Line #26 Recap/SmallvilleS04E03Facade


1	Originally aired October 6, 2004
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3	Written by Creator/HollyHarold
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5	Directed by Creator/PatWilliams
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7	Abby Fine gets a makeover using her mother's Kryptonite-based beauty treatment, but her new attractiveness turns out to have a price. Clark and Jonathan clash when Clark decides to join the football team again. Jason gets a job as Assistant Coach at Smallville High. Lois is forced to attend Smallville High to get the grades she needs to continue college.
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9	!!Tropes present in the episode:
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12	* {{Anticlimax}}: As Clark is suffering from the Kryptonite gas, Dr. Fine picks up a scalpel and starts advancing on Clark and Lois. Lois knocks out with a kick to the head.
13	* AppliedPhlebotinum: Dr. Fine uses Kryptonite as part of her revolutionary beauty treatment.
14	* BlessedWithSuck: Abby's Kryptonite beauty treatment gives her the power to cause any person she kisses to hallucinate themselves as ugly.
15	* ChildhoodFriends: A DeletedScene reveals that Clark knew Abby since grade school.
16	* {{Fanservice}}:
17	** Lois stripped to her underwear by Dr. Fine.
18	** Abby also shows off a lot of skin during her makeout with Brett.
19	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: Abby leaves her ShowerOfLove scene with Brett while covering her chest with her hands and the sports bra she's just picked up from the ground.
20	* HeldBackInSchool: General Lane tells Lois she failed her senior year and will have to attend Smallville get enough credits to graduate.
21	* HeadTurningBeauty: Abby gets this reaction from the boys in school after her beauty treatment.
22	* IntrepidReporter: Lois shows her first steps into becoming one during this episode.
23	* JerkJock: Brett Anderson who used to bully Abby, tries to convince her to have sex and goes back to insulting her when she leaves due to being frightened about the side effects of the powers.
24	* KnockoutGas: Dr. Fine gasses Lois after she notices Lois had been investigating her kryptonite plastic surgery operation.
25	* LettingHerHairDown: When kissing Brett, Abby slides off her ponytail hair band, shakes her hair around then grins happily.
26	* MagicPlasticSurgery: Abby uses her mother's Kryptonite-based cosmetic treatment to make herself beautiful. Unfortunately, it gives her the ability to cause anyone she kisses to hallucinate themselves as ugly.
27	* TheManBehindTheMan: Dr. Fine encourages Abby to use her special kiss to get back at others.
28	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Abby seems to just let her mom push her into helping cover things up out of fear and confusion and quickly gets rattled and races off after getting Lana sick.
29	* {{Mundanger}}: Dr. Elise Fine has no special powers, although her treatment does involve Kryptonite..
30	* PlasticBitch:
31	** The villain, Elise Fine, is a cosmetic surgeon who has had work done herself, having undergone seven surgeries to get what she considered the perfect look. She performed an operation on her daughter to treat her acne using Kryptonite. Elise is shown as callous to her daughter's discomfort and the trauma other people have suffered because of her experiments.
32	** Her daughter Abigail herself is an inversion, being a kind person who is being bullied by others including her mother. It works, making her beautiful. It also causes her to drive anyone insane if she kisses them, due to the use of kryptonite during the surgery. She is portrayed as sympathetic throughout the episode.
33	* RescueReversal: When Clark frees Lois from Dr. Fine machine, it let's out kryptonite gas which weakens him enough for Dr. Fine to knock him out. But the freed Lois fights her off and drags him out of there.
34	* ShowerOfLove: Abigail has a makeout session with her former bully in the gym showers, during which she finds out the side-effects from her treatment. Amusingly, th shower part is accidental when she backs into the control valve as their kissing, but neither seems to mind at first.
35	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Lois wakes up in one after she's knocked out by Dr. Fine.
36	* SweepsWeekLesbianKiss: Abby kisses Lana (in order to infect her with the Kryptonite laced toxin).
37	* TeacherStudentRomance: What Lana and Jason's relationship becomes after he gets hired as an assistant coach at Smallville High.
38	* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Abby when she takes off her shirt during her makeout session with Brett.
39	* VillainOfTheWeek: Dr. Elise Fine. She doesn't ''start'' out doing anything too heinous with her powers but quickly [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope is willing to heurt people to cover up the side effects of what she does and vent out some old resentments.]]
40	* UndressingTheUnconscious: After being gasses by Dr. Fine, Lois awakens to find she's been stripped down to her underwear and is [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapped in Dr. Fine's plastic surgery machine]]. Clark arrives shortly after and frees her from it.
41	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Abigail disappears from the episode after she gives a toxic kiss on Lana and runs away crying. Chloe mentions she will back in school soon, but not if the side effects from her makeover will ever be reversed.

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