History Recap / SmallvilleS01E07Craving

* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Since Jodi needs to be able to drain fat from large animals and full-sized humans, the Kryptonite shakes give her the ability to unhinge her jaw and widen her mouth to impossible levels (like a lamprey eel or snake) to ingest them whole.

* BigEater: After the Kryptonite shakes start to work, Jodi starts to devour anything she could find in her kitchen. By the time she is done eating, the kitchen is a mess. Later, when talking to her dad through her bathroom door, her bathroom is littered with junk food wrappers and a large empty pizza box. Clark and Chloe immediately notice her ravishing eating habits at the school cafeteria.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Jodi's attempts to lose weight through kryptonite shakes works out well in her favor. A little too well as she soon discovered.

* RageAgainstTheReflection: After going on a binge in the kitchen and realizing what those weight loss shakes made from Kryptonite has done to her, Jodi stares angrily at her blender and throws it at the wall. Smashing one of the decorative plates on the kitchen wall in the process.

* WeightLossHorror: Bullied, overweight teen Jodi takes Kryptonite shakes in order to lose weight. The pounds melt off and she starts to get positive attention from her classmates. She is overjoyed until she realizes the weight loss will not stop. She eats everything in sight trying to keep weight on. When regular food no longer works, she moves to freshly killed raw meat and then to sucking all the fat and marrow out of other humans, the only thing that seems to sate the hunger. Unfortunately, it also kills them.

* AssholeVictim: Dustin, who bullied Jodi early in the episode, gets his fat sucked by his former victim.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jodi says this when she almost kills Clark and realizes what her kryptonite diet has done to her.

%%* RageAgainstTheReflection: After going on a binge in the kitchen and realizing what those weight loss shakes made from Kryptonite has done to her, Jodi stares angrily at the blender and throws it at the wall, smashing one of the decorative plates on the kitchen wall in the process.

Written by Michael Green

Directed Phillip Sgriccia

* HeelRealization: Jodi has one when she's about to kill Clark and she seesher reflection on the broken glass.

%%* RageAgainstTheReflection

Jodi Melville, a friend of Pete's, drinks health shakes made with Kryptonite-irradiated vegetables and becomes thin as a result, but also begins craving the body fat of others. Lex becomes intrigued by Chloe's theory about the meteor rocks in Smallville, and pays a visit to Dr. Steven Hamilton, a reclusive mineralogist.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: The vegetables that Jodi uses to make health shakes are laced with Kryptonite; this causes Jodi to lose weight but to also start craving the fat of others.
* AssholeVictim: Dustin, who taunted Jodi early in the episode, gets his fat sucked by his former victim.

Jodi Melville, a friend of Pete's, drinks health shakes made with Kryptonite-irradiated vegetables and becomes thin as a result, but she also begins craving the body fat of others. Lex becomes intrigued by Chloe's theory about the meteor rocks in Smallville, and pays a visit to Dr. Steven Hamilton, a reclusive mineralogist.

* VillainOfTheWeek: Jodi Melville

* AntiVillain: Jodi

* ChubbyChaser: Dustin mocks Pete for sticking up for Jodi.

Jodi Melville drinks health shakes made with Kryptonite-irradiated vegetables and becomes thin as a result, but she also begins craving the body fat of others.

Jodi Melville drinks health shakes made with kryptonite-irradiated vegetables and becomes thin as a result, but she also begins craving the body fat of others.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/AmyAdams, who plays Jodi, would be cast as Lois Lane in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' about eleven years after this episode aired.

Jodi Melville drinks a health shake made from kryptonite-irradiated vegetables and becomes thin as a result, but she also begins craving the body fat of others.