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Championship	The French Fault
Episode #	Season 6, Episode 15
Beginning aired	Feb 25, 2011
Directed by	Charles Beeson
Written by	Ben Edlund
On IMDB	The French Mistake
Outline	Sam and Dean discover themselves on the set of the Television receiver Show Supernatural, with an angelic hitman afterwards them.
Monster	Raphael Virgil
Timeline
Location(southward)	Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Synopsis

Dean and Sam are doing research at Bobby's House when Balthazar appears. He says that Raphael is aiming to kill all of Castiel'south allies and affiliates and then he gives them a central and sends them to an alternate reality to keep them out of harm's style. Supposedly, the key opens a door where he has stored the stolen angelic weapons of Heaven, which will help Castiel to retain control in Heaven.

When they appear in the alternate reality, Sam and Dean find themselves on the set of "Supernatural"- a show that appears to be almost their lives and where everyone mistakes them for the actors Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. They try to contact Castiel, but instead come across Misha Collins, who plays Castiel on the Tv set Show. Taking refuge in Jensen's luxurious trailer, they do some inquiry most Jensen and Jared, and Dean is horrified to larn that Jensen was on Days of Our Lives. Dean suggests they effort doing the same spell Balthazar did in social club to get them dorsum to their ain reality.

Discouraged that there are no 'existent' saints' bones or other items they demand on the gear up of Bobby'due south firm, Sam and Dean have the actors' commuter, Clif Kosterman, accept them to Jared's place, which turns out to be a big ostentatious mansion with a tanning bed in the living room and an alpaca in the backyard. Sam and Dean are shocked when Ruby - or rather the actress who plays her - appears and kisses Sam, who she believes to be her husband, Jared. After Genevieve Padalecki heads out to a clemency function for the International Otter Adoption Fund, Sam and Dean get online and purchase some saints' basic for rush delivery using Jared's credit cards (they max out at least ane). Dean and so spends the night on Jared's couch, while Sam alternates betwixt surfing the internet for signs of the supernatural activeness and sleeping with Genevieve.

The next forenoon, Clif drives them to the airport to pick upward the rush delivery before taking them back to the set. They have to try and act in a scene which ends desperately later many takes, but in between takes, they try and do the spell. When naught happens, they come to the decision that in this reality there is no real supernatural, no magic.

Back on gear up, the affections hitman Virgil appears and tries to vanquish Dean with his angel powers. He, too, is devoid of powers in this reality, so Sam and Dean are able to take him in a fight and start pummeling him on the set up of the Dragon'south hideout from half-dozen.12 Like a Virgin. The rest of the crew intervenes, nevertheless, and during the resulting scuffle Virgil pickpockets the key Balthazar gave Sam before running away.

The crew of the testify is now suspicious considering "Jared" and "Jensen" are behaving out of graphic symbol. Commonly they don't speak to each other, they came in with a mysterious bundle (the saint'southward basic) which the crew believes are either drugs or black market organs, and now they've beaten upwards what anybody thinks is an extra. Director Bob Singer calls showrunner Sera Gamble and suggests that they get Eric Kripke to come up to Vancouver and talk to them. Sera reluctantly agrees, although Kripke is sequestered in a motel writing the script for "Octocobra." Meanwhile, Virgil takes Misha earnest and kills him and then he can use his blood to contact Raphael.

Bob confronts Sam and Dean, and they drop the pretense of existence Jared and Jensen and tell him that they quit. Dean says that at to the lowest degree in their globe they make a departure. They then go back to Jared's house and larn from Genevieve that Misha is dead, then they go to the scene. A witness states that the killer was speaking to "Raphael," and they learn from the relayed conversation that Virgil is trying to become back to their reality. While they wait for him on the set, Dean suggests to Sam that maybe if they get stuck in this reality, Sam'due south life would exist better. But Sam disagrees because back in their globe they do matter, and he doesn't like that in this earth they aren't even brothers.

Virgil returns on set just as Kripke arrives to speak to them, and the angel goes on a killing spree, killing Eric Kripke, Bob Singer, Kevin Parks, and Lou Bollo before Sam and Dean manage to knock him out and get the cardinal. Simply equally Sam has the key in hand, Raphael activates the nearby gate betwixt the worlds, and they land dorsum in their ain reality.

Raphael -- now in a female vessel -- demands the key, simply Balthazar arrives and reveals that the key and Sam and Dean'southward journey was all a ruse to distract Raphael. He threatens them, but Castiel arrives and reveals that he at present has all the Angelic Weapons. He threatens to impale Raphael, and he leaves. Castiel then returns Sam and Dean to Bobby's house, promising to reveal more of what is happening in Sky soon.

Characters

• Sam Winchester
• Dean Winchester
• Castiel
• Balthazar
• Raphael
• Virgil
• Jensen Ackles
• Jared Padalecki
• Misha Collins
• Genevieve Padalecki
• Bob Singer
• Serge Ladouceur
• Sera Take a chance
• Eric Kripke
• Clif Kosterman
• Jim Michaels
• Kevin Parks
• Lou Bollo

Definitions

• Acting in Unison
• Aliases
• Angel Lore
• Angelic Weapons
• Blueish Steel
• The French Error Pop-Up Trivia
• Goblet of Blood
• Impala
• J2
• Meta Episodes
• Misha on Twitter
• Sammy
• Singer Salvage Yard
• Spells
• Twitter

Music

• "Ancient Celtic Lands" by Biddy Blyth & Mike John Trim

(plays in Jensen Ackles' trailer)

Quotes

Dean: I said 'hey.'
Balthazar: You did. Twice. Healthy. Blood of lamb. Blood of lamb. Beer, common cold pizza. Claret of lamb. Yes! Blood of lamb!

Sam: Then... No angels?

Dean: No angels, I remember.
Bob: Merely that was great!
Serge: ...it'southward non a trouble with the stunt. Information technology's a problem with the... signal.

Sam: Should nosotros be killing anybody?

Make-Upward Artist: Okay, hon, we're just gonna get this makeup off your face up.
Dean: Wha--I'm not wearing any ma-- Oh, crap! I'thousand a painted whore!

Dean: No, seriously. Why? Why would anybody want to sentry our lives?

Sam: Well, I mean, co-ordinate to that interviewer, not very many people do. Look, I'm not saying it makes sense. I'm only proverb, we -- we landed in some dimension where you're Jensen Ackles, and I'one thousand something chosen a 'Jared Padalecki.'

Dean: So what, now yous're smooth? Is any of this making any sense to y'all?

Dean: Oh, hey. Least my baby fabricated it. Hey. Hey! What -- I feel sick. I'm gonna exist ill. I want to get habitation. I feel like this whole identify is bad-touching me.

Dean: Don't like this universe, Sammy. Nosotros demand to leave of this universe.
Sam: Yep. No argument here. Simply I don't think our -- our prayers are reaching Cas. Or the real Cas.

Dean: Right. Right. 'cause you're non Ruby. You... I hateful, how could you lot exist? You lot... of course! You are the lovely extra who plays Ruby. And you are, uh, in... Jared's firm, Uh, considering y'all 2 are... Married! Y'all married imitation Ruby?

Clif: We're not doing anything illegal, are we?

Sam: Would information technology make you feel ameliorate if we said no?

Clif: No.

Misha: Ooh, 'priority.' what's in it?

Sam: I bought part of a dead person.

Misha: Oh, cool.

Bob: Cut! What is happening? What's happening?! What's happening?!

Serge: An barbarism is happening.
Kevin: Seems like they should stop.
Bob: They can't stop. Nobody stops. Did nosotros get anything we can utilise?
Kevin: Well, uh, technically, we have them saying everything in bits and pieces. Could be sort of experimental?

Bob: Any. Season six.

Sam: What if it tin can't? Await, I was upwardly all night, looking online. There's no sign that anything like the Apocalypse happened here. Ever. And as far equally I can tell, monsters, ghosts, demons -- they're all pretend.

Dean: So nobody'south hunting them?
Sam: No hunters. Wait, maybe that's why our spell didn't work, Dean, you know? Thou-perhaps here, there's no supernatural, no magic.

Dean: No demons, no Hell, no Sky, no -- no god?

Dean: You heard my blood brother. That'due south right, I said 'blood brother.' 'cause you know what, Bob? We're not actors. We're hunters. We're the Winchesters. Always have been, and always will be. And where nosotros're from, people don't know who we are. But you know what? We mattered in that globe. In fact, we even saved a son of a bitch one time or twice. And aye, okay, here, maybe there'southward some -- some fans who give a crap most this nonsense.

Homeless Human: Yes, yep, Raphael. Like the ninja turtle. He was calling someone name of Raphael, upwards in heaven. Aye, yeah. That's right. The -- the scary man killed the bonny crying homo, and so he started to pray. And the strange function -- after a while, I south-swear I heard this vox, answering.

Sam: Cas, what the hell? Expect, wait, you were in on this, using us a diversion?

Castiel: It was Balthazar's program. I would have washed the same affair.
Dean: That's not comforting, Cas.

Castiel: When will I be able to brand y'all understand? If I lose against Raphael, we all lose. Everything.

Sam: Solid. Information technology's real. Dainty.

Dean: Yep. Yeah, real, moldy, termite-eaten home sweet domicile. Chock full of crap that want to skin you lot. Oh, and, uh, we're broke again.

Sam: Yeah. Merely, hey... at least we're talking.

Trivia & References

The episode title "The French Mistake" refers to a famous sequence in Mel Brook's movie Blazing Saddles. At the terminate of the movie, the action from the movie which is ready in the One-time West, crashes through a wall (literally breaking the 4th wall) onto the set of a musical on the Warner Bros. lot. The song being performed in the musical is called "The French Mistake." The term "French Mistake" purportedly refers to a directly guy having a gay sexual run across he subsequently regrets (Source).

Dean: Yeah, human being's a hero. We were officially out of 'hunter's helper.'

Balthazar: Hello, boys. You've seen The Godfather, right?
Dean: Balthazar...
Balthazar: You know, the finish, where Michael Corleone sends his men to kill his enemies in one big, bloody swoop?

A play on the phrase "mother's fiddling helper," which originated with the 1966 Rolling Stones vocal of the aforementioned name. It referred to drugs such as Valium that women used to help them cope with life.

Balthazar makes reference to the 1972 moving picture The Godfather, where the Godfather sends assassins to kill the other Dons. This is then played out in the alternate universe when Virgil shoots the coiffure on the TV set.

Kevin Parks: Well, we tin clean upward, reset the window; takes about 95 minutes, basically. Then we'd have to blow off the scene where they sit on the Impala and talk virtually their feelings.

Bob Vocalizer: Ha! Right! You answer the hate mail.

When references are made to events in real life like this it is referred to as lampshade hanging. Other examples are Sam mentioning that not many people watch the show, and of course Misha'due south tweeting.

Sam: Yeah. I mean, hither -- wherever 'here' is, this -- this Twilight Zone Balthazar zapped us into. For any reason, our life is a Idiot box evidence.

"The Twilight Zone" is an anthology Television receiver series which was created by Rod Serling in 1959. The stories it portrayed often featured bizarre and unexpected twists.

Dean: Like Bizarro Earth? But instead of Bizarro Superman, we get this clown mill?

Bizarro World is a planet from the DC comics universe, where everything is the contrary of how things are on World, and it is inhabited past "bizarro" versions of characters including Superman.

When Misha first meets Sam and Dean, thinking they are Jared and Jensen, he recites lines from his script, in the grapheme of Castiel. The lines he recites describe the plot of the meta episode.

Misha: Y'all guys! Y'all really punk'd me! I'm totally gonna tweet this one. 'Hola, mishamigos. J-squared... Got me proficient.'

Punk'd is an American hidden camera/applied joke television series that beginning aired on MTV in 2003 and was produced and hosted past Ashton Kutcher. Being "punk'd" referred to being the victim of such a prank.

Dean: I just desire to dig my finger in my brain and scratch until we're back in Kansas.

Reference to The Wizard of Oz, a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum that has been adjusted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 pic The Magician of Oz, starring Judy Garland. In it, a immature woman named Dorothy is swept upwardly in a tornado and transplanted in an alternate dimension.

Sam: Huh. All correct, here we go. Let'southward see who this guy is.

Dean: Well, he's non a hunter, but he plays one on TV. Oh, come up on. Expect at these male-modelin' sons of bitches. Prissy 'Bluish Steel,' Sam.

Dean is belongings upwards a copy of the Supernatural: Official Mag - Issue #11 from Baronial 2009. Bluish Steel is a signature modeling pose of Derek Zoolander, offset referenced by Dean in 2.19 Folsom Prison Dejection, and demonstrated past Jared and Jensen on every gag reel, and at numerous conventions.

Sam finds a clip of Jensen when he played Eric Brady in Days of Our Lives. The clip used in this episode starts at 6:33 in this prune.

Bob Singer: Well, at least they're talking to each other.

A running gag during the episode is the fact that in this universe, Jared and Jensen are non on speaking terms. In existent life, they are practiced friends every bit evidenced by the fact that they were groomsman at each other'south weddings in 2010.

The studio in the episode is called "KM Motion Moving-picture show Studios." At the Salute to Supernatural San Francisco 2011 in January 2011, Clif Kosterman reported that the Supernatural Studios in Burnaby Vancouver had officially been named in accolade of tardily director and producer Kim Manners.

Dean: Where the hell are we, anyway? Dude, nosotros're non even in America.

Supernatural is filmed in Vancouver, Canada. (Except for the Pilot which was filmed in Los Angeles.)

Dean: Nice modest digs, Jay-Z.

Jay-Z is i of the most financially successful hip hop artists and entrepreneurs in America.

Sam: What am I? Dracula?

Dean: George Hamilton Dracula!

Player George Hamilton is renowned for having a very deep, and obviously fake, tan. Jared has been known to appear rather tan on occasion, most famously at the 2008 Scream Awards.

A tanned Jared with Jeffrey Dean Morgan at the Scream Awards

Jared and Genevieve married in real life on February 27, 2010, in Sun Valley, Idaho. The photo on the mantle (next to the alpaca) is an actual wedding photo taken by Kirsten Schultz and featured in an article in Sun Valley magazine.

Mashing up fact and fiction: Jared is an animal lover who owns dogs (encounter Harley and Sadie, Arlo and Koda). He has given support to the animate being rights group PETA, and A Domestic dog's Life rescue. Jared and Genevieve support the clemency 5GYRES which combats ocean pollution, and coin raised from auctions at Salute to Supernatural San Francisco 2011 went to it.
Information technology is not known whether they take adopted any otters or own an alpaca.

Bob Singer: Jensen, we're thrilled to run into you collaborating so creatively. And your enthusiasm is refreshing. Dean Cain was like that on 'Lois,' And that homo's a real player. And nosotros volition articulate this set exactly when we shoot the ii iii/8 pages nosotros are scheduled to shoot on this set. And then yous practice your 'actor stuff' and we'll do our 'camera stuff' and, uh...

The real Bob Singer was a producer on the '90s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman which starred Dean Cain as Clark Kent / Superman. Other Supernatural crew who worked on the series include Phil Sgriccia, Jim Michaels, Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming and composer Jay Gruska.

The blue sweater Misha is wearing is also i he wore in his Rhino Puzzle missive here.

Misha also wore the shirt with the discussion NAMASTE - which is an Indian greeting. The symbol on the shirt is a Maha Yantra.

In Bob Singer's office, a magazine called TV Weekly featuring Jared and Jensen on the embrace is on display -- a reference to the fan voted Supernatural TV Guide Encompass.

The two guys rehearsing a fight scene beside the Impala on the green screen stage, who then broke up the fight betwixt Dean, Sam, and Virgil, were Jared and Jensen's real stunt doubles, Mike Carpenter and Todd Scott.

Sera Gamble: Eric'due south supposed to be off in a motel somewhere writing his next pilot.

Bob Vocalist: He sold Octocobra? Mother of God they'll purchase annihilation

A reference to the Syfy Television set movies that feature monster mash-ups like Sharktopus and Dinocroc.

Bob Vocalist: I'd like to think that over these years we've grown closer, that yous don't think of me as 'managing director Bob' or executive producer 'Bob Singer,' merely equally Uncle Bob.

Sam: You're kidding? Then the grapheme in the show - Bobby Singer...
Dean: What kind of a douchebag names a character later on himself?
Sam: Oh that's not correct!

The character of Bobby was named after producer Bob Singer, although the culprit was Kripke. You tin can run across Bob Singer talk virtually it here.

The scene where Virgil obtains weapons in a gun store past incapacitating the possessor earlier shooting a customer is a send-up to a similar scene in The Terminator, where the T-800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger does the same matter, simply kills the owner instead. Watch information technology here.

Eric: It's totally,totally awful. Yeah. Information technology got u.s. the front folio of Diverseness, though. Did yous encounter that?

Diversity' is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine.

When Eric Kripke is killed past Virgil, he is in the same position as Mary Winchester when she died in the "Pilot."

Balthazar: Well, Cas... Now that you have your sword, try not to die by it.

This is a reference to the Bible poesy Matthew 26:52, which describes a disciple (identified in the Gospel of John as Peter) drawing a sword to defend against the abort of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and and so beingness rebuked by Jesus, who tells him to sheath the weapon. The verse reads: Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that accept the sword shall perish with the sword.

When Sam and Dean arrive back in Bobby's firm in their universe, we see that the window and much of the wall behind them has been obliterated. Like in Blazing Saddles, which this episode gets its name from, they have literally broken the fourth wall. At the end, Sam checks that the "wall" is solid again - perchance a reassurance to viewers, every bit well.

Minutiae

In the episode real members of the cast and coiffure of Supernatural are featured – some played by actors while others play themselves or Bizarro world versions of themselves.

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The real Clif Kosterman appears in a cameo equally the crew fellow member who is putting mud on the Impala.

Misha Collins spent a lot of fourth dimension on Twitter in the episode, and at one indicate he tweets "Ola mishamigos! J2 got me good. Really starting to experience like one of the guys." Only to really mess with our minds, the real Misha actually sent that tweet every bit the line aired in the U.Southward. east declension run of the episode (Source). Misha Collins and Misha as well both tweeted "IMHO j&j had a late one final nighttime. Rotflmfao!" (Source). After both these tweets, Misha then relates, "My phone was stolen and apparently cast into a parallel universe devoid of magic. I've retrieved it. I promise it won't happen over again" (Source). All three tweets were retweeted by over 100 people in a matter of hours and then vanished from Misha's twitter feed. A few hours afterwards, they were reposted, but the direct links to the original tweets notwithstanding work.
The words: #Misha, #metamadness and #kripke all made information technology into the tiptop ten Trending Topics as the episode went to air.

See Alternate Universes for alternate worlds in Supernatural. In 14.20 Moriah, Chuck admits that he has made many versions of the world for his own amusement: "Virtually of them are boring. One's in reverse. In one, there's no xanthous. Ane of them's just all squirrels."

In his spell to ship Sam and Dean into the alternate universe, Balthazar uses Dead Sea alkali, lamb's claret and the basic of a lesser saint, which he uses to depict a sigil.

Sam: Yeah.Yeah, yeah, the whole earthquake spike. You know, the -- the ix.ii in Rome? I mean, the --the 8.5 outside Boston? The whole due east/westward tsunami chain?

Genevieve: Yes. I remember all of those from last flavor on your show.

There is a slight discrepancy between this and the reports heard in five.22 Swan Song, which stated that there was a vii.6 convulsion in Portland, an 8.ane in Boston, and more in Hong Kong, Berlin, and Tehran.

The episode inspired a fan song called "Meta Madness" past stopitsgingertime.

In Season 2 of the series You, a journalist refers to working on a story near Jared Padalecki. When asked about it, creator Sera Gamble said that the series took place in the same universe every bit 6.15 The French Mistake.

The Impala was spotted in photos for "Zari, Not Zari," the March 24th, 2020 episode of Legends of Tomorrow, and Sarah Lance is seen belongings a discover nearly the filming of Supernatural. The episode's plot has Constantine, Charlie, and Sara traveling to British Columbia and running into the Supernatural crew filming an episode with the Impala, putting it in the same universe as 6.15 The French Fault.

Sides, Scripts & Transcripts

• six.fifteen The French Mistake (Transcript)

Promotion

• Episode Championship
• Plot from Ausiello
• Spoilers from Entertainment Weekly
• Casting News from IMDB via SpoilerTV
• Synopsis
• Interview with Sera Gamble with TV Guide
• Interview with Jared
• Promo Pics
• Promo
• Advanced Review from EOnline
• Advance Review from Staying In with Vlada

Episode Meta

• Ardeospina. 2011. A Visual Review -- The French Mistake. The Winchester Family Business concern, April 12 archive link
• half-dozen.15 The French Mistake: Nosotros Matter To That World past bardicvoice (March 2011); archive link
• Bail, Silvia. 2011. A Man Walks Into a Bar: "The French Fault" Season half dozen, Episode 15. Pinkish Raygun, March 1; archive link, spn-heavymeta
• Chan, Suzette. 2011. Supernatural Talk: Tarts talk about 6.15: The French Mistake. Sequential Tart, Apr 11; archive link, spn-heavymeta

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