Dean had a fight so that we could see that they do have sibling rivalry( although we have seen some other sibling rivalry in the past but in this episode it is all them and not through a shapeshifter). I thought it was great that Sam finally and completely realized that him and Dean are all that's left of their family( besides their dad who doesn't want to be with his sons right now and is sort of "hiding" from his sons, too). That was also a close call for Sam almost being the victim of that witch( good thing he followed his instincts of thinking Dean was in danger and leaving to help his brother even though they had that fight).moreless

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  • I had higher expectations but the episode was good.

    8.0
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    By mobilehead, Dec 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    Well, a good idea for the episode but unfortunatelly it was a bit spoiled. The whole terrific scarecrow concept was put aside a bit and surpressed with that whole thing about the family. Maybe I had higher expectations towards it and was looking for something deeper and far more thrilling, especially seeing an opening scenes.

    Of course there is a huge amount of mythology in it. We have some new twist in the plot concerning hitchhiking girl and the dad's thing which will be probably explored further in the series.

    In overall, good episode but could have been a lot better.

    A BIT OF A SPOILER BELOW!

    P.S. I wonder why nobody figured out that scarecrow will not be interested in non-relatives...moreless

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    • Emily is ready to pack up and leave Burkitsville on short notice and depart for Boston. But there's no indication of how she's going to survive. She's been working as a glorified gas station attendant with her aunt and uncle, by all indications has no other means of support, and the townsfolk are hardly going to cooperate to let her liquidate any of her relatives' assets. Edit
    • The Winchesters seem curiously satisfied with the outcome of their adventure. With the Vanir dead, Burkitsville shouldn't suffer any worse than the surrounding towns. Which seems a small price to suffer for having murdered two people a year for centuries. But even if the townsfolk are going to suffer along with their town for hundreds of murders... what about the professor? He clearly doesn't live in Burkitsville, and he appears knowledgeable enough that he may be the town's resident expert on their god. But at the end he gets off scot-free, and the brothers don't care. Edit
    • The townsfolk fail to "fatten up" Emily and Dean by giving them a final meal, which means that the ritual would fail anyway. Edit

  • Notes

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    • The contact names in Sam's phone are member of the crew or past characters. Rebecca Warren is the name of the girl the brothers helped in season 1 "Skin". John Marcynuk is this episode art director and Mary Ann Liu is a graphic designer. Edit
    • This is the first episode to feature the episode title on-screen. Edit
    • International Airdates: Denmark: March 19, 2006 on TV3 Portugal: December 18, 2006 on AXN France: February 5, 2007 on TF6 Italy: April 17, 2007 on RaiDue Germany: January 14, 2008 on ProSieben The Netherlands: September 14, 2008 on NET5 Edit

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    • Meg: Here's to us. The food might be bad and the beds might be hard, but at least we're living our own lives and nobody else's. Edit
    • Dean: All right, look, I know how you feel. Sam: Do you? How old were you when Mom died? Four? Jess died six months ago. How the hell would you know how I feel? Dean: Dad said it wasn't safe for any of us. But he obviously knows something that we don't. So he says to stay away, we stay away. Sam: I don't understand the blind faith you have in that man. I mean, it's like you didn't even question him. Dean: Yeah, it's called being a good son! You're a selfish bastard, you know that? You just do whatever you want. Don't care what anybody thinks. Sam: That's what you really think? Dean: Yes, it is. Sam: Well, this selfish bastard is going to California. Edit
    • Sam: So, Dad is sending us to Indiana to go hunting for something before another couple vanishes? Dean: Yahtzee. Can you imagine putting together a pattern like this? All the different obits Dad had to go through? The man's a master. Edit

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    • Dean: Hi, my name's John Bonham. Referencing John Bonham, an English drummer and songwriter best known for his work with Led Zeppelin who died in 1980 due to pulmonary edema. Edit
    • Dean: Let's get out of here before Leatherface comes back. Leatherface is the main villian of the horror series Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The reference is likely due to the fact that skin from the victim at the start of the show was found grafted to the arm of the scarecrow. Leatherface would often make masks out of the faces of his victims, stated in the 2001 remake because he hides a degenerative skin disease. Edit
    • Miscellaneous There are several references to the movie The Wizard of Oz: 1) The Scarecrow, 2) An "If I only had a brain" quote, 3) a "into the cellar!" moment, 4) apple trees; 5) the girl's name of Emily - "Em" for short and the same name as Dorothy's aunt; and 6) Emily living with her aunt and uncle. Edit

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