It's always interesting to me, when Dean steps away to kiss Cassie and leaves Sam standing there, Sam clears his throat and Dean holds up a "wait one" finger. Sam just seems bereft. Like, wait--that's *my* Dean.

Whereas Dean's always trying to push girls on Sam, at least in S1.

Sam's not so into sharing big bro, and I think Dean sees happiness in the ladies and wants Sam to be happy the same way.

It's wonderful looking at Dean through Sam's eyes. Cassie is such a void of casting (did they not audition her? Could they not find any other biracial-plausible actresses? How hard where they trying) that JA needed all the help he could get.

Also the plot is highly stupid. Is it the worst of the run?

eta: Also, the look Dean gives Sam when Sam asks if it's worth it is so golden. Dean would rather be on the road with little brother, even if little brother would rather be settled down and Dean knows it.

Bugs is pretty bad, too, plotwise.

They didn't even really save the family in Bugs, did they? Didn't the sun just come up while everyone cowered in the attic?

(did they not audition her? Could they not find any other biracial-plausible actresses? How hard where they trying)

My personal belief is that someone lost a bet. It's the only plausible answer.

Something like that. I honestly don't pay attention during that one, except to catch Dean with the towel on his head crowing about the shower.

I don't see Sam as not wanting to share Dean so much as being simply surprised that Dean has this other side, this life that isn't just hunting and family. A shift in worldview, maybe.

It's possible to read Sam's coughing when Dean got kissy kissy as younger sibling trying to fit the older sibling back where they see them as belonging. I think it's more typical for the younger sibling to want the older to not change--I parse it as a bit of possessiveness, but not atypically so. Sam was very much the younger brother.

Dean with the towel is very cute. Sam with the father parallels with the realtor is very clumsy. But Show isn't hardly subtle with the parallel-drawing, then or now.

Yeah, Bugs is pretty bad. But we got the bee story out of it (X a billionty)! And there was tummy whappage and fanny slappage, and towel-wearing. And there was even backstory that John checked in on Sam at Stanford. Can't really call it a wash. Not a good ep, but there were good bits.

Bee story? Do tell!

How many girls has Dean been with on the show? My memory for the details is crap, so I can only remember Cassie and Anna right now. He's obviously playa playa and will hit on anything attractive in a tight pair of jeans, but how much have they actually shown it?

Because Route 666 would rank just for the indication that he has a "first love" (as the TiVo guide said--who has he fallen in love with since then?) and can be tender with women, but I wonder how much of what I interpret as Kripke et al meaning it about his attitude towards women they actually had him act out onscreen, instead of talk out. And I count hitting on women as talk.

You mean Dean, right?

They show him flirting with a LOT of girls, and only some of them you're supposed to think he actually took home (or ... to the back room or whatever).

But there were the girls in Magnificent Seven, the girl in the b&w monster movie one, and ... that's all I can think of.