Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series) Season's Greedings (1994) User Reviews

Too fun

[sssuperman-dot-com · 8/10 · 3 January 2016]

In many ways, Lois & Clark is a very cheesy show. This episode takes that aspect and runs with it, and I love it for it. It's silliness and fun with just the right dash of heart. Even the somewhat stupider aspects of this episode add to the charm. I definitely recommend it not just for Christmas, but for anytime you feel like something fun and lighthearted.

At first, I thought it was cheating to have Clark not be immune to the Atomic Space Rat's spray, but I quickly got over that, as it made for a more interesting and funny episode (plus, the effect of the spray was somewhat lessened). I completely do not understand why Martha Kent seemed to actually be able to hurt Clark by pulling him by the ear, though. Maybe K Callan actually hurt Dean Cain.

I think they should've verbally referenced Charlie Brown, considering how they seemed to be making an homage to it with Lois' whole Christmas tree deal.

The cliché involving the "mute" orphan was somewhat lamely handled, but everything is easy to forgive in the context of such a silly episode.

Overall, a very fun, cheesy episode I recommend heartily. At first I thought it might not turn out the best, but it turned out to be a joy.

Nuclear Rats Make Lois, Clark,and Jimmy act like children.

[writer93-1 · 10/10 · 20 January 2007]

It's Christmas. Lois seems to hate it, but in reality she just hates the commercialism. Clark, on the other hand, seem giddy about it. However, one ex-toymaker and his secretary develop a scheme to get back at kids, and society, by creating Rat dolls that shoot a chemical that makes kids greedy and adults act like greedy kids. Lois and Clark investigate and discover how to stop it, but it's the toymaker's own real love of children that saves the day in the end.

There were several good parts to this episode. My favorites, though, were when Lois, Clark and Jimmy are all infected and are behaving like greedy children. It is hilarious to see the three of them interact like they were kids. Lois gets scolded by Perry for drawing a hopscotch board on the floor in magic marker, which Jimmy and Clark laugh at. In retaliation, Lois reminds them that she has all the Atomic Space Rats and they have none. Clark shoots back that he could get them if he wanted to. Knowing that he really could made it even funnier. And then there is the candy eating "contest" Jimmy and Clark have, where Clark essentially impersonates a Hoover! In addition, Jimmy and Clark wheel around having desk chair races, and even Perry starts dancing like Elvis and telling his wife he wants to go to Graceland for Christmas.

By far the best part of it, though, is when the Kents get to the Daily Planet from their Metropolis shopping trip. Martha is in Perry's office and looks out between the blinds to see Clark use his heat vision to burn the heel off Lois' shoe. She comes tearing out of the office like any good mother would, uses his full name and scolds the heck out of him. She then grabs his ear and drags him into a private office, with Jonathon following. He tries at first to claim that he didn't do anything, but she uses on of the greatest mother lines of all - "you know exactly what you did!" Something about knowing that Superman had a mother and she knew how to handle him just makes me smile!