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** [[BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Colonel Tigh]] aids the boys in melting some Levianthans. Because if there's one thing he hates, it's skinjobs!

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** [[{{Degrassi}} Paige's rapist]] was among those uner War's spell.

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** [[{{Degrassi}} Paige's rapist]] was among those uner under War's spell.spell.
** The head Leviathan is [[KingdomHeartsII Xigbar]].
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** JamesMarster as a witch in ''"Shut Up, Dr. Phil"'' prepares to fire a spell with the [[DragonBallEvolution kamehameha]] pose.
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** He was also a staunch materialist who had no patience for anything not strictly scientific. Either, way it doesn't add up.

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** *** He was also a staunch materialist who had no patience for anything not strictly scientific. Either, way Either way, it doesn't add up.
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** He was also a staunch materialist who had no patience for anything not strictly scientific. Either, way it doesn't add up.

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*** And it happens again in the Season 7 episode "The Girl Next Door" where [[spoiler: as Sam takes the keys to the Impala]], a commercial for My Bloodiest Valentine "in hell-a-vision 3D" while Dean is sleeping on the couch.




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* CastingGag: Possibly unintentional but in Season 6's "Clap Your Hands If You Believe", Robert Picardo guest stars as a lead guest character and interacts with Dean. Picardo also appeared on {{Smallville}} as Edward Teague, whom was Jason Teague's father... who was played by JensenAckles.
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** "The Girl Next Door" there's two: 'My Bloody Valentine' is playing on the TV while Dean is sleeping. And the monster of the week goes by the name "[[DoctorWho Amy Pond]]". She’s not a red-head though.

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** "The Girl Next Door" there's two: 'My Bloody Valentine' is playing on the TV while Dean is sleeping. And the monster of the week goes by the name "[[DoctorWho "[[Series/DoctorWho Amy Pond]]". She’s not a red-head though.
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** [[{{FridayThe13th}} Jason Voorhees]], or at least a CaptainErsatz, was originally going to appear in "Dream a Little Dream of Me".

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** [[{{FridayThe13th}} [[Film/{{FridayThe13th}} Jason Voorhees]], or at least a CaptainErsatz, was originally going to appear in "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
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** "The Girl Next Door" there's two: 'My Bloody Valentine' is playing on the TV while Dean is sleeping. And the monster of the week goes by the name "[[DoctorWho Amy Pond]]". She’s not a red-head though.
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*** Also in "Sam, Interrupted", and also possibly unintentional, there is a female orderly [[spoiler: who is really a serial-killing [[MonsterOfTheWeek Wraith]]]] named Karla. Misha Collins starred in a movie [[spoiler: about a serial-killer]] called ''Karla''.
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** In "Abandon All Hope", we meet the demon [[GoodOmens Crowley]]. While there is a noticeable lack of shades, he is a) British, b) awesome, c) AffablyEvil, and d) [[spoiler:doesn't want the Apocalypse to happen]].

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** In "Abandon All Hope", we meet the demon [[GoodOmens [[Literature/GoodOmens Crowley]]. While there is a noticeable lack of shades, he is a) British, b) awesome, c) AffablyEvil, and d) [[spoiler:doesn't want the Apocalypse to happen]].
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** 'Oh, that's ridiculous. [[PlantsVsZombies Plants could never kill a zombie.]]'

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** 'Oh, that's ridiculous. [[PlantsVsZombies [[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies Plants could never kill a zombie.]]'

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*** And apparently, [[PowerRangersTimeForce Jen]] made a pit stop in [[PowerRangersSPD 2025 to pick up Syd]] to let her become an actress while she learned witchcraft.




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** [[{{Degrassi}} Paige's rapist]] was among those uner War's spell.
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*** This show is positively squee-worthy for [[{{StargateSG1}} Stargate SG-1]] fans: Daniel Jackson, Jonas Quinn, Carolyn Lam, Janet Fraiser and General Hammond have all popped up, and Ellen Harvelle was that Tok'ra from the Season 2 finale.
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** Kripke's original idea for the show was more like equal parts ''X-Files'' and ''Scooby Doo.'' It was originally an anthology series about two tabloid reporters who travel around in a van fighting demons. Then, after the show got reworked into what we now know and love, it was originally "Sal and Dean Harrison" travelling around in a '65 Mustang. The names were changed for legal reasons (as was their father's, which was originally Jack) and the car was changed because a friend suggested an Impala is a roughter, more agressive looking car (and because it's easy to fit a body in the trunk.)

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** Kripke's original idea for the show was more like equal parts ''X-Files'' and ''Scooby Doo.'' It was originally an anthology series about two tabloid reporters who travel around in a van fighting demons. Then, after the show got reworked into what we now know and love, it was originally "Sal and Dean Harrison" travelling around in a '65 Mustang. The names were changed for legal reasons (as was their father's, which was originally Jack) and the car was changed because a friend suggested an Impala is a roughter, rougher, more agressive aggressive looking car (and because it's easy to fit a body in the trunk.)

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** [[{{FridayThe13th}} Jason Voorhees]], or at least a CaptainErsatz, was originally going to appear in "Dream a Little Dream of Me".

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** [[{{FridayThe13th}} Jason Voorhees]], or at least a CaptainErsatz, was originally going to appear in "Dream a Little Dream of Me".Me".
** Kripke's original idea for the show was more like equal parts ''X-Files'' and ''Scooby Doo.'' It was originally an anthology series about two tabloid reporters who travel around in a van fighting demons. Then, after the show got reworked into what we now know and love, it was originally "Sal and Dean Harrison" travelling around in a '65 Mustang. The names were changed for legal reasons (as was their father's, which was originally Jack) and the car was changed because a friend suggested an Impala is a roughter, more agressive looking car (and because it's easy to fit a body in the trunk.)
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The creators are apparently big fans of ''{{Hellblazer}}'', and wanted to get John Constantine to appear on the show. Unfortunately, due to Vertigo's being incredibly tight-fisted when it comes to allowing their characters to appear in other works ([[ExiledFromContinuity even if they exist in the same universe]], as Constantine does with [[DCUniverse the rest of DC's characters]]), [[MissedMomentOfAwesome they weren't allowed to use him]]. So, we got [[{{Expy}} Castiel]] instead.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The creators are apparently big fans of ''{{Hellblazer}}'', and wanted to get John Constantine to appear on the show. Unfortunately, due to Vertigo's being incredibly tight-fisted when it comes to allowing their characters to appear in other works ([[ExiledFromContinuity even if they exist in the same universe]], as Constantine does with [[DCUniverse the rest of DC's characters]]), [[MissedMomentOfAwesome they weren't allowed to use him]].him. So, we got [[{{Expy}} Castiel]] instead.
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* ActorAllusion: At the end of "The Usual Suspects," Dean wonders if Detective Ballard looks familiar to Sam, and adds that he's hungry and would like to eat some pea soup. Linda Blair, who plays Ballard in this episode, played Regan in ''TheExorcist''.
** In "Hollywood Babylon," Sam does not want to tour the set of ''GilmoreGirls''.
** In "Fallen Idols," Dean remarks that he's never seen ''HouseOfWax'', in which Jared Padalecki starred alongside [[MonsterOfTheWeek Paris Hilton]].
*** In Season 1's "Shadow," Meg mentions that she went to California and met 'Chad Michael Something' (meaning Chad Michael Murray). Sam has no clue who she's talking about. Chad Michael Murray was another one of Jared Padalecki's co-stars in the aforementioned ''HouseOfWax''.
** A Season 5 episode is titled "My Bloody Valentine," which is also the name of a movie starring...JensenAckles.
** Possibly unintentional, and although Misha Collins wasn't in it, there is a Season 5 episode called "Sam, Interrupted". Misha Collins played a small role in the movie ''GirlInterrupted''.
** From "Changing Channels," when they're stuck in Dr. Sexy, M.D.
-->Dean: And there's Johnny Drake. But he's not even alive, he's a ghost in the mind of her.
-->Sam: So this show has ghosts? Why?
*** "Johnny Drake" is the copy of [[GreysAnatomy Grey's Anatomy]] character Denny Duquette, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan the actor who also played John Winchester (Sam and Dean's father).
** Season 6 has ''The French Mistake'' where Sam and Dean are transported into an alternate dimension where [[MindScrew they are Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki filming Supernatural.]] Yes that's right, you heard me. Once again proving that the writing staff are one third CloudCuckooLander, one third certifiably insane, and one third CrazyAwesome.
** In "Frontierland", Bobby Singer makes a reference to ''{{Deadwood}}''. In the next episode, "The Man Who Would Be King", there is a demon counterpart to Bobby named, you guessed it, Ellsworth.
*** Fits the trope because Bobby Singer is played by Jim Beaver, the same actor who played Whitney Ellsworth on ''{{Deadwood}}''.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: In [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E06IBelieveTheChildrenAreOurFuture I Believe the Children Are Our Future]], Castiel says that TheBible is wrong about TheAntichrist being Lucifer's son. Yeah, except the Bible doesn't actually say that. It's just popularly thought to.
** This stands out in light of the show getting lesser known parts of TheBible right, like the star Wormwood. It's "Revelation," singular, not "Revelations."
** Sioux Falls, South Dakota may not be a metropolis, but at about 150,000 people, it certainly isn't a "podunk town" where everyone would know Bobby as "the town drunk" either.
*** On a related note, Richardson, Texas is ''nothing'' like that. And "a few hours out" could mean "the Mexican border", Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, etc.
** It's been said that [[ArchangelMichael Michael]] is supposed to be a fanboy of the human race and love them wholeheartedly, but it seems the writers made him part of the morally ambigious archangel crew and gave that role to [[ArchangelGabriel Gabriel]].
** The exorcisms seem to be [[ShownTheirWork real Latin prayers]]. In the early episodes, they tend to finish with ''"Gloria Patri!"''...which in actual Latin prayer books is just shorthand for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Be_to_the_Father standard doxology]] "Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen." It's a pain to write out every time, and not doing so saves a lot of space, but you ''are'' supposed to say the whole thing...
*** This hymn is in use since at least the 6th century and has Greek and Syrian forms of equivalent age to the Latin one. It is also in use by the Anglican and Lutheran Churches and some of their off-shoots. And you are supposed to say the whole thing to get its meaning: "Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning, both now and always, and to the ages of ages. Amen." It is more or less a statement of belief in Trinitarianism.
** In the [[Recap/SupernaturalS03E05BedtimeStories fairy tales episode]], the Wolf-stand in that eats the old woman has a Wile E. Coyote tatoo. The producers must have forgot that Ralph Wolf of the Sam Sheepdog cartoons is a Wile E. Coyote lookalike with a red nose which is ironic since the Warner Bros owns both these properties.
** Changeling children supposedly kill their unsuspecting foster mothers by draining them of synovial fluid. The writers probably meant to say ''cerebrospinal'' fluid, as a loss of synovial (joint) fluid would cause arthritis, not death.
** HPLovecraft opened a portal to another dimension just to see what was there, after writing all his stories about [[TheseAreThingsManIsNotMeantToKnow how man is better off]] [[IgnoranceIsBliss ignorant.]]


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* ShoutOut: Usually Dean and usually a classic horror film, like ''TheShining''. Most of their aliases are also shout outs to various rock musicians. In "The Usual Suspects", Sam has a hotel room booked under the name [[TheRockfordFiles Jim Rockford]]. Dean also finds him in the Season 4 premiere by looking for "[[StarWars Wedge Antilles]]."
** One episode has them use the fake names of Mr. Campbell and Mr. Raimi. The monster of the week eats souls. So, he'll [[EvilDead swallow your soul!]]
*** And Mary's maiden name is Campbell.
** The episode "Scarecrow" has a character calmly inform her niece that "The good of the many outweighs the good of the one", a phrase any fan of StarTrek would instantly recognize.
** Fresh Blood gives us a vampire played by Mercedes [=McNab=], who's best known role is a [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Vamp]][[{{Angel}} ire]]. Seriously, it had to be intentional. Although, she manages to be the exact opposite Harmony and you actually feel bad when she dies (not a spoiler, she's dead less than 10 minutes after she pops up). In fact, she's the second person from Buffy to play a vampire (but the first one who was a vampire on both), the other was AmberBenson (Tara). So, Supernatural writers or casters, who's the fans?
*** Also, one of her victims describes her strength as "super PCP strength". Gangs on PCP was the standard Sunnydale excuse for vampires. Looks like that's one point for the writers.
** Also, more [[StarWars Star Wars goodiness]] includes Dean introducing himself as "[[HarrisonFord agent Ford]]", while naming Sam "[[MarkHamill agent Hamill]]". Supposedly, he thinks Han Solo is so much more macho than Luke.
*** Even worse, in the very same episode, there's a kid named [[GeorgeLucas Lucas]].
** There's a ton for the fans too, with the immortal "Playthings" line "You're bossy. And short." and "No Rest For The Wicked" being filled with them, from the boys being called pretty to somebody falling on pie.
*** Explanation for the non-obsessed: Falling on pie became a common fan term for death around the end of Season 2, a form of HesJustHiding. For example: "Sam didn't die, he just fell on pie!" In the final episode of Season 3, [[BigBad Lilith]] kills a kindly old guy who promptly falls face first into some delicious pie. Yum.
** In the German version of the episode "Malleus Maleficarum," the voice actors for the three witches were the same voice actors who dubbed Piper, Page and Phoebe in ''{{Charmed}}''.
** The tiny child shouting "[[{{Film/Superman}} Kneel before Todd]]!" in "Wishful Thinking" was ''amazing''.
** In "Something Wicked," Sam intones with complete seriousness that the MonsterOfTheWeek has struck before - in [[TheSimpsons Ogdenville, Brockway and North Haverbrook]]. Sadly, dozens of dead children did not put ''any'' of them on the map.
** In "Death Takes a Holiday", Sam and Dean tell a ghost (a boy, about 12 years old) that he's dead. The ghost quips "Thanks, [[TheSixthSense Haley Joel.]] I know I'm dead."
** In "The End", Cas's harem setup seems remarkably similar to [[BattlestarGalactica Gaius Baltar's]].
*** That whole episode is one giant ShoutOut to ''[[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'': Present Dean is Jim, Future Dean is Major Henry West, Castiel was Naomie Harris's character (though at first he seemed like Brendan Gleeson's), which must make Chuck the Prophet Hannah.
** In "Abandon All Hope", we meet the demon [[GoodOmens Crowley]]. While there is a noticeable lack of shades, he is a) British, b) awesome, c) AffablyEvil, and d) [[spoiler:doesn't want the Apocalypse to happen]].
** In "The Song Remains the Same", rogue angel Anna travels back to the 1970s to kill John and Mary Winchester. In one scene she kills John's boss and impersonates his voice on the phone to get John alone, much like another movie about an [[TheTerminator assassin sent back through time]].
** 'Oh, that's ridiculous. [[PlantsVsZombies Plants could never kill a zombie.]]'
** WordOfGod: Castiel doesn't just happen to dress like [[{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]], he was supposed to ''be'' John Constantine. Unfortunately adding him into the show's [[TheVerse Verse]] was too complicated.
** There are numerous shout-outs to ''BackToTheFuture'' in several episodes involving time travel. From "In The Beginning", a season four episode: Dean asks Castiel if angels have [=DeLoreans=], and Dean and John both turn when someone calls "Hey, Winchester!". There were also some more subtle references, such as Azazel posing as a doctor named Brown.
*** "The Song Remains the Same", from season five, was originally supposed to be called "Back to the Future II." It seems to have been changed because they had issues acquiring the rights to use the title. This didn't stop Dean from saying Castiel was like a [=DeLorean=] without any plutonium.
*** Finally, in "Frontierland", from season six ([[OnceASeason noticing a pattern?]]), is loaded with ''BackToTheFuture'' references, as you'd expect in an episode where Sam and Dean travel back in time to the Wild West. Their aliases are "[[WalkerTexasRanger Walker]]" and "[[ClintEastwood Eastwood]]". ''The episode ends with a WriteBackToTheFuture''.
** "The French Mistake" is a BlazingSaddles reference - specifically, for a scene where Mel Brooks tears the fourth wall down, and the big fight spills off of Blazing Saddles' set, onto the studio lot, and into another movie that's filming.
** An epic reference to a classic song by Lucifer in "Swan Song":
-->'''Lucifer:''' Come on, Sammy. I've got a fiddle of gold against your soul that says I'm better than you.
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**What, no mention of [[BeastWars Optimus Primal]] as the Sheriff in "Monster Movie"?
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** [[NightmareOnElmstreet Freddie Krueger]] is a supernatural doctor.
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** I don't know why [[PowerRangersNinjaStorm Blake's]] working as a security guard, but he's definitely lost his Ninja skills if a couple of mannequins can take him out like that.

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** I don't know why [[PowerRangersNinjaStorm Blake's]] working as a security guard, but he's definitely lost his Ninja skills if a couple of mannequins can take him out like that.
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** [[TrueBlood Hoyt]] is a siren.
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** [[{{FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], or at least a CaptainErsatz, was originally going to appear in "Dream a Little Dream of Me".

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** In a RealLife example, JensenAckles was considered to play Leon Kennedy in the fourth ''ResidentEvil'' film, but delays due to rewrites prevented it.

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** [[{{FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], or at least a CaptainErsatz, was originally going to appear in "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
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*** And [[StargateSG1 Jonas Quinn]] is a hunter in season six.
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***Or, if you're a bit older, Russel from WaynesWorld.
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** [[{{TheWire}} Major 'Bunny' Colvin]] is Uriel, the funniest angel in the garrison.

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** [[{{TheWire}} Major 'Bunny' Colvin]] is Uriel, the funniest angel in the garrison.garrison.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The creators are apparently big fans of ''{{Hellblazer}}'', and wanted to get John Constantine to appear on the show. Unfortunately, due to Vertigo's being incredibly tight-fisted when it comes to allowing their characters to appear in other works ([[ExiledFromContinuity even if they exist in the same universe]], as Constantine does with [[DCUniverse the rest of DC's characters]]), [[MissedMomentOfAwesome they weren't allowed to use him]]. So, we got [[{{Expy}} Castiel]] instead.
** This is not true; they just based Castiel's look on Constantine.
** In a RealLife example, JensenAckles was considered to play Leon Kennedy in the fourth ''ResidentEvil'' film, but delays due to rewrites prevented it.

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** [[{{Glee}} Finn]] gets eaten by the wendigo in the second episode of season 1. Also from [[{{Glee}} Glee]], [[{{Glee}} The TV station manager Mr. McClung]] is the angel Zachariah.

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** [[{{Glee}} Finn]] gets eaten by the wendigo in the second episode of season 1. Also
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from [[{{Glee}} Glee]], [[{{Glee}} The TV station manager Mr. McClung]] is the angel Zachariah.
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** [[{{Glee}} Finn]] gets eaten by the wendigo in the second episode of season 1.

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** [[{{Glee}} Finn]] gets eaten by the wendigo in the second episode of season 1. Also from [[{{Glee}} Glee]], [[{{Glee}} The TV station manager Mr. McClung]] is the angel Zachariah.

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