Real life relationships that happened because of Supernatural.
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Jenny Klein and Ben Edlund
Jenny and Ben met in 2008 when she was an assistant on Supernatural. They've been close friends since 2013, and married on November 6, 2022.
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Genevieve Cortese and Jared Padalecki
Gen and Jared met in 2008 when she guest starred in season four of Supernatural. They married on February 27, 2010, and have three children, Thomas, Shepherd, and Odette.
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Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Hilarie and Jeffrey met in 2009 when set up on a blind date arranged by Jensen and Danneel. They married on October 5, 2019 (officiated by Jensen and Norman Reedus) and have two children, Augustus and George Virginia.
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Ty Olsson and DJ Qualls
Ty and DJ met at a fan convention in 2013. Despite both appearing on Supernatural, they never met on set. After a decade of friendship, the two became a couple and are now engaged.
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Sarah Fudge and Mark Sheppard
Sarah and Mark met at a fan convention in 2014. They married November 9, 2015, and have a daughter, Isabella.
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Ruth Connell and Rob Benedict
Ruth and Rob met in 2018 while filming season 11 of Supernatural. They are now engaged, and have a daughter, Margaret Vivian.
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Meg Donnelly and Drake Rodger
Meg and Drake met in 2022 while filming the Supernatural prequel The Winchesters.
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There are also couples who were married before working together on Supernatural, such as Danneel & Jensen Ackles, and Eugenie Ross-Leming & Robert Singer. Likely there were many other relationships that formed, other cast or crew that met while working on Supernatural.
How did 'The Witcher' earworm 'Toss a Coin to Your Witcher' get made? EW spoke with lyricist Jenny Klein and composers Sonya Belousova and G
so I was looking up Jenny Klein's writing credits on supernatural because I thought she did an episode in s12 and I'd forgotten to tag her in my episode recap (no, I was conflating her with Meredith Glynn) and ended up stumbling on to this little tidbit, she wrote the lyrics for toss a coin to your witcher! she also wrote that episode, s1e2 and co-executive producer on s1.
supernatural s11e8 just my imagination (w. jenny klein)
this uh, sounds interesting. oh, i've scrolled past gifs of this guy, try to skip by anything with an actor i don't recognize nowadays
DEAN
Dude. Who you talking to?
SAM
Him?
DEAN
Are you having a stroke? Do you smell toast?
the sleepy face and morning voice but asking the questions while also making that face, very cute. 10/10 (wanna hear about how smelling burning isn't actually a classic symptom of stroke)
i, too, was taken aback by the marshmallows nachos, dean.
DEAN
Come on?? Are you kiddi… Look… This… mother… You and me, library, right now. Come on!
dad's pissed
SAM
Dean, when I was nine years old, you know what I wanted more than anything? Marshmallow nachos.
DEAN
Yeah, you were a weird-ass kid.
marshmallow nachos plot device
SAM
In Romanian lore, Zanna are creatures who guide and protect lost children. Zanna intentionally appear as figments of a child’s imagination, allowing the child to move on with confidence once guidance is no longer necessary. Maybe Sully’s telling the truth.
DEAN
Okay. Say Bozo is legit. Right? Which, you know – hello crazytown, but okay. How is this our problem?
don't be an asshole, dean
DEAN
Good. The Bert and Ernie pretext. Awesome.
if the shoe fits...
DEAN
You know, this whole imaginary friend thing was dumb then and it’s dumb now.
SAM
Yeah, you’ve made that pretty clear.
DEAN
You didn’t think to tell me he was real?
SAM
Well, Dean, I didn’t think he WAS. You saw the lore book too, I mean, maybe when I was nine years old I thought he was real, but I grew up. Or grew out of it. Whatever. I left it.
don't particularly enjoy when they do this. dean's an ass, sam gets hurt and we feel sad for him.
DEAN
And what did you need Drop Dead Fred for in the first place?
SAM
I was kind of a lonely kid, Dean.
DEAN
You weren’t lonely. You had me!
preemptively getting upset. you had me, except when you were old enough (according to john winchester) to stay for who knows how long alone. you know, at that big age of 9 years old. episode makes it seem like we're supposed to be upset with dean but this is all dad. and how exactly did john take dean hunting when he was younger than 9, where was sam. bobby? pastor jim? let me tell you the logistics get more preposterous the more you think about it, and with every new little backstory they decide to toss in
comedy music and all, at least the visual gag was compelling what with the sparkly blood all over her hands and face
DEAN
The whole family. Yeah, just get the whole gang in there… You know, the family that showers together… Kay.
dean.
combining this cracky murder mystery story with more groundwork of how sad and alone sam was as a kid, and how he spent so much of his life wanting to run away, blergh. meanwhile we see dean at that group home as a kid and considering staying, but seeing sam makes him decide to go home with them. thinking about it too much and making myself upset! great!
you can't make me cry and then have an extended air guitar demo by bleeding imaginary friend man.
slight reassurance that it's not that sam wants to run away from them, but that he just doesn't want to be left alone. which is a totally logical and understandable - especially for a fucking 9 year old - way to feel.
SULLY
Yeah, it was really bad. You know, I’m not gonna lie to ya – when you went off to hunt, I considered that one of my biggest failures. It just seemed so clear to me that you wanted something else. But – I was wrong. And it all worked out, didn’t it?
SAM
I don’t know about that.
SULLY
Come on. You’re a hero. Sam, you saved the world. I keep track of my kids. And you did really good, Sam.
real nice for someone to actually call out what sam did right
SAM
Well… Not all good. There was some bad. And some really bad. Sully – I screwed up. I let something out into the world that was…
SULLY
You mean the Darkness? That’s what the others are calling it, I’ve just heard rumors.
SAM
I’m gonna fix it. I am. Dean and I, we’re – we’re gonna fix it. It’s just…
sam is being so vulnerable and earnest, hurts. good job, padalecki
SAM
There’s this Cage in hell, and it’s where they keep Lucifer. And I’ve been in it, and it’s… And I think God wants me to go back.
SULLY
Ever think… about running away anymore?
SAM
I did. Um, I mean, I have. But not in a while. Not anymore.
so i'm not sure what direction that's to be taken. is running away going to the cage (surely not) then running away from the perceived responsibility of needing to do it? but we can't counsel sam on that without knowing for sure who's telling him this. because i mean sam has mentioned lucifer like, 4 times this episode. did you consider sam, my love, that lucifer is involved in the messages
DEAN
Trust me. Revenge? Ain’t gonna make you feel better. Listen, I’ve seen more than my share of monsters. And I mean REAL monsters, bad. These guys? These are Sesame Street Mother Teresas. But when I wasn’t there for my little brother, Sully was.
will always take when dean admits he was wrong and didn't see how him not being around affected sam, but the setup went a little too hard (imo) on dean being a clueless jerk. first appearance of the mushy music i think in s11.
SAM
Sully. One thing I’ve learned – heroes aren’t perfect.
SULLY
Mm. Sometimes they’re scared. But that just means the thing that they’re facing, it’s super important. And nobody else is gonna go for it, because nobody else has got the balls.
damnit sully.
SAM
Dean, we need to seriously discuss me going to the Cage.
DEAN
Okay. Not happening. Good talk. – Sam, even if these visions are real…
SAM
Yeah. It’s Lucifer? And me? In the Cage? I know. But this – this lump in my throat… It’s not an excuse. Not anymore.
DEAN
We’ll find another way. Okay? There’s always another way.
SAM
Okay. Then tell me – what is the other way?
did they not have this conversation back in whatever, first trip to the cage? s5? when they had 99% more information than they do right now. i cannot believe. I CANNOT BELIEVE we're making decisions without knowing FOR SURE who the visions are coming from. and why isn't sam more suspicious they're from lucifer? ok, so he's all traumatized by lucifer and thinking with his emotions and fear and feeling like he deserves the punishment. but hell, DEAN. since he's all dubious. how about a position that's reasonable what with sam's and their history, that the visions are from someone - but if not god, then WHO
supernatural s10e15 the things they carried (w. jenny klein)
DEAN
Porn?
SAM
What? No. l-it's nothing.
DEAN
Hey, look, no judgement from me. Just, you know, not where we eat.
SAM
Dude, it wasn't porn.
DEAN
Okay, "erotica." Whatever. Zip it up.
ha ha. jared what are they doing to your hair. smooth and bouncy
DEAN
Sam! I know what you're doing over there, and it ain't porn. Look, man, we have checked every website, okay? We've checked it twice. Sammy, when we work a case, there's always that point when we have to face the truth, right? Even if we don't like it. Well, truth is, there's no way around this. We saw what happened to Cain, okay? I'm not happy about it. But l got to move on. So l'm gonna keep doing what we do while l still can. And l'd like you to be there with me.
it's like a calm and reasonable version of dean's looming deal, and this time he can tell sam he wants him present while he has him. is this growth?
continuing on their trend of cutest babies. what a sweetheart. my eyes glaze over and i get the grabby hands. i would like to hold the baby
appreciate they're trying to acknowledge the mental health and suicide struggles with veterans within the context of their monster hunting story.
BETH
My Rick, when he's home and good, I have to kill the spiders, you know? Rick was a kind soul. He never took more life than he had to.
oh no more paralleling to our hero's plight
cole is back, huh. ok? did they pick this story so they could bring him back?
let's just watch this top secret video of the military shooting people, on speaker, at this cafe. sure
random action shot of baby on this cool bridge as they're just... driving to the scene of a crime
okay well. this killer wormy thing reminds me of the xfiles ice episode crossed with wrath of khan ear worm bug thing. and we had that spn one with the black ear goo, eve's... somethings? oof. s6e16 apparently. (rip rufus)
did he say sammy? is that allowed? maybe an exception can be made when you've got a desert monster worm in your digestive tract
LOL dean's face would say otherwise
haha now he's just trying to irk him. little brother vibes (even though the actor is older than jackles)
COLE
Mm. So, last time you saw this thing, it turned people into killers, too?
DEAN
Yeah, except that one did a mind-control number on us. (Starts putting jumper cables on a car battery.)
COLE
Damn. Day in, day out, you and Sammy saving people from things they just can't wrap their minds around . . . Hell, and nobody even notices it. Hell, at least l get a medal for my efforts. But you . . . I tried to kill your ass.
DEAN
Yeah, well, good times.
COLE
I almost took you off the map. Who would be saving me now?
DEAN
Yeah, well, let's not get too sentimental about it.
i guess all it takes is a freaky worm down your gullet to be like hey you guys provide a really valuable service to the world. this guy is a good actor and i like how he's really giving his all, i just think his character and storylines have been not great, which is unfortunate
at least it's consensual torture i guess. pretty shot framing
screaming "chest compressions" in my mind right now. so usually when we get a character heavy showing them in their best light type episode, it means they're about to die. will i see it coming for once or have they made me paranoid?
DEAN
That road? That means giving up. If you think that's where you're headed, then you've got it ass-backwards. You're gonna fight harder than you ever have. You understand?
you listening to yourself, dean?
hot. the way dean snatches his arm back made me laugh
paranoid it is! well, i'm glad dean got a win figuring out how to save cole and redeeming himself a tiny bit more
SAM
Hey, Cole. Listen, uh, l, uh . . . For whatever it's worth . . . I really wish it hadn't ended this way.
COLE
Yeah, me, too, Sammy boy.
you know, some people can get away with way too fond and familiar nicknames with people they don't know very well. cole, in my very humble opinion, is not one of them. what a funny choice.
so the wiki page about nicknames links this article
Cole Trenton refers to the boys as Sammy and Dean-o. He wrote about this character choice here.
so i'm skimming through looking for quotes (i don't read other people's recaps/reviews on episodes, trying to keep it to my personal experience for this first time through) and .... it's in the comments????? is this like. a confirmed source?? LOL. i was too embarrassed to read it past the first few paragraphs. NICKNAME CONTROVERSY
very, youtube apology video
SAM
I tried. l did. I tried. l just couldn't save this one.
DEAN
You know, you can do everything right. And even still, sometimes... the guy still dies.
way to not so subtly bring up your impending doom and freak sam out again. i guess i should appreciate that the mark got ignored for a good chunk earlier because i'd be very very over it by now if it had been Present since whenever he got it
don't really think about it until they show a bit of s1/2 in the recap and man, dean's voice got so much lower
SAM
On a hunt? Why wouldn't I?
DEAN
I don't know, man. 'Cause lately with you, up is down and down is sideways, you know? I-I -- I don't know what you want.
does sam even know?
worked for will graham!
i'm trying not to cringe up into a ball knowing it's a ghostfacers episode... maybe it'll be fine.
HARRY
Ah, the Winchesters. Yay.
ED
Says nobody.
HARRY
Ever.
it's funny because it's true
DEAN
Am I supposed to be impressed with that treasure trail or the lady gun you got hiding in your, uh, pants there?
this show, sometimes
HARRY
50 shades of whey too much protein!
look at that, we got a tld! ghostfacers.com! but not in the search results window
two laptops and a full sized, albeit also vintage, stove. they sure find the interesting motels
why is sam looking so extra pretty today. hair must be in a pleasing (to me) configuration
kind of surprised they aren't talking about tulpas if it's the slenderman spn-universe equivalent. oh man. this episode aired 2 months before the girls stabbed their friend because of slender man.
and dean just smacked treasure trail boy on the ass, all right. we're having a normal one
DEAN
You throw the right Tibetan symbol into the mix, you dumb asses ever think the Thinman comes to life as a Tulpa?
ED
Because thousands of people can agree that Thinman is any one thing? The lore changes blog to blog. He's not a Tulpa.
LOL thanks show, make me feel clever
SAM
Okay. Just grasping at straws here, but when I think "teleport," I think "Crossroads Demon."
DEAN
Mm. Demon that likes to stab and watch YouTube. Why not?
DEAN
You know what video would have gone viral, if we still had it? When you were five and you got dressed up as Batman and you jumped off the shed 'cause you thought you could fly.
SAM
After you jumped first.
DEAN
Hey, I was nine, and I was dressed up like superman, okay? Everybody knows that Batman can't fly.
SAM
Well, I didn't know that. I broke my arm.
DEAN
I know you did. Man, I drove you to the E.R. on my handlebars.
okay i teared up because that was just so sweet, both relaxed and happy for at least a second. haha such a sap
DEAN
Hm, good times.
SAM
Yeah, they were.
second over, emphasis on WERE
ED
Harry was gonna leave, so I needed to give him a reason to stay. I-I made up Thinman.
what
SAM
Listen, if you don't tell him, he's gonna leave anyway. Trust me here. Secrets ruin relationships.
laughed out loud. they would know!
look at that pretty face staring down the dude to get him to tell the truth
HARRY
You crashed the Jenga Tower of our lives. I was gonna get married. I left her to run around with you, living some lie.
ED
Well, at least we were living it together.
this is so goofy. even more in your face than usual, parelleling a plot point to sam and dean's situation
ED
Harry, we can get through this. We just debunk Thinman and then we go back to Ghostfacers.
HARRY
I can't. I can't trust you anymore, Ed.
so goofy!
HARRY
None of it was real, Sam. Ed was just pretending, and now he wants me to pretend, like this is just something I could get past.
SAM
I know what you mean. Look, there are things you can forgive, and there are things you can't.
HARRY
So, which one is this?
SAM
That's something you got to figure out for yourself.
therapize himself a little along the way
DEAN
So, the tires were only made for one kind of car. It's a 1989 Geo Metro.
man those little hatchbacks used to be all over the place, nearly all of them must be dead by now. specially the mid90s ish ones which were ... not very reliable
DEAN
So, there was no teleporting -- just a couple of douche bags doing the "Scream" thing.
what did i say about looking extra pretty? and he usually is more buttoned up than this. very pretty lighting too
ED
I've done all this crap for us. I-I don't know why you don't see that.
HARRY
No. No. You did this for you.
literally wheezing. not enough to take the same betrayal of trust plotline but even the same lines!!? LOL
from s9e13
SAM
Okay. Just once, be honest with me. You didn't save me for me. You did it for you.
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HARRY
You roll with a guy so many years, you start to think he's always gonna be next to you. Like, when you're old and you're drinking on the porch, he'll be in that other rocking chair. And then something happens, and you realize that other chair has gone empty.
snorted. so like, okay. do you hear yourself say it, harry? very normal thing, just like planning on being with your friend forever. not wanting him to be with his lady and a regular job, but on the road with just you. i mean like, obviously, same can be said about sam and dean and that's probably part of the point but it's so loudly obvious that it's like *looking around* are you seeing this? are they saying this. i guess we can say like see, this is normal, just dudes being close bros. weird
WEIRD CHOICES. what a strange episode. good for those actors i guess getting to come back again and have a meatier parts in the episode
okay also tucking this episode in my pocket because i recall there's a thing with the retirement whatever brochure some time in the future, but also that makes me sad again that dean didn't make it to retirement age. womp womp
Matthew Erman and Lisa Sterle's Series Long Lost is Optioned for Television
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Scout Comics and Entertainment, Inc. has announced that Long Lost, its critically-acclaimed horror/thriller series by writer Matthew Erman and artist Lisa Sterle, is now in development with writer/producer Jenny Klein. Long Lostis the haunting story of two estranged sisters who find themselves drawn back to their small southern hometown to unlock the strange mysteries there. To do so, they will…
