• Sam: No wonder none of the tests worked. You're not shapeshifers. You're ghouls.
  Kate: You know, I find that term racist.
• Graveyard Caretaker: Tell me, Agent Nugent, have you thought about where you might like to spend eternity?
  Dean: All the damn time.

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• Why didn't John ever tell Dean and Sam about Adam and his mother?
  

• The boys had a brother they never knew about, only to find him once they can never get to know him.
  

• It's never made clear why the ghouls take so long to kill Sam. They have several opportunities throughout the episode when he's essentially alone and they can dispose of him when Dean is nowhere nearby, but instead they leave him alone.

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• Burl Ives - "A Little Bitty Tear"

• The name of the diner where Sam and Dean stop to meet Adam for the first time is Cousin Oliver's. Cousin Oliver was a character on the Brady Bunch, a younger child who was added near the end of the series in an attempt to freshen up an aging show. Adding a "Cousin Oliver" is generally thought to be a bad idea and is an example of a show "jumping the shark."

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Castiel has been sent back to Heaven. His human host, Jimmy, tries to regain his life. But the demons won't leave him alone and now his family is at risk. Sam and Dean can help a little, but they're going to need a "miracle" to win.

The Rapture