'Supernatural' Careful what you wish for

Tonight Supernatural proved one thing: if wishes were fishes, we'd all stink to high heaven.

The show kicks off with a woman taking a shower with an invisible peeping tom, whom she discovers when she tosses her towel and it lands on his head. Elsewhere, Dean and Sam are arguing over whether or not Dean remembers hell like Uriel told Sam he did, while looking for their next target. Dean gives up nothing, and Sam finds the story of a haunted women's locker room. Dean declares "We gotta save those people!" and they're off!

Sam interviews the woman from the shower, who reveals that the ghost may or may not have pushed her down the stars. There is less doubt about the fact that he helped her up and asked her not to tell his mom. A ghost with parental advisers seems more than a little weird, but not as weird as the man shouting about Big Foot outside. The investigate the woods and soon enough find prints, which lead right up to a liquor store. Apparently Big Foot has a taste for Amaretto and Irish Cream as well as porn.

Dean surmises it's either an "alcoholoporno addict"... or a deep woods David Duchovny. But then they spot a little girl ride up on her bike with a box full of...well, things a little girl shouldn't have. She leaves it on the from step of the trashed liquor store along with a sticker decorated note that simply says "Sorry". Of course, they have to follow her. They expect Harry and the Hendersons, but instead they find out that little Audrey wished her teddy bear was real. Her wish came true and sitting in her room, watching disaster news, is a 6 foot tall manically depressed stuffed animal.

While they try to figure out how to kill the bear, they find out that Audrey's parents wished themselves to Bali. They talk her into staying with a neighbor for a few days and then ask her where the wishing well was. Inside the Chinese restaurant, they ind the well and Dean makes a wish. A moment later a delivery guy walks in with an Italian sub. Dean's a simple guy, with simple wishes. You gotta like that.  Apparently, the local man who recently won the lotto, and the wormy guy sucking face with the supermodel in the corner booth were less simple. Dean asks what Sam would wish for, suspecting it would be to have his old life back. but Sam surprises him by saying he can't imagine going back to that life. But he would wish for Lilith's head on a platter. Also, simple!

Of course, the guys know it can't be that simple, so they pose as health inspectors to clear the restaurant. Then they drain the well and find a strange coin at the bottom. A coin that they can't pry off the bottom. Sam takes a rubbing of the coin and asks Dean to find out about it, stating something just occurred to him. Sam goes to the women's shower to find the peeping tom and catches him...well, with his pants down. He gives him a stern warning and returns to the hotel room.

Between heaves in the bathroom, Dean tells Sam that wishes go very bad. The coin is Babylonian and embossed with the image of Tiamat, a serpent god of chaos. To take the power away form the well, they have to find the first wisher. It turns out to be easier than one would suspect, as they find an engagement announcement in the newspaper for the wormy guy and the supermodel, stating they met a month ago. Meanwhile, Teddy makes a lollipop out of a gun and blows the fluff out of the back of his head. And lives to curse the day again!

It's just one of the surreal funny moments of the show. Another comes after the guys coerce the wormy guy into going back to the well to remove his coin. And by "coerce", I mean at gunpoint. They explain to him that its about more then him wanting to be loved instead of lonely, that the whole town is going insane. He asks where the insanity is just in time to see a little kid pitch over an SUV full of bullies and yell "Kneel before Todd!"  When Dean tries to talk to the kid, who has been picked on everyday by the bullies, the kids end up beating him up too.

Sam races to get wormy guy (who's name is actually Wesley, but I like wormy guy better) to the well, but right at the door, lightening strikes Sam down. Yes, really. Inside is Hope, the supermodel, who had overheard the boys taking wormy guy with them and she couldn't let him wish their love away. The fact that she was willing to kill a man due to her desperate love convinces him that he must do what's right. He lifts the coin and the kid loses his death grip on Dean, Sam wakes up and Hope has no idea who he is.

After a pretty fun ride, the moment of wormy guy's realization that he's bake to Lonleyville, population 1, is a bit of a downer. But, Sam and Dean were right...you can't just get what you want because you want it. Unless you are on My Super-Sweet 16. He gives the coin to Sam and shuffles off while Sam decides to have the thing melted down.

The show closes with Dean finally revealing to Sam that he has been lying, just as Sam suspected. He remembers everything about hell. Sam asks him to tell him about it, to share the burden, but Dean will have none of it. The scene is intense as Dean admits he shouldn't have lied and he won;t anymore, but he also won't ever tell Sam about it. It's too terrible, there are no words, and it will never be something that he can forget. He tells Sam he couldn't ever understand. And yet, I have to wonder is Dean can ever understand what Sam's experience of life as a half-demon is like.

What say you? Is this the start of a growing rift between the brother? Or will Sam's cursed blood somehow bring him to hell in a different way, that allows him to understand Dean's experience? Also, anyone else miss the angels?

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