Watching Jensen Ackles as Beau Arlen in Big Sky was a teensy bit surreal as it took me awhile to see Beau, instead of Dean the Sheriff. It didn't help matters that they scattered (veiled) references to Supernatural in a handful of episodes.
Here are the ones I spotted:
Names his car
[2x18] "No, no, I keep trying to go in there, but something always seems to stop me. Today it was Pedro. Sprung a leak on me."
Gives salt as a housewarming gift
[3x02] "And you're, uh, always protected."
Has a sounds-like-trouble brother
[2x18] "Shoot, you should meet my brother."
[3x01] "I used to have something like this when I was a kid, till my brother ripped its head off, and then I put him in a headlock, and Mom beat the crap out of both of us."
[3x04] "Interesting antiques. My brother used to drag me to
places like this when we were kids."
Occasionally calls Cassie Dewell Cass but it was in 3x13 that really brought it home
[3x04] "Hey, Cass."
[3x12] "You were right, Cass. Bunker near the hearts."
[3x13] "Okay. I'm gonna call Cass. I want her on this with us. Let's move."
Honourable mention (foreshadow much?):
[2x08] Episode soundtrack: Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas
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John and Mary bump into each other Thursday March 23rd 1972 as Mary comes out of a theater showing Slaughterhouse V, which premiered Sunday, March 15th 1972.
Mary stops to check out the THX 1138 movie poster on her way out.
THX 1138 premiered Thursday March 11th 1971. Assuming movies didn’t run in theaters for over a year back then, this is likely a nod to George Lucas’ early work, prior to Star Wars (which we know was used as character inspiration for Supernatural).
THX 1138 Synopsis:
“In the future, mankind lives in vast underground cities and free will is outlawed by means of mandatory medication that controls human emotion. But when THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) stop taking their meds, they wake up to the bleak reality of their own existence and fall in love with each other in the process. But love is also illegal in this Orwellian dystopia, and the act of making love has made both of them outlaws on the run from an army of robotic police.”