Bad Day at Black Rock 

The Winchesters are called regarding a robbery of their father's storage unit, and track down the robbers to find the item stolen is a cursed rabbit's foot, which provides great luck until ... See full summary »

Director:

Robert Singer

Writers:

Eric Kripke (created by), Ben Edlund

Stars:

Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Lauren Cohan

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Jared Padalecki	...	Sam Winchester
Jensen Ackles	...	Dean Winchester
Lauren Cohan	...	Bela Talbot
Jim Beaver	...	Bobby Singer
Sterling K. Brown	...	Gordon Walker
Michael Massee	...	Kubrick
Jon Van Ness	...	Creedy
Hrothgar Mathews	...	Grossman
Christian Tessier	...	Wayne
Stephen Dimopoulos	...	Restaurant Owner
Forbes Angus	...	Foster
John F. Parker	...	Restaurant Patron

Storyline

The Winchesters are called regarding a robbery of their father's storage unit, and track down the robbers to find the item stolen is a cursed rabbit's foot, which provides great luck until lost, and once lost the previous owner dies within a week. Sam picks up the foot and has great fortune, until it is pickpocketted away by the mercenary Bela. Dean must then get it back before Sam's bad luck gets him killed. To complicate the whole situation, Gordon, from his prison home, has convinced two other hunters that Sam is pure evil and must be killed.

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Plot Keywords:

blood on shirt | rabbit's foot | prison | bad luck | voodoo | 

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jim Beaver, Forbes Angus, Michael Massee, Hrothgar Mathews, and Stephen Dimopoulos all starred in different episodes of The X-Files (1993). Forbes Angus and Stephen Dimopoulus also starred in different episodes of Millennium (1996), which is a The X-Files spin off.

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Goofs

Dean says it will take about two hours to get to Bela's apartment. It takes at least about seven hours to go from Black Rock/Buffalo NY to Queens NY.

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Quotes

Dean Winchester: I'm Batman.
Sam Winchester: Yeah. You're Batman.

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Connections

References Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

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Soundtracks

End Credits Theme
Composed by Jay Gruska

User Reviews

Announces season 3 is at a whole another level

This is the first episode that showed season 3 was going to be amazing. It seamlessly forwards the 3 main threads of the season-hunters being mad at the Winchesters, Bela/Ruby being foils for the Winchesters, and Dean's farewell tour (vis-a-vis the storage locker). Each story beat lands and thinking of the season as a whole it is remarkable how much is packed into this 40 minutes. And that is the lesser virtue of the episode.

This is a wonderful screwball comedy because of the bickering with Bela and the rabbit's foot mechanics. It is beyond funny. It created a signature moment for the entire series-I lost my shoe-and it is still laugh out loud funny after all these years.

This is Supernatural at its best.

Details

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 October 2007 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros. Television, Wonderland Sound and Vision

Technical Specs

Runtime:

50 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1