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Supernatural :: Pilot (01x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Pilot |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Production Number: | 475285 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday September 13th, 2005 |
*Also Known As: - Piloto (
 Portugal [AXN]) - L'horreur (
 France [TF6]) - La caccia ha inizio (
 Italy [RaiDue]) - Die Frau in Weiß (
 Germany [ProSieben])
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| PT (AXN) |
Oct 09, 2006 |
| FR (TF6) |
Dec 04, 2006 |
| IT (RaiDue) |
Feb 13, 2007 |
| DE (ProSieben) |
Oct 15, 2007 |
 NL (Net 5) |
Jul 06, 2008 |
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Episode Summary |
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Sam, a soon-to-be college graduate, has an interview set up to attend one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. His brother Dean, whom he has not seen in several years, unexpectedly shows up in the middle of the night to tell him that their father went missing while on a hunting trip. Leaving his girlfriend behind to find their dad, Sam joins Dean in order to find their father in Jericho, a small town where unmarried men have disappeared without a trace.
| Summary Available In: English | Swedish
| | English Recap Available: View Here |
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Ratings: 5.78 million viewers
| Fans of the show Gilmore Girls found it confusing that Jensen Ackles' character is named Dean and Jared Padalecki's character is named Sam. In Gilmore Girls, Jared Padalecki's character was named Dean.
| When this episode later aired as a rerun, several scenes were cut out in order for it to fit the 1 hour time slot.
| Dean and Sam drive a 1967 Chevy Impala.
| This premiere episode ran an additional 7 minutes.
| This episode aired on Yahoo! TV on September 6, 2005, a week before its television premiere on the WB.
| This episode received a 2005-2006 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Dramatic Underscore) as well as the nomination for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series.
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Sam: So how'd you pay for that stuff? You and dad still running credit card scams?
Dean: Well, yeah. Hunting ain't exactly a profitable career. Besides, all we do is apply. It's not our fault they send us the cards.
| Sam: Dad let you go on a hunting trip by yourself?
Dean: Dude, I'm 26.
| Sam: Hey Dean. What I said earlier, about Mom and Dad, I'm sorry.
Dean: No chick flick moments.
Sam: Alright ... jerk.
Dean: Bitch.
| Sam: When I told Dad I was afraid of the thing in my closet, he gave me a .45.
| Sam: No. Whatever you wanna say you can say it in front of her.
Dean: Dad's on a hunting trip and he hasn't been home in a few days.
Sam: Jess, excuse us, we have to go outside
| Dean: Nice work, Sammy.
Sam: (painful laughing) Yeah, wish I could say the same for you. What were you thinking shooting Casper in the face, you freak?
Dean: Hey, saved your ass!
| Dean: So, what are you gonna do? You just gonna live some normal, apple pie life? Is that it?
Sam: No, not normal. Safe.
| Sheriff: So, fake U.S. Marshall. Fake credit cards. You got anything that's real?
Dean: My boobs.
| Sam: You smell like a toilet.
| Dean: That Constance chick ... what a bitch!
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Episode Goofs |
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While Constance has control of the Impala, in one shot that contains the gear shift, you can see that the car is in park despite it moving.
| When Dean puts his Metallica cassette in his cassette player, the song that plays is AC/DC's "Back in Black", not Metallica.
| The coordinates that the brothers are given, 35 -111, covers a 4000 square mile area since no minutes and seconds are added to the coordinates. There is no way that Sam could have pin-pointed his father's location to a town in Colorado with only the degrees.
| During one scene, Constance's suicide is said to have occured on April 25, 1981. However, when Dean and Sam are looking up information about her death, they pull up the archive files from April 25, 1971.
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Sam: 'Cause we're not exactly the Bradys.
Sam's Friend: I'm not exactly the Huxtables.
The Bradys were the family on the TV show The Brady Bunch. The Huxtables were the family from The Cosby Show.
| Dean: Agent Mulder. Agent Scully.
Agent Mulder and Agent Scully were the main characters from the TV show The X-Files.
| Sam: He's just deer hunting up at the cabin. He's probably got Jim, Jack, and Jose along with him. I'm just going to go bring him back.
The names Sam lists off are references to Jim Bean, Jack Daniels, and Jose Cuervo, each of which are a brand of hard liquor.
| Dean: I love the Smurfs.
Dean is referring to the television cartoon show, The Smurfs. One of the characters from the show is printed on Jessica's t-shirt.
| Dean: Okay, thank you 'Unsolved Mysteries'.
Dean is referring to the long-running series Unsolved Mysteries. The show re-enacted several unsolved cases with hopes that a viewer at home would have information that would solve the case.
| Sam: You know there's EVP on there?
EVP, short for Electronic Voice Phenomena, are spirit "voices" that can be heard on audio recordings.
| Character Name Origin: Winchester
The surname of Winchester is a possible reference to the haunted Winchester mansion and the Winchester family.
| November 2
November 2, the day that Mary Winchester died, is the Day of the Dead in the Catholic faith.
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Analysis |
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Woman in White
The episode is based on the folklore story of La Llorona that has taken on several forms, from The Woman in White to Weeping Woman, in different cultures. In the episode, the woman targets unfaithful women to kill, but in several variations of the tale, the Woman in White targets who don't treat their families well. More about the tale can be found here.
| Vanishing Hitchhikers
The episode is loosely based on the vanishing hitchhiker phenomenon in which travelers meet a hitchhiker that vanishes without a trace. Though the episode focuses on the Woman in White, elements from this phenomenon are incorporated into the episode.
| Mary and Jessica
During the episode there are several parallels between Mary Winchester, the brothers' mother, and Sam's girlfriend, Jessica. The were both killed by the same evil spirit, and each time, blood drops from the victim fell on Sam's face. It is later seen that Jessica died on the 22 year anniversary of Mary's death.
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