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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Wendigo |
| Episode #: | 01x02 |
| Production Number: | 2T6901 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday September 20th, 2005 |
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 PT (AXN) |
Oct 16, 2006 |
 FR (TF6) |
Dec 04, 2006 |
 IT (RaiDue) |
Feb 20, 2007 |
 DE (ProSieben) |
Oct 22, 2007 |
 NL (Net 5) |
Jul 13, 2008 |
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Episode Summary |
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Sam and Dean head to Colorado to find the coordinates that their father left in his journal. There, they pose as park rangers to investigate the disappearance of campers. They soon discover that they're up against a Wendigo, a mythical creature from Native American folklore.
| Summary Available In: English | German | Swedish
| | English Recap Available: View Here |
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Guest Stars |
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Main Cast |
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Episode Notes |
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Sam and Dean travel to Blackwater, Colorado, which is a fictitious town.
| The date on Jessica's tombstone reads November 2, 2005, which is the same date that Sam and Dean's mother died, only 22 years later.
| Ratings: 4.77 million viewers
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Featured Songs |
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Episode Quotes |
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Haley: I don't know how to thank you. (Dean gives a look) Must you cheapen the moment?
Dean: Yeah.
| Dean: Hey, you want some white meat, bitch?
| Dean: I think he wants us to pick up where he left off. You know, saving people, hunting things... The family business.
| Dean: And what do you mean I didn’t pack provisions? (he pulls out a bag of M&Ms)
| Dean: You wanna tell me what’s goin on in that freaky head of yours?
Sam: Dean --
Dean: No you’re not fine, you’re like a powder keg man it’s not like you. I’m supposed to be the belligerent one, remember?
| Dean: Chow time you freaky bastard! Yeah that’s right, bring it on baby, I taste gooood.
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Episode Goofs |
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In the first scene, Sam and Dean say that they're from UC Boulder. The University of Colorado at Boulder is known as CU Boulder, not UC Boulder.
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Cultural References |
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Boy: Like the Donner Party?
The Donner Party is a group of settlers that were caught in a blizzard while heading to the mid-western United States. In order to survive, the settlers had to eat the settlers that died.
| The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, the book that the brothers were reading near the beginning of the episode, is a book about mythology, folklore and religion.
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Episode References |
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Flashbacks to Jessica's death and to Mary Winchester's death from the "Pilot" are shown, and several references to their mysterious deaths are made throughout the episode.
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Analysis |
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Portrayal of the Wendigo
In the folklore tale of the Wendigo that this episode was based on, Wendigos do not have the ability to hear human voices. In order to make the episode more dramatic, the writers changed this aspect of the folklore tale.
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Other Episode Crew |
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