Unrealized Episodes

This page compiles a list of various episode concepts that never were produced, based on a number of factors.

Episodes

Apocalypse World Episode

At the 2018 William S. Paley Television Festival panel, Andrew Dabb revealed that the concept for Apocalypse World in Season 13 began as an episode pitch by writers and executive producers Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming.

Brad: Well it was something we hadn't really see the show do before and the more we talked about -- about having an alternate version of this world -- I mean it itself became its own monster, and so that was really exciting to us, for them to put our characters into a completely different world with a no set of reality that was even remotely familiar to them and keep everybody off balance.

Eugenie: We were playing with the idea of having our hunters be the hunted and, and as Brad said just turning the world upside down and all kinds of evil and good and and realities being morphed into something they -- we had never seen before. So that was just the genesis of it, which is the way a lot of our stories start, you know? Someone just comes in and says "what if" and the someone says "well that's a crazy idea" and someone says "no I think it's a really good idea", that it just turns into a season.

Cat's POV Episode

One of the many strange pitches from former writer Ben Edlund revolved around an episode told entirely from the POV of a cat. This idea would be revised and used as 11.04 Baby, which took place entirely from the POV of the Impala.

"Fluff 'n Fold"

During a speaking event at DePaul University, former writer Robbie Thompson spoke of the "Fluff 'n Fold" episode as one he continuously pitched throughout Season 8.

“There’s one episode that Robbie has pitched repeatedly that everyone really really would like to see get made. He calls it the ‘fluff ‘n fold’ episode, which consists of the boys doing laundry and arguing about who has to watch the dryer. While they wait, they each have flashbacks about their time apart in Season 8 – Dean in Purgatory, with only five bullets in his gun, and we get to see how he used each of them. Meanwhile, Sam’s flashback shows him doing all those things that we were all sure he was doing, like frantically looking for Dean. As Robbie said, ‘everything that happened before he hit that f—king dog.’ Even though the brothers probably wouldn’t share their flashbacks, at least we would finally know!”

Jumanji-style Episode

Robert Singer revealed that in Season 11, a Jumanji-style episode wherein Sam and Dean would be stuck in some sort of game, made to the scripting stage but had to be scrapped.

“We just couldn’t make it work. I think that was the only script in 11 years that we ever abandoned. It was just too hard to do and we just couldn’t nail it.”

"The Midnight Train"

Andrew Dabb described the episode as follows:

“We’ve got an episode coming up after our midseason break, which we’re essentially titling ‘Snakes on a Train,‘” Dabb shares. “It’s our version of a train heist with vampires.”

The concept had to be scrapped due to filming constraints, and replaced with 13.11 Breakdown.

Nukekubi Episode

Former writer Eric Charmelo divulged on Twitter one of the episodes he and writing partner Nicole Snyder tried to get made for years revolved around the Japanese creature known as the nukekubi.

“Yes! For years @NicoleASnyder and I wanted to do an episode about a Nukekubi— A Japanese supernatural being whose head detaches and flies around at night, shrieking! Ha!”

A combination of logistics and creative prevented the episode from going beyond a simple idea.

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