Hookman was filmed third, after the pilot and Wendigo. There were some problems with it, and it was thought the family backstory in Dead in the Water worked better next in line, so Hookman was pushed back to sixth? seventh? in airing order. By the time we saw it, the relationship between the brothers had already started changing to something more than just actors saying lines, the actors had settled into their characters, and the writers had a better handle on the actors' portrayal of the characters, their speech patterns, body language, etc. Hookman has always seemed...unfinished and unsatisfying to me. But it does provide the first look at the trestle bridge used in Salvation, Afterschool Special, In the Beginning, and a bunch of other eps through the seasons.

I've loved Bugs as an ep because of the steam shower, because of the backstory (John checking up on Sam at Stanford), and Dean's quiet admonishment of his younger brother and for once, Sam's shutting up and listening. The ep had all sorts of problems, but the belly-slap in the garage door, the ass-slap at the open house, and facts like it was the *only* ep of the series when the Winchesters used umbrellas, in Vancouver! and the Kim Manners story, directing in the room with his actors and the bees in t-shirt and shorts--well, I got a lot of love for Bugs.

SHOW! In two hours!

And yet, neighbor friends are taking me out for a belated birthday drink, so I'll be watching time-delayed. I'm consoling myself with the fact that we are, honestly, going to the Moose Lodge.

How great was it that Dean was giving Charlie the Cyrano de Bergerac treatment for how to get what you want by flirting with guys?

how many meta and/or fandom references were in tonight's ep? i count: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Soylent Green, Harry Potter, Star Wars, War Games, Lord of the Rings, Kim Manners, Veronica Mars, Star Trek, Jerry McGuire and David after Dentist.

During show an ad for some big food company came on Sucracal or something like that. I assumed it was part of the show, a piece for a Dick Roman subsidiary before I realized it was an actual commercial.

Can I have a Charlie of my own? Please???

Pretty please?

I'm pretty sure the Sucracorp ad actually was part of the show - it was more like a Veridian Dynamics commerical than something selling a real product, and in my market it was immediately followed by one of those CW in-house promos that they usually start breaks with.

If you are not right, it was eerily timed. In my area it lead immediately to a car commercial. And a quick google shows there is not a sucracorp. So, part of show.

The Sucrocorp ad had the CW logo in the corner. I don't think that happens with real ads.

Glad to have confirmed that Baby's in storage somewhere.

Thanks. Missed the CW logo. This little 19 inch used to work for me, but with my eyes getting worse starting to cause real problems. Can't watch foreign language films (on TV ) any more because the subtitles are too small on this thing. Still OK in Theaters.