The CW's Supernatural is into its final season after a successful 15-year long run and the Winchester brothers, Sam and Dean, are on their way to the final resolution to their saga.
The show has given its audience dollops of both humor and horror. Let's stop to take a look at some of the funniest and scariest episodes during the show's interesting ninth season.
Funniest: "Slumber Party"
The bunker of the Men of Letters that becomes home for the boys is not devoid of its own share of secrets and magic. It turns out that the wicked witch from L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz has actually been magically preserved for decades inside the bunker, her soul bound with that of her nemesis, Dorothy.
What’s better is that the audience gets to see Charlie Bradbury once more, and the latter and Dorothy team up to kill the wicked witch. More importantly, the two are clearly attracted to each other and Charlie ends up leaving for Oz with Dorothy in search of adventures.
Scariest: “I’m No Angel”
The scribe Metatron has stolen Castiel’s grace and the letter is now forced to live like a human, passing urine, brushing teeth, and earning his living.
While Castiel’s human life has hilarious elements, the fun evaporates when he discovers two priests of a church impaled with stakes, with their eyes burnt out— clearly the work of angels. The sight is disturbing, to say the least.
Funniest: "Dog Dean Afternoon"
In one of the funniest episodes yet, Dean performs a spell to communicate with a dog so that the brothers could catch a serpent tongued monster. Unfortunately for Dean, but hilariously for the audience, this meant that he himself takes on some characteristics of a dog.
Dean soon finds himself scratching his head, playing fetch, barking at the mailman, and communicating with other animals and even birds in the universal animal language. However, the laugh out loud moment happens when he felt momentarily but undeniably drawn to a beautiful female dog from across the street. Sam also has his share of comedy when a tiny little dog promised to share information with the boys in exchange for a belly rub from him.
Scariest: "Holy Terror"
The angels are on a rampage after the great fall where they were all evicted from heaven. They are taking over vessels, irrespective of the latter’s capacity to contain them.
The violence between various factions of angels is brewing in this episode. From murdering each other to torturing Castiel himself, there is an impending sense of chaos, dread, and anarchy. The most horrifying scene comes, however when the angel Gadreel, possessing Sam, murders Kevin right in front of Dean, with the latter looking on helplessly.
Funniest: "Heaven Can’t Wait"
Cas is human and working at a Gas-N-Sip when he comes across a potential case and invites Dean to investigate. The fun part, however, comes when Cas is presumably asked out by his boss. He accepts the date, since that is something a normal human being would do, and he needs to blend in.
However, in a hilarious misunderstanding, Nora, the woman who asked him out, turns out be going off on a date with another man, while Cas has to babysit her little baby girl. Seeing the usually calm angel worked up over babysitting and singing a lullaby to put a baby to sleep is fun and heartwarming at the same time.
Scariest: "Road Trip"
Dean feels responsible for Kevin’s death and for letting the angel who killed him take off in his brother’s vessel. He, along with Cas, teams up with an unlikely ally, Crowley, to locate the angel possessing Sam.
The King of Hell starts torturing what turns out to be Gadreel, to extort information. That is hard to watch since it is really Sam’s physical vessel that is being tortured and screaming in pain.
Funniest: "First Born"
Dean has pledged to take down Gadreel alone, now that the brothers are taking time off each other. He then teams up with Crowley in search of the first blade that can kill a Knight of Hell.
Ackles and Sheppard make a fine duo and the way they play off each other is always fun to watch. Crowley is at his sassiest (and best) and Dean is slowly transitioning from the rough and tough, fun, elder brother, to the brooding Rambo. The audience also gets to see Dean take on an entire bunch of demons on his own, and Crowley quaking in his boots when he meets Cain, or suddenly remembering the Sign of the Cross when he first rests his eyes on the Mark of Cain.
Scariest: "#Thinman"
The boys come across old acquaintances when they cross paths with the ghostfacers—Ed and Harry.
The crowdsourced legend of Thinman is haunting—firstly, because the Thinman is supposed to be whatever one says it is online, and secondly, well, because he stalks his victims, creeps up on them and slits their throats. The episode plays on the millennial’s online existence and the fear and panic generated on the internet that can take on physical and extremely dangerous forms.
Funniest: "The Purge"
Ackles is back in form with his perfect comic timing. The brothers are investigating a case where people are losing a mammoth amount of weight overnight. They get hired by the ‘spa’ that is literally sucking the extra weight out of people under pretenses, only Sam gets to be the trainer and Dean the ‘lunch lady.’
From stealing the clients’ pudding to getting drugged and passing out on a sack of sweet potatoes to thinking they were dealing with a fish taco— it was really a fat sucking pishtaco— Dean carries the episode all by himself.
Scariest: "Mother’s Little Helper"
While Dean deals with the Mark of Cain freshly seared into his skin, Sam investigates a case where demons are possessing random people, causing violence, death, and bloodshed.
The story takes an especially eerie turn once an elderly woman, an ex-nun, meets Sam and narrates the tale of how the Knights of Hell had taken over her little nunnery years ago in 1958. Truth be told, a haunted church or nunnery always makes for a perfect backdrop to supernatural incidents, as so many movies testify.