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* DrinkOrder: In Sam's version of events, Dean is a [[ButLiquorIsQuicker big fan]] of a drink called a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_pranks#Nipple_cripple purple nurple]].

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Sam and Dean investigate the apparent suicide of a professor at [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Springfield University]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%2C_Ohio Springfield, Ohio,]] when they hear a local legend that Crawford Hall where the death occurred is haunted by the spirit of a student who was having an affair with a professor and jumped from the window of room 669. Several urban legends coming to life on a college campus but have to call in Bobby Singer when they can't figure it out.

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Sam and Dean investigate the apparent suicide of a professor at [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Springfield University]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%2C_Ohio Springfield, Ohio,]] when they hear a local legend that Crawford Hall where the death occurred is haunted by the spirit of a student who was having an affair with a professor and jumped from the window of room 669. Several However, when they investigate they find no evidence of a ghost and it looks like the story is only an urban legends legend.

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* AllWorkVsAllPlay: Sam portrays Dean as All Play, and Dean portrays Sam as All Work.
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-->'''Starla:''' [Gags into her hand] Sorry. [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Just trying to keep my liquor down]].

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-->'''Starla:''' [Gags [[[VomitDiscretionShot Gags into her hand] hand]]] Sorry. [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Just trying to keep my liquor down]].
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-->'''Starla:''' [Gags into her hand] Sorry. Just trying to keep my liquor down.

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-->'''Starla:''' [Gags into her hand] Sorry. [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Just trying to keep my liquor down.down]].
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* AnythingThatMoves: Sam's portrayal of Dean and the "feisty little wildcat on the hook" wearing [[StockingFiller fishnet stockings]] and a tight miniskirt.
-->'''Starla:''' [Gags into her hand] Sorry. Just trying to keep my liquor down.
-->'''Dean:''' Yeah, good job. [To Sam] Hey. Good news. She's got a sister.


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* UnreliableNarrator:
** Sam, who tends to portray Dean as [[TheHedonist only interested in pleasure]].
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* PoeticSerialKillerPoeticSerialKiller: The Trickster picks victims he sees as guilty and kills them in a way to highlight this guilt.

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* AssholeVictim: Most of the victims.

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* AssholeVictim: Most of the victims.Professor Cox who cheats on his wife with students.



* DeathByIrony

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* DeathByIronyDeathByIrony: Professor Cox, the teacher of ethics and morality who [[YourCheatingHeart commits adultery]] with impressionable young students, is apparently killed by a vengeful spirit of a WomanScorned.



* NumberOfTheBeast: The ghost story about Crawford Hall says the brokenhearted student jumped from room 669, and Jen points out what happens if you turn the 9 upside down. In actuality Crawford Hall only has 4 stories and has no room numbered 669.



* ShroudedInMyth: Crawford Hall at Springfield University.
-->'''Jen:''' So now she haunts the building. And anyone who sees her? They don't live to tell the tale.
-->'''Curtis:''' Well if no one lives to tell the tale then how does the tale get told?



* UrbanLegends
* WomanInWhite: The woman who visits the professor in the teaser.

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* UrbanLegends
UrbanLegends: Which include:
** A GhostStory about a WomanScorned who was DrivenToSuicide by an adulterous professor on the college campus 30 years ago.
* WomanInWhite: The woman who visits the professor in the teaser. Like the [[Characters/SupernaturalGhosts Woman in White]] in the [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot Pilot (S01, Ep01)]], she targets adulterous men.
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* HowWeGotHere: Sam and Dean take turns explaining this to Bobby.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Professor Arthur Cox teaches a course of morality and ethics, but he seems to be a serial adulterer who takes advantage of impressionable students.
* InMediasRes: The first scene shows Bobby arriving in the brother's motel room and each of the brothers take turns narrating what happened in their investigation up to that point.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The victims are made to suffer for their vices.


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* OnlySaneMan: Bobby pointing out how the brothers are behaving after the Trickster sets them against each other.
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Sam and Dean investigate several urban legends coming to life on a college campus but have to call in Bobby Singer when they can't figure it out.

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Sam and Dean investigate several the apparent suicide of a professor at [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Springfield University]] in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%2C_Ohio Springfield, Ohio,]] when they hear a local legend that Crawford Hall where the death occurred is haunted by the spirit of a student who was having an affair with a professor and jumped from the window of room 669. Several urban legends coming to life on a college campus but have to call in Bobby Singer when they can't figure it out.
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** Sam's computer is missing.
** The air was let out of the Impala's tires.

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** Sam's computer [[MyFavoriteShirt computer]] is missing.
** The air was let out of the Impala's tires.tires, [[ThePreciousPreciousCar Dean's baby]].
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** Sam's computer is missing.
** The air was let out of the Impala's tires.
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* BerserkButton:
** Dean [[JabbaTableManners eats]] chilli fries on [[NeatFreak Sam's]] bed.


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* BreakupSong: "Walk Away" by Joe Walsh, which is the song Sam asks Dean to turn down, but instead Dean turns up the volume.

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* DestinationDefenestration / NoEscapeButDown: The professor falls to his death from his office window.



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* NightmareFaceNightmareFace: While kissing the professor, the woman's face becomes gray with sores appearing to be rotting away in areas.
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* ShoutOut:
** The professor asks the young woman how the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._M._Anscombe Anscombe]] paper is coming.
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* FictionalDocument: ''Modern Morality: Examining Societal Views and Belief Systems'' by Arthur Cox, the book by the professor with his photo on the back cover.


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* PowerIsSexy: The young woman seems to be impressed by the professor's books and he describes himself as "a celebrity around here".



* TeacherStudentRomance: The woman in the teaser initially pretends to be one of the professor's students.




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* WomanInWhite: The woman who visits the professor in the teaser.

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** Body count for the series so far = At least 178 humans; 11 ghosts; 5 vampires; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 2 shapeshifters; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.

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** Body count for the series so far = At least 178 humans; 11 12 ghosts; 5 vampires; 2 shapeshifters; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 2 shapeshifters; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.



* BlahBlahBlah -- Sam's actual dialogue from Dean's POV.
* BreatherEpisode -- Especially needed after the extremely dark "Born Under A Bad Sign."

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* BlahBlahBlah -- BlahBlahBlah: Sam's actual dialogue from Dean's POV.
* BreatherEpisode -- BreatherEpisode: Especially needed after the extremely dark [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E14BornUnderABadSign "Born Under A Bad Sign."Sign" (S02, Ep14)]].



* HoistByTheirOwnPetard -- The Trickster's MO. Even uses the phrase himself.

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* HoistByTheirOwnPetard -- HoistByTheirOwnPetard: The Trickster's MO. Even uses the phrase himself.



* RashomonStyle -- Sam and Dean recount ''slightly'' different versions of events to Bobby.

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* RashomonStyle -- RashomonStyle: Sam and Dean recount ''slightly'' different versions of events to Bobby.

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-->These punishments, they’re [[DeathByIrony almost poetic]]. Well, actually they’d be more like [[BawdySong a limerick]], but still...
--->'''- Dean'''


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* DeathByIrony


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* PoeticSerialKiller
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* AnyoneCanDie:
** Body count this episode = [[spoiler:2 humans]].
** Body count for the series so far = At least 178 humans; 11 ghosts; 5 vampires; 1 demon; 1 god; 1 rakshasa; 1 rawhead; 2 shapeshifters; 1 shtriga; 1 wendigo; and 1 zombie.
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* AssholeVictim: Most of the victims.

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* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]

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* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]AnalProbing: The Trickster forges ''lots'' of strange happenings in a college town, one of them involves a guy who has been abducted by "aliens." The victim's experience involved [[BlackComedyRape being repeatedly probed]] (a total of eight times according to the dialogue). This ordeal apparently paled in comparison to being forced to slow-dance with one of the aliens to "Lady in Red."
* TheBadGuyWins
* BlackComedyRape


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* DependingOnTheWriter: An in-universe example.
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-- ** might also count for the entire episode
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* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]
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* AffablyEvil: The Trickster is quite nice and playful right up to when [[spoiler:he gets staked.]]
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* BreatherEpisode -- Especially needed after the extremely dark "Born Under A Bad Sign."
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* HoistByTheirOwnPetard -- The Trickster's MO. Even uses the phrase himself.

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