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Feb 15, 2007 · The Winchester brothers and Bobby Singer investigate a series of bizarre events on a college campus, involving a seductive professor, a frat pledge, and an alien abduction. They face a trickster demon who plays with their minds and tempts them with their fantasies.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Bradford May
- 2007-02-15
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Tall Tales is the 15th episode of Season 2. It premiered on February 15th, 2007.
Sam and Dean call upon their family friend and fellow hunter Bobby (guest star Jim Beaver) for help after they are stumped by violent and unexplainable happenings on a local college campus. Bobby arrives with a suspicion as to the culprit behind the killing spree and the brothers' escalating feud.
College campus, outside Crawford Hall, a professor who looked in his forties was walking toward the college, late at night. He suddenly saw a young woman, standing at the side of the she's lost. "No," she replies, "I've been waiting for you, Professor." "Oh, you're in one of my classes?" he asks. "Don't you recognize me?" she says. "They're big classes," he says. "Anyway, my office hours are Tuesday and Thursday mornings." "Really? I was hoping I could see you now," she says, hopefully. He thinks about it for a second and then says, "Well, since you asked so nicely, come on." She smiles and follows him.
In his office, she is looking at a book with his picture on the back. "Such a handsome photo," she says, stroking it with her fingers. He laughs. "Oh, that old thing. So, what can I do for you?" He asks her how a paper is coming, but she shakes her head. "Um, professor, I have a confession to make." He turns from opening the window to look at her. "What's that?" "I'm not really one of your students," she confesses, smiling. "Really," he says, smiling himself. "Then why are you here?" She continues to smile at him. After a long silence, she says "Maybe I should just go." "Wait," he says, and she turns back. "I get it," he says, walking over to her. "I understand how you're feeling and it's only natural. You are young and wide-eyed, and I'm somewhat of a celebrity around here." He starts to pull her over toward him. "Don't get me wrong, you're a very beautiful girl. But it would be wrong of me to take advantage of you." Nevertheless, he touches her hair. "I just, I just respect you too much." Then he begins to kiss her. Suddenly her face begins to look rotten. "Oh my God," he says, seeing her. "What?" she asks. "Don't you like me anymore? Don't you want me?" He backs up away from her. She comes forward. Outside, one of the staff is locking up the doors. He hears a thump behind him and he turns to see the Professor lying dead on the steps.
The boys' motel - Sam is sitting in a motel room, looking at some books. Dean is making happy groans next to him as he is eating fries and gravy and sitting on a bed, also reading and listening to music. "Dude. You mind not eating those on my bed?" Sam says. "No, I don't mind," Dean says, not moving. "How's the research going?" he asks. "You know how it's going?" Sam says, closing a book and turning to glare at Dean, "Slow. You know how it would go a heck of a lot faster? If I had my computer!" Dean smiles and nods at him. "Could you turn that down, please?" Sam finally says angrily. "Yeah, absolutely," replies Dean, reaching over and turning the radio up instead. "You know what?" Sam says. "Maybe you should just go somewhere for a while." "Hey, that's a great idea," says Dean. "I'd love to. Unfortunately, my car is all screwed to hell." "Dean I told you, I have nothing to do with –" Sam begins, but he is interrupted by a knocking at the door. They exchange looks, and then Sam goes to the door and opens it. Bobby is standing outside. He comes in and the boys greet him. "It's good to see you again so soon," he says. "Yeah, thanks for coming," says Sam. "So uh – what didn't you want to talk to me on the phone about?" Bobby asks them. "It's this job we're working," begins Sam. "We weren't sure you'd believe us." "I can believe a lot," says Bobby. "Yeah yeah, I know, it's just we've never seen anything like it –" "Not even close," Dean adds. "- and we thought we could use some fresh eyes," Sam finishes. "Well, why don't you begin at the beginning?" Bobby suggests. "Alright, so, it all started when we caught wind of an obit," Sam begins. "See a professor took a nose dive from a fourth story window, only there's a campus legend that the building's haunted. So we pretexted these reporters from the local paper."
Bar - Sam is sitting at a table with a girl and a guy. He's asking them why they think the professor did it. The girl tells him that he had a wife and kids, and his book is like a really big deal. "Then again," she says, "who's to say it was suicide?" The guy starts to argue, but Sam asks, "What else could it be?" She starts to say something but the guy interrupts, saying "It's a bunch of crap, it's a total urban legend." "Yeah well, Heather's mom went to school here and she knew the girl," the girl says. "What girl?" asks Sam. "See, three years ago? This girl was having an affair with some professor. He broke it off, she jumped out a window and killed herself." "You know her name?" asks Sam. "No. But they say she jumped from room 669. Get it? You turn the nine upside down...?" Sam nods. "So now she haunts the building. And anyone who sees her? They don't live to tell the tale," she finishes. "Well if no one lives to tell the tale then... how does the tale get told?" asks the guy. "Curtis! Shut up!" she says. "You know what? Thanks a lot guys. Excuse me." Sam stands up and leaves.
Dean is sitting at the bar, having a few shots. "Dean, what are you drinking?" Sam says, coming up. "I don't know man, I think they're called purple nurples?" Dean says with a little burp. "Well listen, I think maybe we should go check out the professor's office," Sam says. "No no no no," Dean says. "I got a feisty little wildcat on the hook, I'm gonna 'zzzz' reel her in." He turns to a girl standing next to him. "I'll introduce you. Starla?" A very drunk girl with tons of makeup turns around, in the middle of a drink. "This is my shuttle co-pilot, Major Tom. Major Tom, this is Starla." "Hi," says Sam. She holds out a drink to him and then suddenly puts her hand over her mouth, coughing. "Sorry," she says. "Just trying to keep my liquor down..." Dean laughs and turns back to Sam. "Hey, good news. She's got a sister..." He smiles at Sam and Sam smiles weakly back. Starla giggles and puts her arms around Dean's neck. Suddenly –
The boys' motel - "Whoa whoa whoa," cuts in Dean. "Come on dude, that's not how it happened." "No? So you never drank a purple nurple?" says Sam with a smile. "Yeah maybe that, but I don't say things like 'feisty little wildcat' and her name wasn't Starla." Bobby watches silently. "Then what was it?" asks Sam. "I dunno," says Dean. "But she was a classic chick. She was a grad student. Anthropology and folklore. We were talking about local ghost stories."
Main Cast
•Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester •Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester
Guest Stars
•Jim Beaver as Bobby Singer
Co-Stars
•Richard Speight Jr. as Gabriel •Emma Lahana as Jen •Barclay Hope as Arthur Cox •Angela Case as Illusionary Girl #1 •David Tom as Curtis •Matreya Fedor as Illusionary Alien
•Aliens (conjured by Gabriel)
•Archangel (Gabriel)
•Demigods (mentioned only)
•Giant Alligator (conjured by Gabriel, newspaper picture only)
•Trickster (Anansi and Loki, mentioned only)
•Vengeful Spirit (mentioned only)
•This is the first appearance of Gabriel.
•Bobby Singer previously appeared in Born Under a Bad Sign.
•This is the first chronological appearance of an Archangel in the series, as later revealed the Trickster is actually the Archangel Gabriel. the second was Raphael, when Dean and Castiel try to find God in Free To Be You and Me.
•It is also the first appearance of a primordial entity in the series.
•Sam's laptop gets frozen on bustyasianbeauties.com, which links directly to the official Warner Bros. website. This also marks the first mention of "Busty Asian Beauties," which became a recurring joke in future episodes, as a supposed "interest" of Dean's.
•First reference of aliens. The second would be the season 6 episode Clap Your Hands If You Believe.
•This episode marks the first appearance of Angels in the series•This episode received its own special article at Weekly World News. Oddly, the article explains one thing that goes unmentioned in the episode itself: the stakes used to kill a Trickster must be dipped in the blood of one of its victims.
•The building that serves as the exterior of Crawford Hall is the Iona Building, located at the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus. It houses the Vancouver School of Economics. The featured stained glass window is titled "Light of the World".
•The boys relating their mutually contradictory accounts of events shown in flashback to Bobby, who then determines the truth, is a take on the 1950 movie Rashomon, in which four people tell mutually contradictory versions of events shown in flashback and the final account is assumed to be the truth. This narrative device was also used in an X-Files episode, "Bad Blood", on which John Shiban (the writer of this episode) was a co-producer.
•A "Purple Nurple" is an actual drink containing coconut rum, triple sec, blue curacao, and cranberry juice.
•Jim Michaels also gave out his own version of the recipe.
•Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) fights a serial killer (created by The Trickster) that very much resembles Jason Voorhees. In 2009, Padalecki played Clay Miller in in the remake of "Friday the 13th".
•"Walk Away" by The James Gang
•"Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe" by Barry White
•"Next To You" by Junk Food
•"Lady In Red" by Chris DeBurgh
Find out who directed, wrote, produced, and starred in the Supernatural episode Tall Tales, aired in 2007. See the full list of cast and crew members, including Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, and The Trickster.
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Nov 25, 2022 · Synopsis. Dean and Sam investigate the apparent suicide of an adulterous professor on a university campus. The local urban legend that seems most likely the culprit turns out to be a bust. Then a frat boy is humiliated when he reports being abducted by an alien. Puzzled, and increasingly antagonistic with each other, Sam and Dean fail to find ...
- Bradford May
- February 15, 2007
- Season 2, Episode 15
- Tall Tales
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