You know what’s so precious about “Mint Condition?” Sam specifically chose a ghost hunt at a comic store because he knew for a fact that it would finally get Dean out of his room and on a hunt, and had the best chance of any to get him out of his funk, even for a moment.

Sam saw the slam dunk, and actually ended up getting it. The whole episode, he wasn’t one time surprised at how Hardcore Nerd Dean went. He enjoyed it. 

It’s some of the best caretaking we’ve seen in this show in a long time. 

For once, I don’t even need to do a rewatch of an SPN episode to say that “Mint Condition” is now in my top 5. From Dean eating pizza in his bed watching 80′s slasher films, to one of the most honest and lovely BM’s we’ve seen, to Sam admitting he hates Halloween because he panic-barfed on a girl he liked at her Halloween party, to Dean demanding matching costumes next year, that episode was pure gold.