I totally grew up reading them.

And when I donated to an elephant rescue thing for my dad for Christmas and got him a tiny stuffed elephant, I suggested that he could give the toy to one of the kids because it was really more representational. He replied that, no, he was not giving up Babar.

My experience is that Babar is familiar here. And awesome. Totally awesome.

Maybe he went and researched Babar after Sam, Interrupted and there are now books on Babar in their trunk.

I am considering accepting this explanation. It may do.

In my fanon, they totally get Dean's stuffed Babar out of the house in Lawrence, and he clings to it, but since they sleep together (grey canon), Sammy appropriates it and they eventually tell each other Babar stories.

Well, ok. That is too adorable to resist.

Now that that's out of the way; I was almost able to reconcile myself to the way the gods were portrayed by thinking that in the SPN-verse angels are assholes and God is kind of a jerk, so that the rest of the gods are also more bloodthirsty and venal than our universe's versions kind of makes sense. And maybe Lucifer gets extra power from all the demons that believe in him (I assume there are more now that he is roaming around than there used to be). But I have to work pretty hard at it and I'm not really convinced.

I don't remember Babar books. I know him from the cartoon.

I agree. If we take the American Gods version of how gods get their power, then I can see the Norse and Greek gods getting their asses whipped, because in spite of minor revivals those are essentially dead religions. But deities from big living religions like Hinduism? Even small living religions like Voodoo?

Or, more likely, he had read Babar, and that's where they got the name from and he was just lying.

I read somewhere the line Dean quoted about not having read any elephant books was actually a line from a Chevy Chase movie (maybe Fletch?) wherein Chase's character says that same line. So I think it was just another movie reference for Dean.

So Dean used the movie line because he's pop culture-y like that, but he also read Babar to Sam way back when. I like it.

Babar was awesome.

And maybe Lucifer gets extra power from all the demons that believe in him (I assume there are more now that he is roaming around than there used to be).

Even if we assume a level playing field to start rather than the angels preceding humanity as they believe and not being dependent on humans for power, more than three billion active worshippers of religions in which Lucifer is the principal adversary figure (and constantly credited/blamed for every stubbed toe by some groups) would seem to give him a huge advantage over any polytheistic deity.