From “The French Mistake” to “Bugs,” we didn’t leave a single episode out.
Even creatorEric Kripkeadmitted ina series retrospectivethe episode is one of their worst.
Again, no thanks.
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And Sam admitting he has changeda.k.a.
lost his soulis just a sad cap to a strange episode.
Of all the things to haunt, mannequins just aren’t scary.
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And neither are kidney transplants.
Plus, brother separation is never ideal.
All in all, the episode lacks an edge.
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The only problem is that she’s destined to kill her father.
“Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie” (Season 7, Episode 14)
316.
“Playthings” (Season 2, Episode 11)
313.
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Yeah, we sort of do.
“Heartache” (Season 8, Episode 3)
311.
“Sin City” (Season 3, Episode 4)
309.
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“Houses of the Holy” (Season 2, Episode 13)
308.
“There Will Be Blood” (Season 7, Episode 22)
306.
“Dead Man’s Blood” (Season 1, Episode 20)
305.
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“Bloodlust” (Season 2, Episode 3)
303.
“Caged Heat” (Season 6, Episode 10)
302.
“Paint it Black” (Season 10, Episode 16)
301.
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“Malleus Maleficarum” (Season 3, Episode 9)
300.
“Repo Man” (Season 7, Episode 15)
299.
Hint: It’s because he doesn’t have a soul.
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“Family Matters” (Season 6, Episode 7)
296.
“Blood Brother” (Season 8, Episode 5)
295.
“Wishful Thinking” (Season 4, Episode 8)
Sam and Dean encounter a talking teddy bear.
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“Love Hurts” (Season 11, Episode 13)
293.
“Dark Dynasty” (Season 10, Episode 21)
292.
“Galaxy Brain” (Season 15, Episode 12)
291.
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“Dead in the Water” (Season 1, Episode 3)
290.
“A Most Holy Man” (Season 13, Episode 15)
288.
“Provenance” (Season 1, Episode 19)
287.
“Metamorphosis” (Season 4, Episode 4)
286.
The episode, however, is slightly less memorable.
“Paper Moon” (Season 10, Episode 4)
284.
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“Various & Sundry Villains” (Season 13, Episode 12)
283.
“Two and a Half Men” (Season 6, Episode 2)
282.
“Fresh Blood” (Season 3, Episode 7)
280.
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“Red Sky at Morning” (Season 3, Episode 6)
279.
“Party On, Garth” (Season 7, Episode 18)
277.
“The Chitters” (Season 11, Episode 19)
276.
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“War of the Worlds” (Season 13, Episode 7)
274.
“Funeralia” (Season 13, Episode 19)
273.
“Halt & Catch Fire” (Season 10, Episode 13)
271.
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“Good Intentions” (Season 13, Episode 14)
270.
“The Gamblers” (Season 15, Episode 11)
269.
“Citizen Fang” (Season 8, Episode 9)
266.
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“Survival of the Fittest” (Season 7, Episode 23)
265.
However, Rufus’ death is worth noting.
“Beyond the Mat” (Season 11, Episode 15)
263.
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“Golden Time” (Season 15, Episode 6)
261.
“I’m No Angel” (Season 9, Episode 3)
259.
“The Hunter Games” (Season 10, Episode 10)
258.
“Sharp Teeth” (Season 9, Episode 12)
Garth is back!
But this time he’s a werewolf.
“Defending Your Life” (Season 7, Episode 4)
251.
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“Angel Heart” (Season 10, Episode 20)
250.
“The Werther Project” (Season 10, Episode 19)
249.
“American Nightmare” (Season 12, Episode 4)
247.
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Because, sure, that sounds like an easy enough goal in life.
“Sex and Violence” (Season 4, Episode 14)
244.
“Don’t Go in the Woods” (Season 14, Episode 16)
242.
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“Drag Me Away (From You)” (Season 15, Episode 16)
241.
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester!”
“The Usual Suspects” (Season 2, Episode 7)
239.
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“Girls, Girls, Girls” (Season 10, Episode 7)
238.
“Asylum” (Season 1, Episode 10)
237.
“Thin Lizzie” (Season 11, Episode 5)
235.
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“Crossroad Blues” (Season 2, Episode 8)
231.
“Something Wicked” (Season 1, Episode 18)
230.
“The Thing” (Season 13, Episode 17)
229.
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“Patience” (Season 13, Episode 3)
228.
This time it involves the British Men of Letters and a hellhound on the loose.
“Long Distance Call” (Season 3, Episode 14)
226.
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Then, he can have the emotional farewell he always deserved.
(Not that Dean’s manly cry wasn’t good enough, because it was.)
Not great, Bob!
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“Mother’s Little Helper” (Season 9, Episode 17)
222.
“Nightmare” (Season 1, Episode 14)
221.
“Simon Said” (Season 2, Episode 5)
219.
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“There’s Something About Mary” (Season 12, Episode 21)
Family drama alert!
“Roadkill” (Season 2, Episode 16)
216.
“Breakdown” (Season 13, Episode 11)
215.
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“Unity” (Season 15, Episode 17)
214.
“Exodus” (Season 13, Episode 22)
213.
“Ouroboros” (Season 14, Episode 14)
211.
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“Jack in the Box” (Season 14, Episode 19)
210.
Then there’s the little ordeal of a resurrected Mary Winchester.
“Hell’s Angel” (Season 11, Episode 18)
206.
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“Like a Virgin” (Season 6, Episode 12)
204.
“The Girl Next Door” (Season 7, Episode 3)
203.
“The Scar” (Season 14, Episode 3)
202.
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Also, there are elves and a leprechaun.
“Raising Hell” (Season 15, Episode 2)
199.
“Byzantium” (Season 14, Episode 8)
198.
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“Reichenbach” (Season 10, Episode 2)
195.
“Torn and Frayed” (Season 8, Episode 10)
194.
“Of Grave Importance” (Season 7, Episode 19)
192.
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“Keep Calm and Carry On” (Season 12, Episode 1)
190.
“Frontierland” (Season 6, Episode 18)
189.
“Swap Meat” (Season 5, Episode 12)
188.
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“Season Seven, Time for a Wedding!”
(Season 7, Episode 8)
187.
“Tombstone” (Season 13, Episode 6)
185.
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“The Spear” (Season 14, Episode 9)
184.
“Gods and Monsters” (Season 14, Episode 2)
182.
“Bring ‘Em Back Alive” (Season 13, Episode 18)
181.
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“A Little Slice of Kevin” (Season 8, Episode 7)
180.
“The Foundry” (Season 12, Episode 3)
179.
“Unfinished Business” (Season 13, Episode 20)
Gabriel gets a backstory!
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And it involves Loki!
“The Rising Son” (Season 13, Episode 2)
177.
Also, Lucifer impregnates a woman, so there’s that!
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“Everybody Hates Hitler” (Season 8, Episode 13)
The title is great.
The premise is great.
The actual excitement level of the golem isn’t what it could’ve been.
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“Game Night” (Season 14, Episode 17)
174.
“Damaged Goods” (Season 14, Episode 11)
173.
“Inside Man” (Season 10, Episode 17)
172.
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It’s not one of the show’s best episodes, but it’s worthy of some recognition.
“The Big Empty” (Season 13, Episode 4)
Castiel meets his twin…sort of.
“Prophet and Loss” (Season 14, Episode 12)
168.
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“Despair” (Season 15, Episode 18)
The rapture is real!
But more importantly, Castiel confesses his love for Dean beforesacrificing his own lifeto save his favorite Winchester.
“Bedtime Stories” (Season 3, Episode 5)
163.
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“Dream a Little Dream of Me” (Season 3, Episode 10)
161.
“Don’t You Forget About Me” (Season 11, Episode 12)
160.
“The Scorpion and the Frog” (Season 13, Episode 8)
159.
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“The Curious Case of Dean Winchester” (Season 5, Episode 7)
157.
“Black” (Season 10, Episode 1)
156.
But the family reunion isn’t exactly a fun time.
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“As Time Goes By” (Season 8, Episode 12)
153.
“Bad Boys” (Season 9, Episode 7)
152.
Also, he babysits.
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“Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” (Season 5, Episode 15)
150.
“The Third Man” (Season 6, Episode 3)
148.
“Salvation” (Season 1, Episode 21)
146.
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“The Vessel” (Season 11, Episode 14)
144.
“Sam, Interrupted” (Season 5, Episode 11)
142.
“Death Takes a Holiday” (Season 4, Episode 15)
141.
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“What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?”
“Devil May Care” (Season 9, Episode 2)
139.
“Our Little World” (Season 11, Episode 6)
137.
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“Devil’s Bargain” (Season 13, Episode 13)
134.
“Skin” (Season 1, Episode 6)
131.
“The Rupture” (Season 15, Episode 3)
129.
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“Destiny’s Child” (Season 15, Episode 13)
128.
“Atomic Monsters” (Season 15, Episode 4)
126.
“Slumber Party” (Season 9, Episode 4)
Any appearance by Charlie is a good one.
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“We Need to Talk About Kevin” (Season 8, Episode 1)
122.
“Fallen Idols” (Season 5, Episode 5)
Sam wrestles with Gandhi before decapitatingParis Hilton.
Thanks for this,Supernatural.
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“No Exit” (Season 2, Episode 6)
120.
The mix of tones shouldn’t work, but, unsurprisingly,Supernaturalmakes it fun.
“Family Remains” (Season 4, Episode 11)
The ghost in the wall?
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It’s not a ghost at all!
“Shadow” (Season 1, Episode 16)
116.
“Book of the Damned” (Season 10, Episode 18)
114.
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“Hunted” (Season 2, Episode 10)
112.
“Freaks and Geeks” (Season 8, Episode 18)
111.
And yet, inevitably, their fate finds them.
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Like most alternate realities, it makes for an entertaining hour.
“Trial and Error” (Season 8, Episode 14)
108.
“Are You There, God?
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“There’s No Place Like Home” (Season 10, Episode 11)
106.
“Weekend at Bobby’s” (Season 6, Episode 4)
102.
“Home” (Season 1, Episode 9)
100.
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Meanwhile, Kevin can’t seem to get Crowley’s voice out of his head.
Well, fate still has some souls to collect.
More importantly, come on, Balthazar.
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What kind of angel could hateTitanic?
“Into the Mystic” (Season 11, Episode 11)
96.
(And, “Dean killed Hitler” is a sentence we’ll never tired of writing.)
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“All in the Family” (Season 11, Episode 21)
92.
Yes, there was a cop-out ending, but that didn’t stop the episode from feeling epic.
“Meet the New Boss” (Season 7, Episode 1)
89.
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“Lost and Found” (Season 13, Episode 1)
85.
At least Dean knows how to fit in after watching all those classic prison movies.
“The Born-Again Identity” (Season 7, Episode 17)
82. has to possess Sam to save him from Gadreel.
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“Mommy Dearest” (Season 6, Episode 19)
Eve meets her end in a diner showdown.
But the fight’s far from over as Castiel and Crowley meet up after all the bloodshed.
“Let It Bleed” (Season 6, Episode 21)
78.
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“What Is and What Should Never Be” (Season 2, Episode 20)
75.
“Bad Day at Black Rock” (Season 3, Episode 3)
74.
“Goodbye Stranger” (Season 8, Episode 17)
70.
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Yes, there’s sex.
“The Prisoner” (Season 10, Episode 22)
68.
Grab some tissues for this one!
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“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
(Season 11, Episode 9)
65.
“On the Head of a Pin” (Season 4, Episode 16)
63.
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“In the Beginning” (Season 4, Episode 3)
62.
Also, Cas eats raw hamburger.
“Stairway to Heaven” (Season 9, Episode 22)
60.
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Aside: Every note the producer gives the director is something the CW toldSupernaturalat some point.
And yes, by hour’s end, they kill the producer.
“The Things We Left Behind” (Season 10, Episode 9)
57.
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“Brother’s Keeper” (Season 10, Episode 23)
56.
It’s an approach the show hadn’t taken before, and one that worked beautifully to build suspense.
“The Devil in the Details” (Season 11, Episode 10)
54.
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“First Blood” (Season 12, Episode 9)
52.
He’s allowed to.
And boy do they find the monster.
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It’s a woman named Madison, whom Sam actually ends up falling for.
Because of his feelings, the brothers take a stab at cure her of lycanthropy.
“Do You Believe in Miracles?”
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(Season 9, Episode 23)
Metatron seems unstoppable in his quest to become the new God.
That is, of course, until he wakes up with a pair of all-black demon eyes.
In one of the series’ greatest twists, God is its final villain.
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But at least we get to see Ed and Harry again, right?
Spoiler: Sam’s possessed by Meg, who’s back from Hell to torture Dean.
Meanwhile, Castiel, drunk on Purgatory souls, destroys Raphael but allows Crowley to escape.
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Feeling unstoppable, he declares himself the new God.
He doesn’t seem like he’ll be a benevolent one, though.
Well, he walks away with the Mark of Cain on his arm.
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But what does it mean?
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Rest in peace, Kevin.
Sam got to enjoy amorenormal life with a wife and son before joining his brother in heaven.
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(And not just any heaven, Jack’s new-and-improved heaven, the heaven they deserve.)
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Dean’s newest foevideogame logic.
Trapped in a djinn-created dream, Charlie and Dean fight off wave after wave of super-soldier vampires.
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But the episode’s about much more than a crazy concept.
the man who will become their surrogate father and a staple on the show.
John doesn’t get to stay for long, but his brief visit certainly has an impact.
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The girls are in the middle of producing a play that’s inspired by Carver Edlund’sSupernaturalbooks.
So Sam and Dean are essentially watching a high school production of their life.
Episode highlights include Castiel failing to sleep with a prostitute and Lucifer visiting Sam for the first time.
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Or is he still in that old porno video?
And it never hurts to include an appearance by Ellen and Jo.
Oh, and that escape scene set to “Renegade” by Styx?
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Sam and Dean have never been quite as badass as in this episode’s final moments.
The result is FUN.
He just wants his brother back, and that’s what he gets.
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Bobby’s troubled past is revealed, but what really sells his farewell is the episode’s final scene.
The reaper waiting with Bobby gives him an ultimatumcross over or remain as a ghost.
And while we eventually find out Bobby’s fate, the episode leaves it ambiguous.
The seconds ticking away on the reaper’s watch as he waits for Bobby’s decision induce goosebumps.
Poor Adam gets trapped into saying yes to Michael.
They all made impressive debuts, but none more so than Death.
The incarcerated Winchesters fight off an onslaught of demons at a Colorado police station.
But there’s much more to the season finale than that.
Another show would have saved Dean.
In this world, Sam said yes to Lucifer.
Watching Dean venture to deny his future is a feat of both storytelling and acting.
And what does that exactly mean?
Comedy aside, the episode also reveals that the Trickster is really the archangel Gabriel.
What’s not to love?
In other words, Sam goes to Hell, but for how long?
Additional entries written by Jonathon Dornbush
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