It was brought up in the DVD thread that we might need a thread to discuss this show compared to other shows. ::cough:: The X-Files ::cough:: Here's what kicked it off.
Community does quite a bit of meta in their show too. In-fact, I was commenting to somebody the other day that Community, in many ways, is the comedy companion to old-school Supernatual (without the B-grade horror aspects, of course). They also tend to take a genre and/or concept and frame an episode around it. The
Not really vs another show, but I watched that movie Locke about a week back and have been thinking about how Jensen referencing it for the upcoming Baby episode. The movie is shot almost exclusively inside a car and follows one character on a 2-hour drive while he's making various phone calls. We never see any other actors, but hear them over the speaker phone. I sounds like it would be very boring, but I was actually mesmerized by it at times.
Anyway, I don't think the Baby episode will be