Supernatural (TV series)/Trivia


 * Acting for Two: "Skin", "Dream a Little Dream of Me", "Two and a Half Men", "The Rapture", "The End", "Swan Song", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Slash Fiction".
 * Actor Allusion:
 * 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 The Exorcist (where special effects involved pea soup).
 * In "Hollywood Babylon," Sam does not want to tour the set of Gilmore Girls. Jared Padalecki played a regular character on that show.
 * In "Fallen Idols," Dean remarks that he's never seen House of Wax, in which Jared Padalecki starred alongside 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 House of Wax. They also starred together in Gilmore Girls.
 * A Season 5 episode is titled "My Bloody Valentine," which is also the name of a movie starring...JensenAckles.

And it happens again in the Season 7 episode "The Girl Next Door" where, a commercial for My Bloodiest Valentine "in hell-a-vision 3D" while Dean is sleeping on the couch. "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?"
 * 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 Girl, Interrupted.
 * Also in "Sam, Interrupted", and also possibly unintentional, there is a female orderly  named Karla. Misha Collins starred in a movie   called Karla.
 * From "Changing Channels," when they're stuck in Dr. Sexy, M.D.


 * "Johnny Drake" is the copy of 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 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 Crazy Awesome.
 * 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.
 * Bobby's lady friend Sherrif Mills shares a name with Jim Beaver's character from Harper's Island.
 * James Marsters as a witch in "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" prepares to fire a spell with the kamehameha pose.
 * Enforced Method Acting:
 * In the pilot, Jared Padalecki was asked to take Jensen Ackles by surprise when pulling him into the motel room.
 * During Castiel and Dean's first meeting, Misha Collins has stated he got much closer into Jensen's personal space and stared at him much more blatantly than in rehearsals, just to enforce how Castiel is unused to human interaction. Jensen's squirming and uncomfortable reaction is real.
 * Later on in Season 4, when, Mitch Pileggi apparently decided to sniff Jensen's neck just to get the squicked-out reaction seen on camera.
 * Fake American:
 * Israeli Alona Tal as Midwest raised Hunter Jo and her mother Ellen is played by the Canadian Samantha Ferris.
 * Kevin McNally, who plays Frank Deveraux, is British.