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sam this plane is gonna crash so stop treating me like im fricking 4 🤬🤬🤬

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dean youre such an endearing himbo but i need you to shut up

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dude i know im not an idiot 🤬

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are you humming metallica..? 🫩

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why do you think i drive everywhere sam..🤬🤬

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sam in a suit 🤤🤤

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spn20rewatch, 1.04: "Quit treating me like I'm friggin' four!"

One of my favorite tags to get to use when I'm SPN-posting is #brothers being brothers. Sam and Dean being brothers is the best part of the show for me, which works out well because it's also the show's canonical center. But part of what makes it interesting is that while, yes, Dean is the older brother and Sam is the younger brother, they're not locked into tropey roles by birth order. Their relationship is allowed to be a lot more complex than that.

This episode opens with Dean concerned that Sam's not getting enough sleep. He cracks a joke that he's only worried because Sam has to watch his back during a hunt, but it's obviously a genuine check-in. He's doing his job -- he's Sam's big brother (and all the many roles that comes with in the Winchester family), and he wants to make sure Sam is okay. It's a nice moment, almost a parental/mentor check-in, where he's trying to give Sam life advice and ensure that he's all right. It's all very Big Brother.

Sam then acts very Little Brother over the course of the next few scenes. It's good 'punching up' brat teasing, when they dress in their silly fed suits and he tells Dean he looks like a 7th grader at a dance, and when Dean shows off his homemade EMF reader and Sam tells him it looks janky as hell. This is him doing his job, too -- you can't let the big brother get a big head. There'll be no living with him! (This is also why Sam's often determined to not laugh at Dean's jokes, even if he does think they're funny. There are some things that younger siblings have to do just out of defense against these dorky older siblings that always think they can run the roost.)

Then, they get to the airport.

DEAN: Come on! That can't be normal! SAM: Hey, hey, it's just a little turbulence. DEAN: Sam, this plane is going to crash, okay? So quit treating me like I'm friggin' four! SAM: You need to calm down. DEAN: Well, I'm sorry I can't. SAM: Yes, you can. DEAN: Dude, stow the touchy-feely, self-help yoga crap, it's not helping. SAM: Listen, if you're panicked, you're wide open to demonic possession, so you need to calm yourself down. Right now. (DEAN takes a long, slow breath.) SAM: Good.

Dean being genuinely afraid of flying turns the whole relationship structure in this episode over. When they realize they have to get on the plane he's almost willing to give up the hunt, and it's Sam who insists they follow through (a reversal of the argument they've had in the episodes so far). When they're on the plane, it's Sam who has to remind Dean what they're there for, how to hunt the demon they're after -- it's Sam who provides the tools to do it and who makes sure the day is saved. And it's here, where he's completely calm, that the Big Brother-Little Brother dichotomy dissolves. He's adult and in charge and he's the one telling Dean what to do, and Dean does it.

The lack of "a boss" in their relationship makes it a lot more interesting to see how they navigate their day-to-day. Neither Winchester brother is ever 100% in control of the other, and half the time they swap back and forth even within the same day. Sometimes Dean has to 'parent' Sam; sometimes Sam has to 'parent' Dean right back. Sometimes Dean's bossy and demanding; sometimes Sam's word is law, and Dean shrugs and goes along with it. Keeps things interesting. Plus, hey. Turns out sometimes the yoga crap does help.

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