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Supernatural: Swap Meat (2010)
Completely ignores everything we know about Sam & Dean
This episode makes no sense. Unlike a shapeshifter, Gary the witch has zero insight into Sam's mind when he takes his body, so everything from his posture to the way he talks should give him away (and indeed, he says all kinds of things that Sam would never say in a million years, like "biz-atches"). If Dean were a civilian, he might shrug off Sam's sudden massive change in personality, preferences, & abilities for a day or so, but he's not. The second Gary picked up a gun, it should've been obvious that this nerdy, sheltered, 17-year-old civilian had never held a firearm, and all *sorts* of alarm bells should've been ringing in Dean's head. Even a halfway competent hunter should've caught Gary right off the bat.
I enjoy the silly episodes as much as anyone, but I watch the show for Sam & Dean. The Winchester brothers are smart guys with good instincts who live out of each other's pockets & know each other better than anyone. If we're just going to throw everything we know about these characters out the window for the sake of a cheap joke, we're not really watching Sam & Dean anymore.
(Also, frankly, Gary was definitely old enough to know that what he was ultimately planning was evil. It was annoying to watch the show treat his actions -- and seemingly lack of remorse -- so lightly. If Gary could've been tried in a court of law, the charge would've been attempted murder in the first degree.)
There's only 2 or 3 episodes in the whole 327-episode run that I tell people to skip. This is one of them.