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Discussion of 1.17 "Hell House" - Aired 3/30/06 (WB-US)

Bela Talbot

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As a prank, teens spread the word that a local house is haunted by the ghost of Mordechai Murdoch, a man who reportedly killed his six daughters during the 1930s, and it ends up listed on the urban legend website Hell Hound's Lair. When it soon appears that the house actually is haunted, the brothers head to Richardson, Texas, to investigate, and run into paranormal investigators Ed Zeddmore and Harry Spengler(A. J. Buckley and Travis Wester), owners of the website. Although their research shows no truth in the legend, the brothers nevertheless encounter the spirit, but it is different from what the legend describes. When Sam and Dean realize that the Mordechai's origins on Hell Hound's Lair has also changed, they theorize that the spirit is actually a Tulpa brought on by a Tibetan spirit sigil painted by the teens as a joke, with the beliefs of the website's visitors causing the story to become reality. The brothers trick Ed and Harry into posting a vulnerability for Mordechai onto their website, and later return to the house to kill him. However, Ed and Harry are also there, and reveal that the website's server crashed. With the Tulpa unaffected, Dean decides to burn the house down to stop the entity.

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WWBD? What Would Buffy Do?

Despite all the fun stuff, this is a really dark ep. Dean as a point about how much of the bad stuff is our own fault.
 
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Agreed. I love the darkness of this season though, going through the urban legends, and the scariness of Mordechai. Sam & Dean vs the "paranormal investigators" is hilarious though!
 

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The whole sub-story of Dean trying to figure this out and the use of the Blue Oyster Cult symbol itself.

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The use of the Tulpa as the big bad; it's a great idea, one I wish we could come across again.

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Ed and Harry.

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The Infamous Prank War!

Rating - 8.5/10
 

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These don't even look like teens
It's behind you!
Why does Dean even have a spoon next to him?
Hell hounds lair dot com
Kinda hot in a dead sorta way
We belong here, we're professionals
Looking for ghosts and cheap thrills
Let's the pranks begin!
I'll take the homicidal ghost over you
Who you gonna call!
Rats
Sweet lord of the rings
Blue oyster cult
Ah freshly showered Sam
Because you're a bad person
WWBD?
That laughing man really is quite creepy
The power of Christ repels you, but not this time
Fire! Kill it with fire!
It's fast and dirty but it works
Of to lala land with a fish!
 

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Baby is so shiny.
Kinda a shock to the system to go from the previous ep to this one, back to monster of the week.
How times have changed, kids all hanging out away from home and tablets. If they had a camera phone they might remember the details more clearly!
Like the doctor who episode, I believe in fairies!
The episode of pranks, it only escalates from here...
 
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