I had noticed that Dean expresses quite a bit of Yiddish/Jewish these last couple of seasons (I apologize to any Jews on the board, I am quite ignorant of things religious. I had customers once on what was apparently Ash Wednesday and almost pointed out to one lady that she had a dirty smudge on her forehead).
The bigger part of me just thinks that there's a Jewish writer on staff. A smaller part hopes that there is some in-character reason for the expressions that seem outside of Dean's ken.
...almost pointed out to one lady that she had a dirty smudge on her forehead
cut out "almost" and Juliebird is me. The lady was really nice about it, though.
Dean's exposed to a lot of religions, probably an above average number of religious people, and just people in general. Knowing a rite of another religion doesn't surprise me in the least.
And that's before you get to the Jewish girlfriend in grade 9.
Hey, I grew up in a rice mill town in the middle of the Bible Belt and even there we learned to sing "Dayenu" in gradeschool.
Preview for 6x21. Eeep. Tense. Also, Dean, you're a geek, don't pretend you're not.
Just remember to tune in an hour early - wouldn't want to miss the first hour of angst.
Sigh.
I can't believe we're getting the episode 2 days late.
In Chicago: 1 week and 2 days.