Sam and Dean figure out that it was really the other three kids who scalped the old lady's son, so they're the real ghosts.  They team up with Fat Dean and Skinny Sam for a highly flawed plan that involves making the ghost actress really pretend to be the old lady and scare the kid ghosts into letting them out.

That plan backfires when her cell phone goes off, so Sam and Dean stay behind to fight the ghost kids while Fat Dean and Skinny Sam rush outside to dig up the bodies.  Meanwhile in the ballroom, one guy decides to leave and break the salt seal, which lets a ghost kid in.  But Chuck, becoming a super hero in his own right, runs up with a piece of iron and vanquishes the ghost before ordering people to salt it back up.  Becky watches this and based on the looks she's giving him, I half-expected her to molest him right there.

Sam and Dean try their best to fight the ghost kids, but in the end, it's the LARPers who succeed in salting and burning the bones.  Yay, Fat Dean is a hero!

In the aftermath, Dean has a heart-to-heart with the LARPers, who are really Barnes and Damien.  They met in a Supernatural chatroom, and they're not just friends, they're lovers.  I guess this time the homoeroticism isn't even in the subtext.  Dean awkwardly backs away after getting some good advice: being Sam and Dean isn't as awful as Dean might think it is because they get to save the world.

Meanwhile, Sam has an awkward fan encounter of his own when Becky "breaks up" with him because she's now in love with Chuck.  As a parting gift, Becky also tells Sam what she knows about the Colt.  In "Time is on My Side," Bela took the Colt, but she didn't give it to Lilith, she gave it to her right-hand man, Crowley, who still has it.

Now I love Supernatural, but this plot twist is very, very contrived and stupid.  It's a total rip-off of the movie Spaceballs, when Dark Helmet puts in a VHS copy of the movie to fast forward and see where the good guys are.  It's a little too convenient and easy.

As one last teat, the episode ends with some deleted scenes of Chuck filling time talking to the fans.  This includes one truly brilliant moment, when he says, "It's really not Jumping the Shark if you never come back down."  Sadly, after this episode, I'm starting to think that might not be a joke.


Next week on the mid-season finale of Supernatural: Sam and Dean track down the Colt and plan on using it to kill Lucifer.  I imagine if that happens, there's really no point to the second half of season 5, so I expect some big twists.


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