The Dean Winchester Groupie Queue

Finally the Crazy has found its way back into the Supernatural world of fandom!

Apparently it all started after an article some guy from some site called Buddy TV wrote about Dean Winchester being a sex addict. A conclusion he only made based on previous and the latest epsiode, that showed how early Dean started making out with the ladies ;)

Immediately the forum exploded with angry fans defending their most priced possession (our prrrreeecious) that is Dean Winchester: 100% Fictional, Pie-Lover and newly acclaimed Sexaholic Anonymous.


Those of you old enough to remember Bon Jovi (who rock on occasion and used to sing it from the hair) maybe also remember a song called I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. The hilarious black and white mockumentary music video featured a scene where an endless line of female groupies could be seen awaiting their turn outside lead guitarist Richie Sambora dressing room in the access all areas section, and we mean all areas. A shame they don't do videos like these no more.

We all know that things can get out of hand from time to time. Fans get overly excited and then sites get hunted down by lawyers and forced to shut down because they have worshiped certain bodyparts of certain people playing certain people and the (big bright yellow) line between reality and fiction gets blurred more and more.

Then you have the ones that step over the line when they say something in a forum, that other fans don't want to hear, where pushing your fingers up into your hearing tract going "lalalalalalalala" simply won't work no more. If that happens, the fan world suddenly is at war.

As a result you have those following the general accepted opinion like space-cadets and those who are fans with an opinion of their own (for those who need a forum free of space cadets, try the Circle of Salt, you can own that your way) and the fandom is facing a divide into Heaven- and Hell-Groupies. It's all a bit like school, if you think about it.

We have created two polls for you, for fun!

Would you wait in line?



Rate Dean's brain. What do you think is on his mind the most?



PS. We love all of you Crazy Buckets, so please do keep Go Nuts but rememeber: It's fiction, not love!

Nearly 4 Millions of Crazy Buckets watched "After School Special"

This is not funny, but we think it was them shorts that you guys (and girls!) watched more than ever!

A CW press release reads a bit like the math book we never touched in school, however the gist is that: MOST VIEWERS THIS SEASON SO FAR!

THE CW SCORES STRONG THURSDAY AS “SMALLVILLE” GROWS AND “SUPERNATURAL” HITS SEASON HIGHS

The CW Delivers Best Thursday of Season in Young Women and

Second Best Thursday in Adults 18-49

SUPERNATURAL Scores Season Highs with Women and

Best Since Its Season Premiere in Adults and Viewers

SMALLVILLE Builds Week to Week in Key Demos

January 30, 2009 (Burbank, CA) - Against a special Thursday “American Idol” and an original episode of “CSI,” The CW scored one of its best Thursdays of the season, matching the season’s best Thursday with women 18-34 (1.5/4) and matching the second best among adults 18-49 (1.7/4), according to Live Plus Same Day Nielsen ratings for Thursday, January 29, 2009. The CW registered its largest Thursday audience (3.9mil) since 10/30/08.

Facing an original “CSI,” SUPERNATURAL climbed to season highs in women 18-34 (1.7/4) and women 18-49 (1.7/4), and posted its largest audience (3.6 million), and best adults 18-34 (1.5/4) and adults 18-49 (1.6/4) ratings since its season premiere.

SMALLVILLE built over last week’s original telecast by 7% in adults 18-34 (1.5/4), 40% in women 18-34 (1.4/4), 6% in adults 18-49 (1.7/5) and 8% in total viewers (4.2mil).

Compared to the same night a year ago (1/31/08), The CW’s Thursday improved 7% in adults 18-34 (1.5/4), 21% in adults 18-49 (1.7/5) and 12% in total viewers (3.9mil).

(Source: tvbythenumbers.com)

R.I.P Kim Manners - To A Great Man!

We've known you since the X-Files and we fell in love with you since Supernatural.

We will miss you Kim!

In Memoriam Page on Facebook

We have it confirmed straight from the source that he passed away last night from lung cancer

update: a moving Obit written by his friend and colleague Jim Beaver

The Brotherhood Of The Red Travelling Shorts

Without further ado, we are presenting to you: After School Special - Promo Clips




Looks like this one is going to be a sad one for Sammy!




Sorry, don't know in which order they are meant to be...




GO NUTS!



Go Nuts!- Watch it Thursday on the CW at 9/8c in the USA, than some time later this year in the UK on ITV at 9pm and in about two years in Germany on Pro7 at 21 Uhr.

Douchebaggery Ratings Are Like Magic

"Well guys, you know the drill! - I want to see them ratings up next week, so tell your friends to tell their friends and watch all you can, even if you just leave the TV running while you bake some yummy pie for me or explore why there's a strange noise up in the attic."

We have never been into stats and ratings and to be honest, if we can add 2 and 2 and get 5 we are more than chuffed....uhm...

So, we have actually dug our way through the world wide web and found ratings that -though partially meaningless to the brain of a bucket- do give us an idea if Supernatural is actually going up to heaven or down to hell if you guys out there aren't watching it enough.

We updated the post on last weeks episode "Family Remains"with its actual ratings and if we compare them with last nights douchebaggery ratings (no, not how many times they said douchebag on the show, though we think it was about 6 times) we can see a slight INCREASE to last week and Nielsen predicts renewal for 2009/10 for the show. If that turns out to be true we'll get all tingly and we have a feeling you will too.

source: tvbythenumbers.com

Time

Net

Show

Viewers Live+SD (Millons)

18-49 Rating/ Share

18-34 Rating/ Share

9:00	CBS	CSI	17.526	5.0/12	3.2/8
	ABC	Grey’s Anatomy	14.251	5.6/14	5.9/15
	NBC	The Office	8.739	4.6/11	5.3/14
	FOX	Bones	7.522	2.5/6	2.3/6
	UNI	Fuego en la Sangre	5.157	2.0/5	2.2/6
	CW	Supernatural	3.038	1.3/3	1.3/3

Last week:

CW

Supernatural

2.960

1.2/3

1.3/3

More Nurple Than Purple?

Oh, hey there. No, I’m not crazy, and I’m not a bucket. Well ok, I lied about the not being crazy bit. And maybe I’m a little bucket-ish, but hey, that’s why I have a personal trainer.

Anyway, there is a point to this somewhere… Oh, right, got it. Although I have my very own sorry excuse for a blog, I’ve been asked to blog here once in a while. Having found myself in a while this week, I’m getting down to takin’ care of business, BTO-stylee.

So here we go. Had a birthday last week, coinciding with the usual pub quiz, and Mr Barman (we liiiiiiike) was gracious enough to have a Purple Nurple ready for me on entry to his establishment (you can see why we like him, right?).


Now, I did have to introduce him to said refresherment a while back. He’s done well keepin’ ‘em coming over time. Only, this time, he was apologising profusely cos he’d run out of sweet n’ sour mix.

Never one to slap before finding out how bad it is (so as I know which side of my hand to use), I tried his variation on a theme. And yay, it were good! Seems he’d substituted the sweet n’ sour mix for cranberry juice.

And this, dearly poached readers, is why barmen - and especially Mr Barman at The Winchester, Lockhart Road (diggin' the name, ain't you?) - are to be trusted and treasured like your closest friends. And why I am presenting my three recipes for Purple Nurples right here. Cos you never know when you might have to remind your friendly barman of the right amounts.

Purple Nurples (#1)

1oz Malibu Coconut Rum

1 oz Triple Sec

1/2 oz Blue Curacao Liqueur

2 oz Cranberry Juice

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with Ice. Shake and strain into a glass.

Purple Nurples (#2)

1/4 oz Blue Curacao liqueur

1/4 oz vodka

1/4 oz apple schnapps

1/4 oz sweet and sour mix

1/4 oz grenadine syrup

Pour all ingredients over ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake, strain into a shot glass, and serve.

Purple Nurples (#3)

1/4 oz Blue Curacao liqueur

1/4 oz vodka

1/4 oz apple schnapps

1/4 oz cranberry juice

1/4 oz grenadine syrup

Pour all ingredients over ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake, strain into a shot glass, and serve.

And just in case that doesn’t set you off on a good night of shots, shots and more shots - or the barman can’t get his arse in gear and stretch to the proper PN - then how about that old faithful:

Hurricane

1 oz vodka

1/4 oz grenadine syrup

1 oz gin

1 oz light rum

1/2 oz Bacardi® 151 rum

1 oz amaretto almond liqueur

1 oz triple sec

grapefruit juice

pineapple juice

Pour all but the juices, in order listed, into a hurricane glass three-quarters filled with ice. Fill with equal parts of grapefruit and pineapple juice, and serve.

Or if, like me, you have an allergy (or just a plain ol’ aversion) to coconut in all its forms, then the alternative is for you:

Hurricane (#2)

1 oz vodka

1 oz gin

1 oz light rum

1/2 oz 151 proof rum

1 oz amaretto almond liqueur

1 oz triple sec

grapefruit juice

pineapple juice

grenadine syrup

Pour gin, rums, amaretto, and triple sec into a hurricane glass with ice. Add equal amounts of grapefruit juice and pineapple juice until almost full. Top with grenadine to taste.

And that’s all the stuff that’s fit to print right now. I’m sure we’ll all be back with you very soon, so until then, take care, sleep tight, keep the rocksalt on your window ledge and set your DVD-Rs to the CW for Thursday night.

Oh, and if you’re using any shots or similarly alcoholic beverages for your drinking games (“…every time Sam days ‘Dean’… “every time Dean pulls a model face…”) PLEASE make sure your designated Sammy is driving you back. DO NOT attempt to drive your baby home - you’ll only wrap her round a tree, and none of us wants that. We like trees. (I was going to say, 'they have Grace', but I won't. Cos that would be a cheap poke. [Pause.] Never stopped Dean...)

Be seein’ you.

Help! We don't get it!

We really don't! It's not funny....we always get the funny. We are scared that this time we don't.

Please someone out there explain this to us:

Sam: It's probably a dumbwaiter.
All these old houses had them.
Dean: Know-it-all.
Sam: What?
Dean: What?
Sam: You said…
Dean: What?
Sam: Never mind

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Also, we are always, always supporting Supernatural where we can, but the last episode "Family Remains" has us wondering why. We usually don't review this glorious show on this crazy blog as we like to center our attention on the things that go on around the show. But we are not sure if you have noticed it lately: Less and less seems to be going on around the show. Or are we just too old and too busy to notice?

Since Dean came back from hell things haven't been the same, that's quite obvious and you don't need a degree in rocket science to figure it out. And although the show has been as funny and as scary (suicidal teddy bear?) as ever, still there is something lurking there in the darkness....and we can't tell if it is the threat of loosing it.

We are desperately trying to find TV ratings for episode 9x11 and can't find them anywhere (if you do have them would you be so kind to let us know?) and we fear they are not too good.

Also, the forums we have been to aren't too kind to this episode either. Some people like it, but more so people don't and THAT is very rare when it comes to their favorite show Supernatural. Whatever Eric Kripke does, it is respected by his loyal fans and they are never short of praise. However, when things go wrong you also know, because fans will have and state their opinion.

For example jody45 says on the cw lounge

Another episode of wallpaper Sam and angsty Dean. Enough with the emo scenes on the hood of the impala. These writers are really lacking in originality. Also, do they have to give Dean even more to feel guilty about. He should be in a straight jacket by now curled up in a fetal position in a locked ward forever. They should never have gone this far with the hell thing if all they can do is have Dean emote on the car every few episodes. At least have him act out the PTSD once in a while. That would be a heck of a lot more interesting than "Sam, I'm a monster". "You were in hell, Dean". As it is, we got one episode where he was drinking too much and a few eye flashes. Wow, I guess Hell isn't all that bad after all. And don't even get me started on Sam. Way to waste a great actor on this show. Why does it always have to be all about Dean.

However kelliesimpson posted on Twitter

@lucky_naki I thought it was the best ep in a long time, the show has been flagging for me recently(About 1 hour ago from TwitterFox in reply to lucky_naki)

While Pizzapixie says

This episode was unoriginal, overdone and chockfull of Desperation Dean and Wallpaper Sam. The weepy confessions from Dean at the end of the episodes has lessened my sympathy for him. It angers me that now Dean is trying to redeem himself by saving as many people as he can, just as Sam did last season. Please, get over it. Hell is Hell.

So says LivingForTV that he/she

LOVED IT (...) So, sorry all of you who don't buy Dean and Sam's humanity, it's just humanity. And considering how easy it is for us to change once we know why and what we did was wrong... There is hope enough for all of us.

I was really, really scared the whole episode. I kept worrying about where everyone was because I couldn't bear the thought of Dean breaking apart if he didn't manage to save them. Good job!

and Tina Charles writes for TVguide.com

Yes, "Family Remains" took me back to a time when the show was less about the mythology and more about the boys digging around for a case and then protecting a family or an individual from whatever evil thing-of-the-week. It was nice to see Sam and Dean do whatever they could to protect this family that was already in a lot of pain even before they got to this "haunted house."

but also admits that something was missing:

As much as I liked this case-filled episode, three things were missing for me: 1) I usually jot down at least half a page of great one-liners. Not so much this time around. 2) The music. And 3) I'm in need of some serious Sam emoting. Because of the hiatus it's been a while. And on that note...

I know we just had almost a two-month break from this show, but in "Heaven and Hell" Dean confessed what happened to him when he was in the pit. And it was crushing. And emotional. And awesome. Having another roadside confession in "Family Remains" was great, but it also felt just a little too soon, especially at the end of another episode. I definitely wanted it to happen again, but not this soon. I'm digging Dean's behavior right now because it shows that he's being affected by what happened to him in hell. But we were only told they'd been on the road for the last month saving people and killing things, we never actually saw any of it. So I think that if this reveal happened in three or four standalone-type episodes it would have carried even more weight. Having said that, it was a powerful confession, one I will be processing for a while. I just feel it was too soon to hear this after the bomb that was dropped on us at the end of "Heaven and Hell."

Again, we see Dean turning down food. I love that we know something's wrong with him when he can't eat.

Well, well, well! Isn't this what we have been saying all along? We are sure it's all down to Pie :)



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Update: Found the ratings on the Nielsen website in the meantime and dare we say that this episode lost by whopping 20 Million viewers who instead said farewell to Grissom from CSI Vegas.

Time

Net

Show

Viewers Live+SD (Millons)

18-49 Rating/ Share

18-34 Rating/

9:00	CBS	CSI	23.127	6.2/15	3.8/10
	ABC	Grey’s Anatomy	12.946	5.3/12	5.2/13
	NBC	The Office	8.346	4.3/10	5.0/13
	UNI	Fuego en la Sangre	4.802	1.9/4	2.1/5
	FOX	Kitchen Nightmares	4.280	2.0/5	1.8/5
	CW	Supernatural	2.960	1.2/3	1.3/3

Pie, we demand Pie!

Long it's been and as far as we are aware (unless you heard differently, then please do tell us) Dean still hasn't gotten his pie. Why?

We have no clue. Will we have to wait to the last ever season finale for Dean to get his pie or what?

Now, while we are at it we were wondering if there is a talented artist out there who can re-do (in any medium that comes to mind) this below cartoon with the very figures of Sam and Dean Winchester?


We think it would be quite spiffying, Sir! ...errr, or Lady ;)

HOW TO's: "Bucket-Lesson # 1"

Now THIS, we think, is some bad-ass advice for Dean Winchester and the Impala, don't you?


...allthough we like to add that is should rather say "ready to slaughter, maim and own every DEAD creature that crosses its path" - oh, and please, do not try this at home :)


Have a great Thursday back with the boys!

Your Crazy Buckets

We're sorry to leave you 'what'?

Awwwoooo...no teasin' pleasin' ! Get on with the good fight, darn it!






Hang in there Crazy Buckets! Soon it's Jan 15th....





...but not soon enough! Grrrrrrr!