TV shows I have loved

05Oct11

Show the First: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Oh man! I loved this show! I remember having a huge fight with my parents about not getting home in time for this show (8pm Sunday, I still remember). Voices were raised. Also, I once cut all the Lois & Clark pictures out of TV Guide for a whole year. Including the ones on the black and white newsprint pages. In a word: obsessed. Here are three things I loved about it:

1. Lois’s hair. (Not the later seasons’ soccer mom haircut. Yikes.) In the first few years she had this sweet bob. It was so shiny. It moved like the Little Mermaid’s hair. I wanted it BAD. I wanted to be be Lois in general (sweet job, hot coworker, bffs with Superman – what’s not to like?) but I would have settled for that hair.

2. Will they or won’t they? (They will.) It was very important to me that Lois & Clark get together, but I had infinite patience for the false starts and time rewinds and bouts of amnesia. We’ll get ‘em next week! Like this one time they were hanging out with HG Wells (as you do) and he took Lois to the future, showing her that she ends up with Superman/Clark and their children form a utopia, etc. Lois writes CLARK = SUPERMAN on a piece of paper, so she will know when she’s back to her normal time. But Clark spots it and nabs it! Nooooooo! Or the time she finally does find out, but then Clark has to go to Krypton! This was before spoilers, so I was basically thinking, “Oh no, this show is going to so weird with Clark on Krypton. I guess it will just be Lois The Reporter And Her Reporting Adventures.” (I was not the sharpest 12 year old.) That only made it more exciting though – I really thought anything could happen.

3. The Kents. You know, it’s really weird that Clark’s parent were in every single episode. This definitely warped me for life. They were delightful, don’t get me wrong, but should 30 year old Clark really need their advice every single week? Thanks for making me codependent, Lois & Clark!

Also: Lex Luthor! Vague AND misleading information about journalism. Two reporters getting the front page every day. Silly scifi. Lois’s outfits. Perry, with his yelling. How I thought Perry was Lou Grant for a really long time. That the Daily Planet seemed to have only a front page and a gossip column. The kidnappings – dozens? hundreds?

Lois & Clark, I loved you.