supernatural season 1

Season 1 Trivia

• The Pilot was filmed in California.
• The show is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, with post production done in California.
• Unlike many series, Supernatural does show the name of the episode, just before the cast credits appear.
• Like fellow sci-fi show Lost, the show does not have an opening credit sequence or theme music, only a title card. Most episodes have a brief recap of the show's back story and important events. Two episodes featured extended, music-video-style recaps: the recap in "Salvation" is set to "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, and the recap in "The Devil's Trap" is set to "Fight the Good Fight" by Triumph. The show features many classic rock songs, differing from other shows broadcast on The WB which typically tend to feature music by newer, contemporary artists.
• The car Sam and Dean drive is a 1967 Chevrolet Impala, which has been nicknamed the Metallicar by fans of the show. The show uses five black Impalas.
• In "Dead in the Water," Sam and Dean introduce themselves as Agents Ford and Hamill, the surnames of Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill, both main actors in the Star Wars series of films. Also in that episode, there is a young boy named Lucas, the surname of Star Wars creator George Lucas.
• In "Hell House", the two "paranormal investigators" that Sam and Dean meet are Zeddemore and Spengler, which are the names of two characters from Ghostbusters. In the episode, Zeddemore and Spengler wear goggles made to look like the pair worn by Dan Aykroyd's character in Ghostbusters II.
• In "Phantom Traveler", Dean hums "Some Kind of Monster" by Metallica on the plane. He also introduces himself as Dr. James Hetfield (the lead singer of Metallica) in the same episode.
• The website that Sam discovers in "Hell House" is www.hellhoundslair.com, a website created by the show's producers.
• In the opening of "Hell House," Dean sings the refrain to the Blue Oyster Cult song "Fire of Unknown Origin." This is ironic, considering that this would be the official reason given to explain the death of his own mother as well as Sam's girlfriend Jessica.
• In "Something Wicked," Sam researches the Shtriga at the local library, finding newspaper reports of similar deaths in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook: the same three cities monorails were sold to in The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail."
• In "Faith," the reverend Roy Le Grange's name could be a reference to the famous ZZ Top song "La Grange"; in the episode, the reverend's meeting tent is on the edge of town, and in the song a brothel is on the outskirts of town
• In "Provenance," the camera pans past a car bearing the vanity licence plate "THE KRIP," in a shout-out to writer/executive producer/creator Eric Kripke.
  
• In "Nightmare," Sam and Dean introduce themselves as Father Simmons and Father Frehley, the bassist and lead guitarist of the rock band KISS.
• Early on in the series, Dean's cell number is given, and for a while the studio had it set up so that anyone dialing the number would hear Jensen Ackles reading the message: "This is Dean Winchester. If this is an emergency, leave a message. If you are calling about 11-2-83, page me with your coordinates."
• On the Supernatural interactive website, the code to unlock the Winchesters' weapons trunk is 11-02-83 (the day their mother died).
• The building in which the episode "Asylum" was filmed is a real closed-down asylum that is rumored to be actually haunted. Some observers have noted that certain story and stylistic elements of this episode are highly reminiscent of the Silent Hill videogames, several of which have long sequences set in sinister hospitals, with eerie, empty wheelchairs and monstrous creatures whose heads "flutter" as if in fast motion.
• In the episode "Salvation," a meeting location is given as being at the corner of Wabash and Lake, an address used several times in the movie The Matrix.
• The show has made several references to The X-Files. For instance, in the pilot episode, Dean jokingly addresses two FBI agents as Mulder and Scully.
• The season finale, "Devil's Trap," features a visual reference to the movie The Shining; an axe splinters a white door in the same fashion as in the Jack Nicholson movie. In the episode "Asylum," Dean repeatedly referred to Nicholson and the movie: 'Just like my man Jack in The Shining."
• "Bobby Singer," a friend of the family who Dean seeks out for help in the season finale, is a shout-out to executive producer Robert Singer.
• "Hell House" is supposed to take place in Jensen Ackles' hometown of Richardson, Texas.
• In "Faith," a minor character is named Layla, in a reference to the Derek & the Dominoes rock song.
• November 2, the date of their mother's death, is the Day of the Dead, a Catholic celebration.
• In "Route 666," the truck is a raised 1964 Dodge Stepside pickup truck.
• In "Scarecrow," Dean introduces himself as John Bonham, the drummer from Led Zeppelin.
• Jessica Lee Moore's birthday is January 24th, 1984 ("Wendigo").
• Jessica Moore is exactly five years younger than Dean.
• Sam Winchester's birthday is May 2nd, 1983 ("The Benders")
• Dean Winchester's birthday is January 24th, 1979. ("The Benders")
• In "Shadows" Meg says "I met what's-his-name, something Michael Murray at a bar." Chad Michael Murray is friends with Jared Padalecki, and they have worked together on Gilmore Girls and House of Wax.

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