Funny / Superman & Lois

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Season 1

• "Pilot":
  • Young Clark's Oh, Crap! face when he throws his toy spaceship...and accidentally discovers that he has Super-Strength when it blows a hole in the Kent farmhouse.
  • While it doubles as Heartwarming:
    Kid: Cool costume!
    Superman: Thanks! My mom made it for me!
  • Clark tries talking to Jordan and apologize for not being there for his therapy session. When he spots the game on Jordan's screen and notes that Jordan makes a great Superman in-game, his son replies that Superman's boring and that he's Raiden. Clark can only respond with an awkward "Huh. Um..."
    • Which gets even funnier in the following season, as Jordan becomes more and more like his dad. Which comes back around when you learn/remember that the Superman in that game isn't exactly a good guy.
  • Jordan and Jonathan's awkward teen reunion with their Childhood Friend Sarah, and the discovery that She Is All Grown Up.
    Sarah: I didn't think you guys would remember me from...that summer.
    Jordan: Of course we would, yuh— but you changed your...everything.
    [Sarah, somewhat self-consciously, glances down at her breasts]
    Jonathan: What my brother's trying to say it that whatever you're doing is...totally working for you.
    Sarah: Well, we still get puberty in Smallville.
  • Lois tells Clark that he may have super-hearing and super-sight, but she has super-smell. He awkwardly tells her that he does have super smell, he just doesn't use it in a house with two teenage boys.
  • Apparently, the only way to react to suddenly finding Superman stopping himself from falling in front of your car is to awkwardly wave at him. Superman replies with a look that says "Yeah, I know. It's one of those days."
• In "Heritage," Lois tells Jonathan and Jordan to not make trouble at the town meeting. After their mom starts questioning Morgan Edge, the boys clap their hands to their faces.
• Clark realizing he still has paint on his hands during the bridge rescue in "The Perks of Not Being a Wallflower".
  • In the same episode, he makes a huge effort to pretend like the water cooler he's carrying is actually a burden.
  • A bit of cringe comedy when Jonathan, Jordan, and Sarah are in a diner and an agitated Lana comes in to talk to Sarah. Sarah insists on having this highly personal conversation right there, while Jonathan and Jordan sit there looking about as uncomfortable as they can possibly be.
• "The Best Of Smallville": Clark's Endearingly Dorky enthusiasm about the town festival.
  • In general throughout the show, a lot of comedy comes from the fact that, for all that he's the most powerful person on the planet, Clark Kent is also just utterly adorkable.
• "Broken Trust": Lois Lane complains about her "inspector" disguise being just a helmet and jumpsuit. That's right: Lois Lane is complaining about how no one will fall for a Paper-Thin Disguise.
  • The oh-so-helpful advice she receives in turn is to "act inspector-y". In other words, maybe she should try Clark Kenting?
• "Loyal Subjekts": Clark is injured stopping a bank robbery, and Lois walks in on him patching the bruises; what starts out dramatic takes a turn for the humorous as Clark seems almost offended that he actually got moderately hurt from being riddled with bullets.
• "O Mother, Where Art Thou?": Lana gushing on how it feels to be so close to Superman in real life and how Lois must be affected too. Lois can only smile "yeah, it's a little weird."
• "A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events": The flashbacks to Clark's first day with Perry White saying among his jobs will be to "pick up my dry cleaning." Later, we see Clark with several shirts in plastic bags that he tells Lois he has to get to Mr. White, so it appears Perry was serious.
  • During her first on-air interview with Superman, Lois is pressed by a co-worker on "he's so into you." Lois, irritated, announces that she's not interested in Superman because she's in love with Clark and gushes about him. Superman turns away and tries (and fails) to look innocent. Her coworker dryly asks if Superman's powers include "super-hearing." Lois slowly turns as he gives a little wave and eyebrow-waggle, looking very smug. Even better, Lois says that she hasn't told anyone yet, not even Clark, that she's in love with him. Well, Lois, you just kinda. . . did.
• "The Eradicator": Lois and Clark tell Jordan that his choices are having The Talk again, or having Jonathan act as chaperone for his date. Needless to say, he chooses the latter.
  • When General Lane is angry about how the paper called the military an "occupying force," Clark agrees that that might be a bit hyperbolic. Lois shoots him an angry look, and the most powerful man in the world subsides meekly.
  • General Lane shows up at the party to collect the boys. When one kid asks about what's happening in Metropolis, Sam barks if he looks like the kind of person who gives out classified intel to "drunk teenagers."
  • When General Lane busts in demanding where his grandsons are, the teens all awkwardly start trying to hide their booze. Lane doesn't even flinch, though he definitely notices, he just has far bigger concerns than underage drinking (and no jurisdiction over that, anyway).
  • The teens just trying to process what's happening. Yeah, on the one hand, two guys are being dragged out of the party by their angry grandpa, so it should be totally embarrassing. But that grandpa is also a four-star general and DOD bigwig, so the whole thing is kind of awesome. Some of them are looking mighty impressed, like they're thinking "Damn, the Kent boys even get busted in style!"

Season 2

• "What Lies Beneath":
  • Clark tells Jonathan to be patient with his coach, to which Jonathan responds irritably. Then his girlfriend takes his hand and gives him pretty much the exact same advice, and he concedes. Clark can be seen throwing his hands in the air in exasperation.
  • Lois walking in on Jonathan making out, followed by her calling Clark to her. He flies immediately to the house, no doubt suspecting something terrible's happened...only to find that the reason is that she's angry at her son for said make-out session.
  • Clark gives his sons a gentle and earnest talk about sex, reminding them that it's a very adult thing and not to rush into it. He promises them that their parents will always be there to talk with. When Jonathan eagerly asks if this means Lois won't also be having The Talk with them, Clark tells them that no, she'll be having more than a few words as well. Cue Oh, Crap! looks from both boys.
  • When asked how old he was when he lost his virginity, Clark hedges and just says "Older than both of you". Jon looks at Jordan and mouths "Mom", causing Jordan to snort-laugh. Even funnier because Clark doesn't seem like the kind of guy to fool around in high school, so this probably is true!
• "The Ties That Bind":
  • Clark telling Natalie that she'll get used to the roosters. Cue both of his sons telling her in unison that no, she won't, which prompts Clark to give them a "Really?" expression.
  • Upon arriving at Tal's fortress, Jordan comments he likes his dad's fortress better, to which Tal replies it's a matter of personal taste.
    • Superman also looks like he wants to say something to his son about his remark, but decides he's got more important things to deal with.
  • While relating his fight with Tal-Rho to Jonathan, Jordan refers to Tal as "Uncle Jerkface."
• "The Inverse Method":
  • Clark chides Jordan for using his super-hearing to eavesdrop on Lois... but then asks what Lois is listening to.
  • Sam tells Jordan that hacking and scrambling a video is easier than Candy Crush. Also, that he did it from his phone. On a golf course.
• "Girl...You'll Be A Woman Soon":
  • How did Chrissy resist the brainwashing of Ally? Because all the acid she did in college prepped her for a mind-warping trip.
• "30 Days and 30 Nights":
  • Sam makes the mistake of snooping on an X-K processing facility with his daughter, Lois Lane! Needless to say they are quickly caught and tied to crates inside the building. Sam tries to get free of the ropes but Lois tells him not to bother, giving a somewhat pedantic lecture on knots. This causes Sam to incredulously ask:
    Sam: How many times you been tied up?
    Lois: Better you don't know.
• "Truth And Consequences": The fact that Lana spends much of the episode in close proximity to Superman, even standing next to him in broad daylight...and still doesn't put him together with her ex-boyfriend and childhood friend until Clark explicitly spells it out.
• "Lies That Bind":
  • Just the sight of Tal-Rho, in his usual evil all-black ensemble, meekly standing in the Kents' living room holding a bouquet of pink flowers as an apology gift to Lois.
  • When he offers an apology, Lois asks if it's for trying to take over the world, attempting to brainwash her son and husband, or that time he rewrote her article about him for the Daily Planet.
    Tal-Rho: [to Clark] I told you she'd bring that up.
• "All Is Lost":
  • Clark offers to show Jordan his favorite flight path, which he's nicknamed "The Kessel Run." Jordan reveals that he has no idea what that means, and Clark facepalms.
    • The idea of the most powerful man on the planet enjoying Star Wars is pretty funny too.
    • His cousin had established her Star Wars cred on her own show in the Season 3 finale, "Battles Lost and Won." While working an emergency at the National City waterfront, Supergirl humorously quotes verbatim from the end of the Death Star battle. Brainy doesn't get it, causing a shocked Supergirl to ask, "We never showed you Star Wars? Not a single Star Wars??"
    • Jordan tells his father Sam has been using feed bags in his training. Clark dismisses his father-in-law as an "Amateur!"
  • Later, Clark and Jordan fly back to the farm. Clark lands easily...Jordan face-plants into the dirt.
    • Jordan's inexperience while flying becomes a bit of a running gag. Later on, he'll have a couple of majestic moments in this season when he flies through the air... but can't manage to land, requiring his dad to catch him both times. In the following season, he'll attempt to pull off a classic three-point landing with the accompanying music, only to stumble into the ground. In the same episode, he complains that he swallowed a bug in mid-flight.
  • Sam handcuffs himself to Lucy, telling her that the key isn't there. As it turns out, there is no key—it's fingerprint sensitive.

Season 3

• "Closer":
  • Flying together over the ocean, Jordan teases his dad about being an old man. Said "old man" then speeds up and sends Jordan tumbling head over heels in his wake, leaving him soaking wet.
  • Clark (who has the super-senses which can hear disasters happening on the other side of the planet) is so distracted he doesn't notice John Henry walking up right next to him.
• "Uncontrollable Forces":
  • After the argument with the jerk party host, Jordan and the others are ordered to leave the party. Jordan flies back and utilizes freeze-breath to cover every square inch of the party host's new car, which was a birthday present, in ice. Rejoining the group, Jordan shows them a cell phone video of the frozen car sliding down the driveway as partygoers watch.
  • Said jerk had demanded that Jordan get him some beer, even calling him his "beer bitch." Sarah responds by throwing a cup of beer into his face and all over his shirt.
  Sarah: Here's your beer. Bitch.
• The fact that the season ends on a cliffhangar is kinda funny on itself. It really feels like the writers just decided to troll the audience.

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