30 Surprising Things About the Making of 'Supernatural'

The show’s creator, Eric Kripke, said in an interview, “For me, the core notion behind Supernatural was to make a series about urban legends. I think they’re this incredibly rich mythology about the United States, and no one had really tapped into that, so when I started as a writer, one of the first ideas I ever pitched was an urban legend show."

Kripke explained that during the casting process, “We had two great Sams and no Dean and you think it would be obvious to put one into the other role, but it was not obvious.” Kripke added, “It’s so difficult to find one actor who is charismatic enough to be a breakout character and to support a show. So to find two of them, where there’s only two leads… I didn’t realize what a miracle it was at the time." Jared Padalecki plays the role of Sam.

Ackles expressed how much easier it was to work with Padalecki. “It was just immediate chemistry. There was an ease to it. There was a familiarity to it. Once we got into it with each other, it just fell in place and it came...not easy, but definitely a little easier than my experiences in the past,” Ackles told Variety.

Kripke tweeted that the meaning behind the name Missouri Mosely came from his wife’s great-great grandmother. She was reportedly a frontier woman and a psychic named Missouri Mosely.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays John Winchester, thought he’d just be in the pilot episode. “I remember thinking ‘well, this’ll be a job that I’ll work a couple of days and go on to the next thing, because there’s no way I’m gonna come back and be the father of Jared and Jensen,’” Morgan said. But, he did come back.

Kripke tweeted that he wanted to revive the character Missouri Mosely, but since she was unavailable, he created Bobby Singer.

Jim Beaver said he was hired on for only one episode. "No one told me anything about Bobby’s trajectory early on, because Bobby didn’t have one, as far as I know. I was hired for one episode, 'Devil’s Trap,' and no one ever said anything to me about another appearance," Beaver said.

Robert Singer is a producer of the show Supernatural, and the character was named after him—Bobby Singer.

When creator of the show Eric Kripke needed a name for a new character for a Thursday episode, he turned to Google. He searched “Angel of Thursday,” and the name Castiel appeared.

Misha Collins, who plays Castiel, originally thought the character was supposed to be a demon. “It was as if I were going to get a job at the NSA, the level of secrecy that surrounded the new role of Castiel. They did not reveal to agents or actors who were auditioning for the role that the character was going to be an angel,” Collins said.

According to Nerdiest, there are eight different Chevrolet Impalas used in this CW series.

The car regularly gets wrecked, and yes, they do keep the wrecked versions. Jeff Budnick, the series’ car coordinator told Nerdiest that the crew keeps a “yard of all the wrecks” and that cars from the junkyard even makes appearances in newer episodes.

Budnick said he’s in charge of putting car-shaped Easter eggs in the show. “I do that quite a bit. If you actually really look close, you’ll see a lot of stuff. If I have a junkyard scene, you’ll see Impala doors or hoods from the car that were crunched from different episodes we’ve done. I always try to do that,” Budnick said in an interview.

Despite how often Dean and Sam drive this baby all over the United States, the car only has 15,000 miles on it. Budnick said this 1967 Chevrolet Impala is the most mint condition he’s seen.

Ackles directed five episodes of Supernatural. The first episode he directed in 2010 was “Weekend at Bobby’s.”

We know that show creators don’t always get the actors they intend to. Kripke planned to have Kristen Bell play Ruby, one of the show’s most-memorable demons, but Bell passed on the role.

Creator of Supernatural, Eric Kripke, revealed that he intended Dean and Sam to live in Lawrence because of its proximity to the urban legend of Stull Cemetery.

Originally, Kripke wanted Dean and Sam’s last name to be Harrison as a tribute to Han Solo, but a real-life Dean Harrison living in Kansas already existed. So, the lawyers made Kripke change the last name, which he said came from the Winchester Mystery House.

January 24 is Dean’s birthday, but it’s also Eric Kripke’s wife’s birthday.

Sam’s birthday falls on May 2, but it just so happens Kripke’s son was born on May 2. Strangely enough, Kripke’s son was born 2 years after he gave Sam that birthday. It’s almost as if there were some *supernatural* force that made that happen.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays John Winchester, was born in 1966 and Jensen Ackles, who plays Dean Winchester, was born in 1978. That’s only a 12 year age difference, and certainly doesn’t make Morgan old enough to be Ackles’ father IRL.

The Starburst clock has been seen in hotel rooms, diners, businesses, and people’s homes on the show.

Sam and Dean encounter numerous sirens in the show, and often times, they are named after Disney princesses. There’s been Belle, Ariel, Aurora, and Jasmine.

Many episodes are named after songs from Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and, of course, Led Zeppelin, because it’s Dean’s favorite band.

Episodes were named after movies like, The Usual Suspects. That same episode even used a similar narration format to tell Sam and Dean’s stories.

Kripke was set to make an appearance on the show as himself, in the episode “French Mistake.” But, he tweeted calling himself a “crap actor,” and said they casted someone else to play his role.