10 Supernatural Episodes Which Totally Broke The Mold

11. Honorable Mention: “A Very Supernatural Christmas” (Season 3, Episode 8)

This episode of Supernatural appears on the surface to be mostly unremarkable: Sam and Dean discover a pair of monsters kidnapping people while dressed as Santa and bringing them home to eat. The brothers track them down, get captured, escape and kill them. It’s noteworthy that the monsters were pagan gods, but that becomes important only in regard to what one of them utters about their past.

One of them laments that “people used to line up to sacrifice themselves to us. But then this carpenter comes along and suddenly we’re left all alone, catching scraps.” Who is that carpenter, you might be asking?

As is the answer to every Sunday school question, it is Jesus. This is the only overt reference to Jesus Christ made in the entire Supernatural series. Sure, the Hindu goddess Kali mentions the “Judeo-Christian apocalypse” (more on that later) and angels feature prominently, but Jesus himself is never otherwise even brought up. But the fact that these gods mention him as if he really existed in the Supernatural universe should raise some very deep questions given his identity as God incarnate. A “carpenter” would not be believed into existence (more on this later), nor would he be just another pagan god.

His existence in the world of Sam and Dean should pose some serious fundamental questions. So why would he never be mentioned again? My guess would be that the writers didn’t want to alienate Christian fans of the show – season 15 notwithstanding.