"Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" Season's Greedings (1994)

Director:

Randall Zisk

Writers:

Joe Shuster (creator) &
Jerry Siegel (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (1993)

Original Air Date:

4 December 1994 (Season 2, Episode 9)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Plot:

After Mr. Schott is fired from his toy making job, he decides to get revenge and make a lot of money by creating Atomic Space Rats...

Plot Keywords:

Christmas | Superman | 1990s | Shrinking | Kryptonite

Cast

Dean Cain	...	Clark Kent / Superman
Teri Hatcher	...	Lois Lane
Lane Smith	...	Perry White
Justin Whalin	...	Jimmy Olsen
Eddie Jones	...	Jonathan Kent
K Callan	...	Martha Kent
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sherman Hemsley	...	Mr. Schott / The Toyman
Dom Irrera	...	Harry
Doug Llewelyn	...	News anchor
Jon Menick	...	Weatherman
Denise Richards	...	Angela
Isabel Sanford	...	Ms. Duffy
Sharon Thomas	...	Pretentious Lady
Sandee Van Dyke	...	Danielle
Dick Van Patten	...	Orphanage Worker / Santa
Brian Wagner	...	Joel

Trivia:

Pretentious Lady is played by Sharon Thomas who is Dean Cain's mother. She also appears in the episodes The Green Green Glow of Home and Just Say Noah

Goofs:

Continuity: Clark burns the heal off Lois's shoe prompting Martha to yell at him, but later when Lois is chasing the rats that Superman is carrying out of the planet, both of her shoes are fine.

Quotes:

Perry White: Superman! You're not gonna take my rats, are ya?

Nuclear Rats Make Lois, Clark,and Jimmy act like children.

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

It's Christmas. Lois seems to hate it, but in reality she just hates the commercialism. Clark, on the other hand, seem giddy about it. However, one ex-toymaker and his secretary develop a scheme to get back at kids, and society, by creating Rat dolls that shoot a chemical that makes kids greedy and adults act like greedy kids. Lois and Clark investigate and discover how to stop it, but it's the toymaker's own real love of children that saves the day in the end.

There were several good parts to this episode. My favorites, though, were when Lois, Clark and Jimmy are all infected and are behaving like greedy children. It is hilarious to see the three of them interact like they were kids. Lois gets scolded by Perry for drawing a hopscotch board on the floor in magic marker, which Jimmy and Clark laugh at. In retaliation, Lois reminds them that she has all the Atomic Space Rats and they have none. Clark shoots back that he could get them if he wanted to. Knowing that he really could made it even funnier. And then there is the candy eating "contest" Jimmy and Clark have, where Clark essentially impersonates a Hoover! In addition, Jimmy and Clark wheel around having desk chair races, and even Perry starts dancing like Elvis and telling his wife he wants to go to Graceland for Christmas.

By far the best part of it, though, is when the Kents get to the Daily Planet from their Metropolis shopping trip. Martha is in Perry's office and looks out between the blinds to see Clark use his heat vision to burn the heel off Lois' shoe. She comes tearing out of the office like any good mother would, uses his full name and scolds the heck out of him. She then grabs his ear and drags him into a private office, with Jonathon following. He tries at first to claim that he didn't do anything, but she uses on of the greatest mother lines of all - "you know exactly what you did!" Something about knowing that Superman had a mother and she knew how to handle him just makes me smile!