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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012

There's a sketch comedy in the late 1990s. Might be either Saturday Night Live or Mad TV. One episode had a sketch based on Superman where a comet, or a meteor, or even a meteorite is about to destroy the Earth, but Superman is unavailable, so the Daily Planet is visited by several superheroes who turn out to be useless. At the end, Perry White resignedly says something close to, "I guess we'll have to... say goodbye to Earth," followed by a Spinning Paper revealing a typewriter survived the destruction.