History Recap / SupernaturalS01E01Pilot

* StockEpisodeTitles: {{Pilot}} is the most common episode title among different series, with almost 2000 uses.

-->'''Jessica:''' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Mm, crash and burn]].

* AdultFear: Mary's terror when she realizes that the figure standing over her son's crib is not her husband.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Dean saying good night to baby Sammy, and taking him out of the house in the fire.

* {{Homicide Machine|s}}: The ghost sends the Impala after the Winchesters, and they have to jump off Sylvania Bridge to avoid getting crushed. Dean ends up covered in mud, but it wasn't Baby's fault. She was possessed.

* MeaningfulEcho: Constance always tells the drivers who pick her up "take me home." The problem is, she can never go home because her vengeful children are waiting for her inside the abandoned house that ''used'' to be her home. When it's over and Constance has been banished, Sam tells Dean he's through hunting and Dean says "I'll take you home." The problem now is that Sam can't go home because Jessica is dead, the yellow-eyed demon is responsible, and Sam leaves college and normal life behind to become a Hunter once more.

* YouKilledMyMother: Dean's feelings towards the being that killed Mary Winchester.
* YourCheatingHeart: The MonsterOfTheWeek's MO is to target men who are cheating on their significant other. Subverted when she targets [[NiceGuy Sam]] anyway with the funky ghost logic that [[RapeAsDrama she'll make him unfaithful]].

Directed by David Nutter.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler:

* BookEnds: The beginning of the episode has John's wife gutted and roasted above Sam's crib while she's wearing [[WomanInWhite a white nightgown]]. The ending has Sam's girlfriend/would-be fiancée gutted and roasted above her and Sam's bed while she's wearing [[WomanInWhite a white nightgown]].

* DisposableWoman[=/=]StuffedInTheFridge: Mary Winchester and Jessica.

* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Sam explains the WomanInWhite phenomena.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters[=/=]KnightErrant: The life of a hunter.

* [[HairpinLockpick Paperclip Lockpick]]: Dean unlocks his handcuffs with a paperclip.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Averted; Dean likes Sam's under-dressed girlfriend just how she is.

* WomanInWhite: Constance Welch's story is in the tradition of La Llorona and many other women in white who haunt rivers and lakes. The ladies in this episode start the fine ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' tradition of white dresses meaning that the character wearing said dress is evil, dead, or both.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Mother]]: Dean's feelings towards the being that killed Mary Winchester.

* AdultFear: Mary's terror when she realizes her husband is asleep downstairs, not standing over her son's crib.

[[caption-width-right:350:You can pretend all you want, Sammy. But sooner or later you're going to have to face up to who you really are. One of us.]]

* DangerTakesABackseat

* DisposableWoman[=/=]StuffedInTheFridge

* KillItWithFire