More about my favourite two reporters...

[selenak]

In between fun Multiverse readings - and an observation here, one really notices both Battlestar Galactica and Dr. Who have "arrived" at American shores by the increased input in those fandoms - I watched more first season Lois & Clark, and I can't help myself, I had to aquire an icon. To demonstrate just why they're adorable and why the dialogue of this show is such fun, here are some of my favourite quotes, re-heard again on this rewatching (now I must admit I only watched the pilot and some s1 plus two s2 episodes of Smallville, but I must say, the scriptwriters on the older show were better at banter):


Lois: And let's get something straight, I did not work my buns off to become an investigative reporter for the Daily Planet just to baby-sit some hack from Nowheresville! And another thing, you are not working with me, you are working for me. I call the shots, I ask the questions. You are low man - I am top banana and that's the way I like it, comprende?
Clark: You like to be on top. Got it.


Lois: Partners?
Perry: You and Kent. The experience of the battle-scarred veteran paired with the hunger of the exciting, fresh talent.
Lois: I am not that scarred, and he is not that exciting.
Perry: Your tenacity. His tact. Believe me, Lois, the two of you, there's chemistry there. It's gonna make for great stories.
Lois: But, Perry, partnership, it's like marriage.
Perry: That's right. You've got to work at it.
Lois: It takes patience and understanding, a willingness to be supportive.
Perry: I know, honey. Fake it.


Lois: Poor woman.
Clark: Who?
Lois: Your wife. She's married to Mr. Right. Mr. Always Right.


Lois: Found? You mean stole, don't you?
Clark: Well, I . . .
Lois: You took advantage of a privileged interview situation to grab
potentially incriminating evidence from an unsuspecting subject. Oh, I love that.


Lois: Superman is in the shower? Did you see him? I mean, does the outfit come off?
Clark: I didn't look.
Lois: Of course not. No, I wouldn't either. Mmm, mmm.


Lois: I only know how to make four things, and this is the only one without chocolate.


Lois: I win, you lose, we're both happy.


Clark: We flip for the bed.
Lois: How about I get the bed, I lend you a pillow?
Clark: How about we alternate nights?
Lois: How about we don't.
Clark: Well, it's a big bed, how about we share?
Lois: How about we alternate nights?
Clark: Deal.


Lois: Kill or be killed.
Clark: Lois you're talking about war... this is journalism.
Lois: See, your problem is you think there's a difference.

Clark: You are really high maintenance, you know that?
Lois: But I'm worth it.


Lois: Tell me the biggest secret you have.
Clark: What?
Lois: Tell me the biggest secret you have. Something you'd never reveal to anyone.
Clark: Why?
Lois: Because I'm about to tell you mine and I need blackmail material.

Comments

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

Ok, this is very funny. I see the Hepburn/Tracy comparison.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It really has that 30s, 40s flair, and you know, safe for the problem that Superman needs to have a, well, superhuman physique, I could so see Spencer Tracy in the role, and K.H. as Lois...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's a fun show, at least for the first 2.5 seasons and some of S4. If they'd just fired whoever suggested the long amnesia story arc, the second half of S3...

Reminds me I really must write more of my L&C / Highlander / Batman crossover.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Note to self: skip s3 on buying DVDs and go straight to 4. (They didn't show the fourth one in Germany, and I missed most of 3 because I was moving at the time.)

Also: do you have a link to your posts on that particular crossover?

[honorh.livejournal.com]

I get it: Lois . . . is Cordelia!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I noticed the similarities to Ms. Chase myself this time.*g* Joss was definitely inspired - though Cordy was never the workoholic Lois is.

The obvious Joss connection is, of course, Tim Minear who wrote for L&C in its fourth and final season...

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

LOL! It's so funny! I never really got to enjoy the show because I was moving a lot around the time it aired, but the few episodes I did watch were so cool..

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I'm having a blast rediscovering it.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I shall have to get around to renting that show - but first of all, I've just discovered Sharpe...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I've stayed away from Sharpe so far for the silliest reason - a crossover fanfic that left a bad taste in the mouth. Not the fault of the character, of course, but such things linger...

[kangeiko]

HMV has the first season for a mere £25 at the moment... you are seriously tempting me, here! This was showing when I was a kid, and I was completely in love with Dean Cain at the time - all my classmates were. I even had stickers of Lois&Clark on my school notebooks. *blush*

Yep, tempted, tempted...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I didn't have a sticker, but I named the cat in the newspaper archive where I interned in my one and only internship Lois.*g*

*tempts*

[kangeiko]

not helping!!

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Aw... I loved that show so much. It so firmly established the OTPness of Lois and Clark to me that I switched allegiances on Smallville the instant that Lois showed up.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

Oh, happy memories... I loved L&C in its first couple of years.

My personal favourite quote is Lois's line about how the father/son thing is like the father/daughter thing except "with more sports metaphors." I googled the whole quote, and discovered it's got a great payoff that I'd completely forgotten --

Clark: Why wouldn't the Chief want us to tell Jimmy that he said that?
Lois: It's one of those father/son things.
Clark: Oh, really?
Lois: Sure, it's classic. Men are uncomfortable expressing their emotions directly. It's just like the father/daughter thing, only, when you finally do talk, you use more sports metaphors.
Clark: Ha, that's ridiculous.
(Perry sticks his head out of his office).
Perry: Clark, if Jimmy calls, tell him I know it feels like the bottom of the ninth with two outs and two strikes against him but that the Planet is gonna mount a full-court press, and we won't stop until it's game, set, match, Olsen.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

*loves quote and scene*

Also, it's funny because it's true. Lois is absolutely right.*g*

[kerlin.livejournal.com]

veritykindle just linked me to this, and I had to comment and say YES. So much love, so much cute. I was so young when this first aired, but remembered adoring it, and about three weeks ago bought the DVDs. It's even better than I remembered.

On season 3, by the way...it's actually really, really good until the final arc(s), at which point it takes a left turn into crazyville. So if you watch up until then, it's still excellent.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reassuring me about s3 - I'll keep it in mind. And yes, it's such an adorable show....