Supernatural: 5 Funniest (& 5 Scariest) Episodes Of Season 8

The brothers Winchester in the hit fantasy show Supernatural have been through some of the most bizarre and fantastic experiences in the world, from locking horns with the Devil to fighting God himself.

Season 8 featured the brothers’ search for the demon tablet and their struggle to close the gates of hell once and for all. Take a look back at the funniest and scariest episodes from that season.

10 Funniest: “What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?”

Season 8 beings with Dean returning from purgatory to find that Sam had quit hunting. The brothers then look up Kevin Tran, the young prophet, and together they try to locate the demon tablet.

In episode 2, Kevin’s mom also teams up with them and she turns out to be several notches more efficient than either the Winchesters or Kevin himself, always keeping the latter on their toes.

9 Scariest: “Bitten”

This episode is designed like found footage in a college town where three young students – a girl and two boys – get involved in a haunting tragedy when one of them turns into a werewolf.

The two boys, Brian and Michael, end up getting killed, while Kate makes a run for it, now a werewolf herself. The episode, shot realistically with a handheld camera, is eerie and rather disturbing.

8 Funniest: “Southern Comfort”

DJ Qualls makes a come back as Garth and the audience can’t get enough of him. To add to that, Garth is now the new Bobby, in charge of several mobile phones at once and advising hunters who need help on the field.

The boys, especially Dean, find that hard to digest, but Garth grows on them. Moreover, he is still a hugger, and a touch of warmth in the dark, cold world of the Winchesters is always welcome.

7 Scariest: “Torn And Frayed”

Sam and Dean are not seeing eye to eye after Sam went after Dean’s blood brother from purgatory, Benny. However, what is hard to watch in this episode is the angel Samadriel being tortured by Crowley’s minions.

The pain the angel goes through is enough to send out shockwaves, injuring humans in the process.

6 Funniest: “Hunteri Heroici”

The eighth episode of the season will have one rolling with laughter. Cas is back from purgatory and decides to become a hunter. He does a disastrous ‘bad cop’ act, starts familiarizing himself with popular cartoons, and then interrogates a cat, all of this as part and parcel of his characteristic deadpan humor.

The reason Cas needs to know his cartoons is the case the three are working on, which has features emulating cartoons. Although any death is tragic, Supernatural is able to put a lighter spin on it more often than not, offering to its audience a sense of comédie noire.

5 Scariest: Trial And Error

The hellhounds are back! Kevin figures out how to close the gates of hell by deciphering the demon tablet, but there is a catch – there are a series of trials they must go through before they can seal the gates, one of which is to kill a hellhound.

The brothers decide to seek out someone who made a deal with a crossroads demon 10 years ago, indicating that he or she would be dragged to hell by hellhounds once their time was up. Sure enough, they come across such a case where people are getting their hearts ripped out by hellhounds.

4 Funniest: LARP And The Real Girl

The brothers end up in a live-action role-playing (LARP) situation, in which someone is using fairy magic to get rid of players. Charlie Bradbury makes a guest appearance as the Queen of Moondoor and once the case is wrapped up, Sam and Dean decide to take a breather from their monotonous lives and join the fun.

The audience gets to see actors Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki charge at their enemies in a warrior’s attire, with their faces painted.

3 Scariest: Remember The Titans

Sam and Dean investigate what they presume is a zombie on the loose. The sight of a dead man with his guts spilling out on the roads and an eagle pecking at him is in equal parts gory and creepy.

The zombie turned out to be not a zombie after all, but the pagan god Prometheus, who had been cursed by Zeus to relive every day. The prospect of dying every day, however, was disturbing, to say the least.

2 Funniest: Everybody Hates Hitler

Jensen Ackles is known for his impeccable comic timing and the episode on Nazi necromancers, scary and disturbing as it sounds, gets a fun approach, mainly because of how Ackles plays it.

From thinking he had a ‘moment’ with a man and reacting to a giant Golem to getting comfy in a dead man’s bathrobe, Dean is on fire.

1 Scariest: “Clip Show”

The penultimate episode takes you back to traditional horror movies that show men or women being exorcised of evil spirits that are possessing them.

The brothers dig out an old video shot by the original Men of Letters that shows a demon being exorcised, or at first glance, it appears like an exorcism, except that it is not. In fact, the experiment is to cure a demon. The visuals are creepy and it takes a strong heart to be able to watch it.

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