• Sam: Whatever they are, they're big, nasty...
  Dean: Yeah, I bet they could hump the crap out of your leg. Look at that one, huh? What? They could!
• Dean: You know, I usually like to be warned before I'm violated with demon tongue.

More Crossroad Blues Quotes

• What exactly are the hell hounds, and is there any way to escape them?
• Was Dean tempted to truly make the deal to trade his soul for John's?
  

• The crossroads demon seals a deal with a kiss.
• When someone makes a crossroads deal, he or she is ripped apart by hell hounds at the end of the deal term.
• Hell hounds are invisible except to those they are after.
  

• The opening of the episode is a recreation of actual accounts of the death of Blues legend Robert Johnson. The plot of the episode is based on these accounts as well as Johnson's music.

• If the demon took the lives of people who made a deal with them for ten years, why did Robert Johnson die eight years later and not ten as it was supposed to be?

More Crossroad Blues Trivia

• Little Walter - "Key to the Highway"
• Robert Johnson - "Crossroad Blues"
• Robert Johnson - "Hell Hound on my Trail"
• Son House - "Downhearted Blues"
• Brian Tichy - "Chaos Surrounds You"
• Nazareth - "Hair of the Dog"

• When Dean finds out about all the arrest warrants out for him, he says, "Dude, I'm like Dillinger or something." This is a reference to gangster John Dillinger of the Depression Era. A bank robber, he was considered a Robin Hood by some as anda new breed of criminal by others.

More Crossroad Blues Allusions

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