Supernatural: Long Distance Call
Got Hands, In Pockets
by Sylvia Bond
A Supernatural Episode Review, Season Three – Episode 14
“Long Distance Call”
The teaser opens with a guy on the phone talking to his paramour. He’s trying to get rid of her, and hangs up. He gets so frustrated when she calls back that he rips the phone out of the wall. When this happens, I’m thinking to myself that the phone company isn’t going to like that, no, not at all. Then afterwards, as the phone sits silent on the floor, I KNEW that it was going to ring, and it did. Then, the guy kills himself and there is blood everywhere. This was a little predictable, but fun. read more »
The opening of this episode was cute. I appreciated the way it poked fun at the recent writer’s strike, and enjoyed the whole “fat cat” style with which Ed and Harry, our intrepid ghost hunters from Season Two, present their unsolicited pilot episode for their new show idea. In spite of being hindered by Sam and Dean last season, the geeky Ed and Harry managed to finagle it somehow. They’ve done what so many have talked of, but never acted on. They’ve created their pilot and are well on their way to that RPG as well as fame and fortune. And sex. With girls. Way to go Ed and Harry! (They are also leaving Kinko’s further behind them with every step they take. And was it just me or did the ghostfacer’s theme song sound vaguely like the song “We Are the Pirates,” from The Pirate Movie starring Christopher Atkins?) 
In the beginning, Kripke came up with a pretty basic premise: two brothers, a black Impala, and a whole lotta saving people, hunting things on the longest road trip ever. There were other variations on this theme along the way, but this is what was finally filmed for the Pilot episode. And then the thing took off like it had wings. Up into the long, delirious, burning blue and has not had to land since. 