'Supernatural' recap: 'Fight the Fairies!'

It's remarkably fitting that last night's episode of Supernatural was the last to air before Thanksgiving, because it was something to be truly thankful for.

The Ben Edlund-penned hour gave me the same feeling that comes over me when I bite into something delicious that reminds me of my childhood. It was simply so perfect and so wonderfully familiar that I didn't want it to end. The episode -- which perfectly blended humor, mystery, and new and old mythology -- was classic Supernatural. Of course, we knew it would be love at first sight the moment we heard the word "fairies" come out of the writers' mouths a few months back.

For the purpose of the episode, the boys didn't know they were battling fairies at the beginning; they actually started off with an alien hunch (explaining the X-Files-honoring opening credits, which you can watch here.) Early in the episode, a woman they interviewed even told them they were wrong. But because she had the same appeal as those mall people who stand by their little carts and offer to rub your hands with earth salts and natural oils, the boys couldn't look past the overwhelming sense of crazy enough to believe the theory. Sam, in fact, found himself unable to subdue his skepticism and ended up releasing a colorful string of tactless comments that had Dean doing social damage control. ("It's a blood sugar thing. My apologies," Dean said to the woman before rushing Sam away.) Sam was no longer pretending to be on the soul train, but Dean made it his mission to turn Sam into a real boy; he vowed to be the Jiminy Cricket to Sam's Pinocchio. (Does that mean Bobby is Geppetto? Awwww.)

After visiting a shady local watchmaker while investigating the case of a missing person -- one of many that had brought them to the town -- the brothers decided to split up. Sam acted as watchman for the, well, watch man, while Dean went to peek at some crop circles that popped up after the first disappearance.

While in the crop circle, Dean got a call from impatient Sam, who was at a bar stalking the alcoholic watchmaker. They weren't on the phone but a few seconds when Dean started hearing sounds in the corn around him. Then he saw a bright light hover above. "U.F.O.! U.F.O.!" he screamed into the phone. (If the intercutting of Dean's frantic yelling, and Sam's dry mockery wasn't perfection, I don't know what is.) Finally, Dean stopped running and challenged the white light in his signature brazen manner. "C'mon!" And it did -- it sucked him right up. Meanwhile, Sam nonchalantly got another beer.

Once at the cornfield (presumably after he finished his beer), Sam found Dean's phone abandoned in the middle of the crop circle. For answers, he went to an alien-obsessed trailer park, where he met up with a man they had interviewed at the beginning of the episode who Sam believed had the scoop on E.T.'s peeps. It turned out the man didn't. Enter curious, faux-concerned, horny hippie chick -- Sam's favorite kind. She offered her services to Sam, and he, um, accepted the service.

Mythology recap: Soulless \ˈsōl-ləs\ n. 1. lacking any humanizing qualities. 2. lacking tact, brotherly concern, and ability to suppress libido. 3. having an affinity for Bohemians, hookers, and Bohemian hookers. 4. showing unruliness by growing long sideburns and increasing wit.

(Yeah, I'm starting to like him, too -- but still not as much as Sam original recipe.)

NEXT: What happens when a fairy meets a microwave?

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