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Our favorite brothers held captive in TV Land by a Trickster, and Castiel is helpless to save them. This is one of the more comedic oriented episodes that is a refreshing way for the show to make clear that they don't take themselves too seriously. My husband and I must have replayed this episode a dozen times just for the pseudo CSI:Miami scenes alone. Mind you we *HATE* Caruso in CSI:Miami, making fun of it on every occasion, and Sam (aka Jared Padalecki) had "Horatio" down to perfection. The writers / actors were also dead on with the "Dr. Sexy" / Grey's Anatomy scenes, the Japanese game show and all the rest, exploiting what is ludicrous yet memorably addictive about these shows. Supernatural continues to be fun, innovative, thought provoking and imaginative entertainment. We LOVE this show!! It is our personal Guilty Pleasure!!

This episode provides an excellent mix of 'Monster of the Week' style and story arc continuation. The majority of the episode centres around parodies of other famous TV shows, the highlights being Grey's Anatomy (Ellen Piccolo, Dr Wang!) and CSI. Other particularly amusing TV sketches are the 'Nutcracker' game and Herpexia advert - "I've got genital herpes"!

This is an excellent episode of Supernatural and, whilst it isn't my all-time favourite, it just inches ahead of the rest for being the funniest. (For other amusing episodes see 'Yellow Fever' and 'Ghostfacers', amongst others).

And yet, aside from the amusement there is a brilliant development to the Angel/Lucifer story arc. The Trickster was always the monster that got away and we finally get to see why. Given that I always loved the Trickster, I was very happy to find out he is one of the decent angels, the angel Gabriel. It all fit in very nicely with where the story is going at this point and ties up very well with another exceptionally funny episode, 'Hammer of the Gods'.

Fans of Supernatatural will love it. If you're a fan of Grey's or CSI and have a sense of humour, you'll love it too!

OK, First Dean watched Oprah, he listens to REO Speed Wagon, he is good with kids and now he watches "Dr. Sexy MD", Oh, Isn't he adorable?!

I might have mentioned before I never liked the Trickster mostly because how he tortured Sam by killing Dean over and over in "Mystery spot" and forcing Sammy to live the pain of loosing his brother. However, Seeing the Trickster back on "Changing channels" may change one's perception. On one of the most entertaining episodes of Supernatural, The Trickster takes Sam and Dean to TV land and the duo are caught in several amazingly hilarious situations. Jared and Jensen get the chance to deliver one of their most comic performances, excellent perplexed facial expressions and amazing one liners.

But the best thing about this show (other than brilliantly making fun of other TV shows and using soft music background on the hospital scenes) was how tied up this one to the main Myth arc. And the final scene delivers more answers and jaw dropping revelations than one could expect on a comic episode.

My only question here: How did Cas find the boys in TV land? Didn't he brand them with the sigil that hid them from all angels including him? And if he could find them, Why didn't other angels find them too? (Of course for Gabriel, he found them when they were already in town investigating a case that he did)

I don't think the creators could help themselves. This is a Supernatural parody of most of the shows on TV, and though they shouldn't throw stones when they live in glass houses this was very well done.

This was the third Trickster installment and it was very well done. They managed to make fun of Grey's Anatomy and with it medical dramas, sci-fi flicks, cheap crime solving shows, games shows and my personal favorite, the sitcom. They were all clever and the boys in these roles were downright hilarious. The fact that Supernatural captured the best/worst aspects of these shows was wonderful.

The entire episode was mostly silly but it wasn't annoying and over the top, it was quite tasteful and watchable. The only sober bit in the entire episode was when they manage to trap the Trickster/Gabriel and they have a conversation. That was of course amazingly unexpected. All together it was a surprisingly awesome episode with very few flaws.

The whole opening sequence to this episode was awesome. From the "Supernatural is filmed before a live studio audience." voice-over to Dean putting stuff in the fridge, turning around, and the cheering/laughing as he said "I'm gonna need a bigger mouth." (in regards to the exaggeratedly HUGE sandwich). Sam's entry, again with the canned laughter, and his delivery of, "Oh, nothing, just the end of the world." (complete with hands on his hips and overdone gestures) was great. Even better was Sam's disapproving/chastising tone as he said "Deeeeeean..." (after Dean's "research" made her bikini-clad presence known), only to be outdone by the push-in to Dean and his delivery of "Son of a bitch!". All that was eclipsed, however, by the too-hilarious-for-words opening credits. The cheery song (and its lyrics), the different clips of the boys acting goofy - it was ALL hilarious.

Hey, Lana's Aunt Nell from Smallville! Her mentioning she saw the Incredible Hulk, and Dean asking "Bana or Norton?" was almost as good as her commenting that those movies were "terrible" (so very true!). Next best scene was Sam and Dean getting trapped in Dean's "Dr. Sexy, M.D." hospital show and Sam getting slapped by the "sexy yet earnest" Dr. Ellen Piccolo (her over-the-top/bad acting just added to the hospital soap opera/drama feel). Nice shout-out to Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character on Grey's Anatomy (the ghost in the mind of the "sexy but neurotic" lady doctor). Sam's disbelieving, "So...this show has ghosts??" and Dean's reaction to meeting Dr. Sexy were pretty funny (as were the "Doctor."/"Doctor."/"Doctor." exchanges). I liked Dean noticing the difference in shoes to what Dr. Sexy typically wore, then Sam saying "Yeah, you're not a fan." sarcastically and Dean admitting the show was his "guilty pleasure". I don't know why, but that one blonde female doctor calling out "Dr. Sexy?" over and over amused me (the simple fact that the character in the show is *called* 'Dr. Sexy' probably has something to do with it).

Sam's second encounter with Dr. Piccolo, with her gushing over how "brilliant" he was, combined with the intrusive sappy song playing and Sam's reaction to it, was pretty funny (the dialogue was what made it so). Sam operating on Dean after he was shot was also hilarious (Jared always plays the comical facial expressions brilliantly) - especially when the doctor who had a crush on him mouthed "I love you." and touched her hand to the glass. Sam and Dean getting stuck in the Japanese game show was somewhat amusing (though a little too slapstick). However, I'm sure that all those who've been having a problem with Sam for some time now and wanted to see him "get what he deserved" were pleased with seeing him get hit in the nuts. The best bit was the host of the show saying "Mr. Trickster does not like pretty-boy angels." (in reference to Castiel). It was kind of a sad moment, though, when Dean unknowingly admitted that his parents would still be alive if Sam hadn't been born. Sam being forced to say "I've got genital herpes." in those damn annoying ads you get on TV was unexpected, but very funny. Jared's delivery was what made it so amusing.

I was so happy we got to return to the Supernatural sitcom. I liked Dean demanding to know "How is that funny?" from the audience when Sam said they may be stuck in TV land forever. Interesting to learn what the point of the Trickster doing this to them was. I loved Dean's attitude towards being stuck in a procedural cop show (and his comment about the types who wears sunglasses at night. I'm surprised he didn't reference the Corey Hart song). The CSI-like theme music playing, as Sam and Dean walked in slow-mo was good, as was the way in which Dean talked (I don't watch any of these types of shows, nor do I watch Grey's Anatomy, but nonetheless I still got the references, and they were hilarious). Possibly Sam's funniest moment in the episode was his delivery of, "Well, I say...jackpot." (and his jerky head-turn and walk off camera). The gratuitous zoom-inside-the-victim camera effect was neat. Sam being trapped inside the Impala ala KITT in Knight Rider was good. Sam saying that Dean rummaging around in the boot (and his "Ow!" at Dean slamming it shut) were both funny, as were his "Should I honk?" to Dean and "Eat me." to the Trickster.

As highly amusing as the rest of the episode had been, I'm glad they got serious for the last part of the it, with the Trickster being revealed as Gabriel and him informing the boys the reason for them both being vessels (one for Michael and one for Lucifer). I have no problem with these 'comedy' episodes, so long as they have a point and are actually *funny* - and this one was both. It was a really good episode, after a couple of weeks of average episodes, and the parodies of the different shows were funny without being too much. Both Jared and Jensen were great with the comic timing (as always). I'm sure they had far too much fun filming this. You definitely don't want to change channels during this episode.

One thing I absolutely LOVE about "Supernatural" is they don't stay all dreary gloom-and-doom. This show has such terrific writers, who let Sam and Deam battle demons and monsters.....but occasionally add humor to keep from staying in a rut.

In this episode, Sam and Dean are transported into the world of Television and they think it's the Trickster at work. The Soap Opera (with the guys playing doctors), Game Show (the hilarious Japanese "Cracker" game)and the absolutely wonderful Knight Rider show with one of the guys as the car were our favorites. This is rounded out by the side-splitting "Genital Herpes" commercial. It seems as though the Trickster is at it again and the guys are forced to play along. The seamless working of the fake Commercial was so terrific, I wondered if we were going into another one after that. Unfortunately, we actually got a real commercial break.

I loved this episode from the opening sequence! Supernatural has done nothing but surprise me since the first episode. In this episode the brothers catch up with the trickster and must be put through his round of tortures by being out into many different types of TV roles such as being on a parody of Greys anatomy and a game show that turns out to be quite hilarious. I won't spoil the end for you but it's def a must watch episode that is quite humorous. Since during season 5 so far there has been many ups and downs and I'm glad the writers of the show decided to have a little fun with this episode. I also loved how the brothers have seemed to lay off the heavy stuff during this episode just to have a little fun with it, or at least the writers chose to do so. All in all it's a pretty great episode, I know I watched it twice and it was well worth it.

But holy molly freakin tony... This episode is really weird and funny in a good way, and the trickster reveal?that was awesome and truly unexpected for me.