History Recap / SupernaturalS14E06Optimism

** Dean refers to Jack as [[Characters/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GreasySpoon: Dick's Red Rooster Diner

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the diner, when Dean is uncomfortable with the sex talk, he pushes a ceramic red rooster away from him which is hilarious if you know another name for roosters. Not only that, but the name of the diner is ''Dick’s'' Red Rooster Diner... in case they were being too subtle.

Directed by: Richard Speight, Jr.

* {{Adorkable}}: Jack's general cluelessness about sex and romance balanced with his eagerness to experience one or both while also trying to [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl save the girl]] land him in this category

** Dean refers to Vance as [[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie]].

Sam and Charlie team up to get to the bottom of a string of random disappearances. Meanwhile, Jack believes that he has found a case and convinces Dean to partner-up with him on the hunt.

* BadToTheBone: Anyone who watches ''Supernatural'' knows Winston is doomed when [[Music/TheBeeGees Staying Alive]] cues and Winston starts the "Lucky with the ladies" dance that normally goes with it.

** Dean comments that Jack finally gets his zombie referring to Jack mentioning several times that he's always wanted to hunt one.

* FatalAttractor: Everyone in town assumes this is Harper and they describe her as being sweet but having the worst luck with men. The truth turns out to be much darker.

* TheTalk: Throughout the episode, Jack expresses curiosity about romance and sex. Dean promises to give him "the talk" when they get back to the bunker, but when Jack thinks he might get lucky with Harper, he excuses himself to go to the bathroom where he calls Dean and asks him to explain everything now.

** Dean invokes this trope when planning how to approach Harper in a way that will appeal to her. Jack plays the brave hero who saves Harper from the evil fed which appeals to Harper's love of romance novel tropes.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Sam and Dean are working separate cases paired respectively with Charlie and Jack. Sam and Charlie are investigating a missing persons case which leads to a musca who is abducting and murdering people to use for nesting material. Dean and Jack are investigating a series of murders that end up leading to a necromancer and her zombified boyfriend.

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Sam spends most of the episode trying to convince Apocalypse Charlie to remain a hunter because the Prime Charlie was a good hunter.
* TheEndOrIsIt: Harper escapes Jack and Dean. She is last seen writing a letter promising to murder Jack and then resurrect him so they can be together forever.
* EuphemismBuster: The entire scene at Dick's Red Rooster Diner. Much like Castiel, Jack has little understanding of human behavior and doesn't understand what is or isn't appropriate conversation, particularly in mixed company. When they discuss that "courting" is the step before dating, he says out loud that dating is the step before sex.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The musca's colony comes to collect his body after he is put down by Sam and Charlie. It makes it clear that even though he was a "bad egg", they still mourn his death.
* EvilPlan: Harper reveals that she murdered her boyfriend because he wanted to leave their hometown. Then she used necromancy to raise him from the dead with undying devotion for her. After she escapes, she leaves a letter revealing that she intends to eventually hunt Jack down, murder him, and resurrect him so they can be together forever.
* EvilSmellsBad: Sam describes the musca's lair as smelling like pine cleaner and rotting meat.

** Jack complains that food tastes different now that he doesn't have his powers. Castiel complained of the same thing when he regained his power after losing them in season 9.

** Jack uses "Christo" to test whether or not Harper is a demon. This technique had been largely abandoned by the brothers after they battled Azazel and similarly-powered demons who were powerful enough to resist the eye-shifting effect, rendering the technique ineffective.

* InternalReveal: Although Dean and Cass were already aware Jack has a persistent cough that's been bothering him, Dean realizes the severity when Jack collapses during a coughing fit, bleeding from the nose.

* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Sam spends most of the episode trying to convince Apocalypse World Charlie to remain a hunter because the Prime Charlie was a good hunter.

* InternalReveal: Although Dean and Cas were already aware Jack has a persistent cough that's been bothering him, Dean realizes the severity when Jack collapses during a coughing fit, bleeding from the nose.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Sam and Dean are working separate cases paired respectively with Alt-Verse Charlie and Jack. Sam and Charlie are investigating a missing persons case which leads to a musca who is abducting and murdering people to use for nesting material. Dean and Jack are investigating a series of murders that end up leading to a necromancer and her zombie boyfriend.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The bus patrons at the bus stop aren't immediately alarmed by the musca in an all-black beekeeper-type outfit carrying a briefcase sitting next to them. The elderly ladies discuss it amongst themselves for a brief moment before getting up and walking away. Later, a male patron who encounters the musca at night doesn't even give him second glance and waits patiently for the bus to arrive at their isolated bus stop.

** Jack uses "Christo" to test whether or not Harper is a demon. This technique had been largely abandoned by the brothers after they battled YED and similarly-powered demons who were powerful enough to resist their eyes shifting, rendering the technique ineffective.