 Kneel before Todd! Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys! Hey guys, this is my review for Wishful Thinking Episode 8 of Supernatural Season 4 and small little announcement. This is the 200th episode review I've done. It's not 200 episodes, it's more so 200 in the playlist. I have obviously reviewed certain things multiple times, especially in my conversations with Jade, but this is the 200th video I've ever talked about about Supernatural in terms of review basis. Woo! That's a lot! But for those who are actually wondering what will the 200th episode I've ever reviewed of Supernatural be, it's actually going to be episode 9 of Season 5, The Real Ghostbusters, so we'll make an announcement on that. But Wishful Thinking is actually one of the funnier episodes that still has a bit of seriousness in it, kind of tagged in. It's a filler episode but has a lot of character building moments between the two brothers and this is kind of harkening back to Season 1, but even better. Always come to a town where very strange things are happening, a big foot's walking around, a peeping tom has the ability to go invisible, this teddy bear is having an alcohol and depressive issue. There is a lot of very odd and strange things happening in this town and it's all associated with a wishing well. It turns out that there's a Babylonian coin in this wishing well and much like a monkey's paw, everyone's wish is actually having a negative effect on them. I always like stories that have monkey paw kind of aspects to them. It's probably one of my favorite sort of storytelling tropes in terms of getting what you wish for but there's obviously a negative to it, there's some sort of negative reaction to it and that is done very well in this episode. Between the bits of humor with the teddy bear that tries to kill himself or freaking Ted Raimi getting the girl of his dreams, I did not know that one of the Raimi brothers was in Supernatural. For those of you who are wondering, this is Sam Raimi's brother, the guy who directed the Spider-Man films, the Evil Dead films. It's crazy to see him in this episode because every time I've seen him I'm always like why do I recognize him? And while there are some funny bits like the kid who's got superpowers and picking on bullies and Dean tries to straight-up clock him but it doesn't work, there are also some serious moments especially with Dean's nightmares of hell becoming more apparent, Sam trying to talk to him about it and the ending, at the end of the episode where they're on the pier and Dean says yes I remember all of hell but there's no way I'm going to talk to you about it because how do I talk to you about it? That's in my head forever and it's a very good look on kind of people's inner demons, inner depression, inner turmoil and it's a very serious moment for Dean and it's actually what brings the episode up for me because originally I was going to give this a 5 out of 7 because it's a pretty solid episode, it's funny, it's got some good moments but it's not until that very in-bit that it pushes it up just a little bit because again this is character building that actually mattered to the show and these moments matter now because they're going to just get rinsed and repeated in later season so you really got to appreciate when this stuff was first established and when it actually mattered to the narrative rather than just kind of making a narrative so pretty much I said it earlier but I'm going to give wishful thinking a 6 out of 7 it's a really solid episode I enjoy it it's funny and it has a lot of serious elements to it that bring it out of just being kind of a monster of the week or funny monster of the week episode so I asked you guys to give me your comments about wishful thinking in the last episode review so let's read some of those comments off now wishful thinking is essentially the story of the monkey spa I really love the opening of the scene Sam and Dean clinically aggressive to each other about Dean whether or not he remembers hell and their waiter is aggressively optimistic the depressed teddy bear has to be one of the moments in the show that is unforgettable the camera angles of him shooting himself in the suicide scene shot on TV with the stuff the stuffing flying everywhere like blood was dark humor that I couldn't help but laugh at Dean at the end of the episode defending the bully kid as if he was still super strong was incredibly endearing Dean talking about how he will never forget he'll it's such a great for the show that makes Dean never seem the same overall the earlier seasons prove that supernatural really understood how to handle its humor it has weight to its humor rather than just being humorous for humor's sake when it comes to the funny episodes of the season people always pick yellow fever is the best I don't understand why wishful thinking is one of the most criminally underrated episodes in the series this this is how you do humor unlike yellow fever that just repeats one joke here we go from here we go from Bigfoot to talking teddy bears to Zod references it's amazing that is if I can't oh wow I can't believe that I just said it because they see sounds funny when he says Neil for poor Todd but yeah Neil before Zod I can't believe that it's amazing that there is a variety and energy something that Andrew dad didn't bring to the overrated yellow fever just to clarify I'm not hating on dabs episode because of dab I let if I like it or I hate it an episode it's because of an actual episode not because the person who wrote it yeah dabs gonna be running some pretty decent ones in later ones like jump the shark was one of his episodes so I'm excited to talk about that one later on most of the wishes in this episode were creative and I really like that most of the characters Wesley is a desperate sympathetic character the invisible kid is amusing I feel sorry for the poor lucky chins employee reverence must be paid to Todd but Teddy is still my favorite character from this episode his compulsions are played for laughs but I feel enormous sympathy for the teddy bear it is for the best that the teddies can creation is undone imagine how much worse for Teddy it would have been now in the current year I hope everyone in the comment section in a bad pill he seeks help yes it is good the show is getting close to Dean's trauma and Alistair I miss how in season four or five in the earlier seasons the majority of the demons were smart enough not to punch beyond their weight class and some demons even displayed actual loyalty to their masters the frequency of demon backstabbing would eventually get to the point of tediousness in later seasons yes like everyone's gonna betray everyone later on that is a good point kind of funny that they never made a reference back to the teddy bear again because that's something that you would never ever see again right Neil before Todd wishful thinking the classic monkey paws story but execute far more competently than in Wonder Woman 1984 yes I'm gonna make that comment the cursed coin from the wishing well in this episode is associated with a team yet according to ancient history and psychopedia to match is the Mesopotamian goddess associated with primordial chaos and the salt of the sea it's surprising to me that to me it never appeared in the flesh in the show but we got the Bobby yoga right finally the last one here this one's actually is a bit of a bummer but no it's cool to see this here from Karen in wishful thinking I don't care much about the cursed coin story but absolutely love the happy waiter the suicidal Teddy's why Dean's anguish confession about hell and my absolute favorite Neil before Todd sad footnote about the child actor who played Todd he did not have a happy life grew up angry and ended up killing his mom sorry for the downer geez and now we're moving on to I know what you did last summer and funny enough I actually don't remember this episode on the cursory glance but I imagine when I started I'll remember it in the meantime give me guys's comments about that episode and I'll read those off in the next review anyways guys thank you for watching this review and thank you for watching the many many reviews I've done about supernatural well like I said this is a 200th review I've ever done not the 200th episode review I'm clarifying that that's not gonna happen till season five but it's crazy to think that I've talked this much about the show and you guys have listened to me blabber on this long so again I appreciate that anyways guys if you enjoyed the video leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe 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