Greco

[vidavalor]

Gabriel, an angel, was initially incapable of recognizing Beelzebub, a demon, after Beez changed their face.

This, despite having known Beez for millennia, having been expecting their arrival, and with Beez wearing pretty much what Beez has been wearing for the last few centuries.

Gabriel isn't an idiot, nor does he need glasses, so the only conclusion to draw here is that angels can't recognize demons without being told who they are looking at by a demon-- likely a result of the demons being considered Lucifer's property who can also act as Satan in their roles as diabolical ministers.

This is also why Crowley didn't identify himself to Sitis in any way that spoke to him having his own identity. He couldn't when on assignment to do the work of Satan for Satan.

The Devil doesn't tell you they're The Devil-- you've got to be able to recognize him.

Beez, after changing their face, had to reintroduce themselves to Gabriel-- had to identify themselves to him by name-- in order for Gabriel to be able to see them there.

I bring this up because Beez, in that scene, had no ulterior motives and wasn't trying to hide their identity. They were honest about who they were with Gabriel and wanted him to see them. But...

...what if another demon wasn't as honest?

What if they wanted an angel to see them as someone else, instead of who they really were?

If only a demon can truly identify a demon to an angel, then a demon who didn't want to say who they truly were-- like, say, Lucifer himself-- would need another demon to identify them incorrectly to an angel or angels because those angels otherwise wouldn't be able to recognize him. After all, angels, by definition, are not familiars of The Devil.

And if the other demon would not help with this deception willingly? Well... that would be when it becomes relevant that this story began by establishing that Satan can take forcibly take control of the demons.

The person with the coffee never actually said who they were. Instead, they forced the one person in the room vulnerable to their possession to incorrectly identify them to the angels.

Michael and the others never stopped to consider that Crowley, in this instance, was not a reliable source... or why it was that none of them could recognize the person who came through the door.

Crowley was a lot more right about what was going on in S2 back in S1:

[vidavalor]

Knock on Wood

To knock on wood is a superstitious action undertaken to try to influence a good outcome when "tempting fate"... but it's also euphemistic for sex involving a penis.

The wood part of that euphemism is obvious... The knock part comes from to knock being slang for to have sex with someone from at least the mid-1500s, with one term for a brothel being a "knocking shop" well into the 1800s. To knock was sometimes also used in the past to mean to verbally ask someone for sex... whereas the wordplay-happy Crowley was humorously choosing to do that, in this case, by literally knocking on the bench in the above scene.

It's these things that make this scene a funny visual pun on knock on wood wherein Crowley knocks on the wood of the bench and Aziraphale, immediately upon hearing the sound, looks down at his cock. 😂

They say the ducks are so used to being fed by secret agents that they've developed Pavlovian reactions to them. *giggles*

The wood knocked on in this scene was a bench-- something they're often sitting on together and something which, based on Aziraphale's response, Crowley's likely knocked on before, especially because of how the etymology of bench can convey a request for a specific variety of knocking on wood. What variety? Well, bench has retained its original meaning from its predecessor, the Old English benc, which meant, as you might figure it would...

... long seat. 😉 Crowley knocking on the bench they're sitting on to see if he can knock on wood and ride his lengthy bench later on, after-- and for-- lunch.

[vidavalor]

S2: Crowley, before he knew that Gabriel was in the shop, entering the bookshop with a mix of knock on wood and knocking on Heaven's door (death as euphemistic for little death):

[vidavalor]

Just noticed that he knocks on the wood table on the "sorted/sordid" pun here, too 😂

[artist-dali]

Metamorphosis of the Five Allegories of Giovanni Bellini, 1939, Salvador Dali

[itsagifnotagif]

I actually have so much love for dogs

[hellanne]

[horrorsoflife]

[communistcinema]

Essential 90’s Films: Part I

[requiem-on-water]

Ghosttown by Kyle Thompson

[galaxinaa]

Alfred Kelsner

[70sscifiart]

[boom-shwa-tee-oosh]

[wrestlinguserboxes]

[arcticmonga-deactivated20140209]

[sleepymob]

feel my pain

[hudsonsbluff]

Heat (1995)

[jonroru]

“Mr.Sandman, bring me a dream" 

[did-you-know]

These miniature religious relics from the 1500s are each carved from a single piece of boxwood. They’re so tiny, researchers had to use micro scanning to detect the joints within their inner layers- revealing that some of them are held together by pins that are smaller than a grass seed. Source Source 2

[visualstimuleye]

[thereal1990s]

The Big Lebowski (1998)