That Episode of Smallville That Was a Giant Gum Commercial (Manic Episodes)

Hey, remember that time Smallville dedicated an entire episode to OneRepublic and Stride Gum? We sure tried to forget!
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[@wstine79]

Lois: "What's the 'S' stand for?" Superman: "On my planet, it stands for Spearmint gum. A great gum with many flavors and last a long time." Lois: "Here, it's just a product placement."

[@DonaldRilea]

Lois: "OK, Supes! What does the "S" REALLY stand for?!" Superman(hesitates at first) "Well, it's really something in Kryptonian so foul, so obscene, that I dare not even say it!!!" Lois: "Kinky!!!"

[@weirdotzero7065]

You know. That doesn't sound too out of place from the product placement that's already in Man of Steel.

[@nephatrine]

Wouldn't it stand for Stride gum? Spearmint is just a single flavor of gum not specific to any brand. It doesn't make a lot of sense to say you've got a spearmint gum that has many flavors.

[@wstine79]

@@nephatrine I meant to say Stride. I was gonna fix it, but I didn't want to loose the Allison like.

[@drakkenmensch]

Millhouse: "WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO LEAVE THE STRIDE GUM FACTORY?!?"

[@sniperwolf50]

Pete seemed remarkably ok after being assaulted and tortured. You could even say he took it in stride.

[@segara04]

Well played, clerks.

[@unclegumbald989]

Booooooo! Hissssssss!! =P

[@Spookybluelights]

God dammit. Take your like and leave.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

He'd bitten off more than he could chew.

[@sniperwolf50]

@@pentelegomenon1175 He had lots of gumption, though

[@MsTokyoBlue]

"If nothing else I can at least learn The Flash's secret identity! I have no idea who this is..."

[@LaNoLaCola]

“You gonna wash your hands?” “No... ‘cause I’m evil.”

[@edisonlima4647]

One of my favorite lines in anything DC ever! Lol

[@MsTokyoBlue]

@Knock Out and then he voiced Red Death and elevated things to another level yet beyond that

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

It is hilarious that he voiced both the Flash and Lex in different shows.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

@@LaNoLaCola Best line of JLU :)

[@vulturesareunderrated]

No joke there’s an Ao3 tag that’s just called “Clark tells the truth” which is objectively hilarious

[@keigoftw]

Its a good tag. The tag of fridge logic & healthy communication.

[@keigoftw]

Yeah, that one is right up there with the under-rated and slightly more rare tag: Arrowverse characters respect each others personal boundaries (especially in regards to secrets), unless they sincerely believe the other is in imminent danger.

[@HiperPivociarz]

​@@keigoftw Is there an Arrow tag for "Oliver actually learns from his mistakes"?

[@keigoftw]

@@HiperPivociarz No but in looking I found out "Gaang learns how Zuko got his scar" is a legit tag, and I love this new knowledge so much. Peggy sues (time travel fics) are always good for character corrects mistakes with what they have learned, which is pretty close. As for Arrow, jesus christ thank god for fanfiction. cause in canon the cast just takes turns being too much a hot mess to tolerate half the time. Let us remember the good times, and bury the shipping hatchet *in the ground* (not each other).

[@Cdr2002]

@@keigoftw I like fanfics because they can give me the Kara-Lena relationship the CW queerbaited us with for several years

[@ecmelton8633]

The only thing I really remember about Smallville is Lex's dad having really nice long hair, apparently to evilly mock his bald son.

[@eamonndeane587]

Just because you have a Baldy son doesn't mean you can't have a mane of hair That's FABULOUS!!!

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Explains why Lex hated him so much. Guess for all his genius he never heard of wigs.

[@SpideyRules-pq6be]

@@SwiftNimblefoot The Gene Hackman version did.

[@girl6girl6]

I thought Lex’s dad was so freaking hot. I was like, “I’d hit that, yeah, I’d hit it 6ways from Sunday...but um, shhhhhh...”. But I have always had a thing for hot older men.

[@BM-wh5qk]

That was the reason, yes.

[@thewraithwriter22]

I really want Alison and Phelan to do a Smallville Rewind now

[@DaMaddness]

I'd watch it

[@DarkExcalibur42]

@@DaMaddness Same. Ohgod...

[@Rivenstoneify]

so what is the patreon goal for that. I would be in.

[@michaellangwaller]

You have my vote.

[@lnfreeman]

All these cw shows I had the good fortune to miss because I was an overly busy middle/highschooler at the time. So blessed to experience them now via Allison's joy and Phelan's abject disgust.

[@Wuvlycuddles]

being from the UK where we don't have Stride gum, I legitimately thought it was an obnoxious fake product because there was no way they'd be that shameless in plugging a real product.

[@kaitlyn__L]

The Simpsons had a similar effect too, with various jingles that didn’t exist here

[@1000huzzahs]

Ah yes, the WB. Where, if you went by the teaser image, "shirtless" was considered a character trait.

[@eamonndeane587]

So basically a Proto-Arrow?

[@yun-hn5cx]

like nowadays people don’t consider pretty as a character trait. we descend from a long line of heurny teenagers leave us be lmao

[@TalysAlankil]

that's still the CW now, have you seen riverdale

[@chavesa5]

This was a welcome surprise, like finding One Republic in the Stride Gum Factory

[@odolowa1]

I saw Michael Rosenbaum and one of the show’s writers on a panel once and they specifically stopped to make fun of this episode.

[@bellboy64]

That's some self-awareness I never knew was possible for the writers of Smallville...

[@vjsmyth]

"Hi, I'm Lionel Luthor. I was in Smallville the day of the meteor shower looking for extraterrestial visitors as the cult I was in predicted would show up, but as a plotting CEO of a multibillion dollar company with several illegal projects I never figured out the link between that and when the Kents showed up that same day to ask me to provide them with documents for someone with no record of their existance. In my defence, I didn't have psychic powers at the time! Those of course came in later seasons." In all seriousness though, Glover was awesome in the role and did his best to sell the absolute garbage scripts he was given. Rosebaum and Glover were the two best things in the show and had great chemistry together.

[@CarmenCards]

I unironically would pay to see you do a seasonal breakdown of Smallville the way you did charmed

[@zxcbyyyy]

omg that would be amazing!

[@ikhidealigbeh514]

Hell yeah! Put it on Patreon

[@ToHoldNothing]

217 episodes versus Charmed's 178, not counting the reboot, which has about 41 at the moment

[@caesarorzell600]

YESSSS

[@tonymarshall3978]

same. I never watched Smallville but 100% remember all 10 years of ads for it on E4

[@BlackScarabFilmZ]

I think Smallville has the most accurate theme song of any superhero show I've ever seen. "Save me" is all I've ever thought while watching it.

[@DarkExcalibur42]

"These actors are not their characters. There are plenty of reasons to hate them within the show!" XD Awesome. Thank you

[@konstance13]

10:30 One of the most hilarious lines from the Justice League cartoon in which Michael Rosenbaum voices Flash on the ep where he's possessed by Lex Luthor, dubbed over live action Michael Rosenbaum playing Lex Luthor??? Holy shit, Alison, that might on the most multi-level jokes you've ever done and I love it. 👏👏👏

[@markuscriticus8278]

Wanna hear the most Smallville thing ever? There was an April Fool's article around the last season, where the joke was Smallville was gonna introduce Krypto the Superdog. Ignoring that the show already did that years ago-as a temporarily empowered golden retriever called Shellby, that Clark at one point suggest naming "Krypto", because of his "cryptic" origins. Impossible to even make fun of this show.

[@creed8712]

There apparently was a Kent family dog named Shelby in the comics

[@poposterous236]

Everything in Smallville is so forgettable I wouldn't blame anyone for not remembering every little detail like some nerd.

[@creed8712]

@@poposterous236 i would rather take forgettable than having “it will, when it fits a woman” imprinted in the brain whenever people bring up a certain shitty show

[@keigoftw]

Impossible because in the desperate attempt to fill the showtime for ten seasons they went through everything even remotely related to superman they could. It got so bad that because they didn't have the rights to Batman, they made a pass at getting the Green Arrow taken seriously. We owe much to their desperation, we owe them shows that are honestly better when they lean on the super hero and not the soap opera. Because who doesn't love Ollies lone wolf trust issues fricking things up *again*, or Barry's daily pep talks, or Legends making historians WEEP, am I right? We need more emotionally healthy super heroes, or at least ones that learn a lesson after the hundredth time.

[@markuscriticus8278]

@@keigoftw The weird thing is, there IS actually a shit load of material for Clark's early days from comics, like hundreds of Superboy and Legion of Superheroes (where he was a supporting character) alone and for the most part the show just... Never touched them (until it started to get desperate). The fact that Supergirl in this universe debuted in this universe him becaue Clark was just THAT much of a jack-off with becoming Superman is hilarious.

[@SmartSmears]

"What's Clark doing, lying? That's new." Was absolutely hilarious, hope you do more Smallville in the future

[@cameronstone4495]

They missed a perfect opportunity by not picked up that Aquaman pilot, by this logic it could have easily fit a promotion for Trident Gum!

[@yun-hn5cx]

the national gum of atlantis

[@GamesFromSpace]

It's ocean fresh! A tsunami of flavor! A salty explosion in your mouth! wait....

[@tke8981]

Yes! Yes! Yes! This show is right up there with Charmed in terms of “oh my god why the hell is this show still on.” Please make this a regular thing!

[@LaNoLaCola]

Imagine someone defending Smallville like that one person who defended supernatural in that one itunes review of charmed hard with a vengeance

[@Mellino438]

You should see the comment sections of Rosenbaum and Welling’s new podcast “TalkVille” then

[@danielmcconkey478]

Pete's clothes also have gum enhanced stretching powers

[@cameronstone4495]

eh, I we start nitpicking the effects superpower should have on clothes that would be opening up a huge can of worms and not just in this show. Clark should probably be going through new pair of shoes every week.

[@sanityisrelative]

@@cameronstone4495 I vaguely remember some official handwavy explanation for why Clark's clothes aren't damaged as often as they should be. Something about him having an impervious aura that extends like a couple millimeters above his skin. So as long as he's wearing something skin-tight then it's fine. Like how Animorphs can morph skin tight clothes I guess.

[@cameronstone4495]

@@sanityisrelative What like tactile telekinesis?

[@sanityisrelative]

@@cameronstone4495 according to the first result I get from googling "superman clothes aura" it's a bio-electric aura I guess. I have the vaguest memory of learning this from an episode of Lois and Clark.

[@Scipio488]

@@sanityisrelative It was an innovation of John Byrne's during his reboot of Superman. JB loves explaining how powers work.

[@HiperPivociarz]

To be fair, every CW show I've watched has characters being massive hipocrites and idiots, and I have no idea why.

[@Zxzero36]

I'm on a supernatural binge and yeah it's surprising how similar each brother went and got trapped in hell and then have this long argument about why didn't they try to help each other.

[@HiperPivociarz]

@@Zxzero36 I think it just stems from the fact they write the scripts as they go along, and probably don't have a lot of time to write them, so a lot of the time, the characters have to act in favor of the plot, instead of acting like a real person would, and then the writers have to think of some contrived reason for the character to be doing what they doing.

[@lnfreeman]

@@HiperPivociarz this, and ever since they got Joss Whedon to do two extra seasons of Buffy after he wanted to end the story, it seems the CW formula is to monster-of-the-week into Infinity and hold actors in contract for decades. At a certain point, like after 5 seasons or there about, you just have to completely arrest character and plot development to continue a series

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

It's why I stopped watching them. But yeah, Smallville was like the mold they used to make all those new shows...

[@sanityisrelative]

@@Zxzero36 I was genuinely surprised when I got to season 11 and they actually like talk to each other like functional adults and it's not just man-angst for the sake of it.

[@Tareltonlives]

Smallville: the other charmed.

[@HenshinHeroesMedia]

I'm sure smallville was better than charmed. At least final love interests were great.

[@Tareltonlives]

I hope you do the Aquaman pilot someday. Maybe as a crossover with Lewis? Wait, Sex cult? WHAT? Stride vs A&W: DAWN OF JUSTICE Oh my god, Lex lives in Wood Panel Castle! This plot makes less sense every minute. And this is pretty typical for the show.

[@qstionblomens6138]

I’d call it “The Original Supernatural” myself

[@mattmclaren3067]

*Supernatural kicks the ground sadly*

[@tonyjackson1636]

On the bright side Tom Welling got to actually be in a good show for a season on Lucifer. He played Cain, the brother of Abel, from the Bible. I believe he killed his brother over an argument over the Seriously Spearmint and Mango Mouth Blast flavors of Stride gum.

[@EpicBeard815]

Pete Ross died on his way to the Stride Gum Factory

[@eamonndeane587]

His Home Planet needed him.

[@TheSomewareMan]

Um... So the gum makes his clothes stretch, too...

[@uthertheking]

Just like in the dance scene from the Fantastic Four sequel.

[@andrewollmann304]

I mostly know Tom Welling as “The second oldest son in Cheaper By the Dozen” and Kristen Kruek as “the protagonist in the Hallmark Snow White movie.”

[@RadioofHorror]

Michael Rosenbaums Podcast is one of the best on the net

[@starsINSPACE]

...I am the person that actually unironically read the online smallville comic brought to you by stride gum on top of watching this episode

[@Mr.Nyongo]

Holy shit. That is the absolute BEST description of the entire series.

[@laragallahue7127]

Smallvillie is my charmed went on too long and the characters became unlikable, the plot went on too long but I still love and enjoy it despite it flaws

[@queenb7013]

To be fair, the writers strike was happening during this season that would explain how awful it is haha

[@marchingham]

I remember this episode sooooo well. Smallville's product placement was epic. Between ipods and old spice I can't believe they had room for a show in between.

[@eamonndeane587]

For all the flaws with the show, Erica Durance is my Favourite Live Action Lois Lane and John Glover was always great as Lionel Luthor.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

John Glover is always great, period.

[@dkamphaus43]

John Glover was too good for this show.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Its a shame that this episode did not use this song Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride

[@1000huzzahs]

An excellent song!

[@jacksampsonforever]

hell yes!!

[@futureravenable]

I thought it did. Huh, last night I had the strangest dream...

[@apieceofbitsandpieces342]

Smallville: A show that didn’t know the meaning of “Quit while your ahead.”

[@MrParkerman6]

They were never ahead.

[@queenb7013]

I noticed in the episode there was a plot hole where Pete reached inside his pocket to chew on the kryptonite gum and Clark was around him and wasn’t effected by it for some odd reason lol

[@AllisonPregler]

ha true

[@TimTE01]

@@AllisonPregler Stride Gum is so strong that loops back around to not effecting Clark.

[@KratosNotKratos]

Remember that episode where there was a necklace in the wall of Chloe's bathroom and only after punching through the wall did Clark start feeling the effects despite the fact he xrayed the wall which means that he should've felt it since the wall wasn't led. Or the pilot episode where Whitney wears Lana's necklace but only after tearing open his shirt does Clark feel it. It's so inconsistent.

[@manticorephoenix]

My favorite bit about this series is Chloe treats those infected with Kryptonite like she's Senator Kelly at a godamn Friends of Humanity Lynch Rally, even after discovering Clark's powers, but when she discovers she herself is Kryptonite infected there is not a single ounce of self awareness or irony on display, almost as if they gave her the powers just because they had no other idea of explaining her sudden turnaround from hating these people to only wanting them ALL locked up in camps

[@PhilJoeO]

I love how I watched all of Smallville and can remember next to nothing about it.

[@VicenteTorresAliasVits]

Allison: "I don't want people focusing too much on the actors' real-life controversies since they're not the same people as their characters, so I'll address it at the beginning." Also Allison: "I'm going to make a joke about their controversies halfway through the video."

[@segara04]

Something about the delivery of "Hey guys are we having an a**hole meeting?" just gets me.

[@BigPhatMan]

Are you going to do the Acuvue (contact lenses) episode? I remember Chloe literally saying, "Acuvue to the rescue."

[@AE-lw1ug]

Omggggg

[@edisonlima4647]

Whaaaaaat???

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Clark wears a red jacket over a blue t-shirt and blue pants. Because did you know he'll be Superman one day? Did you? DID YOU? *SUBTLETY!*

[@thomaspalazzolo5902]

They had car-wrecks as a plot point in Smallville so often on the same road we joked that the road was empowered by kryptonite and would become the final villain. Then another friend pointed out there IS INDEED A LIVING ROAD in the DC universe, called "Danny the Street." Also Danny is a friendly drag queen. Who is a street. Seriously.

[@Omnicrom]

Danny later became an entire universe. Danny had a great run.

[@tonoornottono]

big fan of danny the street

[@MrRobot1984]

Oh God this was the episode of smallville that broke my brain. I made myself watch all of smallville when it aired, as a comic fan hoping it would get better, but not realizing the cw-ness was the main plot all along. This episode managed to drag in a a character that had long since left the show only to give him stretchy powers based on the way powers worked back in season 1. All because some one left krytonite next to a pallet of stride gum in an abandon factory. Also I live in Kansas we don’t have abandon stride gum factories.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Fun fact, the guy playing Jimmy in this is the identical twin of the guy who played Iceman. I only know this because it came up with his recent appearance on The Boys. Most people think they are just one actor, lol

[@strawhatcrewgirl]

THAT explains why IMDBing this guy who looks so familiar pulled up nothing I'd ever seen before. Thanks!

[@JICheshired]

Ambience 3 hours of Gum Manufacturing while One Republic plays softly in the other room.

[@v.m.9198]

Smallville? Only 90s kids remember the adventures of lois and clarke

[@Thecuriousincident1]

When Pete yelled out "Yeaaaah Remy Zero" that was the exact moment I turned off the show and gave up on it completely. So I'm glad I wasn't the only person who hated that.

[@paulettesavard1998]

Wait your telling me that this show just had Kryptonite just casually hanging around smallville? do the writers of this show know that Kryptonite is radioactive right. Lex Luthor first plot and then subplot in justice league - unlimited was him getting cancer for the small piece of Kryptonite he had been carried around for a little under a decade. this Pete guy just ate a piece of gum that was radioactive. How is everyone in smallville still alive and or incredibly sick

[@rocketdave719]

Kryptonite gave Lex cancer in the comics as well, but in the decades prior to that, it was only thought to be harmful to Kryptonians. The stuff clearly works differently on this show.

[@SiRenfield]

Now it’s radioactive. That can’t be good!

[@Mike0908]

It gave people super powers. It was like smallville's version of Inhumans in a way. get infested with alien stuff and gain powers. some went evil, some went evil and crazy... only a handful actually remained alive by the end of the show. some locked away in places lik belle reave and others ran off.

[@rocketdave719]

​@@Mike0908 I will say that it was a pretty nifty plot device for giving Clark adversaries to fight against, even though stuff like Kryptonite-infused Stride gum was beyond ridiculous. Interestingly, the way Kryptonite is depicted on Smallville is not dissimilar to an unpublished script Jerry Siegel wrote called "The K-Metal from Krypton," three years before Kryptonite was actually introduced on the Superman radio show.

[@ToHoldNothing]

It's usually a freak accident or exposure in some way that would probably be less dangerous, though yeah, realistically, if you asked someone with expertise in radioactive exposure and negative side effects, many of them would be questionable in whether someone wouldn't already have lymphoma or such

[@kgjames3603]

Holy crap, I forgot most of the stuff they did with Lionel, I think that recap gave me a nosebleed! Also, if you ever do Smallville Rewind... Please start with the Amy Adams episode where they put her in a fat suit and she eats a deer!

[@clearmountain28]

My favorite advertisement in an episode was when Eureka had a whole episode where they created a small sun that was melting the town just so they could sell degree antiperspirant.

[@BronzeBoy520]

Finally, I’ve been waiting for you to tear this show apart since you started mocking it. Maybe a new SmallHard with a Vengance?

[@cameronbaggs6570]

God, I actually remember this episode being advertised as it was coming out. Stride commercials seemed to be everywhere back then... do they even exist now?

[@MoonShadowWolfe]

If you have more Smallville episodes in you, I would watch them, but you got a heck of a lot in there. I'd kind of forgotten how crazy/crazy bad this show got.

[@CalvinChikelue]

YO HO HO HE TOOK A BITE OF GUM GUM!

[@jaredsamples6969]

Now Pete shall go find the One Piece!

[@mastermarkus5307]

YES! THANK YOU! I was seriously debating making that reference myself, but 4Kids One Piece is a double-edged sword of "personal fan suffering" and "so bad it's hilarious".

[@jaredsamples6969]

@@mastermarkus5307 at least with 4Kids, they were introducing viewers to anime without pissing off parents with the content of guns, violence

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@jaredsamples6969 Eeeeh, I'm going to say no on this one because 4Kids dumbed down One Piece like it was for 6 year olds when the target audience is at least around 12, and ultimately made a lot of people in North America (including the original pre-teen to teen target audience) think One Piece was bad because it was "like a little kid's show" when really they were missing out on a series that was originally written a lot better. Anime for, or at least more appropriate for, small children and without guns already exists; changing a series into something it wasn't was not the way to go. 4Kids just dug themselves into a hole because all they really knew about One Piece when buying the licensing rights was 1. It was really popular and 2. It had a cartoony art style (so it must be goofy and for children, right?).

[@yun-hn5cx]

did you just call me a hoe !?

[@mrhypnagogia]

Allison was on fire on this one i laughed my ass off the whole way trough. Lol it was great 10/10

[@42vonbyrd]

Oh boy, I've been waiting for this for a loooooong time now! I needed somebody to dunk on Smallville and Allison always provides me the Good Food!

[@Zomdra]

Wow, your Chloe voice genuinely scares me a little bit. Love it.

[@Magmaster13]

The idea of gum giving stretching powers is a silver age thing its the Elongated Man's origin and Pete Ross did have those powers briefly

[@henrygvidonas9573]

"You are what you eat" after all.

[@emilsoderman3691]

Smallville is one of the few TV-shows I saw most of as it was airing. Interesting experience.

[@thegirlleastlikelyto]

Smallville is my guilty pleasure show, and I usually defend it... but yeah this episode was pretty dumb.

[@TimTE01]

Fun Fact: I bought Smallville Season 10 on DVD from Goodwill to relive it. That was the same week as the Nxium Scandal happened. Whoops.

[@MforMovesets]

"Let's pretend factory concerts exist" I don't need to. I've been to some.

[@belseygell9258]

I cannot wait to see which eventual new Baywatching regular gets Chloe’s voice from this video. Every time, I laugh so hard I cry.

[@qlipothian]

Why would his clothes also stretch ?

[@AllisonPregler]

stride power!

[@qlipothian]

@@AllisonPregler ah yes the greatest power of all.

[@ZedrikVonKatmahl]

Superhero physics

[@jamstonjulian6947]

Human clothes and superhero powers rarely make sense

[@jpittmon1363]

The Stride molecules got embedded into the clothing.

[@rodrolliv]

Hey, you got Kryptonite-enhanced gum, where you purchase that?

[@BurtAllmans]

god i just had sudden flashbacks to when Eureka had an episode where Degree deodorant was the solution to the problem of the week. lmao television is Art.

[@konstance13]

Oh man, I used to love Eureka. I totally forgot about that episode.

[@NucularRobit]

Ever see the movie "Evolution"? Head & Shoulders shampoo was the aliens' weakness.

[@Khenfu_Cake]

​@@NucularRobit At least in Evolution they did make a joke out of the obvious product placement.

[@mikekz4489]

I can see Chloe asking someone if they want some Stride gum. She has the pack in her hand, clearly seen by the audience. The weird little things you can remember. I also remember when she made the point to say she was driving a Toyota Yaris.

[@edsbigsister]

One episode dedicated to Stride gum is hardly shocking for TV. The later seasons of Chuck were basically long Subway commercials - but both shows are excellent. They got to make that money somehow. lol

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Still waiting for the crossover we deserve - Batboy v Stride Gum Man.

[@mattisalmela1734]

Holy crap, I feel like this is one of your best videos I've seen. Absolutely hilarious. I would love to see more Smallville reviews. Also this episode was even worse than I remembered. No wonder I always skipped it when rewatching.

[@AllisonPregler]

thank you!

[@somebodystopme3822]

Ah yes, the only episode of Smallville I ever properly watched and for some reason it stuck with me for all these years. No idea how THIS seared itself into my brain so much that it remained so clearly in my mind for 14 years.

[@davidrobinson17]

I loved Smallville, its pretty hard to rewatch!!

[@emperorsean1]

Oh, Smallville. Do more Smallville reviews this made me laugh. You should do it with Phelan as I think he was a fan of the show.

[@lotus-prince]

It appears that Stride is responsible for gumming up the works.

[@mattleuty5285]

Whenever a guy gets stretching or is enlarged in any super hero media, unless there's a scene where they check out their pants, I find that it is so inconceivable that I totally switch off!! Allison please let me tell you that absolutely no one does this kind of thing as great as you do. Your just so witty and on the mark that it's an absolute blast watching you. Oh and the whole Stride thing was Smallvilles answer to The Viper Room me thinks!! All the best my friend.

[@AllisonPregler]

Thanks so much!!

[@mastermarkus5307]

Like... suddenly stretching or enlarged? How often do you see that!?

[@DanPiperWillow]

"Hey guys, are we having an asshole meeting?" :DD Your Chloe voice is smth else, let me tell you, hahah!

[@kimifw58]

Clark keeping his identity secret from his friends for no real reason is also something that went on far too long in the Silver Age comics.

[@sanityisrelative]

The thing about that that really bothered me at the time was less him having a secret and more them being such assholes that he would *dare* keep anything from him because apparently in Kansas no one is allowed to have any secrets about anything ever. Keeping anything private is morally the same as murdering someone with the frozen corpse of a puppy apparently.

[@rpgaholic8202]

@@sanityisrelative As someone who lives in literal Smallville, Kansas (we rename the town one day a year and hold a Comic-Con, and the person who started the petition was pointing out how similar TV's Smallville was similar to our town) yes, having secrets in Kansas is akin to murdering someone with the frozen corpse of a puppy.

[@queenb7013]

How does lex not have any bruises on his face after being flipped on his front by Clark haha

[@badtownsound]

"We got to second base by some Kraft macaroni!!"

[@BM-wh5qk]

Thank God Clark finally graduated Smallville High! Their mortality rate was approaching Sunnydale's by his Senior year.

[@Croakamancer]

So, I put this on to listen to when starting my washing up after dinner. "So the band OneRepublic is having a concert in a Stride gum factory" got me laughing so hard I got frecking soaked. And it's just stating the facts! Had to stop the episode and have come back to it now.

[@Croakamancer]

OH GOD! I... I can't stop laughing, and I'm almost on the floor now. This show is so stupid! It's hilarious!

[@bootsthecat6718]

I had a friend from my old job that watched the show for over a year without realizing it was about Superman

[@cdawgleelee9572]

The first five seasons of Smallville were (mostly) pretty good, and held to its promise of young Clark Kent growing into the hero we know and love. Then they completely lost momentum and became 'The Green Arrow Show" and anything but Clark's journey. Seasons Nine and Ten were okay as some kind of alternate universe, not really Superman Superman show. And while it took a while for them to find it, I think that Tom Welling and Erica Durance had the best Clark/Lois chemistry to date by the end. It's too bad they couldn't be included in the big "Crisis on Infinite Earths" tv crossover (PLEASE! I need to believe that!)

[@yun-hn5cx]

Black Ninja we found it, we found the fan Allison !

[@jeremiahalexander5513]

You made my day with this Allison. Please do more Smallville reviews. This had me rolling! 😂😂😂 OMG, You totally nailed Chloe’s voice BTW.

[@queenb7013]

Lex and Lionel had the worst security on the show haha

[@violetmeteorz9805]

As someone who works at a factory, I can confirm that factory concerts actually do exist...for some reason.

[@weirdotzero7065]

Man. Every tv should have an episode where a character gets superpowers from product placement. Like imagine if Mitch Buchannon had drank from a radioactive can of A&W Cream Soda. That would've been the greatest hour of television history.

[@spikejr3113jr]

I personally love Smallville but I still skip this episode every time.

[@camerona.4992]

Ah, Smallville. Excellent work as always Allison! I don't know if you're even interested in doing long form review of shows anymore like you did with OG Charmed, but if you did one for this show I'd watch every second of it. This show, eventually so bad, but also so nostalgic. Even in like 2008-2009, in college, some friends and I made a Smallville drinking game. Can't remember all of the rules, but two of them were "Drink whenever a Luthor schemes" and "Drink whenever Clark is inconvenienced by Kryptonite". We all got plastered every time, just felt like sharing that, haha.

[@Goldstar_]

I remember Allison saying that she was done with full season breakdowns after Charmed. She said that was exhausting.

[@StarLightNow]

If we could get a Charmed style Season-long look at every season of Smallville I would die a happy person.

[@BlackAllMightX]

"Remy Zero!" Are Pete and I the only ones who awkwardly yell out a band's name when we're watching them perform?

[@oliverrichardson7856]

Excellent review!

[@artsaganza8742]

great video, i also wanted to tell you i've been a fan for awhile, and you were one of the main you tube hosts who helped inspire me to start my own channel. thank you

[@AllisonPregler]

thanks so much!

[@artsaganza8742]

@@AllisonPregler thanks for the reply. i also like your quantum leap podcast i used to watch that on tv live in the late 1980s/ early 1990s. so i'm abit older. are you still going to have some other net hosts on again? i like seeing them too, like linkara, film brain, marzgurl, etc. i know things are hard with the virus, but maybe on camera not in person. i am pretty new to all this, but am trying to set up events with other net hosts, here in illinois some movie theaters are even changing their whole format and other places were we are planning films and art and music events. good luck with everything.

[@miscpersonalities]

soo good. thank you for the content.

[@kimifw58]

What's with live-action Jimmy Olsen never being a redhead? Is no one else bothered by this?

[@sniperwolf50]

In Smallvilles's case the writers pulled a fast one. IIRC, it was conveniently revealed, after his death, that this "Jimmy Olsen" was actually a cousin (or something) of the "real" Jimmy Olsen and that James was his middle name.

[@sanityisrelative]

@@sniperwolf50 is that better or worse than straight recasting him between season 1 and 2 because the first actor looked too much like the guy playing Clark and they didn't want audiences to be confused? (I'm looking at you, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.) Also, neither actor was a red head.

[@KainGerc]

I kinda feel bad for John Glover and Michael Rosenbaum not being able to escape this show sooner. Though Glover somehow managed to get typecast again as the "evil dad of the main super villain" in 'Shazam'

[@jasonbalbuena7994]

Ain't no gig like a stride gum gig

[@nathanielfincher4394]

More of these please! Loved it.