Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki could have left their iconic Supernatural characters behind by this level within the 2025 TV schedule, however the two stars have confirmed to have sharp reminiscences about their time on the present. In honor of the twentieth anniversary of the pilot, which aired on September 13, 2005 on The WB, they opened up about which of the 327 whole episodes stand out because the worst. Whereas I used to be stunned by Padalecki’s choose (and neither named the controversial collection finale), I’ve to agree with each of their decisions.
Jensen Ackles’ Worst Episode
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles after all performed Sam and Dean Winchester by means of some very excessive highs and really low lows over the course of fifteen seasons. Joined by longtime costar Misha Collins ahead of their on-screen reunion on The Boys, they spoke with EW about what went down through the years and what in the end did not work so effectively. When the Season 1 episode “Bugs” got here up, Ackles revealed that he agrees with the fan consensus that it is just about the worst installment of the collection. The Countdown star mentioned:
I feel it was [the worst], due to what we went by means of and what it ended up being. Mainly, the juice wasn’t well worth the squeeze.
“Bugs” was the eighth episode of Season 1 and aired again in 2005, so it says one thing that Ackles might nonetheless deem it because the worst of the collection. Obtainable streaming now with a Netflix subscription, “Bugs” introduced Sam and Dean into the combination of a housing improvement below building on sacred Native American lands when folks begin dying as a consequence of – you guessed it – bugs. It wasn’t an ideal episode again within the day when the present was airing, and I would guess that it actually hasn’t aged effectively.
The celebrities keep in mind it lower than fondly for different causes, nonetheless, with Padalecki chiming in that they’d “like 70,000 bees” on set to movie. Based mostly on what Ackles went on to say, these bees weren’t meant for showbiz. He shared:
We had been actually being stung by bees. And then they get to put up [production], and the bees did not present up on digicam in order that they needed to VIXFX the bees.
On the plus aspect, neither of the actors had a bee allergy that would have resulted in catastrophe very early within the run of Supernatural, and so they did have professionals on set to deal with the bees. The issue? Bees aren’t essentially the most cooperative costars. Jared Padalecki recalled:
We go meet the bee specialist and it is a dude with, like, mesh and a giant pair of surgical tweezers holding a bee saying, ‘So we will sting you, however it could’t give all of its venom. However we’ll discover out when you’re allergic.’ And then, once we had been capturing the episode, and so they’re like, ‘Hear, there is not any queen bee right here, so they are not gonna chew you. They don’t seem to be gonna sting you until you actually piss them off.’ Properly, how do you piss them off? ‘Should you swat them.’ Wait, the entire scene is about us making an attempt to eliminate bees. They’re like, ‘Do not eliminate the bees, simply information them away. Gently information them away.’ It was essentially the most absurd factor.
It has been a very long time since I’ve seen “Bugs,” however I undoubtedly do not keep in mind Sam and/or Dean gently guiding any of the bees away! And do not forget – this was again in 2005, so recording bee assaults in Supernatural‘s first season (on movie, no much less) is a far cry from all of the VFX used for 9-1-1‘s bee-nado final yr. I am no Supernatural-esque prophet, however I really feel comfy saying that if a revival ever does occur with the celebrities, they will not be making “Bugs 2.”
Jared Padalecki’s Worst Episode
Jared Padalecki jumped ahead in time from that unpopular 2005 episode for his worst episode, naming an arc that I would additionally agree is not one in every of Supernatural‘s strongest: the Leviathan in Season 7. Trying again to 2011 – 2012, the Fireplace Nation actor mentioned:
I really feel like [the worst episode] was one of many Leviathan episodes that acquired somewhat too heavy into the Dick Roman of all of it. We leaned so arduous into all of the dick jokes.
Whereas Padalecki did not identify a particular one, Dick Roman was featured in six episodes of Season 7. If I needed to guess, he was considering of one of many previous few, as a result of I keep in mind as a viewer being very bored with the dick jokes by the tip of the arc. Ackles agreed along with his on-screen brother, saying “It was so much.”
Properly, a present that runs for 327 episodes is not going to have 327 good installments! Contemplating the fandom that’s nonetheless going sturdy 5 years after the finale and 20 years after the premiere, there are clearly way more good than dangerous episodes. “Bugs” can be what I’d say is one in every of only a few clunkers from the primary season.
If you wish to revisit these episodes to see in the event that they’re as dangerous as the celebrities keep in mind them (or revisit some rather more enjoyable episodes), you could find the complete collection streaming now on Netflix.
