“the real ghostbusters” – fanservice at its best (some spoilers may be ahead.)

if there’s ever been a tv-show keen on delivering fanservice it’s gotta be supernatural. i mean, the show has been self-aware since the beginning, naming characters after producers and writers, but it definitely raised the bar ALOT with its latest episode.

but let me start a bit earlier, with season 4 episode called “the monster at the end of this book.” there sam and dean (the two main characters, in case you didn’t know), learn about a series of books called “supernatural” (written by carver edlund a.k.a. chuck) that’s been published for quite some time and had actually already gained a small underground fanbase to that date. so they’re doing some research, find a forum dedicated to the series and have the following conversation:

dean: there’s sam girls and dean girls. and what’s a slash fan?
sam: as in… sam slash dean. together.
dean: like… together together?
sam: yeah.
dean: …they do know we’re brothers, right?
sam: it doesn’t seem to matter.
dean: ah, come on. that’s… that’s just sick.

yes, that’s fanservice on a very high level (i’m not a wincest-shipper, but even i liked this and the earlier shoutouts throughout the series. chuck actually turns out to be a prophet writing the winchester-gospel, but that’s another, albeit just as intriguing story.)
so, since chuck’s kinda important to the story of course he becomes a recurring character, leading to more insight on the supernatural-fanbase and having its hilarity-peak in episode one of season five, “sympathy for the devil”, which features becky, chuck’s biggest fan and dedicated wincest-writer, sitting in front of her computer, writing on a story of course, when she gets a call from chuck, who tells her she has to deliver a message to sam and dean because she’s the only one who’d believe him they’re real. so a while later she’s standing in front of sam and dean’s hotel room going completely nuts:

sam: you okay, lady?
becky: sam? is it really you? (putting a hand on his chest) and you’re so firm.
sam: uh… do i know you?
becky: no, but i know you. you’re sam winchester, and you’re… (looks at dean, unimpressed) …not what i pictured.
(she delivers the message chuck gave her)
sam: becky, does he know where it is?
becky: in a castle on a hill made of forty-two dogs.
dean: forty-two dogs?
sam: are you sure you got that right?
becky: it doesn’t make sense, but that’s what he said. i memorized every word… for you.
sam: umm… becky, can you… quit touching me?
becky: no.

but it doesn’t end here. the next installment of the fanbase can be admired in the latest episode, “the real ghostbusters,” where sam and dean rush to the scene, finding a very nervous chuck who has no idea why they’re here. turns out becky snuck his cellphone and text-messaged sam he (chuck) were in a life-or-death-situation to get them to join the fun – which is the first supernatural-convention ever. so sam and dean find themselves amidst several other black chevy impalas, leatherjacket-wearing deans and sams with serious hoarse-throat-problems telling each other to stay the fuck in character and larp’ing the hell out of the little haunted hotel the convention is held at.

since i don’t want to spoil the fun i’m gonna stop here, but be assured it’s a hilarious storyline that will leave no fan disappointed (especially the ending.) who thought the ghostfacers-episodes were genius is gonna love this just as much.

 

and because i can’t help it here the obligatory quote to end my entry (not that spoilery, if you’re paranoid about that):

(chuck was talking about a new deal to continue publishing the supernatural-books which sam and dean obviously didn’t approve of. at the end of the episode following conversation occurs:)
sam: oh, and, hey chuck, look, if you want to publish more books, i guess that’s okay with us.
chuck: wow… really?
sam: no, not really, we have guns and we’ll find you.
chuck: oh, okay… no more books…