History LoisAndClark / TropesSeasonOne

* MirandaWarning: Lex Luthor receives one when arrested. He reacts by ranting about how he can afford several attorneys and get the cops in trouble for arresting him.

* BellyDancer: In "Pheromone, My Lovely", Clark repeatedly turns down Lois' sexual advances (including doing the Dance of the Seven Veils) on the grounds that she's under the influence of a powerful pheromone. Finally, he cracks. By this time, however, Lois has regained her senses.
-->'''Lois:''' Clark! Have you lost your mind?! ''(glances down at self)'' ..Or have I lost mine?

-->'''Clark:''' Elvis never cheated on Priscilla!
-->'''Perry:''' He never met Rehalia!

* XanatosGambit: When their scheme falls through, Lex betrays his associate by shooting him just as he's about to kill Lois ("Requiem For A Superman"). When Superman shows up, Lois instead runs over to Lex, all, "[[Series/{{Angel}} How can I thank you, you mysterious black clad hunk of a night thing?]]" Lex kisses Lois' hand, then turns and makes a crack to Superman about [[BastardlySpeech how lucky it was that]] ''one'' of them got there in time.

* WinHerAPrize: When the title characters were "[[NotADate not on a date]]", Clark did this. Before you think he was being a jerk pretending to be weak, he was suffering the aftereffects of being exposed to kryptonite for the first time.

** More iffy was her attempt to seduce an amnesiac Clark, pretending that they used to be an item.

* ChallengingTheChief: Toni Taylor ejects her brother, leader of the Metro Gang, after he proves too stubborn to adapt to legitimate business. This turns out to have been a tad hypocritical, as Toni was working with Luthor all burn down Metropolis' waterfront properties.

* ContagiousPowers: Superman accidentally swaps his powers with regular people on several occasions, usually as the result of LightningCanDoAnything. In Season 3, red kryptonite has this (unintended) effect on Lois, turning her into Ultrawoman.

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Clark, though he immediately backpedals from it.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Metro Club.
** Jason Trax's original hideout was an old furniture warehouse in Metropolis, where all of his Kryptonian tech was stashed.

* CloningBlues: Superman's clone suffers from a short lifespan, and dies shortly after his HeelFaceTurn. A similar fate befalls [[spoiler: Lois's clone]].

* BareYourMidriff: Lois does this when she shows up at Clark's apartment in "Pheremone, My Lovely", while influenced by a perfume that has caused her to lose all inhibitions.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ElvisImpersonator: Perry in "Pheromone, My Lovely", after getting sprayed with LovePotion, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments serenades his cleaning lady in full Elvis regalia]].

* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard In A Newsroom]]: "Fly Hard." (Yep, it really is that blatant.) With the Planet staff held hostage, Jimmy finally got his chance to be a hero... and is promptly captured. [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome By a near-sighted goon with arthritis.]]

* ThemeTuneCameo: In "I'm Looking Through You", one of the Superman toys plays the theme tune.

* RecycledSet: "Smallville" is pretty obviously a redressed Metropolis set.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: The introduction of the Kents had a gag where Lois expected them to be technologically clueless and behind the times, up until Martha offers to let her use the fax in her office. Today having a fax machine is ''itself'' incredibly behind the times.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Cat Grant. Just Cat Grant. A character who oozes sexuality, can't say two words without an innuendo, dresses like she's ready for a night on the town (or behind closed doors) at all hours of the day, and hurls herself at nearly every man she meets.
** "Pheromone, My Lovely" features Cat locking herself in the copy room with the nerdy repair man, having sex with him, then later breaking the copier again just after he's finished fixing it in order to give him an excuse to screw her again. And she does all this [[spoiler: despite being the only character ''not'' affected by the mood-altering pheromones being sprayed around]]. This might be the first example of an all-ages show that airs at 7 PM actually having moaning sounds being played, removing any doubt that sex is indeed happening.

* GretzkyHasTheBall: While covering a story at a sports gym, Clark tries to impress Lois by listing a string of boxing statistics -- all of which Lois casually shoots down, like she's TheRainman of sports trivia. This is a segue to revealing that Dr. Sam Lane, a renowned figure in sports medicine, is Lois' father ("Requiem for a Superhero").

* TheWallsAreClosingIn: Lois and Det. Reed are tossed into a garbage compactor. There is even a ShoutOut to ''StarWars'', as Lois tries to hold the walls apart with a bar, only for it to instantly break.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: ComicBook/LexLuthor has one of these when he finds out a [[WomanScorned past conquest]] plans on dousing the city with animal pheromones that permanently remove inhibitions, which will reduce the citizenry to less than animals after a fashion. SodomAndGomorrah, he calls it. Naturally, he runs to ''The Planet'' to get Superman.

* OpenHeartDentistry: Lex is shot in the shoulder by one of the armed hostage-takers. Unable to reveal his identity to his co-workers, Clark is forced to cauterize the wound with an "herbal remedy" utilizing [[MacGyvering random crap lying around the office]], such as tea bags, orange juice, and chewing gum.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: ComicBook/LexLuthor has one of these when he finds out an [[WomanScorned ex-girlfriend]] plans on dousing the city with animal pheromones which will throw it into chaos. Naturally he runs to Clark to get Superman.

* BruceWayneHeldHostage: In "Fly Hard," a group of terrorists storm the Daily Planet after hours, taking Lois, Clark, Lex, and Jack (another Daily Planet coworker) hostage. Clark has to figure out how to overpower the terrorists without revealing his secret identity.

'''Jimmy:''' Well, Chief, [[CaptainObvious the first diagram illustrates the amount of rainfall we've been getting this year, and the pie chart]]--

* SueDonym: While working undercover as a bartender, Clark's alias is "Charlie King" (C.K., [[CaptainObvious get it?]]).

* AmnesiaDanger / HowDoIShotWeb: In trying to intercept an asteroid, Superman is slammed back to Earth -- with amnesia. When Clark is wandering around, his parents find him and try to get him to remember he is Superman. Of course, Jonathan Kent can't really explain how he can uses his flying ability ("You just... will it to happen?")

* GoingCritical / InstantCooldown: Luthor's brand-new nuclear plant ("Man of Steel Bars").

* NuclearPhysicsGoof: In "Man of Steel Bars", Superman races to stop Luthor's newly-inaugurated power plant from going online, knowing that it's rigged to melt down. He alerts the authorities to shut it off, but it can't be done. Lex claims that not being able to shut down the reactor once it began its start-up sequence was a '[[FailsafeFailure safety feature]]'.