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|text= For me, the character was avuncular, paternal and crusty and at that point of the show I was sort of this young lieutenant in homicide, vomiting in the corner. The two people that were like father-figures and showing me the ropes were Bob (Singer) and Kim (Manners). Actually the character’s name originally was ‘Bobby Manners’. But when the name went through legal clearance they said that there was a real ‘Bobby Manners’ that lived in South Dakota. And if legal finds things like that, you have to change the name. So I made it ‘Singer.’ And Bob, to his eternal chagrin, wasn’t in that day. And when he came back he was all ‘what the hell is this?!’ At that point it was a done deal. And that’s how Bobby Singer got his name.
|author= [[Eric Kripke]]
|source= [[Paleyfest]] 2011
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==History==
Bobby Singer was a [[hunter]], close friend and father figure to [[Sam]] and [[Dean Winchester]]. Bobby grew up with an abusive [[Ed Singer|father]], who Bobby shot and killed when he was a child while protecting his [[Bobby's Mom|mother]]. Bobby buried his father in the salvage yard.<ref name="seven10">[[7.10 Death's Door]]</ref>
A mechanic by trade, Bobby became a hunter after he had to kill his wife , [[Karen Singer]] , when she was possessed by a [[demon]]. [[Rufus Turner]] is the hunter who [[exorcise]]d the demon and helped cover up Karen's death. It was Rufus who introduced Bobby to the world of the supernatural, and they hunted together for many years until a hunt went wrong in Omaha around 1993. They become estranged after this although they had contact and some reconciliation from 2008 until Rufus' death in 2011.<ref name="six16">[[6.16 ...And Then There Were None]]</ref>
Bobby's guilt over Karen's death causes caused her to inhabit his dreams.<ref name="three10">[[3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me]]</ref> She is later resurrected by [[Death]] and turns into a [[zombie]] and he has to kill her again,<ref name="five15">[[5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]</ref> which causes him more grief.
Bobby has known the Winchesters since the late 1908s. By 1989, John was leaving the boys in Bobby's care <ref>[[7.10 Death's Door]]</ref>. In 1991, he gave an 8-year-old [[Sam]] an [[Dean's Amulet|amulet]] as a Christmas present for his father, which he eventually gave to [[Dean]].<ref name="three08">[[3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas]]</ref>. One at least one occasion, he took the brothers deer hunting.<ref name="seven09">[[7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters]]</ref> [[John Winchester]] and Bobby were not necessarily on good terms -- Dean comments that the last time Bobby saw John he nearly "filled him with buckshot."<ref name="one22">[[1.22 Devil's Trap]]</ref> It is to Bobby's place that Sam and Dean go to grieve after John's death. After this Bobby's relationship with the Winchesters grows even closer, and he becomes both father figure and friend.
When Sam and Dean try to go after [[Lilith]] without him, Bobby tells them, "Family don't end with blood, boy."<ref name="three16">[[3.16 No Rest for the Wicked]]</ref> and more than once Dean tells Bobby he's like a father to him. Bobby has listed Dean as his official next of kin.<ref name="three10" /> In 2009, Bobby is paralyzed from the waist down after stabbing himself with [[Ruby's knife]] to overcome his own demonic possession when [[Meg]] orders him to kill Dean.
==Trivia==
{{Quotation
|title=
|text= For me, the character was avuncular, paternal and crusty and at that point of the show I was sort of this young lieutenant in homicide, vomiting in the corner. The two people that were like father-figures and showing me the ropes were Bob (Singer) and Kim (Manners). Actually the character’s name originally was ‘Bobby Manners’. But when the name went through legal clearance they said that there was a real ‘Bobby Manners’ that lived in South Dakota. And if legal finds things like that, you have to change the name. So I made it ‘Singer.’ And Bob, to his eternal chagrin, wasn’t in that day. And when he came back he was all ‘what the hell is this?!’ At that point it was a done deal. And that’s how Bobby Singer got his name.
|author= [[Eric Kripke]]
|source= [[Paleyfest]] 2011
}}
* Bobby is named after executive producer [[Robert Singer]]. See him talk about how the naming came about [http://www.indianas4.com/videobeta/?watchId=08c4c79b-3bdb-4efe-b22d-69ec3e9e7a5f here.]
* The character of Bobby was created because Loretta Devine, who played [[Missouri Mosely]], was cast in a movie and so was unable to return for the season finale. Kripke started thinking, “Let’s see what a male looks like in that role,” and the father figure Bobby was born. [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/supernatural-cast-producers-shed-light-167354 source].
