count me among those who didn't know how to properly pronounce Sam Hein and i think, to be fair to the writers/actors if they had pronounced it correctly a lot of people wouldn't have realized who they were talking about. i doubt the general public knows it's said any differently.

Until this discussion, I never knew the proper pronunciation. I could easily see the boys mispronouncing it.

I thought of this fanwank and then realized that the angels would not have mispronounced it. But I'm basically in tiggy's corner.

Frank Miller?

Because he looked like Frank Miller, apparently. I didn't see that, but the only time I've seen Frank Miller was a couple years ago from a distance.

Interview with Todd Stashwick - who was the shapeshifter in "Monster Movie."

Who was he on Buffy?

to be fair to the writers/actors if they had pronounced it correctly a lot of people wouldn't have realized who they were talking about. i doubt the general public knows it's said any differently.

I thought this, too. But I think Sam is research geek enough that if he had showed Dean a page in a book, and Dean had mispronounced it, Sam could have easily corrected him. Problem solved. It just ... irked a little bit. Because it does seem like something Sam would know, you know? He can read, like, sanskrit and shit.

(But would Sam necessarily have heard it said? I'm not sure.)

Okay - imdb says that Todd Stashwick was the Mfashnik Demon on Buffy and the Vocah Demon on Angel.

Who was he on Buffy?

According to IMDB, he played a M'Fashnik Demon on the Flooded episode. If I'm remembering correctly, that's the one where Buffy goes to the bank to try to get a loan (after she's been resurrected and her friends helpfully tell her they've been living in her house while it's losing money, but they haven't been doing anything except waiting for her to come back to fix things). So he's the demon summoned by the Trio.

Oh, and the talkative kid in the crypt who gets captured by the living dead plays Kyle's younger brother on Kyle XY.

I wouldn't expect Dean to know how to pronounce Samhain. I would expect Sam to know though, because somehow I know and I'm not an academically inclined hunter. And yes, the angels would have known (it would have been funny if they'd corrected the boys). It's not a huge deal, it's just a little irk.

Set visitor and Guest star during Yellow Fever shoot. Word is that the set visitor was S.E. Hinton who is a fan of the show.

The set decorator - when is his book on SPN motel set design coming out?