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I know "the stench of the impala is all over your overcoat angel" is an already extremely loaded line however the lines before this are just *chefs kiss*
Castiel: I am holding up my end.
Crowley: Ah, yes. But is that all you're holding? See...the stench of that Impala's all over your overcoat, Angel. I thought we'd agreed - no more nights out with the boys.
And this aired on the CW in 2011 and we were all called crazy
Jenny Holzer, The Living Series // Supernatural 6x20 "The Man Who Would Be King"
January 3rd, 2026
Hellers think if they give stupid shit like this all those notes, it will make it canon.
You know what's canon hellers, this:
The Man Who Would Be King (6.20)
Can't be/have a soulmate if one doesn't have a soul.
Episode 124 - 6.20 The Man Who Would Be King
This week: Studies in new levels of crippling emotional pain! That's right, we've arrived at The Agonies! I really don't believe I have to work hard to introduce this one, so I'll yammer about the caption i put on the graphic this week: big plans for that fish.
Yes, Cas is the fish. Way down the line, he's just got so much fish and fishing imagery attached to him, that really this one does feel like a little fishy just flopping up out of the water for the first time and testing out what free will is all about. Unfortunately pretty much everything goes sideways for him.
LINKS!
The Superwiki Page
My tag
Filming locations map
Video of Ben Edlund talking about directing at Paleyfest
(there’s a large number of interviews with Edlund, Misha, and Mark S. linked at the bottom of the Superwiki page for this one, in the interest of character count limitations on Spotify, I’m not linking them all here lol, but please have this one titled “Castiel’s Betrayal is going to hurt Dean deeply”)
Synopsis of The Man Who Would Be King 1975( film)
Probably important for this episode even more than usual, Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series. there are… a lot of parts this week, and I didn’t bother trying to figure out if they have a correct order, and the numbers are just to differentiate the links. so here goes, good luck! (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6) (part 7) (okay does everyone understand this episode is about Cas doing all of this For Dean)
The CW Promo video (notable for Cas’s lines being cut to a pleading “STOP ME!”)
Listen now on Spotify, or wherever you enjoy podcasts!
wait, general personal crappiness aside, what did Samuel Campbell even do to get sent to hell in the first place.
I honestly have no idea, but in 6.20...:
CROWLEY We'll need expert help.
CASTIEL From whom?
CROWLEY From experts, of course. I know of two eerily suited 'Teen Beat' models with time on their hands.
CASTIEL No. Not Dean. He's retired, and he's to stay that way.
CROWLEY Fine. Then I know of a certain big, bald patriarch I can take off the bench. The point is...They can get us to the monsters. The monsters can get us to Purgatory. I know it.
I just have too hard a time imaging Crowley could yoink Samuel from Heaven. Or think of Heaven (while still under Raphael's control, at the very least) as his personal bench.
And of course, Sera could've 100% intended that we were just supposed to roll with Samuel's assertion here in 6.01 that he was pulled down from Heaven, but Ben Edlund wrote and directed 6.20 and I can't imagine an implication like that was something he'd let slip through the cracks... (even if he did slip and fall into the Grand Canyon once lol). So I have a really hard time un-knowing that whole conversation exists 19 episodes down the line.
It could be that Samuel had committed Crimes™ we have no canon knowledge of. It could be that Heaven rejected him on principle, like a casualty fallen in their Bigger Plans to kickstart the apocalypse. Or it could be that Crowley had Samuel earmarked for his personal stash of Just In Cases going all the way back to 1973. Was he King of the Crossroads even back then? Possibly? Probably? He was at least a scheming, self-interested weapons collector going back at least that far. And if he could have BOBBY'S soul rerouted to Hell, then why not another powerful hunter at the center of the Biggest Doings that Hell had seen since Biblical Times? Just a little spare trick up his sleeve?
I have no idea, honestly, but the show does definitely at least leave that as a viable interpretation, however Samuel ended up in Hell... I'm finding I kind of enjoy wondering about it. :'D
Behind us, What could go wrong if I stayed Strong in mind. What was the sudden lapse into Madness, what was the urge that Turned my head around to look at you?
-From The Underworld by The Herd
favorite dean/cas scenes
Okay so Supernatural is hot garbage (we all know that) and season 6 is arguably one of the worst seasons in my personal opinion (fairies and leprechauns?? Fucking fairies and leprechaun????) But can we talk about how in one of arguably the best episodes (6×20 "The Man Who Would Be King") the show delivers one of the rawest fucking lines in the whole show? "Freedom is a length of rope; God tells you to hang yourself with it." Like holy fucking shit dude, holy shit, that's it, that's the line that I'm going to be thinking about for years, that's the line that's gonna make me question my whole existence. Forget "rawest line in the show" this is the rawest line I've ever heard in my life. Like... what a line... What a line...
