Bobby Singer

• Bobby has known the Winchesters since at least 1991. ^{3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas}

• According to Jo's Journal, Bobby frequented the Roadhouse around 1993.

• Bobby owns Singer Salvage Yard (also seen written as Singer Auto Self Service Salvage Yard, on a sign in Everybody Loves a Clown), and lives in a house on the premises.

• Bobby lives in South Dakota (as confirmed by Dean in 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign). Rising Son 3 states that it is Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

• Owns a blue Ford tow-truck with Lawrence County, South Dakota plates : 9NO3L1. This is probably a reference to Jim Beaver's role in the HBO Western drama Deadwood. Deadwood is the county seat of Lawrence County. In Season Three he also drives a 1971 Chevelle.

• Bobby became a hunter after his wife was possessed and he killed her (3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me).

• He has a devil's trap painted on the ceiling of his house.^{1.22 Devil's Trap, 2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign}

• He had a dog called Rumsfeld, a reference to the US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld is not seen again after Meg's arrival in 1.22 Devil's Trap.

• John Winchester and Bobby were not necessarily on good terms - Dean comments that the last time Bobby saw John he nearly "filled him with buckshot".^{1.22 Devil's Trap}

• Bobby gets people to drink holy water to test whether they are possessed. He gives Sam beer laced with it when Sam is possessed^{2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign} and Ellen has to drink a holy water shot in after she escapes the demon attack on the Roadhouse.^{2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two}. When Dean returns from the dead in 4.01 Lazarus Rising, Bobby throws holy water in his face, even though Dean has cut himself with a silver blade to show he is human.

• The name 'Bobby Singer' is a reference to Supernatural's executive producer, Robert Singer.

Screencap from 1.22 Devil's Trap (episode). Sign says "Singer Auto Salvage."

1.22 Devil's Trap

With John held captive by the demons, the boys turn to Bobby for help. He gives Sam the Key of Solomon. When Meg turns up at his house, they restrain her using a devil's trap (symbol) painted on the ceiling. It is Bobby who alerts the boys to the fact that Meg is not a demon herself, but a woman possessed by one. After the demon is exorcised, and Meg dies, Bobby agrees to dispose of her body and the authorities (he had already placed a 911 call).

2.01 In My Time Of Dying

With Dean in a coma and John injured, Sam goes to visit Bobby who has towed the Impala from the crash site. Sam has to retrieve the Colt, and John has given Sam a list of herbs to get from Bobby. Sam is distressed at the wrecked state of the Impala, and Bobby suggests scrapping the car, until he sees that to Sam it embodies the state Dean is in, and to give up on the Impala would be to give up on Dean. He also informs Sam that the items Sam has requested are not for repelling a demon, but for summoning one.

2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown

Although Bobby is not present in this episode, Sam and Dean are staying with him as they recover from their wounds, and the death of their father. Dean uses Bobby's tools to repair the Impala. They have been there a week at the beginning of the episode. Bobby lends them a van (which makes Dean feel like a "soccer mom") when they drive to meet Ellen at the Roadhouse.

2.14 Born Under a Bad Sign

When Sam is possessed by the Meg!Demon, he turns up at Bobby's place, intending to kill him. However Bobby is alerted to the demon's presence when it reacts to holy water he has spiked Sam's beer with. Again, the demon is restrained under the devil's trap (symbol), but this time the exorcism Dean attempts fails because the demon has bound itself to Sam's body with a brand. The demon is expelled when Bobby burns across the brand with a hot poker.

Bobby is aware Sam killed another hunter, Wandell, while possessed, and advises the boys to leave before other hunters find them. He gives them each a charm to ward off possession.

2.15 Tall Tales

Unable to make heads or tails of their Springfield hunt and divided by recent conflicts, Sam and Dean turn to Bobby for help. Bobby joins them on the hunt. Listening to their account of the case, he figures out that a Trickster is the culprit, and responsible for fanning hostility between the brothers.

2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One

When Sam disappears, Dean turns to Bobby for help. Together they search for Sam, and find the burnt out ruins of the Roadhouse. After Dean receives the vision of Sam's location, it is Bobby who deciphers that the town is Cold Oak. When they arrive there, Bobby pursues Jake after he stabs Sam, but loses him in the woods.

Bobby faces Jake in All Hell Breaks Loose Part Two

2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two

Bobby tries to look after Dean in the wake of Sam's death, but Dean pushes him away in anger. Bobby responds with understanding, and leaves. When Dean and Sam turn up at Bobby's, he immediately knows Dean has made some deal to resurrect Sam. Out in the middle of his junkyard he confronts Dean, and is upset when he learns Dean only has a year to live. His affection for Dean is clear, when he despairs that Dean doesn't value his own life.
When Ellen appears, having escaped the demon attack on the Roadhouse, Bobby makes her drink a shot of holy water to ensure she is not possessed.
Bobby is part of the effort to stop the opening of the Devil's Gate in Wyoming, and it is he and Ellen who actually close it.

3.01 The Magnificent Seven

Bobby tracks down a possible omen in Nebraska, and the boys join him to investigate. They meet Tamara and Isaac, a married hunter couple Bobby knows. While Bobby urges caution, they are attacked by demons and Isaac is killed. Bobby works out that the demons are the Seven Deadly Sins, and with Sam, Dean and Tamara and the intervention of a mysterious girl, the demons are trapped and Bobby exorcises them.

3.02 The Kids Are Alright

At the beginning of the episode, Sam is on the phone to Bobby as they try to translate an ancient document.

3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock

After finding John's lock-up has been broken into, the boys contact Bobby, who confirms that he built the Curse Boxes, one of which has been stolen. Later, he explains the curse of the Rabbit's Foot and starts researching how to destroy it. During this conversation, he appears to be working on the Colt. After Bela steals the Rabbit's Foot, Bobby identifies her to Dean, and tracks down her address for him. Finally, Bobby provides Sam and Dean with a ritual which destroys the Rabbit's Foot and breaks its curse.

3.04 Sin City

Bobby is working on the Colt, with Dean's help. After the boys leave for Ohio, he is test firing the Colt, when Ruby appears, and offers to help turn it back into a demon-killing weapon. Summoned by Sam he arrives to help, only to be struck down by Father Gil. At the end of the episode he reassures Dean that Sam is okay - that nothing has changed since he came back from the dead.

3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas

Sam consults with Bobby over the phone - he tells they are not dealing with an "anti-Santa" but with a pagan god. He later advises them that evergreen stakes will kill the god.

We learn that Bobby's association with the Winchesters goes back to at least 1991. Sam refers to him as Uncle Bobby, and it is Bobby who gives Sam the amulet as a present for John Winchester, but which Sam gives to Dean.

3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me

Bobby is investigating the death of a doctor who researched sleep disorders when he mysteriously lapses into a coma. On investigation, Sam and Dean find the culprit is Jeremy Frost, a patient of the doctor who was unable to dream until the doctor gave him African Dream Root.

Sam and Dean take some of the herb themselves in order to enter Bobby's dream and rescue him. In the dream they find Bobby having a nightmare about his wife. Before Bobby knew about the world of the supernatural, his wife has possessed, and he killed her. Dean manages to convinces Bobby he is only dreaming and he awakes.

Bobby works with the boys and Bela Talbot to track down Jeremy Frost.

3.11 Mystery Spot

After Dean dies, seemingly for real, on the Wednesday, Sam becomes obsessed with finding the Trickster, while ruthlessly hunting other evil across the country. Bobby calls him, worried about him. Finally Sam responds to a call from Bobby that he has found a way to summon the Trickster. Bobby says they need blood for the ritual - fresh blood. While Sam apparently seems willing to go and kill someone, Bobby offers himself as a sacrifice. Sam stabs him with a wooden stake - this is not Bobby but an illusion of the Trickster.

3.15 Time Is On My Side

Bobby calls Dean with a lead on Bela, who he has been told his contacts to keep an eye out for. An old hunter acquaintance, Rufus Turner, has called with news that she has been in contact with him.

3.16 No Rest For The Wicked

Bobby finds a way to locate Lilith. After giving her location to the boys, they obtainRuby's Knife and prepare to leave to go after her. Bobby has disabled the Impala, and argues that he must go with him, because "there's more to family than blood", and that they need him. After Dean kills a demon possessing a police officer, Bobby explains that because Dean is close to going to hell, he can see their true faces.

When they arrive at the house where Lilith is, Bobby blesses the water in the sprinkler system, so that when the sprinklers activate the keep the demons in the neighborhood at bay. Bobby is not present during the finale encounter between the boys and Lilith.

4.01 Lazarus Rising

When Dean shows up on his doorstep, Bobby at first tries to kill him, convinced it must be a supernatural being and not Dean. Dean finally convinces him after cutting himself with a silver knife. From the number of empty liquor bottles, it's obvious Bobby has had a hard time since Dean died and Sam left. He accompanies Dean to find Sam. He then takes the boys to meet an old friend, the psychic Pamela Barnes, who is blinded during a seance by Castiel. Dean then convinces Bobby to help him summon Castiel. When they do Castiel renders Bobby unconscious so he can speak to Dean alone.

4.02 Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester

Sam and Dean are staying at Bobby's, discussing the implications of Castiel's revelations, when Bobby becomes concerned that a hunter and friend, Olivia Lowry, is not returning his calls. When the three go to check on her they find her dead, apparently from a supernatural being. When they find other hunters int he area also dead, they head back to Bobby's place.

Here they are confronted by the ghosts of people they all failed to save. Bobby is attacked by two young twin girls, who accuse him of failing to find and save them from a "monster". They hide Bobby in an old car in Bobby's yard, and are suffocating him when he is saved by Sam.

They take refuge in Bobby's Panic Room and Bobby determines they are dealing with Witnesses. They leave the room and he performs a spell to return the spirits to rest.

In Fandom

singer_salvage
Fanfiction featuring Bobby Singer

Links

Interview with Jim Beaver, June 14, 2007 at winchester-journals.net

• September 19, 2007

Interview on the release of the S2 DVDs

Interview with Jim beaver about Bobby's role in S4 - contains s4 spoilers.