SUPERNATURAL is entering its twelvth season this fall and today the show is celebrating “Supernatural Day” as a way to honor the cast, the crew and the fans. Over the years the show has produced some quality television, from the dramatic to the comedic. To properly celebrate “Supernatural Day” here in 2016, let’s take a trip back and revisit some of the show’s best episodes, moments and characters.
Without further ado, here are a few of our favorite things. Feel free to share your own in the comments below!
Our Favorite SUPERNATURAL Episodes
- Episode 1.12 “Faith”
- Episode 1.16 “Shadow”
- Episode 1.22 “Devil’s Trap”
- Episode 2.01 “In My Time of Dying”
- Episode 2.09 “Croatoan”
- Episode 2.12 “Nightshifter”
- Episode 2.14 “Born Under a Bad Sign”
- Episode 2.15 “Tall Tales”
- Episode 2.18 “Hollywood Babylon”
- Episode 2.19 “Folsom Prison Blues”
- Episode 2.20 “What Is And What Should Never Be”
- Episodes 2.21 & 2.22 “All Hell Breaks Loose”
- Episode 3.03 “Bad Day at Black Rock”
- Episode 3.08 “A Very Supernatural Christmas”
- Episode 3.11 “Mystery Spot”
- Episode 3.12 “Jus in Bello”
- Episode 3.13 “Ghostfacers”
- Episode 4.01 “Lazarus Rising”
- Episode 4.03 “In the Beginning”
- Episode 4.05 “Monster Movie”
- Episode 4.06 “Yellow Fever”
- Episode 4.16 “On the Head of a Pin”
- Episode 4.17 “It’s a Terrible Life”
- Episode 4.18 “The Monster at the End of This Book
- Episode 4.21 “When the Levee Breaks”
- Episode 5.04 “The End”
- Episode 5.08 “Changing Channels”
- Episode 5.09 “The Real Ghostbusters”
- Episode 5.10 “Abandon All Hope”
- Episode 5.22 “Swan Song”
- Episode 6.04 “Weekend at Bobby’s”
- Episode 6.15 “The French Mistake”
- Episode 6.20 “The Man Who Would be King”
- Episode 7.10 “Death’s Door”
- Episode 8.12 “As Time Goes By”
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Favorite Angel Scenes
- Gabriel talks to Sam about the Winchester brothers’ relationship (Episode 3.11 “Mystery Spot”)
- Castiel’s entrance into Supernatural (Episode 4.01 “Lazarus Rising”)
- Castiel stands up to Dean in Dean’s dream (Episode 4.02 “Are You There God? It’s Me, Dean Winchester”)
- Anna talks about the benefits of being human & gets her grace back (Episode 4.10 “Heaven and Hell”)
- The introduction of angel wings, Castiel struggles with free will, Castiel fights Alastair and Anna kills Uriel (Episode 4.16 “On the Head of a Pin”)
- Zachariah’s introduction (Episode 4.17 “It’s a Terrible Life”)
- Castiel sneakily rebels (Episode 4.18 “The Monster at the End of This Book”)
- Zachariah tells Dean the truth about the apocalypse & Castiel turns against Heaven (Episode 4.22 “Lucifer Rising”)
- Castiel suggests his “find God” plan (Episode 5.02 “Good God Y’All”)
- Castiel pretends to be an FBI agent, visits a brothel & stands up to Raphael (Episode 5.03 “Free to be You and Me”)
- Future Castiel has orgies & Lucifer Sam confronts Dean (Episode 5.04 “The End”)
- Gabriel’s TV adventure & revealing the truth about his family (Episode 5.09 “Changing Channels”)
- Castiel drinks shots, stands up to Lucifer and throws Meg into a ring of fire & Lucifer walks away from a colt shot (Episode 5.10 “Abandon All Hope”)
- Michael burns up Anna & reveals himself to Dean in young John’s body (Episode 5.13 “The Song Remains the Same”)
- Cupid meets Castiel and the Winchesters (Episode 5.14 “My Bloody Valentine”)
- Zachariah reveals himself as the Winchesters’ Heaven mastermind & Joshua talks to the brothers (Episode 5.16 “Dark Side of the Moon”)
- Castiel gets drunk (Episode 5.17 “99 Problems”)
- Zachariah’s bar trip, Castiel beats up Dean, Castiel’s surprise sigil placement and Zachariah’s death (Episode 5.18 “Point of No Return”)
- Lucifer vs. Gabriel (Episode 5.19 “Hammer of the Gods”)
- Lucifer vs. Michael (Episode 5.22 “Swan Song”)
- Castiel watches porn and kisses Meg (Episode 6.10 “Caged Heat”)
- Castiel tries to hug Sam (Episode 6.12 “Like a Virgin”)
- Revelation that Castiel is working with Crowley (Episode 6.19 “Mommy Dearest”)
- Castiel’s introspection (Episode 6.20 “The Man Who Would Be King”).
- Balthazar helps the Winchesters and Castiel kills him (Episode 6.22 “The Man Who Knew Too Much”)
- Castiel slaughters a field full of angels and begs for forgiveness (Episode 7.01 “Meet the New Boss”)
- Castiel remembers his true identity and takes on Sam’s hallucinations (Episode 7.17 “The Born-Again Identity)
- Castiel interrogating a cat, lifting an anvil and trying to be a hunter (Episode 8.08 “Hunteri Heroici”)
- Naomi tries to make amends with Castiel, Metatron turns on Cas and the angels fall from Heaven (Episode 8.23 “Sacrifice”)
- Ezekiel shows his broken wings (Episode 9.02 “Devil May Care”)
Favorite Demon Scenes
- Meg reveals herself as a demon (Episode 1.11 “Scarecrow”)
- Meg ties up and taunts the Winchesters (Episode 1.16 “Shadow”)
- Meg kills John’s friends, confronts the Winchesters, and gets exorcised (Episodes 1.21 & 1.22 “Salvation” & “Devil’s Trap”)
- DemonJohn taunting Sam and Dean (Episode 1.22 “Devil’s Trap”)
- DemonSam turns on Jo, escapes an exorcism attempt and taunts Dean about Hell (Episode 2.14 “Born Under a Bad Sign”)
- Azazel reveals the truth to Sam about his demon blood and taunts Dean (Episode 2.21 & 2.22 “All Hell Breaks Loose, Parts 1 & 2”)
- The Seven Deadly Sins run free and terrorize the Winchesters (Episode 3.01 “The Magnificent Seven”)
- Casey talks with Dean (Episode 3.04 “Sin City”)
- Ruby tells Dean the truth about demons being former human souls (Episode 3.09 “Malleus Maleficarum”)
- Dean confronts his demon self (Episode 3.10 “Dream a Little Dream of Me”)
- Mass fight and exorcism (Episode 3.12 “Jus in Bello”)
- Lilith terrorizes her vessel’s family and taunts Dean about Hell (Episode 3.16 & 4.06 “No Rest For the Wicked” & “Yellow Fever”)
- Azazel possesses Samuel Campbell (Episode 4.03 “In the Beginning”)
- Alastair reintroduces himself to Dean and then taunts Dean as Dean tortures him (Episode 4.09 “I Know What You Did Last Summer” & Episode 4.16 “On the Head of a Pin”)
- Ruby continues to manipulate Sam (Episode 4.16 “On the Head of a Pin”)
- Crowley’s introduction (Episode 5.10 “Abandon All Hope”)
- Crowley refuses to return Bobby’s soul, mocks his son, and the truth of his demon origin is revealed (Episode 6.04 “Weekend at Bobby’s”)
- Crowley brings a photo of himself and Bobby kissing to show and tell (Episode 5.21 “Two Minutes to Midnight”)
- Meg retaliates against Crowley (Episode 6.10 “Caged Heat”)
- Crowley and Dick’s contract negotiations (Episode 7.23 “Survival of the Fittest”)
- Crowley feeling the effects of the “cure” in the church (Episode 8.23 “Sacrifice”)
- Crowley and Alfie’s auction offerings (Episode 8.02 “What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?”)
- Abaddon’s introduction (Episode 8.12 “A Time Goes By”)
- Crowley directs the fake Winchesters (Episode 8.21 “The Great Escapist”)
- Crowley monologuing at the Winchesters while Sarah dies (Episode 8.22 “Clip Show”)
- Abaddon threatens Dean (Episode 9.02 “Devil May Care”)
One-off Guest Characters We’d Like to See Again
- Missouri Mosley (Episode 1.09 “Home”)
- Katherine (Episode 1.10 “Asylum”)
- Officer Kathleen (Episode 1.15 “The Benders”)
- Tara Benchley & Martin (Episode 2.18 “Hollywood Babylon”)
- Deacon (Episode 2.19 “Folsom Prison Blues”)
- Tamara (Episode 3.01 “Magnificent Seven”)
- Jaime (Episode 4.05 “Monster Movie”)
- Teenage Dean (a.k.a. Brock Kelly) (Episode 4.13 “After School Special”)
- Sam Smith & Dean Wesson (Episode 4.17 “It’s a Terrible Life”)
- Adam (Episodes 4.19, 5.18, 5.22)
- Jesse Turner (a.k.a. The Antichrist) (Episode 5.06 Children Are Our Future”)
- Larping Couple (Episode 5.09 “The Real Ghostbusters”)
- Cupid (Episode 5.14 “My Bloody Valentine”)
- Joshua (Episode 5.16 “Dark Side of the Moon”)
- Misha Collins, Eric Kripke, the Alpaca, Genevieve Padalecki, Serge Ladouceur and Robert Singer (Episode 6.15 “The French Mistake”)
- Samuel Colt (Episode 6.18 Frontierland”)
- Eliott Ness (Episode 7.12 “Time After Time”)
- Sheriff “these kids today, with their texting and murder” (Episode 8.11 “LARP and the Real Girl”)
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Best Winchester Brotherly Bonding Scenes
- Sam vows he’ll save Dean (Episode 1.12 “Faith”)
- The prank war (Episode 1.17 “Hell House”)
- Dean takes care of young Sam and gives him the last of the Cheerios (Episode 1.18 “Something Wicked”)
- Dean tells Sam family is all he has left (Episode 1.21 “Salvation”)
- Sam communicates with ghost Dean via a ouija board (Episode 2.01 “In My Time of Dying”)
- Sam and Dean talk about John’s death (Episode 2.02 “Everybody Loves a Clown”)
- Dean refuses to let Sam die alone (Episode 2.09 “Croatoan”)
- Sam and Dean fight each other (Episode 2.15 “Tall Tales”)
- Sam tells Dean he’s glad they hunt and that Dean dug himself out of the djinn fantasy (Episode 2.20 “What Is and What Should Never Be”)
- Dean monologues over Sam’s dead body and then sells his soul for Sam (Episode 2.22 “All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2”)
- Sam tells Dean he can see right through his fake bravery (Episode 3.07 “Fresh Blood”)
- Young Sam gives Dean the amulet and then Sam and Dean exchange gifts in the present (Episode 3.08 “A Very Supernatural Christmas”)
- Sam hunts for a way to bring Dean back (and orders a cheeseburger for a brother that’s no longer there) (Episode 3.11 “Mystery Spot”)
- Sam and Dean say goodbye (Episode 3.16 “No Rest for the Wicked”)
- Sam and Dean hug when Dean returns from Hell (Episode 4.01 “Lazarus Rising”)
- Dean crazily describes their hunting life and Sam’s gassy habits (Episode 4.06 “Yellow Fever”)
- Drunk Sam tries to convince the crossroads demon to take him and bring Dean back (Episode 4.09 “I Know What You Did Last Summer”)
- Dean loses to Sam in rock-paper-scissors (and Sam’s hilarious smirk to Adam about how he always wins) (Episode 4.19 “Jump the Shark”)
- Dean leaves Sam a forgiving voicemail…that Sam never hears (Episode 4.22 “Lucifer Rising”)
- Sam and Dean reunite after Dean sees a terrible future (Episode 5.04 “The End”)
- Dean and young Sam watch fireworks in Heaven (Episode 5.16 “Dark Side of the Moon”)
- Sam takes back control from Lucifer thanks to Dean (Episode 5.22 “Swan Song”)
- A newly re-souled Sam hugs Dean (Episode 6.12 “Like a Virgin”)
- We learn that Dean is just “D” in Sam’s phone (Episode 6.16 “And Then There Were None”)
- Sam tells his hallucination that he won’t leave Dean alone (Episode 6.22 “The Man Who Knew Too Much”)
- Sam gives Dean a giant slinky (Episode 7.14 “Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie”)
- Sam confesses how broken up he is over failing Dean and Dean convinces him not to go through with the final trial (Episode 8.23 “Sacrifice”)
- Teenage Dean smiles at young Sam and leaves the boys’ home to be with his brother (Episode 9.07 “Bad Boys”)
- Dean tells Sam he’s proud of them (Episode 9.23 “Do You Believe in Miracles?”)
- Sam shows Dean photos and tells him that he’ll never believe that he isn’t good (Episode 10.23 “Brother’s Keeper”)
Most Memorable Mary and John Scenes
- Mary burns on the ceiling (Episode 1.01 “Pilot”)
- Ghost Mary sees her grown-up boys (Episode 1.09 “Home”)
- John reunites with his boys and sees Sam for the first time in years (Episode 1.16 “Shadow”)
- John tells Sam he started a college fund for his sons (Episode 1.20 “Dead Man’s Blood”)
- John shoots the vampire with the Colt and saves Sam (Episode 1.20 “Dead Man’s Blood”)
- John takes back control of his body from Azazel when Dean begs for help (Episode 1.22 “Devil’s Trap”)
- John dies for Dean (Episode 2.01 “In My Time of Dying”)
- John saves his sons from Azazel and then goes to Heaven (Episode 2.22 “All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2”)
- John buys the Impala (Episode 4.03 “In the Beginning”)
- Discovery that Mary is a kick-ass hunter (Episode 4.03 “In the Beginning”)
- Mary takes Azazel’s deal (Episode 4.03 “In the Beginning”)
- Mary fights Anna (Episode 5.13 “The Song Remains the Same”)
- Typical family roadtrip – John tells the boys to shut up or he’ll turn the car around (Episode 5.13 “The Song Remains the Same”)
- John talks to Sam about having a father who raised him to be a hunter (Episode 5.13 “The Song Remains the Same”)
- Mary finds out that Sam and Dean are her sons (Episode 5.13 “The Song Remains the Same”)
SUPERNATURAL returns for an all new season on Thursday, October 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.