{"id":197042,"date":"2025-12-21T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/197042\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T21:23:08","slug":"one-of-supernaturals-worst-episodes-taught-the-creative-team-a-massive-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/197042\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of Supernatural’s Worst Episodes Taught The Creative Team A Massive Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“Bugs” is far from one of the most game-changing episodes of “Supernatural,”<\/a> but it did have a positive effect on the horror series in the long run. According to creator Eric Kripke, the Season 1 outing \u2014 which is currently the\u00a0second-lowest rated episode on IMDb \u2014 taught the minds behind the show what not to do from that moment on.<\/p>\n

“[W]e overreached on several monsters,” Kripke told TV Insider<\/a>. “It wasn’t working from a production standpoint. ‘Bugs’ was famously terrible. I went to [exec producer] Bob Singer and told him the visuals were coming off like cheesy B movies. He said that we should focus on [Sam and Dean] \u2014 and the monsters have to be [more like] characters.”<\/p>\n

In an older\u00a0interview<\/a>, Kripke cited “Hook Man,” “Route 666,” “No Exit,” and “Red Sky at Morning” \u2014 all of which aired during the first three seasons \u2014 as other low points.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes, you try things that just don’t work at all, and because of our time and budget, you don’t have the time to go back and re-do them,” he said. “You have no choice but to air them in their deformed state, and so you have to live with millions of people watching your mistakes.”<\/p>\n

Like its showrunner, “Supernatural” itself isn’t above self-deprecation. In the\u00a0Season 11 episode “Don’t Call Me Shurley,”<\/a>\u00a0Chuck, aka God (Rob Benedict), describes a negative instant reaction to his autobiography: “Last time I saw that look on an editor’s face, I just handed in ‘Bugs.'”<\/p>\n


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