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Has Sam never heard of homemade pie? There's no need to get drastic.

I’m just going to go ahead and say that it’s kind of genius to vilify high-fructose corn syrup by making it Dick Roman’s chosen method for creating fat, happy and docile humans who won’t object to becoming food for the Pac Men (and Ms. Pac Men) down the road. Because if you take out the Leviathan/soylent green aspect of it all, it ain’t too far from the truth. HFCS really is bad for us, and it really is in everything. I wonder if SPN will face any kind of Oprah/beef industry-style blowback from the corn syrup people as a result of all this? If so, I’d like to read the transcripts of the courtroom testimony because that shit would be hilarious. (HFCS Muckity-Muck: ‘Our issue with this show is that it is making us, the High-Fructose Corn Syrup industry, out to be literal monsters. When in fact that couldn’t be further from the truth. We are merely figurative monsters’).

So yeah, I think it’s clever, and I like it. And maybe it will convince us all to grab a banana and some water the next time we’re craving some ‘road food’. Or, it won’t (face it – we’d all be Eric Cartman screaming for our Cheesy Pouffs). But it’s still funny. And topical! And Dick Roman continues to awesomely ooze slime every time he’s onscreen, which only adds to my delight. I mean, look at this smarmy motherfucker:

Wants to eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Hold the beans and Chianti.

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I LOOOOVED this episode you guys. So, so much. How could you not? Unless you’re not a Cas fan, in which case, I don’t understand how your brain works. But to each his or her own! I am definitely a fan of the weirdo fallen angel and always have been, so Reading is Fundamental was right up my alley. Plus, it finally gave the brothers a plan for battling Dick Roman and even dredged up some old angel business that we haven’t heard about for a while. All that, and it was FUNNY AS SHIT while still managing to kick you in the heart a couple of times, which for my money is always the best kind of SPN episode.

Before I go into full-on gush mode, there was one thing that irked me that I need to address so I’m going to get it out of the way first.

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FINALLY we’re back to the Leviathans. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve mostly enjoyed the last few episodes of SPN (though last week was not my favorite), but I unapologetically love the leviathan story, and especially Big Dick Roman, so I am more than happy to spend an episode with Dick at his offices. This week’s foray back into full Leviathan mode was mostly setup and exposition (tying together what we know so far about the Leviathan Game Plan), but still really fun. The tone was pretty different for an episode of SPN too – for the second week in a row, the brothers took a back seat while most of the focus was on a guest star, but this time with much better results.

Where last week felt like some kind of Victorian-era haunted house soap opera (Downton Abbey Horror Story, anyone?), full of characters that I didn’t know talking about things that I didn’t care about, this week was totally different. It was fun, engaging, on-point story-wise and featured a new character that I instantly liked and wished we could see more of. Felicia Day is someone who most people probably don’t know by name, but in the world of geek she is Queen. I know her from Dr. Horrible (which is AWESOME), but she’s even more well-known for a bunch of super sci-fi things and various web series and being a massive tech nerd who could probably actually do most of the things IRL that her character did in this episode.

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First, let me just say that every time I watch an episode of SPN, I am eternally jealous of all of the cool motel rooms that the brothers and their cohorts seem to just stumble into without any planning whatsoever. I mean, look at the wall next to the bathroom in the gif above (if you can drag your eyes away from Dean in the shower). There are ROCKS and CARTOON PELICANS on it! As a big fan of cheesy, shitty motels (blame it on my dad and the fact that every childhood road trip involved at least two motels boasting a dirty, half-empty pool and free HBO, because we were way too badass [read: cheap] for fancy things like Holiday Inns or HoJos), I study the motel rooms on this show like it’s my job. And they are almost always awesome, and I have never in my life stayed in a motel as cool as any of them. And when Sam and Dean actually complain about a weird theme room or the presence of a heart-shaped hot tub? The nerve! Some of us have stayed in countless motels, only to ever come in contact with tacky wall art and thirty year old comforters that we would never in a million years want to scan with a black light. So, appreciate your weird awesome-motel radar, boys. Most of us will never be so lucky.

Does it seem like I’m stalling discussion of the actual episode? Yeah…I kind of am. Because I fear that my opinion of it is very different from the collective opinion, and I don’t want to be the bummer patrol and bring everyone down, but I can’t help it. I wasn’t crazy about this episode even though there were some kick-ass characters and great jokes. Overall, I didn’t love the story, and I’m afraid for what it might mean for the future (at least when it comes to Bobby). I have no idea where the show is going with any of the balls it currently has in the air, but I’m starting to suspect something that I don’t like at all. However, even if things don’t go the way I’m starting fear they will (and I’ll get to that), I just wasn’t crazy about the setup of the haunted house storyline. So, that being said, please take this recap with a grain of “one person’s opinion” salt, okay?

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