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Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 1, Pilot recap 👻 Welcome to the very first episode of Denim-wrapped Nightmares, a Supernatural rewatch podcast. Hosts Berly (a new SPN fan) and LA (along for the ride) pour a drink and kick off the Winchester saga with the 2005 pilot, and they're already swooning over Sam and Dean. 

It's 1983 in Lawrence, Kansas, where four-year-old Dean is absolutely not qualified to carry baby Sam like a football down the stairs while the house burns and Mary Winchester gets pinned to the ceiling. Flash forward 22 years: the boys are all grown up (and gorgeous, according to your hosts), and Dean (Jensen Ackles) breaks into Sam's (Jared Padalecki) Stanford apartment to drag him on a road trip to find their missing dad, John Winchester (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). 

Episode Highlights:

• The first blood splooge of the series! (Yes, we're keeping an official count)
• John giving 9-year-old Sam a .45 for closet monsters (very Texas of them, which tracks, since Jared and Jensen are both Texas boys) 
• Two baby-faced "US Marshals" that nobody bothers to question
• Mulder and Scully, or as we call them, "Scolder and Moldy" 
• Constance Welch (Sarah Shahi), the Woman in White, being very forward in that front seat 
• Poor Jessica (Adrianne Palicki) meeting the same ceiling-pinned fate as Mary 

In the lore segment, we dig into the legends behind the Woman in White, from La Llorona (the Weeping Woman) of Mexican folklore to Vanishing Hitchhiker tales like North Carolina's Lydia's Bridge and Dallas's own Lady of White Rock Lake.

The verdict: a rock-solid pilot that sets up everything. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan falling asleep on the couch? Absolutely forgivable, because, well, it's Jeffrey Dean Morgan. 

"Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole." – Dean Winchester 

Your turn, hunters: Pilot perfection or slow burn? What's your blood splooge prediction for Season 1? Tell us in the Spotify comments, leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts (it's how new hunters find us), or send us fan mail below. Bonus points for fandom fun facts we missed. We've got a lot of episodes ahead of us, and we need backup. 

Sources:

• https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/supernatural
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• https://gizmodo.com/eric-kripke-supernatural-neil-gaiman-sandman-inspiratio-1849468463
• https://screenrant.com/why-supernatural-so-popular-long-reason/
• https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki/Pilot
• https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/curse-of-la-llorona-true-story/
• https://www.wral.com/solved-haunted-legend-of-lydias-bridge-ghostly-hitchhiker-has-roots-in-real-history/19918427/

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