There’s an awesome show by the name of Supernatural.

This season as been about the appending apocalypse, and the efforts of the Winchester boys to avert said apocalypse. The final episode of the season aired a little while ago, so I think I can talk spoilers here, but if you don’t want to know how the whole thing comes out, you might want to skip a little bit. However, there is no way I can talk about the crucial role that the Janesville GM assembly plant played in stopping the apocalypse without talking about how the apocalypse was actually stopped.

So, the entire season (nay series, I’ll get to that later) was culminating into this last episode. Satan wanted to use Sam as his vessel to destroy the world (since he was currently in the body of Jacob from Lost, but I digress), and Sam came up with the plan of letting Satan possess him, and then leaping into the prison they had accidentally let Satan out of in the first place. Long story short, it didn’t go according to plan, and Sam was not, in fact, able to master Satan.

Here’s where the Janesville assembly plant comes in.

Throughout the show, the Winchester brothers travel around in an awesome ’67 Impala.

In the final moments, Sam catches sight of the Impala and remembers all the good times with the car, his brother, his dad (it was originally their dad’s car), etc. Using these memories, he is able to throw off Satan, and jump into the prison.

Now, since the car played such a pivotal roll (THE pivotal roll), the show devoted probably a good 10 minutes of the final episode to discussing the place where the car was manufactured: the Janesville assembly plant. They not only mentioned it by name, but they played old clips of the plant and talked about its history! Sara and I kept looking at each other, like, “Did they really just say that? Are they really talking about the Janesville assembly plant?”

So, to all of my relatives who worked at the plant (including my father): you might have lost your job and had your town ripped apart, but you stopped the apocalypse. That has to count for something.