• Dean (after texting Mary and getting upset that she didn't text him back) - "I'm a thirteen year old girl."
  
• Sam - "Sometimes families do better after a little time apart" Dean - "Yeah, who? The Mansons?"
• Dean (about whether or not he knows God) - "Oh yeah, we're besties."

• Is Dean more angry that Mary left, or afraid that she won't ever come back?
  
• Are Sam's psychic abilities gone, or merely dormant?
  
• Will Mr. Ketch eventually try to kill the Winchesters? When will we learn his true mission?

• Azazel still has an unknown number of psychic kids who don't know who they are or what they can do.
• Sam can apparently understand spoken Aramaic
• Castiel and Crowley are still working together to find Lucifer
• Mr. Ketch is still following the Winchesters

• This episode takes place in Mason City, Iowa
• After climbing fences athleticallyfor several seasons, Dean seems to struggle to get over a small railing. Really?
• There is no rodenticide named "Rat Hell"
• How did Mrs. Peterson expect Sam to eat with his hands tied behind his back? Was she planning for him to be a witness and not a victim?
• At the end of the episode, the bus Magda is riding stops at a rest stop in Missouri, but that would be out of the way for a bus traveling from Iowa to California

• "Stigmata" are wounds corresponding the the wounds Christ sustained during the crucifixion
• Dean and Sam use aliases "Father Penn" and "Father DeNiro"; this is a nod to the 1989 movie "We're No Angels" in which Penn and DeNiro portray convicts who pretend to be priests to avoid being captured by the police.
• "Dr. Phil" is a popular television-show therapist
• The "Wicked Witch of the West" was a fictional villain from "The Wizard of Oz"
• "Children of the Corn" was a 1984 horror movie (based on a Stephen King novel) in which a murderous cult of religiously fanatical children worship an evil entity that lives in a corn field.
• The "Mansons" refers to Charles Manson and his murderous, religious cult of followers
• Dean and Sam use aliases Ray Manzarek and James Morrison -- both were members of the band The Doors
• "Papist" refers to those who follow the spiritual recommendations of the pope; it is considered a derogatory term referring to Roman Catholics

• "Down in my heart" -- George Willis Cooke: sung by Magda while she's shackled in the cellar
• "Joshua fit the battle of Jericho" -- African-American spiritual of unknown authorship (possibly copyrighted in 1865 by Jay Roberts): sung by Magda while she's shackled in the cellar

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