Once again, my laziness means I have to recap many episodes in one post. Sorry ’bout that…

Since I am so far behind, there will be shenanigans in three parts. ‘Cause there were some serious shenanigans going on in some of these episodes.

Shenanigans Part One: “Party On, Garth”

We open with some kids out at a campfire telling ghost stories. None of them are drinking, which I find vaguely implausible, until their drunken friend shows up (That’s more like it!) and proceeds to get himself slaughtered by an invisible something. This terrible event brings in Garth, who seems to have been gaining lots of hunting experience on his own, and he heads out to burn some bones.

Unfortunately, the problem obviously isn’t a ghost after another body turns up, which leads Garth to give our lovely Winchesters a call, who are still worried about Cas in the loony bin (seriously, I am so far behind!). At the coroner’s we find out the invisi-monster is killing family members, and they head off to a local brewery to track the rest of the fam.

After a kid accidentally drinks her mom’s afternoon screwdriver we find out this monster can only be seen when drunk. Which is awesome and horrible, because who wants to see monsters when they’re drunk? This is when my stupid DVR craps out, and we come back with the Garth sock puppet harassing the kid about how her mom died. Heh. Also, yet another anvil that those boys are being haunted by Bobby.

Anyhoo, after much ta-dahs, the boys find out that they are dealing with a Shojo, a spirit harboring in booze, that has been released from a bottle of saki.  Which leads to a lovely scene of our boys drinking themselves silly so they can find this Shojo. It’s nice seeing those two bonding. (“Can you even get drunk anymore? It’s kind of a vitamin for you.” – Sam) The hunt culminates in a kooky fight in the brewery’s warehouse with a drunk Sam and Garth, and where the sword Dean had a local sushi chef bless (hee!) to kill the Shojo magically slides across the floor to Dean just in the nick of time! Hmmm, I wonder who did that? Might it be Bobby, who we see right at the end, hangin’ in the boys motel room?! D’oh! (and, duh!)

Shenanigans Part Two: “Of Grave Importance”

The show opens with the introduction of another new hunter, Annie, who invites the wonderful Winchesters to town for a pow-wow. She heads out to a teenage lovers infested, what is sure to be haunted, house, just missing the teens brutal murders. Apparently, she is not that great of a hunter, as she gets ganked by the same haunters moments later. We also find out she liked the gents, including Bobby, Sam and Dean in her conquests, IfYouKnowWhatIMean. (Good for her!)

After a little digging, the boys figure out where Annie was hunting, and they head on out to the haunted abode. Bobby is along for the ride (hitchin’ on his flask that Dean has been carrying around), and he sees the house is thick with spirits. Very dramatical spirits, BTW. Annie proves once more what a bad hunter she is, as she didn’t even realize she was dead, even though Bobby tells her some silly story about how it took him awhile to figure out he was still in this realm.

We get to see Annie and Bobby get a little tutorial in the ghosting ways from an evil ghostie, and they suck at it. Heh. Not much good news about how ghosties devolve, either. Creee-py. They meet Victoria, a good ghost, who asks for some help in ending the horrors of the house.

This episode it pretty rote as far as the Winchesters go, research, brotherly rescues, last minute ganking and such. It’s mostly about how Bobby finally figures out how to appear to the boys. There is plenty of creep to go around, even though our beautiful boys are relegated to supporting characters. There is one potentially awesome scene when Dean gets out of the shower, but we fangirls are DENIED, as the scene cuts to a wet Dean already with shirt. So.Mean. (Regardless, any version of wet Dean is insanely hot.) Everyone saves the day, and the boys lecture Bobby about how stupid he is, even though he insists he is sticking around to help. It’s very sad, as Bobby should know better, and the boys are obviously torn by having their second Daddy stick around after they had grieved his death. As a viewer, I am torn as well, because having Bobby around is kinda cheesy, but I love him, so okay, I will suck it up and get on board.

Shenanigans Part Three: “The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo”

Felicia Day!!!

We are finally back to the leviathan storyline, which I am assuming is the ramp up to the season finale beat down. Bobby and his ghostly pallor fills the boys in on ‘The Plan’, which I’m not sure how he knows all this, but let’s go!

An email from a maybe dead Frank tells the boys that they need to get his hard drive, leading us to the lovely and sorta innocent, be-bopping Charlie (Felicia!) who happens to be working at Roman Enterprises, aka The Death Star a la Dean. She is recruited by Dick himself, asking her brilliant hacking self to bust into Frank’s hard drive. Dick is quite taken with her uniqueness, which saves her butt more than once. (The actor playing Dick is still over-the-top awesome.)

After a wonderful nod to “Wargames”, the beautiful boys track her down and head on out to recruit her for their own leviathan killing needs. Charlie can’t help to snoop around the newly hacked drive, and finds the rantings of our lost Frank, not believing the monster stories she is uncovering. Until she sees a parking garage leviathan munch and then Sam and Dean show up and fill her in on the skinny.

Charlie, who should have taken that job at Google, summons her inner Hermoine and sashays her way into Dick’s office for his private email stash, and gets the wonderful Winchesters the deets to a secret package arrival that the boys head on out to snag. Somehow, they know exactly what the package arrives in so they can do the old switcheroo at the private airport, and end up with the Very Important Package that Dick covets. They also manage to set off a Borax bomb barely incapacitating Dick, and Bobby pulls a ghostly revenge move on him letting our heroes escape.

Felicia Day is awesome, as usual, and we get one baby step closer to the end game. Bobby seems to be unhinging a little quicker than anticipated, and the boys have themselves a hunk of rock that will turn out to be very important, indeed! Good stuff, and the latest episode recap will follow soon. With the return of our sweet little angel, Castiel!