Supernatural (Anime)/Trivia


 * 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.
 * 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.

Sam: So this show has ghosts? Why?"

"Lucifer: Come on, Sammy. I've got a fiddle of gold against your soul that says I'm better than you."
 * "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 Harpers Island.
 * James Marsters as a witch in "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" prepares to fire a spell with the kamehameha pose.
 * Casting Gag: 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, the father of Jason Teague... who was played by Jensen Ackles.
 * An episode in Season 3 briefly featured Mercedes Mc Nab as a girl recently turned into a vampire, harking back to her most recognisable role as the vampire Harmony on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and later Angel
 * Did Not Do the Research:
 * In I Believe the Children Are Our Future, Castiel says that The Bible is wrong about The Antichrist 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 The Bible 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. The Collin County library system consists of a few dozen branches, not one building. And "a few hours out" could mean "the Mexican border", Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, etc. Which you'd think they'd get right, because Jensen Ackles is actually from Richardson.
 * It's been said in real life that 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 Gabriel.
 * The exorcisms seem to be 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 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 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.
 * HP Lovecraft opened a portal to another dimension just to see what was there, after writing all his stories about how man is better off ignorant.
 * He was also a staunch materialist who had no patience for anything not strictly scientific. Either way, it doesn't add up.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Joe Dawson is a Anthropology professor in Bugs.
 * Mark Sheppard, pretty much the poster boy for this trope, finally shows up in "Abandon All Hope."
 * Also Cigarette Smoking Man in season 1's "Scarecrow."
 * Mr. Gibbs is Frank, the conspiracy theorist who destroys Sam's laptop.
 * Meg Masters (Nicki Aycox) is Max's sister Syl from Dark Angel. Max's brother Ben was played by Jensen Ackles, so Dean and Meg's actors have played brother and sister, albeit not appearing in the same episode.
 * Finn gets eaten by the wendigo in the second episode of season 1.
 * Also from Glee, The TV station manager Mr. McClung is the angel Zachariah.
 * Or, if you're a bit older, Russel from Waynes World.
 * Dr. Beckett plays a role in the fifth episode of season five.
 * Fred is alive and well with a son! (But her husband was drowned by a ghost. And her Dad's kind of a jerk.)
 * Paula Cassidy / Maggie MacKenzie appears as a cop in "The Benders."
 * Daniel Jackson is a fellow hunter in "99 Problems."
 * And Jonas Quinn is a hunter in season six.
 * This show is positively squee-worthy for 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.
 * AD Skinner is Dean and Sam's grandfather!
 * Douglas Fargo gets the crap hugged out of him by Pansy!Sam in "Tall Tales."
 * Hey, what's Jacob doing off the island interrogating Alexis Drazen?
 * Is that Six getting chased down by a ghost?
 * Lisa is a hunter.
 * Meg is the daughter of a hunter.
 * Tory Foster is Kali.
 * Moloch tries to kill the Comedian's sons...
 * Harmony is a vampire! And Tara too!
 * Hoyt is a siren.
 * An asshole and a subway ghost are elderly magicians.
 * Uncle Rico is a hunter who had some sort of breakdown in Albuquerque.
 * Warren 'Skip' Muck is mistaken to be a Trickster, but is later revealed to be an archangel.
 * The Man in Black has seemingly resolved all issues with his brother, and now works for him.
 * Major 'Bunny' Colvin is Uriel, the funniest angel in the garrison.
 * I don't know why Blake's a security guard now, but he's definitely lost his Ninja skills if a couple of mannequins can take him out like that.
 * And apparently, Jen made a pit stop in 2025 to pick up Syd to let her become an actress while she learned witchcraft.
 * Of course, none of this explains why Kira put her singing career on hold and started calling herself Jen.
 * Freddie Krueger is a supernatural doctor.
 * What, no mention of Optimus Primal as the Sheriff in "Monster Movie"?
 * Paige's rapist was among those under War's spell.
 * The head Leviathan is Xigbar.
 * Colonel Tigh aids the boys in melting some Levianthans. Because if there's one thing he hates, it's skinjobs!
 * Spike is married to Cordelia! And they're both witches?
 * Cameron and Nina are, respectively, a vampire and a djinn.
 * Logan is a time-traveling god.
 * Kaylee is a brain-eating kitsune.
 * Rommie is a hunter.
 * Dick Roman is a childlike little penguin who happens to be a covert operative. No, really.
 * Celestia is knowledgeable in white magic and sends a demon to hell.
 * Shout-Out: Usually Dean and usually a classic horror film, like The Shining. 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 Jim Rockford. Dean also finds him in the Season 4 premiere by looking for "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 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 Star Trek would instantly recognize.
 * Fresh Blood gives us a vampire played by Mercedes McNab, who's best known role is a Vampire. Seriously, it had to be intentional. Although, she manages to be the exact opposite of 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 Amber Benson (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 Star Wars goodiness includes Dean introducing himself as "agent Ford", while naming Sam "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 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 He's Just Hiding. For example: "Sam didn't die, he just fell on pie!" In the final episode of Season 3, 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 "Kneel before Todd!" in "Wishful Thinking" was amazing.
 * In "Something Wicked," Sam intones with complete seriousness that the Monster of the Week has struck before - in 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, Haley Joel. I know I'm dead."
 * In "The End", Cas's harem setup seems remarkably similar to Gaius Baltar's.
 * That whole episode is one giant Shout-Out to 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 Crowley. While there is a noticeable lack of shades, he is a) British, b) awesome, c) Affably Evil, and d).
 * 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 assassin sent back through time.
 * 'Oh, that's ridiculous. Plants could never kill a zombie.'
 * Word of God: Castiel doesn't just happen to dress like John Constantine, he was supposed to be John Constantine. Unfortunately adding him into the show's Verse was too complicated.
 * There are numerous shout-outs to Back to The Future 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 (noticing a pattern?), is loaded with Back to The Future references, as you'd expect in an episode where Sam and Dean travel back in time to the Wild West. Their aliases are "Walker" and "Eastwood". The episode ends with a Write Back to The Future.
 * "The French Mistake" is a Blazing Saddles 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.
 * Speaking of Blazing Saddles, "Candy gram for Mongo!" from Frontierland must also be mentioned.
 * An epic reference to a classic song by Lucifer in "Swan Song":


 * "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 "Amy Pond". She’s not a red-head though.
 * Three, actually. The second time the convience store worker is shown, he is wearing a 'Under the Red Hood' T-shirt. Jensen Ackles plays Jason Todd in that movie.
 * There's one to Buffy in "The Mentalists": A magic shop owner calls a MacGuffin an Orb of Thesulah.
 * In "Folsom Prison Blues", when posing for mug shots, one of Dean's poses is Blue Steel.
 * What Could Have Been:
 * In a Real Life example, Jensen Ackles was considered to play Leon Kennedy in the fourth Resident Evil film, but delays due to rewrites prevented it.
 * Jason Voorhees (and not a Captain Ersatz) was originally going to appear in "Dream a Little Dream of 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 rougher, more aggressive looking car (and because it's easy to fit a body in the trunk.)
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