Supernatural: 5 Funniest (& 5 Scariest) Episodes Of Season 13

CW’s fantasy drama Supernatural is in its 15th and final season now, and would most likely have completed its schedule had it not been for the global crisis. In its season 13, the brothers Winchester and Castiel are up against the Devil himself, and his child, the Nephilim Jack.

The duo also spends time looking for their mother Mary in the apocalypse world, a portal to which has opened due to the unstable power of the child of Satan. Let us take a look at the funniest and scariest episodes of this season.

10 Funniest: “Lost And Found”

Jack is born as an adolescent–he is Satan’s kid, after all, one cannot expect him to be an ordinary newborn. But his powers are raw at the moment and it doesn’t help that the brothers lose him almost as soon as he is born.

Keeping in tune with the show’s typical strain of dark humor, Jack walks into town naked and ends up at a sheriff’s station, with the boys on hot pursuit. Unlike what one would expect, though, Jack is not evil, he is simply not in control of his powers, and he is just discovering the world, trying out new things, like candy. The irony here is the natural innocence of the boy, who for all intents and purposes, is the Anti-Christ.

9 Scariest: “Advanced Thanatology”

The ghost of a demented doctor who drills into people’s skulls is killing people and that is, of course, right up the alley for the Winchester brothers.

Shot as a conventional horror story, with some real-time footage thrown in, the episode tells the story of two young boys who spend time in an old haunted house for fun. Sadly, the boys are too late to save them, but at least they can find the bodies of all the dead people to free their souls.

8 Funniest: “Tombstone”

Sam, Dean, and Cas decide to indulge Jack, who thinks he has found a case in Dodge City. Even more than indulging him, Dean is only too happy to step into the town where he can finally live his cowboy fantasies, complete with cowboy hats– which he bullies Cas into wearing– and boots.

The episode is a tribute to classic Western movies where the actors, especially Jensen Ackles, get an opportunity to step out of their usual flannels and fake FBI avatars and go all John Wayne.

7 Scariest: “Breakdown”

In one of the most horrifying episodes of the series, Sam and Dean get an SOS call from their friend Donna whose niece has gone missing. The brothers agree to help even though this isn’t about hunting supernatural creatures.

However, it is when regular people start behaving like monsters, that real horror sets in. The brothers, along with Donna and her friend Doug, find that someone is auctioning off pieces and organs of people on the dark web to be consumed by the winning bidder as meat. The show makes a pertinent commentary on the depths of depravity and monstrosity that people who are otherwise everyday humans could sink to.

6 Funniest: “The War Of Worlds”

Lucifer manages to jump through the rift from the alternate world into this one, opened by the Kevin Tran of the other world, the one who is alive, perpetually high, and doing the archangel Michael’s bidding so that he can meet hot women.

Unfortunately for him, though, his powers weaken considerably the moment he lands on earth, and his efforts to annihilate people with the snap of a finger fail hilariously. He then hijacks Castiel and tries to get on his good books, while the brothers come across the ruthless British Men of Letters operative, Arthur Ketch, who was killed in season 12, except that this Ketch tries to convince them that Arthur was really his evil twin all along.

5 Scariest: “The Bad Place”

Jack is trying to find Mary Winchester in the world where the apocalypse had already come to pass. However, to locate Mary, he needs dream walkers who can see into other worlds, which is how he comes across Kaia, who travels to what she calls the bad place in her sleep and actually gets physically hurt when she does.

Unfortunately, Dean loses all his warmth when Jack tells him that Mary is alive and that Kaia could help them get her back. He forces Kaia to go with them but is cut off midway by a pack of angels who are pursuing the Nephilim. The episode is dark and gives the audience the first real clue as to exactly how ravaged the other world is.

4 Funniest: “Scoobynatural”

“Scoobynatural” most definitely takes its place as one of the funniest episodes in the history of the show. Sam, Dean, and Cas have the time of their lives when they get transported into the world of none other than the iconic Scooby-Doo gang.

The brothers and Cas team up with the famous talking dog and his friends to investigate an actual case from the Scooby-Doo canon, “A Night of Fright is No Delight.” Dean, two-dimensional as he is, is thrilled to be in his favorite cartoon. He also, naturally, spends the entire time trying to impress Daphne, although the latter is too innocent to even understand his not-so-innocent overtures. Moreover, unfortunately for him, it is Sam who ends up impressing Velma even without making an effort. As a tribute to the Scooby gang, the episode ends with the real estate developer being the bad guy after all!

3 Scariest: “The Wayward Sisters”

The series, revolving around men and their expression of masculinity, has only ever had a handful of strong female characters over the years. In that context, “The Wayward Sisters” comes as a breath of fresh air, where the women hunters team up to save the men, for a change.

However, the episode also brings in its wake horrifying creatures from the apocalypse world. Sam and Dean are trapped in this world roasting lizards for food, amidst blood and guts, while the women fight disgusting monsters as they slash and shoot their way into the other world.

2 Funniest: “Beat The Devil”

“Team Free Will,” supported by Rowena and accompanied by Gabriel, are ready to cross into the apocalypse world to save Jack and Mary but not before the witch and the archangel do a little dance of their own.

The team needs archangel grace as an ingredient to open the rift, but the grace Gabriel provides is a disaster. It droops and wilts pathetically before the boys can cross over, and eliciting a remark from Rowena with some sexual innuendo. It isn’t long before she and Gabriel hook up awkwardly in the bunker’s library, only to be found out by the others.

1 Scariest: “The Thing”

The boys stumble upon an old Men of Letters bunker where they rescue a woman tied to the table; she looks like a 20-year-old, but Sam and Dean find out that she was born in 1903. Apparently she had been tied to that table for close to a hundred years but hadn’t aged a bit.

Of course, anything so inexplicable can never bode well. The woman turns out to be one half of a god from another dimension, eager to consume everyone and everything. But what is really hard to watch in this episode is the archangel Gabriel in shackles. He is being held by the prince of hell, Asmodeus, who is shooting up on archangel grace that he is forcibly taking from Gabriel, and the latter is clearly terrified of his captor. It is difficult to see the fun-loving Gabriel reduced to whimpers.

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