Episode 4.06 Yellow Fever

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Where everything is scary. Poor Dean is infected with Ghost Sickness, forced to experience the fear of a murdered man. He’s infected not because he’s a dick, not because he uses fear as a weapon or scares people because of his job, because Sam does all of that too. He’s infected because he’s buried a terrible secret about himself-- one that he feels ashamed of. Times like this I’m glad I do an “all spoilers on the table” podcast, because it’s what he did in Hell and specifically the fact he’s covering it up that made him susceptible to experience the fear of a man who was literally tortured to death and then had his murder covered up by the men who committed or abetted it. It really makes the case in this episode look super on the nose, but only when you finally get the context of Dean’s true secrets from Hell. Which don’t hit us for a few more episodes yet...

There’s an awful lot to be said about this one, not least of which is Dean lip synching to Eye of the Tiger as a little bonus at the end of the episode. :’D

Things referenced in this episode:

The Superwiki page for this episode

Casting sides for Luther, Sheriff Britton, and John Garland

My tag for this episode, but especially these posts:

• Queer themes in 4.06
• A deconstruction of Dean’s fears by amwritingmeta
• on Dean and Fear
• Dean’s dark secret
• in case you missed Sam’s eye flash at the end of the episode...
• lizbob notes on 4.05, 4.06, and 4.14 which i’ll fling at y’all again probably
• Kripke’s statement on this episode
• The significance of Eye of the Tiger (and the full length video of it)
• My notes from a 2019 rewatch

And for those who want to have Dean’s little speech about how crazy their lives are handy, this kind soul has put it on youtube (it’s about a minute and a half) :D

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